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Food Thread: A Tisket, A Tasket, The Brisket's In The Basket*

Apparently I decided to make a brisket for the Passover Seder. I have no recollection of this decision, and in the only conversation I can recall, I was confident that I decided upon a tenderloin roast (The married men among the readers will understand how that came to be).

So brisket it is! And really, it's not a bad choice, particularity since my local Wild Fork Foods carries very nicely trimmed whole briskets. I really like using a whole brisket, in part because there is enough fat, and in part because the texture of the flat and the point are different, and add some nice complexity to the dish. I also get to render some of the trimmed fat so I don't have to panic when I want to make Yorkshire Pudding.

The only issue is searing the brisket...it's pretty big, so I have to use my largest roasting pan. It's not perfect because it's not particularly heavy, so I have to be attentive, otherwise I will get burned spots. The solution is to buy a very heavy and very expensive roasting pan, and because I am a cheap bastard I will choose being attentive every time!

The recipe itself is simple. Sear, then remove it and brown a ton of mirepoix, then return the meat to the roasting pan, along with a lot of red wine, some tomato, some ketchup for the sweet teeth among the guests, and some herbs. Cover and roast for a few hours, until it is nice and tender.

That's it! Easy and delicious.

I make it the day before so I can chill the brisket, slice it, and return it to the defatted mirepoix (which I blend into a thick sauce). For a big group it's a great choice, especially because I have a few relatives who are whiny little snots when it comes to rare beef, so that tenderloin would be more of a production.

I might not serve them my famous Chicken Tartare if they keep up the squawking about underdone meat!

*My apologies to Ella Fitzgerald and the real rhymers in the readership.

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He is 100% correct. If you don't like secondary prices and allocated bottles, then don't drink them. But if you complain about other people buying them, you are nothing more than a Booze Karen, and deserve to be mocked and criticized.

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A good meatloaf is a fine thing indeed, and I have written about Ina Garten's wonderful ve4rsion before. But I haven't made it in a long time, and I feel silly! It is one of her easier and better written recipes, and it's just delicious. Individual Meat Loaves is absolutely worth a try, and I will bet that once you make it you will think more highly of Garten, who can be an out-of-touch little rich girl sometimes. Well...most of the time, but she partially redeems herself with this dish.

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They were so good I made them again the next night! And yes, fresh, hot Hush Puppies go very well with burgers!

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Food stamp recipients file lawsuit against SNAP restrictions on junk foods, sugary sodas, and energy drinks

Tough shit. You don't want our money with restrictions? Get a job, make your own money, and buy whatever the f*ck you want.

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Never heard of it before I saw it in a wine shop, and I probably won't see it again. And that's okay, because there are many hundreds of small champagne houses that make their own champagne rather than selling their grapes to the big houses.

That was a delicious champagne for significantly less than the big guys charge. The small houses are wonderful because they don't have the size to make the same champagne year in and year out by blending many years into each release, so they make each year based on the vagaries of the growing season. Sometimes the champagne is rich and buttery, sometimes it is crisp and austere, but it is always different, and that is part of the pleasure of seeking out the small growers.

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Well, the garlic is out in the sunshine, probably soon to be eaten by those vile rodents with bushy tails and a penchant for damaging my home. But if they survive the squirrel apocalypse, and actually grow into something edible, I will be in garlic heaven! In case it doesn't, send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM

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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 That pizza is a abomination you know

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

First World Problems...

It's all fun and games until your fingers get frostbite from the freezing glass!

Specifically, my left thumb gets very, very cold when I hold my glass at the top of the stem or around the bowl. Sure, I could hold it part way down the stem, or even by the base, but that is less stable, less pleasant, and slows my drinking, and thus my enjoyment.

I have considered many solutions, including wearing gloves, using insulated glasses (they are horrendously ugly!), or simply burning the house down every evening during cocktail hour so as to have a source of warmth for my left thumb.

None of these are optimal. I could also switch to hot drinks (yuck..almost as bad as a shaken Manhattan), or even forego cocktails altogether and start with wine.

But that is bowing to primitivism, and I will not give in!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 Drinking hour

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Drink room temperature scotch, it won't happen

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Huh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:01 PM (4NO2D)

4 You should break ever glass after drinking.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:02 PM (4NO2D)

5 That martini looks very refreshing. It's worth the frozen thumb.

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (lJ0H4)

6 Pipe insulation.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (snZF9)

7 Drink room temperature scotch, it won't happen

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

Or Bourbon...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (n9ltV)

8 Nice looking martini. Although I prefer vodka with olives. And a little dirty. I'm assuming the pic, with the fruit in it, is of a gin martini.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (91pBE)

9 Pipe insulation.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM

Spray foam.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)

10 Start with wine!
If you drink enough wine, you will not even feel the chill.

Posted by: RI Red at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (lqh3R)

11 Best solution is drink it faster.

Posted by: DanMan at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (8uzBS)

12 You won't notice it after two drinks.

Posted by: Flanole at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (ZnrCl)

13 Best solution is drink it faster.
Posted by: DanMan at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM

BRAIN FREEZE!!

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (4NO2D)

14 That martini looks very refreshing. It's worth the frozen thumb.

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (lJ0H4)

I forgot to take a picture of my drink last night (A Manhattan!), so I had to resort to the internet.

That glass has a wider base than my cocktail glasses, so it is easier to insulate one's fingers from the cold.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:05 PM (n9ltV)

15 My wife only drinks Sauvignon Blanc, and keeps a bottle in the frig. She then pours it into a "wine glass" about as thick as a brick and room T. I've explained to her that thermal equilibration is detracting from her experience, but apparently the words I've used are too long, because she continues as before. However, she recently somehow broke a couple of them, so I've replaced them with more suitable white wine glasses. We'll see if she notices a difference.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

16 Although I prefer vodka with olives. And a little dirty.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (91pBE)

I like a twist, but I will not refuse a Martini with a couple of olives.

But a dirty Martini is beyond the pale, and is indicative of a failing society.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:06 PM (n9ltV)

17 A thumb mitten.

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2026 02:07 PM (lJ0H4)

18 Honestly, just swilling from the gin bottle will work.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:07 PM (4NO2D)

19 I saw Frozen Thumb open for Stiff Little Fingers

Posted by: Delurker at March 15, 2026 02:08 PM (gtcuf)

20 Solution to the "martini thumb" problem:

http://tiny.cc/mmd0101

Quite welcome...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 15, 2026 02:08 PM (nbLIj)

21 My FWP:
I’m sitting in my car at Fiddlers Green in North Conway, NH. It is a shopping lollapalooza for the mass hole visitors.
Mrs. Red and DILIT are “shopping”.
I can feel my net assets shrinking.

Posted by: RI Red at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM (lqh3R)

22 Put the cocktail glass down between sips? Surely you have a bar or cocktail table in your elegant house that would easily allow this.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM (+89TD)

23 I like my martinis the way I like my women. A little dirty.

Posted by: Delurker at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM (gtcuf)

24 Keep the glass on the table and use a straw. The glass won't chill your thumb and your fingers won't warm your drink.

Posted by: huerfano at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM (98kQX)

25 An Italian sommelier taught us to drink wine by holding the base between the fingers. Takes some practice to get used to, but he said that was the proper way, and you'll look like a sophisticate compared to the rest of the savages. Or gay.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 15, 2026 02:10 PM (otZRM)

26 I suppose burning down your house and rebuilding will not solve this First World Problem, huh?

Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2026 02:10 PM (5rh/l)

27 >>forego cocktails

This phrase does not belong in a civilised society. Hang tough!

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 02:10 PM (NcvvS)

28 ...But a dirty Martini is beyond the pale, and is indicative of a failing society.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:06 PM (n9ltV)

In that case I am the leading spokesman for that society. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:10 PM (91pBE)

29 The problem with martinis is that they warm too quickly.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:11 PM (A5RD0)

30 apparently the words I've used are too long,

Anything over dick is like a cow looking at a train.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 02:11 PM (Kt19C)

31 Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 15, 2026 02:08 PM (nbLIj)

And they double as condoms for our trolls!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:11 PM (n9ltV)

32 >>>>>Honestly, just swilling from the gin bottle will work.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:07 PM (4NO2D)
******
This is sage advice, although I recommend adding a quality paper bag too.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM (SxybG)

33 It's only gay if you stick out your pinkie.

Posted by: Delurker at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM (gtcuf)

34 It looks like all the Firefly talk from the cast recently has been for promoting a new animated series. Oh well.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 15, 2026 02:13 PM (nHXB4)

35 The problem with martinis is that they warm too quickly.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:11 PM (A5RD0)

The solution to that is plainly evident. Drink them faster. And the added benefit is you can then drink more, before the effects hit you. You're welcome.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:14 PM (91pBE)

36 A good friend left a bottle of Knob Creek rye whiskey. I won’t say what I was thinking of mixing it with, but found a can of seltzer. I can’t drink straight alcohol anymore. It was quite good, and mixed well with the soda.

Posted by: Unkaren at March 15, 2026 02:14 PM (OTOad)

37 My FWP is getting cat hair off my Pendleton wool blankets.

No, you don’t put fine wool in the washing machine. The lint roller is only somewhat effective.

Suggestions?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:14 PM (A5RD0)

38 And they double as condoms for our trolls!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:11 PM (n9ltV)

You're being generous. I envision thimbles..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 15, 2026 02:15 PM (nbLIj)

39 The problem with martinis is that they warm too quickly.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:11 PM (A5RD0)
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Search Amazon for vacuum insulated martini glasses.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:15 PM (1o8D5)

40 It was quite good, and mixed well with the soda.

Posted by: Unkaren at March 15, 2026 02:14 PM (OTOad)

Try it with ice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:15 PM (n9ltV)

41 An Italian sommelier taught us to drink wine by holding the base between the fingers. Takes some practice to get used to, but he said that was the proper way, and you'll look like a sophisticate compared to the rest of the savages. Or gay.

Gay. Definitely gay.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

42 >Specifically, my left thumb gets very, very cold when I hold my glass
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Use your other hand

Posted by: Don Black at March 15, 2026 02:16 PM (ZxPkt)

43 None of those solutions are optimal. Here's the deal:

Switch to 'Demon Rum' and enjoy at room temp in a shotglass.

Problem is then El Solvèd-O …

Posted by: Dr_No at March 15, 2026 02:17 PM (ayRl+)

44 Specifically, my left thumb gets very, very cold when I hold my glass

Hire a midget, and have him follow you around with a small table on top of his head. Avail yourself as needed.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 02:19 PM (Riz8t)

45 Not drinking gloves! That would be….you know.

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2026 02:21 PM (PaOYH)

46 My FWP is getting cat hair off my Pendleton wool blankets.

No, you don’t put fine wool in the washing machine. The lint roller is only somewhat effective.

Suggestions?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Throw them in the dryer on the air dry cycle.

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2026 02:21 PM (lJ0H4)

47 9 Pipe insulation.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM

Spray foam.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM

Duct tape.

Posted by: Always an option at March 15, 2026 02:22 PM (2Ez/1)

48 Use a straw

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:22 PM (Ia/+0)

49 Search Amazon for vacuum insulated martini glasses.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:15 PM (1o8D5)

Interesting. But wouldnt that impart a metallic taste to the gin?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:23 PM (A5RD0)

50 Woodcarvers use a leather thumb sleeve when using a carving stroke that moves toward the carver rather than away. You could get one with festive colors and make it a fashion statement.

https://is.gd/vrCzDF

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 02:24 PM (qgHp7)

51 The struggle is real, brother.

One solution, especially after the 3rd or 4th, is to use your hands to pin the base of the glass to the table, which is probably spinning and unsteady. Then use your sonar to maneuver your mouth to the rim of the glass. After three or four attempts, you will get the hang of it. Then simply slurp, lap, and sip until you have consumed the beverage, clearing the way for the next round. I hope this helps.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 15, 2026 02:24 PM (hyS0X)

52 Cut the fingers off a glove?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 15, 2026 02:24 PM (w6EFb)

53 A straw?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 15, 2026 02:25 PM (w6EFb)

54 Only fags and leftists drink through straws.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (A5RD0)

55
First World Problem,

The Baptist church two blocks away have started blasting some wind chime thing several times a day.

I hate wind chimes, they are intrusive.

I don't want to hear that several times a day, especially in my house.

Posted by: four seasons at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (3ek7K)

56 Suggestions?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Throw them in the dryer on the air dry cycle.
Posted by: Tuna

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The blanket?

Or the cat?

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (qgHp7)

57 Where is your creme de menthe, grand marnier, and Bailey's, the ONT cocktail of choice?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:27 PM (RIvkX)

58 Switch to Bloody Marys.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 02:28 PM (g8Ew8)

59 Nurse Ratched, my cleaner uses a tool very similar to the one I use for de-pilling wool sweaters. You might check a local knitting store.

Posted by: Wenda at March 15, 2026 02:28 PM (wPfxR)

60 The blanket?

Or the cat?
Posted by: muldoon

LOL

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM (lJ0H4)

61
This is where Sunday day-drinking becomes a problem, first with recipes and glassware and chilling debates and sneering at the shaking of Manhattans.

It's settled with uncle Peter sitting in the corner with a plastic glass of bum vodka.

Posted by: Auspex at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM (Y8DZL)

62 LOL

Nothing like shifting from a conversation about geopolitical struggles and global conflicts to cold thumbs while downing fancy drinks....

JUST KIDDING!!!

That's the beauty of this place, especially on the weekends, we can't be all politics all the time, and I love hanging out here here....

But sometimes the gear shift makes me chuckle a bit....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM (dmDsy)

63 Only fags and leftists drink through straws.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (A5RD0)
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How am I supposed to drink my boba with mango slushie??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM (RIvkX)

64 San Franpsycho,

Please be careful during the upcoming heat wave. Yikes! 80 in SF?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM (A5RD0)

65 Chairborne beat me to it.

Drink faster.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM (/HDaX)

66 >My FWP is getting cat hair off my Pendleton wool blankets.

Suggestions?
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duct tape
I see others said it first
that's my FWP
getting scooped by you guys

Posted by: Don Black at March 15, 2026 02:30 PM (ZxPkt)

67 You might check a local knitting store.
Posted by: Wenda

************

They can be unscrupulous.
Just don't let 'em pull the wool over your eyes.

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 02:31 PM (qgHp7)

68 I'm resting for a few days.

I'd love to rewatch the 'Saw' series. I did buy a couple before to finish the series.

Now though, the first movie can only be rented or bought. The series is spread across several services. What the hell...

Everyone have a happy week.

Posted by: Stateless at March 15, 2026 02:31 PM (Sco7b)

69 NOBODY puts the Fink in the dryer!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:31 PM (A5RD0)

70 French drain.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 15, 2026 02:31 PM (abIsI)

71 Just thinking outta the box

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:31 PM (Ia/+0)

72 63 Only fags and leftists drink through straws.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (A5RD0)

I believe that is the truest statement I have ever read.

Posted by: Denny Crane - And I Am a Amoral Attorney. at March 15, 2026 02:31 PM (dmDsy)

73 My fingers sometimes get stuck to the shaker when making martinis (I keep the vodka in the freezer at 3 degrees). Good thing I keep a med kit nearby, just in case!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 15, 2026 02:32 PM (cWLG3)

74 >>46 My FWP is getting cat hair off my Pendleton wool blankets.

Have you tried that back-and-forth glove/mitt that rolls the cat hair into a long string. Works well for me on a variety of fabrics

Posted by: kactus at March 15, 2026 02:33 PM (twS2i)

75 Search Amazon for vacuum insulated martini glasses.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:15 PM (1o8D5)

Interesting. But wouldnt that impart a metallic taste to the gin?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:23 PM (A5RD0)
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1. Yes, if made from raw iron, which they are not.

2. I also saw double glass insulated cocktail glasses but they are bulkier.

Personally, if I really felt the need for them, I would go for the metal ones. We pre-chill our martini glasses in the freezer and it doesn't take us forever to finish enjoying them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:33 PM (1o8D5)

76 Once I was forced to make a rum hot toddy with maple syrup because I was low on honey.

Thankfully I had a proper rum and didn't have to settle for one of those infernal spiced rums.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:33 PM (M9gjJ)

77 My mom once knitted me a nose mitten (wool pouch with tie strings) for cold weather wear.

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 02:34 PM (qgHp7)

78 Please be careful during the upcoming heat wave. Yikes! 80 in SF?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM (A5RD0)
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I enjoy everyone freaking out about it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:34 PM (RIvkX)

79 My mom once knitted me a nose mitten (wool pouch with tie strings) for cold weather wear.

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 02:34 PM (qgHp7)
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Upload a pic.

Aw, c'mon! Pretty please!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:35 PM (1o8D5)

80 I just saw a fox wander down the driveway and go into the backyard. Sort of ragged looking, although that might be its winter coat. I sure hope it isn't rabid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:35 PM (n9ltV)

81 1st world problem I recently solved was my 1999 Ranger had no appropriate surface on which to attach a smart phone, because, 1999. I have a selfie stick someone gifted me a few years back, and made a few attempts to secure it, but no dice.

Driving back from my favorite local cigar store last week, my eyes caught the spare 12V outlet just to the right of the radio and it occurred to me that it would accommodate a wine cork. This was confirmed shortly after arriving home. (No, I did not open and consume a full bottle of wine for the cork, and anyway, shut up...)

Next, I removed the smart phone bracket from the selfie stick by unscrewing the locking collar from the stick's ball joint. The collar was narrower than the cork, but a bit of whittling from a sharp knife solved that issue. I slipped the bracket socket over cork and a couple turns of the locking collar secured it firmly to the cork.

Supah genius*...

*(he intoned, in the manner of Wyle E. Coyote)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 15, 2026 02:35 PM (nbLIj)

82 Four legs good. Two legs bad.

https://tinyurl.com/mw95jpn3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:36 PM (1o8D5)

83 >>>The problem with martinis is that they warm too quickly.

Posted by: nurse ratched

>If you want a three martini lunch you need to drink faster.

Amateur hour begins on St. Patrick's Day.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:36 PM (M9gjJ)

84
The stem is there for temperature management of the drink. Gripping the stem allows you to drink without your skin temperature warming up the martini. Otherwise, in order to have a properly cold martini you would be tempted to gulp it down like an uncivilized savage.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 15, 2026 02:37 PM (WlaEX)

85 One word.
Thumb warmer.

Posted by: Weasel at March 15, 2026 02:38 PM (A44Mw)

86 I've got a single nail head randomly popping up from my hardwood floor and snagging my socks... I hit it with any nearby solid object- works for a while, but it keeps coming back up...

I could call a carpenter, but who has the time?

Any advice?

Posted by: Denny Crane - I DO Love Having Wood. at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM (dmDsy)

87 How long does your drink stay that cold? My Martinis get to room temp in 10 minutes or less. Which is why I have to drink several of them in a short period of time. 🍸

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM (jtM2q)

88 Four legs good. Two legs bad.

But God bless the wheelbarrow, it taught the Irish to walk on their hind legs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM (Kt19C)

89 Solution to a frostbitten left thumb is to drink right handed. Like a real man.

Posted by: Indy Bill at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM (X6hcS)

90 My fingers sometimes get stuck to the shaker when making martinis (I keep the vodka in the freezer at 3 degrees). Good thing I keep a med kit nearby, just in case!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 15, 2026 02:32 PM

Did they go straight to the double dog dare?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:40 PM (4NO2D)

91 I went back to the previous thread to see whether the troll needs to be dumped.

But the Morons have been destroying him, so it's sort of fun to do nothing and just watch in awe.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:40 PM (n9ltV)

92 But God bless the wheelbarrow, it taught the Irish to walk on their hind legs.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM

I'm choking to death here.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:40 PM (4NO2D)

93 2oz Tanquary Gin
2oz Polish Vodka
.5oz Cocchi Americano
Persevered Meyer Lemon twist
Shaken or stirred, strained up in frosty martini glass.

Called a Negroni Blanco or Bond Vespa. Delish, addictive, do not operate heavy machinery.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (wBaIH)

94 You could hire someone to hold your glass. There's probably government programs to subsidize this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (JkO4W)

95 >>Any advice?

Yes

Posted by: Throw Rugs Are Us at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (Y1sOo)

96 I enjoy everyone freaking out about it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We had a freak snowstorm in Seattle on Friday.

Took all the weatherguessers by surprise. So, kids went to school, the store weren’t mobbed and the shelves emptied. There was no Panic! At the Disco! No chains on the buses. Everyone just said “oh wow! This is cool!” And continued on with life.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (A5RD0)

97 Which is why I have to drink several of them in a short period of time. 🍸

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM (jtM2q)

But you have an almost endless supply!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (n9ltV)

98 But the Morons have been destroying him, so it's sort of fun to do nothing and just watch in awe.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:40 PM

Always throw a peanut to the dancing monkey.

*touches nose*

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:42 PM (4NO2D)

99 >>>Any advice?

Posted by: Denny Crane - I DO Love Having Wood.

>Do you have a cordless drill motor, a bit and a screw? Make sure the drill motor switch is in righty-tighty mode.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:42 PM (M9gjJ)

100 Could pull nail out, dab of glue and put it back.
Hole is oversized by now.
Or replace with a screw if not obvious

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:42 PM (Ia/+0)

101 And continued on with life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (A5RD0)
=====

People here are not nearly as resilient.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:43 PM (RIvkX)

102 Drinking gloves. Love it.

Posted by: LASue at March 15, 2026 02:44 PM (lCppi)

103 They can be unscrupulous.
Just don't let 'em pull the wool over your eyes.
Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 02:31 PM (qgHp7)

They do tend to spin a yarn...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 15, 2026 02:44 PM (nbLIj)

104 Straight talking FWP:

https://tinyurl.com/skftvufd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:44 PM (1o8D5)

105 I've got a single nail head randomly popping up from my hardwood floor and snagging my socks... I hit it with any nearby solid object- works for a while, but it keeps coming back up...

I could call a carpenter, but who has the time?

Any advice?
Posted by: Denny Crane - I DO Love Having Wood. at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM

Can you fashion a rudimentary lathe?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)

106 Mrs. Red and DILIT are “shopping”.
I can feel my net assets shrinking.
Posted by: RI Red at

Saw this yesterday also. IT?

Posted by: From about That Time at March 15, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)

107
I've got a single nail head randomly popping up from my hardwood floor and snagging my socks...

Draw a chalk outline around the nail and don't walk there.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 15, 2026 02:46 PM (WlaEX)

108 It looks like all the Firefly talk from the cast recently has been for promoting a new animated series. Oh well.

Let's be honest. You know if they tried a real reboot/revival it would suck.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 15, 2026 02:46 PM (Fs0KI)

109 Which is why I have to drink several of them in a short period of time. 🍸

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM (jtM2q)
-

But you have an almost endless supply!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (n9ltV)
-

/plants martini tree sapling - prays and ~~shakes~~ stirs vigorously

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:47 PM (1o8D5)

110
64 San Franpsycho,

Please be careful during the upcoming heat wave. Yikes! 80 in SF?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 02:29 PM

-------

Southern CA has a serious heat wave. Had two days of Santa Ana already, then two days off. Starting Monday, we get at least a week more.

In San Diego it's no picnic, but Los Angeles is going to be worse. LA will have temperatures of 100 F or more, strong winds, and a city government that's apparently committed to burning everybody out.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:47 PM (azNOR)

111 I'm pretty sure Korpiklaani never did a song about this problem.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 02:47 PM (vFG9F)

112 I like my martinis the way I like my women. A little dirty.
Posted by: Delurker at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM (gtcuf)

And cold --very, very cold?

Posted by: LASue at March 15, 2026 02:48 PM (lCppi)

113 100 Could pull nail out, dab of glue and put it back.
Hole is oversized by now.
Or replace with a screw if not obvious
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:42 PM (Ia/+0)
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Here's a thought... pull it out fill the hole with epoxy, then nail it b!ck down? But then the entire plank may popup up with the nail next time lol

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 15, 2026 02:48 PM (cWLG3)

114 Im heading to LA Wednesday- the hot weather sounds lovely.

Posted by: LASue at March 15, 2026 02:49 PM (lCppi)

115 Four legs good. Two legs bad, the second:

https://tinyurl.com/54rd8mxb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:49 PM (1o8D5)

116 Drink straight from the bottle.

Posted by: DaveA at March 15, 2026 02:50 PM (FhXTo)

117 Maybe use a glass not at absolute zero?

Exercise more so you have better circulation in your hands?

Take Viagra to increase blood flow in the extremities?

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 02:50 PM (bss/y)

118 108 It looks like all the Firefly talk from the cast recently has been for promoting a new animated series. Oh well.

Let's be honest. You know if they tried a real reboot/revival it would suck.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 15, 2026 02:46 PM (Fs0KI)
---
AI-rendered new episodes featuring Saffron the Space Whore?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 15, 2026 02:50 PM (cWLG3)

119 LA will have temperatures of 100 F

Doors and windows open. Creeps prowling.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 02:50 PM (Kt19C)

120 >>Posted by: From about That Time at March 15, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)

DILIT = Daughter-in-law in Training.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 02:51 PM (NcvvS)

121 In San Diego it's no picnic, but Los Angeles is going to be worse. LA will have temperatures of 100 F or more, strong winds, and a city government that's apparently committed to burning everybody out.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:47 PM (azNOR)
-

Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy
2h

When I lived in Sherman Oaks 15 years ago it was routinely 110 or higher in August. Everyone needs to calm down and have a popsicle.

... or a martini!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:51 PM (1o8D5)

122 Just want to thank you all for your advice on my FWP...

I believe I am going to use every single one of your suggestions, all at once, and I am sure the results will be fantastic!

Thank you again!!!!

Posted by: Denny Crane - I'm Not Gay But I Love You Guys at March 15, 2026 02:51 PM (dmDsy)

123 > Which is why I have to drink several of them in a short period of time. 🍸

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM (jtM2q)

But you have an almost endless supply!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 02:41 PM (n9ltV)
-----------
Well.... yeah, but... still.

I recall reading that when the Martini was created it was sort of "designed" to be drunk (drank?) quickly... thus the original recipe was something around 3oz.

My Martinis are closer to 5oz in my Martini glass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:51 PM (jtM2q)

124 https://tinyurl.com/54rd8mxb

Gubs for mee but naught for thee

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 02:53 PM (Kt19C)

125 116 i keep the bottle in the freezer.
perhaps invest in the office clerks device that resembles a finger condom, allowing for endless page turning capabilities in lieu of finger licking. unless you've just had kfc.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 02:53 PM (R11M+)

126 I'm relaxing on the lanai, chugging High Noons and watching the birdbath guests. This activity is not low rent in Florida. It's 83 degrees.

Posted by: Flanole at March 15, 2026 02:54 PM (ZnrCl)

127 Any advice?
Posted by: Denny Crane - I DO Love Having Wood. at March 15, 2026 02:39 PM

Can you fashion a rudimentary lathe?
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:44 PM (4NO2D)

That one really caught my attention.

Of course I can!

Posted by: Tim Taylor at March 15, 2026 02:56 PM (dmDsy)

128 Bourbon.

Problem solved.

Posted by: ZooomZooom (I) at March 15, 2026 02:57 PM (DZwT/)

129 37 make inside out duct tape loops and keep slapping it until full o hairs.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 02:58 PM (R11M+)

130 Two words: Sous Vide.

The application to this FWP is left as an exercise for the student.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 15, 2026 02:59 PM (lXV+O)

131
121

Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy
2h

When I lived in Sherman Oaks 15 years ago it was routinely 110 or higher in August. Everyone needs to calm down and have a popsicle.

... or a martini!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:51 PM

------

15 years ago, would the weather event of January 2025 have led to square miles of prime real estate burning up in LA while the mayor departed on a junket, wetbacks set fires and burglarized evacuated neighborhoods, and the LAFD stood around with their thumbs up their butts?

They've trained us to think this way. Times have changed.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:59 PM (VWtfl)

132 One word.
Thumb warmer.
Posted by: Weasel at March 15, 2026 02:38 PM

That's two words.

Posted by: The Fourth Shot at March 15, 2026 03:02 PM (lXV+O)

133 LA will have temperatures of 100 F

Doors and windows open. Creeps prowling.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 02:50 PM (Kt19C)

The summer of the Night Stalker --- it was the hottest I can remember. The dilemma was real for those of us without A/C; leave a window open and risk attack (but the odds were sooooo slim!) or swelter all night in a puddle of sweat.

Posted by: LASue at March 15, 2026 03:02 PM (lCppi)

134 Oh my, that martini looks delightful Frozen thumb or no. Lemon peel or olives-I'm not picky. I also like a burnt martini which is vodka with a splash of scotch and blue cheese olives. For the good of my soul I have given up the hard stuff for Lent so I will have to wait until Easter to imbibe. A martini is first on the list.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at March 15, 2026 03:03 PM (dyL4B)

135 when we were too young to drink inside we had drinking gloves- a pair was good for two. the gay little knit artful dodger fingerless ones were perfect.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 03:04 PM (R11M+)

136 monkey 47 and tiny coctail onions.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 03:05 PM (R11M+)

137 "131 ... the LAFD stood around with their thumbs up their butts?

They've trained us to think this way. Times have changed.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:59 PM (VWtfl)

132 One word.
Thumb warmer.
Posted by: Weasel at March 15, 2026 02:38 PM"

Moronic synchronicity?

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 03:05 PM (vFG9F)

138 It's going to hit 83 here in S.F. on Wednesday, but our nights will be in the mid-50's. It's when it hits the mid-90's during the day and only cools off to upper 60's/low 70's at night that it really sucks. That doesn't happen every year.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 15, 2026 03:05 PM (KAi1n)

139 when i drink and drive i put the beverage into a glove for camo/ insul.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 03:06 PM (R11M+)

140 83?!

Seems like spring.

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 03:07 PM (bss/y)

141 My mom once knitted me a nose mitten (wool pouch with tie strings) for cold weather wear.
Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 02:34 PM (qgHp7)

A nose snood

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2026 03:08 PM (rbvCR)

142 I'm relaxing on the lanai
_-_
Heh...Floridians...wish I had a back porch...snowing here, but as Mr. Black indicated earlier, it will be in the eighties here in a couple of days. Enjoy the afternoon, Flanole!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 15, 2026 03:08 PM (CdCSf)

143 DILIT = Daughter-in-law in Training.
Posted by: Nazdar at March

Thanks. All I could come up with is in transit.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 15, 2026 03:10 PM (sl73Y)

144 DILIT = Daughter-in-law in Training.
_-_
Ah jes hates acronyms.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, hater of acronyms at March 15, 2026 03:12 PM (CdCSf)

145 Two words: Sous Vide.

Wait. That is two words.

I don't get it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 15, 2026 03:13 PM (8DR9B)

146 Don in SoCo, thank you! I escaped the Iron Curtain of Boston almost 5 yrs ago. This feels like paradise although the pool is still a but chilly, FWP

Posted by: Flanole at March 15, 2026 03:14 PM (ZnrCl)

147 First World Problems? I have them! Google have declared Themselves Time Lords. March 14th has disappeared from YouTube TV. Just gone. Not a problem today. Watching the final round of The Players Championship. The third round never recorded because YouTube TV disappeared the 14th of March. Weird and annoying. The only other thing I tried to record Sat was the NASCAR race in LV, and no, it didn't record because Google declared the 14th of March null and void.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 15, 2026 03:14 PM (sAmhv)

148 >>>when i drink and drive i put the beverage into a glove for camo/ insul.

Posted by: cmeat

Make sure you spike it with some kind of fake coffee flavored mixer, like Kahua, so no one will know better. Don't forget to splash in some Irish cream. Basically, a DOT approved white Russian.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:14 PM (M9gjJ)

149 132 One word.
Thumb warmer.
Posted by: Weasel at March 15, 2026 02:38 PM

That's two words.
Posted by: The Fourth Shot at March 15, 2026 03:02 PM (lXV+O)

You DICK!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 15, 2026 03:14 PM (dmDsy)

150 Make sure you spike it with some kind of fake coffee flavored mixer, like Kahua, so no one will know better. Don't forget to splash in some Irish cream. Basically, a DOT approved white Russian.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:14 PM (M9gjJ)

And of course, we do indeed approve of White Russians in transit.

Posted by: DMV Inspector- What's This Guys License Number Again? at March 15, 2026 03:18 PM (dmDsy)

151 Sorry to be a harbinger of bad tidings, but the bad news is that as one grows older, cold hands and feet can become a constant discomfort. My feet haven't been warm since last April. Not that I'm older...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 03:18 PM (XeU6L)

152 One word.
Thumb warmer.
Posted by: Weasel at March 15, 2026 02:38 PM

That's two words.
Posted by: The Fourth Shot at March 15, 2026 03:02

It's hyphenated, ya moron

Posted by: Flanole at March 15, 2026 03:18 PM (ZnrCl)

153 Firefly was peak Morena Baccarin.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 03:20 PM (n9ltV)

154 This version of the FWP post is the best version of the FWP post!

Posted by: Joe Scarborough at March 15, 2026 03:20 PM (dmDsy)

155 escaped the Iron Curtain of Boston
_-_
Does sound like an upgrade. I'm partial to remote, the wife likes small towns, so we compromised at rural. The neighbors aren't close enough I can see or here them (unless they are shooting), but they are close enough to pull my dumb ass out of a snow drift when needed. Daughter and new Son-in-Law coming to visit today. Time to go put a few beverages on to chill and put the leaf in the dining table.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, hater of acronyms at March 15, 2026 03:21 PM (CdCSf)

156 Made for gaming and cashiering and available for purchase:
Thumb gloves.
Finger gloves.
Finger cots.

Posted by: Kathy at March 15, 2026 03:21 PM (zuKcR)

157 141 i wear mine under the codpiece.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 03:21 PM (R11M+)

158 Post peak Morena Baccarin looks pretty damn good.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 15, 2026 03:22 PM (sAmhv)

159 153 Firefly was peak Morena Baccarin.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 03:20 PM (n9ltV)

When I saw her bare tits in whatever it was I watch watching, I could not believe what I was seeing.

I fell in love that day.

Posted by: Denny Crane - And I Haven't Given Up On That Yet. at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (dmDsy)

160 148 will do. (floating popping hearts)

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (R11M+)

161 One word.
Thumb warmer.
Posted by: Weasel
----------

Now you've gone and done it:
https://shorturl.at/5V860

Better hope they aren't weasel fur.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (XeU6L)

162 >>>And of course, we do indeed approve of White Russians in transit.

Posted by: DMV Inspector- What's This Guys License Number Again?

>I've seen those Russian dash-cam videos and they're mostly Second World Problems.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (M9gjJ)

163 Public Service Announcement
- Tousi up in a about ten. Guess he'll talk about Tucker being an unregistered Iranian agent AKA spy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (/lPRQ)

164 I also like a burnt martini which is vodka with a splash of scotch and blue cheese olives.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at March 15, 2026 03:03 PM (dyL4B)

Scotch-based or flavored cocktails are tough to make. The smoke from many scotches can overwhelm the drink.

What proportions do you use?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (n9ltV)

165 Oops. Can't seem to spell 'hear'correctly.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, hater of acronyms at March 15, 2026 03:24 PM (CdCSf)

166 >I've seen those Russian dash-cam videos and they're mostly Second World Problems.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (M9gjJ)

True, but they are kinda fun to watch.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 03:25 PM (dmDsy)

167 Bourbon, neat.

No frozen thumb. Just a warm, happy glow.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 15, 2026 03:26 PM (X+xvk)

168 Have fun Don!

Posted by: Flanole at March 15, 2026 03:26 PM (ZnrCl)

169 I also like a burnt martini which is vodka with a splash of scotch and blue cheese olives.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy

I'll take olives in their forms, but those blue cheese olives are an abomination, and not the good kind.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:27 PM (/lPRQ)

170 I've seen those Russian dash-cam videos and they're mostly Second World Problems.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (M9gjJ)

True, but they are kinda fun to watch.....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G)

Not kinda. They're a hoot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at March 15, 2026 03:29 PM (wOO3z)

171 Oops. Can't seem to spell 'hear'correctly.
Posted by: Don in SoCo, hater of acronyms at March 15, 2026

No "Hear, hear!" here, then.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 15, 2026 03:29 PM (lXV+O)

172 169 I also like a burnt martini which is vodka with a splash of scotch and blue cheese olives.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy

I'll take olives in their forms, but those blue cheese olives are an abomination, and not the good kind.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:27 PM (/lPRQ)

Olives - Gross

Bleu Cheese - Gross

Blue Cheese Olives - What the hell is wrong with you????

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 03:29 PM (dmDsy)

173 I've seen those Russian dash-cam videos and they're mostly Second World Problems.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:23 PM (M9gjJ)

Crappy cars on crappy roads being driven by habitual drunkards. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 15, 2026 03:30 PM (CSQvy)

174 Would watch animated Firefly. They can bring Wash back.

Posted by: Flanole at March 15, 2026 03:30 PM (ZnrCl)

175 True, but they are kinda fun to watch.....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G)

Not kinda. They're a hoot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at March 15, 2026 03:29 PM (wOO3z)

LOL

They really are, I just didn't want to seem like I was some low-brow comedy fan, so I added that qualifier...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 03:31 PM (dmDsy)

176 My wife only drinks Sauvignon Blanc, and keeps a bottle in the frig. She then pours it into a "wine glass" about as thick as a brick and room T. I've explained to her that thermal equilibration is detracting from her experience, but apparently the words I've used are too long, because she continues as before. However, she recently somehow broke a couple of them, so I've replaced them with more suitable white wine glasses. We'll see if she notices a difference.
Posted by: Archimedes

I recommend an old school A&W root beer mug kept in the deep freeze to serve up the finest box grade wine.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:31 PM (/lPRQ)

177
I can't tell whether Tucker Carlson is an hysterical mental case, an all-around shady grifter, or an actual paid foreign agent. I'm not sure it matters anyway -- the effect is about the same any of those ways. A couple of years ago I thought he was entertaining from time to time, now he's just depressing. Him and the rest of influencer ecosystem. Does he really matter, except as a specimen?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 03:32 PM (azNOR)

178 Looks like Sinema was playing hide the hot dog with her married bodyguard.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at March 15, 2026 03:34 PM (wOO3z)

179 176 My wife only drinks Sauvignon Blanc, and keeps a bottle in the frig. She then pours it into a "wine glass" about as thick as a brick and room T. I've explained to her that thermal equilibration is detracting from her experience, but apparently the words I've used are too long, because she continues as before. However, she recently somehow broke a couple of them, so I've replaced them with more suitable white wine glasses. We'll see if she notices a difference.
Posted by: Archimedes

I recommend an old school A&W root beer mug kept in the deep freeze to serve up the finest box grade wine.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:31 PM (/lPRQ)

A second look at wine glasses kept in the fridge?

Posted by: The Guy That Annoyingly Says "A Second Look" at March 15, 2026 03:34 PM (dmDsy)

180 I get bright ideas all the time. Every now and then one actually works. I don't mess with the microwave anymore, those things can be dangerous. That was a live and learn moment. Let's just say I had to buy a new one and my hand healed up eventually.

Posted by: Case at March 15, 2026 03:35 PM (pvf3X)

181 Thinking tea, its chilly here

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)

182 I'll take olives in their forms, but those blue cheese olives are an abomination, and not the good kind.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I picked up some lemon stuffed olives at Trader Joe's yesterday. They are yummy. Might be good in a martini.

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2026 03:36 PM (lJ0H4)

183 I can't tell whether Tucker Carlson is an hysterical mental case, an all-around shady grifter, or an actual paid foreign agent. I'm not sure it matters anyway -- the effect is about the same any of those ways. A couple of years ago I thought he was entertaining from time to time, now he's just depressing. Him and the rest of influencer ecosystem. Does he really matter, except as a specimen?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 03:32 PM (azNOR)

I agree with your questions. I had thought he was a pretty smart and aware political commentator.

In the end, I have personally have come down on the side that I don't give a fuck what he says or thinks.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 03:37 PM (dmDsy)

184 Scotch-based or flavored cocktails are tough to make. The smoke from many scotches can overwhelm the drink.

What proportions do you use?

Two ounces of vodka-I like Costco's French imported-with a splash of a less peaty scotch, like Glenmorangie. By a splash I mean less than 1/8 of an ounce. I never measure. Stir the vodka with ice and pour into a glass before you add the scotch. Then add the olives. Not sure if the scotch "floats". It adds a taste but does not overwhelm the vodka.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at March 15, 2026 03:37 PM (dyL4B)

185 >>>Does he really matter, except as a specimen?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

>He's certainly a case-study from what he has pretended to be to what he's become. I can't say I was shocked considering his past affiliations.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:38 PM (M9gjJ)

186
If shaking Manhattans is alright with William Powell, it should be alright with you:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cnYeFFeC4

Posted by: Auspex at March 15, 2026 03:38 PM (Y8DZL)

187 Good afternoon! It’s windy and the dust from west Texas is blowing in, but the patio is sheltered and it’s time for a cigar and fresh cuppa.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 15, 2026 03:40 PM (3Ope8)

188 My mom once knitted me a nose mitten (wool pouch with tie strings) for cold weather wear.
Posted by: muldoon

My great grandmother used to knit, for lack of a better term, cock socks. Complete with nut sack and drawstring.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:41 PM (/lPRQ)

189 There are many styles of stems with a bulge in middle of stem - just to keep hot digits from warming the contents of the glass. Cut crystal commonly has this. It also improves your grip if experience has interfered with previous strong grip. Note I typed experience and not time, aging, stupid mistakes, etc.

Posted by: epador at March 15, 2026 03:42 PM (huz0/)

190 Him and the rest of influencer ecosystem. Does he really matter, except as a specimen?

Carlson and his fellow iNFleNCerZ have millions of followers on 'X' and other social media platforms. Ok, most of them are foreigners and bots, but its a following. As for actual influence? I don't know. Heinlein said something about The Crazy Years but I think we've blown right past those. It's one giant insane asylum now and we're just living in it. Heinlein was a bit loopy himself.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 15, 2026 03:42 PM (sAmhv)

191 My great grandmother used to knit, for lack of a better term, cock socks. Complete with nut sack and drawstring.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 03:43 PM (A5RD0)

192 I am defying nature, and have transitioned from winter cocktails, to summer.

My standard is Kentucky Mule. But my home-brewed Alcoholic Ginger Beer has another two weeks to go.

Meanwhile, what Summer Bourbon cocktails does the Horde recommend? I like: bourbon, lime, lemon and.....?

Posted by: goatexchange at March 15, 2026 03:46 PM (hyS0X)

193
I've seen entire gardens downed in a Bloody Mary but the only garnish that seems to work is a garlic stuffed olive.

Posted by: Auspex at March 15, 2026 03:46 PM (Y8DZL)

194 >>>My great grandmother used to knit, for lack of a better term, cock socks. Complete with nut sack and drawstring.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Posted by: nurse ratched

>This is a tradition that should be handed down from one generation to the next. Do you have a sister?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 03:46 PM (M9gjJ)

195
It's all fun and games until your fingers get frostbite from the freezing glass!

Mittens (you pansy).

I keed!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 15, 2026 03:47 PM (xG4kz)

196 Pics or it didn’t happen.
Posted by: nurse ratched

But then you might nit-pic and point out that it was crochet and not knit.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:47 PM (/lPRQ)

197 Looks like Sinema was playing hide the hot dog with her married bodyguard.

ZOD hardest hit.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 15, 2026 03:48 PM (Fs0KI)

198 Change drinking habits.

Brandy and a brandy snifter. Aged spirits like brandy, cognac, and bourbon, and the bulbous shape of the glass concentrates aromas, while the stem allows the hand to gently warm the liquor.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 15, 2026 03:49 PM (NFX2v)

199 If shaking Manhattans is alright with William Powell, it should be alright with you:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cnYeFFeC4

I recently bought a set of Nick and Nora glasses. They hold about 5 oz, as compared to my coupes, which hold about 9. I like 'em.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 03:49 PM (Riz8t)

200 >This is a tradition that should be handed down from one generation to the next. Do you have a sister?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

It would have passed down through my aunts.
A cousin maybe? Or, niece at this point.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:50 PM (/lPRQ)

201
197 Looks like Sinema was playing hide the hot dog with her married bodyguard.

ZOD hardest hit.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 15, 2026 03:48 PM

------

Maybe ZOD instructed her to issue this cover story.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 03:50 PM (VWtfl)

202 Meanwhile, what Summer Bourbon cocktails does the Horde recommend?
Posted by: goatexchange

The Old Fashioned.

My father in law used to have a fake golf club pitcher he'd take to a no-alcohol golf course filled with a 'em and it would suit our foursome handsomely.

Posted by: Auspex at March 15, 2026 03:51 PM (Y8DZL)

203 We here on Skid Row don't have such problems. Plastic quarts of bottom-shelf Georgi vodka are durable, easy to hold and tipple, and supply a good evening's entertainment. Room temp is the best temp.

Posted by: Rum Dum With DTs at March 15, 2026 03:52 PM (oftw2)

204 I found a picture of cut crystal I inherited from my parents on Etsy but I can’t post link because too long. Sigh

https://i.etsystatic.com/ 41929449/r/il/512f41/ 5866305964/il_fullxfull.5866305964_jt5h.jpg

Posted by: epador at March 15, 2026 03:53 PM (huz0/)

205 If its real hot, maybe a icd cube kn my scotch, but it better be real hot

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)

206
Shit with which I will no longer put up:

The bramble stalk that leaned over onto our driveway. It tagged me for its last time just now.

The lopper of righteous justice dispatched it to its deserved end.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 15, 2026 03:55 PM (xG4kz)

207 80 I just saw a fox wander down the driveway and go into the backyard. Sort of ragged looking, although that might be its winter coat. I sure hope it isn't rabid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Fox there have kits/cubs around March and April. Might be more likely a female who has given birth and is now hunting for food for herself.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 15, 2026 03:56 PM (NFX2v)

208 Cock socks make great stocking stuffers.

Posted by: Santa at March 15, 2026 03:56 PM (wOO3z)

209 I buy my cock socks at the Big and Tall shop.

Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at March 15, 2026 03:58 PM (oftw2)

210 OK...those brandy snifters... how the hell do you empty your glass? It's like you have to bend your neck past 180 degrees!!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 03:59 PM (dmDsy)

211 Hope y'all aren't Idel on Ides day. Caesar what I did there?

NOT a FWP, but what other post today would be appropriate for a random meme?

This wins the award for "crossing the memes" today.

https://bit.ly/unrealatollah

Link goes to 5Mind.

Posted by: mindful webworker - that f'er ain't real at March 15, 2026 03:59 PM (O84gh)

212 If your biggest problem is that your martini glass is too cold, you’re having a damn fine day…

Posted by: pikkumatti at March 15, 2026 04:00 PM (zO177)

213 My mom once knitted me a nose mitten (wool pouch with tie strings) for cold weather wear.
Posted by: muldoon

My great grandmother used to knit, for lack of a better term, cock socks. Complete with nut sack and drawstring.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I saw Mitt And The Cock Socks open for The Skivvies at The Knitting Factory in 2018.

Posted by: mikeski at March 15, 2026 04:00 PM (VHUov)

214 Get cleaned up and upstairs
FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

Becoming An American, Or Even Entering The Country Is Not A Right...It Should Be A Rare Privilege

That headline should not be controversial. In fact it should be axiomatic. For most of our history our immigration policy was to allow almost unfettered immigration with a few restrictions. Criminals, the ill and infirm, and then in the 20th century, illiterates, were not allowed into America. After World War I the immigration restrictions recognized country of origin, with the goal of keeping the ethnic character of the country about the same.

And that wasn't all! There were political restrictions created by the various immigration acts of the first part of the century after the assassination of William McKinley, trying to keep out the budding revolutionary fervor in Europe. Anarchists, socialists, simple political radicalism...all were restricted. In fact, America deported immigrants who espoused overt anti-American beliefs.

But in 1990, that changed. The immigration act of that year removed most ideological restrictions, in favor of "security restrictions." And who? The usual suspects! The ACLU and other civil rights organizations, academia, and the left in Congress all agitated for relaxing political restrictions. Why is just as easily answered; keeping the post-Cold War leftists out of America was deemed to be "un-American," and in violation of our free speech rights and other civil liberties. Left unanswered was why foreigners should be afforded the rights protected by the United States Constitution!

Conspicuously absent was any recognition of Islam as a malign force whose sole objective was the subjugation of the world and the creation of a global caliphate. That sounds like a security risk as well as a political risk!

Naturalized but radicalized: Recent terror attacks expose glaring problems with citizenship vetting

As many increasingly argue that the U.S. immigration system is too lenient, four incidents in less than two weeks are being investigated or classified as terrorist attacks linked to Islamist extremism. Most of the alleged perpetrators are naturalized U.S. citizens.
Throughout history, we have expected people who immigrated here to become assimilated to the American culture. And I think over the last 30 years or so, there's been this idea that we no longer need to do that, and this is an example of the consequences of those kinds of bad policies," Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., told Just The News.
"We need to be more nimble when things are changing on the world stage, in the geopolitical realm. We need to be able to say, 'Now, wait a minute, maybe for right now, in light of the fact that we've got a war in the Middle East where we're attempting to take out the state sponsor of terrorism and free the world from the stranglehold that they've had for 47 years, should we maybe be reconsidering what we're doing in terms of bringing people into this country?'"

With all due respect (that means no respect at all, unless it is earned), we should not be "more nimble." The goal of American immigration policy should be the protection of our way of life, without any acceptance of gray areas in potential immigrants' politics or world view or adherence to a revolutionary political philosophy that use an ersatz religion to control its believers...otherwise known as Islam.

The core of Islam is the creation of a world government that is antithetical to 250 years of American Exceptionalism, 2,500 years of Western culture, 2,000 years of Christianity, at least 2,000 years of Hinduism, 2,400 years of Buddhism, and 2,800 years of Judaism. It aims to achieve that through violence, and has been remarkably consistent in its application of violence for its entire history.

If Western governments cannot recognize the existential risk of Islam being treated as just another religion, then all is lost. The United Kingdom is almost certainly lost already, with only the faint glimmer of hope in the Reform Party and Restore Britain Party. France is in similar straits, with its National Rally Party being actively targeted with lawfare by the ruling parties.

And...sadly, Islam is not the only existential issue. The majority of the world has no concept of personal freedom and individual autonomy. They are comfortable with authoritarian governments, with the rule of law being an afterthought, with tribalism being the primary driver of social and economic behavior. It is incumbent on America to reject those attitudes and return to a rational immigration policy that raises to the pinnacle a desire to become American, with all that entails.

Immigration law should be a hammer, and if deserving immigrants are denied entry, we will survive. But if the default decision is admission, we will be destroyed.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 Repeal Hart Cellar.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 15, 2026 12:01 PM (u73oe)

2 I agree CBD

Posted by: It's me donna at March 15, 2026 12:01 PM (GxJkO)

3 Nooded. And the time machine is doing, um, overtime today.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 12:01 PM (NcvvS)

4 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

5 80 degrees yesterday. Later today we will have blizzard conditions. Lovely.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 15, 2026 12:03 PM (u73oe)

6 Hmm. The timestamps seem to be correct, now. Quick work!

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 12:04 PM (NcvvS)

7 Immigration became invasion when the government started printing everything in 57 languages and allowed chain migration.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2026 12:04 PM (+nEug)

8 The same people that giddily describe AI destroying jobs are the same that insist we be a open playground to all that fly in.

Weird. I have other ideas.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 15, 2026 12:04 PM (diia5)

9 At this point I think we need a total moratorium on all immigration for a decade. The only exceptions being for political asylum (eg let those Iranian soccer players in as their own government would kill then). And political asylum claims need to be investigated and validated before being accepted

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 12:05 PM (X5Baq)

10 5 - Here in north Texas it’ll get to 82 degrees today then overnight tonight down to 32 degrees. A mere 50 degree delta….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 12:07 PM (X5Baq)

11 total moratorium on all immigration for a decade.

The hawt chick exception

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 12:08 PM (Kt19C)

12 7 Immigration became invasion when the government started printing everything in 57 languages and allowed chain migration.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2026 12:04 PM (+nEug)

This....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 15, 2026 12:08 PM (GxJkO)

13 I just watched Fox reporter Dana Marie Nichol say this, "... as this war enters week three, President Troll, I mean President Trump told NBC..."

That has to be the News Blooper of the Year (so far).

Posted by: Denny Crane - Some Here at HQ Should Of Thought Of That A Long Time Ago! at March 15, 2026 12:09 PM (dmDsy)

14 Look kn England where many of the Jihadists are ' National Citizens ' many born there do their crimes are washed before the news gets out.

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 12:10 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Note that immigration from Italy was pretty much shut down in 1921, coincidentally right after the Wall Street Bombing of 1920 which killed 38 people.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 15, 2026 12:15 PM (4mmkh)

16 Great essay. Thanks.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 15, 2026 12:15 PM (d9Cw3)

17 In college in the early '60s, I double-dated with an 'Arab' student who had a top-of-the-line current model year 4-seater T-bird. When we pulled into a 'burgers-on-skates' kinda place to eat, he turned around and 'regaled' us with 'tales of derring-do' he performed in his 'home desert' country. His proudest 'achievement'? He claimed that the thing he enjoyed most was to stand on top of a sand dune with his AK '… and kill JEWS!'. I had no use for his sorry ass after that and broke off all contact. Had I been smarter, I prolly woulda reported him - but I wasn't tuned in to the finer points of that back then. Woulda/Coulda/Shoulda … right …

Posted by: Dr_No at March 15, 2026 12:15 PM (ayRl+)

18 President Troll does live in their heads 24/7/365

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 12:16 PM (Ia/+0)

19 At this point I think we need a total moratorium on all immigration for a decade. The only exceptions being for political asylum (eg let those Iranian soccer players in as their own government would kill then). And political asylum claims need to be investigated and validated before being accepted

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 12:05 PM

There is precedence for doing exactly that. The 1924 immigration act set quotas, banned immigration from certain places and made english language skills testing mandatory. johnson and his "great society" plan ended that and opened the flood gates of pretty much unlimited immigration again.

Unfortunately there is no way that is ever going to happen again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 15, 2026 12:16 PM (0N4FZ)

20 Note that immigration from Italy was pretty much shut down in 1921, coincidentally right after the Wall Street Bombing of 1920 which killed 38 people.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 15, 2026 12:15 PM (4mmkh)

They pivoted to Northern and Western Europe. Which was our right as a country!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 12:18 PM (n9ltV)

21 There wasn't an incorrect sentence in this post (yes, I posted above before I read the content lol).

What jumped out at me was that it's only been 1990 since ideology has been ignored, for some reason I thought something in 1965 did that.... Oh well, that's why I'm not a History teacher.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Or Any Kind of Teacher, For That Matter. at March 15, 2026 12:18 PM (dmDsy)

22 Was in a Big Box Store yesterday and couldn't help but notice how few of my fellow shoppers "looked like me."

I'm allowed to use that phrase, aren't I?
Or is it's use restricted to Left-handed Lesbian Lithuanian-Americans of Color?

I especially noticed the high number Hag-N-A-Bag female Mohammedans that seem to populate any and every place of commerce.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)

23 Islam, communists, nazis, and lgbtq+abc body mutilators, you'll get nothing and like it. Or get the fuck out.

Nice post.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 12:19 PM (M9gjJ)

24 Honestly, there are a lot of dirtbags that shouldn't ever be permitted to reside here in the US.

Many are in Congress.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 12:19 PM (jtM2q)

25 But they're yearning to be free!

Posted by: Emma Lizardass at March 15, 2026 12:19 PM (Cqx++)

26 for some reason I thought something in 1965 did that.... Oh well, that's why I'm not a History teacher.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Or Any Kind of Teacher, For That Matter. at March 15, 2026 12:18 PM (dmDsy)

The 1965 Immigration Act opened the borders, and my guess is that the political restrictions were often ignored. But they were on the books until 1990.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n9ltV)

27 I think it's almost too late to put the genie back in the bottle.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2026 12:22 PM (NpAcC)

28 If Western governments cannot recognize the existential risk of Islam being treated as just another religion, then all is lost.

Spot on!!!
The longer we wait to put a stop to the spread of Islam, the bloodier the outcome will be. We may not face the consequences, but our children and grandchildren will.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2026 12:24 PM (2WIwB)

29 Oh, master. Please don't make me go back into the bottle! I'll be good. I promise.

Posted by: Barbara Eden at March 15, 2026 12:25 PM (2Ez/1)

30 The 1965 Immigration Act opened the borders, and my guess is that the political restrictions were often ignored. But they were on the books until 1990.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 12:20 PM (n9ltV)

Ah! That makes good sense.

Excellent post, btw. I can't rule out acute Bias Confirmation, but I agree with every point you make.

Posted by: Denny Crane - But Don't Think This Will Be Any Kind of Regular Thing... at March 15, 2026 12:25 PM (dmDsy)

31 The majority of the world has no concept of personal freedom and individual autonomy. They are comfortable with authoritarian governments, with the rule of law being an afterthought, with tribalism being the primary driver of social and economic behavior.

Thievery also seems to be a core idea of many 3rd world citizens. There is zero respect for private property and an almost pathological desire to cheat the system(s). Maybe that is the tribalism idea that my tribe deserve better even if we have to cheat, lie, and steal from you.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 12:25 PM (gbOdA)

32 The Bushes are as equally responsible as Ted Kennedy for the destruction of America.

I am glad I voted for Ross Perot. Yes. Bill brought along that evil hag Hitlery. But the Buahes have been very responsible for much of the wreck.

Posted by: The Dog at March 15, 2026 12:28 PM (XodLO)

33 The United Kingdom is almost certainly lost already, with only the faint glimmer of hope in the Reform Party and Restore Britain Party. France is in similar straits, with its National Rally Party being actively targeted with lawfare by the ruling parties.

I don't see a way out for either of them. At best, civil war, at worst, submission.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2026 12:28 PM (2WIwB)

34 The Constitution's religious freedom rites will be the death of religious freedom.

והמבין יבין

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:29 PM (1o8D5)

35 Thanks, CBD. Spot on. Fact is, if we don't remove many recent legal and illegal immigrants, we will completely lose our culture. The sooner we face this reality, the sooner we can mostly peacefully resolve the problem...or become just another totalitarian pile of crap.
Imagine some knucklehead like Mamdani in charge of the control grid we are building with AI and a CBDC.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 15, 2026 12:30 PM (CdCSf)

36 Biden's Dog, 100% in agreement with that

Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2026 12:31 PM (+nEug)

37 Thievery also seems to be a core idea of many 3rd world citizens. There is zero respect for private property and an almost pathological desire to cheat the system(s). Maybe that is the tribalism idea that my tribe deserve better even if we have to cheat, lie, and steal from you.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 12:25 PM (gbOdA)

It really does seem like Humanity in whole have been programmed to be very selfish and uncaring, and it was Western Civilization that kind of slowly changed that norm. Problem is, the 3rd World still hasn't read the memo.

Posted by: Denny Crane - It's Got To Be Nurture, Not Nature, Right? at March 15, 2026 12:32 PM (dmDsy)

38 I think it's almost too late to put the genie back in the bottle.
Posted by: redridinghood

Plenty of room in the woodchipper, however.

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 15, 2026 12:33 PM (okzi2)

39 It's easy. Anyone that wants to come here legally should pay a one time fee of $250,000.00

Posted by: New Rules For A New Day at March 15, 2026 12:29 PM (Ksqrb)
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Not a good idea at all. The money doesn't prove anything. You will be closing the gateway to some of the best and brightest future loyal Americans.

Quantitative limits and strict background checks are what's needed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:33 PM (1o8D5)

40 Thievery also seems to be a core idea of many 3rd world citizens. There is zero respect for private property and an almost pathological desire to cheat the system(s).

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 12:25 PM (gbOdA)

Excellent point, and I also agree that it flows, at least in part, from tribalism.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 12:33 PM (n9ltV)

41 The same people that giddily describe AI destroying jobs are the same that insist we be a open playground to all that fly in.

It's the same shortsightedness, too.

Post-World War 1, experts said the industrial revolution was going to eliminate 90% of jobs and usher in workable socialism. Western Europe deliberately took their eyes off the ball to pursue that and we all see where they ended up. The US (and most of eastern Asia) did not. We were thus open to the fact that while jobs were eliminated by mechanization and automation, many new kinds of companies and jobs appeared as a result. That cycle repeated with computers in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s, and AI will likely go the same way.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 12:34 PM (QZThv)

42 Quantitative limits and strict background checks are what's needed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:33 PM (1o8D5)

IQ testing as well.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 12:34 PM (n9ltV)

43 32
That my-guy-versus-your-guy stuff is completely uninteresting and in fact a trap to keep people at each other's throats instead of solving problems.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 15, 2026 12:34 PM (CdCSf)

44 Biden's Dog, 100% in agreement with that

Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2026 12:31 PM (+nEug)
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The Founding Fathers could never have foreseen the danger.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:34 PM (1o8D5)

45 >>>Oh, master. Please don't make me go back into the bottle! I'll be good. I promise.

Posted by: Barbara Eden

>Jennie, get back in the boudoir or into the kitchen for some sammiches. And try wearing something a little more casual.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 12:35 PM (M9gjJ)

46 IQ testing as well.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 12:34 PM (n9ltV)
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Fair.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:35 PM (1o8D5)

47 Having lived in the Far East, Europe and the Middle East, a moratorium on immigration is clearly overdue. Islamists are not accepting of other religions and have no problem killing Christians. We have enough of our own home-grown nut cases -- why invite more in? The Somalis, aka, ungrateful thieves, should also be deported asap. Minnesota may never recover from the billions stolen by Somalian immigrants. Just who was minding the store in Minnesota?
Now is the time to get tough and stand our ground

Posted by: JudyM at March 15, 2026 12:36 PM (zlcPn)

48 >>the United Kingdom is almost certainly lost already

Anyone else catch the videos of "sharia police" wearing armbands and mounted on horseback hassling the anti-regime Iranians celebrating in the streets of Manchester last week? UK police did nothing to stop them.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 12:36 PM (Y1sOo)

49 39 I think it's almost too late to put the genie back in the bottle.
Posted by: redridinghood

Plenty of room in the woodchipper, however.
Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 15, 2026 12:33 PM (okzi2)

Yeah, you're putting Barbra Eden in a wood chipper over my dead fucking body. Damn... Jeanne?

What did she ever do to you???

Posted by: Denny Crane - Except Give You An Inappropriately-Timed Boner! at March 15, 2026 12:37 PM (dmDsy)

50 Was in a Big Box Store yesterday and couldn't help but notice how few of my fellow shoppers "looked like me."

Pfffffft.

Posted by: DMV at March 15, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)

51 18 President Troll does live in their heads 24/7/365
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 12:16 PM (Ia/+0)

You are correct sir!

Posted by: Denny Crane - And It's SO Fun To Watch! at March 15, 2026 12:38 PM (dmDsy)

52 And no moslems, indian dotheads or red chinamen allowed.

Posted by: New Rules For A New Day

Oooh, look, a storm front's a'comin' in.

Posted by: DMV at March 15, 2026 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

53 7 Immigration became invasion when the government started printing everything in 57 languages and allowed chain migration.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2026 12:04 PM (+nEug)

Chain Migration has turned into a mass flood, probably the worst allowance.

Posted by: javems at March 15, 2026 12:39 PM (zFsEm)

54 Imagine being this stupid. The UK is lost. Not on it's way. It's gone. No path to come back anytime soon.
---------
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
The UK is letting a CONVICTED Muslim terrorist run for office

His name is Shahid Butt. He was

- Convicted of trying to blow up the British Consulate
- Convicted of trying to blow up an Anglican Church
- Convicted of trying to blow up a Swiss-owned hotel

“Convicted of all of that, and now he is running to be on the government council in Birmingham.
------------
He's the leading candidate too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 12:39 PM (jtM2q)

55 Easy there, Denny with the ill timed boner. Was not referring to Babs lol.

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 15, 2026 12:40 PM (ivbw6)

56 Anyone else catch the videos of "sharia police" wearing armbands and mounted on horseback hassling the anti-regime Iranians celebrating in the streets of Manchester last week? UK police did nothing to stop them.

This is as much a problem of weak-willed Brits as anything. The second those guys stepped out of line, they should have been on a boat back to their home country. If they were born in England, they should have a nice long stay in the gray bar hotel. If you aren't willing to stand up for yourself, don't expect others to do it for you.

Posted by: DMV at March 15, 2026 12:41 PM (Riz8t)

57 What the hell are they putting in his metamucil?

@LeadingReport 7m
Senator Lindsey Graham: When this regime goes down, we’re going to make a ton of money.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 15, 2026 12:41 PM (diia5)

58 Velcome to technical support. My name is...Bob.

Posted by: Indian dothead at March 15, 2026 12:42 PM (2Ez/1)

59 Thanks CBD, well stated.

As John Adams said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

I think the moral side of that statement is key.

Any religion that does not have a core component of morality is not compatible with a multicultural nation. Indiscriminate immigration turns the notion of a melting pot into not a mixed salad, rather into a garbage pail.

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 12:42 PM (qgHp7)

60 Hekawis seemed to be a mostly peaceful, entrepreneurial Tribe. Maybe breed more of them?

Posted by: Trooper Vanderbilt at March 15, 2026 12:42 PM (oftw2)

61 Posted by: New Rules For A New Day at March 15, 2026 12:29 PM (Ksqrb)

Dude, you may want to dial back the caffeine...

Posted by: Denny Crane - And The Cocaine, The Meth, And The Racism. at March 15, 2026 12:42 PM (dmDsy)

62 Deport every single illegal and their children (send their dogs and cats too) and anyone who wasn’t born here regardless of immigration status.

Then let the ones who can prove citizenship, value and allegiance to the US, let them return.

ALL OF THEM.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:42 PM (A5RD0)

63 Posted by: New Rules For A New Day at March 15, 2026 12:29 PM (Ksqrb)

Dude, you may want to dial back the caffeine...

Right? He completely forgot to mention the Joos.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

64 63 Deport every single illegal and their children (send their dogs and cats too) and anyone who wasn’t born here regardless of immigration status.

Then let the ones who can prove citizenship, value and allegiance to the US, let them return.

ALL OF THEM.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:42 PM (A5RD0)

The black robbed tyrants are keeping us from even deporting convicted. criminals...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 15, 2026 12:44 PM (VE6XX)

65 No Yellow!

Posted by: First Son Emeritus at March 15, 2026 12:44 PM (oftw2)

66 Tax 'em. Tax the hell outta 'em.

Posted by: Bunker comma Archie at March 15, 2026 12:45 PM (2Ez/1)

67 There's unconfirmed buzz on X that Tucker's last visits to the White House were specifically to plant the false information that we weren't going to bomb Iran under any circumstances, because they knew his paymasters were the IRGC. And that's why the mullahs felt safe to have an all-hands physical meeting. We'll see if that gets confirmed though, since it's way too perfect.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 12:47 PM (QZThv)

68 >>the United Kingdom is almost certainly lost already

Anyone else catch the videos of "sharia police" wearing armbands and mounted on horseback hassling the anti-regime Iranians celebrating in the streets of Manchester last week? UK police did nothing to stop them.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 12:36 PM (Y1sOo)

They should have been blown off those horses with machine guns.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 12:47 PM (snZF9)

69 NO IRISH!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:47 PM (0W2kt)

70 No Yellow!

Posted by: First Son Emeritus at March 15, 2026 12:44 PM (oftw2)
-

What is your favorite color?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:47 PM (1o8D5)

71 So, it is in fact time to admit that the rapid importation of foreign cultures (and the more foreign, the more problematic) can and will destroy the existing one. I don't think we want that, do we?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 15, 2026 12:48 PM (CdCSf)

72 At this point I think we need a total moratorium on all immigration for a decade. The only exceptions being for political asylum (eg let those Iranian soccer players in as their own government would kill then). And political asylum claims need to be investigated and validated before being accepted
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 12:05 PM (X5Baq)

If the Iranian soccer players are provably non-muslim, let them in. If they are muslim, but are at odds with the mullahs over some point of doctrine, let them seek asylum in some other muzz country.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:49 PM (8zz6B)

73 Dude, you may want to dial back the caffeine...

Right? He completely forgot to mention the Joos.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 12:44 PM
_____

Yeah. Who needs 'em?

https://youtu.be/xr7NJ8UujSo

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at March 15, 2026 12:49 PM (2Ez/1)

74 You're racist! We are all citizens of the world.

Posted by: Big Other at March 15, 2026 12:49 PM (d6BF2)

75 Right? He completely forgot to mention the Joos.

The Jooos are basically overpowered AD&D characters at this point. Magic spells, weather machines, control of sharks, dolphins, and pigeons, and of course the almighty space laser.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)

76 And no moslems, indian dotheads or red chinamen allowed.

Posted by: New Rules For A New Day

Oooh, look, a storm front's a'comin' in.
Posted by: DMV at

-----

I think the race card is being played here, while I think the first comment should be viewed through the lens of culture and tradition.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 15, 2026 12:50 PM (RkOfE)

77 spot-on, CBD, every word!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 12:51 PM (MIIRH)

78 The Jooos are basically overpowered AD&D characters at this point. Magic spells, weather machines, control of sharks, dolphins, and pigeons, and of course the almighty space laser.

To say nothing of their ability to warp the minds of others, including Tucker, Candace, and Megyn. Oh, to have such power.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

79 The Muslim representatives seem to pop up more every year.
Long ago the English thought Catholics would pay more obedience to the Pope than the King. Muslims are more obedient to the Koran than the Constitution.

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 12:52 PM (Ia/+0)

80
They should have been blown off those horses with machine guns.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

They ought to have been pulled off the horses and curb stomped.

It was another test of British resolve, and failure theater scored another costly win.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 15, 2026 12:52 PM (xG4kz)

81 AI is destroying the need to import H-1B visa software engineers.

Posted by: Big Other at March 15, 2026 12:52 PM (d6BF2)

82 Off Beast sock.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 15, 2026 12:52 PM (d6BF2)

83 Insty says Tucker is now whining that he's being investigated by the CIA for talking to Iran before the war. That's certainly evidence towards him being played like a fiddle by the White House.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 12:53 PM (QZThv)

84
Magic spells, weather machines, control of sharks, dolphins, and pigeons

The pigeons poop on your car!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Cqx++)

85 You don't have to curb stomp someone after you drag them off a horse. Their head should hit the ground just fine from gravity alone.

Posted by: Reforger at March 15, 2026 12:54 PM (rpbjO)

86 The pigeons poop on your car!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2026 12:53 PM (Cqx++)
-

What's worse is our people and car poop weapon in coastal areas: the Segals.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:55 PM (1o8D5)

87 You don't have to curb stomp someone after you drag them off a horse. Their head should hit the ground just fine from gravity alone.

It's why halberds were created, although a shepherd's crook will do in a pinch.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

88 What's worse is our people and car poop weapon in coastal areas: the Segals.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:55 PM

The Steven Segals? There's more than one?!

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 12:56 PM (QZThv)

89 One of the two mounted sharia agitators interviewed:

https://tinyurl.com/4s86fstb

See how many obvious lies you can detect.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)

90 The Steven Segals? There's more than one?!
Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 12:56 PM (QZThv)

*Absolutely-Shitting-My-Pants-Insanely-Scared-Face*

Posted by: Denny Crane - But Then Again, The Man DOES Know IKEA... at March 15, 2026 12:58 PM (dmDsy)

91 The Steven Segals? There's more than one?!

Obligatory:

https://tinyurl.com/26zbkurt

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 12:58 PM (Riz8t)

92 Do Tucker was talking to the Iranians before the war?

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 12:58 PM (Ia/+0)

93 Good grief. Everyone is at least a little bit tribal, but that is fine. If an Indian or a Filipino likes his kinsman and their ways better than they like me and mine, great. The issue here is the intentional displacement of one culture that is rather unique and has been very valuable to the entire world by doing this mosaic horseshit. It doesn't work and has a very predictable outcome. This is not about white versus shades of brown or yellow of "the Joos". It is about the intentional destruction of Western Civilization using immigration.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 15, 2026 12:59 PM (CdCSf)

94 Tucker, Candace, and Megyn walk into a synagogue, and the rabbi says,...

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 12:59 PM (M9gjJ)

95 והמבין יבין
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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And an implied corollary (sorry, have no idea how to translate to Hebrew) might be, 'If you don't know, you don't know'. There is an implication in that that ignorance is bliss...for a while.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

96 What this country really needs is a good five cent Segal.

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 01:00 PM (qgHp7)

97 And an implied corollary (sorry, have no idea how to translate to Hebrew)
-

"if you know, you know."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 01:03 PM (1o8D5)

98 93 Do Tucker was talking to the Iranians before the war?
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 12:58 PM (Ia/+0)

Sure looks like he was their mouthpiece, and was trying to pass on confidential info.
But international espionage is a dirty and dangerous game played by professionals. Amateurs who wander in because they think they’re So Smart are going to get themselves, or a bunch of their friends, killed quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2026 01:03 PM (Mh6s8)

99 Anyone else catch the videos of "sharia police" wearing armbands and mounted on horseback hassling the anti-regime Iranians celebrating in the streets of Manchester last week? UK police did nothing to stop them.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 12:36 PM (Y1sOo)

They should have been blown off those horses with machine guns.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 12:47 PM (snZF9)

Question: where did the "Sharia police" get the horses? Do muzzies in England maintain stables for this purpose? Or were these horses from the regular monted police stables, and their riders regualr (but muzzie) members of the police mounted force, simply doing their day job dressed in mufti?

In any case, if baddies are using horses to harass innocents, hamstring the damned horses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:03 PM (8zz6B)

100 In any case, if baddies are using horses to harass innocents, hamstring the damned horses.

Or, you know, feed the baddies to the pigs.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 15, 2026 01:04 PM (Riz8t)

101 Immigration law should be a hammer, and if deserving immigrants are denied entry, we will survive. But if the default decision is admission, we will be destroyed.

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Righteous rant per usual, CBD!

That final paragraph is akin to the famous Benjamin Franklin saying that "It is better to let 100 guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent person" (a variation of the earlier William Blackstone's Principle/Ratio -- a foundational axiom in the American justice system -- that “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”

Posted by: ShainS at March 15, 2026 01:04 PM (My0zW)

102 What this country really needs is a good five cent Segal.
Posted by: muldoon

How about a 2-bit Bruce Willis?

Posted by: Mickey Rourke at March 15, 2026 01:04 PM (Z3/b6)

103 Somebody, please confirm this, as my sanity hangs in the balance...

Zelenskyy just said that Ukraine has withstood a 1700-drone attack over the last day. And, for a payment of cash and weapons, he will advise the US, Israel, and the Middle East how to combat those type of attacks.

Isn't that like the kid who gets bullied every single day offering to show you how to get your nose bloodied and your ass wedgied for just "a cup of coffee a day"?

Posted by: Denny Crane - Wear a Fucking Collared Shirt, You Heathen! at March 15, 2026 01:04 PM (dmDsy)

104 Question: where did the "Sharia police" get the horses?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Gypos. Who else?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 15, 2026 01:04 PM (diia5)

105 Started university in the Fall of 1980. We had this wealthy Iranian dude in our dorm whose family escaped to Europe after the fall of the Shah.

He remains memorable for his attitude towards women: “You f__k them and make them cook.”, said in a thick Persian accent.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at March 15, 2026 01:05 PM (9EO0O)

106 >>>Sure looks like he was their mouthpiece, and was trying to pass on confidential info.
But international espionage is a dirty and dangerous game played by professionals. Amateurs who wander in because they think they’re So Smart are going to get themselves, or a bunch of their friends, killed quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo

>Lord Haw-Haw Carlson is probably being paid well with the stash of Obama cash in Tehran.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 01:06 PM (M9gjJ)

107 Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy

>Sikh restaurant refuses to sell halal meat
>100+ armed Muslim men swarm the restaurant, try to break in, film their kids, and threaten to rape and murder them
>police arrive but arrest none of the mob
>police arrest the restaurant owner the next day instead

London is doomed.

https://x.com/SamanthaTaghoy/status
/2032902059956064302?s=20

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2026 01:07 PM (R29Mt)

108 Sharia police" get the camels?
Fixed it for you AOP

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 01:07 PM (Ia/+0)

109 Anyone else catch the videos of "sharia police" wearing armbands and mounted on horseback hassling the anti-regime Iranians celebrating in the streets of Manchester last week? UK police did nothing to stop them.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 12:36 PM (Y1sOo)

They should have been blown off those horses with machine guns.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 12:47 PM (snZF9)

Dear President Trump: "Send in the drones!"

Question: where did the "Sharia police" get the horses? Do muzzies in England maintain stables for this purpose? Or were these horses from the regular monted police stables, and their riders regualr (but muzzie) members of the police mounted force, simply doing their day job dressed in mufti?

In any case, if baddies are using horses to harass innocents, hamstring the damned horses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:03 PM (8zz6B)

Do they have "local" ChiComm Police Stations in The UK like they have here in the USA? /rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS at March 15, 2026 01:08 PM (My0zW)

110 105 Question: where did the "Sharia police" get the horses?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Gypos. Who else?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 15, 2026 01:04 PM (diia5)

That's in Mexico and Africa, right?

Posted by: AOC- See, I KNOW THINGS!!!! at March 15, 2026 01:08 PM (dmDsy)

111 Thx CBD. Had an argument years ago with a younger attorney at a courthouse. Some of us were talking about Islam and I mentioned the moderate Muslims let the Jihadists do their work for them. He said "jihadists are only 10%". I pointed at that with 1.2B Muslims that's 120m. He said well maybe 5%. I said "that's 60m". He shut up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2026 01:08 PM (YsPj+)

112 Good post CBD,

Thank you for pointing out the shift in type of restrictions. If the restrictions changed from ideological to security they can shift back.

I would like to see:

Islam banned in US.
All welfare ended.
Incentivize marriage, child rearing.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 15, 2026 01:08 PM (RkOfE)

113 Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy

>Sikh restaurant refuses to sell halal meat
>100+ armed Muslim men swarm the restaurant, try to break in, film their kids, and threaten to rape and murder them
>police arrive but arrest none of the mob
>police arrest the restaurant owner the next day instead

London is doomed.

-------------

"It's dead, ~~Jim~~ Zombie King James."

Posted by: ShainS at March 15, 2026 01:09 PM (My0zW)

114 Have another video on, but see a different one saying yesterday Iranian subs tried to attack a aircraft carrier group.
Can't image it turned out well for them

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 01:10 PM (Ia/+0)

115 >>Question: where did the "Sharia police" get the horses?

One of the dudes owns them and keeps them in a stable out in the country. He brought them to town knowing that an anti-regime crowd was to be there as a counter to the pro-regime vigil that was to happen that evening.

(That was after he said he brought the horses to town simply to get them trained to be in a city environment).

He claims is "neutral" but had "friends" attending the vigil and wanted to protect that group against the anti-regime crowd.

He's full of his own horses' shit, of course.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 01:11 PM (Y1sOo)

116 Apparently, some wind.

@okcfoxweather 2m
From Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

For your safety EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY for Sayre OK.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 15, 2026 01:12 PM (diia5)

117 Have another video on, but see a different one saying yesterday Iranian subs tried to attack a aircraft carrier group.
Can't image it turned out well for them
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 01:10 PM (Ia/+0)

I am surpised that Iran has any subs left at all. Surely they have all been sunk, permanently, by now. Either in their docks, or at sea.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:12 PM (8zz6B)

118 Deport every single illegal and their children (send their dogs and cats too) and anyone who wasn’t born here regardless of immigration status.

Then let the ones who can prove citizenship, value and allegiance to the US, let them return.

ALL OF THEM.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:42 PM (A5RD0)

The black robbed tyrants are keeping us from even deporting convicted. criminals...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 15, 2026 12:44 PM (VE6XX)

Deport them first. Preferably to someplace that doesn't commonly speak English.

Posted by: Methos at March 15, 2026 01:13 PM (vSvIl)

119 I thought it'd be amusing when the illegal Hispanics who were here not necessarily to freeload, but had a political agenda they wanted to implement and began to unseat the very Democrats that permitted them to be here.

But, it's the Muslims that seem to be highly motivated to become politically involved. And they're going to unseat many of the Democrats that championed their arrival.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 01:13 PM (jtM2q)

120 >>>Tucker, Candace, and Megyn walk into a synagogue, and the rabbi says,...

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

>"Call the bomb squad, we're going Code Red!"

I couldn't resist.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 01:14 PM (M9gjJ)

121 Started university in the Fall of 1980. We had this wealthy Iranian dude in our dorm whose family escaped to Europe after the fall of the Shah.

He remains memorable for his attitude towards women: “You f__k them and make them cook.”, said in a thick Persian accent.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at March 15, 2026 01:05 PM (9EO0O)

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Freshman year of college -- fall of 1979 -- and one of my dorm's "suite mates" became one of my best friends (great guy, and later great American).

He was an Armenian from Iran, and his family had gotten out before things went sideways.

We were at a small liberal arts college in SoCal known for our prowess in athletics (he was a good soccer player, me in football). Anywho, he was occasionally physically threatened by other students (usually redneck-types) after our Embassy was taken hostage; me and a couple of my buddies had to surround and protect him on some occasions from a mob of ignoramuses (ignorami?).

Things finally settled down the following year after the election of Reagan ... and eventual freeing of the hostages.

Posted by: ShainS at March 15, 2026 01:15 PM (My0zW)

122 One of the dudes owns them and keeps them in a stable out in the country. He brought them to town knowing that an anti-regime crowd was to be there as a counter to the pro-regime vigil that was to happen that evening.

(That was after he said he brought the horses to town simply to get them trained to be in a city environment).

He claims is "neutral" but had "friends" attending the vigil and wanted to protect that group against the anti-regime crowd.

He's full of his own horses' shit, of course.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 01:11 PM (Y1sOo)

Ah. Thanks for the answer. Pity about the horses perishing in that stable fire. Stables are real firetraps. All that straw, and the spontaneous combustion of decaying horse shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:15 PM (8zz6B)

123 In any case, if baddies are using horses to harass innocents, hamstring the damned horses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:03 PM (8zz6B)

More fun to blow them off the horses with machine guns. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 01:15 PM (snZF9)

124 Think the video is about last weeks sub attacks that didn't turn out as planned

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 01:16 PM (Ia/+0)

125 Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
The UK is letting a CONVICTED Muslim terrorist run for office

His name is Shahid Butt. He was

- Convicted of trying to blow up the British Consulate
- Convicted of trying to blow up an Anglican Church
- Convicted of trying to blow up a Swiss-owned hotel

“Convicted of all of that, and now he is running to be on the government council in Birmingham.
------------
He's the leading candidate too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
======
Due to his aspirational manner
he has a lock on the Newcomer vote.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 01:17 PM (/lPRQ)

126 It really does seem like Humanity in whole have been programmed to be very selfish and uncaring, and it was Western Civilization that kind of slowly changed that norm. Problem is, the 3rd World still hasn't read the memo.
Posted by: Denny Crane - It's Got To Be Nurture, Not Nature, Right? at March 15, 2026 12:32 PM (dmDsy)

Smiths other book The Theory of Moral Sentiments (7 years before Wealth) he states ‘How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.’

He does make clear that this is a core idea in Western Civilization and Democracies. He had, my guess, already started to think about wealth, and prosperity, and freedoms (to pursue work that provides that) needed to build a good society.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:18 PM (gbOdA)

127
London is doomed.

-------------

"It's dead, Jim Zombie King James."
Posted by: ShainS

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

The Sikh is standing his ground, and supportive video is getting 10s of millions of views. The woke is going to backfire -- although I don't know when.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 15, 2026 01:18 PM (y2OcL)

128 My wife and I were just discussing naturalized citizens running for office. I have to tell you, I am pretty opposed to the idea. Maybe, if they had lived here since they were five years old, but probably not even then. I do not want to vote for a foreigner. There is at least something to being born and bred to the bone American. Depending on the culture, I am not sure I could even vote for a 2nd generation candidate.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 01:18 PM (4NO2D)

129 London is doomed.

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"It's dead, Jim Zombie King James."
Posted by: ShainS at March 15, 2026 01:09 PM (My0zW)

England itself is doomed. They have relied on the unrest of the ME and their oil output for generations, and President Trump is dismantling it.

England let the muslims take them over in return for the oil money via tanker risk insurance and real estate investments in London continued unabated.

Now they are fucked. The Brits surrendered their sovereignty to Islam for a reward that is about to be ended by President Troll.

God Bless that man!

Posted by: Denny Crane - What a Sad End To a Once Great Realm. at March 15, 2026 01:18 PM (dmDsy)

130 More fun to blow them off the horses with machine guns. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 01:15 PM (snZF9)

Well, if you have machine guns, yeah. They don't even let Britons have knives. But you could hamstring a horse with a straight razor. Or a shard of glass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:19 PM (8zz6B)

131 Philistines upon you, America:

https://tinyurl.com/36h797nt

If they are not ALL removed and banned, this will happen in every such country that allows them to remain.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 01:20 PM (1o8D5)

132 Public option won't help the Sekhs, they will grtvtheir minds straight by the government

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 01:20 PM (Ia/+0)

133 His name is Shahid Butt.

That sounds like the fake Arabic from Team America. "Durka durka, shahid butt allah".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 01:21 PM (AIhUY)

134 But all I got is a photograph
And I realize
You're not coming back anymore.

https://tinyurl.com/3sexatna

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 01:22 PM (1o8D5)

135 4 to 6 each
Kilo-Class Submarines:
Acquired from Russia in the 1990s.
Known as Tareq-class in Iran.
Equipped for anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:22 PM (gbOdA)

136 every such country
_-_
...and it is not limited to islam, though that group is definitely the most incompatible.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 15, 2026 01:22 PM (CdCSf)

137 Public option won't help the Sekhs, they will grtvtheir minds straight by the government
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 01:20 PM (Ia/+0)

Sikhs are a militant tribe, and they came to be as a revolt against islam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:22 PM (8zz6B)

138 But all I got is a photograph
And I realize
You're not coming back anymore.

Funny that Ringo will be the last living Beatle

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:23 PM (gbOdA)

139 Funny that Ringo will be the last living Beatle

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:23 PM (gbOdA)
-

How do you know that the walrus won't outlive him?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 01:24 PM (1o8D5)

140 The Eggmen live!

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 01:25 PM (4NO2D)

141 London Calling

Hello

We're fucked

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:25 PM (gbOdA)

142 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 15, 2026 01:13 PM (CruFE)

OK, Somebody just had a stroke.

Posted by: Denny Crane - And Not a Single Cogent Thought Was Found... at March 15, 2026 01:25 PM (dmDsy)

143 His name is Shahid Butt.

That sounds like the fake Arabic from Team America. "Durka durka, shahid butt allah".
Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 01:21 PM (AIhUY)

Pakistani name, IIRC. Could be one of the men of Al-Zutt that rode Mo's ass all night long.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:25 PM (8zz6B)

144 I cannot say amen enough to your essay, CBD. The laws for issuing immigrant visas are stringent for a reason, and they are seldom enforced.

Posted by: moki at March 15, 2026 01:26 PM (wLjpr)

145 I've written down a set of core tenets that I believe are mandatory in defining what an American is:

- Revere the Constitution as being divinely inspired. The key point being that it places rights as coming from God, NOT man. Rights from God cannot be taken away by man (legitimately). Rights granted from man can be taken away and regularly are.
- Belief in personal responsibility and accountability
- Belief in Personal Freedom. Freedom from government coercion.
- Belief in Free Markets. Capitalism is nothing more than individuals freely choosing what to buy rather than a central power deciding what they should buy (e.g. curly light bulbs)
- Belief in a Strong National Defense
- Belief in Traditional Values
- Belief in a higher power - The Lord God

Cont'd

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 01:27 PM (91pBE)

146 My wife and I were just discussing naturalized citizens running for office. I have to tell you, I am pretty opposed to the idea. Maybe, if they had lived here since they were five years old, but probably not even then. I do not want to vote for a foreigner. There is at least something to being born and bred to the bone American. Depending on the culture, I am not sure I could even vote for a 2nd generation candidate.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 01:18 PM (4NO2D)

A while back, and I can't remember who it was other than being an ass sucking leftist, was some ancient dude in congress with a thick ass accent from somewhere. I used to listen to him and say "what the fuck are you doing sitting in that chair".

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 01:27 PM (snZF9)

147 How do you know that the walrus won't outlive him?

Ringo's looked about 25 years younger than he is for the last 40 years. McCartney has joined Mick Jagger in looking like an elderly lesbian, by contrast.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 01:28 PM (AIhUY)

148 Britain going completely Muslim controlled will make it a massive shithole quickly. Not a lot of natural resources outside of North Sea oil and no one is going to want to go to a cold rainy Muslim country with no pubs or royal ceremony

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2026 01:28 PM (YsPj+)

149 Cont'd:

Our strength is because of our Unity, not our diversity. The diversity is a given, unlike most of the rest of the world. America is one of the few places on earth where you can become and be accepted as an American no matter where you come from. All you have to do is accept the tenets above. That doesn't happen anywhere else. You can move to France or Germany or China but you will never be accepted as a Frenchman, a German or a Chinaman.

That is the unique beauty of America and it is something to be cherished and appreciated and defended.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 01:28 PM (91pBE)

150 137 4 to 6 each
Kilo-Class Submarines:
Acquired from Russia in the 1990s.
Known as Tareq-class in Iran.
Equipped for anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:22 PM (gbOdA)

The Iranians have a fucking KILO Class sub?!?

Holy Shit, KISS YOUR ASSES GOODBYE!!! WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Heh, just kidding, we were tracking those pieces of shit in the early 90's, they are garbage.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:28 PM (dmDsy)

151 Heh, just kidding, we were tracking those pieces of shit in the early 90's, they are garbage.....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:28 PM (dmDsy)

The have another 25 or so mini homemade subs. Prolly from when they closed down the 20,000 Leagues attraction at DW.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:30 PM (gbOdA)

152 Thx CBD. Had an argument years ago with a younger attorney at a courthouse. Some of us were talking about Islam and I mentioned the moderate Muslims let the Jihadists do their work for them. He said "jihadists are only 10%". I pointed at that with 1.2B Muslims that's 120m. He said well maybe 5%. I said "that's 60m". He shut up
Posted by: Smell the Glove

80-90% of the remaining 'non-radicals' support the jihadists.
It's their culture.

See, it wasn't so hard to avoid the term 'religion'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 01:30 PM (/lPRQ)

153 Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:28 PM (dmDsy)

The have another 25 or so mini homemade subs. Prolly from when they closed down the 20,000 Leagues attraction at DW.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 01:30 PM (gbOdA)

Aren't home-made Navies cute?

LOL

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:31 PM (dmDsy)

154 The laws for issuing immigrant visas are stringent for a reason, and they are seldom enforced.

Posted by: moki at March 15, 2026 01:26 PM (wLjpr)

Sad but true!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 01:32 PM (n9ltV)

155 Heh, just kidding, we were tracking those pieces of shit in the early 90's, they are garbage.....
Posted by: SSBN 656
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May spawn a new book, 'The Hunt For a Red Mechanic'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

156 The newspaper in St. Cloud, MN (with a large Somali population) explains that making it harder to send remittances to Somalia will destabilize Somalia, thereby causing even more Somalis to move to the United States.

It's all your fault!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 15, 2026 01:35 PM (n1OCj)

157 > 4 to 6 each
Kilo-Class Submarines:
Acquired from Russia in the 1990s.
Known as Tareq-class in Iran.
Equipped for anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare.
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It was reported that only one was remotely serviceable. Meaning it could actually sortie from the Naval Base it was at, had working equipment, and a trained crew.

It was sunk at its pier a week or so ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 01:35 PM (jtM2q)

158 The newspaper in St. Cloud, MN (with a large Somali population) explains that making it harder to send remittances to Somalia will destabilize Somalia, thereby causing even more Somalis to move to the United States.

Yeah, that "argument" doesn't work unless there's a Democrat or GOPe President.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 01:35 PM (wItF4)

159 explains that making it harder to send remittances to Somalia

For example, doing regressive things like prohibiting remittances if you are receiving government social welfare benefits.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 15, 2026 01:36 PM (n1OCj)

160 amantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy

>Sikh restaurant refuses to sell halal meat
>100+ armed Muslim men swarm the restaurant, try to break in, film their kids, and threaten to rape and murder them
>police arrive but arrest none of the mob
>police arrest the restaurant owner the next day instead

London is doomed.
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"It's dead, Jim Zombie King James."
Posted by: ShainS at March 15, 2026 01:09 PM (My0zW)

Then, it's time for the police to have a "problem".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 15, 2026 01:36 PM (5xuJ/)

161 Durka durka, shahid butt allah

LOL

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 01:38 PM (Kt19C)

162 I just have to say, this post deserved better than a Sunday afternoon, much better. It's timely, relevant, and it's well written, very well written. It's the best, it's quality, and I know quality. It should have been a weekday post, and frankly, it should have been on top. Superb, fantastic, just the best. The best we have.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Denny Crane - President Trump Just Sent Me An E-Mail. at March 15, 2026 01:38 PM (dmDsy)

163 But we're not winning.

Posted by: Reforger at March 15, 2026 01:38 PM (rpbjO)

164 "The core of Islam is the creation of a world government"

Yeah but it sucks at it. Not even the entirety of the Dar-al-Islam was politically united in the best of times. With the exception of the very early days.

Immigration should only happen when both parties benefit. Meaning bringing people who WANT to come here, want to be American. and don't want to be a drain on society.

(And we need to be checking passports of visitors to this country, coming AND going.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 15, 2026 01:39 PM (hJH5n)

165 May spawn a new book, 'The Hunt For a Red Mechanic'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 01:34 PM (XeU6L)

LOL!

It was like they added cavitation into their prop design!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:40 PM (dmDsy)

166 (check calendar)

Oh shit! It's the Ides of March.

Posted by: zombie Julius Caesar at March 15, 2026 01:41 PM (8zz6B)

167 164 "The core of Islam is the creation of a world government"

Yeah but it sucks at it. Not even the entirety of the Dar-al-Islam was politically united in the best of times. With the exception of the very early days.

Immigration should only happen when both parties benefit. Meaning bringing people who WANT to come here, want to be American. and don't want to be a drain on society.

(And we need to be checking passports of visitors to this country, coming AND going.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 15, 2026 01:39 PM (hJH5n)

100%

That's why governments should stop treating Islam as a religion, and start designating it as a political system.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:42 PM (dmDsy)

168
In 1990 George H.W. Bush was president. And he hadn't squandered his popularity yet. Establishment GOP has been at least as big a problem as left-wing Democrats. Fake opposition, and they've all sold us out.

I doubt that the subversion and invasion of our country can be reversed by using the same system that the looters have been using to destroy this country. Something beyond that would be required. I'm not happy to say that, I'd be happy to be proven wrong, I guess we'll see.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 01:42 PM (VWtfl)

169 >>>LOL!

It was like they added cavitation into their prop design!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G)

>No pings necessary.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 01:42 PM (M9gjJ)

170 Completely OT question, what email providers do You People use and how do you like them? I've had MSN for way too long and I think the fcking idiots must have rolled out some of their awesome new AI-generated "code" on it within the past week...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 01:43 PM (ULPxl)

171 will destabilize Somalia, thereby causing even more Somalis to move to the United States.

Always worth noting: Ilhan Omar's family were Somali elites who destabilized Somalia, and then claimed asylum. From a situation they had caused. She should be deported on those grounds, but if they can prove marriage fraud that's fine too.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 01:43 PM (AIhUY)

172 Posted by: SSBN 656 (G)

>No pings necessary.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 01:42 PM (M9gjJ)

You got it!

Tell us where you are without telling us where you are.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:44 PM (dmDsy)

173 As shallow as that gulf is, they can probably spot these subs from orbit.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 01:47 PM (M9gjJ)

174 Y’all are making a basic mistake. Islam is NOT a religion.
It is a cult bent on world domination.
It does not qualify as a religion to be given protection/rights under our Constitution.

Posted by: RI Red at March 15, 2026 01:48 PM (lqh3R)

175 170 Completely OT question, what email providers do You People use and how do you like them? I've had MSN for way too long and I think the fcking idiots must have rolled out some of their awesome new AI-generated "code" on it within the past week...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 01:43 PM (ULPxl)

Good question! I'm looking forward to hearing the Horde's answers!

Posted by: Denny Crane - Left Unsaid Is I Have No Answer.... at March 15, 2026 01:48 PM (dmDsy)

176
No news about Iran today. It's Sunday, maybe everybody took the day off.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 01:50 PM (VWtfl)

177 Hate to admit it I still have aol does what I want so Ive kept it

Posted by: doug at March 15, 2026 01:50 PM (Hy+R4)

178 The submarine that was hit in port at Bandar Abbas was the flagship of their Fateh-class, not one of their Kilos.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 01:51 PM (Y1sOo)

179 >>>Hate to admit it I still have aol does what I want so Ive kept it

Posted by: doug

>Your lawn is getting a little bushy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 01:52 PM (M9gjJ)

180 176
No news about Iran today. It's Sunday, maybe everybody took the day off.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 01:50 PM (V
W tfl)

I imagine the Sunday talk shows will have a lot to say about it.. None of it good...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 15, 2026 01:52 PM (VE6XX)

181 Your lawn is getting a little bushy. Very

Posted by: doug at March 15, 2026 01:52 PM (Hy+R4)

182 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 01:43 PM (ULPxl)

Good question! I'm looking forward to hearing the Horde's answers!
Posted by: Denny Crane - Left Unsaid Is I Have No Answer.... at March 15, 2026 01:48 PM (dmDsy)

I still use my Roadrunner (now Spectrum) account, but I guess it depends on what your MSN program is doing now that you don't like.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Left Unsaid Is I Have No Answer.... at March 15, 2026 01:53 PM (dmDsy)

183 Great essay CBD

Devaluing and degrading citizenship is a key driver in their strategy.

Natural born Americans are now 3rd class citizens.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 01:53 PM (RIvkX)

184 Completely OT question, what email providers do You People use and how do you like them? I've had MSN for way too long and I think the fcking idiots must have rolled out some of their awesome new AI-generated "code" on it within the past week...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 01:43 PM (ULPxl)

Well, I use the e-mail account provided by my home ISP in Alberta. Proton mail is well-regarded here, too.

Posted by: zombie Julius Caesar at March 15, 2026 01:53 PM (8zz6B)

185 >>> 177 Hate to admit it I still have aol does what I want so Ive kept it
Posted by: doug at March 15, 2026 01:50 PM (Hy+R4)

I know someone else (not me) who may still have AOL...

From a quick initial search I'm leaning towards proton and maybe tuta as well, yes two accounts because it might be good to have one as a backup / spam bucket. I know some Morons have proton but does anyone else use tuta? I never heard of it until today.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 01:53 PM (ULPxl)

186 Completely OT question, what email providers do You People use and how do you like them? I've had MSN for way too long and I think the fcking idiots must have rolled out some of their awesome new AI-generated "code" on it within the past week...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

I've had Comcast since I moved to the Nashville area almost three years ago. No problems whatsoever.

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2026 01:54 PM (lJ0H4)

187 Always worth noting: Ilhan Omar's family were Somali elites who destabilized Somalia, and then claimed asylum. From a situation they had caused. She should be deported on those grounds, but if they can prove marriage fraud that's fine too.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 01:43 PM

She lied about her name. That alone should be enough to revoke her naturalization since Ilhan Noor was not naturalized.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 01:54 PM (4NO2D)

188 off, Ide-al sock

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:55 PM (8zz6B)

189 No news about Iran today. It's Sunday, maybe everybody took the day off.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 01:50 PM (VWtfl)
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Coming out of Israel Kan TV channel:

Kan News: Deep divisions inside Iran’s leadership over ending the war. Some officials are reportedly pushing toward a deal, while the IRGC is driving a far more hardline, pro-war stance.

Sources say decision-making behind the scenes is increasingly chaotic, with no clear authority since Ali Khamenei’s death and Mojtaba Khamenei’s influence still uncertain, especially after his reported injury.

@kaisos1987

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 01:55 PM (1o8D5)

190 178 The submarine that was hit in port at Bandar Abbas was the flagship of their Fateh-class, not one of their Kilos.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 01:51 PM (Y1sOo)

True, but also: Tomato, Tohmato....

*smiley face*

Posted by: Denny Crane - Left Unsaid Is I Have No Answer.... at March 15, 2026 01:56 PM (dmDsy)

191 Some officials are reportedly pushing toward a deal, while the IRGC is driving a far more hardline, pro-war stance.

There is no deal to be had, only unconditional surrender and hangings.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 01:56 PM (4NO2D)

192 I know some Morons have proton but does anyone else use tuta? I never heard of it until today.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 01:53 PM (ULPxl)
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Chose to stick with Proton. Been a couple of years now. No downtime. Support responds when you need them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 01:57 PM (1o8D5)

193 There is no deal to be had, only unconditional surrender and hangings.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 01:56 PM (4NO2D)
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Inshallah!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 01:57 PM (1o8D5)

194 The biggest proponent of liberal immigration policies over the years have been Jewish in origin.

They have traditionally pointed to incidents in WW2 where Jewish refugees were refused asylum, ignoring the fact that the American government greatly expanded Jewish immigration during that time frame, expanding quotas in light of the persecution of Jews in Europe.

However, pointing this out is seen as anti-Semitic, and generally leads to the banning of commenters that mention it.

Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (U0ZOB)

195 That's why governments should stop treating Islam as a religion, and start designating it as a political system.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:42 PM (dmDsy)

A revolutionary political philosophy that uses an ersatz religion to control its believers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (n9ltV)

196 I sense a nood is near......

Posted by: The Guy That Senses Things Almost Everyone Else Can As Well..... at March 15, 2026 01:59 PM (dmDsy)

197 Repeal Hart Cellar.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 15, 2026 12:01 PM (u73oe)

Our government is infested with communists and crooks who will never care because they personally profit by the status quo. The most popular president in decades, and his own party works against him. We will not be saved by politicians.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 01:59 PM (Z8+px)

198 Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (U0ZOB)

You have your facts wrong.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 01:59 PM (n9ltV)

199 195 That's why governments should stop treating Islam as a religion, and start designating it as a political system.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 01:42 PM (dmDsy)

A revolutionary political philosophy that uses an ersatz religion to control its believers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (n9ltV)

Oh, look at you, with your fancy-pants definitions!

LOL

Posted by: The Guy That Senses Things Almost Everyone Else Can As Well..... at March 15, 2026 02:00 PM (dmDsy)

200 Always worth noting: Ilhan Omar's family were Somali elites who destabilized Somalia, and then claimed asylum. From a situation they had caused. She should be deported on those grounds, but if they can prove marriage fraud that's fine too.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 01:43 PM

Hell, that should apply to all Democrats. It is their policies that have fucked up this country. I know that 'petting zoo Republicans' facilitate this but Democrats are the aggressors in every policy that has undermined this country. The Hart-Cellar Act in 1965 (pushed by Teddy Kennedy) is a prime example with regards to immigration.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:00 PM (91pBE)

201 The biggest proponent of liberal immigration policies over the years have been Jewish in origin.

Any evidence for this, Joe?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:00 PM (4NO2D)

202 >>> 194
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Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (U0ZOB)

Teddy "swimmer" Kennedy was a Jooo?

Retard.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 02:00 PM (ULPxl)

203 Its HAPPY HOUR AT AOSHQ NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 02:01 PM (Ia/+0)

204 Man, I'm really fucking up my names today.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 02:01 PM (dmDsy)

205 Teddy "swimmer" Kennedy was a Jooo?

Retard.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 15, 2026 02:00 PM

Shh. Xe's rolling.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:01 PM (4NO2D)

206 Ilhan Omar and her cartel should be shipped off to Gilligan's Island and left with nothing but a coconut knife.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:02 PM (M9gjJ)

207 They have traditionally pointed to incidents in WW2 where Jewish refugees were refused asylum, ignoring the fact that the American government greatly expanded Jewish immigration during that time frame, expanding quotas in light of the persecution of Jews in Europe.

However, pointing this out is seen as anti-Semitic, and generally leads to the banning of commenters that mention it.

Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (U0ZOB)
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Here's another lying schmuck posting here. Reality check:

https://tinyurl.com/4jh5vamw

What was it that seafood restaurant said?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:02 PM (1o8D5)

208 However, pointing this out is seen as anti-Semitic, and generally leads to the banning of commenters that mention it.
Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (U0ZOB)

Did you just take a blow to the head?

Because it seems like you just took a blow to the head.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 02:03 PM (dmDsy)

209 Agree completely with the post. The SAVE act is a small start, but I ask myself, if we can,t even get an 80/20 issue like that past the Democrats, what chance do we have of seeing legislation of the type we need through?

Posted by: rm at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (n/1Oj)

210 Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 01:58 PM (U0ZOB)

You have your facts wrong.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 01:59 PM (n9ltV)
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See the link I just posted. American Jews even begged that Jews be allowed in but placed in enclosed camps just to escape imminent death. Silence.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (1o8D5)

211 206 Ilhan Omar and her cartel should be shipped off to Gilligan's Island and left with nothing but a coconut knife.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:02 PM (M9gjJ)

I'll make sure Mary Ann is taken care of.

Posted by: Denny Crane - I PROMISE!!!! at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (dmDsy)

212 Iran had 3 Kilo class subs. One was sunk at its pier in the inner harbor at Bandar Abbas between March 2 and 4.

The destroyed submarine is the IRIS Tareq (S901). So there are two remaining. This, according to Grok.

I still doubt their seaworthiness and whether there's a trained crew to actually make use of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:05 PM (jtM2q)

213 206 Ilhan Omar and her cartel should be shipped off to Gilligan's Island and left with nothing but a coconut knife.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:02 PM (M9gjJ)

Wouldn't sending her to Somalia be pretty much the same thing?

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 15, 2026 02:06 PM (hJH5n)

214 Agree completely with the post. The SAVE act is a small start, but I ask myself, if we can,t even get an 80/20 issue like that past the Democrats, what chance do we have of seeing legislation of the type we need through?

Posted by: rm at March 15, 2026 02:04 PM (n/1Oj)

That's precisely why I've become jaded on the concept of "Democracy". I seriously don't think we can fix this without a moratorium on the Constitution. I know that controversial but the road we're headed down, with an opposing Party that shits on the Constitution, turns it into nothing more than a suicide note. IMO.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:07 PM (91pBE)

215 JFC, I know what a Kilo looks like. I flew on them in the mid-80s. Even caught one on the surface one time after it surfaced due to an emergency. We took a shitload of pictures during multiple flybys. The video of the sub hit at Bander Abbas released by CENTCOM last week is not a Kilo.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 15, 2026 02:07 PM (Y1sOo)

216 It does not qualify as a religion to be given protection/rights under our Constitution.
Posted by: RI Red at March 15, 2026 01:48 PM (lqh3R)
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Agreed, it is an anti American anti Western political movement that must be proscribed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:08 PM (RIvkX)

217
213 206 Ilhan Omar and her cartel should be shipped off to Gilligan's Island and left with nothing but a coconut knife.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:02 PM (M9gjJ)

Wouldn't sending her to Somalia be pretty much the same thing?
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 15, 2026 02:06 PM

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If it were one of those episodes with an invading cannibal tribe or a Japanese soldier still fighting the war or something.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM (VWtfl)

218 I still doubt their seaworthiness and whether there's a trained crew to actually make use of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:05 PM (jtM2q)

I believe your doubt is well-justified. They bought these 50 year old soviet subs and maybe got some basic training on their use and upkeep, but they are absolutely not a threat to anyone...except themselves.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM (dmDsy)

219 Hate to admit it I still have aol does what I want so Ive kept it
Posted by: doug at March 15, 2026 01:50 PM (Hy+R4)

Me as well. Since 1998 when Prodigy went belly-up. It serves the purpose, has a fairly good spam filter and does what it's supposed to do.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 15, 2026 02:10 PM (5xuJ/)

220 >>>Wouldn't sending her to Somalia be pretty much the same thing?

Posted by: Cow Demon

>Yes, but with all of the tribalism, killing and murder, and raping, it's tough to make it into a sitcom.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:10 PM (M9gjJ)

221 You have your facts wrong.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 01:59 PM (n9ltV)
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They have their own "facts"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM (RIvkX)

222 Jewish Telegraphic Agency

https://tinyurl.com/3dd388ca

Times of Israel

https://tinyurl.com/399m4b6t

Haaretz

https://tinyurl.com/3m3rb6mz

Jewish Center for Justice

https://tinyurl.com/y52fep2k

Never Again Action

https://tinyurl.com/56jv4xp8

Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM (GQ50h)

223 I could go on, but it is what it is.

Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM (GQ50h)

224
218 I still doubt their seaworthiness and whether there's a trained crew to actually make use of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:05 PM (jtM2q)

I believe your doubt is well-justified. They bought these 50 year old soviet subs and maybe got some basic training on their use and upkeep, but they are absolutely not a threat to anyone...except themselves.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 02:09 PM

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Under the religious leadership, Iran ended up with a bunch of dysfunctional systems -- submarines, water supply, petroleum refining, air defense. They have stuff that works -- ballistic missiles, drones, terror proxies -- all intended to harm other countries.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:16 PM (VWtfl)

225 So, any of you people getting the winds forecast today? It's been howling here in KY since sunrise. I'm going to lose shingles, that is not in doubt. Could be worse if those storms materialize to the west and rake this area later on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:16 PM (jtM2q)

226 223 I could go on, but it is what it is.
Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM (GQ50h)

Hey, dick, you know that groups like the KKK and whatever fucked-up organizations you probably belong to can issue press releases and post articles to spew any horseshit they want. Only a complete fucking dullard would extrapolate that into saying an entire religion or race believes those things.

Let's face it... you just are not very bright. I pity you, and your family.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 02:18 PM (dmDsy)

227 So, any of you people getting the winds forecast today? It's been howling here in KY since sunrise. I'm going to lose shingles, that is not in doubt. Could be worse if those storms materialize to the west and rake this area later on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 02:16 PM (jtM2q)

I wonder if those are the same winds we got here in the PNW a few days ago. Vicious. And took out power for days. I hate windstorms.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:19 PM (91pBE)

228 Kan News: Deep divisions inside Iran’s leadership over ending the war. Some officials are reportedly pushing toward a deal, while the IRGC is driving a far more hardline, pro-war stance.

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Of course the. IRGC wants to continue the war. They know if there's capitulation they'll be hunted down and killed by the vast population of their Iranian victims.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 02:20 PM (g8Ew8)

229 Those darn joos!

Amirite?

I personally have imported several Haitians myself.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:22 PM (RIvkX)

230 Under the religious leadership, Iran ended up with a bunch of dysfunctional systems -- submarines, water supply, petroleum refining, air defense. They have stuff that works -- ballistic missiles, drones, terror proxies -- all intended to harm other countries.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:16 PM (VWtfl)

Yup, accurate analysis, and isn't it cool that now those "successes" they had are now being decimated?

Who really cared about their "Navy"? In fact, it's hard to even seriously use that word to define the "surface and submerged targets" they had?

Because that's what they have always been...merely targets.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 15, 2026 02:22 PM (dmDsy)

231
It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM

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"Jews"' are not a monolithic group. A lot of them are left-oriented in the US, and there is a hard-left faction in Israel that sounds downright suicidal to me.

We have this general problem in the US -- so many leftists working to destroy what we have, and it's so hard to talk them out of it -- impossible even.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:23 PM (VWtfl)

232 >>>So, any of you people getting the winds forecast today? It's been howling here in KY since sunrise. I'm going to lose shingles, that is not in doubt. Could be worse if those storms materialize to the west and rake this area later on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

>We went from 50deg to 10deg with a storm that dumped 6" overnight in the Rockies. 30mph winds. Blizzard, no visibility conditions. It may be coming your way.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 02:23 PM (M9gjJ)

233 Of course the. IRGC wants to continue the war. They know if there's capitulation they'll be hunted down and killed by the vast population of their Iranian victims.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 02:20 PM (g8Ew

They also know that our media is their friend and the longer they hold out the more likely they win. They obviously read about Viet Nam and Walter Cronkite et al.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 15, 2026 02:23 PM (91pBE)

234 Nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 02:25 PM (RIvkX)

235
228

Of course the. IRGC wants to continue the war. They know if there's capitulation they'll be hunted down and killed by the vast population of their Iranian victims.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 02:20 PM

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Sounds like Zelensky in Ukraine. Or the Japanese leadership near the end of WW2.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (VWtfl)

236 I could go on, but it is what it is.
Posted by: It is What It Is at March 15, 2026 02:12 PM

So your new argument is that there are Jews who support immigration?

I mean, that's a take. A retarded nugatory take but still a take, I guess.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 15, 2026 02:37 PM (4NO2D)

237 228

Of course the. IRGC wants to continue the war. They know if there's capitulation they'll be hunted down and killed by the vast population of their Iranian victims.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 02:20 PM

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Sounds like Zelensky in Ukraine. Or the Japanese leadership near the end of WW2.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (VWtfl)

Don't forget me!

Posted by: Nicolae Ceaucescu at March 15, 2026 02:38 PM (hJH5n)

238 Hate to admit it I still have aol does what I want so Ive kept it
Posted by: doug
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I have a friend with a Prodigy email address.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 03:11 PM (XeU6L)

239 >>> Democrat Gettysburg Mayor Who Ran Local Gay Pride Organization Steps Down After Being Arrested for Child Sex Crimes

What are the odds that a homo is also a pedo

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2026 03:19 PM (/lPRQ)

Book Thread: (03/15/2026) [JTB]

Welcome to my attempt at a thread on AOSHQ. CBD asked if I would be willing to try a couple of book threads and that got me thinking. The Horde is so varied and interesting in their reading habits. This is a chance to ask a few questions about reading that intrigue me. So here goes.

Sorry the man, to my mind, who has not in his own home a place to be all by himself, to pay his court privately to himself, to hide.

-- Michel de Montaigne

Was this the first man cave? The idea is certainly pleasant and one I've sought most of my life. What would you include in your reading space? (BTW, it probably helped to be a wealthy 16th century French aristocrat to make a place like that.)

I've always liked this painting, 'The Bookworm' by Carl Spitzweg, circa 1850. This could be me, except I don't like ladders. It's so typical that reading one book makes me dig out five others.

WARNING: A lot of single and double quote marks have been used in this segment.

There's a book coming out in March, "The Real Shakespeare" by Irene Coslet. She 'proves' that Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman of north African descent living in Venice (Italy not California). The book blurb on Amazon says "Generations of researchers have tried to dismantle the myth of the Stratford man. Now, in this intriguing and well-documented book, Irene Coslet conclusively demonstrates that Shakespeare was a not a man, but a woman: a dark-skinned lady, of Jewish origin, born into a family of Court musicians from Venice"

One review describes Coslet as a "feminist historian" who claims that the true author (authoress?) is Emilia Bassano and this 'fact' was buried under "western-centric ideology". The examples of her proof mentioned in reviews make "Chariots of the Gods" look like hard science. Bassano, later Emilia Lanier after marrying an Englishman, may well have been a remarkable woman. So are many of the Ettes in the Horde. Doesn't mean they wrote Hamlet or Macbeth. This level of 'woke' is both tiresome and irritating. And the publisher has the brass-plated gall to charge $36.95 for this 200 page screed. I assume, and hope, it will be remaindered in record time.

I find the arguments about who wrote Shakespeare to be intellectual (maybe) curiosity and speculation. Or masturbation. (I suspect some is just academic snobbery.) Because even if it wasn't a glove maker's son turned actor, the plays and sonnets still exist and their perceptions, glorious words, and emotional connections with humanity have continued for four centuries.

Feel free to disagree.

Is there any one book that made you a life long reader? For me it was Treasure Island with the Wyeth illustrations. I think I was in second grade and kept a dictionary at hand to deal with the many new words. The challenge and difficulty were part of the attraction. It was the first time I realized how words alone could paint a picture in my head and then come to life. A first step into true book nerdom.

I'm noticing more articles and YT videos about how physical media, books, DVDs, CDs and so forth are increasingly popular as an alternative to streaming and digital everything. The stories point to increased sales, the success of the revitalized Barnes and Noble stores, and a general preference to own (and control) the materials. These stories appeal to me partly because I didn't grow up with digital versions, which didn't exist, and partly because I don't trust the 'gatekeepers' of the digital world. I don't know if they are true or just a continuation of LPs are better than CDs attitude. Anyone else noticed this one way or another?

What I've been reading:

LOTR (of course) -my 60th annual rereading.

The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom - usually a few pages at a time since the topics lead to endless rabbit holes. But too interesting to abandon for long.

Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life - His still life paintings are so well done and appealing. I can get lost studying one image and reading about how he achieved it. I find looking at the works of painters I admire to be soothing and a welcome distraction from all the crap news that tries to bury us.

Books I've acquired just because they appear to be fun reads to have on hand. I often learned about these books from the book thread.

Route 66 A. D.: On The Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists by Tony Perrottet

Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words by Susan Kelz Sperling

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil edited by Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond - This is an expanded version of the mid-60s edition. I had that but it disintegrated from use so I splurged.

Hope everyone has a great week of reading.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:00 AM

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BOOKS

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

2 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Ah... the book thread.

Wait. What do you mean I have to take you to work now??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

4 Yay books! And coffee!

Posted by: Bryce at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (5GspC)

5 What a great picture
Journal of Assistant Commissary General Tupper Carey
Heard the author Gareth Glover
About 1/2 way through, quite interesting to hear what someone behind the lines went through

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 09:02 AM (Ia/+0)

6 JTB,

Welcome to the elite world of Sunday Morning Book Thread co-blogging!

I'm glad to have you on board!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2026 09:02 AM (ESVrU)

7 Morning, all.

Large black cat on lap. Hard to type. Send lawyers, guns, and money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

8 Edward DeVere.

Posted by: davidt at March 15, 2026 09:03 AM (Q+gd/)

9 Posted by: Open Blogger at 04:00 PM

Umm... are you using the time machine?

Posted by: dantesed at March 15, 2026 09:05 AM (Oy/m2)

10 What a load of bollocks

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 15, 2026 09:05 AM (bXbFr)

11 Emilia was also a Lesbian it turns out

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 09:05 AM (Ia/+0)

12 This coslet woman

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 15, 2026 09:06 AM (bXbFr)

13 Yeah that seems silly

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 15, 2026 09:06 AM (bXbFr)

14 One of my treasures as a kid was a hardcover copy of Kidnapped with the Wyeth illustrations, glorious!

Reading Project Hail Mary now, lived The Martian and sounds like film adaptation is good.

Posted by: Bryce at March 15, 2026 09:07 AM (5GspC)

15 I don't recall a particular book that made me a lifelong reader, there were so many that I wanted to read myself. I do remember the first book I read myself, which was a collection of nursery rhymes, including Hickory Dickory Dock, with a picture of the grandfather clock and the mouse.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 09:07 AM (0U5gm)

16 Whoa. A five hour Daylight Savings Time clock change?
*taps side of grandfather clock in foyer*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

17 Whoa. A five hour Daylight Savings Time clock change?
*taps side of grandfather clock in foyer*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty

2026 might be a leap century.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 09:09 AM (0U5gm)

18 Probably something about animals

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 15, 2026 09:09 AM (bXbFr)

19 I was a real zoology buff as a yoiuth

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 15, 2026 09:10 AM (bXbFr)

20 Good morning again morons and thanks JTB

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 09:10 AM (RIvkX)

21 Good Sunday morning, horde!

Nice library picture. That ladder is absolutely not OSHA-approved.

Wonder what kind of books he has on his shelves? I expect a lot of Western classics, as in Greek philosophy, Roman history, maybe some studies of law, religious philosophers....I don't expect there's much light reading in there.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)

22 Morning, JTB.

Howdy, Horde.

37 bucks for a book of 200 pages? Without looking the thing up, I'd say that's gotta be from a university press.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 09:11 AM (q3u5l)

23 My Side of the Mountain by Jean George. Read it a bunch of times as a callow youth.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

24 The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom

That looks like something I would be interested in reading. Thanks, JTB.

Posted by: dantesed at March 15, 2026 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)

25 Imagine a tray. Drop in several marbles. Tilt the tray back and forth. Watch the marbles collide with each other, more than once.

Switch the marbles for an assortment of people vying to find a missing gold statuette, and the tray for the Greater New York area, and you have "Dancing Aztecs" by Donald Westlake. This is a funny, tricky, and absolutely satisfying book.

I thought I had spoiled the story when I was flipping through the book to see how many pages it contained, but fortunately that wasn't the case.

Westlake holds that NYC casts magic over people. Maybe in the '70s, but now? I think he would cry.

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Somebody posted last week that eBay has bargains for book hunters. I agree. I just picked up a lot of 10 Westlake hardbacks for less than $10 each. So much for THAT New Year's resolution.

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2026 09:13 AM (p/isN)

26 Currently reading “Skagboys” Irvine Welsh’s prequel to “Trainspotting” with the sequel “Porno” in the on deck circle.
One question…does Welsh have any say in how his books are marketed? “Porno”, “Filth”, “Skagboys” and others have the least appealing cover art possible, designed to repel not attract readers. Hilarious books but jeez, reading them out in the general population does tend to scare off others.
Get off my lawn.

Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at March 15, 2026 09:13 AM (AiDq0)

27 Congrats on your first Book Thread, JTB.

I owe CBD one. I even know the topic. But I'm paralyzed by depression. This comment is the longest thing I've written in a week.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:13 AM (ufSfZ)

28 Back in the days of my yute, I was law clerk for a Denver district court judge in the old City and County Building. The law library had high stacks which you would climb up to on ladders attached at the top by rollers fitted to a rail greatly reducing the chance that a ladder would fall over. I'd find the volume I needed, roll the ladder to the proper spot, and then clamber up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 15, 2026 09:14 AM (ndZc7)

29 2026 might be a leap century.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Years go by and nothing happens.
Then days go by and years happen.
~ Old Russian proverb

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2026 09:15 AM (2Ez/1)

30 I couldn't possibly identify a book that made me want to be a life-long reader. Our house was never lacking books. We were read to from our births. Weekly trips to the library, with each of five kids checking out the maximum number per kid. Reading was as essential as eating, for us.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 09:15 AM (h7ZuX)

31 I recently finished The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut . Overall a fictionalized biography of von Neumann, the early parts of the book also cover Paul Ehrenfest and the tremendous physics and mathematics environment of early 20th century Europe. von Neumann is largely unknown in popular imagination in favor of Einstein, IMO because Albert was the anti-war pacifist and von Neumann liked himself some commie-killing. The book portrays him as a bit more eccentric than he really was, I believe, but overall still a good read. 4/5 eyepatches

Posted by: Candidus at March 15, 2026 09:16 AM (XTezJ)

32 Currently I am starting Gregory Benford & Larry Niven's Bowl of Heaven, having just finished the third in that series, Glorious. Talk about sweep of grandeur and imagination! Bowl begins with the crew of a slower-than-light starship, employing cold sleep for the decades of travel, headed for an Earthlike world they plan to colonize. About forty years in, 3/4 of the way there, they encounter a huge object: a half-Dyson Sphere, a gigantic bowl about as far around as the orbit of Venus, with a Sol-like star both lighting it and powering it through a manipulated jet. From Glorious I know that the Bowl is inhabited -- and is millions of years old. Good stuff so far.

Glorious recounts their arrival at the planet, Glory, to find that it's part of a double planet system connected by a miles-wide tube and living zone, the Cobweb, some 250K kilometers long. These grand concepts and other wonders make Niven's Ringworld look almost small!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:16 AM (wzUl9)

33 I owe CBD one. I even know the topic. But I'm paralyzed by depression. This comment is the longest thing I've written in a week.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:13 AM (ufSfZ)
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You've got a couple of weeks to figure something out.

I often use comments from the Horde for inspiration.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2026 09:17 AM (ESVrU)

34 I read The Little Liar by Mitch Albon. Eleven-year old Nico of Salonika, Greece has never told a lie; but a German officer, Udo Graf, tricks him by telling him that he can save his family if he persuades his fellow Jews to board the trains going north where jobs and safety await. Albon weaves the stories of Nico, his brother Sebastian, Fannie, the girl who must choose between them, and Graf. The book is narrated by the voice of Truth, and is a tale of our deceits and the power of love to inspire forgiveness and ultimately to redeem us. A great little book.

Posted by: Zoltan at March 15, 2026 09:17 AM (VOrDg)

35 Haven't read all of Westlake, but have never been disappointed by him. I seem to recall an interview with Harlan Ellison in which the subject of other books and writers came up, and he said he thought Westlake the best writer in the country.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 09:17 AM (q3u5l)

36 Thanks JTB. Now for the content.

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2026 09:17 AM (iSfnH)

37 This week's Kindle read was "Another Pennsylvania: A Parallel Multiverse Novel" by indie author Ward Wagher (yes, it's Wagher).

Mr. Wagher's Parallel Multiverse was created by a having a botched time travel experiment in the 24th century randomly toss people across time and dimensions, so they wind up in alternate timelines and get to cope with their new circumstances. It sounds dumb when you say it out loud, but it results in some pretty good page-turning adventure stories.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 15, 2026 09:18 AM (4mmkh)

38 And Emilia Bassano hasn't been 'buried,' FFS. I remember reading about her as a Shakespeare candidate years ago. IIRC, she's also been put forward as a candidate for the 'Dark Lady' of the Bard's sonnets.

But people have been arguing about the identity of Shakespeare since the middle of the 18th century. It started out as somewhat of an obscurantist pastime, devolved into a parlor game and now, IMO, is a truly dangerous pursuit seeking to erase the achievement of a white, Christian, heterosexual man in favor of the current woke category of the oppressed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:18 AM (ufSfZ)

39 Yay book thread! Reading this week was somewhat scattershot. After finishing Graham Greene's The Human Factor, I shifted to preparations for an ongoing D&D campaign based on Out of the Abyss, a hard-bound adventure campaign that runs from 1-15th level. Those of us 29 and up remember buying "modules" or pre-generated individual adventures, some of which were designed to be run in sequence. This is a fully contained adventure that basically covers most of a character's career. It's very well done and takes a lot of the load off of the DM, allowing for more improvisation and customization.

I also re-read the rules for GDW's Persian Gulf game from 1986. Still haven't worked up the energy to play it, but the maps are laid out. I had the first two games in the Third World War series and they got lots of use back in the day. I picked this up a few years ago when Iraq had wound down and these were going cheap. There are fancy reprints with updated graphics which I hate. Give me basic 80s graphics.

Bedtime reading is of course Unfinished Tales, my go-to book to help me sleep. I read "Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)

40 14 ... "One of my treasures as a kid was a hardcover copy of Kidnapped with the Wyeth illustrations, glorious!"

Per my post and Bryce's comment 14 about RLS and Wyeth illustrations. A few years ago Abbeville Press released a gorgeous slip case edition of Treasure Island and Kidnapped with the Wyeth illustrations. I lusted for it but figured I already have decent copies. Finally gave in to the temptation and glad I did. Clothbound hard covers, sturdy case, excellent binding and paper quality and print size. And the illustrations are beautifully printed. Books that are a pleasure to hold while reading enhance the whole experience.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 09:19 AM (yTvNw)

41 I didn't notice yet should have figured out seeing our author was reading LotR
Fantastic job JTB

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 09:20 AM (Ia/+0)

42 This past week I've been reading the novel Dorsai! by Gordon Dickson. Somehow I missed reading it in the 1980s during my omnivore phase, even though I distinctly remember seeing it in the bookstore. It's pretty good.

One can definitely trace a line of influence from Dorsai! to Lois McMaster Bujold's books about Miles Vorkosigan. I wonder if Bujold read about Dickson's protagonist Donal Graeme and wondered "how would people _really_ react to someone who is always insufferably right about everything -- and what if he wasn't always right after all?"

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026 09:20 AM (78a2H)

43 “a 200 page screed”. Maybe she’s trying to monetize her PhD dissertation. Thanks for the book thread JTB. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 15, 2026 09:20 AM (b9j2K)

44 The Agony and the Ecstasy. was the book that turned me into an avid reader. It would also have turned me into an artist ifi it weren't for that utter lack of talent thing.

Posted by: Candidus at March 15, 2026 09:20 AM (XTezJ)

45 . . . Westlake holds that NYC casts magic over people. Maybe in the '70s, but now? I think he would cry. . . .

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2026

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His NYC of the '50s through the '70s, and that of his contemporaries like Lawrence Block, is an attractive place for any big city lover.

Block, I think, is still alive. If he lives in NYC still, I hope he has someplace else to flee to.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:20 AM (wzUl9)

46 [inspiring comment]

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 09:20 AM (RIvkX)

47 Did she even live in the uk

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 15, 2026 09:21 AM (bXbFr)

48 Who was it who said (in a discussion of the intelligence of most actors) that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare's plays because Shakespeare was known to have acted in some of them?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 09:21 AM (q3u5l)

49 You've got a couple of weeks to figure something out.

I often use comments from the Horde for inspiration.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2026 09:17 AM (ESVrU)

As I said, I know the topic; I'm even looking at the book that inspired it. I just haven't the energy or desire to write.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:22 AM (ufSfZ)

50 "It started out as somewhat of an obscurantist pastime..."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

"obscurantist" might be a fun word for a limerick.

*scribbles note for Art Thread*

Posted by: Limerick Lover at March 15, 2026 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

51 Emilia was also a Lesbian it turns out
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 09:05 AM (Ia/+0)
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Much of academia is Gnostic. They no longer use facts and evidence but instead proclaim deeper, intuitive mysteries that pervious scholars were unable to access because of their sex or skin color.

The old stereotype was a bunch of nerds arguing in Latin about Vergil vs Homer, but now it's just impenetrable largely made-up jargon that is meaningless in the real world. I would argue that this is partly why they are so comfortable with chaos around them - their minds are already full of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

52 Hooray for JTB!

'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf came to mind immediately, spanning both depressing feminism and personal spaces.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 15, 2026 09:24 AM (VUoPf)

53 book that made me a reader? - parents had me reading under my own steam at 3, so I can't remember, at all.
- but book that made me a lifelong sci-fi reader? (well, the genre got destroyed; don't get me started) - The Wonder War, Laurence M. Janifer, Pyramid Books, January 1964
gave a classmate 50 cents for it.
I suspended disbelief and never looked back.

love that picture up top, yes that's me in a previous life - my library/cave would like to have:
- at least 2 Comfy Chairs
- maybe a cough for Reading While Horizontal
- its own small half-bath, with shelves, a table, and a lot of bookmarks so I don't have to use squares of TP
- means of making coffee
- maybe a small refrigerator
- enough shelves to hold ALL OF THE BOOKS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:24 AM (MIIRH)

54 Hope you're enjoying Route A.D. 66, JTB. I think I was the one who recommended it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:24 AM (ufSfZ)

55 Archeologist Nora Kelly is called in when a skeleton is found in the New Mexico desert by a film crew in a remote area. Nobody knows how old it is, but this is an ancient indian region, and two prasiolite lightning stones were found with the remains. This is the opening of book 5 of the Nora Kelly series by Preston and Child entitled Bad Lands.

FBI agent Carrie Swanson is assigned to investigate, and finds that the remains are female and only a few years old. As they delve into the case, the pair find that the dead woman was a former archeology student, and that her professor had been taking his students into this area on several occasions, and more than one of them is missing. While they investigate, another former student is found alive in the desert, holding lightning stones and trying to reach a remote outcrop.

What they reveal is that an ancient tribe known as the Gallina lived in the region and were believed to be sorcerers by the other tribes. The Gallina used lightning stones in their rituals to summon their spiritual warriors. The indians of the Chaco valley exterminated the Gallina tribe hundreds of years ago. Has the old magic resurrected this tribe?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 09:25 AM (0U5gm)

56 Coem to think of it, at the library yesterday I picked up a Westlake, one of his comic capers featuring Dortmunder and his crew of Seinfeld-like thieves: What's So Funny? from 2007. Oddly, it was in the regular fiction section instead of mystery, where you find most of Westlake's works.

He wrote so many novels under his own name and as Richard Stark (the grim "Parker the professional thief" novels) that I'm continually finding new stuff by him when I don't expect it. He even wrote at least one Western with Brian Garfield.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:25 AM (wzUl9)

57 24 The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom

That looks like something I would be interested in reading. Thanks, JTB.
Posted by: dantesed at March 15, 2026 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)

It's been in my amazon wish list since he first mentioned it here. $72 per volume (two vols) for hard cover. I'll pull the trigger one of these days.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 09:26 AM (h7ZuX)

58 Oh, and congratulations on your Book Thread, JTB!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:26 AM (wzUl9)

59 But people have been arguing about the identity of Shakespeare since the middle of the 18th century. It started out as somewhat of an obscurantist pastime, devolved into a parlor game and now, IMO, is a truly dangerous pursuit seeking to erase the achievement of a white, Christian, heterosexual man in favor of the current woke category of the oppressed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:18 AM (ufSfZ)
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It falls into the same line of reasoning that Beethoven was black and so was Cleopatra. Doesn't matter that contemporaries made images and described them, that's part of the coverup, you see.

The coming collapse of higher education (due to demographics and unaffordability) will be of great benefit to both society and scholarship.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 09:27 AM (ZOv7s)

60 My favorite Shakespeare Conspiracy Theory is that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by a different guy with the same name.

Posted by: Toad-0 at March 15, 2026 09:28 AM (nAxfo)

61 Archeologist Nora Kelly is called in when a skeleton is found in the New Mexico desert by a film crew in a remote area. Nobody knows how old it is, but this is an ancient indian region, and two prasiolite lightning stones were found with the remains. This is the opening of book 5 of the Nora Kelly series by Preston and Child entitled Bad Lands. . . .

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026

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I read one of that series recently. Liked it, but I can't recall if it was the one you describe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:30 AM (wzUl9)

62 Lloyd: I played the GDW Third World War games a couple of times. My opponent (who owned the games) was from an Eastern European family and absolutely refused to play the Russians, so I wound up running the Warsaw Pact. I'm sure my friend found it frustrating because if I couldn't reach the POMCUS depots before the US troops arrived and magically transformed into armored divisions, then there really wasn't any point in continuing, so I'd sue for peace before he could really start ripping up the Red Army.

One element I thought completely unrealistic in that game was the A-10 units. Shyeah, right, no air unit could have _that_ high an attack strength against ground units! Then we got to see them in action about five years later, and . . . yikes.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026 09:30 AM (78a2H)

63 The Gallina used lightning stones in their rituals to summon their spiritual warriors. The indians of the Chaco valley exterminated the Gallina tribe hundreds of years ago. Has the old magic resurrected this tribe?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 09:25 AM (0U5gm)

Sounds like the inspiration for an H.P. Lovecraft story.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 15, 2026 09:30 AM (4mmkh)

64 My favorite Shakespeare Conspiracy Theory is that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by a different guy with the same name.

Yes, William "Shakspeare' as opposed to 'Shakespeare.'

Incidentally, Bill Bryson, in his short bio, notes about 20 different spellings of the Bard's name, but points out that the one we use was the only one Will himself never did.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:31 AM (ufSfZ)

65 42, oh that's real interesting, I'm'a hafta noodle that for a while myself, and maybe re-read some more old Gordon Dickson ...
thx for the food for thought Trimegistus!

I dug out a book of Gordon Dickson short stories the other week to reread In The Bone ... if I have any of the Dorsai stories left they are pretty darn deeply buried ... that was the Childe Cycle, right?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:31 AM (MIIRH)

66 I have no idea what single book turned me into a book addict-sorry, avid reader. I read a lot of Berenstain Bears books when I was pre-kindergarten age (I didn't really have preschool). I do remember begging my dad constantly to read Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches (And Other Stories)." Several years later, I had the privilege of reading that one to my nephews and turning them into book addicts-sorry, avid readers.

Posted by: pookysgirl does not have stars upon thars at March 15, 2026 09:32 AM (Wt5PA)

67 >>pervious scholars

Know it's a typo, AH Lloyd, but it's so apt.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS)

68 I also read Mitch Albon's The Stranger in the Lifeboat. After three days adrift, a life raft full of survivors from a sunk luxury yacht spots a man floating. After they pull him in, he whispers that he is the Lord. When he is challenge to save them, he says he will when all the people in the raft believe that he is the Lord. The backstories of the survivors are told, except that of a young girl whom no one can recall seeing on the yacht.

A year after the sinking the raft washes up on the shore of the Island of Montserrat, over 2,000 miles from the sinking. The unraveling of the mystery of what really happened has a nice twist and a satisfactory ending. A really good read.

Posted by: Zoltan at March 15, 2026 09:33 AM (VOrDg)

69 JTB! What a great painting.
Fantastic Book Thread. Thank you.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 09:33 AM (tcsrY)

70 My wife and I have this tradition of reading aloud to each other on long car trips. (Ok, I do 90% of the driving, so she reads 90% of the trip). ANYWAY, we just finished "River of Doubt" about Teddy Roosevelt's descent of a un-run S. American river. It's an amazing tale and like Teddy's life, tainted by tragedy. It's like reading the [bold/b] Nat'l Geographic.
This got me thinking about Trump and Roosevelt and how many parallels in life they share.
They were both second sons born to iconic NY families.
Both became heir apparent to their families fortune and titles when the first born in each case succumbed to alcoholism.
They both ran for President as outsiders in their own parties
They were both targets of DC "insiders" trying to protect their grift
They both (miraculously) survived assassination attempts during primary speeches. (Roosevelt was saved when his folded over speech in his breast pocket stopped the bullet. Teddy finished his speech in a blood stained shirt.)
I'm sure there is more, butI find this interesting.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 15, 2026 09:34 AM (lPeS+)

71 Lawrence Block once said, as he was accepting an award, "The great thing about writing is, nobody else has to fail in order for me to succeed."

Posted by: Wenda at March 15, 2026 09:34 AM (wPfxR)

72 Can't remember one book that made me a lifelong reader -- I can't remember not being a reader. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters hooked me on science fiction to the point where sf was almost all I read for pleasure for a decade.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 09:35 AM (q3u5l)

73 Also on my TBR pile from the library: Gunsights, a late (1979) Western by Elmore Leonard; and Passenger to Frankfurt, a 1970 and non-series crime or mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Instead of trains as in her early work, the characters are traveling by plane.

I may have read this one and forgotten it. That happens sometimes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

74 Lloyd: I played the GDW Third World War games a couple of times.
n about five years later, and . . . yikes.
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026 09:30 AM (78a2H)
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Over Christmas break in 1990, we linked Battle for Germany and Southern Front together and because the Wall had just fallen, we made the Pact start in Poland. We did it with teams: three NATO commanders, two for the Pact. I was in charge of the Central Front. It went poorly, because of the ticking clock you referenced. My opposite number was giddy because he was able to stop me on the "old" frontier almost across the line.

However, he had overlooked the fact that I had quietly shifted all of my airmobile units and a bunch of my best aircraft to the Balkans, and my colleague was tearing things up, forcing the Bosporus and penetrating into northern Italy. The game was technically a draw, but I loved the idea of Russians in Milan.

We set up a ladder over the middle of the table so that people could take a moment to view the "satellite picture" of the entire front, which was epic. Later on I did a Yugoslav Devolution scenario using Southern Front counters.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)

75 57 ... "The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom"

"It's been in my amazon wish list since he first mentioned it here. $72 per volume (two vols) for hard cover. I'll pull the trigger one of these days."

DMLW and others. Just a warning. The book is wonderful but it is actually heavy. Expect to read it on a table or at least with a pillow on your lap for support. Definitely not appropriate for reading in bed.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 09:37 AM (yTvNw)

76 If you like River of Doubt, may I suggest (as I think I've already done) Into the Amazon, by Larry Rohter. It's a bio of Candido Rondon, the co-commander of that expedition and the man who absolutely transformed the interior of Brazil. There are literally entire tribes of people in Brazil who probably would not be alive today but for Rondon -- he was a military man who decided that you can't just go around shooting people in your own country, even if they are Indians.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026 09:38 AM (78a2H)

77 my costly book purchase of the week was Calendrical Calculations, mentioned in a Pixy thread earlier in the week, spozed to arrive tomorrow.

I tried programming some of that in college and quickly overwhelmed (a lot more to that than easily accommodated as a quarter's class project)
all the algorithmic stuff is in LISP, which I haven't done since those ancient days, either, but I still have the books ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:38 AM (MIIRH)

78 I was hooked by A A Milne. (Imagine that!) The word "heffalump" particularly delighted me. As did "Gon out. Backson. Bisy backson."

Posted by: Eeyore at March 15, 2026 09:38 AM (AlhUl)

79 pervious scholars

Know it's a typo, AH Lloyd, but it's so apt.
Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS)
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A happy accident!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)

80 I actually read a book. "Project Hale Mary". My son gave it to me. It was a little sciencey for me but I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed "The Martian" from the same guy as well.

A good friend gave me a biography of Thomas Paine. Just cracked it. Good so far.

Posted by: javems at March 15, 2026 09:38 AM (zFsEm)

81 I also read Mitch Albon's The Stranger in the Lifeboat. After three days adrift, a life raft full of survivors from a sunk luxury yacht spots a man floating. After they pull him in, he whispers that he is the Lord. When he is challenge to save them, he says he will when all the people in the raft believe that he is the Lord. The backstories of the survivors are told, except that of a young girl whom no one can recall seeing on the yacht.

A year after the sinking the raft washes up on the shore of the Island of Montserrat, over 2,000 miles from the sinking. The unraveling of the mystery of what really happened has a nice twist and a satisfactory ending. A really good read.

Posted by: Zoltan

A smart aleck in the boat might have pointed out that if he really was the Lord, he could have walked himself out of the situation, but it does sound fascinating.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 09:39 AM (0U5gm)

82 >>She 'proves' that Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman of north African descent living in Venice

You cannot satire these people!
But really, isn't she being ableist, ignoring Shakespeare's well-known gimp from a birth defect!! /s

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2026 09:39 AM (Suwql)

83 I dug out a book of Gordon Dickson short stories the other week to reread In The Bone ... if I have any of the Dorsai stories left they are pretty darn deeply buried ... that was the Childe Cycle, right?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:31 AM (MIIRH)
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I liked The Dragon and the George. A neat take on sci-fi and fantasy. The sequel was meh.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)

84 Hubby nec and I have been streaming two Youtube channels on the renovations to French chateaus. One channel has stalled since the couple is filming a HGTV show. The other has been fascinating. Reawakening Chateau de Purnon. My tie in to the book thread is that I just ordered the book chronicling their first 2 years or so rehabbing the shambles of this chateau. The book is by Tim Holdings, former Aussie politician and his now wife Felicity. The Youtube segments have been great and several dealt with them setting up a library in a room that has been used as a bedroom. They needed a place to store their books and the ones left in the chateau after decades of neglect, a small collection. The original library will be restored later. I'm guessing it's a room that needs professional restoration.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 15, 2026 09:40 AM (2NHgQ)

85 Far more dangerous than pirate accountants are the Pervious Scholars who r@pe others' ideas and works to make themselves feel better.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 09:41 AM (2GVsD)

86 The first thing I did when I moved here was convert a big tuff shed into a nice study/office. Pulled Ethernet out of the main house, and 220 on a new breaker box, installed HVAC, etc.

I don't say man cave because first of all, it sounds both juvenile and homosexual to me, and secondly because it's not that. Anyone is free to come in whenever I please, and I even set up a separate, good workstation for the wife and kids.

But the fact is, wives and children aren't too interested in sitting at a computer, and they don't often have to, so they rarely do. And the room is very clearly for grown men, with bookshelves and firearms and masculine art all over the place. Chicks and kids have a natural aversion to great stuff like that.

My youngest does go out there frequently because she looooves her daddy, but that's why I put a TV in there - I anticipated that so I installed that, and I keep some blankets and toys for her on the couch.

But when I say I need to be left alone in there to concentrate or just relax for a couple hours, that is generally respected. And the door locks, if it ever isn't, for some reason.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2026 09:41 AM (N8lHa)

87 The Dragon and the George was a good isekai.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 09:42 AM (2GVsD)

88 >>I actually read a book. "Project Hale Mary". My son gave it to me. It was a little sciencey for me but I enjoyed it.

I want to read that - waiting for it to show up at the used book store. This week found some interesting cookbooks, mostly newer, such as food blogger "Smitten Kitchen's" first book. Score!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2026 09:42 AM (Suwql)

89 I don't know which book turned me into a reader, but I remember feeling very sad about "Are you my mother?" And thrilled by "Go dog, go!"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 09:42 AM (znREB)

90 78, that's the first book I actually remember reading, too!

I also remember "Wol" and "Tam Htab"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:43 AM (MIIRH)

91 Sounds like a cool 'study', YD!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2026 09:43 AM (Suwql)

92 I really can't pinpoint one book that made me a lifelong reader and wannabe writer. Certainly the Whitman Books Authorized TV Adventures for Young Readers -- original novels based on Have Gun -- Will Travel, Maverick, Annie Oakley, Gunsmoke, and others, esp. the Roy Rogers series -- had a lot to do with it. But I started those when I was about eight or nine, and I'd been reading since I was about five. I can recall a kid's book called Space Cat Goes to Mars I read at school in first grade.

The one that turned me to the true mystery would probably be the Roy Rogers novel Ghost of Mystery Rancho from the late Forties. Roy, a young Texas Ranger, battles and tries to uncover the identity of a murderous bandit who wears a skeleton costume and mask, so that no one, even his men, knows who he is. Reading it again a few years ago, I was struck by its narrative speed and energy, and the neatly-concealed solution to the mystery.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

93 my costly book purchase of the week was Calendrical Calculations, mentioned in a Pixy thread earlier in the week, spozed to arrive tomorrow.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Being a fan of mechanical timepieces, it is fascinating to see how watchmakers going back two hundred years developed what are called complications. Complications were mechanical means to add features such as dates and moon phases to timepieces. There were some incredibly complicated features that were made to watches and clocks many years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 09:45 AM (0U5gm)

94 The earliest man cave was probably somewhere in Africa. The Ur cave of man caves, the Primordial Cave, the First and Only (at the time) had to have been full of pictures because books didn't exist yet, and primitive man was too early to be sad about that.

Posted by: unwenchable at March 15, 2026 09:45 AM (nrUfy)

95 77 my costly book purchase of the week was Calendrical Calculations, mentioned in a Pixy thread earlier in the week, spozed to arrive tomorrow.

I tried programming some of that in college and quickly overwhelmed (a lot more to that than easily accommodated as a quarter's class project)
all the algorithmic stuff is in LISP, which I haven't done since those ancient days, either, but I still have the books ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:38 AM (MIIRH)

calc Easter
pls show werk

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 09:46 AM (gbOdA)

96 Can't remember one book that made me a lifelong reader --
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Except for the Hardy Boys mysteries (which after my second book I pegged as formulaic and predictable) I think Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was the first chapter book to light my lifetime reading fire.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 15, 2026 09:46 AM (lPeS+)

97 I've mentioned this before that our house had 2 books. the Bible and Ben Hur that belonged to my grandmother who lived with us. I don't remember which book made me want to read so much more, possibly Shadow Castle a book I purchased through Scholastic Books. I spent a lot of time in the local library after reading that book.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 15, 2026 09:47 AM (2NHgQ)

98 Pretty sure I typed Hail instead of Hale. Looked it up and everything

Posted by: javems at March 15, 2026 09:47 AM (zFsEm)

99 As I noted upthread, I've been too depressed to write or read. But I did try to start Advance Britannia by Alan Allport, which is the second volume in his history of England in WW2. This one begins just at the Pearl Harbor attack, which not only satisfies Churchill's desire for the US to enter the war, but also satisfied the general public, who thought the US' aid too stingy, too strings-attached and who secretly delighted that the isolated, smug Uncle Sam had got a bloody nose.

It's quite well written (at least the few pages I made it through), but it's also very long, so I gave it back to the library, as I can't see when I would have time to settle down and read it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:47 AM (ufSfZ)

100 that was a goody for sure, A. H. L.! &I dimly remember feeling the same about the sequel.

which reminds me of another-ish one; The High Crusade bu Poul Anderson

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:47 AM (MIIRH)

101 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

102 Except for the Hardy Boys mysteries (which after my second book I pegged as formulaic and predictable) I think Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was the first chapter book to light my lifetime reading fire.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 15, 2026

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Yeah, I gave up on the Hardy Boys pretty early too. As Bart Simpson observed, "All the books are about smugglers."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

103 MP4, may the Holy Spirit fill your heart and banish the darkness.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 09:49 AM (DoBxX)

104 Nice, YD! O happy!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:49 AM (MIIRH)

105 Ides of March

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 09:50 AM (gbOdA)

106 LOL, no sooner than I typed that, than the girl showed up at the shed door, hauling our big black lab by his collar... "Daddy, Charlie ate my Lunchable! He's a naughty dog and a liar! Punish him!"

I duly yelled at the dog. But I have to wonder what he managed to lie about.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2026 09:51 AM (N8lHa)

107 I have a very clear memory (confirmed by my father) that while sitting in his Toyota Landcruiser, I spelled out a stop sign. "S - T - O - P. Stop!" Based on the date of their divorce (this was when they were still married) and a receipt for nursery school found tucked into his train collection as scrap paper, I would have been no older than 3.

Richard Scary's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and Dr. Seuss' The Lorax were my favorite books.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

108 The High Crusade has a nice twist at the end, Drake's stories about a Roman legion sold to aliens is another in the same vein. There is also Pournelle's The Janissaries. And IIRC Eric Flint did it also in more recent times with a group of English soldiers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 09:51 AM (2GVsD)

109 A few weeks ago someone on this thread recommended The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson.

On a lark I checked with my library and found it available via audiobook on the Libby app. It was five hours long and I listened to it mostly while commuting.

I would give it a rating of 6.5 out of 10.

I had to install a vulgarity filter and it was necessary to clean said filter at least twice in the first half of the book. After about the first hour he seemed to leave the four letter words behind stay focused on the pop psychology self-help message.

He reinforced a lot of principles I've already embraced from another author I much prefer: John Eldredge, who comes from a much different world view.

I'm not sorry I listened to it, but wouldn't do so again.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

110 oh, and just in passing, I too had the Wyeth-illustrated books; might even still have one of them somwhere among the still-unboxed ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:53 AM (MIIRH)

111 Still on Bleak House. I don't dislike it and it's not boring, but am just not enjoying this one as I did other Dickens that I've read. May wind up setting it aside and trying it again later; I'll give it a few more chapters before I toss the coin on it.

Besides Bleak House, have been looking over a Simenon or two.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 09:53 AM (q3u5l)

112 Hope everyone has a great week of reading.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 04:00 PM

Wow, your first time hosting a thread and already Ace is letting you use the time machine.

Good job. I think it was probably The Chronicles of Narnia that hooked me into being a reader.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 15, 2026 09:53 AM (cMLgw)

113 The one that turned me to the true mystery would probably be the Roy Rogers novel Ghost of Mystery Rancho from the late Forties. Roy, a young Texas Ranger, battles and tries to uncover the identity of a murderous bandit who wears a skeleton costume and mask, so that no one, even his men, knows who he is. Reading it again a few years ago, I was struck by its narrative speed and energy, and the neatly-concealed solution to the mystery.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026

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I admit, though, that for all its virtues, Ghost has plot holes big enough to ride Trigger through. Doesn't matter. It sent me looking for more mysteries, Western or not, which years later led me to Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, and John Dickson Carr.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

114 Thank you, vmom.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:54 AM (ufSfZ)

115 What made me an avid reader all my life were biographies in the Childhood of Famous Americans series with the orange covers. I sought them out in the basement of the Carnegie library in town.

Posted by: Zoltan at March 15, 2026 09:55 AM (VOrDg)

116 yeah, Anna, the twist at the end really made that story!

"You're really from Earth? How wonderful!"

laughing out loud just thinking about it!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:57 AM (MIIRH)

117 Still reading the novel Callista by Cardinal Newman.

It is an interesting process, as a 20th century-formed reader, to read in the forms and tropes of the 19th century a story set in the 3rd century, on a 21st century electronic "book."

Books are time machines.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 09:57 AM (DoBxX)

118 My mom gave me a collection of short sci-fi stories when I was 8 or 9. One of the stories, "The Weapon Shop" by A.E. Van Vogt, contributed to my lifelong conservatism and 2A support.

Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026 09:57 AM (nPp6w)

119 That painting is the logo and on the bookmarks of the Combs & Ketterson bookstore in Omaha, NE, an awesome used bookstore in the Old Market neighborhood there, which is itself awesome, that I used to frequent when I lived there.

Posted by: Quentin Trumpantino at March 15, 2026 09:57 AM (tRYqg)

120 Yeah, I gave up on the Hardy Boys pretty early too. As Bart Simpson observed, "All the books are about smugglers."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

Lets think about the other types of crime the Hardy Boys could stop. Sex traffic and prostitution? Murder-for-hire? Drug dealers? Child molesters? Pornographers? All taboo subjects, so it had to be smugglers.

Having the Hardy Boys go undercover as jazz musicians to bust up a heroin ring would be cool, though. Especially the part where they wear blackface so they can join the band.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 15, 2026 09:57 AM (4mmkh)

121 And Emilia Bassano hasn't been 'buried,' FFS. I remember reading about her as a Shakespeare candidate years ago. IIRC, she's also been put forward as a candidate for the 'Dark Lady' of the Bard's sonnets.

But people have been arguing about the identity of Shakespeare since the middle of the 18th century. It started out as somewhat of an obscurantist pastime, devolved into a parlor game and now, IMO, is a truly dangerous pursuit seeking to erase the achievement of a white, Christian, heterosexual man in favor of the current woke category of the oppressed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:18 AM (ufSfZ)

See, you can write, MP!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 09:58 AM (1Ff7Z)

122 National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory. It will be 75 today, 80 tomorrow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM (RIvkX)

123 Come to think of it: Have there been many mystery novels set in the Old West? Or Westerns with a strong mystery/detective element? By which I mean the hero has to uncover the identity of an antagonist -- a murderer, a bandit, the man or woman behind a secret society, etc.?

You'd think Loren D. Estleman, who writes in both genres, would have done it, but I can't recall one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)

124 John Eldredge, who comes from a much different world view.

I'm not sorry I listened to it, but wouldn't do so again.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I was just listening to an interview of Eldredge, on the Exorcist Files.
He seems sincere and, it's hard to tell on a podcast, genuine.
What book of his do you rec?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM (DoBxX)

125 now, IMO, is a truly dangerous pursuit seeking to erase the achievement of a white, Christian, heterosexual man in favor of the current woke category of the oppressed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I dunno, a lot of the theories are circling around Sir North, who was also white, Christian and heterosexual.
on the other hand, de Vere and Marlowe...

Posted by: gKWVE at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM (YrZHI)

126 I pretty much bypassed "kid" books after I got away from Dr. Seuss and stuff. War was my thing. Tanks and planes and guns and stuff. Still is my thing.

I still have Weapons and Warfare of the 20th Century, which my grandmother bought for me when I was 9. Those of you who have read Long Live Death will recall the use of silhouettes in the appendix on military aircraft and tanks used in the conflict. I got the idea from that book.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

127 I stayed with the Hardy Boys through middle school. Those books triggered two impulses: reading and collecting. I still have the 26 blue spines that I accumulated.

I found the first HB book, "The Tower Treasure," in our Little Free Library. Having never read that one, I snatched it. I'll return it to the LFL once I've finished it. Wouldn't feel right to add it to my holdings.

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2026 10:00 AM (p/isN)

128 Don't know where it got stuck in my mind but William Shakespeare's mysterious woman of the sonnets will always be Lady Dark to me. *shrugs*

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 10:00 AM (2GVsD)

129 Bleak House; I read about half of that last year, apropos of a scholarly paper showing that most of the college English majors in the study could not comprehend the opening paragraph of that book ...

I got about as far as the setlling of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 10:01 AM (MIIRH)

130 One of the stories, "The Weapon Shop" by A.E. Van Vogt, contributed to my lifelong conservatism and 2A support.
Posted by: Nicless

Fantastic book - wasn't it a book?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 10:01 AM (DoBxX)

131 I'm pretty sure I have recommended it before, but since the Shakespeare question has been raised, a good read is John Michell's Who Was Shakespeare. It's a broad overview of most of the candidates for the Bard, though it concentrates mostly on Bacon and deVere. Michell himself never states his own opinion, though at the end of the book he appears to come down on the theory that 'Shakespeare' was the agreed-upon name for a group of collaborators.

Michell himself is an interesting writer, described as 'an esotericist who was a prominent figure in the Earth mysteries movement.' Besides the Bard book, I also recommend his Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions (a fave of Eris).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:02 AM (ufSfZ)

132 That painting is the logo and on the bookmarks of the Combs & Ketterson bookstore in Omaha, NE, an awesome used bookstore in the Old Market neighborhood there, which is itself awesome, that I used to frequent when I lived there.

Posted by: Quentin Trumpantino at March 15, 2026 09:57 AM (tRYqg)

I *knew* I'd seen it somewhere!

Posted by: pookysgirl used to live on Offutt at March 15, 2026 10:02 AM (Wt5PA)

133 I duly yelled at the dog. But I have to wonder what he managed to lie about.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2026 09:51 AM (N8lHa)

This reminds me of a YouTube trend that the algorithm has deemed necessary for my viewing of a little child facing the corner in a time-out with the dog standing dutifully next to him. Mommy asks the child why they are in time-out, then asks why the dog is also there, and the child explains how the puppy was an accomplice. A typical example:

https://youtube.com/shorts/kvUTX38nPKI

Posted by: tankdemon at March 15, 2026 10:02 AM (cMLgw)

134 I couldn't relate to the Hardy Boys. Pretty sure they would have had a hard time in my neighborhood. They hung out with that Nancy Drew chick.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

135
Lets think about the other types of crime the Hardy Boys could stop. Sex traffic and prostitution? Murder-for-hire? Drug dealers? Child molesters? Pornographers? All taboo subjects, so it had to be smugglers.

Having the Hardy Boys go undercover as jazz musicians to bust up a heroin ring would be cool, though. Especially the part where they wear blackface so they can join the band.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 15, 2026

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I haven't reread it recently, but I believe David McDaniel's last and unpublished Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel, The Final Affair, mentions Frank and Joe's father, private detective Fenton Hardy!

McDaniel loved doing that. In the same book he mentions Saul Panzer from the Nero Wolfe series; and in an earlier work he has Solo mention Rusterman's restaurant, the one Wolfe's oldest friend Marko Vukcic established in NYC.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

136 I assume that the Dark Lady in the sonnets is the prof's proof that Bassano was a lesbian? Or was Bassano writing sonnets to herself, in which case maybe we're talking auto-lesbianism here, which means we're in dire need of further rigorous academic investigation...

The work of scholarship is never done.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 10:04 AM (q3u5l)

137 I did pick up Claudius The God at a book sale a couple of weeks ago. Started it, but haven't got far. I do have Graves' translation of Suetonius.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:04 AM (ufSfZ)

138 71 Lawrence Block once said, as he was accepting an award, "The great thing about writing is, nobody else has to fail in order for me to succeed."
Posted by: Wenda at March 15, 2026 09:34 AM (wPfxR)

I've been on a Lawrence Block binge lately. Specifically, continuing with the Matthew Scudder series. Currently reading "A Dance at the Slaughterhouse," which is quite dark. Subject matter is pederasty and snuff porn, and law looking the other way. I'm near the end, and it looks like Scudder is going to mete out the justice himself.

I digress. One of the thinks I love about Block is how he weaves his story using casual conversation and banter. Just pulls me in, as if I'm sitting at the table listening to him tell his stories with his friends.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 10:05 AM (h7ZuX)

139 I was just listening to an interview of Eldredge, on the Exorcist Files.
He seems sincere and, it's hard to tell on a podcast, genuine.
What book of his do you rec?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM

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1. Wild At Heart
2. Fathered By God

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 15, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

140 National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory. It will be 75 today, 80 tomorrow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM (RIvkX)

Blizzard warning here. Darn you San Franciscans and your perfect weather!

Posted by: pookysgirl, watching the snow float by at March 15, 2026 10:05 AM (Wt5PA)

141 Dog picked the color
Dogs are like that hey heres a red crayon what are you going to do with it

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 10:05 AM (gbOdA)

142 - but book that made me a lifelong sci-fi reader? (well, the genre got destroyed; don't get me started) - The Wonder War, Laurence M. Janifer, Pyramid Books, January 1964

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:24 AM (MIIRH)

Today's your lucky day, then! I received my last section comments and edits back from my editor - and Wolfus's editor as well (still waiting to hear what he thought of her work) - for an old style SF adventure. Just gotta make some changes, work on the formatting, get a cover designer, create a KDP account, etc, then there will be something new for you to read.*

*Sorry for the plug and length. I'm sure nobody cares anyway.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

143 Never got into Shakespeare, except through Kurosawa, but isn't there write ups from his Globe theater ?

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 10:06 AM (Ia/+0)

144 I guess we definitely know that Bassano was Sephardic or is she herself a complete work of fiction conjured up by fevered minds?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 10:06 AM (2GVsD)

145 I haven't reread it recently, but I believe David McDaniel's last and unpublished Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel, The Final Affair, mentions Frank and Joe's father, private detective Fenton Hardy!

Gloria Swanson is a character in my new Theda Bara novel. At her first appearance, I have her say "You there! Why are you so late?", which were her first words in Sunset Boulevard.

A little fan service for my one reader.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:06 AM (ufSfZ)

146 Fantastic book - wasn't it a book?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 10:01 AM (DoBxX)

I read it as a short story but I believe the novel "The Weapon Shops of Isher" was based on it. Have to read that one.

Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026 10:07 AM (nPp6w)

147 Just reread A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe. A big shot Atlanta real estate developer gets way overextended and runs into trouble after the 80’s boom. All kinds of characters get wrapped up in a brewing racial scandal that somehow offers the developer a way out:
Wolfes writing is insanely descriptive and insightful and he can paint a picture of a person or location or situation like no one else.
A long read but well worth the time.
Going to tackle a reread of Bonfire of The Vanities next!

Posted by: rm at March 15, 2026 10:07 AM (n/1Oj)

148 Definitely not appropriate for reading in bed.
Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 09:37 AM (yTvNw)

Oh, I can't read that kind of subject matter in bed, anyway. I'll be fighting sleep all the way and not remember any of it. This will be a porch book.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 10:07 AM (h7ZuX)

149 I couldn't relate to the Hardy Boys. Pretty sure they would have had a hard time in my neighborhood. They hung out with that Nancy Drew chick.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026

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Since they were older -- college age, right? -- and had cars, I found them much more interesting (for a while) than reading about kids my age then (9-10). I always identified with adults in fiction more than I did with kids. Even Heinlein's hero in Have Space Suit -- Will Travel was a high school boy. And I certainly loved reading about Sherlock Holmes (not only not a kid, but not even of my country or century) and James Bond.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:08 AM (wzUl9)

150 My aunt struggled to get my cousin to read books. She bought dozens of Hardy Boys books for him, and paid him a dollar for each one he read. I thought it was kind of ridiculous to get paid for reading; if I had been paid for each book I read, I could probably have retired wealthy at about twelve.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 10:08 AM (0U5gm)

151 I always tell myself I'm not going to comment on this thread because I get myself in trouble sometimes but then often I feel drawn to anyway. The Oz books were very influential to my early reading. My piano teacher had the whole set though they were long out of print and were a wonderful discovery at an early age, like Byron first opening Chapman's Homer or something.

Sorry about the Quentin T. sock puppet earlier that I forgot to change.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at March 15, 2026 10:09 AM (tRYqg)

152 Just reread A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe. A big shot Atlanta real estate developer gets way overextended and runs into trouble after the 80’s boom. All kinds of characters get wrapped up in a brewing racial scandal that somehow offers the developer a way out:
Wolfes writing is insanely descriptive and insightful and he can paint a picture of a person or location or situation like no one else.
A long read but well worth the time.
Going to tackle a reread of Bonfire of The Vanities next!
Posted by: rm at March 15, 2026

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A Man in Full is dynamite. I don't recall Bonfire catching, well, fire with me the same way, or his later novel about late '90s college life, I Am Charlotte Simmons -- though both were very good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:09 AM (wzUl9)

153 After pausing in the middle for several months, I finished reading "Tomb Raider: Colossal Collection 1." A bunch of comic-book adventures of Lara Croft. The first half of the book (the first 14 issues) was pretty good. Well, pretty okayish. It was dumb fun starring a hot chick. It was what you expected from the title. Alas, the second half of the book was not as good. It didn't rise to the level of okay. It was just dumb, and the new artist didn't even draw Lara looking as good.

There are two more books in the series, which I will not be buying. Indeed, there are older, out-of-print books that only collected half of the material that was in the book I have, and I wish I had that smaller collection. It would have kept a lot of sub-par material off of my shelf.

Posted by: Castle Guy at March 15, 2026 10:11 AM (Lhaco)

154 ‘The Real Shakespeare’ makes me think of Shatner saying ‘Did it really happen that way?’.

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2026 10:11 AM (DXbAa)

155 Can’t really say what made me a reader other than words and language just came to me easier.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 15, 2026 10:11 AM (kBisb)

156 Going to tackle a reread of Bonfire of The Vanities next!
Posted by: rm at March 15, 2026 10:07 AM (n/1Oj)

I Am Charlotte Simmons is great

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 10:13 AM (gbOdA)

157 Let's see. Off the top of my head, the crimes that the Hardy Boys investigated include:

Organized theft
Espionage, primarily industrial
Counterfeiting
Sabotage
Searches for missing treasure
Piracy (subset of theft)
Smuggling

Two of my favorites, "A Figure in Hiding" and "The Masked Monkey," involved identity-changing operations, with both false ID and plastic surgery.

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2026 10:14 AM (p/isN)

158 I read it as a short story but I believe the novel "The Weapon Shops of Isher" was based on it. Have to read that one.
Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026

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The short was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, featuring stories from the days before Nebula Awards existed, voted as HOF-worthy. Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" is in there, along with Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven!", Blish's "Surface Tension," and Asimov's "Nightfall." Vols. 2 and 3 contained novellas. Worth having on your shelf.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

159 like Byron first opening Chapman's Homer

By Stout Cortez, that's so meta.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 15, 2026 10:15 AM (zdLoL)

160 Speaking of the Hardys and such, there's a series I am trying to collect: the Moving Picture Girls mysteries from the early 'teens by Laura Lee Hope (author of The Bobbsey Twins.

They're about two young actresses and their adventures as they go around the country making movies. They aren't very accurate when it comes to the actual work of making movies in 1914, but they appeal to me.

There were five in the series that I know of. I have three.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:15 AM (ufSfZ)

161 I digress. One of the thinks I love about Block is how he weaves his story using casual conversation and banter. Just pulls me in, as if I'm sitting at the table listening to him tell his stories with his friends.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 10:05 AM (h7ZuX)

Agreed. I read most of the Matthew Scudder books. I found him less interesting when he went on the wagon.

Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026 10:15 AM (nPp6w)

162 This one begins just at the Pearl Harbor attack, which not only satisfies Churchill's desire for the US to enter the war, but also satisfied the general public, who thought the US' aid too stingy, too strings-attached and who secretly delighted that the isolated, smug Uncle Sam had got a bloody nose.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 09:47 AM (ufSfZ)

So, we can laugh at their predicament now?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

163 Well done on the Book Thread!!

Posted by: RS at March 15, 2026 10:17 AM (SuU/K)

164 On December 8 1941 Churchill's job changed from making sure Britain survived to making sure Britain remained relevant.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026 10:18 AM (78a2H)

165 Last night I purchased "The War of The Spanish Succession" by James Falkner. Because that's some new-to-me subject matter, and because the e-book version of the book was on sale for cheap.

Notably, although most of my ebook purchases come through Amazon, I bought this book from Barnes and Noble. Because B&N had the price just as low, because I want there to be a viable alternative to Amazon, and because my Nook Glowlight 4 is a better device than my (admittedly old) Kindle Paperwhite. The Glowlight has some physical button on the side of the device that turn pages, rather than just relying on the touchscreen. It's a small detail, but it dramatically improves the reading experience.

Posted by: Castle Guy at March 15, 2026 10:18 AM (Lhaco)

166 2025 and 2026 are proving to be the years of fancy (sometimes expensive) hardcover books. The two book RLS collection mentioned above, The Golden Thread, a lovely edition of Pride and Prejudice, the three volume collection of Tolkien's poetry, and next month's release of the first volume of Malcolm Guite's Arthuriad epic poem. (I ordered the super fancy edition.) I never buy books as investments but do think about editions that I would like to pass on to the next generations.

I recently learned of a new one: "Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering: A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem". Haven't had the chance to start reading it yet but it is a beautiful three volume, slipcase edition. Again, quality binding and paper, wonderful original illustrations (think Alan Lee LOTR quality), and a pleasure to hold. I start reading it this week and plan to have a copy of the poem from Penguin Classics at hand to compare. A completely nerdy thing to do, but 'mine own'.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 10:19 AM (yTvNw)

167 Irene Coslet conclusively demonstrates that Shakespeare was a not a man, but a woman: a dark-skinned lady, of Jewish origin, born into a family of Court musicians from Venice.
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Lie shock.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 10:19 AM (1o8D5)

168 "The Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail is an incredible fictional dystopian account of the overthrow of France by refugees.

The invasion is known about for weeks, yet no government does anything but talk. The real issues cannot be discussed because Big Other shuts down the debate.

If never realized how fucked up France is.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 15, 2026 10:20 AM (d6BF2)

169 National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory. It will be 75 today, 80 tomorrow.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM (RIvkX)

80 is hot?

(looks out across the desert landscape)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:21 AM (1Ff7Z)

170 JTB, I wonder if you've ever tried to read LOTR chronologically, i.e., reading the events on the day they take place, starting on Sep 22. I've read the books about a dozen times and tried it that way the last time, and I thought it was interesting that way, though there are some long gaps and I perhaps inevitably fell behind in Feb and Mar when most of the action of the 2nd and 3rd books takes place.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at March 15, 2026 10:21 AM (tRYqg)

171 Hatchet, Hobbit, Pratchett? Couldn't say what was the firstest of firsts. The one book shaped worm what caught me. Dragonlance, Battletech, Baen books? Somewhere in that messy pile.

Could have been my parents reading to me as a child. Could have been the story songs sung in the car on long trips. Could have been the storytelling festival that happened once a year a couple towns over. Could have been grandparents, uncles, aunts and whatnot that always told stories when they got together, the taller the better the tale.

Fiction is my addiction. Not caffeine, not nicotine, not drinkable, smokable, injectable things. If the reading gets too slow someday I'll write a book just so I have something good to read.

Posted by: unwenchable at March 15, 2026 10:21 AM (nrUfy)

172 On December 8 1941 Churchill's job changed from making sure Britain survived to making sure Britain remained relevant.

Within the first few pages of Advance Britannia, Churchill's advisers and cabinet are fretting that the entry of the US into the war will render England either a satrapy of the USSR or an American-owned protectorate.

They were also concerned about Japan attacking the US, because it necessarily meant any American aid would be siphoned off to wage war in the Pacific and render the European conflict a longer, bloodier one.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:22 AM (ufSfZ)

173 Yeah, Bacon came to mind immediately...then I thought about breakfast.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 10:23 AM (XeU6L)

174 When I was in 3d grade, a woman in my church gave me her collection of Vogue magazines from the 1940's. No idea why she picked me.

So while my friends were reading the Bobbsey Twins, I was reading about Dior and Claire McCardell and the menus for dinners given by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Posted by: Wenda at March 15, 2026 10:23 AM (wPfxR)

175 My aunt struggled to get my cousin to read books. She bought dozens of Hardy Boys books for him, and paid him a dollar for each one he read. I thought it was kind of ridiculous to get paid for reading; if I had been paid for each book I read, I could probably have retired wealthy at about twelve.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 10:08 AM (0U5gm)
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Having a single television that was invariably set to the most boring adult programming available (to me) was a huge boost to reading. Nothing focuses the mind like crushing boredom.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

176 Good morning.
I've always been a reader. I know I started with Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames, Nurse but then it was anything and everything. History, fantasy, classics. Later I discovered romance novels. I like most of you I only vaguely remember most of them. They have to make a huge impact like Tolkien, Heinlein, recently Sanderson and yes, Shakespeare.
Think about how different his plays are. Historical, Romantic, magical. I like them all except,the ones where a girl pretends to be a boy. lol

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2026 10:24 AM (t/2Uw)

177 Gloria Swanson is a character in my new Theda Bara novel. At her first appearance, I have her say "You there! Why are you so late?", which were her first words in Sunset Boulevard.

A little fan service for my one reader.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026

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I love it, and expect you have more than just one reader out there.

I used C.C. "Bud" Baxter and Fran Kubelik, in 1964 married and with a small daughter, as the "Innocent" characters in one of my U.N.C.L.E. fan stories. With any luck I managed to capture Bud's ca. 1960 corporate-speak ("I'm pretty familiar with that sort of thing, liar-wise, that is").

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9)

178 Come to think of it: Have there been many mystery novels set in the Old West? Or Westerns with a strong mystery/detective element? By which I mean the hero has to uncover the identity of an antagonist -- a murderer, a bandit, the man or woman behind a secret society, etc.?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)

There has to be some, although I can't think of any either. Just thinking about tv westerns, like Tales of Wells Fargo, where the lead does detective work, there ought to be some. Hopalong Cassidy has a couple where you don't know who the real bad guys are and he has to figure it out could be one. Oh, how about that Ghost Roy Rogers book. Seems to fit, doesn't it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:25 AM (1Ff7Z)

179 >>I Am Charlotte Simmons is great

I recall disliking her by the end of the book. That was the point, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2026 10:27 AM (Suwql)

180 Book that started me reading: Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Suess. This was the first book I read by myself.

Book that started me reading more grown up stuff: Tunnel Through Time by Lester Del Rey.

Posted by: Fritzy at March 15, 2026 10:28 AM (2GIh1)

181 Was not a big reader as a child. Average. My mother wolfed books down. My father hardly read. Dunno when the matriarchal DNA switched on.

As part of my parental inheritance, I chose my mother's book collection. No regrets.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 10:28 AM (1o8D5)

182 I digress. One of the thinks I love about Block is how he weaves his story using casual conversation and banter. Just pulls me in, as if I'm sitting at the table listening to him tell his stories with his friends.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026
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Agreed. I read most of the Matthew Scudder books. I found him less interesting when he went on the wagon.
Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026

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To me the interest remains in the later stories, because the unspoken suspense there is: Will Matt go back to drinking? Eventually in the series his sober life settled down, but for the first few books after his time began with AA, there was still that little worry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)

183 A simple ladder on rails would work better than steps. Because there're at least two rows that are too hard to stoop and see when on the platform and too hard to tippy toe and see when on the ground. On a ladder you can be at any height. Or well endowed librarians on trampolines. Either or would work really.

Posted by: banana Dream - Hey, I think I have an idea! at March 15, 2026 10:29 AM (3uBP9)

184 As part of my parental inheritance, I chose my mother's book collection. No regrets.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 10:28 AM (1o8D5)

Heh...I just took all the books I wanted. My sisters barely read, and didn't see a financial windfall from a few thousand books.

Of course I have about 1,000 history books still to go through!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 10:30 AM (n9ltV)

185 Wind is starting to pick up here. Going to have 50-60mph wind gusts in a couple of hours. Oh yeah, and it's gonna get cold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 10:30 AM (g8Ew8)

186 A single book that made me a lifelong reader? I dunno. I'm guessing I was already hooked by the time I was looking through Richard Scarry's "What People Do All Day" or "Busiest People Ever." I don't remember exactly which book it was, but I know that somewhere in my parent's home is a old hardcover which has been thoroughly repaired with massive strips of shipping tape...

There was also John Goodall's "The Creepy Castle," (a Redwall-esque picture book) that was so well-worn that my parents just gave up and bought a new copy when the grandkids arrives.

Posted by: Castle Guy at March 15, 2026 10:30 AM (Lhaco)

187 "The Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail is an incredible fictional dystopian account of the overthrow of France by refugees.

Posted by: no one of any consequence

Vauban Books has reprinted the book in a very nice fashion, and has it in stock. I highly recommend getting a copy. No need to pay a fortune to get a used one.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 10:31 AM (0U5gm)

188 So, we can laugh at their predicament now?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:17 AM (1Ff7Z)
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Britain's decline was a choice. They tanked the Empire and then tanked the Commonwealth. The UK economy is strong enough to sustain a far larger military establishment, but they would rather pay foreigners to destroy the country.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)

189 "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" was my first book read to me. We also had both "Cat in the Hat" books.

It's funny. Back then, a mother could leave children at home without a babysitter. Try that these days and someone will call Child Protective Services.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 15, 2026 10:31 AM (d6BF2)

190 Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at March 15, 2026 10:09 AM (tRYqg)

Why would you get in trouble, Norrin? And, how's your book coming along?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:31 AM (1Ff7Z)

191 A note about comment 166. I ordered the gorgeous, and expensive, Faerie Queene mentioned through B and N. I could have gotten it a few bucks cheaper from Amazon but the last couple of expensive books I ordered on Amazon were thrown in an oversized light weight box with no wrapping or protection, able to slide around waiting to be damaged. That's inappropriate for a paperback let alone a hundred dollar hardcover. B and N shipped the books wrapped in plastic, well cushioned and used a sturdy box. Everything arrived undamaged even though it was heavy. It's worth paying a few dollars extra for the B and N service. In increasing numbers, I'm finding that the Amazon book prices aren't much, if any, better than other outlets.

Mini rant off.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 10:32 AM (yTvNw)

192 I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the controversy about Richard III. My college had a Society for the Vindication of Richard III and I'm sure we weren't the only ones.

Posted by: Wenda at March 15, 2026 10:32 AM (wPfxR)

193 With any luck I managed to capture Bud's ca. 1960 corporate-speak ("I'm pretty familiar with that sort of thing, liar-wise, that is").
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:24 AM (wzUl9)

Walt Kelly did some wonderful parodies of 1960s ad-man speak ("run it up the flagpole and see who salutes") in a storyline about Howland Owl and Seminole Sam persuading Pogo to run for president (I forget the year; it might have been 1956). He also did a standalone story, The Man From Suffern-on-the Steppes, which had Owl, Albert, Porkypine and Churchy LaFemme as ad-men in the USSR.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:32 AM (ufSfZ)

194 Yeah, I got the new translation. It's Introduction and Preface are priceless.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 15, 2026 10:33 AM (d6BF2)

195 To me the interest remains in the later stories, because the unspoken suspense there is: Will Matt go back to drinking?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:29 AM (wzUl9)

Yes, a constant thread of tension, exploring his feelings about alcohol, and whether or not he will have a drink.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 10:33 AM (h7ZuX)

196 >>The High Crusade

David Weber did one in a similar vein, The Excalibur Alternative.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 10:33 AM (NcvvS)

197 On December 8 1941 Churchill's job changed from making sure Britain survived to making sure Britain remained relevant.
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026 10:18 AM (78a2H)

Well, we did for a while.

Posted by: Baroness Thatcher at March 15, 2026 10:35 AM (1Ff7Z)

198 I recall disliking her by the end of the book. That was the point, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2026 10:27 AM (Suwql)

She grew up
I am not sure the point was to hate Charlotte but that college (life) was hard and growing up is even harder.
She did turn the basketball stars life around (or maybe he grew up too).

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 10:35 AM (gbOdA)

199 Heh...I just took all the books I wanted. My sisters barely read, and didn't see a financial windfall from a few thousand books.

Of course I have about 1,000 history books still to go through!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 10:30 AM (n9ltV)

It's a pity that we don't have a Moron Book Center. What I mean is a location to which we could send books we no longer wanted and could take out ones that we did, either to read or to keep. Of course, someone would have to staff it and put out a catalogue.

I hate the thought of all of my books headed to the pulper when I die, but there's no one who wants them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:36 AM (ufSfZ)

200 170 ... "I wonder if you've ever tried to read LOTR chronologically, i.e., reading the events on the day they take place, starting on Sep 22."

Hi Norrin Radd,

I've used different approaches over the years but no that one. Something to keep in mind for the 62nd reading.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)

201 >>I'm guessing I was already hooked by the time I was looking through Richard Scarry's "What People Do All Day" or "Busiest People Ever."

Those books are the best! Find goldbug!
I don't think it was one book, it was simply that we always had books, made regular trips to the library where we could check out as many books as we could carry home in our bags (maybe a 1 mile walk?).
I loved the Amelia Bedelia books where she was constantly misunderstanding things (Amelia, draw the drapes! so she sketched them, etc.).

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2026 10:36 AM (Suwql)

202 Haven't read them, so I may be wrong here, but if I were looking for western mysteries, Bill Pronzini may be worth a look. He's done a long-running PI series, a number of stand-alone suspense novels (a few in collaboration with Barry Malzberg) and he's done westerns as well. Wouldn't be surprised if some of the westerns run along the mystery line.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 10:37 AM (q3u5l)

203 Wind is starting to pick up here. Going to have 50-60mph wind gusts in a couple of hours. Oh yeah, and it's gonna get cold.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Same here. 80 degrees yesterday and 32 is the low tonight.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 10:37 AM (0U5gm)

204 I had a book about Art Arfons I read about 100 times.
Also the original Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 10:37 AM (gbOdA)

205 It's funny. Back then, a mother could leave children at home without a babysitter. Try that these days and someone will call Child Protective Services.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 15, 2026 10:31 AM (d6BF2)
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In Michigan the age when children can be legally left home alone is 12. We did it without any problems.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)

206 It's funny. Back then, a mother could leave children at home without a babysitter. Try that these days and someone will call Child Protective Services.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 15, 2026

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When I was twelve, Mom (who worked nights as a private duty nurse) decided my brother, age eight, and I could be left sans babysitter. I don't know if the black woman who'd been watching us had raised her price, or decided she didn't want to work for no white woman watching no white kids (I don't remember much about her at all). But what Mom did was not illegal then. And we were good, responsible kids.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

207 Haven't read them, so I may be wrong here, but if I were looking for western mysteries, Bill Pronzini may be worth a look. He's done a long-running PI series, a number of stand-alone suspense novels (a few in collaboration with Barry Malzberg) and he's done westerns as well. Wouldn't be surprised if some of the westerns run along the mystery line.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026

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Good point. I'll have a look.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:38 AM (wzUl9)

208 Encyclopedia Brown was a big part of my reading when I was very young. The writing was mostly contemporary, I was born in '70 and Sobol started in the late 60s. There were already a dozen available when I started reading. I got them at the library.

The other one was the Boxcar Children because we had those in paperback; my sisters had them I think. I honestly don't remember much about the Boxcar Children other than a vague image in my mind of some of the pictures in the book. I still remember some of Encyclopedia Brown's adventures and the contraptions he'd make.

We also had a bunch of my Dad's old Popular Mechanics and I really loved those. I loved schematics at a very young age.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 15, 2026 10:38 AM (3uBP9)

209 73 down here by the Bay and going to 83.
Tomorrow AM 57.
Wind 20 to 25

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 10:39 AM (gbOdA)

210 I also read the Encyclopedia Britannica 1970 from cover to cover.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 10:40 AM (gbOdA)

211 Was not a big reader as a child. Average. My mother wolfed books down. My father hardly read. Dunno when the matriarchal DNA switched on.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 10:28 AM (1o8D5)
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My parents are both English majors who became reporters and met while working at the same newspaper.

Reading was what one did. There were evenings where the TV just stayed off and everyone read. Maybe some music playing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 10:40 AM (ZOv7s)

212 Da Swamp will rise to 82 or so today, and drop to around 45 tonight with plenty of wind. I believe there will be some rainstorms in the interval.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

213 I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the controversy about Richard III. My college had a Society for the Vindication of Richard III and I'm sure we weren't the only ones.

Posted by: Wenda

I reviewed The King's Grave here a couple of weeks ago. The author, Phillipa Langley, is a member of the Richard III society, which is dedicated to clearing his name.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 10:42 AM (0U5gm)

214 >>> Da Swamp will rise to 82 or so today, and drop to around 45 tonight with plenty of wind. I believe there will be some rainstorms in the interval.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

We have some wind here in north GA. It had gotten just up to 80 but after this wind blows through it's dropping down into freezing below 30 again.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 15, 2026 10:42 AM (3uBP9)

215 73 down here by the Bay and going to 83.
Tomorrow AM 57.
Wind 20 to 25
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 10:39 AM (gbOdA)
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Michigan's temps are like a yo-yo in March. We've gotten into the 70s, back to the teens, and everywhere in between. This week looks to be a little more consistent: high on Sunday of 63, low on Monday of 15.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)

216 Is there any one book that made you a life long reader?

For me it was the existence of words itself. From the moment I recognized that they were a secret code to seeing beyond sight, I have read. If there are words in front of me, I will read them.

You might (or might not) be surprised at how often this is a liability.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 15, 2026 10:43 AM (W/QOq)

217 I have the door open but the screen door shut, so any cool-ish breeze can come in if it so chooses. Also so the furry thugs can look out and study things they would love to chase down and kill.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:44 AM (wzUl9)

218 Well, time to get ready for Mass. Today is the Feast of St. Joseph and we're bringing the grandkids because afterwards there were be Italian treats in the parish hall.

Until next week! Thanks, JTB!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 15, 2026 10:45 AM (ZOv7s)

219 I like to think that the big globe in the picture up top is the kind that holds booze and glasses in it.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 15, 2026 10:46 AM (3uBP9)

220 148 ... "This will be a porch book."

DMLW,
That is a wonderful way to describe a pleasant reading place and session.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 10:47 AM (yTvNw)

221 I remember wondering aloud in high school, after learning how to read some eleven years before, what it would be like *not to know how* to read. My history teacher shrugged and said, "Look at a page of German."

I wasn't sure about that, and said so. "But I'd recognize the letters. What about a page of Chinese, or Arabic?" And he nodded and agreed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 10:47 AM (wzUl9)

222 Illinois Lawmakers Push to Scrap High School Foreign Language Requirement

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"I mean, hell, we can't even teach English," they explained.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 15, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

223 One of the more interesting books I read this past week is L.E. Stemmler’s 1942 The Essentials of Archery: How to Use and Make Bows and Arrows.

I bought this ages ago thinking I might want to take up archery as a hobby; I ran across the book in my reference shelf last week and decided to read it, and if it was any good to offer it to a friend of mine who does do archery.

It’s dense with information on how to shoot, and how to build your kit. Wonderful full-page diagrams of bows of various kinds to help you build them. Almost made me want to revisit my decision not to take up archery as a hobby and dump something else instead. I mean, who needs hobo porn, really?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 15, 2026 10:48 AM (W/QOq)

224 I loved the Amelia Bedelia books where she was constantly misunderstanding things (Amelia, draw the drapes! so she sketched them, etc.).
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2026 10:36 AM (Suwql)

It was a real hoot when she dusted the furniture!

I was fond of Dorrie, the little witch. Would love to find some old copies of those.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 10:48 AM (h7ZuX)

225 Almost 11. I guess it's time for another cup of tea.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 15, 2026 10:49 AM (ufSfZ)

226 I liked Bonfire by Wolfe, Charlottes Simmons not so much.

Also enjoyed every book in the Hardy Boys series. I was probably about 10 or so, and at that age, the idea of having a famous detective for a Dad, a great looking gal as a girlfriend, and solving interesting mysteries with a little danger involved in my free time was pretty appealing.

Also, along similar lines I have a full collection of Chip Hilton sports novels. Still read through them every few years or so. I thought it would be awesome to be a superstar athlete in every sport in high school and college and have an athletic complex in my back yard at home.

Posted by: rm at March 15, 2026 10:50 AM (n/1Oj)

227 I had difficulty learning to read (thanks dyslexia!) but once the engine got going I drove hard to read everything in my parents house. Reading saved my teenage years, since I just spent all my free time reading, and not worrying about all the things teenagers usually worry over.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 10:51 AM (d3lyb)

228 Thinking about childhood reading reminded me of The Blue Nosed Witch by Margaret Embry. That was a fun read.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 10:52 AM (0U5gm)

229 I thought this was the Booger Thread

Posted by: The Nose at March 15, 2026 10:56 AM (HXT0k)

230 To prepare for Saint Patrick's Day I've been reading Terry Golway's For the Cause of Liberty. It's a slug through Irish history with emphasis on the 18th and 19th century proponents of Ireland's political and national freedom. Not at all leprechauns or pots of gold.

Posted by: Cosda at March 15, 2026 10:56 AM (BtI39)

231 I had forgotten Encyclopedia Brown, but yes, that was a big part of my youthful reading. Also Doctor Doolittle.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026 10:57 AM (78a2H)

232 llinois Lawmakers Push to Scrap High School Foreign Language Requirement

"I mean, hell, we can't even teach English," they explained.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 15, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

The reality is that the ill and mis-educated people being turned out today have no reason to study a foreign language unless they plan to live or work in an area they will need to know one. A ditch digger or paperpusher won't interact much with people of the world, unless their area has been overrun with foreigners that the politicians bend over for. I can see the case for eliminating that requirement.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:57 AM (1Ff7Z)

233 "Look at a page of German."

In my case, a page of French. I've never really had the patience to sit down with a book and a foreign language dictionary and start reading. Think I remember references from Henry Miller and a couple more of the expats learning some French that way. There are a number of untranslated Simenons or translated books that have been out of print for years.

Just for giggles, I pulled a copy of one in French from one of the 'archive' sites and ran it through Google's free translation service. It did the translation in under a minute. Makes interesting reading. You can follow the story, mostly, but some of the translation is pretty awkward (Simenon is seldom awkward) and it's almost like the translation software has been told not to use masculine pronouns too heavily, so the he and she references don't always match up as they should which throws you out of the story for a minute.

Anyone else tried this? How'd it go?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 10:58 AM (q3u5l)

234 . . . I received my last section comments and edits back from my editor - and Wolfus's editor as well (still waiting to hear what he thought of her work) - for an old style SF adventure. Just gotta make some changes, work on the formatting, get a cover designer, create a KDP account, etc, then there will be something new for you to read. . . .
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026

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I'll post on ALH today, OE. The editor's comments were quite positive and very encouraging, and her suggestions helpful in the extreme.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:01 AM (wzUl9)

235 Just darting in to say that Abigail spanberger looks so much like Reinhard heydrich, the architect of the final solution. I mean seriously look at his photos online.

Posted by: Beverly at March 15, 2026 11:01 AM (reMys)

236 "The Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail is an incredible fictional dystopian account of the overthrow of France by refugees.

Posted by: no one of any consequence
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This. Highly recommend.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:02 AM (XeU6L)

237 No one of consequence- The real invasion of France ( and the reat of Europe) has gone on for 2 decades and no.one has done anything about it

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 11:04 AM (Ia/+0)

238 In my case, a page of French. I've never really had the patience to sit down with a book and a foreign language dictionary and start reading. . . .
Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026

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I have an owner's manual in Spanish for the Mercedes W123 coupe model of the 1980s. With my background in Spanish -- I studied it from high school into college -- and my knowledge of that car model and cars in general, I've often thought it would be a fun project to sit down and write out a translation. Though I would still need a dictionary.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:04 AM (wzUl9)

239 My introduction to Sci-Fi was in 2nd or 3rd grade. Our library had Heinlein's The Rolling Stones on the shelf and I picked it up. No idea why. It was before the rock group. But that was the gateway into Heinlein juveniles and sci-fi in general. Oddly, it is seldom mentioned compared to his other books.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 11:05 AM (yTvNw)

240 I just spent all my free time reading, and not worrying about all the things teenagers usually worry over.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 10:51 AM (d3lyb)

Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 11:05 AM (g8Ew8)

241 208 The other one was the Boxcar Children because we had those in paperback; my sisters had them I think. I honestly don't remember much about the Boxcar Children other than a vague image in my mind of some of the pictures in the book. I still remember some of Encyclopedia Brown's adventures and the contraptions he'd make.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 15, 2026 10:38 AM (3uBP9)

Reading "The Boxcar Children" left a real impression on young me. It was the first time I encountered a retcon/reboot/corporate interreference in a series. I read the series from the beginning, and saw the characters grow up and mature. The original teenage-protagonists became adults and aged-out of the story, and the pre-teen tag-along kids aged into teenagers and became the new teenage-protagonists. But then, all of a sudden, new books came out that took place in the past, with the original protagonists de-aged and without any of the growing up they had gone through.

I don't remember if the later stories were bad or anything, I just remember being shocked by their appearance.

Posted by: Castle Guy at March 15, 2026 11:06 AM (Lhaco)

242 I suppose that my first books were Little Golden Books,most probably already read by my sister, who is 2 1/2 years older.

I still have a few of them. Curiously, and without looking, the first one that comes to mind is 'The Poky Little Puppy'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:07 AM (XeU6L)

243 For my Lenten commitment, I'm re-reading Pope Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection".

Posted by: mrp at March 15, 2026 11:07 AM (rj6Yv)

244 I had forgotten Encyclopedia Brown, but yes, that was a big part of my youthful reading. Also Doctor Doolittle.
Posted by: Trimegistus at March 15, 2026

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Never read either of those. I think there was a Doctor Doolittle volume on the shelf in one of my grammar school classrooms, and I may have picked it up to look at, but it didn't grab me for some reason at that time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:07 AM (wzUl9)

245 lol the picture at top - I’ve had a framed copy of that on my wall for many many years now.

A gift from my dear departed mother in law, who said that was me. (She was right)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2026 11:09 AM (Mh6s8)

246 I generally received one or two books each Christmas and birthday. I owe all of my enthusiasm for reading to my parents and grandparents.

Reflecting on it now, I think the first substantive, serious book that I received was from my dad, who had been a flight instructor during WWII. I still have it, of course, 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'. I was probably 8 years old.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:12 AM (XeU6L)

247 "The real invasion of France ( and the reat of Europe) has gone on for 2 decades and no.one has done anything about it"

4 decades. In 1980, they passed a law criminalizing speech etc criticism. France is already fooked.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 15, 2026 11:13 AM (d6BF2)

248 The bookman in the top painting looks to be holding a long-barreled pistol in his right hand. I suppose it's a book held flat between his thumb and forefinger, but it certainly does look like a stylized gun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:13 AM (wzUl9)

249 142, thanks for the plug, OrangeEnt, something to look forward to!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:13 AM (MIIRH)

250 'Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.'

Both. My parents were never really worried about me as I always had my nose in a book. But there are things most kids learn in grade and high school about dealing with peers and dating etc that I didn't really pick up on until college. Wouldn't relive my freshman and sophomore years for anything.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 11:14 AM (q3u5l)

251 No one of consequence- The real invasion of France ( and the reat of Europe) has gone on for 2 decades and no.one has done anything about it
Posted by: Skip
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The slow boil.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)

252 158, an anthology of gold, sounds like!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:16 AM (MIIRH)

253 142, thanks for the plug, OrangeEnt, something to look forward to!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:13 AM (MIIRH)

Could be a while, though. I've never published a book before. All the stuff you have to do.....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 11:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

254 Thick clouds and some rain today but tomorrow...
71 degrees but thunderstorms, wind, tornadoes even then dropping into the 30's for Tuesday .
Schizophrenic.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2026 11:18 AM (t/2Uw)

255 Everybody knows Shakespeare was a tranny. That's why he made the hero(ine) of Merchant of Venice, the girl Portia, pretend to be a boy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 15, 2026 11:19 AM (ndZc7)

256 Welcome, JTB! Nice thread.

Regarding "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", what does the extended version have that my 1963 version doesnt? Besides dust.

And thanks for the reminder, I pulled it off my shelf for a reread after decades.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 15, 2026 11:19 AM (kpS4V)

257 MP4, a quick glance at gutenberg.org & a search for hope, laura lee brings up 76 titles, moving picture girls x among them.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:19 AM (MIIRH)

258 The reality is that the ill and mis-educated people being turned out today have no reason to study a foreign language unless they plan to live or work in an area they will need to know one. A ditch digger or paperpusher won't interact much with people of the world, unless their area has been overrun with foreigners that the politicians bend over for. I can see the case for eliminating that requirement.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 10:57 AM (1Ff7Z)

Spanish is the default "foreign language" at what will be my daughter's high school. I took four years of Spanish at that high school... and never used it, despite living in Texas for three years. The dirty little secret that no one wants to acknowledge is that the masses that came over the border in the last ten years were illiterate peasants and gangbangers. We refuse to make our daughter learn a useless language.

Posted by: pookysgirl has been banging this drum awhile at March 15, 2026 11:20 AM (Wt5PA)

259 Late to the book thread because I had to clear 4-6 inches of wet concrete off of my driveway. And it's just started up again, and this time there's a bit of thundersnow. They are threatening us with 12-18 inches more and 40+ mph winds. There are nothing but snowflakes showing on my weather app until tomorrow afternoon. This will be a true blizzard. So I'm inside for the duration with a bottle of red wine and three new books I've started. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, Cousin Bette by Balzac, and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. I hope that's enough to get me through (although there's another couple bottles of wine should it be needed.

Posted by: who knew at March 15, 2026 11:22 AM (+ViXu)

260 AW, my least favorite play. How could they not tell,she was a girl? I really dislike books where the basic plot could be unraveled by someone just telling the truth. Like both main characters in love with each other but keep telling themselves the other person doesn't love them so spend the entire book going around the elephant in the room.(not sure what I wrote makes sense).

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2026 11:23 AM (t/2Uw)

261 JTB, excellent book thread!

I usually miss out on this thread, having spare time for it is one good thing about today's Snowpocalypse Megastorm, I guess!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:23 AM (MIIRH)

262 Finally finished "The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema" by Paul Fischer.

I love reading about possible casting choices for roles we think of as iconic and inevitable.

For Leia, Lucas wanted 13-year-old Jodie Foster but she was signed on to make "Freaky Friday". 14-year-old Terri Nunn, soon to be lead vocalist of Berlin, was also being considered. Ultimately it was down to future Randy Andy paramour Koo Stark and Carrie Fisher.

Fox wanted Al Pacino to play Han Solo (!!!!!). Christopher Walken was also in the running.

Mark Hammel riffed off Harrison Ford the best but Lucas still wanted to hire an unknown for Han Solo, and Ford had been in "American Graffiti".

The celebrity following the movie's release was swift and dramatic. "Months earlier, Ford had been a stoner-carpenter dad who could barely get an acting job. Michelle Phillips, of the mamas & Papas, went to see Star Wars anwd leapt out of her seat when Han Solo appeared on screen.
"That's my pot dealer!" She yelled out.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 15, 2026 11:25 AM (kpS4V)

263 259
Where are you located?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2026 11:25 AM (t/2Uw)

264 One helpful thing: not having any TV at all from midway in my second grade year and all my third grade year. We had TVs in the home but you were out of luck if you didn’t understand German. No AFN available, either, until we could move someplace where we could pick it up.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 15, 2026 11:26 AM (WViuh)

265 Speaking of the Britain Formerly Known as Great, I see someone is trying to create an American Amelia, the young girl fighting back against the crazy.

https://is.gd/oLMU8L

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 15, 2026 11:28 AM (ndZc7)

266 I still have a few of them. Curiously, and without looking, the first one that comes to mind is 'The Poky Little Puppy'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:07 AM (XeU6L)

Still have them too, including 'The Poky Little Puppy'. Too painful to part with them.

Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026 11:28 AM (nPp6w)

267 Thick clouds and some rain today but tomorrow...
71 degrees but thunderstorms, wind, tornadoes even then dropping into the 30's for Tuesday .
Schizophrenic.
Posted by: Sharon
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Yeah, our daffodils have done a faceplant while still blooming. It's going to drop into the low 20's this week, after 80 deg. last week. The apple growers here in W. NC are justifibly freaked out.

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” -- Possibly Mark Twain

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:28 AM (XeU6L)

268 200 170 ...
interesting idea, might try it next year

late last year I did the day-by-day thing with Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October, it was fun, but so tempting to just keep reading ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:29 AM (MIIRH)

269 AW, my least favorite play. How could they not tell,she was a girl? I really dislike books where the basic plot could be unraveled by someone just telling the truth. Like both main characters in love with each other but keep telling themselves the other person doesn't love them so spend the entire book going around the elephant in the room.(not sure what I wrote makes sense).
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2026

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This sounds, too, very much like sitcoms of the '50s and '60s, where misunderstandings, sometimes willful, drive the plot -- and one person simply asking a crucial question would explode it all.

Shakespeare used the "girl pretends to be a boy" plot in other plays too, like Twelfth Night. It helped that only male actors were allowed on stage then, so a male actor playing a girl character could easily pose as male.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:30 AM (wzUl9)

270 Whew, made it! What'd I miss?

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Just Couldn't Put Down That Porn Mag I....Found. at March 15, 2026 11:31 AM (dmDsy)

271 Morning Hordemates!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2026 11:32 AM (2WIwB)

272 Still have them too, including 'The Poky Little Puppy'. Too painful to part with them.
Posted by: Nicless
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We passed on a collection of Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames books to an acquaintance with a 12 year old daughter. Inquired later if she had enjoyed them. The answer was that she didn't read them, because they are 'Irrelevant'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:32 AM (XeU6L)

273 I finished Judy Dench's Shakespeare, The Man Who Pays the Rent. Fantastic book. It makes me want to read Shakespeare and realize I need a good annotated edition to get the most out of it. I will keep Dench around as a reference when/if I leap into that project. Does anyone know of good annotated editions of the plays?

Posted by: who knew at March 15, 2026 11:32 AM (+ViXu)

274 Nice post JTB! I must say I don't know much about Shakespeare and I don't care much about theater but I'll say this:

To Bother, Or Not To Bother

I went to a play with a friend
But I didn't watch the show to the end
So I'm embarrassed to say
That to this very day
I thought Hamlet was Pooh's little friend

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 11:34 AM (qgHp7)

275 DMLW mentioned a 'porch book'. The house where I grew up had a wonderful front porch, not enclosed but deep enough so you could stay dry even in a rain storm and shaded on hot days. I loved reading there with the comfortable wicker furniture, tables to hold drinks and snacks and the breezes keeping everything fresh. For seven or eight months of the year it was a haven for reading without shutting out the world. And when you could start reading there after a New England winter, you knew spring had arrived.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 11:35 AM (yTvNw)

276 235, why yes, that is a bit creepy ... and then the similarity of mental outlook ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:35 AM (MIIRH)

277 I have been reading Charlie Kirk's book "Stop In The Name Of God."
I think I have learned more about the Old Testament in the first five chapters than I did thru five years of Sunday School.
Or maybe it's more meaningful.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2026 11:35 AM (2WIwB)

278 Ace endorsed A H. Lloyd. Describing modern academia as gnostic is brilliant and I feel, dead on. I wish I had thought of it myself but now, I will steal your insight (and remember to give credit where it is due). That applies especially to the current fad for 'indigenous forms of knowledge'

Posted by: who knew at March 15, 2026 11:36 AM (+ViXu)

279 I finished Judy Dench's Shakespeare, The Man Who Pays the Rent. Fantastic book.
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There's nothing like a dame.

Posted by: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein at March 15, 2026 11:36 AM (XeU6L)

280 We refuse to make our daughter learn a useless language.
Posted by: pookysgirl has been banging this drum awhile at March 15, 2026 11:20 AM (Wt5PA)

Yeah, you could speak to them, but not give them anything to read, or ask them to write something down. Besides, I'll bet most speak enough English to get by anyway. Make 'em speak it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 11:36 AM (1Ff7Z)

281 That guy is exactly how I feel when I click on Gutenberg and start looking for a cool old book

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 15, 2026 11:37 AM (jrgJz)

282 This coslet woman
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 15, 2026 09:06 AM (bXbFr)

...is in possession of information that could put Hillary Clinton in jail.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 11:37 AM (8zz6B)

283 Some years ago I dug up copies of some of the Whitman Authorized TV Adventures Western novels on AbeBooks and eBay, and read them. They were darned good! No writing down to kids, well written and fast-moving. One, Roy Rogers and the Enchanted Canyon, which had bored me at age nine, dazzled me quite a bit as a grownup. There is actual atmosphere to it, not just action, as Roy travels with a pre-teen boy, the viewpoint character, and his father up into the Arizona canyons in search of some lost horses. They pass by the abandoned Anasazi ruins and wonder about the people who built them and then disappeared.

So no, I haven't kept many of those old volumes since they were new, but I've found them good reading when I bought them again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:38 AM (wzUl9)

284 I thought this was the Booger Thread

Posted by: The Nose at March 15, 2026 10:56 AM (HXT0k)
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It is! Feel free to discuss the writings of Nostrildamus.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 11:38 AM (1o8D5)

285 A unique gun control argument.

Virginia House GOP
@vahousegop
Dem Del. @GMcGuireVA: "We know that it's not always true that you need a gun to fight back someone with a gun. Because those hero cadets didn't. Leivu Labrescu, ...didn't have a gun when he selflessly gave up his body to prevent the Virginia Tech shooter from entering his class."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 15, 2026 11:38 AM (ndZc7)

286 And when you could start reading there after a New England winter, you knew spring had arrived.
Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 11:35 AM (yTvNw)

I expect it will be six to 8 weeks before I can depend on comfortable porch weather. And my dog loves to sit out there with me, on his chaise longue, watching the world go by.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 11:40 AM (h7ZuX)

287 I fear writers are going to have the hardest go in the AI age; until the fight between AI slop and human art is settled.

Gonna be weird seeing the "No Artificial Additives" label or some-such for pure human art.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 15, 2026 11:41 AM (HXT0k)

288 239, good point, I dunno, except maybe that it kind of goes all over the place ... but a lot of fun stuff in there; flat cats, the Galactic Overlord, aunt Hazel, who reappears, I think, elsewhere in the canon ... o so much more.
"Everything that's worth anything runs on mathematics." or words to that effect.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:41 AM (MIIRH)

289 I thought this was the Booger Thread

Posted by: The Nose at March 15, 2026
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It is! Feel free to discuss the writings of Nostrildamus.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026

***
And George Sinuson and John Steinbeak.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:41 AM (wzUl9)

290 "I still have a few of them. Curiously, and without looking, the first one that comes to mind is 'The Poky Little Puppy'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:07 AM (XeU6L) "

same here!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:42 AM (MIIRH)

291 Virginia House GOP
@vahousegop
Dem Del. @GMcGuireVA: "We know that it's not always true that you need a gun to fight back someone with a gun. Because those hero cadets didn't. Leivu Labrescu, ...didn't have a gun when he selflessly gave up his body to prevent the Virginia Tech shooter from entering his class."
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Some of you will die.
And that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 15, 2026 11:42 AM (HXT0k)

292 270 Whew, made it! What'd I miss?
Posted by: Denny Crane -

269 comments

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 11:42 AM (Ia/+0)

293 I thought this was the Booger Thread

Posted by: The Nose at March 15, 2026
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It is! Feel free to discuss the writings of Nostrildamus.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026

***
There's always a place for Mucus Aurelius.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:42 AM (wzUl9)

294 Virginia House GOP @vahousegop

Dem Del. @GMcGuireVA: "We know that it's not always true that you need a gun to fight back someone with a gun. Because those hero cadets didn't. Leivu Labrescu, ...didn't have a gun when he selflessly gave up his body to prevent the Virginia Tech shooter from entering his class."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 15, 2026 11:38 AM (ndZc7)
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Please have the respected delegate from Delaware show us by example.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 11:43 AM (1o8D5)

295 It is! Feel free to discuss the writings of Nostrildamus.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Thus, we ENTer the pun zone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:43 AM (XeU6L)

296 285 A unique gun control argument.

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The Banzai charge is back. Everything old is new again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 15, 2026 11:43 AM (gHiiF)

297 There's always a place for Mucus Aurelius.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:42 AM (wzUl9)
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That's snot funny.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 11:44 AM (1o8D5)

298 There's always a place for Mucus Aurelius.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:42 AM (wzUl9)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 15, 2026 11:44 AM (h7ZuX)

299 I thought this was the Booger Thread.

Oh, how cool. Usually I feel that I'm not really welcome here, but now...

Posted by: Green Slime at March 15, 2026 11:45 AM (q3u5l)

300 272, boy howdy they're gonna love that kid when she gets to college ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:45 AM (MIIRH)

301 I'm still reading The Strength of the Few by Islington, the follow up,to,the Will of the Many. It has finally grabbed my attention but for some reason I am not reading my usual number of pages at night. Consumed by X I think.
It is a really interesting concept. The main character walks through a labyrinth goes through a gate and ends up in three different places. He has become Synchronus, split into 3, in order to prevent a cataclysm which has happened before over the centuries. He has to find the Evil one who causes this and do away with him.
He has different strengths and weaknesses in each of the three places. Each society has some of the original but also different dangers. He has a guide in each place to help but needs to figure out his task.
Like the first book, completely unique in concept. Highly recommended even though I'm not done.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 15, 2026 11:46 AM (t/2Uw)

302 272
We passed on a collection of Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames books to an acquaintance with a 12 year old daughter. Inquired later if she had enjoyed them. The answer was that she didn't read them, because they are 'Irrelevant'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:32 AM (XeU6L)

Sad

Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026 11:47 AM (nPp6w)

303 Prof. James Shapiro, in the concluding chapter of his book "Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?" lays out the clearest, plainest, most concise and convincing case ever made that Shakepeare was Shakespeare.

Like Shapiro, I agree that the conspiracy theories are rooted in plain old classist snobbery.

Posted by: Delurker at March 15, 2026 11:47 AM (gtcuf)

304 "Too painful to part with them."

so, so, true

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:47 AM (MIIRH)

305 256 ... "Regarding "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", what does the extended version have that my 1963 version doesnt? Besides dust."

AHE,

It offers more Middle-Earth related poems as well as the original ones and commentary about them. It still uses the Pauline Baynes illustrations from the 1963 edition which I also have. (And yes, it is dusty.) Not strictly needed but it is a nice furthering of the original without getting too bogged down in minutia.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 11:48 AM (yTvNw)

306 lol, Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:48 AM (MIIRH)

307 That applies especially to the current fad for 'indigenous forms of knowledge'

Posted by: who knew at March 15, 2026 11:36 AM (+ViXu)

"The Technological Superiority of a Wheel-less Culture"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2026 11:49 AM (n9ltV)

308 There's always a place for Mucus Aurelius.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:42 AM (wzUl9)
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That's snot funny.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 11:44 AM (1o8D5)

The rest of you will run with Mucus!

Posted by: Markus Vindictus at March 15, 2026 11:49 AM (wVcYX)

309 I have been reading Charlie Kirk's book "Stop In The Name Of God."
I think I have learned more about the Old Testament in the first five chapters than I did thru five years of Sunday School.
Or maybe it's more meaningful.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2026 11:35 AM (2WIwB)

It's cromulent.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)

310 I thought this was the Booger Thread.

Oh, how cool. Usually I feel that I'm not really welcome here, but now...

Posted by: Green Slime at March 15, 2026 11:45 AM (q3u5l)
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Not so! So continue to stay calm and phlegmatic.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 11:49 AM (1o8D5)

311 Well, 'bout time I headed off to do some chores around the old homestead. (Yeah, right; a 560 sq. ft. apartment is a "homestead.") JTB, good work on your first (?) Book Thread -- livening up Sunday mornings as it always does!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:50 AM (wzUl9)

312 And George Sinuson and John Steinbeak.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:41 AM (wzUl9)

That's a bridge too far

Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026 11:50 AM (nPp6w)

313 Nostril steaks and greek yogurt boogers

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026 11:50 AM (Kt19C)

314 279 ... "I finished Judy Dench's Shakespeare, The Man Who Pays the Rent. Fantastic book."

Agreed. It was lively and a fun read with the background info on Dench and her acting friends.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 11:51 AM (yTvNw)

315 I remember our teacher reading "James and the Giant Peach" and "The Glass Slipper" to us, and many other stories. A great way to calm down rambunctious bratlings after recess.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 15, 2026 11:51 AM (kpS4V)

316 It offers more Middle-Earth related poems as well as the original ones and commentary about them. It still uses the Pauline Baynes illustrations from the 1963 edition which I also have. (And yes, it is dusty.) Not strictly needed but it is a nice furthering of the original without getting too bogged down in minutia.
Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 11:48 AM (yTvNw)

Oh great. More fucking poetry.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 15, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

317 Nostril steaks and greek yogurt boogers
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026

***
I was thinking about lunch. Somehow, though, I'm not hungry any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:52 AM (wzUl9)

318 On that happy note, annoying errands beckon here at Casa Some Guy.

Thanks for the thread, JTB.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 11:53 AM (q3u5l)

319 Funny to see that top photo, on the front page, and the caption is "continue reading." Yeah, he's doing that.

Howdy, bookies.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Sunday again already at March 15, 2026 11:53 AM (O84gh)

320 Nostril steaks and greek yogurt boogers
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 15, 2026

***

I was thinking about lunch. Somehow, though, I'm not hungry any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 11:52 AM (wzUl9)
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You'll be OK just as long as you avoid runny sunny-side ups.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 11:54 AM (1o8D5)

321 She 'proves' that Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman of north African descent living in Venice (Italy not California).

Reads like a farce. If'n not, a pox upon her ... harse?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 15, 2026 11:54 AM (diia5)

322 That ladder is NOT OSHA approved!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2026 11:56 AM (xvV+O)

323 Reads like a farce. If'n not, a pox upon her ... harse?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 15, 2026 11:54 AM (diia5)
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FIFY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 11:56 AM (1o8D5)

324 "Only he who is running knows

Running knows

Running knows ..."

-- P.D.Q. Bach
(don't remember which work)

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2026 11:57 AM (p/isN)

325 265, I've been thinking that we need our own Amelia, I'll have to take a look ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 11:58 AM (MIIRH)

326 Almost time for the next thread. Thanks to CBD for asking me to try writing a book thread. I have one or two more in mind. And thanks for the many kind words for my first attempt. Writing a thread for AOSHQ is an interesting endeavor.

Posted by: JTB at March 15, 2026 11:59 AM (yTvNw)

327 >>Only he who is running knows

Possibly Iphigenia in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 11:59 AM (NcvvS)

328 The rest of you will run with Mucus!
Posted by: Markus Vindictus
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Pretty sure that was lifted from one of the Greeks. Sinuitus, I think...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:59 AM (XeU6L)

329 Nicely done, JTB. Have a great day, all!

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 11:59 AM (NcvvS)

330 Crap! 'Sinusitus'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 12:00 PM (XeU6L)

331 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 12:00 PM (NcvvS)

332 JTB - Well done.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 12:00 PM (XeU6L)

333 "The Technological Superiority of a Wheel-less Culture"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

***********

The travois had all the key components of a horse and buggy ...excepting the horse.

And wheels.

Posted by: muldoon at March 15, 2026 12:02 PM (qgHp7)

334 "prasiolite lightning stones"

To a geologist, the above makes no sense. "Prasiolite" is a tem for a green-tinted variety of quartz crystals, sold as a gem. Most of the "prasiolite" in the marketplace is Brazilian amethyst, turned green by heat treatment or irradiation.

Lightning stones are septarian nodules from Michigan. No quartz in them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:03 PM (8zz6B)

335 Anyone else tried this? How'd it go?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 15, 2026 10:58 AM (q3u5l)

Try Deepl.com.

It does Spanish and French pretty well -- though a bit awkward with some phrasings and slang.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2026 12:03 PM (rbvCR)

336 (snif)

The end of the book thread, again.

Thanks for the thread, JTB.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 15, 2026 12:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

337 “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” -- Possibly Mark Twain
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2026 11:28 AM (XeU6L

Will Rogers.

However, Al Gore and Michael Mann decided to get involved!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2026 12:07 PM (rbvCR)

338 What they reveal is that an ancient tribe known as the Gallina lived in the region and were believed to be sorcerers by the other tribes. The Gallina used lightning stones in their rituals to summon their spiritual warriors. The indians of the Chaco valley exterminated the Gallina tribe hundreds of years ago. Has the old magic resurrected this tribe?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 15, 2026 09:25 AM (0U5gm)

*removes tribal mask*
"OLD MAN MACGILLICUDDY??!!"
"And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

Posted by: Story as old as time itself at March 15, 2026 12:14 PM (TbWk/)

339 MP4, correction. You have at least 2 readers. I loved the Theda Bara I read and there is another one on my kindle and I will snatch a new one up as soon as it is available.

Posted by: who knew at March 15, 2026 12:14 PM (+ViXu)

340 Good morning from the Left Coast. What inspired me to read? The fact that my dad would only read me selected comics from the Sunday Funnies (Prince Valiant and The Phantom had too many words to read aloud to me). What made me a lifelong reader? Having parents who read themselves, to us, who bought books and took us to the library, living in a home where "Just one more chapter!" was a legitimate excuse, who thought books made excellent presents for adults and for kids.

First memorable book I read by myself, over and over, was a children's edition that held both Alice books by Lewis Carroll.

Posted by: March Hare at March 15, 2026 12:18 PM (O/GSq)

341 Regarding personal libraries, I always wanted one that had floor to ceiling shelves with a rolling ladder (think of the bookstore in Funny Face) or one like Professor Higgins' study in My Fair Lady. In reality, I'd settle for a "book nook" in the "dining L" in my modest late-1960's suburban home!

Posted by: March Hare at March 15, 2026 12:21 PM (O/GSq)

342 Book Thread: West Coast Edition

Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin

[...] "Curtin’s later career included significant work with the Bureau of American Ethnology (1883–1891), where he documented Native American languages and pre-Christian origin story mythologies."

Curtin also gained fame for translating Polish literature, notably Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis and The Trilogy.

https://archive.org/details/memoirs-of-jeremiah-curtin/

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2026 12:25 PM (oM+y5)

343 Belated thanks to Weak Geek for his comment 2 weeks ago (!) that he wished there was some way he could get me his copy of America's Last Great Newspaper War without compromising our anonymity. No worries. It is on my list of books to periodically look for on Abe and eBay, and it eventually will show up for a budget- friendly price and I will grab it and get to feel happy and smug at my steal.

Meanwhile, I have literally hundreds of others, counting Kindle binge-buys from the early days of their high-quality monthly sales, waiting to be read or re-read. (If I hadn't been forced to downsize my life a few years back, there would be some three thousand. And hell yeah, I still haven't gotten over that. Reference library, rare books, books whose contents I could recall just by looking at the covers... those of you who mention getting rid of your too-big libraries, think really hard before you do it.)

The Book Thread is my favorite, yet it seems to be the hardest one for me to join in real time. Maybe I had better make my sleeping-in day Saturday instead of Sunday!

Posted by: Clio Weeps at March 15, 2026 12:28 PM (kSAM8)

344 Late to the Party, JTB -- I usually am too busy to catch the weekend threads.

Love "The Bookworm" painting up top -- cheers!

And thanks for constructing & hosting The Book Thread; I plan to be here more often after I retire later this year ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 15, 2026 12:51 PM (My0zW)

345 @343 --

Clio, you're welcome -- and you made my day.

I got my copy on AbeBooks for eight bucks and change, and that's with shipping included.

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 15, 2026 01:13 PM (p/isN)

346 @345: Just Abed it for $8.08! Thanks again for bringing it to our attention.

Here's to a great coming week of reading, fellow book people. I'm hoping this is the week I can launch my project of reading a short stack of books on Mossad.

Posted by: Clio Weeps at March 15, 2026 01:25 PM (kSAM8)

347 Castle Guy: Falkner is a good place to start on the War of the Spanish Succession ("WSS"). He's written so much on it that it might be said that he sort of "owns" that war like Chris Duffy owned Frederick the Great and the Seven Years War and Bruce Catton once owned the American Civil War.

If you develop an interest in that WSS and other wars in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, Helion & Company have some books on the WSS (like Marlbourgh's war in the Iberian Peninsula) and Louis 14th's other wars.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at March 15, 2026 01:50 PM (7ZRgl)

348 JTB: I hope you like Rebecca Reynolds' "translation" of Spencer's "The Faerie Queene," I had thought of mentioning it here but I wasn't sure if it would interest anyone. I've been interested in "The Faerie Queen" since I first read Pratt and DeCamp's "The Incomplete Enchanter" in middle school (the section titled "The Mathematics of Magic" is set in the world of "The Faerie Queene"), but I just couldn't wade through the original's 16th Century poetical language. Instead, I memorized some favorite passages, mostly from Book Five, that tickled my fancy.

For those who are intrigued by Spenser or his book, but have trouble with the original, you might take a look at the new version. The title is "Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering: A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem" by Rebecca Reynolds as author/translater. It's available from Amazon for about $75, and through other outlets. You might be able to buy from the publisher, Sky Turtle Press, but I couldn't find any links to do so in a brief search.

Reynolds' "The Faerie Queene" cont. below

Posted by: Pope John 20th at March 15, 2026 02:14 PM (7ZRgl)

349 348: Pope John 20th

Thanks for the info. I've been intrigued by Spenser's The Faerie Queene ever since my professor pointed out a copy in the Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley. I was taking a History of Science class and we were there to see a book belonging to Isaac Newton with his notes in the margin as well as some of the editions of Galileo that got him into trouble.

Posted by: March Hare at March 15, 2026 02:25 PM (O/GSq)

350 JTB, sorry got on the book thread just now....I see you are reading "The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I."

I have been interested in reading that, and perhaps Volume II because that covers the Western tradition to the present day.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (y171U)

351 Reynolds' "The Faerie Queene" cont.

For those who might fear the new prose edition of "The Faerie Queene" might be a woke version of the original (particularly considering the significant moral and religious themes of the original), I saw nothing from Ms. Reynolds during the kickstarter campaign or after to suggest that possibility, and what I've read so far in the book also doesn't seem to be following a woke path.

Also, Ms. Reynolds and Malcolm Guite seem, at the very least, to be professional friends who share common interests in literature, poetry, and themes of faith and "Faerie" (almost a direct quote from Google AI for what it's worth). Guite encouraged Reynolds' "Fairie Queene" project, and has commented favorable on the finished work. Reynolds posted a bit on the kickstarter pages regarding her connections with Guite, but I can't find the specific posts I remember (honestly, the only reason I remember them at all is because some of the posters here have favorably mentioned Guite) and don't remember specifics. Anyway, from all I've read about him I doubt Guite would recommend a subversive version of Spenser's book.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at March 15, 2026 02:32 PM (7ZRgl)

352 books that made me like books:
jungle books, illustrated
incident at hawk's hill
the big brain
and all the bradbury

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 02:42 PM (R11M+)

353 and the tawny scrawny lion.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 02:44 PM (R11M+)

354 March Hare:

The stuff buried in library stacks and cold storage can be fascinating, and imagine what you might find if you could dig through older European libraries.

Like your Newton's notes, a historian, I think it was Geoffrey Parker, once mentioned finding in the Spanish Archives reports to King Philip II of Spain from his Viceroys in the Americas; those reports were the originals of the reports and still had annotations in Philip's own hand that were used to prepare the King's formal responses to those reports.

I hope that academic librarians in Europe and the Americas are taking care to preserve and copy those old records, but I'm not confident anyone is actually working on that rather than advancing the SJW cause. Otherwise lots of history will be lost.

I've done a bit of research into the history of the British Raj and the various princely states and Presidencies. Some records are available and can be quite detailed (for example, the pay records for the Sikh army for selected years in the 1830s and 40s are available), but lots of records from Ranjet Singh's Sikh Empire in the Punjab appear to have disappeared during and after the partition of India and Pakistan.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at March 15, 2026 03:01 PM (7ZRgl)

Daily Tech News 15 March 2026

Top Story

Montana's Governor Greg Gianforte has signed into law the state's Right to Compute Act, the first legislation of its kind. (Western MT News)

Before you celebrate, the bill is the worst kind of waffly bullshit, forbidding the government from infringing on fundamental rights unless it really wants to.

I think they've spent too much time next door to Canada and the government needs to institute a hundred-mile decommunised zone.

Still doing better than Australia where our government threatened at one point to legislate against inconvenient arithmetic.

Whether you have a right or not you can't do much computed on a MacBook Pro 14 with an M5 Max CPU. (Notebook Check)

It looks great on paper but it throttles down to less than half power within two seconds. If you want the high-end processor the only viable option is the 16 inch model.

Tech News

Studies show that productivity gains from AI for typical office workers amount to as little as 16 minutes per week. (Nerds.XYZ)

I'm not a typical office worker, but I get more out of it just from using it as a better search engine. Watching Grok and ChatGPT discard dozens of useless results from Google before finding the right answer is... I don't know. Satisfying, in a strange way.
Latency numbers every programmer should know but most don't. (GitHub)

Interesting that from the original version in 2012 to this 2020 update, the quoted SSD latency improved by a factor of 10 - from 150 microseconds to 16. And disk seeks from 10 milliseconds to 2, which has got to be measuring cache effects, because that would mean the disk would be spinning at 30,000 rpm.
Just how much responsibility do AI chatbots and the companies that create them hold for psychotic people acting psychotically? (Tech Crunch)

I'm torn between bankrupting the companies and bankrupting the lawyers bringing these suits.

Both is good.
Elon Musk plans to launch the Terafab project - his own chip manufacturing facility - next week. (WCCFTech)

Of course it's going to take years before anything can come online even if he can secure the required tools from ASML, which is a single source for top-end chip manufacturing equipment.

He has said that he plans to reach production in excess of 100 billion chips per year, though exactly what chips and in what time frame he has not yet specified.
ASRock's new H610M Combo II motherboard is just like the earlier H610M combo only worse. A lot worse. (WCCFTech)

The H610M Combo featured two slots for DDR4 memory and four slots for DDR5, though you could only have one or the other.

The Combo II cuts that down to one slot for DDR5 and two slots for DDR5, which is kind of broken. If you have DDR5 you don't need the DDR4 slot, and if you don't you're stuck with a quarter of the bandwidth.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: There's a pill for that now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:01 AM (5UTWB)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 04:01 AM (A4VRU)

3 Nooded. Mornin' or evenin', as appropriate.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 04:02 AM (NcvvS)

4 w00t

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:02 AM (+YA9H)

5 Kinks. Finally, real music!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:03 AM (5UTWB)

6 I'm torn between bankrupting the companies and bankrupting the lawyers bringing these suits.

Both is good.
****

First, we kill all the lawyers. (some writer)

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 04:05 AM (A4VRU)

7 Happy-ish Sunday Morning, all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic . . . at March 15, 2026 04:09 AM (3ZUWJ)

8 Speaking of fuggheaded legislation, Washington State is trying to outlaw using 3D printers to make gun parts, with Commifornia not far behind.

G Code is just a text file, asswipes. Remember the First Amendment?

Oh, right: the First Amendment covers showing dildos to kindergartners, but not actual... textual speech.

You betcha.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2026 04:09 AM (IG3/x)

9 >>>Montana's Governor Greg Gianforte has signed into law the state's Right to Compute Act ... the worst kind of waffly bullshit

"It Does Not Compute"?

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:15 AM (+YA9H)

10 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 04:16 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Am I the only moron who until now didn't know that Jasmine Croquette's security guard was killed by Dallas SWAT officers last Wednesday in a standoff with police?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:18 AM (5UTWB)

12 It's even weirder once you read what the standoff was about.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 15, 2026 04:22 AM (BLOW1)

13 >>>using it as a better search engine. Watching Grok and ChatGPT discard dozens of useless results from Google

I make google tidier by typing

-ai

at the end of my search terms. Like:

first thing we do we kill all the lawyers -ai

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:22 AM (+YA9H)

14 11 Am I the only moron who until now didn't know that Jasmine Croquette's security guard was killed by Dallas SWAT officers last Wednesday in a standoff with police?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:18 AM (5UTWB)

NYPost says:

"He was full of Crock."

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:27 AM (+YA9H)

15 Watching Grok and ChatGPT discard dozens of useless results from Google before finding the right answer

Google: Is this it?
Grok and ChatGPT: No!

Google: Is this it?
Grok and ChatGPT: No!

Google: Is this it?
Grok and ChatGPT: No!

…

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 15, 2026 04:27 AM (JRP2U)

16 14 NYPost says:

"He was full of Crock."
Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:27 AM (+YA9H)

https://archive.is/GZsM0

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:32 AM (+YA9H)

17 "He was full of Crock."

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:27 AM (+YA9H)
-

Not about all that Jas?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:34 AM (5UTWB)

18 11 Am I the only moron who until now didn't know that Jasmine Croquette's security guard was killed by Dallas SWAT officers last Wednesday in a standoff with police?
****

Well, if you have to ask....

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 04:35 AM (A4VRU)

19 17 "He was full of Crock."

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:27 AM (+YA9H)
-

Not about all that Jas?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:34 AM (5UTWB)

*jazz hands*

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:41 AM (+YA9H)

20 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 15, 2026 04:43 AM (ntk8v)

21 Tech thread stuff. War-O-Matic:

https://tinyurl.com/mtwsjfde

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:44 AM (5UTWB)

22 Finally, I'm not the only one who needs to get a heads-up:

https://tinyurl.com/2kmp3pk9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:48 AM (5UTWB)

23 Politicians laundering bribery and campaign funds through dodges like personal security details seems pretty widespread; Earl Harper aka "Turah-Ak" is the husband and bodyguard of City Council member Carroll Fife. He's not even licensed.

The Jasmine Crocket story is very strange.

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2026 04:50 AM (iSfnH)

24 >>>Daily Tech News 15 March 2026

It's the Ides of March!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:55 AM (+YA9H)

25 It's the Ides of March!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:55 AM (+YA9H)
-

Ide don't care.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:56 AM (5UTWB)

26 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2026 04:56 AM (AN2gy)

27 Mamdani outdoes himself:

Bloomberg @business

Zohran Mamdani is proposing to raise NY's estate tax to 50% and have it kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:58 AM (5UTWB)

28 >>>Just how much responsibility do AI chatbots and the companies that create them hold for psychotic people acting psychotically? (Tech Crunch)

https://archive.is/0XVI3

It's a good question.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:58 AM (+YA9H)

29 25 It's the Ides of March!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:55 AM (+YA9H)
-

Ide don't care.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:56 AM (5UTWB)

Ide watch it if I were you!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:59 AM (+YA9H)

30 from the Tech Crunch AI crazy-people article:

Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) ... told TechCrunch ... “The same sycophancy that the platforms use to keep people engaged leads to that kind of odd, enabling language at all times and drives their willingness to help you plan, for example, which type of shrapnel to use [in an attack].”

Ah-yup.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 05:02 AM (+YA9H)

31 Ide watch it if I were you!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:59 AM (+YA9H)
-

The seas are angry that day, my friends?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 05:05 AM (5UTWB)

32 31 Ide watch it if I were you!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:59 AM (+YA9H)
-

The seas are angry that day, my friends?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 05:05 AM (5UTWB)

; )

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 05:06 AM (+YA9H)

33 Borga borga! (A dialect variation on "booga booga")

Evening and morning, Sunday toilers and insomaniacals. Here I thought big black Stirling was over his "leaping across and kicking me at 3:30 am" phase. Ha. Well, temps are mild and there's little wind, so a workout session should go fine in a bit. In the meantime there is coffee.

Howz about choo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 05:10 AM (wzUl9)

34 >>>Whether you have a right or not you can't do much computed on a MacBook Pro 14

computed --> computing

maybe

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 05:14 AM (+YA9H)

35 Howz about choo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 05:10 AM (wzUl9)
-

I'm fine. And you?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 05:15 AM (5UTWB)

36 I'm waiting for some feminist group to wail that "If only Julius Caesar had listened to Calpurnia and stayed away from the Senate that day instead of flaunting his toxic masculinity!"

Oh, I dreamed that Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore was my teacher, that I was a classmate of her daughter Rory, and that Lorelai and I were on a field trip at night (?) to research how the old resurrection men dug up bodies. Nothing gory, but we were examining a marble vault when it levitated a foot in front of us and settled back down, and Lorelai gave out with a "Whoa!!!" (Note to self: No more watching Gilmore Girls and Svengoolie on the same night.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 05:17 AM (wzUl9)

37 35 Howz about choo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026
-
I'm fine. And you?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026

***
Not really enough sleep, BD, but I'll catch up this pm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)

38
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 15, 2026 05:18 AM (tljrc)

39 Not really enough sleep, BD, but I'll catch up this pm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)
-

11:22AM here are ditto. Lethargic feeling Since Friday.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 05:22 AM (5UTWB)

40 Coffee finally on, it will be awhile

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 05:32 AM (Ia/+0)

41 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2026 05:36 AM (R29Mt)

42 Turns out I may have locked little Dagny accidentally in the closet all night! She loves to zip into closets, esp. the one where I have an old rubber floor mat she can sharpen her claws on. I don't notice where the cats are when I go to bed -- though I need to start!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

43 Posted on the ONT, can put it up here:

https://tinyurl.com/4bv3deeh

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 05:41 AM (NcvvS)

44 summary of current Tucker Carlson news:

@sethdillon

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 05:46 AM (+YA9H)

45 Turns out I may have locked little Dagny accidentally in the closet all night! She loves to zip into closets, esp. the one where I have an old rubber floor mat she can sharpen her claws on. I don't notice where the cats are when I go to bed -- though I need to start!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 05:40 AM (wzUl9)
----
I've done that to Penny once or twice.

Ever since, I make the rounds at night to do a headcount of my kitties to ensure I know where they are.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2026 05:46 AM (ESVrU)

46 43 Posted on the ONT, can put it up here:

https://tinyurl.com/4bv3deeh
Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 05:41 AM (NcvvS)

= The Ides of March - "Vehicle"

Nice!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 05:49 AM (+YA9H)

47 I mean, possibly NSFW:

Hey well, I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan
Won't you hop inside my car
I got pictures, got candy, I'm a lovable man
And I can take you to the nearest star

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 05:51 AM (+YA9H)

48 Yes, no way that song would be released today. It was sketchy even then.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 05:53 AM (NcvvS)

49 48 Yes, no way that song would be released today. It was sketchy even then.
Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 05:53 AM (NcvvS)

He does say:

I'm your vehicle, *woman*

And, yet, however!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 05:58 AM (+YA9H)

50 11 Am I the only moron who until now didn't know that Jasmine Croquette's security guard was killed by Dallas SWAT
----

Prolly so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:05 AM (nBZd4)

51 >>I'm your vehicle, *woman*

And, yet, however!

Did get kind of sick of that song. The band was local, so got a lot of airplay through the '70s on Chicago radio.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 06:09 AM (NcvvS)

52 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Why, oh why, did I take the red pill?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 15, 2026 06:10 AM (Qa8VA)

53 How many followers does Tucker Carlson have on 𝕏?

Followers
17,385,594

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:11 AM (+YA9H)

54
cf., however, Elon Musk:

Followers
236,607,429

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:12 AM (+YA9H)

55 Ides of March, could it be that Trump has something special planned for Iran? Our last tribute to them was on Friday 13. Why not something Shakespearean?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:12 AM (nBZd4)

56 Hey now, baby, get into my big black car
Hey now, baby, get into my big black car
I wanna just show you what my politics are

I'm a political man and I practice what I preach
I'm a political man and I practice what I preach
So don't deny me, baby, not while you're in my reach

I support the left, tho' I'm leanin', leanin' to the right
I support the left, tho' I'm leanin' to the right
But I'm just not there when it's coming to a fight

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:16 AM (nBZd4)

57 tech'ish:

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
14h
Me pulling up to the X office to suspend 100 million bots posting good morning.

accompanied by a funny 1990s Parliament ad

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:17 AM (+YA9H)

58 *accompanied by a funny 1990s Parliament ad

"funny" for having been imported into the current context

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:20 AM (+YA9H)

59 43 Posted on the ONT, can put it up here:

https://tinyurl.com/4bv3deeh
Posted by: Nazdar
--

Always thought that was Chicago.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:20 AM (nBZd4)

60 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2026 06:21 AM (u82oZ)

61 Here is a mellow introduction to the day.
This is the Stranglers Golden Brown with A/I use of David Brubeck's Take Five video and no funky harpsichord. https://youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2026 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

62 >>> accompanied by a funny 1990s Parliament ad

Cigarettes or the band?

Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2026 06:23 AM (AN2gy)

63 Ides of March, could it be that Trump has something special planned for Iran? Our last tribute to them was on Friday 13. Why not something Shakespearean?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:12 AM (nBZd4)
----------
I'm thinking military ops aren't subordinate to literary references.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 15, 2026 06:24 AM (Qa8VA)

64 62 >>> accompanied by a funny 1990s Parliament ad

Cigarettes or the band?
Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2026 06:23 AM (AN2gy)

cigarettes
Used to smoke 'em.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:24 AM (+YA9H)

65 hahahahaha the Aussie joke:

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
11h
"Your spiders are how fucking big here?"

Polymarket
@Polymarket
11h
JUST IN: Three more Iranian women's football team members have changed their mind over Australian asylum and will instead return to Iran.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:28 AM (+YA9H)

66 cf., however, Elon Musk:

Followers
236,607,429
Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:12 AM (+YA9H)

Major movie studios seem to have more X followers than people who actually buy a ticket and go see their movies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:29 AM (Ot/FD)

67
@whitehouse
Followers
4,105,770

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:33 AM (+YA9H)

68 Regarding Jasmine Crockett’s hiring of a security guard: Wasn’t there a famous quote back in the ‘60s about judging people by the content of their character?

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 15, 2026 06:33 AM (1FEc1)

69 I'm thinking military ops aren't subordinate to literary references.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 15, 2026 06:24 AM (Qa8VA)

Funny enough, terror ops generally are, aren't they?

"Remember the battle of Al-Blah in 1035 when Suleiman the Average was killed in battle by an errant pigeon?"

"No?"

"Well, it was a Tuesday. So we bomb them on Tuesday."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:34 AM (Ot/FD)

70 The internet seems to offer confusing information about Jasmine Crockett about whether she's married or not, but most articles seem to say no. Therefore, I wonder if the security guard who was shot by police for his impersonating a cop is her boyfriend and that's why she or her staff didn't adequately vett him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2026 06:36 AM (ix8EF)

71

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
11h
🇺🇸🫡

Derrick Evans
@DerrickEvans4WV
17h
🚨 Pro-gun activists hand out free 30-round AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of a bill expected to ban their sale in the state.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:36 AM (+YA9H)

72 Funny enough, terror ops generally are, aren't they?
----------
Terrorists are dickheads.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 15, 2026 06:37 AM (Qa8VA)

73 70 I wonder if the security guard who was shot by police for his impersonating a cop is her boyfriend
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2026 06:36 AM (ix8EF)

*was*
--Dallas SWAT

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:38 AM (+YA9H)

74 Pixy posts 7 times a week?

I'm impressed.

Posted by: Stateless at March 15, 2026 06:39 AM (Sco7b)

75 If i'm not mistaken, that scum puddle was being arrested for impersonating an officer. He was shot for resisting arrest, violently.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:39 AM (Ot/FD)

76 It would be too juicy if Jasmine wad connected to this dead guy

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 06:39 AM (Ia/+0)

77 Job 4:1-6 from the KJV because one of our posters here prefers that version:

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2026 06:41 AM (ix8EF)

78 @whitehouse
Followers
4,105,770
Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:33 AM (+YA9H)

Huh. I wonder if there's some social mechanism where a big enough account doesn't actually get many followers, because anything they post automatically gets reposted by someone you're already following anyway, so there's no point in following directly.

There's probably a name for that effect already, too, isn't there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:42 AM (Ot/FD)

79 And here is a devotional from The Upper Room the on the passage. "Refraining from judgement":

https://tinyurl.com/yzy4kvcw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2026 06:43 AM (ix8EF)

80 Trump says US may hit Iran’s Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:44 AM (nBZd4)

81 According to reports, this guy was on her payroll as security through last year.

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 06:44 AM (A4VRU)

82 Am I the only moron who until now didn't know that Jasmine Croquette's security guard was killed by Dallas SWAT
----

Prolly so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:05 AM (nBZd4)
-

Be fare to me. Lately I've been living a sheltered life.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 06:46 AM (5UTWB)

83 Another version of the great hymn, "It is well with my soul":

https://tinyurl.com/4tn2j9fu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2026 06:46 AM (ix8EF)

84 81 According to reports, this guy was on her payroll as security through last year.
Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 06:44 AM (A4VRU)

Cabins in Vermont. "Work Trips" to Cancun. Paying of a nephew's wife's cousin's third mortgage.

Salad days.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:47 AM (Ot/FD)

85 moar covfefe

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:47 AM (+YA9H)

86 Trump says US may hit Iran’s Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’
****

Unless you want to blow up the oil refinery, there is not much else there. If you wanted to clear off the whole island, a MOAB would probably be all you needed.

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 06:48 AM (A4VRU)

87 Lately I've been living a sheltered life.
*****

ISWYDT.

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 06:49 AM (A4VRU)

88 86 Trump says US may hit Iran’s Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’
****

Unless you want to blow up the oil refinery, there is not much else there. If you wanted to clear off the whole island, a MOAB would probably be all you needed.
Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 06:48 AM (A4VRU)

Could be a "and don't you dare come back" kind of gesture. Delay/Obviate the need to land operators and grunts to hold the place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:49 AM (Ot/FD)

89 The language emanating from Washington and Tel Aviv as they prosecute their illegal war on Iran has raised alarming questions about the parties’ commitment to the Geneva Conventions and the laws of armed conflict, with president Donald Trump now suggesting further strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island “just for fun.”
_//newsbook.com.mt

Oh, Geneva, show us your conventions.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:50 AM (nBZd4)

90 Lighten up, ~~Francis~~ Switzerland.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:51 AM (Ot/FD)

91 Can we just bomb Geneva then, too?

It would be unconventional, sure, but...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:52 AM (Ot/FD)

92 NYPost says:

"Crockett has not publicly commented on [Diamon-Mazairre] Robinson’s death."

https://archive.is/GZsM0

It's gonna be a doozy.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 06:54 AM (+YA9H)

93 The Geneva Conventions are meant to protect against inflicting pain for the sake of it outside of any reasonable strategic task and purpose, and to protect against harming civilians unnecessarily.

Blowing up the place where their shit used to be to keep them away from it is perfectly fine.

And not one of these useless pissants gave half a flaccid fuck about the various and sundry crimes against humanity perpetrated by those raghead mutants over the past lifetime, so to hell with their sniveling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:56 AM (Ot/FD)

94 Saw my first ad for pot on You Tube. You can get a pack of pre rolled blunts for a reasonable price. Or just buy gummies for the children, they will love that they are sweet and look great on the kitchen table in a cute little bowl. I thought smoking was bad for you? Not available in all states....

Posted by: Colin at March 15, 2026 06:58 AM (e8qy3)

95 "Crockett has not publicly commented on [Diamon-Mazairre] Robinson’s death."
****

She probably should keep her mouth shut. Her political career is going away like the lights of the truck stop in the rear view mirror.

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 06:59 AM (A4VRU)

96 Not available in all states....
Posted by: Colin at March 15, 2026 06:58 AM (e8qy3)

Order now and use coupon code HUHWHAT for an extra 4.20% off!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 06:59 AM (Ot/FD)

97 Jasmine Crockett aka
Delores Loraine (Raine) Crockett,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:01 AM (nBZd4)

98 The IRGC in Canada assasinated a pro Iranian freedom activist yesterday.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2026 07:03 AM (+nEug)

99 The same people who didn't make a peep, except to cheer or excuse it, about the 10/7 atrocities (the clearest example of a war crime ever perpetrated on a people) now want to mewl and puke about bombing a patch of dirt to send a message to the very same people who funded and orchestrated that monstrosity.

To Hell with you all.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:03 AM (Ot/FD)

100 100

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 07:04 AM (+YA9H)

101 Be fare to me. Lately I've been living a sheltered life.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 06:46 AM (5UTWB)
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Haha!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 07:05 AM (qKHx2)

102 Haikus From Underground retweeted
8h
Rothmus
@Rothmus

Hard times create war in the Middle East
Strong men create war in the Middle East
Good times create war in the Middle East
Weak men create war in the Middle East

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 07:06 AM (+YA9H)

103 I had no idea Crocketts bodyguard got himself into SWAT trouble. I'm sure the Congresswoman will have no comment until the facts are better known.

JK.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 07:07 AM (qKHx2)

104 Delores Loraine (Raine) Crockett, will become another pay to play story.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:09 AM (nBZd4)

105 The same people who didn't make a peep, except to cheer or excuse it, about the 10/7 atrocities (the clearest example of a war crime ever perpetrated on a people) now want to mewl and puke about bombing a patch of dirt to send a message to the very same people who funded and orchestrated that monstrosity.

To Hell with you all.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:03 AM (Ot/FD)
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Now, no need to get mad. It's hypocrite season in Europe.

Posted by: Geneva's Conventions at March 15, 2026 07:09 AM (qKHx2)

106 "Zohran Mamdani is proposing to raise NY's estate tax to 50% and have it kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million"

Ha ha ha. The people that are planning on leaving won't even be able to sell unless it's to the city. You folks made this cesspool, now swim in it.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

107
Now, no need to get mad. It's hypocrite season in Europe.
*****

That is a year round stupidity.

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 07:11 AM (A4VRU)

108 53 How many followers does Tucker Carlson have on 𝕏?

Followers
17,385,594

Posted by: m

That's a lot of bots.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 15, 2026 07:12 AM (sAmhv)

109 what comes next? books?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:12 AM (nBZd4)

110 11 Am I the only moron who until now didn't know that Jasmine Croquette's security guard was killed by Dallas SWAT officers last Wednesday in a standoff with police?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 04:18 AM (5UTWB)

We discussed it a bit here; you were otherwise indisposed:

Daily Tech News 14 March 2026

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=418907

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 07:13 AM (+YA9H)

111 Once the Straits are reopened and China starts getting its regular oil shipments, Democrats will relax and demand to know more about what the Epstein files say about Trump. Situation normal...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 07:13 AM (qKHx2)

112 Huck Follywood

The Left be SNAFU.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2026 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

113 Therefore, I wonder if the security guard who was shot by police for his impersonating a cop is her boyfriend and that's why she or her staff didn't adequately vett him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2026 06:36 AM (ix8EF)

The left’s vetting today, just like Kamala did in her VP selection, is the same at all levels.
They ask “are you now, or have you ever been, a Jew?”
And if the perp replies “aw heck no, I hate those guys!”
Then the answer is “oh ok you’re in then.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2026 07:15 AM (Mh6s8)

114 Have a great day, everyone.

May you get a Spring in your step.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

115 In local news, Oriental Chardonne’A Wilson got caught trying to smuggle drugs and/or weapons into a youth detention facility.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

116 (Pixy): "but it throttles down to less than half power within two seconds."

Due to the over-expensive components, there's gonna be a LOT of underpowered crap sold on the market in the next few years in two categories:

1. Specifications will be disclosed, it'll just be less than you want, or less than you can afford, and you'll convince yourself to settle, but you won't be really happy with it if you try to do something computationally intensive.

2. Scams. The specs will look great. You'll get "Potato inside". Caveat emptor.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 15, 2026 07:16 AM (O7YUW)

117 First World Problem!

I have YoutubeTV for streaming. It had a hiccup yesterday. Absolutely nothing on the 14th recorded. I was hoping to watch the 3rd round of The Players Championship later but nope. Did not record. Even the schedule had the 14th missing. Google is eating time now. Uppity nerds.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 15, 2026 07:17 AM (sAmhv)

118 Weak men create war in the Middle East
Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 07:06 AM (+YA9H)

Not to rage at you directly, m, but i'm getting good and tired of these little anti-jingoist bludgeonspeak phrases like "boots on the ground" and "war in the Middle East" as if every ceteris was exactly and perfectly paribus.

Is *this* path of action the correct one? Does it matter if another path of action taken years ago was completely different except for the fact that it involved the United States and some arbitrary 25% of the Earth's land area? Must everything be distilled into knee-jerk catch-phrases?

"Boots on the ground". Feh. I don't want boots on the ground. I want boots on throats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:17 AM (Ot/FD)

119 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 15, 2026 07:17 AM (2Ez/1)

120 The Left be SNAFU.
****

FUBAR. Pick your R: recognition, redemption, repair.

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 07:18 AM (A4VRU)

121 I had no idea Crocketts bodyguard got himself into SWAT trouble. I'm sure the Congresswoman will have no comment until the facts are better known.

JK.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026

***
That archive.is site sends me through all sorts of "Are you a human?" loops. Is there a more direct link to the story?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)

122 G'mornin' everyone!

26 degrees, windy, sleet!
can't tell you the last time we got real old-school sleet ...

even the plow trucks are lying low this morning ... but not the milk tankers
"the milk must flow!"
dairy farms are unforgivingly 24 / 365.25

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 07:19 AM (MIIRH)

123 FUBAR. Pick your R: recognition, redemption, repair.
Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 07:18 AM (A4VRU)

F'd up by abunch'a retards.

Abunch'a is too a word, shu'up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:20 AM (Ot/FD)

124 This is the most thorough:
69 "King" was not the guy's real name and the shooting occurred earlier this week... via CBS --

Images obtained by CBS News Texas show King standing close to Crockett at events and on the campaign trail during her recent run for a U.S. Senate seat. Sources say he oversaw teams of security officers at several downtown Dallas hotels and at his church.

Law enforcement sources also say King drove a replica undercover police vehicle and used license plates stolen from cars outside a military recruiting office. His background – which sources say includes a criminal history – raises questions about how he managed extra‑duty jobs for police officers and secured a high‑level security role for a sitting member of Congress.

Documents obtained by CBS News Texas show a person named Mike King received payments for "security services" from Crockett as recently as last year.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:23 AM (nBZd4)

125 right arm, W-o!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 07:23 AM (MIIRH)

126 106 "Zohran Mamdani is proposing to raise NY's estate tax to 50% and have it kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million"

Ha ha ha. The people that are planning on leaving won't even be able to sell unless it's to the city. You folks made this cesspool, now swim in it.

mornin yall
Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

The people that matter will have a loophole. There will be a legal trust or other maneuver.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 15, 2026 07:24 AM (w/O5Q)

127 "King" and Crockett . . . goofballs gonna goofball.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2026 07:25 AM (wzUl9)

128 Try this Fox link Wolfus

https://tinyurl.com/3r3yf8u4

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 07:26 AM (hnO2o)

129 Depopulating NY of its rich Dems and replacing them with poor Dems is a win win to them. We have absorbed an influx of retards who will still vote for Dems.
Magpul says captcha verification failed 3 times. Why would that happen?

Posted by: Accomac at March 15, 2026 07:26 AM (8jVAy)

130 129 Depopulating NY of its rich Dems and replacing them with poor Dems is a win win to them. We have absorbed an influx of retards who will still vote for Dems...
Posted by: Accomac at March 15, 2026 07:26 AM (8jVAy)

The Short and Curly Effect

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:27 AM (Ot/FD)

131 Trump really is a Moron.
aljazeera.com/news

Trump says US may hit Iran's Kharg Island again 'just for fun'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:28 AM (nBZd4)

132 @Pixy: "The Combo II cuts that down to one slot for DDR5 and two slots for DDR5, which is kind of broken."

I assume you mean one slot for DDR4...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 15, 2026 07:30 AM (O7YUW)

133 "Always thought that was Chicago.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 06:20 AM (nBZd4) "

no kidding, same here

jeesh, the stuff you can learn around here, ya never know ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 07:31 AM (MIIRH)

134 Mike Kings real name is Diamon-Mazairre Robinson.

Also

Some fag kissed another fag on SNL.

And

Bigfoot has been sighted 10 times in the last few days.

What does it all mean? I dunno.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

135 Kharg was this insurmountable obstacle, this thing that could never be so much as looked at crooked without triggering World Wars III-VI and plunging humanity into unspeakable despair.

We just toppled it like it was a side quest we picked up in the first hour of the game and forgot about for the last thirty hours of gameplay.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:32 AM (Ot/FD)

136 Fun story/speculation on X overnight about Tucker and Trump - why does he keep getting invited to the White House? Why was he invited to the White House two days before the current wave of. attacks:

Claim; Tucker has been communicating directly with the Ayatollahs government for some time, including giving them info on secret conversations with high level Trump officials; and also that Trump knew this, it had been exposed,

But rather than confront or arrest him, Trump was him. 2 days before the strikes started, Trump privately told Tucker that there were no imminent attacks planned, and that the US wanted to keep negotiating. Tucker ran and passed this on to Iranian leadership, giving them the confidence needed to have all the top men meet on a Saturday morning, which allowed Trump and Israel to take out over 40 leaders in a single strike.

So Tucker’s treachery was used by Trump to help give the Iranian leaders enough confidence to make a stupid mistake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2026 07:32 AM (Mh6s8)

137 America tries to fight every war like a speedrunner live-streaming a No-Hit Run.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:35 AM (Ot/FD)

138 128 Try this Fox link Wolfus

https://tinyurl.com/3r3yf8u4
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Fox has the crappiest coding, chews through memory like a kid with a cookie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:36 AM (nBZd4)

139 "So Tucker’s treachery was used by Trump to help give the Iranian leaders enough confidence to make a stupid mistake.
Posted by: Tom Servo"

Something something, keep your enemies closer.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

140 Much 'gag me' traffic on X today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:37 AM (nBZd4)

141 So Tucker’s treachery was used by Trump to help give the Iranian leaders enough confidence to make a stupid mistake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 15, 2026 07:32 AM (Mh6s

-

You've been reading this guy:

https://tinyurl.com/2uc4xwhs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 07:37 AM (5UTWB)

142 So Tucker’s treachery was used by Trump to help give the Iranian leaders enough confidence to make a stupid mistake.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=======
Just saw that on X. LOL funny as hell.

And it would not be the first time, FDR used the Chicago Tribune, whose publisher hated him, to leak the Rainbow 5 US war plans just prior to Pearl Harbor.

That was, in part, the reason that Mustache Man decided to declare war on the US as the Rainbow 5 plan specifically mentioned targeting the Not Sees first.

Thomas Fleming, The Big Leak, https://www.americanheritage.com/big-leak

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:39 AM (E4rtv)

143 Law enforcement sources also say King drove a replica undercover police vehicle and used license plates stolen from cars outside a military recruiting office. His background – which sources say includes a criminal history – raises questions about how he managed extra‑duty jobs for police officers and secured a high‑level security role for a sitting member of Congress.

Documents obtained by CBS News Texas show a person named Mike King received payments for "security services" from Crockett as recently as last year.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14,
Posted by: Braenyard
======
I think some of the pols use 'security' as an excuse to hire people for dirty jobs--whether as a lover payoff, to provide muscle to intimidate opponents, or to act as bagmen. Remember Obama had his 'Reggie'.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:42 AM (E4rtv)

144
He has said that he plans to reach production in excess of 100 billion chips per year, though exactly what chips and in what time frame he has not yet specified.

------

Good news if you enjoy an occasional bowl in front of the television.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 15, 2026 07:43 AM (VWtfl)

145 Big game coming up, the Dominican versus Aaron Judge and team USA. Feels like a DR win upcoming, to me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 07:43 AM (SRZO6)

146 I’m going to call bullsh*t on the ai productivity gains.

I can scaffold an entire complex front and backed end together that would take an entire dev team months to build.

I can summarize long email chains, I can format meting minutes or crank out SAT, COs, you name it in seconds.

If you aren’t seeing productivity gains while using ai, then you are doing it wrong.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 15, 2026 07:44 AM (UBJ3d)

147 140 Much 'gag me' traffic on X today.
Posted by: Braenyard
=======
Depends on feed, right now, I am getting the Cynical Publius doxxing which drew in DataRepublican war. Last week it was something else.

X can be a valuable resource; it can also be an enormous timesuck with nasty trollish robo/paid trash which is why I don't post there as a rule.

The whole meme crowd of groypers and Muzzies though is getting desperate and inserting their stupid memes over and over again in threads that have nothing to do with Iran, Israel, Jews, etc.

Either paid or bots getting in their licks before getting cancelled. Almost none of those sort of crappy accounts are verified.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:45 AM (E4rtv)

148 Oh, right: the First Amendment covers showing dildos to kindergartners, but not actual... textual speech.
You betcha.

What is needed today is a 3D printed Dildo Gun.

Would make a great Christmas gift!

Posted by: The Fat Man at March 15, 2026 07:46 AM (Ksqrb)

149 We just toppled it like it was a side quest we picked up in the first hour of the game and forgot about for the last thirty hours of gameplay.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
---

Internet says boats are filled with blackshirts heading to defend Kharg.
We should be there to meet them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:47 AM (nBZd4)

150 Morning peeps.

Crockett's fake police officer on her staff is probably one of hundreds of unsavory characters that populate the Congressional staffer's ranks. They're all not ideologically pure zealots for one side or the other. Neither are they remotely familiar with our form of government or with the issues of the day.

But they've all got an agenda.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 07:49 AM (jtM2q)

151 Either paid or bots getting in their licks before getting cancelled. Almost none of those sort of crappy accounts are verified.
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:45 AM (E4rtv)

As a casual observation, it seems like every bad meme is a perfect opportunity for a good meme. A meme, like any good comedy, is rooted at least to some extent in truth. The "left" can't meme, because the left can't truth. (I'd say the defining characteristic of what we call "the left" is really the fact that they have abandoned truth and reality, in some hipsterish post-post-modern need to always embrace The Opposite, hence my trying to make "ontoclast" a word. They want to smash existence itself.)

Bah. I'm rambling. More coffee.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:50 AM (Ot/FD)

152 146 I’m going to call bullsh*t on the ai productivity gains.

I can scaffold an entire complex front and backed end together that would take an entire dev team months to build.

I can summarize long email chains, I can format meting minutes or crank out SAT, COs, you name it in seconds.

If you aren’t seeing productivity gains while using ai, then you are doing it wrong.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
======
Or you can be like Amazon this week and nuke 6.3 million orders and cause millions of customers not to be able to access their accounts all courtesy of Amazon's internal AI programming aid. And that happened after Amazon fired a bunch of programmers.

AI will do best at first in places where mistakes don't matter like six fingered pictures, music, animated shorts, etc. It is also serving hackers with new ways to try to crack security.

It won't do well in the short run with financial institutions, utilities, airlines, nor any other place where security and reliability is paramount. It is not ready for prime time in those applications.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:52 AM (E4rtv)

153 Good morning morons

Still doing better than Australia where our government threatened at one point to legislate against inconvenient arithmetic.
====

Sounds like Albo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

154 Crockett's fake police officer on her staff is probably one of hundreds of unsavory characters that populate the Congressional staffer's ranks.
====

No sh*t.
-G. Gordon Libby

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

155 I'm torn between bankrupting the companies and bankrupting the lawyers bringing these suits.

Both is good.

At least Anthropic’s Claude and MySnspchat refused to help plan attacks and trued to talk the users down.

It can’t be that difficult to prevent if two models have already don’t cooperate the test can be similarly trained and guardrailed..

What I find interesting is that the article points out that these AI models reinforce delusional thinking while the author repeatedly refers to the male Canadian mass murderer as a “she”.

So who, exactly, is promoting psychotic thinking here; just the AI or most of the mainstream leftist media and culture in general, which AI trains on and disseminates?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 15, 2026 07:54 AM (6ydKt)

156 The "left" can't meme, because the left can't truth. (I'd say the defining characteristic of what we call "the left" is really the fact that they have abandoned truth and reality, in some hipsterish post-post-modern need to always embrace The Opposite, hence my trying to make "ontoclast" a word. They want to smash existence itself.)

Bah. I'm rambling. More coffee.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Your post was fine.

I get it, but I think it may be broader than the left. Basically haters of any stripe, Muzzies, anti Semites, leftists, cannot meme well because they are in fact humorless. The type of asshole at a party that says nasty things and then tries to hide under just kidding defense. The nasty things expressing hatred are the tell.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:54 AM (E4rtv)

157 AI tools are like any tool, really. I can go buy all the paper and shingles and the top of the line scaffolding and nailers I want, and if I plunk it all on a jobsite with five kindergartners and say "Go on, get after it", I'm not going to have a roof in a tenth of the time it would take a normal crew, I'm just going to have a big corporate card bill and a bunch of lawsuits for child endangerment.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:55 AM (Ot/FD)

158 Seeing Tucker picked up on a FARA violation would be very satisfying. Very.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 07:57 AM (RIvkX)

159 One of my kids has a job writing market commentary for a hedge fund manager. She says her job is going to AI, because it does a great job imitating her writing. But, I said in response, who will AI imitate once you are history?

In other words, for purposes of her job, AI is a very capable intern but inherently derivative. Why go for imitation when you can have the real thing? Her boss will keep her, I predict.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 07:58 AM (FE2oD)

160 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy.
Crockett hasn't commented on her bodyguard yet per the NY Post. I can see the smoke from her "brain trust" trying to come up with some BS to explain this. A simple "he conned us" would surprise everyone with its honesty but that ain't happening

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2026 07:58 AM (YsPj+)

161 What I find interesting is that the article points out that these AI models reinforce delusional thinking while the author repeatedly refers to the male Canadian mass murderer as a “she”.

So who, exactly, is promoting psychotic thinking here; just the AI or most of the mainstream leftist media and culture in general, which AI trains on and disseminates?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Algorithms promoting engagement don't really care what engagement they promote. You can play whack a mole with automated review but then the automated review ends up flagging too much of your customer base, so you lessen its sensitivity. Then new issues come up which causes more issues and then the endless reporting content causes more. Then there are the sinister types trying to psyop the population or specific parts of the population.

I think machine learning can be useful to those with sufficient tools of prior good education and knowledge base and with a skeptical thinking capacity to understand when it hallucinating, when its statements are factually dubious, and when it is engaging in groupthink.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:58 AM (E4rtv)

162 158 Seeing Tucker picked up on a FARA violation would be very satisfying. Very.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 07:57 AM (RIvkX)

So would you say you want to....

open the FARA faucet?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:58 AM (Ot/FD)

163 Liddy was bona fide FBI.
Crockett's boy was bona fide felon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 07:59 AM (nBZd4)

164 157 AI tools are like any tool, really. I can go buy all the paper and shingles and the top of the line scaffolding and nailers I want, and if I plunk it all on a jobsite with five kindergartners and say "Go on, get after it", I'm not going to have a roof in a tenth of the time it would take a normal crew, I'm just going to have a big corporate card bill and a bunch of lawsuits for child endangerment.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Well said. And the scale and importance of the project weighs against unskilled labor doing it like the vibe coding frenzy.

You might put your kid making a table out of 2x4s after giving them modest hand tools and directions. You don't task them with building a new house for you up to housing code standards.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:01 AM (E4rtv)

165 I think Jasmine suffered from sweet dick honey come. Every AWFL would understand.

Posted by: Accomac at March 15, 2026 08:01 AM (8jVAy)

166 In other words, for purposes of her job, AI is a very capable intern but inherently derivative. Why go for imitation when you can have the real thing? Her boss will keep her, I predict.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2026 07:58 AM (FE2oD)

If your job was already merely cobbling together strings of English tokens that look like it says something but really doesn't, then AI will eat you for lunch.

If your job was to create copy that actually conveys some original thought or analysis or creativity, then you'll probably be fine. That, or you work for someone who doesn't care about the content of your copy anyway, and you were already boned in the long run.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:01 AM (Ot/FD)

167 Some of this 'hallucinating' is WOKE programming.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:02 AM (nBZd4)

168 Beau Biden died defending Kharg Island.

Posted by: Not a joke at March 15, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)

169 Of course humanity comes up with the ability to start mimicking the human mind at the precise moment when humanity is collectively losing its fucking marbles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:03 AM (Ot/FD)

170 165 I think Jasmine suffered from sweet dick honey come. Every AWFL would understand.
Posted by: Accomac
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Power play role reversal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:03 AM (nBZd4)

171 Of course humanity comes up with the ability to start mimicking the human mind at the precise moment when humanity is collectively losing its fucking marbles.
****

'Humanity' has not had a full bag of marbles for a long time.

Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 08:05 AM (A4VRU)

172 158 Seeing Tucker picked up on a FARA violation would be very satisfying. Very.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 07:57 AM (RIvkX)

So would you say you want to....

open the FARA faucet?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:58 AM (Ot/FD)

Ha… I was always partial to Kate Jackson myself

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 08:05 AM (xT8gx)

173 170 165 I think Jasmine suffered from sweet dick honey come. Every AWFL would understand.
Posted by: Accomac
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Power play role reversal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:03 AM (nBZd4)

Behind every powerful woman is a dude watching the TV over her shoulder and not worrying about his mortgage or car payment.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:06 AM (Ot/FD)

174 154 Crockett's fake police officer on her staff is probably one of hundreds of unsavory characters that populate the Congressional staffer's ranks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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A lot of the scummy types, like Charles Guiteau who assassinated Garfield, float around and are paid for by campaign cash. Most offices have higher standards for staffers and people work there for a time to either get seniority and power by proxy internally, or they go to the agencies for permanence in the bureaucracy or go to K Street for the money. NGOs and their formation is another grift.

Campaign organizations though are a different critter, kind of like brine shrimp in the desert. Every two, four, or six years, they make bank at elections, then spend the rest of the time doing things like registering voters, creating poll worker training, etc. often at the behest of party associated NGOs. Especially the Dems.

The Dems have a whole floating campaign staff paid for by money pilfered from the public and provided by obscure dark money groups. Dirty deeds done dirt cheap indeed.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:06 AM (E4rtv)

175 Yeah that was a bunch of typos.

I figured out that it’s helpful to wait a few more minutes after waking up before trying to type.

It also helps to turn the brightness up on the iPad to be able to see the typos.

Turning off autocucumber helped prevent the wrong words being pumped out but it doesn’t stop my typing too fast on the screen keyboard and not paying attention to the squiggly lines under words.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 15, 2026 08:06 AM (6ydKt)

176 Campaign organizations though are a different critter, kind of like brine shrimp in the desert. Every two, four, or six years, they make bank at elections, then spend the rest of the time doing things like registering voters, creating poll worker training, etc. often at the behest of party associated NGOs. Especially the Dems....
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:06 AM (E4rtv)

C-Monkeys?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:08 AM (Ot/FD)

177 It's really no surprise that lying scumbag politicians employ lying scumbags.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2026 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

178 open the FARA faucet?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:58 AM (Ot/FD)
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Why, yes, that would be satisfying also. Very.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

179 Zohran Mamdani is proposing to raise NY's estate tax to 50% and have it kick in at $750,000 instead of more than $7 million
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

I don't see how a lowly mayor can change a state's estate taxes. Is he talking doing this in NYC only?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 15, 2026 08:13 AM (cxFcK)

180 I don't see how a lowly mayor can change a state's estate taxes. Is he talking doing this in NYC only?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 15, 2026 08:13 AM (cxFcK)

Forget it, Bluto. He's rolling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:14 AM (Ot/FD)

181 C-Monkeys?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

LOL, yes. I've worked for the House, and worked in campaigns at the local, state, and federal levels in my past. My secret shame. But, as I said, campaign organization are spun up and then spun down just for elections--the Democrats have these armies of paid types that do other politically tinged ops during the off season--paying them to protest and meet, show up at campaign rallies as audiences, register voters including non existent or illegal applicants, collect petitions for initiatives and referenda, serve as pressure groups at government meetings (like gay pron in school), etc.

The GOP floaters either go back to college, lobbying, etc. but are reabsorbed into the private economy. The left keeps their footsoldiers employed all the time so they can serve as needed where and when they are needed.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:14 AM (E4rtv)

182 The GOP floaters either go back to college, lobbying, etc. but are reabsorbed into the private economy. The left keeps their footsoldiers employed all the time so they can serve as needed where and when they are needed.
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:14 AM (E4rtv)

Pretty much the definition of Community Organizing, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:15 AM (Ot/FD)

183 177 It's really no surprise that lying scumbag politicians employ lying scumbags.
Posted by: fd
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Yes and that is why you see sheriffs in local elections often hiring scumbags as deputies as a political payoff. Same with City/County governments.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:16 AM (E4rtv)

184 Pretty much the definition of Community Organizing, isn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yes it is. Labor unions used to do that for the Dems but as they have withered for the most part, SEIU and government types to the exception, now it is a floating permanent population of ne'er do wells. Reading John Adams (in his Defense of the Constitutions of the United States), apparently this was a common factor in both Rome and Venice in its republic phase. Patricians would hire street thugs to harass, attack, and do dirty jobs so that their side would win office.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:19 AM (E4rtv)

185 Speaking of Tucker Carlson scumminess… I got drawn into the Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro feud on X yesterday…. Kelly has lost her way (maybe she was always lost). For the life of me I can’t understand how just common decency wouldn’t compel her to at least tsk-tsk CO for essentially torturing a young widow (E Kirk) by continually implying she was part of her husband’s murder. She fails basic humanity 101

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 08:21 AM (xT8gx)

186 I don't see how a lowly mayor can change a state's estate taxes. Is he talking doing this in NYC only?
Posted by: Blutarski

Mamdani is threatening Holschul that at least on income tax increase for NYC, that if the state does not approve it, he will raise property taxes massively to pay for his new spending. The estate tax may be the same issue depending on the city charter. I do know that NYC's is atypical in giving the city much more power than most states grant their cities.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:21 AM (E4rtv)

187 Recent examples of Congressional staffers doing "things" are those who work or worked for DiFi and the Turtle.

Both members of Congress were obviously of diminished capacity. In DiFi's case... likely dead. Yet they continued to make policy in their names, push policy in their names and whatever else was available.

They're who "run" Congress, not those we've purported to "vote" into office.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 08:21 AM (jtM2q)

188 Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 15, 2026 04:27 AM (JRP2U)

In that vein, Bing search is now nearly useless and -ai doesn't seem to work. I admit that my searches tend to be either esoteric or foreign terms, but it always brings back completely different results and when I correct it the terms reset immediately to the incorrect one.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 15, 2026 08:22 AM (lFFaq)

189 The problem with Communism is that sooner or later you run out of other people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:22 AM (Ot/FD)

190 Megyn Kelly has shown herself as a spineless grifter. She is whitewashing Tucker and I'm pissed that Adam Carolla is whitewashing her.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

191 156, you're both right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:23 AM (MIIRH)

192 for months I've been using nothing but metacrawler
which I find perfectly satisfactory

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (MIIRH)

193 They're who "run" Congress, not those we've purported to "vote" into office.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2026 08:21 AM (jtM2q)

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"They" run the entirety of the government.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

194 118 Weak men create war in the Middle East
Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 07:06 AM (+YA9H)

Not to rage at you directly, m, but i'm getting good and tired of these little anti-jingoist bludgeonspeak phrases like "boots on the ground" and "war in the Middle East" as if every ceteris was exactly and perfectly paribus.

Is *this* path of action the correct one? Does it matter if another path of action taken years ago was completely different except for the fact that it involved the United States and some arbitrary 25% of the Earth's land area? Must everything be distilled into knee-jerk catch-phrases?

"Boots on the ground". Feh. I don't want boots on the ground. I want boots on throats.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:17 AM (Ot/FD)

No offense taken!
I posted it as a clever punning on the original "Hard times create strong men" statement, not reading it more deeply.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (+YA9H)

195 The people that matter will have a loophole. There will be a legal trust or other maneuver.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 15, 2026 07:24 AM (w/O5Q)

Any NY-er can do this - inherent the property via trust on a step-up basis - no tax at the time of the trust - when the person dies, you pay the cap gains if you sell the property. Otherwise...nothing.

Posted by: Boswell at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (j10i6)

196 185 Speaking of Tucker Carlson scumminess… I got drawn into the Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro feud on X yesterday…. Kelly has lost her way (maybe she was always lost). For the life of me I can’t understand how just common decency wouldn’t compel her to at least tsk-tsk CO for essentially torturing a young widow (E Kirk) by continually implying she was part of her husband’s murder. She fails basic humanity 101
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

A) Media creatures are pretty much slugs under a rock with the morals of their Hollywood cousins.

B) If it bleeds, it leads, the algorithms reward hot and stupid takes if that generates engagement to and from. Even those hating on Me Again read her posts to hate her even more. And the defenders of Me Again get to fight with the haters, and cha ching!, Me Again gets more engagement, on social platforms meaning more coin.

C) There is suspicion that some of these media personalities are actually represented by the same talent agencies and thus coordinate messaging. That makes it easier to 'sell' out as the talent agency does that and they also have media handling, research, legal, services so the person you are seeing, may just be the front man.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (E4rtv)

197 Reminder:

Right Wing Cigar King @AlanCigarKing

Flashback to big shot "conservative" Megyn Kelly celebrating "trans kids."

@megynkelly is for sale to the highest bidder. She has ZERO integrity. 🤡

https://tinyurl.com/yhuu8nav

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 08:27 AM (1o8D5)

198 Megyn Kelly has shown herself as a spineless grifter. She is whitewashing Tucker and I'm pissed that Adam Carolla is whitewashing her.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

That is disappointing; I’ve always thought Carolla was a standup guy, mainly because of his association with Dennis Prager. I believe they’re friends and I have the ultimate respect for DP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 08:27 AM (xT8gx)

199 been following the whig / W-o discussion; good stuff! spot-on!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:27 AM (MIIRH)

200 200

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 08:27 AM (+YA9H)

201 Goes tk show you can't run out of other people's money until they run out of money

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 08:28 AM (Ia/+0)

202 196 C) There is suspicion that some of these media personalities are actually represented by the same talent agencies and thus coordinate messaging.
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (E4rtv)

They're all hoors.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 08:28 AM (+YA9H)

203 Carolla is friends with Kimmel too and he likes to keep politics out of his personal relationships.

That does not mean I won't bitch about it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

204 She fails basic humanity 101
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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She's a bitch. She's always been a bitch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:29 AM (nBZd4)

205 120 The Left be SNAFU.
****

FUBAR. Pick your R: recognition, redemption, repair.
Posted by: clarence at March 15, 2026 07:18 AM (A4VRU)

Agreed!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 08:30 AM (+YA9H)

206 196
C) There is suspicion that some of these media personalities are actually represented by the same talent agencies and thus coordinate messaging. That makes it easier to 'sell' out as the talent agency does that and they also have media handling, research, legal, services so the person you are seeing, may just be the front man.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (E4rtv) "

oh that's a really interesting idea there! I sure hope someone like DataRepublican is reading the comments here because that could be an investigation with huge implications ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:31 AM (MIIRH)

207 143 Remember Obama had his 'Reggie'.
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:42 AM (E4rtv)

ewwwww

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 08:33 AM (+YA9H)

208 I haven't thought this through in any significant way, i'm just throwing it out as a topic for discussion. There seems to be a split between the people who just say crazy shit for clicks, like Kelly. For them, it's really all just words. Raw punditry. Then there are those who are actively taking concrete actions to influence events and stir shit and ruin people's lives, like Owens. It seems like a real, tangible difference that's probably worth thinking about more.

I can't right now, because i've got firewood to split and a compost pile to turn. And I'm also not 100% sure I actually care all that much anyway. But it's a thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:35 AM (Ot/FD)

209 C) There is suspicion that some of these media personalities are actually represented by the same talent agencies and thus coordinate messaging. That makes it easier to 'sell' out as the talent agency does that and they also have media handling, research, legal, services so the person you are seeing, may just be the front man.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (E4rtv)

Making them the moral equivalent of prostitutes… I’d like to think I wouldn’t lend my name to such things even for millions. But who knows maybe we all have our price? No, I don’t

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 08:35 AM (xT8gx)

210 Begun they have, the podcaster wars

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2026 08:36 AM (YsPj+)

211 Any NY-er can do this - inherent the property via trust on a step-up basis - no tax at the time of the trust - when the person dies, you pay the cap gains if you sell the property. Otherwise...nothing.
Posted by: Boswell at March 15, 2026 08:25 AM (j10i6)

Inherit - stupid auto cucumber.

Anyway, my wife and BIL already did this with their mother's estate in NYC - placed all her property in a trust that they are the owners of - electing the rule that allows for step-up basis and then bypassed any estate tax kick-in laws at the time of her death.

Posted by: Boswell at March 15, 2026 08:36 AM (j10i6)

212 oh that's a really interesting idea there! I sure hope someone like DataRepublican is reading the comments here because that could be an investigation with huge implications ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
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I think she may have mentioned it in context of leftists but I would have to check her various accounts. I don't think she sleeps much.

But the whole talent agency repping is a wide open secret. In some cases, the person is just a figure head drawing a check while the talent agency runs the account including posting. Those agencies also promote their 'talent' to each other, hire bots/paid commenters to boost and amplify via the algorithms, and so on.

Public relations meets talent representation. Basically the same setup with Hollyweird where the actors all have handlers from the talent agencies including their politics, commercials, stories about personal life, etc., aimed at promoting the actor as a brand name.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:38 AM (E4rtv)

213 Making them the moral equivalent of prostitutes… I’d like to think I wouldn’t lend my name to such things even for millions. But who knows maybe we all have our price? No, I don’t
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Their contracts with the studios are 'talent' contracts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:38 AM (nBZd4)

214 "Watching Grok and ChatGPT discard dozens of useless results from Google before finding the right answer is..." - Pixy Misa
- - - - - - - - -
The real question should be - why are search engines shovelling up such useless information? How much of that useless information was vomited up by AI and parked on cheap hosting? How much of the other useless information was vomited up by scripts in the past just plastering content from elsewhere, incorrect and outdated information usually? And why is it still being raised to the first page of results?

Search has been a severe victim of the enshittification of the Internet.

Posted by: Another Anon at March 15, 2026 08:39 AM (4h45B)

215 As a casual observation, it seems like every bad meme is a perfect opportunity for a good meme. A meme, like any good comedy, is rooted at least to some extent in truth. The "left" can't meme, because the left can't truth. (I'd say the defining characteristic of what we call "the left" is really the fact that they have abandoned truth and reality, in some hipsterish post-post-modern need to always embrace The Opposite, hence my trying to make "ontoclast" a word. They want to smash existence itself.)

Bah. I'm rambling. More coffee.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 07:50 AM (Ot/FD)

Post-modern, or pre-historic? The trannies are crypto-iconoclasts, since God made them in His image. There's a lot of the First Lie going around, that you can be like your own god, building your own tower to Heaven, making your own paradise on Earth through your two hands, making humans Good through the product of your own mental work -- Davos Man is Soviet Man is Babel Man is Eden Man, a silly little clay golem with delusions of adequacy. Their egos cannot let go of that lie; they can never forgive Jesus of Nazareth for their inability to save themselves; so, every day is Opposite Day.

Posted by: SciVo at March 15, 2026 08:40 AM (Sy6m/)

216 They're all hoors.
Posted by: m
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Heh, and now do Salem Communications which owns much of the older blog and news commentary websites on the Right. Same story, just different platforms.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:40 AM (E4rtv)

217 208 I haven't thought this through in any significant way, i'm just throwing it out as a topic for discussion. There seems to be a split between the people who just say crazy shit for clicks, like Kelly. For them, it's really all just words. Raw punditry. Then there are those who are actively taking concrete actions to influence events and stir shit and ruin people's lives, like Owens. It seems like a real, tangible difference that's probably worth thinking about more.

I can't right now, because i've got firewood to split and a compost pile to turn. And I'm also not 100% sure I actually care all that much anyway. But it's a thought.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:35 AM (Ot/FD)

Internet/Social Media Punditry is a new way for con men to try to make money. Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2026 08:41 AM (5rh/l)

218 Posted by: SciVo at March 15, 2026 08:40 AM (Sy6m/)

Oof.

Everything old is new again, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:41 AM (Ot/FD)

219 Why compare them or disparage prostitutes like that? While not an honorable profession, it is an honest one, i suppose. Unlike these media creatures

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2026 08:42 AM (Sx7X9)

220 Posted by: Boswell at March 15, 2026 08:36 AM (j10i6)

What Mamdamage might due is change the allow allowing trust ownership on a step-up basis going forward - then you are screwed.

But it sounds like what he hopes to do is catch that wind-fall that happens when some unknown relative dies and leaves you a fortune over $7M that you would normally be happy ovea your luck - then he captures 50% of that and it becomes "meh" for you.

Posted by: Boswell at March 15, 2026 08:43 AM (j10i6)

221 Search engines died 20 years ago.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2026 08:44 AM (Sx7X9)

222 Prostitutes provide happy endings
Propaganda ministries provide misery

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 15, 2026 08:44 AM (YsPj+)

223 Think in olden times actors were held in lower esteem than prostitutes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:45 AM (nBZd4)

224 Search has been a severe victim of the enshittification of the Internet.
Posted by: Another Anon

You want good searches, you pay for it. The web got people expecting stuff for free and someone had to pay for it. Originally, it was the investors as tech companies lost money initially but as these matured, they made bank by taking over ad revenues from TV, radio, and newspapers and destroyed the Yellow Pages monopoly as well.

So now you have AI searching built on a foundation of whatever public data they can scrape or buy from this early version of the web and as much private content as they can get away with stealing.

Still true though if you want the best search results, you gotta pay for it via subscription, etc.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:46 AM (E4rtv)

225 Used to like Bing but it kept getting worse and worse. It's DDG now. If it's not satisfactory, it's Grok time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:47 AM (nBZd4)

226 Watching Grok and ChatGPT discard dozens of useless results from Google before finding the right answer is... I don't know. Satisfying, in a strange way.

I like that I can ask Grok something that I'm not sure I remember exactly and it'll understand what I was getting at a large majority of the time.

The real question should be - why are search engines shovelling up such useless information?

Google famously laid off the Ph.Ds who ran search circa 2018 and replaced them with monetization experts with Hah-vuhd MBAs. This is why I hate cutesy lefty terms like "enshittification": reality is far more mundane, and you should call things what they actually are, not what they want you to.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 08:47 AM (QZThv)

227 just thought I'd remind everyone that midwestchick does a Sunday meme drop as well as a Saturday one ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:48 AM (MIIRH)

228 If the purpose of searching is to find information on "the web", and 99% of this web is hot buttered garbage vomited up by idiots and robots, then why bother searching in the first place?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:48 AM (Ot/FD)

229 Internet/Social Media Punditry is a new way for con men to try to make money. Same as it ever was.
Posted by: Gref
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Yep. But with the added insight as to be able to manipulate individuals with the information they gather from platforms where they used to have to target the lowest common denominator.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:48 AM (E4rtv)

230 woohoo, the sleet is back!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:49 AM (MIIRH)

231 Who cares if you can pinpoint a needle in a haystack in 0.3 seconds if the needle is rusted and bent?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:50 AM (Ot/FD)

232 I admit I got riled up watching Megyn Kelly on X yesterday. Better to just ignore her… better for my BP as well

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 15, 2026 08:51 AM (xT8gx)

233 228 If the purpose of searching is to find information on "the web", and 99% of this web is hot buttered garbage vomited up by idiots and robots, then why bother searching in the first place?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

You can get good information still from the web depending on the subject, but you have to curate people and certain websites to do it. You cannot rely on page rank (Google) anymore as the top entries are likely to be the paid ones.

Same with Amazon--Amazon found they could make more via advertising and selling the top product search links, than they did selling and shipping the product itself. That is why chinesium slop products are often the top listings which you have to waste your time burrowing down the lists to find something reliable.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:51 AM (E4rtv)

234 It's snowing here in N WI. Again.

Posted by: davidt at March 15, 2026 08:51 AM (Q+gd/)

235 But with the added insight as to be able to manipulate individuals with the information they gather from platforms where they used to have to target the lowest common denominator.

It has always been so. The PBS/NPR message is tuned differently from the CNN or MSNOW one which is different from the ABC/CBS/NBC one.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 08:52 AM (QZThv)

236 Still true though if you want the best search results, you gotta pay for it via subscription, etc.
Posted by: whig
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We had TV then Cable came and TV deteriorated and we paid for decent programming Now we have internet crap and must pay for decent programming. This will get interesting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:52 AM (nBZd4)

237 Same with Amazon--Amazon found they could make more via advertising and selling the top product search links, than they did selling and shipping the product itself. That is why chinesium slop products are often the top listings which you have to waste your time burrowing down the lists to find something reliable.
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:51 AM (E4rtv)

There's hints of the punchline "because that's where the light was good" in this whole topic, isn't there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:53 AM (Ot/FD)

238 Think in olden times actors were held in lower esteem than prostitutes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 08:45 AM (nBZd4)

In every single society, prior to America in the 20th century. This is a weird in recent phenomenon.

In Roman society, for instance, it wasn't just prostitutes. Actors had a lower legal status than them, but technically higher than slaves. In practical terms though, a good, expensive Greek household slave in the City lived better and enjoyed more social status than them. Hell, even an enslaved Gallic bodyguard did.

Everyone condescended to actors - even the chattels of wealthy men.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2026 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

239 Bah. I'm rambling. More coffee.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Your post was fine.

I get it, but I think it may be broader than the left. Basically haters of any stripe, Muzzies, anti Semites, leftists, cannot meme well because they are in fact humorless. The type of asshole at a party that says nasty things and then tries to hide under just kidding defense. The nasty things expressing hatred are the tell.
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 07:54 AM (E4rtv)

Grifter cliques (including socialists and Muhammadans) cannot take a joke, since there is an inherent fragility to pushing a confidence scheme, hoping no one points out how to see through it. Sometimes I miss charming grifters, of which Milo may be one of the last extant examples, but that just makes him more dangerous; the flip side of our society's heavy parasitic load is the benefit that they've mostly degenerated to mediocre drones, who are unfit to shine the shoes of their predecessors and cannot adjust on the fly as the environment changes.

Posted by: SciVo at March 15, 2026 08:53 AM (Sy6m/)

240 That is why chinesium slop products are often the top listings which you have to waste your time burrowing down the lists to find something reliable.

I appreciate China giving us the brand name "Nicgiga" though. Some day a tech reviewer is gonna slip up pronouncing that and hilarity will ensue.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 08:53 AM (QZThv)

241 232 I admit I got riled up watching Megyn Kelly on X yesterday. Better to just ignore her… better for my BP as well
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Ignoring her is the best policy. If you have X, mute or even block her channel. It negatively affects her algorithm feeds by demoting her compared to others being pushed to others.

Muting means you can still see her quoted by others making fun of her. Blocking means total avoidance of Me Again.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 08:53 AM (E4rtv)

242 the remaining 1 or 2 percent is actual useful information?

mostly what I'm searching for ... like earlier today; whats the pinout for external power on a 20 year old DC amp/wattmeter, the manual for which I lost or discarded 19 years ago?
oh, and the company that made it is out of business ...

thank you Wayback Machine!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:53 AM (MIIRH)

243 221 Search engines died 20 years ago.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2026 08:44 AM (Sx7X9)

Yeah. Yesterday I tried to find an article that put into context the millions spent by Hegseth for lobster tails and steaks. To win an argument on another blog. No luck after 5 minutes of trying, on several search sites. The first several pages of hits on each were all Hegseth attack articles and opinions. I had to go to past threads here to get any links to context and past history of similar expenditures. From now on I'll come to AOSHQ first to find items that debunk Democrat-Media Party BS.

Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2026 08:55 AM (5rh/l)

244 Everyone condescended to actors - even the chattels of wealthy men.

That's why Team America is the greatest movie of the 2000s.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 08:55 AM (QZThv)

245 whig, would you please list some decent for-pay search sites? thanks.

Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2026 08:57 AM (5rh/l)

246 Yesterday I tried to find an article that put into context the millions spent by Hegseth for lobster tails and steaks.

Any honest veteran immediately said that attack was BS. I saw a guy on X say that he was a hard leftist veteran who thinks Hegseth should be executed but lobster tail and steak was sacred and the media should STFU.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 08:59 AM (QZThv)

247 From now on I'll come to AOSHQ first"

Wisdom, that path is...

Posted by: man at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (XuXeR)

248 Posted by: SciVo
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FWIW, I never thought Milo was charming way back. The guy is badly damaged from child sexual abuse but is likely an unfixable sociopath by now. God's grace might save him but he has to want to change which probably means doing a witness protection type lifestyle change. Apparently he was running MTG's social media account for her congressional office for a time recently which was in part why she veered so far to mASSIE land.

But I think the gist of your post is absolutely correct. Ideologues can rarely do humor, or at least widely acceptable humor needed for widely disseminated memes.

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (E4rtv)

249 Search engines have always been about how you are asking. Often trying to match the word choice and content of the person who wrote the article you are looking for was and is helpful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (bss/y)

250
BOOKS

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

251 BOOK THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

252 If we treated all media people with the respect they're due, this country would be in a lot better of a spot. They're always going to be paid too well - everyone loves entertainment. But if the money won't spend in any reputable establishment, it doesn't mean nearly as much.

And if they sleeping alongside dogs and beggars in squalid flophouses where they belong, they're far from influencing the affairs of decent society.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 15, 2026 09:02 AM (N8lHa)

253 Search engines have always been about how you are asking. Often trying to match the word choice and content of the person who wrote the article you are looking for was and is helpful.

I'm really good at that, but it's increasingly hard to get around Google's bias towards monetization. That's why using Grok as a filter is a great time saver.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 09:03 AM (QZThv)

254 I'm really good at that, but it's increasingly hard to get around Google's bias towards monetization. That's why using Grok as a filter is a great time saver.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 09:03 AM (QZThv)

I have always preferred bing to google. google is better for matching images and doing that kind of search, but bing seems better for typed queries. They all have a layer of AI crap at the top these days (which, in fairness, is not too bad for general questions) but I prefer to do my own summations, thanks large language model.

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 09:06 AM (bss/y)

255 252 all true ... but it's rough on the poor dogs ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 09:08 AM (MIIRH)

256 245 whig, would you please list some decent for-pay search sites? thanks.
Posted by: Gref

Depends on what you want. Kagi is an ad free paid general web search engine. And Grok, Open AI, Claude, etc. all sell subscriptions as do the music and visual arts specific AIs.

Lexis/Nexis for law and news. Westlaw, for, well law. HeinOnline for law reviews. SSRN for open social science research (free), Bloomberg for business, etc.

First, try your local public library. Some university libraries might or might now allow access to certain paid databases (they often have per seat charges for these).

Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 09:13 AM (E4rtv)

257 218 Posted by: SciVo at March 15, 2026 08:40 AM (Sy6m/)

Oof.

Everything old is new again, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2026 08:41 AM (Ot/FD)

Human nature never changes. The only real arcs of history are demographic and technological; for social mores, the rational expectation is regression to the mean, not progress toward an imagined telos.

Posted by: SciVo at March 15, 2026 09:25 AM (Sy6m/)

258 199 been following the whig / W-o discussion; good stuff! spot-on!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 15, 2026 08:27 AM (MIIRH)

Hear, hear!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 09:34 AM (+YA9H)

259 The Trump administration invoked the Defense Production Act to order an oil company to restart shuttered offshore operations in California, saying the move is necessary to address oil supply disruption risks and reduce reliance on foreign crude.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday directed Sable Offshore Corp., an oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, to restore operations at the Santa Ynez Unit and the Santa Ynez Pipeline System off the coast of Santa Barbara, according to a statement from the Department of Energy (DOE).
_Fox

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 09:34 AM (nBZd4)

260 248 Milo ... Apparently he was running MTG's social media account for her congressional office for a time recently
Posted by: whig at March 15, 2026 09:00 AM (E4rtv)

!!!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 09:51 AM (+YA9H)

261 Even the rights in the Bill of Rights may be infringed, as established by the courts. To do so, it’s a high bar (if not consistently high enough) for the government to display a compelling reason to deny a person their constitutional rights.

That’s why felons can’t vote or carry weapons in most states.

Posted by: Advo at March 15, 2026 10:00 AM (DPn/g)

262 No pants, shorts, or culottes. No books for me.

Posted by: Hairy Goomer at March 15, 2026 10:00 AM (oftw2)

263 That's why Team America is the greatest movie of the 2000s.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 15, 2026 08:55 AM (QZThv)

"Film Actors Guild". Hah

Posted by: Nicless at March 15, 2026 11:24 AM (nPp6w)

264 kinks was amazing, thanks.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 02:26 PM (R11M+)

Saturday Night Club ONT - March 14, 2026 [2 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino. St. Patty's Day will be observed in the Club tonight! All ye hooligans be on yer best behavior!

[Top photo: McGonagle's Pub, Boston]
How the Boston Pub That Sells the Most Guinness in Massachusetts Prepares for St. Patrick's Day

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

After closing time at the bar, a drunk was proudly showing off his new apartment to a couple of his friends.

He led the way to his bedroom where there was a large brass gong and a mallet.

"What's up with the big brass gong?" one of the guests asked.

"It's not a gong. It's a talking clock," the drunk replied.

"A talking clock? Seriously?" asked his astonished friend.

"Yup," replied the drunk.

"How's it work?" The friend asked, squinting at it.

"Watch," the drunk replied. He picked up the mallet, gave the gong an ear-shattering pound and stepped back. The three stood looking at one another for a minute...

Suddenly someone on the other side of the wall screamed, "You asshole! It's three-fifteen in the morning!"

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Two aliens landed in the Arizona desert near a gas station that was closed for the night. They approached one of the gas pumps and the younger alien addressed it saying, "Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Take us to your leader."

The gas pump, of course, didn't respond. The younger alien became angry at the lack of response and the older alien said, "I'd calm down if I were you."

The younger alien ignored the warning and repeated his greeting. Again, there was no response. Annoyed by what he perceived to be the pump's haughty attitude, he drew his ray gun and said impatiently, "Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Do not ignore us! Take us to your leader, or I will fire!"

The older alien warned his comrade saying, "You don't want to do that! I don't think you should make him mad."

"Rubbish," replied the cocky, young alien. He aimed his weapon at the pump and opened fire. There was a huge explosion. A massive fireball roared towards them and blew the younger alien off his feet and deposited him in a burnt, crumpling mess about 200 yards away in a cactus patch.

About a half hour passed.

When he finally regained consciousness, he refocused his three eyes and straightened his bent antenna and looked dazedly at the older, wiser alien who was standing over him shaking his big, green head.

"What a ferocious creature!" exclaimed the young, fried alien. "He damn near killed me! How did you know he was so dangerous?"

The older alien leaned over, placed a friendly feeler on his crispy friend and replied, "If there’s one thing I've learned during my intergalactic travels, you don't want to mess with a guy who can wrap his penis around himself twice and then stick it in his ear!"

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Drink of the Night

Irish Flag shot

Ingredients
1/3 Green Creme de Menthe
1/3 Baileys Irish Cream
1/3 Grand Marnier
Instructions
Pour a shot glass 1/3 full with Green Creme de Menthe.
Pouring very slowly over the back of a spoon, add a layer of Baileys Irish Cream.
Again pouring very slowly over the back of a spoon, add a layer of Grand Marnier.

*****

Club ONT Department of Pi

Today is March 14th. 3/14. Pi day.

The "no math on the blog" rule is suspended tonight - in honor of Pi Day!

What is Pi?

Happy pi day! Here's how Archimedes approximated the value of pi and how many digits of pi we actually need. pic.twitter.com/RCBSAhhuwv
— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) March 14, 2026

Arrrrrrrrr!

Pie choices for Pi day. Which 3 are you?

[Disco says KAH and Dino says BCL]

*****

Club ONT Animal Desk

The answer to your problems may not be a taxidermy stripper squirrel, but isn't it worth checking? Only $575!

The only thing better would be a purple pimp hat!

If that doesn't work for you, how about a taxidermy beer drinking possum? Only $675!

Disclosure: These pieces from Black Moth in Tulsa, Oklahoma are shown for entertainment and educational purposes only. Club ONT does not officially endorse any taxidermy service provider, stripping venue or brand of beer. Sponsorship opportunities, however, are available. Operators are standing by.

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Always beware of the flying squirrel...

This is WILD 🤯

Russian wrestler hit a flying squirrel down 3 points AT THE BUZZER for the win 😱 pic.twitter.com/SFTM2n8A6S
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) March 11, 2026

*****

The Club ONT Jukebox

Haling from The Emerald Isle!

*****

Top 10ish Comments of the Week

The last item includes a set-up from Legally Sufficient, so credit is shared.

*****

In memory of Tommy DeCarlo and Brad Delp, Club ONT is brought to you tonight by Boston:

*****

Contrary to the rumors, Marco Rubio has not been asked to operate Club ONT. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Everything happens at once but the perception of time fools us into thinking otherwise.

Posted by: mindful webworker - found a bottle at March 14, 2026 10:00 PM (O84gh)

2 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

3 Podium

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 10:01 PM (Ia/+0)

4 I'm coming. I'll be there as soon as I get here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:01 PM (9Bsty)

5 Ingredients
1/3 Green Creme de Menthe
1/3 Baileys Irish Cream
1/3 Grand Marnier
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I don't think so.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX)

6 Pi(e) Day: A, B, K.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:02 PM (VHUov)

7 PSA:

Trump invites other countries that use the Hormuz Strait to come and help protect it.

“Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated.”

https://tinyurl.com/598v8swt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:02 PM (9Bsty)

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proof of first

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 10:03 PM (ZxPkt)

9 Nice "Shipping Up To Boston"

But THIS is my favorite version:
https://ziply.pk/IUgJkz

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:03 PM (RGxCT)

10 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

11 I'll take a berry pie every time but pray there are no canned fillings used. Those fake goopy fillings are awful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:04 PM (RIvkX)

12 Thanks for a rousing and energetic Saturday Night Club ONT, Disco and Dino!

Erin go braugh!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 10:04 PM (vrNzf)

13 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

ONT comes a LOT earlier in the Pacific Time Zone 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 10:05 PM (S7WXb)

14 for pies, I am B D and M

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

15 Ingredients
1/3 Green Creme de Menthe
1/3 Baileys Irish Cream
1/3 Grand Marnier

Mint, dairy, and citrus?

Is this is way to force you to vomit, to make space for more drinkin'?

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:06 PM (VHUov)

16 Key Lime please.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:06 PM (zZu0s)

17 All ye hooligans be on yer best behavior!
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I feel like I've stumbled into the Twilight Zone of ONTs...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 10:06 PM (ESVrU)

18 for pies, I am B D and M
Posted by: Don Black

No "S" ?

Posted by: mikeski doesn't judge at March 14, 2026 10:06 PM (VHUov)

19 Mint, dairy, and citrus?

Is this is way to force you to vomit, to make space for more drinkin'?
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:06 PM (VHUov)

It probably wouldn't curdle the Baileys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

20 The Irish Flag shot doesn't sound too good, but after the third or fourth you probably don't care.

I used to be a fan of the Irish Car Bomb. It was the only beer drink I could chug.

Posted by: PabloD at March 14, 2026 10:07 PM (+HNa2)

21 Contrary to the rumors, Marco Rubio has not been asked to operate Club ONT yet
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Friendly amendment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

22 C(cherry), H(key lime), N(strawberry).

Posted by: Jimmy Buffet at March 14, 2026 10:08 PM (Q+gd/)

23 The Dutch apple and Blackberry are also acceptable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

24 In memory of Tommy DeCarlo and Brad Delp, Club ONT is brought to you tonight by Boston:

*fistbump*

Posted by: Amanda at March 14, 2026 10:08 PM (Wnv9h)

25 /off sock

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2026 10:08 PM (Q+gd/)

26 Mom's favorite holiday, always wore a clover pin and a pin of her favorite Irishman.

https://tinyurl.com/427uf4tf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:08 PM (9Bsty)

27 There is no shoo-fly, Grape or Sugar Cream Pie in the pie selections.

Monumental oversights.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

28 Top O' the evenin' to ya Double Ds🍺☘!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (TMBM7)

29 Pick 3 pies:
Blueberry
Blueberry
And Blueberry.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (2WIwB)

30 ONT comes a LOT earlier in the Pacific Time Zone 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 10:05 PM (S7WXb)
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So does the Pixy thread.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

31 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (ntk8v)

32 Pie: A, D, I

On this most impressive military blog, I have a question, because I refuted (and ticked off) the woman who rakes on another blog. She has "sources" or reads crap somewhere and said the fueling plane had been shot down. That Cent Com is lying about what happened. She claims missile.

While I guess it could have happened vs the mid air mistake (and my God comfort the six families and may their souls RIP)...she said it's a lie. So I ticked her off as I have not seen this anywhere else and I don't like people's conspiracies. She's opposed to bombing Iran, by the way. We will all soon die of the lack of fuel. She probably hopes for terror cells.

She honestly may be mental and thinks she sits in with the President and Sec of War at this point, so it is probably not worth me commenting. I have twice when she's off the rails.

Thanks for the ONT and may the wind remain at your back.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (WONhk)

33 When it comes to pie selection, the correct answer is and always shall be "T"...as in "Turtle Cheesecake."

That is all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (ESVrU)

34 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to get the dog hair out of the upholstery of the Sopwith Camel.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (2mkc5)

35 Nice "Shipping Up To Boston"

But THIS is my favorite version:
https://ziply.pk/IUgJkz
Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:03 PM

Those young ladies rock.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 10:11 PM (Wnv9h)

36 The only Dropkick Murphys song I've heard that I liked is the one about Christmas, but it's not the season for that.

https://bit.ly/pogo-fri-13
https://bit.ly/3tyDiqg

The fact that Pi is infinite yet an integral part of what we think of as reality reveals that this is all a simulation, by God. Same goes for the Golden ratio.

I wouldn't Fibonacci to you about such a thing.

Posted by: mindful webworker - time is a spiral at March 14, 2026 10:11 PM (O84gh)

37 My entry for Pi Day - complete with arecipe for Buttermilk Pie:

https://tinyurl.com/KochsTourPiDay

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 10:11 PM (S7WXb)

38 Erin go braugh!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 10:04 PM (vrNzf)

I'd actually like to se Erin go braughless.

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

39 Apple and cherry

Fell right asleep for a hour then woke up

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 10:11 PM (Ia/+0)

40 Cheesecake is not pie.

Or I would have chosen it as one of my selections. Probably replacing blackberry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

41 Marie Callender makes a dang good pie.

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (Q+gd/)

42 That was quite a takedown. I reckon the French guy had a headache and maybe some tingling down his arms after that.

Also, cherry, key lime and peach. I like fruit pies.

Posted by: huerfano at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (98kQX)

43 B D L

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (uklvW)

44 I did my taxes today

My greatest annoyance? Not a single Somali I'm supporting so much as said thank you.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (sKqQm)

45 Into The Mystic - I read an article somewhere once, the tune supposedly has a soothing effect on people, so much so that they mentioned anecdote where some Doctors doing tricky surgeries on brains and things like that use it as background in the OR to calm their nerves. Hm.

It’s fun to play, capo on 3, it’s all in the strum, naturally.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (XuiFR)

46 Sorry I'm late, I was trying to get the dog hair out of the upholstery of the Sopwith Camel.
Posted by: tankdemon

You don't get that done right, you're gonna be in the doghouse.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)

47 Blueberry
Lemon meringue
Dutch apple

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (Ar/17)

48 Cookie Puss > Marie Callender's pie.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (sKqQm)

49 BCG. Any others are unpatriotic!

Nice ONT, D's!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (7D3Aa)

50 Marie Callender makes a dang good pie.
Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (Q+gd/)

I prefer Edwards. Their Key Lime left in freezer is great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

51 Watched Gosford Park for this evenings movie, it’s a perfect film. It’s the film Rian Johnson aspired to make in Knives Out but missed by a wide mark.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

52 2 Sorry, I don’t remember that one.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (77rzZ)

53 How many digits do you really need in Pi? Fifteen?
How long will it be before Musk screws that up?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (9Bsty)

54 The pies? All of them, except coconut cream. That one is a hard "No!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (8zz6B)

55 Me for pi day: A, F, I....YUM!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (TMBM7)

56 I'll take a berry pie every time but pray there are no canned fillings used. Those fake goopy fillings are awful.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

It's cherry. You'll eat or wear it, as my dad said.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (diia5)

57 I've been to Boston a few times.

Not impressed.

It doesn't stink like NYC. Its safer then Philly or Baltimore.

But it is the most pretentious, hypocritical, and egotistical hive of villainy I've ever seen.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (sKqQm)

58 The guy who did the video on how Archimedes solved pi is a bit light in the digits, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (Riz8t)

59 Shoulda bought a pie when I was at the store earlier today. Now I'm hungry for dessert.

Posted by: PabloD at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (+HNa2)

60 November 1979, Capitol Center, Landover, MD.

My first concert.

Boston.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (jtM2q)

61 Cheesecake is not pie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It has a crust, and a filling, and it's usually round.

Cheesecake is pie.

Boston Cream Pie is cake.

Posted by: mikeski looks for his dueling saber at March 14, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

62 I think I've listened to the Pogues "Fairy tale of New York" about six times tonight but now I've moved on to Thin Lizzy and Van Morrison. And pie.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2026 10:15 PM (aeyG4)

63 Today is March 14th. 3/14. Pi day.

No, it isn't actually. Today is Sorta Kinda Pi Day.
First, 3/14 is NOT an approximation of Pi, it is about 0.214. And the Europeans, who use a dot for their numeric dates don't write it "3.14" because that would be dumb. They would write it "14.3."

The 22d of July is the proper Pi Day. The date is properly written (in American notation) 22/7. And 22/7 is 3.1428, which is pretty dang close to an approximation of Pi (which has as it's first 5 decimal places [and the ones digit] 3.14159).

Do not let lazy date people fool you, Horde!
(Also, why would you have this day so close to St Patrick's? Spread it out a little to make sure you have more reasons to celebrate.)

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:15 PM (RGxCT)

64 Pizza Pie.

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (Q+gd/)

65 There is like a hour long video on Boston how it started as a one man band who made the first album of all tracks and instruments but when it came time to actually perform at a venue they had to fill it with other players

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (Ia/+0)

66 There is no shoo-fly, Grape or Sugar Cream Pie in the pie selections.

Monumental oversights.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

Nor is there hot mincemeat pie with hard sauce. A tragic omission.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (8zz6B)

67 Good cheesecake is also as dense as plutonium.

These loose pies are for kids.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (zZu0s)

68 Boston Cream Pie is cake.
Posted by: mikeski looks for his dueling saber

It's not cream either.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (diia5)

69 Cheesecake is not pie.

Or I would have chosen it as one of my selections. Probably replacing blackberry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)
---
On the contrary. It just depends on how it's prepared. By definition, a pie can contain custard, which is basically cheesecake filling.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)

70 the fueling plane had been shot down.

-
Looks more like a collision.

https://is.gd/swA4Sg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (ndZc7)

71 Cherry, apple and banana cream.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (oob1u)

72 It's cherry. You'll eat or wear it, as my dad said.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (diia5)
=====
Oh, don't worry I'll eat it.

But I will bitch about it later in my journal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

73 She honestly may be mental and thinks she sits in with the President and Sec of War at this point, so it is probably not worth me commenting. I have twice when she's off the rails.

Thanks for the ONT and may the wind remain at your back.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (WONhk)

More likely, she's hoping for sex with the Sec of War.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)

74 Pies? A- French Silk, C - Cherry, I - Lemon Meringue

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

75 On the contrary. It just depends on how it's prepared. By definition, a pie can contain custard, which is basically cheesecake filling.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)

*blink*

I want to sputter and throw you headfirst out of this establishment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

76 Russia takes down opponent with flying squirrel in three seconds. The opponent? France.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:18 PM (9Bsty)

77 No shepard pie or magpie?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 10:18 PM (/lPRQ)

78 That Cent Com is lying about what happened. She claims missile.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (WONhk)

What I saw was a photo of another plane with significant tail damage. Supposedly they collided, and one plane was lucky enough to survive.

Your friend is a loon at best, and I won't write what I am thinking for worst...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 14, 2026 10:18 PM (n9ltV)

79 There is no more stable relationship than that between the diameter and circumference of a circle. No matter what, it will always be the same, unchanging, always constantly. We refer to this relationship as "pi"

Now, many people long for their own relationship that is just as stable and unchanging. To those people, let me point out that pi is irrational.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 10:18 PM (2mkc5)

80 I've been to Boston a few times.

Not impressed.

It doesn't stink like NYC. Its safer then Philly or Baltimore.

But it is the most pretentious, hypocritical, and egotistical hive of villainy I've ever seen.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM

Boston is a nice city...except for the inhabitants. And the politics.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 10:18 PM (Wnv9h)

81 Cookie Puss > Marie Callender's pie.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (sKqQm)

Heh heh, heh heh. You said "puss"

- Beavis

Posted by: Doof at March 14, 2026 10:18 PM (+sTu6)

82 But it is the most pretentious, hypocritical, and egotistical hive of villainy I've ever seen.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (sKqQm)
====

Ho Chi Minh was a southie!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:19 PM (RIvkX)

83 Plato: What is a man?

Jonah Goldberg: What is a sandwich?

The Horde: What is a pie?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:19 PM (sKqQm)

84 Erin go braugh!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 10:04 PM (vrNzf)

I'd actually like to se Erin go braughless.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 14, 2026 10:11 PM (1Ff7Z)
* * * *
Be careful what you wish for...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 10:20 PM (vrNzf)

85 Pie? Mincemeat. The kind that actually has meat in it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 10:20 PM (Wnv9h)

86 Thanks for the ONT and may the wind remain at your back.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:09 PM (WONhk)

CBTG,
The woman is an idiot.
Frankly I'm surprised we haven't had more accidents, given the optempo. Not a missile. Tankers are extremely valuable, are well protected, and fly only in safe airspace.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:20 PM (2WIwB)

87 I just cannot understand anyone who likes the wrong pie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

88 French dude was "WTF is THAT?!" Waving his arms like he had walked into a Louisiana skeeter cloud, then BAM! he's down.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:20 PM (RGxCT)

89 November 1979, Capitol Center, Landover, MD.

My first concert.

Boston.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (jtM2q)

Great venue for concerts!!

Posted by: Doof at March 14, 2026 10:21 PM (+sTu6)

90 I'll take a berry pie every time but pray there are no canned fillings used. Those fake goopy fillings are awful.
——-

This guy gets it. Corn Syrup is of the devil. It’s edible, but just barely. This is incidentally why commercial retail Pecan pies are terrible . The historical recipes use Karo, but there’s a lot more going on with them than that, one of our guys at work was from Tennessee and his wife wod bring one in once in a while and it was about the best thing you ever tasted

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:21 PM (XuiFR)

91 I think I'll kick back and see what is on the Ocho, just as soon as I run the police gauntlet and get home.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2026 10:21 PM (aeyG4)

92 Apple, pecan and I'll add shoo fly for me

Posted by: PA Dutchman at March 14, 2026 10:21 PM (koCHA)

93 Not from Boston, but a fine music video for a great song.

https://youtu.be/MQNRKX8GwPo

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2026 10:22 PM (S/Y4j)

94 Did anybody else notice that Mr. PI Day video host said that the circle's diameter can wrap around the circle's circumference about 3.14 time, when it is really the circumference that I 3.14 times longer than the diameter (and would only actually "wrap around said diameter slightly more than one and a half times)?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 10:22 PM (2mkc5)

95 That may very well be the gayest sounding asian man discussing the approximation of pi I've ever heard.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 10:23 PM (3uBP9)

96 Pie is Apple, Blueberry and Shepard.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 10:23 PM (XV/Pl)

97
"Shipping Up To Boston"

Rush Limbaugh used that for bumper music.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 10:23 PM (Cqx++)

98 My pie picks: French silk, Banana Cream and Pumpkin.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 10:23 PM (2mkc5)

99 Cobbler > Pie

All pie ( not pie that's really cake) better with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:23 PM (oob1u)

100 Some more drinking songs...

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers
Damned If I Do, Damned If I Don't
https://youtu.be/0swLpmUvJA0
- This is a spot on killer live band

Bob Willis
Bubbles In My Beer
https://youtu.be/Q8zL1eB4Wac

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 10:23 PM (BnDlA)

101

Pie is pumpkin, black raspberry and chicken pot.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)

102 AOP

These days I can only manage one at a time, though

Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2026 10:24 PM (vSvIl)

103 That taxidermied squirrel stripper pole needs to be a pen holder.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 10:24 PM (2mkc5)

104 Capital Centre was not a very nice arena. Terrible location. Views not very good. Hockey fans who booed hip checks, thinking they were somehow a dirty move - even though the last of the great hip-checkers, Rod Langway, was the team's long-time captain. Best thing was large numbers of fans leaving a 3-2 game with 10 minutes to go, similar thing happened all the time. WTF?

Ice was lousy, played on it several times. But back then almost all arenas had bad ice, until Toronto I think it was finally started to move to high quality ice.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:24 PM (U/Byj)

105 Also, last year the 22d of July was close to a Sunday, so I signed up to provide fellowship.

I had 2 of everything, except pizza (that didn't work out). We had a round apple pie and a square apple pie. We had round quiche and we had square quiche. We had square cobbler and round cobbler. It was glorious!

Why square? Because pie are round and π r squared.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (RGxCT)

106 As for Irish music, let's go for a classic

https://tinyurl.com/ybmhj6c2

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

107 I love pecans but pecan pie is way too sweet for me . I can handle only a few bites.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (oob1u)

108 I better try and go back to sleep

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (Ia/+0)

109 Pick 3 pies? Not possible, need at least 10 choices.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (2NHgQ)

110 Now Cake, cake is wide open.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (XV/Pl)

111 Marie Callender's Dutch Apple pie is to die for. And most of the time it is reasonably priced. I like it better than homemade.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (vrNzf)

112 Apple, pecan and I'll add shoo fly for me
Posted by: PA Dutchman

Wet bottom or dry?

Wet bottom for me - there really is no other.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (cYBz/)

113 Thanks for the ONT and may the wind remain at your back.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
------

Read that, at one time, they had 100 tankers in the air at one time. It is a testimony to the skill of our men in arms that there have not been more accidents.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:26 PM (9Bsty)

114 Pie is pumpkin, black raspberry and chicken pot.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)

Only worth having if you use organically-grown, free-range, cage-free pot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 10:26 PM (8zz6B)

115 BGD

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 10:26 PM (3uBP9)

116 More likely, she's hoping for sex with the Sec of War.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)

I have no idea who you're talking about but regardless, I know you're 100 percent correct.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 10:26 PM (lCppi)

117 Rhubarb pie > all other nom pies > pecan pke

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

118 Cobbler fan. Fresh picked peach or sour cherry or Himalayan berry (PNW blackberries).

Never had key lime but looks good. French silk? What dat?

No Rhubarb pie? No mincemeat pie?

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 10:27 PM (llLGG)

119 I have no idea who you're talking about but regardless, I know you're 100 percent correct.
Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 10:26 PM (lCppi)

The 'gal' Christy was arguing with on the Internet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)

120 >>> I love pecans but pecan pie is way too sweet for me . I can handle only a few bites.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (oob1u)

Try warm pie with vanilla ice cream. The sweetness is masked then.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 10:27 PM (3uBP9)

121 Now Cake, cake is wide open.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (XV/Pl)

Red Velvet , German Chocolate and Carrot.

( German chocolate doesn't come from Germany. It's the name of the guy who created it)

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:28 PM (oob1u)

122 More drinking songs?

Theme from Days of Wine and Roses.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:28 PM (9Bsty)

123 More likely, she's hoping for sex with the Sec of War.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)
................................
Nah. Old and mean. Husband or baby daddy never mentioned.

Probably doesn't do sex but rescues bugs (I AM SERIOUS). She may have been the original Qanon.Anything anti-Trump yet she voted for him.

She loves to go against the tide of the blog. I should invite her to the ONT, as y'all are a rough bunch and I debate her politely, as I was raised in the South.

She has a lot of feral cats, not that there's anything wrong with that except she probably has fleas from them and that parasite worm in her brain from kitty litter.

Went to my first confession today to become Catholic.Kinda nervous due to college stuff but I did ok.

I am not sure what this truly says about me but he thought I was sort of funny (not the confession part); but before I left with my little booklet.

My husband helped me with the confession as how do I tally that up since I was 12 and baptized Presbyterian? It would be a a lot!

I make priests laugh after confession is a new flair. I am possibly one of their more colorful almost Catholics, but by acccident.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:28 PM (WONhk)

124 57. But it is the most pretentious, hypocritical, and egotistical hive of villainy I've ever seen.
Posted by: 18-1

Boston is widely considered the most Irish city in the US, with nearly 23% of its population reporting Irish ancestry.

(Keeping in theme.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 10:28 PM (NFX2v)

125 Diogenes the incident rate given the optempo (for us but also especially the Israelis) is astonishingly low. The casualty (occurrence) per hour flown in military aviation has plummeted dramatically in our lifetimes, overall. But this (so far) is amazing.

Reportedly five tankers damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan from mullah missile. But being repaired. Haven't been on board that facility, but surprised at what sounds like non-dispersal/non-protection of units. One leaker shouldn't be able to damage 5 aircraft.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:29 PM (U/Byj)

126 Sugar with sugar with a scoop of sugar.

The sweetness is muted.

Your taste buds are tired/overloaded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

127 As for Irish music, let's go for a classic

https://tinyurl.com/ybmhj6c2
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

There ain't no chinese laundries where the River Shannon flows,
Those dirty, filthy Irishmen, they never wash their clothes.
They wear them in the springtime, they wear them in the Fall,
Those dirty filthy Irishmen, they never wash at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 10:29 PM (8zz6B)

128 Another version of "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" with cute wee colleens.

youtu.be/HXm8JdC4k4c

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 14, 2026 10:30 PM (PH3st)

129 Boston is widely considered the most Irish city in the US, with nearly 23% of its population reporting Irish ancestry.

(Keeping in theme.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 10:28 PM (NFX2v)

That's why Kerry allowed everyone to believe he was Irish. The guy lies as easily as he breathes.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:30 PM (oob1u)

130 Whiskey's Gone

Zac Brown Band

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 10:31 PM (Ar/17)

131 Civilian ATC plane separation is usually a what, a mile or two and maybe 1000 feet?

I know during the 2nd world war they flew in formation together, about as close as they could get and staggered in such a way to provide interlocking fields of fire against attacking fighter aircraft. They had mid air collisions all the time.

Army helicopters fly in close formation at night, under night vision goggles, which I did not care for.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:31 PM (XuiFR)

132 Marie Callender's Dutch Apple pie is to die for. And most of the time it is reasonably priced. I like it better than homemade.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Wifey likes that one.
Serves it like a cobbler.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 10:31 PM (/lPRQ)

133 89 November 1979, Capitol Center, Landover, MD.

My first concert.

Boston.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 10:14 PM (jtM2q)

Great venue for concerts!!
Posted by: Doof

From a TV point of view, the Capitol Center in Landover always looked like the game (Caps, Hoyas, or Bullets) was being played in a cave. I moved into the area in the late 90s. Not sure if it was still standing at that point.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 10:31 PM (ntk8v)

134 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 10:29 PM (zZu0s)

It's not the taste that gets me. It's the headache it produces.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:32 PM (oob1u)

135 Read that, at one time, they had 100 tankers in the air at one time. It is a testimony to the skill of our men in arms that there have not been more accidents.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:26 PM (9Bsty)
........................
Thank you all for the answers. I just do not believe Cent Com would lie about this.

She gets shrill when I refute her. Which is kinda dumb as she puts her crap out there and I guess it is against rulez of hers. It's a mellow blog otherwise and she inserts her war stuff and I am starting to debate her. Twice. She said I always do and that's a mystery and I reminded her twice in about a month. She also threw the gaslighting word at me which I never understand. I stated facts and that's all.

She called me names, too. Ha! I know then she ain't got nuthin. My brother taught me well as he called me names nearly daily in the middle of an argument to make me laugh.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:32 PM (WONhk)

136 Be careful what you wish for...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 10:20 PM (vrNzf)

Depends on the Erin, I guess.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 14, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

137 Savannah Bananas played the Party Animals tonight in the Superdome in front of a crowd of 70,000. Bananas won 5-4. Savannah has the second largest St.Patricks Day Parade in the nation.
There were also more than 20,000 watching the game live on Youtube.

Posted by: Yellow Fever! at March 14, 2026 10:33 PM (oftw2)

138 Caitlin Clark disses Ghetto Rat Reese
https://is.gd/NsKSfN

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 10:33 PM (BnDlA)

139 Cobbler fan. Fresh picked peach or sour cherry or Himalayan berry (PNW blackberries).

Never had key lime but looks good. French silk? What dat?

No Rhubarb pie? No mincemeat pie?
Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 10:27 PM (llLGG)

I am bragging here and happy to do so because the blackberry cobbler I make (I pick the berries myself) is absolutely kick-ass awesome!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

140 Wet bottom or dry?

Wet bottom for me - there really is no other.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (cYBz/)

Oh good golly. Please. Please. Not a wet bottom.

Posted by: Biden's Chambermaid at March 14, 2026 10:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

141 Pies: J, O, & P

Posted by: Butch at March 14, 2026 10:34 PM (98xTj)

142 Best film about Ireland is Black 47. I like it better than The Quiet Man.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:34 PM (oob1u)

143 Fruit Cake, I miss grandmother's fruit cake.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (9Bsty)

144 Couldn't Archimedes have taken a string, wrapped it around a circle, and measured the length of the string, or am I missing something?

What advantage do 6 sided hexagons have over a length of string?

Posted by: Joemarine at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (y171U)

145 125
Reportedly five tankers damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan from mullah missile. But being repaired.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:29 PM
***
PDJT confirmed. Four repaired and already flying again. The fifth is being repaired and will be in the air "shortly."

Posted by: TRex - air traffic control dino at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

146 97
"Shipping Up To Boston"

Rush Limbaugh used that for bumper music.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Which probably pissed off the band since they are slightly to the right of Stalin.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (ntk8v)

147 Just had a piece of the tourtiere I made a few days ago.

Still not happy with the crust (too chewy). Despite extreme and heroic efforts in prepping the dough, somehow the gluten is developing.

Apple, blueberry, sweet potato, hazelnut - all have been good when I made them. But the meyer lemon upside down cake probably bested them. None for an annual event this year because the lemons are ripening very very late.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (U/Byj)

148 (German chocolate doesn't come from Germany. It's the name of the guy who created it)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

I never knew that, but it makes sense. Germany isn't known for its coconut groves.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

149 Possums and raccoons like to chew up old beer cans, I assume to get the last few drops inside. But I've never seen them drink from the can like humans do.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 10:36 PM (vbXSk)

150 Correct pie answers are A, F, P.

Posted by: The Pie-Eyed Piper at March 14, 2026 10:36 PM (oftw2)

151 Went to my first confession today to become Catholic. Kinda nervous due to college stuff but I did ok.

I make priests laugh after confession is a new flair. I am possibly one of their more colorful almost Catholics, but by accident.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

"For these sins and those I may have forgotten, I ask God's pardon and mercy." covers an awful past. Ask me how I know.

Welcome to the Dark Side.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

152 I am bragging here and happy to do so because the blackberry cobbler I make (I pick the berries myself) is absolutely kick-ass awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB

I just had a Pavlov's Dog reaction.

My all time favorite dessert.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:36 PM (oob1u)

153 I hope the theme tonight does not mean we don't celebrate St Paddys day on the Tuesday night ONT...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 10:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

154 I know during the 2nd world war they flew in formation together, about as close as they could get and staggered in such a way to provide interlocking fields of fire against attacking fighter aircraft. They had mid air collisions all the time.

-
The perils of close formation bombing.

https://is.gd/kINUDA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 10:37 PM (ndZc7)

155 What advantage do 6 sided hexagons have over a length of string?

Posted by: Joemarine at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (y171U)

I think old Archie was looking for a mathematical proof.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 10:37 PM (8zz6B)

156 I can't believe more of y'all don't like pecan pie! Maybe you've never had a good one?

I make one that is requested by my men every winter holiday. I use a lot more pecans than the recipe calls for, cut back a bit on the sugar, and make my own crust.

Always buy up to 5lbs of fresh pecans from Georgia and shipped here and frozen.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:37 PM (WONhk)

157 Appropo of nothing much in particular I thought I would share this.

Remember when Men in Women's sports was a joke?

Search youtube for Paul Hunt. You will be amused.

Cheers!

Posted by: Fuloydo at March 14, 2026 10:37 PM (f5n+X)

158 Roadside sovereign citizen lawyer makes his case and goes to jail. Plus this guy never shuts up.

https://youtu.be/s2BkimZhY98

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 10:38 PM (BnDlA)

159 I would never become a Catholic. The “saints” and the Mariolatry are beyond the pale.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:38 PM (77rzZ)

160 Posted by: Fuloydo at March 14, 2026 10:37 PM (f5n+X

The bushy mustache makes it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:38 PM (oob1u)

161 (German chocolate doesn't come from Germany. It's the name of the guy who created it)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

I never knew that, but it makes sense. Germany isn't known for its coconut groves.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)
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You must have missed the Great Coconut Migration during the early Middle Ages, when masses of African swallows carried coconuts northward into Europe.

Though the Little Ice Age killed off most of the groves.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (ESVrU)

162 Diogenes the incident rate given the optempo (for us but also especially the Israelis) is astonishingly low. The casualty (occurrence) per hour flown in military aviation has plummeted dramatically in our lifetimes, overall. But this (so far) is amazing.

Reportedly five tankers damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan from mullah missile. But being repaired. Haven't been on board that facility, but surprised at what sounds like non-dispersal/non-protection of units. One leaker shouldn't be able to damage 5 aircraft.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:29 PM (U/Byj)

***

Wow! My first thought was submunitions but those would probably have caused more damage. Yeah. Dispersal sounds hinky.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

163

Do we have anyone in Nebraska?

The wildfires there are bad.

Posted by: four seasons at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (3ek7K)

164 152 I am bragging here and happy to do so because the blackberry cobbler I make (I pick the berries myself) is absolutely kick-ass awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB

I just had a Pavlov's Dog reaction.

My all time favorite dessert.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:36 PM (oob1u)
................................
Peach cobbler, y'all, is fabulous and I have a very easy and quick recipe from a Savannah cookbook. It's also requested.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (WONhk)

165 For those Morons who are getting sleepy, and would like some gentle music to drift off to, here is "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" looped, for one hour.

youtu.be/3NiUkiAFXa8

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (PH3st)

166 (Insert witty comment here )

@usembassyve 12h
The morning of March 14, 2019, the American flag was lowered for the final time at U.S. Embassy Caracas. This morning, on March 14, 2026, at the same time, my team and I raised the American flag—exactly seven years after it was lowered.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (diia5)

167 Looking at videos of governor spanberger gave me the weirdest feeling that I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then I realized she looks exactly like Reinhard Heydrich of evil fame.

Posted by: Beverly at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (reMys)

168 11 I'll take a berry pie every time but pray there are no canned fillings used. Those fake goopy fillings are awful.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That's because they have more goop than fruit.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

169 I never knew that, but it makes sense. Germany isn't known for its coconut groves.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)

That's good. Coconut Groves have a tendency to burn down.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 14, 2026 10:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

170 Reportedly five tankers damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan from mullah missile. But being repaired. Haven't been on board that facility, but surprised at what sounds like non-dispersal/non-protection of units. One leaker shouldn't be able to damage 5 aircraft.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:29 PM (U/Byj)

***

Wow! My first thought was submunitions but those would probably have caused more damage. Yeah. Dispersal sounds hinky.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (2WIwB

I believe it was a cluster bomb missile.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:41 PM (oob1u)

171 Pecans, and their wretched pie, are vile.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:41 PM (77rzZ)

172 You must have missed the Great Coconut Migration during the early Middle Ages, when masses of African swallows carried coconuts northward into Europe.

Though the Little Ice Age killed off most of the groves.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
************
My hubby is laughing hysterically, so this must be a Monty Python reference....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 10:41 PM (IQ6Gq)

173 Blueberry is my favorite pie, with strawberry rhubarb second, and pecan third.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

174 158 Roadside sovereign citizen lawyer makes his case and goes to jail. Plus this guy never shuts up.

https://youtu.be/s2BkimZhY98
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

That's the mistake with these SC idiots. I could ALMOST be sympathetic with there cause, but then they keep talking. I'm now rooting for the cop.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 10:42 PM (ntk8v)

175 I never knew that, but it makes sense. Germany isn't known for its coconut groves.
Posted by: mikeski

But they did acquire all those Flyspeck Islands from Spain just to get the coconut, only to lose them to the Japanese when they jumped into The Great War at the tail end.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)

176 Maybe some African swallows carried some to start a grove.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 10:43 PM (Ar/17)

177 I am bragging here and happy to do so because the blackberry cobbler I make (I pick the berries myself) is absolutely kick-ass awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

I've no doubt

My mom would make cobbler if we picked the berries. Like molten lava out of the oven - cream over the top would insta-curdle. My grandpa had peach, apple, apricot and sour cherry trees.

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 10:44 PM (llLGG)

178 167 Looking at videos of governor spanberger gave me the weirdest feeling that I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then I realized she looks exactly like Reinhard Heydrich of evil fame.
Posted by: Beverly

She looks like she's held on to the One Ring for a bit too long and is on her way to looking like Gollum.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 10:44 PM (ntk8v)

179 I wonder if Archimedes could have gotten closer just using an actual string.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 10:44 PM (vbXSk)

180 Im going to make a buttermilk pie tomorrow.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 10:45 PM (lCppi)

181 That's because they have more goop than fruit.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

Oh, boy! Corn starch and High Glucose Corn Syrup filling, just like Grandma used to make! With that extra dab of monosodium glutamate, to add just a little bit of kick.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 14, 2026 10:45 PM (PH3st)

182 @usembassyve 12h
The morning of March 14, 2019, the American flag was lowered for the final time at U.S. Embassy Caracas. This morning, on March 14, 2026, at the same time, my team and I raised the American flag—exactly seven years after it was lowered.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (diia5)

Awesome!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:45 PM (2WIwB)

183 The vile VA gov does have a resemblance to Heydrich. Nose, and eyes. Weird. However the Heydrich creature appeared far more intelligent than the implausible parody of a robot politico that Virginians inflicted on themselves.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:45 PM (U/Byj)

184 I remember the best raspberry pie I ever had was in Keesville NY on a road trip home from Montreal. It was solid berry filling all fresh berries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

185 Some Japanese dude has memorized 100,000 digits of pi. I have trouble with my phone number. Akira Haraguchi

Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (zFsEm)

186 For those Morons who are not sleepy.

Dropkick Murphy's
Portland, ME
February 9, 2026
https://youtu.be/GCJnlYlQg4Y

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (BnDlA)

187 That's because they have more goop than fruit.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2026 10:40 PM (0Htd

That's what Hostess pies are. Doesn't stop me from eating one occasionally.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (oob1u)

188 159 I would never become a Catholic. The “saints” and the Mariolatry are beyond the pale.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:38 PM (77rzZ)

I used to say the same but something changed in the last year. Family conversions, lack of traditional services and music in some churches I tried (I like tradition and old hymns and not praise music, as that's how I was raised Presbyterian). Many like that form of worship and I don't judge and tried.

All I can say is something changed in me as I searched for a deeper faith and found it. It does not hurt that our son and family converted. My husband was Catholic who converted to Presbyterian,so we are going backwards, I guess. Another 47yrs of marriage will be grand!

Good books that explain it from a conversion perspective. It made sense when a year ago it didn't.

Find God is all I ask. You are loved. Find a denomination where you feel you'd worshipped after leaving, and a peace you can't find anywhere else.

This concludes this episode of Christy Becoming Catholic, a surprise for many I know.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (WONhk)

189 Nobody I knew went to the Capitol Center to watch hockey.

They were there for the fighting.

In the stands.

When the Flyers were in town.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 10:47 PM (jtM2q)

190 Some Japanese dude has memorized 100,000 digits of pi. I have trouble with my phone number. Akira Haraguchi
Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (zFsEm)

I assume there is no pattern that's been discovered?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:47 PM (oob1u)

191 There were three Irish triplets born in the small town of Clifden, County Galway. As they grew older, two of them got really big while one stayed kinda puny and small. One night at the local pub, the bartender asked the puny triplet while he was so small while his 2 brothers were so large since they were triplets. "Well", says the wee triplet, "you have to remember that there was three of us being triplets and all. While those two got to suck on Ma, I had to suck on Da."

Posted by: Wearing Of The Green at March 14, 2026 10:48 PM (Ksqrb)

192 155 I think old Archie was looking for a mathematical proof.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 10:37 PM (8zz6B)

Thanks AOP, that makes sense. Geometry was never my strong point...

Posted by: Joemarine at March 14, 2026 10:48 PM (y171U)

193 Picking individual berries is so time consuming. Picking bunches of grapes is better, also time intensive. Those tools for picking blueberries make things better. But Machines that shake the fruit and collect are much better.

Or maybe there is some peace that can be attained by just enjoying The Process, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 10:48 PM (vbXSk)

194 I thought it was fancy in here…until I got to the dead animal accoutrementé.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 10:48 PM (Wmg4n)

195 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (WONhk)

On no. You've entered the bulg vortex.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:49 PM (oob1u)

196 That's what Hostess pies are. Doesn't stop me from eating one occasionally.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (oob1u)

I just finished one. Cherry. I don't care much for the other ones.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 14, 2026 10:49 PM (1Ff7Z)

197 I would never become a Catholic. The “saints” and the Mariolatry are beyond the pale.
Posted by: Bulg

I'm leaning in the opposite direction and might go full papist but for Leo XIV's love for the illegal aliens. Many Protestant churches have gone full bat shit crazy on social issues. I'm reminded of the old Bob Hope joke about getting out before they make it mandatory.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 10:49 PM (ndZc7)

198 I wonder if Archimedes could have gotten closer just using an actual string.
Posted by: illiniwek

Actually, no.
The abstract with some flawless long division and multiplication will get much closer than you could measure with a tape measure or stretchy string. Assuming you have a perfect circle to measure.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)

199 Some Japanese dude has memorized 100,000 digits of pi. I have trouble with my phone number. Akira Haraguchi
Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (zFsEm)

I assume there is no pattern that's been discovered?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:47 PM (oob1u)
----
Just the combination to my luggage.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 10:49 PM (ESVrU)

200 Only use fresh blueberries (well, fresh from Peru or Chile, if not BC, OR, or MI). Have finally found the right amount of thickener, so the pie is just right - flows out a bit, but not a lot, when cut.

Important to add some lemon juice and watch the sugar. Of course depends on tartness of the berries.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:49 PM (U/Byj)

201 167 Looking at videos of governor spanberger gave me the weirdest feeling that I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then I realized she looks exactly like Reinhard Heydrich of evil fame.
Posted by: Beverly at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (reMys)

Yes she does. That woman scares me and what she is doing to Virginia is a shame.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 14, 2026 10:50 PM (y171U)

202 for pies, I am B D and M
Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 10:05 PM (ZxPkt)

I noticed there was no "S".

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:50 PM (RGxCT)

203 194 I thought it was fancy in here…until I got to the dead animal accoutrementé.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 10:48 PM
***
You started it with the fashion thread last week...

Posted by: TRex - fancy dino at March 14, 2026 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

204 Or maybe there is some peace that can be attained by just enjoying The Process, idk.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 10:48 PM (vbXSk)

Picking wild blackberries as a kid was like visiting a free candy store:

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:50 PM (oob1u)

205 The vile VA gov does have a resemblance to Heydrich. Nose, and eyes. Weird. However the Heydrich creature appeared far more intelligent than the implausible parody of a robot politico that Virginians inflicted on themselves.
Posted by: rhomboid

A TV series showed that each subsequent cloning of a subject result in a clone that is further degraded.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 10:51 PM (/lPRQ)

206 Some Japanese dude has memorized 100,000 digits of pi.
——

That’s not rational

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:51 PM (I/Icm)

207 41 Marie Callender makes a dang good pie.
Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2026 10:12 PM (Q+gd/)

In honor of pi day, I’ve got a Marie Callender peach pie in the oven right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 10:52 PM (Mh6s8)

208 Some Japanese dude has memorized 100,000 digits of pi.
——

That’s not rational
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:51 PM (I/Icm)

Probably because he couldn't get a girl.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 14, 2026 10:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

209 No one picked hair pie as their favorite.

Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:52 PM (oob1u)

210 Looking at videos of governor spanberger gave me the weirdest feeling that I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then I realized she looks exactly like Reinhard Heydrich of evil fame.
Posted by: Beverly

Heh.
Now I can't unsee it.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 10:53 PM (2WIwB)

211 That woman scares me and what she is doing to Virginia is a shame
——-

You misspelled “Atrocity”

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:53 PM (hF3wE)

212 195 Sorry, Christy, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are sufficient for me. That’s all I know. No saints or the Mary stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:54 PM (77rzZ)

213 That's what Hostess pies are. Doesn't stop me from eating one occasionally.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (oob1u)

I just finished one. Cherry. I don't care much for the other ones.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Those cherry pies are like 'pork and beans'. Like the one piece of 'pork' in the can, somewhere in that cherry pie is a sorry ass looking 'cherry'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 10:54 PM (/lPRQ)

214 201 167 Looking at videos of governor spanberger gave me the weirdest feeling that I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then I realized she looks exactly like Reinhard Heydrich of evil fame.
Posted by: Beverly at March 14, 2026 10:39 PM (reMys)

Yes she does. That woman scares me and what she is doing to Virginia is a shame.
Posted by: Joemarine

It's not just her. The entirety of the Legislature is run by the Khmer Rouge. There is a vote coming up about the redistricting. The plan is to erase the GOP. The VA GOP is useless and is erasing themselves. The commercials for it are vile. BADORANGEMAN of course, is to blame. They skip the fact that the Dems have gerrymandered the hell out of the states they take over.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 10:55 PM (ntk8v)

215 All the pies except Coconut and Peach.

(Among fruit pies, peach is inferior to apple, banana, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, key lime, lemon, pineapple, pumpkin, raspberry, or strawberry. I'm sorry, but that's the rules.)

Coconut, I just don't like the texture of coconut in my teeth.

Posted by: RandomDave at March 14, 2026 10:55 PM (aJQbY)

216 Long time defenseman partner and friend and I went to a Caps playoff game at the Spectrum one spring. Don't recall how I got the tickets (they were very good, low, $$$$), probably through the Flyers' owner (Snyder the younger, had a connection to him at the time).

Kelly Miller scored sudden death winner with a beautiful backhand shot (everyone can look those up, there must be records of that mostly lost art somewhere lol). Friend and I started to move, rise up, clap - then checked ourselves and sat down. People next to us laughed, they didn't mind.

On the way out of the arena, just about going out the door to get a train back to DC, heard a commotion. Looked back - and, not kidding, it was like a cartoon - a guy in a Caps' jersey went running one direction in the main concourse, behind him a swarm of Philly fans in orange. Hilarious - well, for us. Wearing enemy colors to a Phila sporting event, umm. Nah bro.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 10:55 PM (U/Byj)

217 I am hearing Zombie OJ is looking for Cardboard Khamenei. It could be awhile before we hear anything.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 10:55 PM (BnDlA)

218 Nebraska has wildfires and we are getting snow Monday here in Alabama. Strange weather so far this year. It was 75 degrees here today. We will get freezing weather Monday and Tuesday.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2026 10:55 PM (pvf3X)

219 The pies? All of them, except coconut cream. That one is a hard "No!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (8zz6B)

Should have socked someone from Gilligan's Island.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:55 PM (RGxCT)

220 I made a no bake cheesecake over Christmas. Just a hint of lemon. I am forbidden from making another.

Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 10:56 PM (zFsEm)

221
Welcome to the Dark Side.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

Trust me, I am glad that's behind me. And I'm really not too bad, all things considered. I'd already prayed decades ago if I did something not good, and it was not murder or stealing. So I felt confident I was already forgiven but this made it more real and is required.

My husband helped as he knows all and I have nothing to hide. The priest was nice. I felt like a Special Ed student with my booklet, but we got it done.

I was nervous but did not act totally goofy. Ok,maybe a little.

At least I did not have to start from childhood and throwing my brother up the stairs, or feeding mud to cousins. Plus college. College was a lot and I did mention that as a sinner. Since college I am practically Amish and floating on a cloud.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:56 PM (WONhk)

222 I just finished one. Cherry. I don't care much for the other ones.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

As I said above a scoop of vanilla ice cream can make any of them delicious.

Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:56 PM (oob1u)

223
That's what Hostess pies are. Doesn't stop me from eating one occasionally.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

I just finished one. Cherry. I don't care much for the other ones.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I like their coffee cake.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 10:56 PM (Cqx++)

224 Hell, no Raspberry Pi!!

Posted by: BillB at March 14, 2026 10:57 PM (TQxb9)

225 I'll take a berry pie every time but pray there are no canned fillings used. Those fake goopy fillings are awful.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

There used to be a u-pick Olallie berry farm south of Half Moon Bay. Akshully it's midway to Santa Cruz. Perhaps it's still there. Made darn good jam.

A restaurant in Pescadero had awesome homemade pies. Doubt that it's still open after 40 years !

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 10:57 PM (llLGG)

226 151 Went to my first confession today to become Catholic. Kinda nervous due to college stuff but I did ok.

That's nice. Wish you the best.

I tried many years ago. But I finally had to settle as a good pagan pal over the issue of birth control for women. I thought I won. Ha. Not a whole lot of years later, still had to do years of tribunals and testimony to get an annulment.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 10:58 PM (NFX2v)

227 First and only warning - tread lightly on the Catholic vs Protestant stuff.

Posted by: Doof at March 14, 2026 10:58 PM (+sTu6)

228
Thank you Doof.

Posted by: four seasons at March 14, 2026 10:58 PM (3ek7K)

229 I had a pot pie for dinner. To be sure, it was made from the leftovers of my corned beef and cabbage dinner, with the gravy made from the cooking broth.

But it is pie.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 10:58 PM (rbvCR)

230 the fueling plane had been shot down.

-
Looks more like a collision.

https://is.gd/swA4Sg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (ndZc7)

That's the one that did NOT crash. But it absolutely looks like a collision. I have to wonder if someone wasn't on altitude and they crossed paths in the refueling orbit.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:59 PM (RGxCT)

231 I assume there is no pattern that's been discovered?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:47 PM (oob1u)

They, seems to be a bit of a sport, have techniques. Not sure about patterns.

Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 10:59 PM (zFsEm)

232 Some Japanese dude has memorized 100,000 digits of pi. I have trouble with my phone number. Akira Haraguchi
Posted by: javems

I assume there is no pattern that's been discovered?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Nope, pi is still transcendental.

Because the Japanese language is made up of a small set of syllables, he assigns them to numbers and makes up stories that have the syllables in the correct order as a way to memorize it.

Of course, at 100k syllables, he's memorizing a short novel, instead, so it's still insane.

It's an expanded version of a common Japanese mnemonic trick, where they use a subset of their ~~alphabet~~ syllabary to map to numbers.

"1" is pronounced "ichi" or "hito", so "hi" and "i" are "1".

"2" is "ni" or "futa", so "ni" and "fu" are "2".

etc. etc.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:59 PM (VHUov)

233 Supposedly China has driven at least 30 semi-trucks into Iran via Pakistan. Not sure why we did not bomb them as well.

Saw another report that Russia was also still aiding Iran with anti-ship "stuff" (missiles I think). So I guess Russia would be fine with US aiding Ukraine with deep range Himars, or whatever.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:00 PM (vbXSk)

234 227 As you wish, Doof.

Hope you are well.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 11:00 PM (77rzZ)

235 13times, you thinking of Atascadero, and Linn's in Cambria? Specialize in olallieberry pies and products. Love that place. Love that whole area.

Just read that survivors from a ship torpedoed by a Japanese sub were brought to the Cayucos pier.

Whether you're just visiting, or a survivor of a torpedoed ship, make sure to get some of the smoked fish tacos at the little place at the foot of that pier next time in Cayucos.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 11:01 PM (U/Byj)

236 The Horde: What is a pie?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 10:19 PM (sKqQm)

essentially a won-ton or an empanada.
We may consider "pupusa" but that may come under the class of "arepa" depending on your requirements of the shell being wheat flour instead of corn flour.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

237 I would eat a pot pie if I was homeless and hadn't eaten in a couple of days . Otherwise I put them in my liver, brussel sprout , succotash category.

Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:01 PM (oob1u)

238 So, how about those Triscuits?

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

239 212 195 Sorry, Christy, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are sufficient for me. That’s all I know. No saints or the Mary stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:54 PM (77rzZ)
.................................
That's fine, Bulg. I've been Presbyterian all of my life (PCA...conservative).

Something changed in my heart is my answer. It's not for everyone.

Now I wonder if I should have mentioned the ONT in confession as y'all have me laughing at some wicked stuff at times.

However, God knows my heart and it has mostly been pure all of my wicked life.

I somehow had a lot of fun but remained a good girl with a weird sense of humor in college.

My husband said when he met me 49yrs ago that I have an innocent face. Which is better than a mean bitter one like Hillary's.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:02 PM (WONhk)

240 I would eat a pot pie if I was homeless and hadn't eaten in a couple of days . Otherwise I put them in my liver, brussel sprout , succotash category.
Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg

It's just stew in a bread bowl.

A thin, low-carb bread bowl, even.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov)

241 174 158 Roadside sovereign citizen lawyer makes his case and goes to jail. Plus this guy never shuts up.

https://youtu.be/s2BkimZhY98
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Don't know where that was but they took much too long. Put him in the wagon and take him to jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 11:03 PM (9Bsty)

242 That's the one that did NOT crash. But it absolutely looks like a collision. I have to wonder if someone wasn't on altitude and they crossed paths in the refueling orbit.
Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:59 PM (RGxCT)

My first thought was that there was some miscommunication or confusion of units so as to cause 2 tankers to attempt to occupy the same position at the same time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 11:04 PM (Mh6s8)

243 Now Cake, cake is wide open.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 10:25 PM (XV/Pl)

Cake is a lie

Posted by: Chel at March 14, 2026 11:04 PM (rbvCR)

244 Read that, at one time, they had 100 tankers in the air at one time. It is a testimony to the skill of our men in arms that there have not been more accidents.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 10:26 PM (9Bsty)

Because our airmen are the best in the world, bar none. And very few of them get "good ideas" about beating the system. (A story there to tell at a MoMe, when you can see my hands.)

BTW, your hash spells "9 Busty".

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:04 PM (RGxCT)

245 > That's the one that did NOT crash. But it absolutely looks like a collision. I have to wonder if someone wasn't on altitude and they crossed paths in the refueling orbit.
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They can refuel each other, if necessary. Although there are only a small number (like maybe 10?) that are equipped to take on fuel from another KC-135R.

Those that can are designated KC-135R(RT). FWIW

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:05 PM (jtM2q)

246 Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov)

I guess the brown gravy one but I was thinking of the white gravy and peas one.

Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:05 PM (oob1u)

247 Chicken pot
Chicken pot pie
Chicken pot pie....

Donnie

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 11:05 PM (Ar/17)

248 Love Triscuits. The flavored versions they came out with a few years ago are outstanding too.

Pot pies not good? Huh?

Pie crust, with chicken stew inside (mine have a bit of bacon, too)? Like dessert for dinner.

Maybe we need another guard-rail here, like the Catholics v. Protestants thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 11:06 PM (U/Byj)

249 https://is.gd/swA4Sg
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 10:16 PM (ndZc7)

That's the one that did NOT crash. But it absolutely looks like a collision. I have to wonder if someone wasn't on altitude and they crossed paths in the refueling orbit.
Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 10:59 PM (RGxCT)
.......................
They are awesome planes to be able to fuel mid-air like this. I was so sad one crashed, but I am sad when any of our military dies in combat and always look for the names to pray for them and their families.

This weirdo I have debated twice about Iran is wacko. She crossed a line today making up a missile strike.

I only raised my arguments a month or two ago when Ace mentioned Fuentes...had an argument with a guy like her about him. I apparently have triggers.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:06 PM (WONhk)

250 239 212 195 Sorry, Christy, God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are sufficient for me. That’s all I know. No saints or the Mary stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 10:54 PM (77rzZ)
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Sometimes people step off unintentionally.
Sometimes people push it.
This is new to Blinky.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 11:06 PM (9Bsty)

251 I guess the brown gravy one but I was thinking of the white gravy and peas one.
Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:05 PM (oob1u)

'Gravy' is an unalloyed good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:07 PM (bss/y)

252 Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 11:05 PM (Ar/17)

Roku plays at least 6 episodes a day. I think of seen every episode at least three times.

Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:07 PM (oob1u)

253 203 194 I thought it was fancy in here…until I got to the dead animal accoutrementé.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 10:48 PM
***
You started it with the fashion thread last week...
Posted by: TRex - fancy dino at March 14, 2026

But I said it was a bonkers one. No one read that. They went right to the pictures, and this, THIS is how misinformation starts.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 11:07 PM (Wmg4n)

254 Although, gun to my head, I'd have to say sausage gravy is best.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:07 PM (bss/y)

255 Another version of "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" with cute wee colleens.

youtu.be/HXm8JdC4k4c
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 14, 2026 10:30 PM (PH3st)

LOL. Another vote for that video. See comment #9.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:08 PM (RGxCT)

256 I order my chicken fried steak sans white gravy.

Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:09 PM (oob1u)

257 But I said it was a bonkers one. No one read that. They went right to the pictures, and this, THIS is how misinformation starts.
Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 11:07 PM (Wmg4n)

You're not new around here. Why would you expect anyone to read your content??

Posted by: Doof at March 14, 2026 11:09 PM (+sTu6)

258 Have some leftover buttermilk so gonna make biscuits (hmm, gonna be in the 90s this week, not exactly baking weather, but whatever). Did it a few weeks ago, and happened to have some frozen breakfast sausage I bought on deep discount a ways back. Made sausage gravy. Very easy. With the fresh biscuits and some fried eggs .....

Diner comfort food goodness right at home.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 11:09 PM (U/Byj)

259 What advantage do 6 sided hexagons have over a length of string?

Posted by: Joemarine at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (y171

Got to be able to prove it mathematically. String might work for your basketball, but can you prove it would work for the earth?

Posted by: From about That Time at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (sl73Y)

260 What advantage do 6 sided hexagons have over a length of string?

Posted by: Joemarine at March 14, 2026 10:35 PM (y171U)

It is important because he could prove it in abstract using those hexes, which was important. If something is done from actual measurements, then it might be a happenstance that the measurements in the real world in a single instance are equivalent to the math thesis being dreamed up. Good enough for a start, but it needs a generalized proof to be proved a constant. Pi is not a real number, it is a constant for a particular element of describing any circle

Posted by: Chel at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (rbvCR)

261 Saw this a little bit ago on 𝕏:

Embajada de los EE.UU., Venezuela
@usembassyve
13h

The morning of March 14, 2019, the American flag was lowered for the final time at U.S. Embassy Caracas. This morning, on March 14, 2026, at the same time, my team and I raised the American flag—exactly seven years after it was lowered.

A new era for U.S.-Venezuela relations has begun.

Onward with Venezuela. - LFD

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (jtM2q)

262 256 I order my chicken fried steak sans white gravy.
Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:09 PM (oob1u)

Why would you do that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (bss/y)

263 239 Christy, I have no argument with you, or any other commenters here on the Blog. I just like to engage in spirited discussion, whether it’s re religion, the 1st US Civil War, or Triscuits. I grew up on a large, argumentative family. But I will respect the rules of the Blog.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (77rzZ)

264 stupid Portal nic

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)

265 Baiting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:11 PM (bss/y)

266 Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (bss/y)

Because white gravy is nasty .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:13 PM (oob1u)

267 By the way, the right answer for pies is HCI.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

268 @190
>>I assume there is no pattern that's been discovered?

The thing is, that's less than 100kb of data.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 11:13 PM (XV/Pl)

269 Maybe we need another guard-rail here, like the Catholics v. Protestants thing.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 11:06 PM (U/Byj)
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Nah. Although we are discussing Ireland! I now won't know what color flag I represent. Have only been to Cork and Dublin, not Northern Ireland.

I've been Presbyterian all of my life. One thing I am not and never have been is a hypocrite to suddenly think I'm going to be superior as a Catholic. Or try to convert anyone.

Altho I was treated this way by my own MIL when she was alive and Catholic and her son married a Southern Presbyterian. Possibly she was not the best example for me with her unfiltered stuff she'd say to me if I put on a few pounds or had my hair longer than a nun's. Oops!

Need to go to bed to get rid of this cold the baby gave me. She was unfazed, our lovely girl. Hope to see her tomorrow.

Her sister (age 5) asked to hear my cough and collapsed in laughter (she has my laugh and looks like me). A wee nutcase who had to read books to us on the phone tonight but we love them with their big brother. Gifts from God and the best of olde age.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:13 PM (WONhk)

270 Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 11:01 PM (U/Byj)

I've not been there, though it gets filed for future reference.

I just skimmed an WIKI article about olallie berries. ZOMG!

Olallieberry pie in Pescadero, California The olallieberry (/ ˈoʊləliˌbɛri / OH-lə-lee-berr-ee), sometimes spelled ollalieberry, olallaberry, olalliberry, ollalaberry or ollaliberry, [2] is the marketing name for the 'Olallie' blackberry released by the USDA-ARS (in collaboration with Oregon State University). The berry was a selection from a cross between the ...

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 11:14 PM (llLGG)

271 "The abstract with some flawless long division and multiplication will get much closer than you could measure with a tape measure or stretchy string. Assuming you have a perfect circle to measure." Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

His estimate was between 3.140 and 3.1427. Seems a little large margin of error. I guess they did not have wire then, but a limp (or consistent pressure) string/rope could be used to draw a large circle ... idk, seems it could have been close. 96 polygons still leaves a lot of extra space ... but maybe not enough, hard to say. I'm not going to try to repeat it.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:15 PM (vbXSk)

272 > Because white gravy is nasty .
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The gravy on sausage biscuits is.... white.

Sit down.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:15 PM (jtM2q)

273
Even during the Potato Blight and Famine in Ireland, we Micks wouldn't stoop to eating Triscuits.

Posted by: Paddy O'Furniture at March 14, 2026 11:16 PM (oftw2)

274 Got to be able to prove it mathematically. String might work for your basketball, but can you prove it would work for the earth?
Posted by: From about That Time

First you need two wells, accurate means of measuring true north and high noon...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 11:16 PM (/lPRQ)

275 263 239 Christy, I have no argument with you, or any other commenters here on the Blog. I just like to engage in spirited discussion, whether it’s re religion, the 1st US Civil War, or Triscuits. I grew up on a large, argumentative family. But I will respect the rules of the Blog.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (77rzZ)

Wut? I was not, ever, offended. I used to feel the same as you! No problems except about the pecans.

Am I in trouble, too?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:16 PM (WONhk)

276 263 239 Christy, I have no argument with you, or any other commenters here on the Blog. I just like to engage in spirited discussion, whether it’s re religion, the 1st US Civil War, or Triscuits. I grew up on a large, argumentative family. But I will respect the rules of the Blog.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 11

I think it’s best not to denigrate anyone’s true religious beliefs. We should be grateful they feel God’s grace.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 11:17 PM (Wmg4n)

277 Been watching The Sopranos lately. Before that, I had never heard pasta sauce referred to as gravy. I'm not comfortable with that!

Posted by: Doof at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM (+sTu6)

278 I order my chicken fried steak sans white gravy.
Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:09 PM (oob1u)

Why would you do that?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Ask for it on the side.
They usually give you more when it's 'on the side'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM (/lPRQ)

279 So is that different from a marionberry?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM (RIvkX)

280 Because white gravy is nasty .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:13 PM (oob1u)

*ponders*

Oh, a communist!

*points and makes invasion of the Body Snatchers noise*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM (bss/y)

281 Is it pronounced pee-cans or peh-cahns?

Posted by: Nunzio Vespuna at March 14, 2026 11:19 PM (oftw2)

282 Ask for it on the side.
They usually give you more when it's 'on the side'.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM (/lPRQ)

I like for it to have been soaked in a bit on the breading of the steak. Not too much. Still crispy. Just slightly less so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:20 PM (bss/y)

283 Is it pronounced pee-cans or peh-cahns?
Posted by: Nunzio Vespuna
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Pah-kahns

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at March 14, 2026 11:20 PM (VCgbV)

284 A pee-can is something that goes under the bed at night.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (uKG+m)

285 13times, good info on the berries - and I assume I'm correct that "marionberries" are named for some kind of similar hybrid developed in OR and named for Marion County. (former DC mayor was not, believe it or not, the inspiration for the name)

When you're down that way, must-dos are Linns for the pie, smoked fish place at the Cayucos pier for tacos, local caught fish at a restaurant on the wharf at Morro Bay, and dinner at one of the steakhouses (Far West in Orcutt, Hitching Post #2 on Vandenberg - not #1 in Buellton, that's in the movie "Sideways", or Jockos in Nipomo - which I thought had closed but apparently, thankfully not).

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj)

286 Pee-Kahns.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (bss/y)

287 Cantaloupe Pie:

https://tinyurl.com/CantaloupePieRecipe

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (S7WXb)

288 Bringing us together.

'We are enough': After Islamophobic attacks, Mamdani comforts NYC's Muslim community

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You're more than enough if you ask me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (ndZc7)

289 Pie?

Cherry, warmed, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Peanut butter cup, with a cup of coffee, for 2nd breakfast

Blueberry, if, as San Franpsycho said, with no canned fillings

Did anyone pick cookie dough?

It ain't what you make, it's how you make it.
https://youtu.be/UDTWVVlLGas

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Saturday ain't what it's cut out to be at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (O84gh)

290 I remember the best raspberry pie I ever had was in Keesville NY on a road trip home from Montreal. It was solid berry filling all fresh berries.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

Blueberries. My mom and I went to Nova Scotia when they were having an annual blueberry festival. (We didn't know.) We had to stop in every town along the road when we discovered it was a thing. We ate so many blueberry pies, blueberry muffins, blueberry coffee cake, blueberry jam, blueberry comfit....

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (RGxCT)

291 Before I go to bed...I am also an anti-white gravy person and I am as Southern as you could possibly be. I think it is a Southern thing?

Have also never had hominy except with grits. I like grits with butter/salt/pepper but haven't had them in years. Jimmie Dean sausage patties.

Gravy should be brown or red wine/brown. Maybe light brown if chicken and white wine with butter.

I have seen the white stuff for breakfast on menus but never had it. Cannot.

Also anti-poached eggs or runny yolks. My Yank husband likes the stuff I don't like this.Bacon has to be crispy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:22 PM (WONhk)

292 > Been watching The Sopranos lately. Before that, I had never heard pasta sauce referred to as gravy. I'm not comfortable with that!
Posted by: Doof
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Way back when.... like in the early 70's our neighbor, first generation Italian, always referred to pasta/tomato sauce as "gravy."

*shrugs*

It didn't catch on with us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:22 PM (jtM2q)

293 I only raised my arguments a month or two ago when Ace mentioned Fuentes...had an argument with a guy like her about him. I apparently have triggers.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Fuentes: Agent provocateur.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 11:22 PM (9Bsty)

294 286 Pee-Kahns.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (bss/y)

Puh-chans

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:23 PM (WONhk)

295 We have a bunch of racist gravy people here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:23 PM (bss/y)

296 I would eat a pot pie if I was homeless and hadn't eaten in a couple of days . Otherwise I put them in my liver, brussel sprout , succotash category.
Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:01 PM (oob1u)

Honestly, it is just stew in a pastry with a hearty gravy. Think of it as stew with shaped dumplings!

If you were abused with the freezer case pot pies as a child, I can understand, but they are a yummy way to use up leftovers.
The Rosemary Pork stew was a bit discordant the other day, but I think that might have been the bay leaf.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:24 PM (rbvCR)

297 Milk Bar (aka "Crack") Pie recipe:

https://tinyurl.com/MilkBarAKACrackPie

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 11:24 PM (S7WXb)

298 I assume people who like white gravy also like oysters and Clamato .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:24 PM (oob1u)

299 I don't think I could drink that Irish drink, by the way. I wonder if it looks like the Youcrane flag in the toilet bowl?

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:25 PM (WONhk)

300 Cantaloupe Pie:
https://tinyurl.com/CantaloupePieRecipe
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

What's next, okra/kale?

Posted by: mikeski shudders at March 14, 2026 11:25 PM (VHUov)

301 Just checking in as not dead yet.

Almost finished with all the moving stuff. Cheaper doing it myself but it sure as heck takes longer. Still need to grab a few items and go through the garage with a shop vac and then I'm done.

Then comes the unpacking...

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 14, 2026 11:25 PM (+9wcF)

302 So, how about those Triscuits?
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 11:02 PM (77rzZ)

I prefer fresh biscuits. We'll see whether quadcuits are any good, and made of real food, if and when they're released

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2026 11:25 PM (S/Y4j)

303 Find God is all I ask. You are loved. Find a denomination where you feel you'd worshipped after leaving, and a peace you can't find anywhere else.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM (WONhk)

Look for God to find you. He is calling to you.
You are not just loved, you were MADE for Him and by Him. If you follow, He will show you how to become what He made you for. When you realize there is purpose, worship is easy - it happens out of the overflow of your heart.

I have problems with Roman Catholic doctrine, but you nailed the Who and the why. You were made for it.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:25 PM (RGxCT)

304 @301

>>Just checking in as not dead yet.

As the saying goes, it's best to be seen and not viewed.

Glad you still walk amongst the living.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 11:26 PM (XV/Pl)

305 I order my chicken fried steak sans white gravy.
Posted by: Harry Buger Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 11:09 PM (oob1u)

I want extra white gravy on my hashbrowns too.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:26 PM (rbvCR)

306 The (main) thing I admire about Martin Luther from my Lutheran church of my youth, was the big stained glass window of him nailing the 95 theses to the door of the church, and he was Catholic, right?. (Sad to hear the new pastor speaking at a recent funeral had gone full Woke)

That (Luther's reformation) is the Thinking Man rebelling against The (corrupt) Institution. That resembles MAGA against our corrupt regime. Regimes (or large institutions) always become corrupt. Hard to deny the Pope had become a tool of the left, while much/all? of the Presby's have also surrendered. Seek out one's own salvation.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:27 PM (vbXSk)

307 If your cream gravy is white, you're not browning the flour adequately before adding the milk/half-and-half/cream.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:27 PM (uKG+m)

308 Pah-kahns
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at March 14, 2026 11:20 PM (VCgbV)

Correct!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:27 PM (WONhk)

309 My mom's strawberry pie was made by filling an already baked pie shell with fresh strawberries. Then you put in a sauce made by cooking crushed strawberries with sugar and a little cornstarch. You don't need much cornstarch because the crushed strawberries aren't that liquidy. Almost entirely strawberries, rather than glop. It's the fresh strawberries that makes it good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 14, 2026 11:27 PM (0Htd1)

310 Made a pie yesterday with eggs, ham, and swiss cheeses.
It's good. Not sickly sweet like those fruity pies.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 11:28 PM (/lPRQ)

311 puh KHAN

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 11:28 PM (ZxPkt)

312 Why would you do that?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:10 PM (bss/y)

My guess: He likes beef katsu

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:29 PM (rbvCR)

313 We have a bunch of racist gravy people here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I saw Racist Gravy open for The Black-Eyed Peas at the Brown County Music Center in 2006.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 11:29 PM (VHUov)

314 Picking wild blackberries as a kid was like visiting a free candy store:
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:50 PM (oob1u)

Huckleberries on grandpa's 100 acres when I was wee little. Mom always worried I'd meet a bear and fight him for the huckleberries. Also, I tended to not come back with a full bucket. And my hands and mouth all blue. Ahem.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:29 PM (RGxCT)

315 My Sicilian friends growing up called it "gravy" on Sundays because it had meat in it. If they had pasta on any other day it was "tomato sauce"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

316
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYPq1dd8-uE

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (KAi1n)

317 277 Been watching The Sopranos lately. Before that, I had never heard pasta sauce referred to as gravy. I'm not comfortable with that!
Posted by: Doof at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM

Ohhhh…okay, so that is descended from southern Italy, whose an Italian is, according to Tuscans, impossible to understand and wrong. They don’t say the g in Ragú, and their r’s sound like gs. So it sounds like gr-a-u-e

They also say Grazie wrong.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (Wmg4n)

318 puh KHAN

Captain Kirk's least favorite pie.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (+9wcF)

319 Don Black I think that's what happened few weeks ago when I made sausage gravy for my biscuits. Gravy was light brown, not white. I have an electric range so things like browning a roux can be dicey (some day, gas range to replace it) and I'm extra cautious. Flavor was outstanding nevertheless.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (U/Byj)

320 Huh. I did not know red eye gravy was made with coffee.

I might have to make some.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (bss/y)

321 PECK ann

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

322 So is that different from a marionberry?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM (RIvkX)

Fun fact: the Marionberry was named after a county in Oregon, not the past mayor of Washington DC

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:31 PM (rbvCR)

323 I learned something that might interest this smart military blog. In olden days, the command "havoc" meant to allow your troops to rape and plunder a defeated city. Often, if a city surrendered, plunder was kept to a minimum although tribute may well be demanded. But if they forced a siege and were conquered, it's cry havoc and no quarter!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 11:31 PM (ndZc7)

324 It's an expanded version of a common Japanese mnemonic trick, where they use a subset of their alphabet syllabary to map to numbers.

"1" is pronounced "ichi" or "hito", so "hi" and "i" are "1".

"2" is "ni" or "futa", so "ni" and "fu" are "2".

etc. etc.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:59 PM (VHUov)

Think of all the brainspace he is wasting memorizing the digits of pi, when he could be memorizing Studebaker parts numbers. Sad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 11:31 PM (8zz6B)

325 My Sicilian friends growing up called it "gravy" on Sundays because it had meat in it. If they had pasta on any other day it was "tomato sauce"
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Damn, I might have learned something.
Well, my day is complete having learned something.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)

326 Hard to deny the Pope had become a tool of the left, while much/all? of the Presby's have also surrendered. Seek out one's own salvation.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:27 PM (vbXSk)

Totally agree. Back when Catholics would not allow people to read Bibles.

NOT ALL PRESBYTERIANS Are The Same. Nor many Protestant denominations who break away due to heretics. I was raised PCA, then as an adult joined and raised our sons PCUSA...the liberal branch. Which did not alarm me til 2014 and I raised some cain with the big guns from Orlando and was called a Calvinist.

I might be wrong, but the only Protestant church to hold the line are the Baptists.

I come from a long line of ancestors who rebel. In this case, things changed and I changed with the times. I want traditional service and music and we cannot find it locally. My mother's Presbyterian PCA church remains true to the roots of the Bible.

I am going backwards in time as my ancestors were rebelling French Huguenots, and Scot's Presbyterians who wore their red scarves with pride (the origin of "redneck" rebelling against the Church of England). I may have some explaining to do in heaven and will be ready.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:34 PM (WONhk)

327 > Don Black I think that's what happened few weeks ago when I made sausage gravy for my biscuits.
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um, okay ?
maybe you meant this for someone else

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 11:34 PM (ZxPkt)

328 puh KHAN

Captain Kirk's least favorite pie.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (+9wcF)

He didn't mind when his dog peed on khan.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 14, 2026 11:35 PM (S/Y4j)

329 First time I ever heard tomato sauce called "gravy" was in New England...it was then I realized I had entered a different dimension....

Posted by: The Grateful at March 14, 2026 11:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

330 But if they forced a siege and were conquered, it's cry havoc and no quarter!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 11:31 PM (ndZc7)

I suppose letting slip the dogs of war goes without saying.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 11:36 PM (Mh6s8)

331 320 Huh. I did not know red eye gravy was made with coffee.

I might have to make some.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 11:30 PM (bss/y)

Yes and AWESOME on ham!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:36 PM (WONhk)

332 AOP, speaking of Studebaker, one of my new neighbors is an Avanti owner. Sadly, it's a 1980's car. So not quite the real thing.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 14, 2026 11:36 PM (+9wcF)

333 327 > Don Black I think that's what happened few weeks ago when I made sausage gravy for my biscuits.
----

um, okay ?
maybe you meant this for someone else
_-_
It just dawned on me...prolly the other Don....

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:37 PM (uKG+m)

334 The Sicilian’s say this. The Northern Italians say they are wrong and don’t speak Italian. They say other things, but I am nicer.

A bit more explanation above about gravy. But this is the summary.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 11:37 PM (Wmg4n)

335 Strawberry rhubarb
Coconut crème
Pecan

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 11:38 PM (A5RD0)

336 Before that, I had never heard pasta sauce referred to as gravy. I'm not comfortable with that!
Posted by: Doof at March 14, 2026 11:18 PM (+sTu6)

Go to that fictional Rhode Island place, you'll even find it referred to that way on some restaurant menus. More common than calling it sauce.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 14, 2026 11:38 PM (sl73Y)

337 Colorado weather update:

snow tonight, back in the 80s by Wednesday

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 11:39 PM (ZxPkt)

338 They can refuel each other, if necessary. Although there are only a small number (like maybe 10?) that are equipped to take on fuel from another KC-135R.

Those that can are designated KC-135R(RT). FWIW

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:05 PM (jtM2q)

Actually, the "T" designation is for those that have a "dual" fuel system. They can be used to refuel SR-71s, which require a different type of fuel than normal JP-8. The copilot has to be careful with his switches to ensure he's passing gas properly. There are a few KC-135s that are refuellable, but very few used as refuelers themselves.

KC-10s are refuellable, and we regularly sent them to haul the cargo for a deployment of fighter jets. They would refuel the fighters, and we would refuel the KC-10. Spent a week in Bodo, Norway helping them get going back over the Atlantic. Good beer and beautiful women - who wanted nothing to do with an American after a month or two of Marines being in town.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:39 PM (RGxCT)

339 Ya keep this pie talk up and we're havin' Thanksgiving early...now that I think about it...not a bad idea...just add another one to the calendar some months later.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:40 PM (uKG+m)

340 Maybe I should switch to Dan Block.

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 11:40 PM (ZxPkt)

341 Venezuela up 7-5 on Japan.

Top of the 8th!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 11:41 PM (z8KUs)

342 337 Colorado weather update:

snow tonight, back in the 80s by Wednesday
_-_
Yep. Don't know whether to cut firewood or plant the garden...but if we don't get some rain or snow soon, it won't much matter about the garden.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:41 PM (uKG+m)

343 In college I was a member of Eta Bita Pi.

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2026 11:41 PM (BT3km)

344 First time I ever heard tomato sauce called "gravy" was in New England...it was then I realized I had entered a different dimension....
Posted by: The Grateful at March 14, 2026 11:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

In New England cooking, from what I understand, gravy was never a thickened broth, it was just the broth.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:42 PM (rbvCR)

345 "I may have some explaining to do in heaven and will be ready." Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

ha, yeah, that is the best we can do. Last "group" I was in, leader spoke of the Huguenots (his history?), though I was thinking they were German. idk the history of them, should probably spend some time to learn more history. ha

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:43 PM (vbXSk)

346 340 Maybe I should switch to Dan Block.
_-_
Oof. And after all of that StormFront talk the other day...isn't the guy who founded that also named Don Black?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:44 PM (uKG+m)

347 Good night everyone! Except the dead animals. Even if I am at fault for them. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2026 11:44 PM (Wmg4n)

348 AOP, speaking of Studebaker, one of my new neighbors is an Avanti owner. Sadly, it's a 1980's car. So not quite the real thing.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 14, 2026 11:36 PM (+9wcF)

All Avantis are real Avantis. The ones Studebaker built are original Avantis, but the ones built by various successor companies are all legitimate users of the name. Some of the latter-day ones kind of dropped the ball styling-wise though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 11:45 PM (8zz6B)

349 The Huguenots were such big naysayers.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 11:46 PM (KAi1n)

350 Is it pronounced pee-cans or peh-cahns?
Posted by: Nunzio Vespuna at March 14, 2026 11:19 PM (oftw2)

Puh-cons.
Pee-cans are those upright metal urinals we have in the KC-135 "lavatory" where you lift the lid and aim into them when your bladder is full.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:46 PM (RGxCT)

351 dropped the ball styling-wise
_-_
That's what my wife keeps telling me.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:46 PM (uKG+m)

352 Some of the latter-day ones kind of dropped the ball styling-wise though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 11:45 PM (8zz6B)

----------

The Trabanti was definitely a low point in the brand's history.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:46 PM (+HNx/)

353 In college I was a member of Eta Bita Pi.
Posted by: wth

You'd stop by their house first, so you'd have a shot at surviving the party at I Tappa Kegga.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 11:47 PM (VHUov)

354
I have problems with Roman Catholic doctrine, but you nailed the Who and the why. You were made for it.
Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:25 PM (RGxCT)
......................................
I cannot remember a time when God was not in my life. Knowing me, loving me, but also knowing I'm basically a harmless lady with a wicked sense of humor at times.

He knew you before you were conceived is how much He loves you. He knows the number of hairs on your head. He knows the paths you will take (this may be contrary to Catholic doctrine as I am new, but what I believe as an almost former conservative Presbyterian). I am Biblically sound.

The biggest surprise for me is so is the Catholic Mass...in readings. When I was told otherwise my entire life.

No, my husband and others don't have verses memorized which was required by me in Sunday School all of my life. John 3:16 is memorized by toddlers from the KJV of the Bible.

He created the stars, Pleiades, and Orion!
Amos 5:8

Ok, going to bed now and will leave y'all alone. Love you all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:48 PM (WONhk)

355 Never had marion berries, at least not knowingly. I mean, is it even possible that there's a lousy variety of blackberries? I say NO!

Snausage gravy varies a lot. I had the worst sausage gravy/ biscuits ever fashioned at a small diner here in town. Like they mixed flour with water and left it sit until glompy. sad!

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 11:49 PM (llLGG)

356
Some Japanese dude has memorized 100,000 digits of pi. I have trouble with my phone number. Akira Haraguchi
Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 10:46 PM

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Headline: "Japanese Man Wastes Life, Dies Alone."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 11:50 PM (azNOR)

357 349 The Huguenots were such big naysayers.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 11:46 PM (KAi1n)

My French ancestors said nay to indulgences. My mother found a document where they were in trouble in Paris.

I come by this naturally as I am often in trouble with someone, but not for indulgences.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:51 PM (WONhk)

358 > In college I was a member of Eta Bita Pi.
Posted by: wth
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I was in I Phelta Thi

Posted by: Don Black at March 14, 2026 11:52 PM (ZxPkt)

359 pole dancing squirrel >> russian squirrel

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 14, 2026 11:52 PM (osGen)

360 Proud member of Tappa Kegga Dei

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 14, 2026 11:53 PM (osGen)

361 Marionberries are awesome!

Loganberries are awesomer.

But raspberries from my grandmothers vines growing in my son’s backyard are best.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 11:54 PM (A5RD0)

362 Studebaker was a main sponsor of the Mr. Ed TV show. Connie Hines made commercials for Larks. She looked quite nice in one.

Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at March 14, 2026 11:55 PM (oftw2)

363 I might be wrong, but the only Protestant church to hold the line are the Baptists.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 11:34 PM (WONhk)

Nope. Plenty of doctrinally sound Lutherans out there, too (and some other denomination parts). You won't find them in the largest Lutheran group, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). They're all over in the Wisconsin Synod (WELS) and the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS). (And some small independent groups.)

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:55 PM (RGxCT)

364 Larks were quite popular. The Big Three had to respond with their own compacts for 1960. Falcon, Corvair, Valiant.

Posted by: Automobile Club of America at March 14, 2026 11:59 PM (oftw2)

365 I planted thimbleberries in my back yard, but I am coming to think that my back yard is not a good environment for thimbleberries. The blackcaps are not doing so hot either.

My backyard, however, was a fantastic place for Himalaya blackberries, until I spent 5 years digging them out.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:59 PM (rbvCR)

366 The Huguenots were such big naysayers.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 11:46 PM (KAi1n)

My French ancestors said nay to indulgences. My mother found a document where they were in trouble in Paris.
///
I knew I should have spelled it "Hugenots".

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 11:59 PM (KAi1n)

367 Marionberries are awesome!
Loganberries are awesomer.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 11:54 PM (A5RD0)

You're on Vashion Island and not cheerleading for the Himalayan berry home team?

Are you a Russian spy?

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 11:59 PM (llLGG)

368 Fun fact: the Marionberry was named after a county in Oregon, not the past mayor of Washington DC
Posted by: Kindltot

That was Marion Barry.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 15, 2026 12:00 AM (KAi1n)

369 Salmonberries are tasty. But too tart for pies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:00 AM (A5RD0)

370 Studebaker was a main sponsor of the Mr. Ed TV show. Connie Hines made commercials for Larks. She looked quite nice in one.
Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at March 14, 2026 11:55 PM (oftw2)

Wilbur Post had a Studebaker Champ truck to pull Ed's horse trailer. Ed never got to drive a Studebaker, but he did drive a Divco ( IIRC) mik van in one episode.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:01 AM (8zz6B)

371 8-5 Venezuela.

Top of the 9th

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:01 AM (A5RD0)

372 Huguenot might have been a good name for a car model.

The Hudson Huguenot sounds good.

Posted by: Auto Autist. at March 15, 2026 12:02 AM (oftw2)

373 Larks were quite popular. The Big Three had to respond with their own compacts for 1960. Falcon, Corvair, Valiant.
Posted by: Automobile Club of America at March 14, 2026 11:59 PM (oftw2)

I drove my little six-cylinder 1960 Lark today, as a matter of act. Runs like a pup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:03 AM (8zz6B)

374 Salmonberries are tasty. But too tart for pies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:00 AM (A5RD0)

Salmonberries might make a good liqueur or vodka cooler.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:04 AM (8zz6B)

375 No, my husband and others don't have verses memorized which was required by me in Sunday School all of my life. John 3:16 is memorized by toddlers from the KJV of the Bible.

He created the stars, Pleiades, and Orion!
Amos 5:8

Ok, going to bed now and will leave y'all alone. Love you all.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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KT hit on that this morning - as it came - the modern denominations dropped — Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity —
don't just fail to resonate; they actively reject these concerns as immoral.
Loyalty to a group shrinks the moral circle; it is the basis of racism and exclusion, they say.
Authority is oppression.
Sanctity is religious mumbo-jumbo whose only function is to suppress female sexuality and justify homophobia."

Progressive Christianity does the same thing theologically. It elevates the care and fairness dimensions of Jesus's teaching above everything else… then treats anyone who draws from the other moral foundations as a Pharisee.

The result sounds like pure love. But it's a narrowed moral vision that has quietly set aside half the palette and declared the remaining half to be the whole gospel."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 12:05 AM (9Bsty)

376 Sausage gravy is not “white” gravy, tho it is made with Milk. Milk gravy. SOS w/ beef. In addition to plenty of Pepper, chicken bouillon & Fennel is good for that traditional four calendar Diner flavor. A leetle bit of freeze-dried coffee is good in there too.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2026 12:05 AM (+s7dC)

377 Motörhead's Phil "Wizzö" Campbell, guitarist, kicked the bucket at the ripe age of 64. RIP.

The Ace of Spades passes on to a new generation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 12:05 AM (M9gjJ)

378 376 Sausage gravy is not “white” gravy, tho it is made with Milk. Milk gravy. SOS w/ beef. In addition to plenty of Pepper, chicken bouillon & Fennel is good for that traditional four calendar Diner flavor. A leetle bit of freeze-dried coffee is good in there too.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 15, 2026 12:05 AM (+s7dC)

Hmmm, chicken bouillon in sausage gravy? Sounds like a cool idea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2026 12:07 AM (bss/y)

379 *face palms*

Modern education is sadly lacking.

The failing lesbian knight video game that was just released has Aeta as the knight in question. The time is 1348, when the Black Death had just started to exterminate up to half of Italy's population.

In the game we are told, the tales of Arthur and the Round Table are her inspiration to be a knight. Le Morte d'Arthur was not compiled and published until 1470. So how could a provincial aristocratic girl in Italy know anything of the loose collection of English and French tales of Arthur?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:08 AM (2GVsD)

380 salmon eggs > salmonberries

Posted by: wth at March 15, 2026 12:09 AM (BT3km)

381 That was Marion Barry.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 15, 2026 12:00 AM (KAi1n)

You agree with me.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2026 12:10 AM (rbvCR)

382 In the game we are told, the tales of Arthur and the Round Table are her inspiration to be a knight. Le Morte d'Arthur was not compiled and published until 1470. So how could a provincial aristocratic girl in Italy know anything of the loose collection of English and French tales of Arthur?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:08 AM (2GVsD)

She has visions?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2026 12:11 AM (bss/y)

383 Salmon roe with raw quail egg

Omg yum!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:11 AM (A5RD0)

384 In the game we are told, the tales of Arthur and the Round Table are her inspiration to be a knight. Le Morte d'Arthur was not compiled and published until 1470. So how could a provincial aristocratic girl in Italy know anything of the loose collection of English and French tales of Arthur?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:08 AM (2GVsD)

The real burning question: Does Aeta wear a chainmail bra?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:12 AM (8zz6B)

385 The real burning question: Does Aeta wear a chainmail bra?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:12 AM (8zz6B)

Even more important, under her chainmail hot-pants is she wearing a gambethong?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2026 12:13 AM (rbvCR)

386 Tom McCahill's complaint at Studebaker was quality control. He illustrated that by mentioning " beer cans in the door panels", but you know that was the canary. Too bad management couldn't get a handle on it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 12:13 AM (9Bsty)

387 Aetius

The game developers had that and some serious mind-numbing drugs.

The climatic boss battle is between Aeta and her lesbian love Bianca. Two young lesbians with swords attacking each other.

Apparently, the game devs never contemplated any other possible interpretation to that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:14 AM (2GVsD)

388 Holy shit!

Venezuela beats Japan!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:16 AM (A5RD0)

389 65 There is like a hour long video on Boston how it started as a one man band who made the first album of all tracks and instruments but when it came time to actually perform at a venue they had to fill it with other players

Considering how many guitar overdub tracks the Scholz sound required did live Boston require like 3 or 4 guitarists? Not bashing Tom at all, he's right up there with the Beach Boys and the Ramones for creating a signature sound. Problem with that is you can't really ever change it so eventually you run out of variations on it

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 15, 2026 12:17 AM (3/XaG)

390 Aeta sports a boy's bowl cut. Her attire seems to be a linen under-tunic and skirt with leather armor and the only metal armor being on one arm.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:18 AM (2GVsD)

391 He created the stars, Pleiades, and Orion!
Amos 5:8

I understand that the Pleiades and the blue/white stars in Orion are each in close clusters and each likely formed at the same time.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 15, 2026 12:18 AM (gKWVE)

392 380 salmon eggs > salmonberries
Posted by: wth
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380 salmon eggs > salmonberries > salmonella

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 12:18 AM (9Bsty)

393 A pee-can is something that goes under the bed at night.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 11:21 PM (uKG+m)
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A pee-can is someone who goes to the bathroom at 3AM.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:19 AM (5UTWB)

394 salmon eggs > salmonberries > salmonella

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 12:18 AM (9Bsty)

Sam & Dave>salmon eggs>salmonberries>salmonella

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:21 AM (8zz6B)

395 The climatic boss battle is between Aeta and her lesbian love Bianca. Two young lesbians with swords attacking each other.

Apparently, the game devs never contemplated any other possible interpretation to that.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:14 AM (2GVsD)

And you bought this game or just watched a video?

I have heard about it, but it seemed like so bad it is not even funny trash.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2026 12:24 AM (bss/y)

396 Wow, the Club looks great! 2D's-- you guys did a heckuva job on the decor-- thanks!
- - - - -

May yer souls be in glory an hour b'fore the devil knows yer dead!

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)

397 A pee-can is someone who goes to the bathroom at 3AM.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:19 AM (5UTWB)

Really?

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 12:25 AM (bss/y)

398 Sweet

https://meetmythamerica.com/grit.html

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 15, 2026 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

399 Salmon roe and cream cheese in an omelette are sublime.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:26 AM (A5RD0)

400 Oh hell no, I was not going to buy it and give those vermin money. But Endymion on YouTube has published these climatic scenes where it is revealed that peasant girl Biance is the one who let the bandits into the village so the bandits could rape and kill. All because Bianca wanted to have power. And somehow these rough and nasty male bandits made her their queen. And after Aeta kills all these bandits, this is the big reveal and fight.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:27 AM (2GVsD)

401 Salmon roe and cream cheese in an omelette are sublime.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:26 AM (A5RD0)

But not Pautzke's right?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2026 12:27 AM (rbvCR)

402 A pee-can is someone who goes to the bathroom at 3AM.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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https://tinyurl.com/22ttvusv

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 15, 2026 12:27 AM (9Bsty)

403 Really?

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 12:25 AM (bss/y)
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Depends.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:28 AM (5UTWB)

404 Venezuela beats Japan!
.......

Didn't even need nukes.

Posted by: wth at March 15, 2026 12:28 AM (BT3km)

405 Depends.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:28 AM (5UTWB)

Wouldn't that be someone who doesn't get to the bathroom at 3am?

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 12:29 AM (bss/y)

406 Depends?

Willie Make-It?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:30 AM (2GVsD)

407 The Japanese "One Missed Call" films are the "Friday the 13th"s of the "Nightmare on Elm Street"s.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 15, 2026 12:30 AM (CHHv1)

408 Wouldn't that be someone who doesn't get to the bathroom at 3am?

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 12:29 AM (bss/y)
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You're asking someone who lately gets up in the middle of the night due to incoming incontinental missiles.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:32 AM (5UTWB)

409 Re KC-135s...did you realize that KC-135s have been refueling B-52s since 1957? Next year will be the 70th anniversary of that.

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 15, 2026 12:32 AM (3/XaG)

410 Wow, the Club looks great! 2D's-- you guys did a heckuva job on the decor-- thanks!

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 12:25 AM (rdVOm)

We aim to please!

Posted by: Doof at March 15, 2026 12:32 AM (QMAsf)

411
The discovery that transformed pi

https://youtu.be/gMlf1ELvRzc

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 15, 2026 12:32 AM (xG4kz)

412 No, Chinese ships are not steaming through the Strait. Translated video of Chinese navigators discussing a daring run or starvation.

https://x.com/jenniferzeng97/status/2033018403019956653

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2026 12:33 AM (llLGG)

413 Depends?

Willie Make-It?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:30 AM (2GVsD)
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I Buckingham Palace they ask "Will we make it?"

The royal wee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:34 AM (5UTWB)

414 1957, those were KC-135As.

Right now the USAF is using KC-135Rs which are remanufactured KC-135Es.

And if the KC-46A Pegasus keeps limping along, the KC-135 will also soldier on like the 'new' B-52J.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:34 AM (2GVsD)

415 Anyone here ever drink so much green beer on St. Pat's, that they pee'd green?

LOL, I have friends what told their tales of it, back in the day.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

416 Aaaand Canada (Vancouver Canucks) lose to the US (Seattle kraken) again.

Too bad. So sad.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 15, 2026 12:35 AM (A5RD0)

417 Double dribble.

Posted by: wth at March 15, 2026 12:35 AM (BT3km)

418 If Canada keeps losing, the whole country may sign up for MAID.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:36 AM (2GVsD)

419 You're asking someone who lately gets up in the middle of the night due to incoming incontinental missiles.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:32 AM (5UTWB)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD, pee-can at March 15, 2026 12:36 AM (bss/y)

420
Where is the slice of mincemeat pie?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 15, 2026 12:36 AM (xG4kz)

421 Aaaand Canada (Vancouver Canucks) lose to the US (Seattle kraken) again.

Too bad. So sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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HAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)

422 And the Kraken was buried in an Avalanche the other night.

Posted by: Don Black at March 15, 2026 12:37 AM (ZxPkt)

423 French silk, Pumpkin, and fudge.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 15, 2026 12:38 AM (x29G8)

424 The Avs responded by getting whipped by Winnipeg earlier today.

Posted by: Don Black at March 15, 2026 12:38 AM (ZxPkt)

425 Saint Paddy's Day party at the bar, was when I started hoisting my cocktail tray aloft-- overhead, like Supertramp's Breakfast in America album cover lady-- while waitressing.

"Move it or wear it!"

It was the only way to get through the crowd.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

426 Happy Saturday Horde! Just got home from my neighbor's St. Patty's Day dinner and dance party.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 12:40 AM (0nHVk)

427 390 Aeta sports a boy's bowl cut.

--

Greta thunderscowl has a bowl cut now
Gone are the braids
She kinda looks like an medieval stable boy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 12:40 AM (0JWOm)

428 She kinda looks like an medieval stable boy

Greta von Thule looks like the piss boy?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:42 AM (2GVsD)

429 She kinda looks like an medieval stable boy
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 15, 2026 12:40 AM (0JWOm)

Which is odd, considering that her photo is used to illustrate "unstable" in the dictionary.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:43 AM (8zz6B)

430 Hi, Debby!

Chivas, or... have you had enough already, tee hee?

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 12:43 AM (rdVOm)

431 Well, I had some "blackened" Atlantic salmon for dinner. It was OK, not wonderful, but OK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:46 AM (8zz6B)

432 AoP, did your family escape Mexico?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:47 AM (2GVsD)

433 Dear Viktor.

With love,
Viktor.

https://tinyurl.com/3nm4j3re

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 12:48 AM (5UTWB)

434 Pick 3 pies:

Each slice appears to be 1/8 of a pie. So I’ll take all 16 pieces which is equal to 2 pies and will still be owed 1 pie.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 15, 2026 12:49 AM (JRP2U)

435 AoP, did your family escape Mexico?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:47 AM (2GVsD)

As far as I know, they are still there, and the violence in P.V. has subsided.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:50 AM (8zz6B)

436 Holy crap. Three days of St. Patrick's Day parties? That's hardcore.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 12:50 AM (M9gjJ)

437 Still there? Hope they stay safe.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:52 AM (2GVsD)

438 1957, those were KC-135As.

Right now the USAF is using KC-135Rs which are remanufactured KC-135Es.

And if the KC-46A Pegasus keeps limping along, the KC-135 will also soldier on like the 'new' B-52J.

I know. And the only B-52s left are all H models built in 61-62. But its still a fun thought that that has been going on for more than half of the entire history of powered flight. Or if a major power, heck any military, was still using B-17s as bombers in 2008.

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 15, 2026 12:53 AM (3/XaG)

439 JQ, I think that I will stick with the Jameson's tonight if you don't mind. Thank you muchly.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 12:54 AM (0nHVk)

440 The NORKs are still flying Il-28 Beagles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:54 AM (2GVsD)

441 Ah... excellent choice, Debby!

*Jameson's* it is.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)

442 If Canada keeps losing, the whole country may sign up for MAID.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:36 AM (2GVsD)

They need to borrow MegaMAID from Spaceballs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 15, 2026 12:56 AM (S/Y4j)

443 Something ocurred to me a few years ago. At a family funeral, don't look around and wonder who's next. You may be surprised, or not.

Posted by: Lord Percy at March 15, 2026 12:56 AM (NO/Iy)

444 You mean Canada will go from suck to blow?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2026 12:57 AM (2GVsD)

445 Holy crap. Three days of St. Patrick's Day parties? That's hardcore.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 12:50 AM (M9gjJ

Butte, Montana.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 15, 2026 12:58 AM (Ar/17)

446 Or if a major power, heck any military, was still using B-17s as bombers in 2008.
Posted by: Azjaeger at March 15, 2026 12:53 AM (3/XaG)

Speaking of B-17's, Sentimental Journey, which is based at Falcon Field in Mesa, flew right over my head today. Shiny aluminum glistening in the sunlight.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 12:59 AM (8zz6B)

447 VMom, were you mentioning a concern over your vision?

I saw this today: Cell death in photoreceptor cells is reversible, study finds

https://tinyurl.com/preview/46jtz43m

Posted by: Kindltot at March 15, 2026 01:01 AM (rbvCR)

448 >>>Butte, Montana.

Posted by: Pug Mahon,

>On the bright side, all of that cabbage will clean the plumbing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 15, 2026 01:11 AM (M9gjJ)

449 Good jokes tonight, D&D!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:29 AM (8zz6B)

450 Well, I am getting sleepy. Going to sack out. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2026 01:35 AM (8zz6B)

451 Everybody's gone. Damn.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)

452 Good night AOP, I'll just tidy up here a bit, and maybe sip one more.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:02 AM (0nHVk)

453 JQ! I thought that I was the only one here after AOP left. Let's get this place cleaned up.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:05 AM (0nHVk)

454 Ok, Debby. There's not too much of a mess, considering. LOL!

Morons aren't total slobs.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)

455 This is my favorite time-- once the crowd leaves, and just dealing with the night's leftovers with some nice cow-orkers.

We had a good crew at the bar. Several, actually, as time passed. I miss those days sometimes.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:11 AM (rdVOm)

456 There seems to be glasses all over the place, it could be a lot worse. How was Hubby today?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:12 AM (0nHVk)

457 Hubs was ok today. The new normal, I guess we could call it. He can still speak/communicate, but there's not much *new* to talk about so he's pretty quiet.

He can remember stuff from years ago, but can't tell me what he had for breakfast, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

458 *pulls rack of clean glassware from dishwasher & sets on bar to dry*

*puts rack of dirty glassware into washer & pushes start button*

- - - - -

Only a couple more loads to go...

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)

459 Today, hubby asked if BIL was "still here" and I had to admit: yes.

He told me that BIL had called & asked to stay with us *several times* over the years. It struck as news to me, and I thought maybe hubby was confabulating, until I got to thinking... yeah, seems he mentioned it one time at least... maybe a decade ago?

Of course the answer was NO, and hubby did tell me to "kick him out!" last week when I told him BIL had arrived.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

460 I need to run the vac for a couple of minutes, sorry for the noise. It is so quiet in my house after so many years of it being such a boisterous place.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:27 AM (0nHVk)

461 *takes trash out while Debby vacuums*

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

462 Hey, Deb... when you're done vacuuming, we can rest for a bit and have our Shift Drinks!

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:31 AM (rdVOm)

463 Hopefully his ID arrives early in the week and you can send him packing. I am sure that he is super helpful around the house. LOL

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:31 AM (0nHVk)

464 *puts dry glassware away & again swaps out dirty/clean racks at dishwasher*

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

465 Super helpful... Bwah hahahaha! NOT!

Slob city. Unbelievably so. It's unreal.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

466 Yeah JQ, I am ready for my last sip of the night. I kind of left the party early tonight because it was an all inclusive party which meant inviting the oh so liberal neighbors. They really haven't liked me since I went to their Halloween party dressed as Elizabeth Warren.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:35 AM (0nHVk)

467 >>They really haven't liked me since I went to their Halloween party dressed as Elizabeth Warren.
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Hahaha, where'd you find a buckskin dress?

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:37 AM (rdVOm)

468 And we've gone from Pi Day to the Ides of March...

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 02:39 AM (NcvvS)

469 This was back before Trump was first elected, the party store still sold the faux buckskin dress and some beads. I had to buy the headdress separately.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:40 AM (0nHVk)

470 Have to add this:

https://tinyurl.com/4bv3deeh

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 02:42 AM (NcvvS)

471 That must have seriously set them off, DDS.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 02:43 AM (NcvvS)

472 *grabs bucket of bleach solution & a rag, starts wiping off tables*
- - - -

Hah, BIL just sits on couch all day, staring slack-jawed at the news. Lights are on, but no one is home...mostly.

No alcohol. No drugs. Just.. vacancy. This is why I didn't turn him away at the door last week.

Pity that the first, and possibly *only* things an idiot learns is: dependency and how to manipulate.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)

473 JQ, you have a wonderful heart. I am kind of hitting the wall here, so I bid you sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 15, 2026 02:52 AM (0nHVk)

474 Save the headdress, Debby! And learn the YMCA dance!

Hahaha, that'll P them off even more. *giggles*

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

475 This is why I didn't turn him away at the door last week.

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)
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Even though you didn't listen our the Horde's advice, there's still a consultancy bill due for the amount of $250, payable by covering bar tabs.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 02:53 AM (5UTWB)

476 'Night, Deb. See ya next time.

Thanks for helping with cleanup tonight!

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:54 AM (rdVOm)

477 Fcc chair and trump toady brendon carr says he will take the broadcast licenses of every broadcast station that doesn't support dump's war and attacks dump himself! Do it. The democrats when they get in will pull the broadcast licenses of every right wing station and faux noise tv station in the country.

Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2026 02:55 AM (o52si)

478 Even though you didn't listen our the Horde's advice, there's still a consultancy bill due for the amount of $250, payable by covering bar tabs.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Dude, I'll buy ya A Drink. But that consultancy BS ain't gonna get paid. I didn't *ask* for the advice, if you'll recall...

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

479 Rainmandodo!

So, you're saying that the demoncrats WILL BE totalitarian tyrants? They gonna put all the 'pubbies in camps too?

You know, like they accuse us of doing, although we haven't done it?

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 03:13 AM (rdVOm)

480 Thin Lizzy actually has a song called "The Emerald". Woulda been appropriate.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at March 15, 2026 03:14 AM (qivay)

481 Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2026 02:55 AM (o52si)
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You sure like the word "dump"!

Projection.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 03:17 AM (5UTWB)

482 Fcc chair and trump toady brendon carr says he will take the broadcast licenses of every broadcast station that doesn't support dump's war and attacks dump himself!

Posted by: raimondo at March 15, 2026 02:55 AM (o52si)
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Why do you lie? Don't answer that. It was rhetorical. You're sloppier that Sen. Fauxahauntus!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 03:21 AM (5UTWB)

483 'Night, guys. Place is all cleaned up. Last call!

Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 03:23 AM (rdVOm)

484 Even though you didn't listen our the Horde's advice, there's still a consultancy bill due for the amount of $250, payable by covering bar tabs.

Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Dude, I'll buy ya A Drink. But that consultancy BS ain't gonna get paid. I didn't *ask* for the advice, if you'll recall...
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Posted by: JQ at March 15, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)
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/accepts drink from jq as distraction from repo guy with tow truck outside front door

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 03:24 AM (5UTWB)

485 The NORKs are still flying Il-28 Beagles.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The NORKs would still be be eating beagles but that would earn one a trip to a coal mine work camp for anti North Korean military agitation, hence the steady diet of dirt and insects.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 15, 2026 03:27 AM (BnDlA)

486 I can finally relax. Time for a nightcap.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 15, 2026 03:37 AM (snZF9)

487 Have to decide if I am up or not

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 03:40 AM (Ia/+0)

488 Have to decide if I am up or not

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2026 03:40 AM (Ia/+0)
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With a pee can, you can do both!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 15, 2026 03:53 AM (5UTWB)

489 Scottish, not Irish, but does have a brimstone pie reference:

Thae curst horse-leeches o' the' Excise,
Wha mak the whisky stells their prize!
Haud up thy han', Deil! ance, twice, thrice!
There, seize the blinkers!
An' bake them up in brunstane pies
For poor damn'd drinkers.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 15, 2026 03:59 AM (IG3/x)

490 Pixy's up.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 15, 2026 04:01 AM (NcvvS)

491 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:02 AM (+YA9H)

492 All righty, people ...

Rock & Roll Band, everybody's waiting, getting crazy, anticipating love & music, so play!, Play!, PLAY!!! yeah, yeah, yeah ...

ah sweet youth.

Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic . . . at March 15, 2026 04:05 AM (3ZUWJ)

493 ... and we are *so close* to 500 here.
Hmm.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2026 04:09 AM (+YA9H)

494 bcl for the total win, except maybe f instead of b.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 01:52 PM (R11M+)

Music Thread: St. Patrick's Day Edition

Garrett's just embarrassing now.

And if that isn't awful enough, here is The Pogues, singing a bit of a great song, but drunk in a pub. The hacking cough is a nice touch.

St. Patrick's Day is amateur hour, and I carefully avoid most of humanity. But drinking songs and songs about drinking and booze are ubiquitous, so let's see what we can dredge up!

***
Speaking of The Pogues...and drinking.

How Shane MacGowan survived into his mid60s may be a powerful indicator of the truth of the saying that God watches out for children and drunks.

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Black Flag: Six Pack
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Kiss: Cold Gin
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George Thorogood And The Delaware Destroyers: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

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Dropkick Murphys: Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced
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Cheers!

Posted by: CBD at 07:30 PM

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1 99 bottles of beer on the wall....

Posted by: Tuna at March 14, 2026 07:33 PM (lJ0H4)

2 Listen to enough Irish music, and you will realize that the Irish turned music into a weapon of war.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at March 14, 2026 07:34 PM (DK5Sh)

3 Thomas Dolby knew Shane in school. McGowan's teeth were already fascinatingly scarifying.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 14, 2026 07:35 PM (kpS4V)

4 Red Red Wine is quintessential ska and a very beautiful song too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 07:35 PM (RIvkX)

5 Red Red Wine is quintessential ska and a very beautiful song too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Played daily in our high school canteen for months. I wish them nothing but a horrible death.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 07:37 PM (diia5)

6 4 Red Red Wine is quintessential ska and a very beautiful song too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 07:35 PM (RIvkX)

This is one of my all time favorites. I think it's originally a Neil Diamond song, and I love me some ND, but UB40 made it theirs.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:37 PM (h7ZuX)

7 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Let's not forget An Irish Pub Song by the Rumjacks.

Catchy chorus goes something like this:

Whale, oil, beef, hooked! I swear upon the holy book,
The only 'craic' you'll get is a slap in the ear,
Whale, oil, beef, hooked! I'll up & burst yer filthy mug,
If you draw one more shamrock in me beer!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 07:38 PM (ESVrU)

9 David Bromberg - Sloppy Drunk

Posted by: kactus at March 14, 2026 07:39 PM (twS2i)

10 .. only second to ABBA faggots.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 07:39 PM (diia5)

11 I H8 RRW song

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)

12

White port and lemon juice.

https://youtu.be/RxqUD_7sqzM

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 07:39 PM (Cqx++)

13 The Chieftans, "No. 6 The Coombe":

https://tinyurl.com/5d5urrff

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 14, 2026 07:40 PM (kpS4V)

14
Let's Get Drunk and Screw - Jimmy Buffett

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:41 PM (9Bsty)

15 Swinging Doors - Merle Haggard

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:42 PM (9Bsty)

16 Thx CBD.
Saw The Pogues on St. Patty's Day in NYC. Three nights before Shane MacGowan had fallen off the stage in Boston and broken his knee. Did the entire show I saw from a wheelchair. Had a hug plastic cup of whiskey in the cupholder. Great show.
Amazed that Shane made it to sixty five. Only man I ever heard of be thrown out of an Irish band for being too drunk

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 07:42 PM (YsPj+)

17 Alice Cooper - Cold Ethyl

https://youtu.be/JwFE9tkq4KM

It's about alcohol, not necrophilia as so many think.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 07:43 PM (CNl8/)

18 I have to admit that as many times as I have heard the first bit of that song, I did not know they were singing about red red wine. I don't know what o thought it was- "red twine" perhaps.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 07:43 PM (ix8EF)

19 Not a drinking song, but an Irish one that I like: If I Ever Leave This World Alive, by Flogging Molly.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:43 PM (h7ZuX)

20 Not exactly a drinking song, I guess, but it'll do. Maybe.

Sinatra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkwdkUXQ1yo

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 14, 2026 07:44 PM (q3u5l)

21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6h1vI4Xv0

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 14, 2026 07:45 PM (jrgJz)

22 I prefer "Whiskey, you're the devil" done by a few
Irish groups, including the Clancy Brothers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 07:46 PM (ix8EF)

23 Jim Morrison's Father....

George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 200

was a United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator. Morrison held significant commands of United States naval forces during the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors.

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 14, 2026 07:47 PM (jgBQB)

24 Bloody Mary Morning - Willie Nelson

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:48 PM (9Bsty)

25 Interview with Jim Morrison's father

https://youtu.be/iYJpC-ubzZo

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 07:48 PM (CNl8/)

26 Sunday Morning Coming Down--Kris Kristofferson

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:49 PM (h7ZuX)

27 Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down - Kris Kristofferson

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:50 PM (9Bsty)

28 Drunken Irish Bastards are Evergreen CBD.

Posted by: tubal at March 14, 2026 07:51 PM (pDt9x)

29 Horde mind, Braenyard

The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had another for dessert...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:51 PM (h7ZuX)

30 Scotch and Soda - The Kingston Trio

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:52 PM (9Bsty)

31 Well, there's also George Thorogood's "I Drink Alone."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzqQst-Sg8

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 07:52 PM (jtM2q)

32 The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had another for dessert...
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
--

The man could write a song.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:53 PM (9Bsty)

33 St. Patrick's Day is amateur hour.

CBD, I thought that was New Year’s Eve.
Regardless, for years I thought that I was more Scottish than Irish, and studiously avoided St. Paddy’s Day.
Ancestry.com proved I’d wasted many an opportunity.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 07:54 PM (ttrGW)

34 The Parting Glass. And Irish aong to say goodnight or goodbye at a funeral.

Posted by: Cosda at March 14, 2026 07:54 PM (PxuQU)

35
Alice Cooper - Cold Ethyl

https://youtu.be/JwFE9tkq4KM

It's about alcohol, not necrophilia as so many think.
Posted by: Mark1971

What about Refrigerator Heaven?

https://youtu.be/eCunM-apXRE

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 07:54 PM (Cqx++)

36 Whiskey River - Johnny Bush

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:55 PM (9Bsty)

37 34 The Parting Glass. And Irish aong to say goodnight or goodbye at a funeral.
Posted by: Cosda at March 14, 2026 07:54 PM (PxuQU)

That's a fine one.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:55 PM (h7ZuX)

38 Tear My Stillhouse Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdU3SL_VHj0

Posted by: huerfano at March 14, 2026 07:55 PM (98kQX)

39 Def Leppard - Me And My Wine

https://youtu.be/Wvwn7SCCa2c

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 07:56 PM (CNl8/)

40

Roger Miller - Chug-a-lug

https://youtu.be/KsNWlM3fWmI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 07:58 PM (Cqx++)

41 Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:59 PM (9Bsty)

42 Willowed from previous thread.122 113 How much does it cost to have your quill Dutched?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 07:36 PM
$20. Same as in town.
Posted by: Eromero March 14, 2026 07:54 PM

Posted by: Eromero at March 14, 2026 07:59 PM (LHPAg)

43 Whiskey Lullaby - Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley

Thin Lizzy - Whiskey On The Jar

Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:00 PM (jtM2q)

44 David Bromberg on livin' the good life ...

I like to sleep late in the morning

https://shorturl.at/KlJHX

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 14, 2026 08:01 PM (3sXRv)

45 White Lightening - George Jones

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 08:03 PM (9Bsty)

46 Titties and Beer

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at March 14, 2026 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

47 Crackling Rosie
You're a store bought woman...

Neil Diamond

Posted by: Tuna at March 14, 2026 08:05 PM (lJ0H4)

48 Metallica does a great version of Whiskey in the Jar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 08:05 PM (YsPj+)

49 The Ballad of Thunder Road - Robert Mitchum & Jack Marshall

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 08:06 PM (9Bsty)

50 Since you brought up Thorogood, we gotta mention One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 08:08 PM (Mh6s8)

51 My bass player also plays acoustic guitar. That mofo knows more irish pub songs than I can count, and he's good at it, and he sings. Any acoustic guitar here got gulaged so he don't get his hands on it. He gets distracted by shiny objects. Well..bass player.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:09 PM (snZF9)

52 Remembered from The Quiet Man. The movie snippet is better sung.

https://youtu.be/ANEeqtAn7dM?
si=o4ObeJ0c4vbI0bxn

You Tread on the Tail of Me Coat

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 08:10 PM (zZu0s)

53 I think I'm keeping with the theme here:

youtu.be/boanuwUMNNQ

Metallica's cover of Whiskey in the Jar

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 08:11 PM (3uBP9)

54 My bass player also plays acoustic guitar. That mofo knows more irish pub songs than I can count, and he's good at it, and he sings. Any acoustic guitar here got gulaged so he don't get his hands on it. He gets distracted by shiny objects. Well..bass player.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:09 PM

Do you let him solo?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2026 08:12 PM (0sNs1)

55 Snortin Whiskey - Pat Travers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 08:12 PM (YsPj+)

56 Pat Travers - Snortin' Whiskey

https://youtu.be/I9tgeaDwiCQ

(and drinkin' cocaine)

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 08:13 PM (CNl8/)

57 Huh. Off topic, but I just learned that there is a town in Cuba called Moron. When the commies fall, that would be an epic MoMe location.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 08:13 PM (Wnv9h)

58 52 Remembered from The Quiet Man. The movie snippet is better sung.

https://youtu.be/ANEeqtAn7dM?
si=o4ObeJ0c4vbI0bxn

You Tread on the Tail of Me Coat
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 08:10 PM (zZu0s)
I swear I read that as You Tread On The Tail Of Me Goat.

Posted by: Eromero at March 14, 2026 08:14 PM (LHPAg)

59 Better version I think:

https://youtu.be/Ea0Xr9DGZKw?
si=gnuZTAlZk3k8IeK6

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 08:14 PM (zZu0s)

60 Snortin Whiskey - Pat Travers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 08:12 PM

Nah...I'll stick to drinking it, thanks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 08:14 PM (Wnv9h)

61 57 Huh. Off topic, but I just learned that there is a town in Cuba called Moron. When the commies fall, that would be an epic MoMe location.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 08:13 PM (Wnv9h)

I've been snickering about that all day. Big uprising in Moron. Our honorary Cuban contingent.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 08:15 PM (h7ZuX)

62 The Parting Glass. And Irish aong to say goodnight or goodbye at a funeral.
Posted by: Cosda at March 14, 2026 07:54 PM (PxuQU)

That's a fine one.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:55 PM (h7ZuX)

***

My best friend has made me swear I will sing that at his wake. If so, everyone there will wish I had gone first.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 08:16 PM (2WIwB)

63 ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 08:16 PM (CNl8/)

64 I'm surprised MacGowan didn't choke on his own teeth.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 14, 2026 08:17 PM (/HDaX)

65 For fellow Michigan morons, how many of you saw Blackthorne perform at The Old Shillalegh in downtown motown?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 14, 2026 08:17 PM (8AONa)

66 One for my baby and one more for the road

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 08:18 PM (+nEug)

67 George Thorogood - "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 08:18 PM (ntk8v)

68 Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 08:18 PM (2WIwB)

69 AC/DC- Have a Drink on Me

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 08:20 PM (ntk8v)

70 I've been snickering about that all day. Big uprising in Moron. Our honorary Cuban contingent.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 08:15 PM

Corsicana should explore a sister city relationship.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 08:20 PM (Wnv9h)

71 Local MN guys doing their own Irish pub song, Whiskey Was My First.

https://youtu.be/BF_Z7mFYOZs

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 08:21 PM (VHUov)

72 The perfect drinking song doesn't exis--

https://youtu.be/DnLLh-de-3A

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 08:21 PM (2mkc5)

73 RMBS, if my friend was still the mayor I would have pushed that idea.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 08:22 PM (+nEug)

74 Motorhead made an EP called 'Drinking songs for the deaf'. LoL!! A very Motorhead thing to do!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 08:23 PM (ntk8v)

75 I found this not long ago. If its not an irish pub song it should be. The singer from Alestorm and this seriously cute german chick with er..nice assets who plays the hurdy gurdy. She got a good voice too. She plays some great melodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvh4Fmk5lnw

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:23 PM (snZF9)

76 Three Drinks Behind by George Strait

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 08:24 PM (+nEug)

77 Sammy Hagar - "Mas Tequila"

Chris Stapleton, “Tennessee Whiskey”

Eric Burdon and War, “Spill the Wine”

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:24 PM (jtM2q)

78

Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64
The rock musician died peacefully in intensive care after what his family described as a 'long and courageous battle'

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 08:25 PM (Cqx++)

79 Finnegan's Wake
Song by The Dubliners ‧ 1966

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 08:26 PM (NFX2v)

80 RMBS, if my friend was still the mayor I would have pushed that idea.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 08:22 PM

😄

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)

81 https://tinyurl.com/3efexj48
Molly Maguires Suite

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 08:26 PM (Ia/+0)

82 The Champs, “Tequila”

(for God's sake people... really?)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:26 PM (jtM2q)

83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvh4Fmk5lnw
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:23 PM (snZF9)

Nice. Do nkt see Hurdy Gurdys much anymore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

84 George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 200 was a United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator. Morrison held significant commands of United States naval forces during the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors.
Posted by: Jackson K.

Tina Weymouth - bassist of Talking Heads fame - had an Vice Admiral for a father also. Ralph Weymouth - He was a highly decorated U.S. Navy Vice Admiral (1917–2020). Carrier qualified aviator during WWII and Korea. The Navy Cross and a couple of Distinguished Flying Crosses too iirc.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 08:27 PM (cYBz/)

85 Wine Women and Song

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 08:28 PM (+nEug)

86 Rupert Holmes - Escape (Pina Colada Song)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:29 PM (jtM2q)

87 Not a song but a toast to an American president with no fucks to give.

Denying interest in ceasefire, Trump suggests US could hit Iran’s Kharg Island again ‘just for fun'
_Times of Israel

Thank you President Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 08:29 PM (9Bsty)

88 38 Tear My Stillhouse Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdU3SL_VHj0
Posted by: huerfano at March 14, 2026 07:55 PM

Ooh! I like that one!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 08:31 PM (rbKZ6)

89 The father of Police drummer Stewart Copeland was Miles Copeland, a notable figure from the early CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Copeland_Jr.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 08:31 PM (CNl8/)

90 The Pogues are awesome.

Way to go CBD, you made me love you more.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 08:31 PM (A5RD0)

91 I think I would say Molly Maguires is onof my favorite movies

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 08:32 PM (Ia/+0)

92 Flogging Molly...

https://youtu.be/89NjEeHku8o

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 08:32 PM (nbLIj)

93 For NaCly and his fondness for polka"Roll out the Barrel "

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 08:32 PM (+nEug)

94 Beato has a second interview with the number one live concert sound man for the biggest acts, Dave Natale...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpIglqiOywk

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2026 08:32 PM (Q+gd/)

95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvh4Fmk5lnw
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:23 PM (snZF9)

Nice. Do nkt see Hurdy Gurdys much anymore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

The thing with euro folk metal is you never know wtf somebody is going to pull out. Many times you'll see instruments from their native countries incorporated into songs. This chick goes by the name Patty Gurdy, she has a lot of you tube vids.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:33 PM (snZF9)

96 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Whiskey Rock and Roller

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:33 PM (jtM2q)

97 Won't someone dance with me, to a waltz about whiskey...

https://tinyurl.com/37dh377k

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 08:35 PM (h7ZuX)

98
Willing - Little Feat

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 08:35 PM (9Bsty)

99 Heh. Alestorms Fucked with an Anchor is age restricted on ewetub. Drop the n bomb all you want in rap Eminem, but they have standards...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 08:36 PM (zZu0s)

100 Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64
The rock musician died peacefully in intensive care after what his family described as a 'long and courageous battle'

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 08:25 PM (Cqx++)

Not to speak ill of the dead, but he was the least friendliest of the band. Damn though, and then there was 1, Mikkey Dee.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:37 PM (snZF9)

101 Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is blaming the high price of Taylor Swift concert tickets on President Trump.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2026 08:37 PM (0sNs1)

102 82 The Champs, “Tequila”

(for God's sake people... really?)

Posted by: Martini Farmer
---

Excellent reach back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 08:38 PM (9Bsty)

103 Whoever was using the Irishman on the Crocs as a target has pretty poor groups.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2026 08:39 PM (0sNs1)

104 Alannah Myles-- Black Velvet

youtu.be/tT4d1LQy4es

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 08:39 PM (rdVOm)

105 Whiskey, Rye Whiskey

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 08:40 PM (+nEug)

106 The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan died on January 15, 2018, at age 46, from accidental drowning in a bathtub due to severe alcohol intoxication.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 08:40 PM (NFX2v)

107 Why are there so many movie posts and relatively few music posts? Is it a conspiracy by Big Hollywood?

Do I sense a booze theme tonight?
Does it have to be Irish?

The late, great Steve Goodman

Looking For Trouble - 4/18/1976 - Capitol Theatre
https://youtu.be/Xp419ydLDEs

How Much Tequila Did I Drink Last Night
https://youtu.be/sbSTG1nKQAA

Posted by: mindful webworker - Somebody else's troubles at March 14, 2026 08:40 PM (O84gh)

108 Brad Paisley - Alcohol

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:40 PM (jtM2q)

109 Brad Paisley - Alcohol

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:41 PM (jtM2q)

110 The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan died on January 15, 2018, at age 46, from accidental drowning in a bathtub due to severe alcohol intoxication.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 08:40 PM (NFX2v)

Her blood alcohol was over .3

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 08:41 PM (CNl8/)

111 Rumor has it that Dexy's Irish Runners are re-working their big hit Come On Eileen to honor Iran's new one-legged Supreme Leader,

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 08:41 PM (iPIE7)

112 Oops.... my bad

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:41 PM (jtM2q)

113 Oops.... my bad
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:41 PM

Blame it on alcohol.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2026 08:43 PM (0sNs1)

114 Alannah Myles-- Black Velvet
Posted by: JQ

That's about Elvis, not the liquor, but the judges are allowing it.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 08:43 PM (VHUov)

115 >>>101 Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is blaming the high price of Taylor Swift concert tickets on President Trump.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
***
What can't that man do?

Posted by: Cosda at March 14, 2026 08:43 PM (PxuQU)

116 Well I better call it a night
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 08:43 PM (Ia/+0)

117 "With alcohol I rule the world.. "

https://youtu.be/JHOyOFJKr7A

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 08:43 PM (f0sNM)

118 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 14, 2026 08:44 PM (jrgJz)

119 Rumor has it that Dexy's Irish Runners are re-working their big hit Come On Eileen to honor Iran's new one-legged Supreme Leader,
Posted by: Cicero

(Drop A) Bomb On Eileen?

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 08:45 PM (VHUov)

120 You can't have songs about booze without Alestorm's Drink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:46 PM (snZF9)

121 Since alcohol's the theme du jour, this has to be one of the all-time best UT00b drunk driving vids. Starts out relatively calmly but gets interesting pretty quickly:

https://youtu.be/imhl2YXM4-k

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 14, 2026 08:47 PM (/HDaX)

122 Rumor has it that Dexy's Irish Runners are re-working their big hit Come On Eileen to honor Iran's new one-legged Supreme Leader,
Posted by: Cicero

(Drop A) Bomb On Eileen?

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 08:45 PM (VHUov)

Come on, I lean.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 08:47 PM (snZF9)

123 I never knew that Kris Kristofferson wrote Sunday Morning Coming Down. I just knew the song as a Johnny Cash ballad. What a great talent pairing.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 14, 2026 08:47 PM (+89TD)

124 > ops.... my bad
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:41 PM

Blame it on alcohol.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2026 08:43 PM (0sNs1)
---------
snort

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:48 PM (jtM2q)

125 Life by the Drop - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Don't think it's a drinking song.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 08:48 PM (ntk8v)

126 Wasting away again in Margaritaville...

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 08:49 PM (rdVOm)

127 Dexy's Midnight Runners

'Celtic Soul,' a Brit band led by Irish-heritage frontman Kevin Rowland

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 08:49 PM (NFX2v)

128 For the mullahs...

https://youtu.be/17lkdqoLt44

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 08:50 PM (f0sNM)

129 The Fairy Tale of New York performed at Shane's funeral is a keeper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s8lvnSmISc

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 14, 2026 08:51 PM (otZRM)

130 Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 08:51 PM (ntk8v)

131 https://youtu.be/Ll34HfggyEg

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 08:51 PM (rdVOm)

132 I like Beer, and Watermelon Wine by Tom T Hall

Posted by: PaleRider at March 14, 2026 08:52 PM (+89TD)

133 110 The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan died on January 15, 2018, at age 46, from accidental drowning in a bathtub due to severe alcohol intoxication.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 08:40 PM (NFX2v)

Her blood alcohol was over .3
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2026 08:41 PM (CNl8/)

She was scheduled to sing the lyrics for Bad Wolves cover version of "Zombie" that day.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 08:52 PM (2mkc5)

134 Fairytale of NY includes the forbidden F-word. Mark Knofler excised it from Money for Nothing, but the Pogues, and their fans, stand athwart the PC tide and promise a cascade of empty beer bottles upon those who insist they remove it. Advantage: The Pogues...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 08:52 PM (nbLIj)

135
One for My Baby [& 1 more for the road] - Johnny Mercer

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 08:54 PM (9Bsty)

136 72 The perfect drinking song doesn't exis--

https://youtu.be/DnLLh-de-3A
Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 08:21 PM

Nice! That will have to go in my St. Paddy's Day playlist.

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 08:56 PM (rbKZ6)

137 St. Patrick's Day (AI Overview)
Transition from Church to Party:
Pub Ban Repeal: Until 1961, Irish law prohibited pubs from opening on St. Patrick's Day. By the 1980s, pubs were open, but the modern party-heavy atmosphere had not yet fully matured.
Influence of the Diaspora: The party-heavy, parade-focused, green-beer celebration was largely an American invention created by Irish immigrants, which was later re-imported back to Ireland.
The 1990s Shift: The modern, multi-day, large-scale St. Patrick's Festival was not established in Dublin until 1996, specifically designed to showcase Irish culture to the world and drive tourism.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 08:57 PM (NFX2v)

138 114 Alannah Myles-- Black Velvet
Posted by: JQ

That's about Elvis, not the liquor, but the judges are allowing it.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 08:43 PM (VHUov)

Might be the most erotic song ever done.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 14, 2026 08:57 PM (otZRM)

139 Advantage: The Pogues...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 08:52 PM (nbLIj)

God bless 'em.

It would kill the rhyme if they submitted to PC.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 08:59 PM (h7ZuX)

140 Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani. All their songs are about booze, and seeing it firsthand these guys would completely wipe out the booze table at the texas MoMe. They drink like nothing I ever saw. These 2 are good.

Vodka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ

Wooden pints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjZ1B897Tuk

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 09:01 PM (snZF9)

141 .3

I am surprised she could get into the bathtub. Of course, maybe she got drunk there...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

142 🎶 🎹 amateur hour again

Butterfly in the Studio
Nobody could figure where it came from.
🦋
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #3, 2016 Aug 22, back before my hands quit working; and my voice, but this is instrumental anyway. Most of my songs started with lyrics, tunes secondly; then, some lyrics don't seem to age all that well, but I like the tune. Not a booze song.

Link in nic. Should play from 2:49 to 5:11 in the vid.

Posted by: mindful webworker - songs to be sung silently at March 14, 2026 09:03 PM (O84gh)

143 133.
She was scheduled to sing the lyrics for Bad Wolves cover version of "Zombie" that day.
Posted by: tankdemon

Thanks for the reminder. I just listened to their version. 👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 09:03 PM (NFX2v)

144 Here's an obscure one. Stop me if you heard this..

Todd Snider

https://youtu.be/rxGbwiV4Mo8

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 09:04 PM (nbLIj)

145 131 https://youtu.be/Ll34HfggyEg
Posted by: JQ
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Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker had another row but the make up was worth it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 09:04 PM (9Bsty)

146 I came across Austin John / Hi-Jivers a couple of weeks ago that play in the Blues-Rock/Rockabilly/Country space. In modern terminology, the Americana style. Lots of good things happening a bit off the beaten path. The Hi-Jivers is Austin John's regular band

Austin John, Kenny Vaughan & JD Simo (Nashville)
T-Bone Shuffle
https://youtu.be/hmVZXOA4tDk

T is for Texas
https://youtu.be/K1W5VvYFhHc

All Your Love
https://youtu.be/RR8eL4J_m1o

The Hi-Jivers (Nashville)
Got Me Wrong
https://youtu.be/g6SP2WO7Nww

Mean Woman
https://youtu.be/52efLVpcXCs

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 09:05 PM (BnDlA)

147 Related to the Hi-Jivers...

The Delta Bombers (Las Vegas)
The Wolf
https://youtu.be/HDclLr-GhdM

15 to Life
https://youtu.be/IvZF-8PLQRw

Bottom of the Pack
https://youtu.be/GmaZ_TYsyu8

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 09:06 PM (BnDlA)

148 OT-Well, I hope various St Patrick's Day parades and Irish bars
have a lot of police protection, because I think it might present yet another opportunity for an attack by Muslims.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 09:06 PM (ix8EF)

149 126 Wasting away again in Margaritaville...
Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 08:49 PM

Pretty much any song by Jimmy Buffett is either a great song about drinking or a great song to drink to. People may have differing opinions about the quality of his music but his concerts were always so much fun. He truly loved his job.

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 09:07 PM (rbKZ6)

150 Sweet Cherry Wine
Song by Tommy James & the Shondells ‧ 1969

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 09:11 PM (NFX2v)

151 In a different direction. Douglas Mitchell has done a series of Paul McCartney covers where it is just him and an acoustic guitar. These are some of the best McCartney covers I have ever come across.

Heart of the Country
https://youtu.be/FO7WodmtSHk

Calico Skies
https://youtu.be/BrwHxzfuCsE

Mother Nature's Son
https://youtu.be/xK6tdqhYMso

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 14, 2026 09:12 PM (BnDlA)

152 Red Hot Women/Ice Cold Beer - New Riders of the Purple Sage

Posted by: Mr. Barky at March 14, 2026 09:12 PM (TdLTx)

153 I used to work at a bar what threw a St. Pat's bash every year. Ugh! Standing room only, huge multi-level place & people moving around all the time.... "What took you so long to bring our drinks?!" --- "Well, you weren't in the same place as when you ordered, so I had to FIND you..."

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 09:12 PM (rdVOm)

154 Link in nic. Should play from 2:49 to 5:11 in the vid.
Posted by: mindful webworker - songs to be sung silently
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Nice.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 09:13 PM (9Bsty)

155 Irish songs. Danny Boy. Sesame Street. Enjoy:

https://tinyurl.com/DannyBoyBobMcGrath

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 09:14 PM (S7WXb)

156 Been looking for a hook to hang this on. This looks like a good place.

Alleged smuggled-out photo of an early MoMe. Never been to one. Maybe someone else can confirm?
https://bit.ly/early-mo-me

Posted by: mindful webworker - a bottle or two may have been consumed at March 14, 2026 09:16 PM (O84gh)

157 Pretty much any song by Jimmy Buffett is either a great song about drinking or a great song to drink to. People may have differing opinions about the quality of his music but his concerts were always so much fun. He truly loved his job.
Posted by: Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 09:07 PM (rbKZ6)

I highly recommend his autobiography. He's distantly related to Warren Buffet, and the only time he leveraged that relationship was when he was offered a contract from Disney early in his career. Warren advised him not to get in bed with those vipers. The rest is history..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 09:16 PM (nbLIj)

158 Alleged smuggled-out photo of an early MoMe. Never been to one. Maybe someone else can confirm?
https://bit.ly/early-mo-me
Posted by: mindful webworker

Looks about right.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 09:18 PM (h7ZuX)

159 Forgot to add
that pic was from this video of "Rare Vintage Images"

https://youtu.be/8HemoOW8eWg

Posted by: mindful webworker - you weren't supposed to see at March 14, 2026 09:18 PM (O84gh)

160 Well. Geezer Golf is on St Pat's but with the weather looking bad, I won't be sporting the kilt this year.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 09:19 PM (2WIwB)

161 155 Irish songs. Danny Boy. Sesame Street. Enjoy:

https://tinyurl.com/DannyBoyBobMcGrath
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 09:14 PM (S7WXb)

Oops. Missed the part where the songs were supposed to be related to drinking....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 09:20 PM (S7WXb)

162 mindful webworker - songs to be sung silently at March 14, 2026 09:03 PM (O84gh)

Nice, MW!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 09:22 PM (nbLIj)

163 157- I highly recommend his autobiography. He's distantly related to Warren Buffet, and the only time he leveraged that relationship was when he was offered a contract from Disney early in his career. Warren advised him not to get in bed with those vipers. The rest is history..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 09:16 PM

Interesting. Is it "A Pirate Looks at 50?" I would like to read it. When I read a James Taylor biography, I was surprised to learn that he and Jimmy Buffett had a close friendship.

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 09:23 PM (rbKZ6)

164 Been looking for a hook to hang this on. This looks like a good place.

Alleged smuggled-out photo of an early MoMe. Never been to one. Maybe someone else can confirm?
https://bit.ly/early-mo-me
Posted by: mindful webworker - a bottle or two may have been consumed at March 14, 2026 09:16 PM (O84gh)

Could also be the 19th hole at Geezer Golf.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 09:24 PM (2WIwB)

165 Marillion's "Clutching At Straws" is a concept album about a drunkard reflecting on his life.

Last 3 songs:
https://youtu.be/ijmJNsYTFIE
https://youtu.be/ecUWafiuj3c
https://youtu.be/5tZtYtoVnLw

Their label didn't like the downer ending:

And if you ever come across us don't give us your sympathy
You can buy us a drink and just shake our hands
And you'll recognize by the reflection in our eyes
That deep down inside we're all one and the same
We're clutching at straws
We're still drowning
Clutching at straws.....

So they said to change it so it would have "a happy ending."

So they added a final track, literally named "Happy Ending."

Which is just a short, creepy laugh.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 09:24 PM (VHUov)

166 There's A Tear In My Beer
Hank Williams Jr.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2026 09:24 PM (pvf3X)

167 St Patrick's Day is the largest religious holiday in the USA

Of course Ireland hates Trump and has also had alligned themselves with the Palestinians.
God Save Ireland

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 14, 2026 09:25 PM (Yd4me)

168 Born today in 1943, Jim Pons is a bassist who played with The Turtles and Frank Zappa. As The Turtles' third bassist, he missed out on their massive #1 hit "Happy Together," which was arranged and performed by their second bassist Chip Douglas. However, you might as well refresh your memory now, to use it as a basis for comparison:

The Turtles - Happy Together
https://youtu.be/BqZ6sRHpWIk

After Douglas got poached for his arrangement skill and Pons replaced him, The Turtles made a concept album pretending be 11 different bands, on The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands, with each song in a different style. Naturally, one of those bandsonas was in their own style, and "Elenor" was basically a parody of "Happy Together," done as a dig at their label for pestering them to repeat its success; in a twist, it was good enough to become a top-ten hit in its own right:

The Turtles - Elenore
https://youtu.be/_NCd0Y776VQ

Cont.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 09:25 PM (Sy6m/)

169 Sweet crocs, Garrett.

I just finished listening to Soul Mining by The The. Fantastic piano solo.

Posted by: 496 at March 14, 2026 09:25 PM (t+VLa)

170 Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is blaming the high price of Taylor Swift concert tickets on President Trump.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I blame Squaw Speaks With Forked Tongue for the high price of fire water.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:26 PM (ndZc7)

171 Cont.

After The Turtles broke up, Jim Pons joined his neighbor and friend Frank Zappa in his band The Mothers Of Invention, called such because the label made him change its name "out of necessity." (I could tell you that here's where things get complicated, but I already said that Zappa was involved.) Similarly, although The Turtles lead singer Howard Kaylan and backup singer Mark Volman also joined the band, for legal purposes they were treated as the Phlorescent Leech (or Flo for short) and Eddie.

Zappa was heavily involved in some kind of satirical fake rockumentary "200 Motels," purporting to be about the touring musician life. "Fillmore East - June 1971" is inspired by the film project and in the same vein, so much of the album is basically an extended negotiation with some groupies, trying to convince them that they're big enough stars (with big enough dicks) to be worth having sex with. At one point, they sing "Happy Together," with Flo & Eddie implicitly pretending to be who they really are, and Jim Pons playing Chip Douglas's part on bass:

Frank Zappa - Happy Together (Live At Fillmore East, June 1971)
https://youtu.be/6ztmHcQTYHo

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 09:27 PM (Sy6m/)

172 St Patrick's Day is the largest religious holiday in the USA

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Well, a lot of people will be on their knees.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:29 PM (ndZc7)

173 If we're doing drink related songs, I've got one. In particular, I'd encourage the 'ettes to listen to this version of Tennessee Whiskey... I've been reliably informed that this guy's voice make women a little weak in the knees. Not being a woman, I wouldn't know

https://tinyurl.com/yz8u7h5x

Posted by: 496 at March 14, 2026 09:29 PM (t+VLa)

174 Clutching at Straws (album) got me through some very rough times... Marillion-- the Fish years-- RULES.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 09:30 PM (rdVOm)

175 Evenin, All. Happy Saturday night.

How do I get in touch with Weasel? I have a news story of potential interest for the gun thread.

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 09:32 PM (77rzZ)

176 Is Ben Had present this evening?

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 09:33 PM (77rzZ)

177 Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 09:23 PM (rbKZ6)

Yes, that's the one. In addition to James Taylor, he was great buds with Alan Jackson...

https://youtu.be/BPCjC543llU

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 09:33 PM (nbLIj)

178 Where should I put up my orange lights for St. Paddy’s Day?

Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 09:35 PM (77rzZ)

179 Ass captures the present sad state of Ireland quite well. Kudos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 09:35 PM (zZu0s)

180 Which is just a short, creepy laugh.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 09:24 PM (VHUov)
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I'll have to check it out... Misplaced Childhood is one of my favorite concept albums.

Posted by: 496 at March 14, 2026 09:35 PM (t+VLa)

181 Speaking of music videos . . .

https://is.gd/cKWGu0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:35 PM (ndZc7)

182 Our wedding anniversary is St. Patrick's Day. Because it was the Saturday of my future husband's spring break from college. Honeymoon in NOLA was insane as they have a parade for anything.

Irish is also our only common ancestry.

We used to go out for dinner at a favorite French bistro in FL. Street party. Then we'd walk up the street to an Irish pub where most of the drunks were gathered.

It was our last time to go out on our anniversary with the amateur drinkers. I was in a pale green linen suit and was reaching up to catch beads (like Mardi Gras) from the roof of the pub.

A guy behind me with a Guiness was reaching at the same time and spilled his beer down my jacket and skirt. Took forever to get that dark beer out of linen, but I still have the suit.

We decided to stay home after that on our big day and have dinner on another day to celebrate.Mostly Irish Shepherd's Pie (with a cheddar mashed potato topping). I make Irish soda bread for his breakfast.

Will be 47yrs on Tuesday! Still crazy about him, we've had fun!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 09:36 PM (WONhk)

183 Have always liked "One More For My Baby" by Frank Sinatra:
https://tinyurl.com/SinatraOneMoreForMyBaby;

and "Whiskey Lullaby" with Alison Kraus and Brad Paisley:
https://tinyurl.com/PaisleyKrausWhiskeyLullaby

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 09:40 PM (S7WXb)

184 Kirsty McColl who sang on A Fairy Tale of NY was basically cut in half by a speed boat . Tough way to go.
I have a CD she put out called Electric Landlady. Not bad, good song called Walking Down Madison. Sang on Sexuality by Billy Bragg

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 09:40 PM (YsPj+)

185 news story of potential interest for the gun thread.
Posted by: Bulg

Daddy daughter at the gun range.

https://is.gd/OXMkTQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:41 PM (ndZc7)

186 How do I get in touch with Weasel? I have a news story of potential interest for the gun thread.
Posted by: Bulg at March 14, 2026 09:32 PM

gunthread at protonmail dot com

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 09:41 PM (Wnv9h)

187 185 news story of potential interest for the gun thread.
Posted by: Bulg

Daddy daughter at the gun range.

https://is.gd/OXMkTQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:41 PM
Which is which?

Posted by: Eromero at March 14, 2026 09:43 PM (LHPAg)

188 Oops. Missed the part where the songs were supposed to be related to drinking....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

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And Sesame Street is definitely a Marijuana song.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:44 PM (ndZc7)

189 Daddy daughter at the gun range.

https://is.gd/OXMkTQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:41 PM
Which is which?
Posted by: Eromero

I no longer make gender assumptions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:45 PM (ndZc7)

190 Will be 47yrs on Tuesday! Still crazy about him, we've had fun!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 09:36 PM (WONhk)

Congratulations!

Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 09:45 PM (zFsEm)

191 My oldest was born the day AFTER St Patrick’s Day.

Oh well. My OB told me I could drink a Guinness and enjoy the evening.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 09:47 PM (A5RD0)

192 "The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore" by Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart. Assuming it hasn't been mentioned

Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 09:48 PM (zFsEm)

193 Congratulations!
Posted by: javems at March 14, 2026 09:45 PM (zFsEm)

Thank you! It's been a blast (most of the time). He's my best friend who puts up with me. Blessed.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 09:49 PM (WONhk)

194 The perfect drinking song doesn't exis--
https://youtu.be/DnLLh-de-3A
Posted by: tankdemon

That was so good I had to listen to it twice.

Surprisingly understandable for Irish singers.

Posted by: mindful webworker - found a bottle at March 14, 2026 09:53 PM (O84gh)

195
Oh well. My OB told me I could drink a Guinness and enjoy the evening.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 09:47 PM (A5RD0)

Helps with milk production! No one told me this with giant #1 son (who called two weeks ago that his wife is expecting their first!). It probably would have helped us both After 3 wks of misery he got formula and was happier, as was I.

I read about the cabbage leaf deal and thought that would be rather disgusting. Glad women have more help now. I was also a bit dim from the trauma of it all and did not call two nurse friends who'd just had babies for advice.That would have required sleep and being normal.

Second son and I did fine...but he also was not as demanding and insane from his first breath.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 09:54 PM (WONhk)

196 Why Don't We Get Drunk, and Screw.

Posted by: Jimmy Buffet at March 14, 2026 09:58 PM (Q+gd/)

197 Turn that noise down and get upstairs!

ONT is NOOD!

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

198 148 OT-Well, I hope various St Patrick's Day parades and Irish bars
have a lot of police protection, because I think it might present yet another opportunity for an attack by Muslims.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 09:06 PM (ix8EF)

Prayers end every night for our country,our miliary, our military base's protection, Fen. May God protect us all from this evil.

You have a good point. I was thinking Easter, but it could be any time the get the jihad jive.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 10:00 PM (WONhk)

199 177 Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 09:23 PM (rbKZ6)

Yes, that's the one. In addition to James Taylor, he was great buds with Alan Jackson...

https://youtu.be/BPCjC543llU
Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 09:33 PM

I love that duet- I have it on a couple of my playlists, and it's perfect for tonight's theme!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 14, 2026 10:01 PM (rbKZ6)

200 The ONT pub is decorated for St Paddy's Day.

Instead of Pi day.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=418820

Posted by: mindful webworker - Pi - are round at March 14, 2026 10:02 PM (O84gh)

201 Rumor has it that Dexy's Irish Runners are re-working their big hit Come On Eileen to honor Iran's new one-legged Supreme Leader,
Posted by: Cicero

That song and the Walk 1000 Miles song, ugh.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 10:03 PM (KAi1n)

202 Dexy had no Irish runners.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 14, 2026 10:06 PM (NFX2v)

203 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2026 10:13 PM (Fs0KI)

204 big thumb towards ceiling for black flag, thanks.

Posted by: cmeat at March 15, 2026 01:47 PM (R11M+)

Hobby Thread - March 14, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. As the prophesy foretold, the theme for this Hobby Thread is calligraphy and the written word.

[Top photo: A miniature of the hermit (monk) writing at a desk, 1st quarter of the 14th century (The British Library, London)]

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. I understand that some people pay attention to military hardware, tactics and strategy as a hobby. Discussion of current events permitted but must be made in the form of hobby commentary. Pants are optional. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Calligraphy? Yes, fancy writing.

Your dino host has a small brain and short arms and dreadful handwriting, so calligraphy is beyond my reach. Need your contributions in the gray boxes for help.

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Book of Kells history:

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Cursive is not the same as calligraphy. Calligraphy assembles several specific shapes and pen strokes.

Handwriting quality has nothing to do with calligraphy? Explain how.

"The Happy Ever After Crafter" is a clever name for a YT channel.

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Flex nib fountain pens are a long way from a BIC ballpoint pen, but here we are.

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Japanese calligraphy ink making. Wow.

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Rosetta stone is not calligraphy but is a historically significant part of writing and language:

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Cursive is a close sibling to calligraphy:

Hat tip: Perfessor Squirrel

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Our first daffodils bloomed only to get snowed under a day later... The snow is gone and more blooms are emerging though.

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Marble carving is off-topic but this video is impressive and amusing:

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NOTICE: Next week the theme will be cartography. We'll be talking about maps. Find your way back and enjoy the fun.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an paper cutting theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute your own. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things but don't run with scissors.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Calligraphy is quite messy if you are left-handed....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:33 PM (S7WXb)

3 Why is the monk holding a knife in his left hand?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 05:33 PM (Cqx++)

4 Calligraphy and 'The Written Word'.

So a small topic. Not much to talk about.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

5 What an amazing subject. Every thing from the inks, paper,
pens and the talent of the Monks.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 05:34 PM (+nEug)

6 Seems a lifetime ago that I dabbled in calligraphy, ink wells, quill pens ( well the modern ones) It was fun playing with letters but certainly needs a lot of practice

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 05:35 PM (Ia/+0)

7 I still have a box of pilot disposable fountain pens I liked a lot (probably still at amazon.) Never take one to work and lend it out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

8 I need to find someone who does calligraphy well. We have a 25-year-old blessing parchment from our wedding from Saint John Paul the second. Most of the writing is fine , but the first letter of each of our names was done in red ink , instead of black , and those letters have faded over the years. I can kind of do calligraphy , but I don't trust myself well enough to try to fix this. I'm afraid it will look like the fresco.In the spanish church that that woman did a horrible job on!

Posted by: Frankie at March 14, 2026 05:35 PM (8/lto)

9 "Everything is fine" using Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts (game).
https://tinyurl.com/tp94pwzr

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 14, 2026 05:36 PM (cWLG3)

10 Didn't they scrape the vellum to remove mistakes with a knife?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 05:36 PM (zZu0s)

11 At one time, long ago, I had a pretty sweet Calligraphy pen set. A "pen" with different points for different styles.

Used to address some awesome Christmas cards with it.

I should still have the kit... somewhere. Maybe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 05:38 PM (jtM2q)

12 Pi Day: 4:16 pm wherever you are would make it 3.1416!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 05:39 PM (wzUl9)

13 3 ... "Why is the monk holding a knife in his left hand?"

The monks were writing on vellum which is prepared calfskin. They would literally scrape off the surface to make changes or corrections. The vellum was so valuable, a piece might be scraped off entirely to make a new document. I've read that some valuable writing was lost to that. Kind of like replacing a page of Canterbury Tales with a shopping list.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 05:39 PM (yTvNw)

14 I wonder how much writing on an inclined surface aided in not smearing the text.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 05:39 PM (+nEug)

15 'Scrape' is a word that does not look right when you type it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 05:41 PM (zZu0s)

16 Oh, and speaking of carving marble, on our Vegas trip I rather insisted upon seeing the life-size replica of Michelangelo us "David" at the Caesar's Palace resort - realistically, I will probably never have the opportunity to see the original over in Italy.

I did not realize how large it was! But my goodness, what an amazing talent to be able to envision something like that when looking at a mere slab of marble.

We had the "interesting" experience of approaching the statue from the back side 😂😂😂. And the statue was on a fairly high pedestal, so when standing up close to it, one got an eyeful of young David's package.

Dude had extraordinarily large hands and feet...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:41 PM (S7WXb)

17 OK, yet another skill I'd like to have...that list continues to grow. Having gone to Catholic elementary school from K-6, I used to have lovely penmanship (cursive). Since the age of computers, that penmanship has suffered greatly. I'll add this to the retirement list of things to explore...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 05:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

18 13 3 ... "Why is the monk holding a knife in his left hand?"

The monks were writing on vellum which is prepared calfskin. They would literally scrape off the surface to make changes or corrections. The vellum was so valuable, a piece might be scraped off entirely to make a new document. I've read that some valuable writing was lost to that. Kind of like replacing a page of Canterbury Tales with a shopping list.
Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 05:39 PM (yTvNw)
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Or the BBC taping over the only copy of an unaired episode of Dr. Who.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 14, 2026 05:42 PM (cWLG3)

19 There are some very helpful videos on YT about calligraphy, like those TRex links in the post. One I thought was interesting was doing calligraphy with a pencil. Certainly would be the cheapest way to get started.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 05:43 PM (yTvNw)

20 Maps will be interesting!

TRex, I didn't get to photographing my first attempts at watercolor painting. I'll see to it this week.

Cursive, to me, was that segment of the elementary school day that really dragged. (Well, they all dragged except for 3:00, when we went home.) I knew I was reproducing the letters on the chalkboard at least well enough that other people could read them. Why all the fuss about making my "G" look exactly like the teacher's?

To this day I do my initial capital "F," "Q," and several other letters as if I were printing them, then the rest of the word is in cursive form.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)

21 The Grateful, the lost art of writing letters. I noted the other day on the art thread how much I like letters sealed with wax and a personal seal.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 05:45 PM (+nEug)

22 'Scrape' is a word that does not look right when you type it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026

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"Scrapie" isn't much better.

Posted by: Sickly Sheep and Goats Everywhere at March 14, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)

23 19 One I thought was interesting was doing calligraphy with a pencil. Certainly would be the cheapest way to get started.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 05:43 PM
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Can't remember why it didn't make the cut for the content, but I watched a YT video of two guys showing calligraphy with chalk on a chalkboard. Horizontal lines on the board helped show sizing but it was interesting to watch them show the good and bad of different strokes. I never realized how much true calligraphy breaks down to joining specific shapes.

Posted by: TRex - monkish dino at March 14, 2026 05:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

24 OK, all you woodworking hobbyists.... and hello!

My wifey has discovered a large 'burl' on one of our trees (scientific name, 'tree'). I know they are highly prized by you woodworkers out there and stuff.

I was planning to raze the house and surrounding land to the ground, and start over. But I wonder if there's another, better idea, out there?

Posted by: goatexchange at March 14, 2026 05:48 PM (hyS0X)

25 14 I wonder how much writing on an inclined surface aided in not smearing the text.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 05:39 PM (+nEug)

If my experience with drafting class is any indication, not much at all. I didn't realize that most people do not end up with residual ink/graphite on their outer fist until much later.

We Southpaws do some interesting contortions with our hands - and the medium used - in order to get our lettering to slant the "correct" way in order to not get points off for bad penmanship.

I had to resort to always putting a piece of paper between my hand and whatever I was drafting in order to keep all of the lines and letters looking pristine.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:49 PM (S7WXb)

26 My cursive writing has always been legible although not especially pretty. That had value when I began technical writing. It was assumed, correctly, that most guys couldn't type and typing pools, all female, were still used. Write the document longhand and hand it to the typing pool. Turns out I got subtle priority even over the manager because they could easily read my script.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 05:51 PM (yTvNw)

27 The Grateful, the lost art of writing letters. I noted the other day on the art thread how much I like letters sealed with wax and a personal seal.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I still write letters and make cards and write in them for every holiday/occasion known. It's just that the handwriting is not as pretty as it used to be....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 05:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

28 My wifey has discovered a large 'burl' on one of our trees (scientific name, 'tree'). I know they are highly prized by you woodworkers out there and stuff.

Where are you located? Mr. TiFW loves that kind of stuff! I bet if you located a local woodworking group, you would have all sorts of takers - as long as it isn't "junk" wood.

Girls make very interesting turned bowls and other sculptures.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:53 PM (S7WXb)

29 A long past uncle did lots of art forms including marble sculpture. Best I remember was what could be described as a chess Knight piece but was about 2 feet high.
I thought I had another that turned out a disaster he said as a flaw in the stone. I'll see if I can find it in my pictures.

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 05:54 PM (Ia/+0)

30 This week in pipe smoking, I bought myself a eBay treat, a Marxman brand pipe. Marxman only existed as its own company from 1934 to 1953, so this pipe could be as old as I am or older. The brand name was taken over by a company called Mastercraft, though, which was later acquired by the people who to this day make the Dr. Grabow pipes. So it could be younger. But for $45 restored, it looks fantastic and should be a bargain.

I also tried smoking some of the "new" Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco. It's now made in the Dominican Republic, and the pouch when unsealed has a strong odor of vinegar -- not something you want in your pipe. When I checked it yesterday after some months unsealed, the odor seemed much lessened. A smoke today left me with a faint aftertaste, not of vinegar, but also not of the cocoa and nuts SWR was known for. So my personal jury is still out on this. Maybe I can mix it with something else.

Posted by: Sickly Sheep and Goats Everywhere at March 14, 2026 05:56 PM (wzUl9)

31 To this day I do my initial capital "F," "Q," and several other letters as if I were printing them, then the rest of the word is in cursive form.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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I do that too, with most capital letter...well, I don't print them, but I created my own script for capital letters, lol

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 05:57 PM (IQ6Gq)

32 Oops. Goats and sheep have naught to do with pipe smoking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 05:58 PM (wzUl9)

33 My wifey has discovered a large 'burl' on one of our trees (scientific name, 'tree'). I know they are highly prized by you woodworkers out there and stuff.
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Anyone making frames would pay big $$ for that burl wood. Commands high prices in that field....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 05:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

34 https://tinyurl.com/3n52fya6
It was to be a Indian head, shame it didn't turn out

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)

35 I can write in Spencarian Script, my implement of choice is a Noodlers Ahab Flex nib with Heart of Darkness, Bernake Blue and Park Red as my goto inks.

I also use those inks as washes in some of my watercolors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 06:00 PM (XV/Pl)

36 Top photo makes me think of "First man to assemble IKEA furniture"

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 06:00 PM (3uBP9)

37 "Burls", not " Girls"....🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 06:00 PM (S7WXb)

38 In junior high two of the classes I took were "mechanical drawing" and "architectural drawing." Both required a certain skill at printing call outs (the stuff you were looking at on the drawing.) Printed, all caps in a particular size/font.

I still "write" like this.

My cursive is horrid, but sort of legible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 06:01 PM (jtM2q)

39 Things I need to address in the future include trying a fountain pen and ink, and sealing envelopes with wax. I know how to seal a wine bottle cork with wax!!!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 06:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 I've played with basic calligraphy but approached it like learning to draw. The decorative aspects of writing, whether calligraphy or copperplate or some other style, always interested me. (I wonder if that was from looking at old historic maps as a child.)

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 06:03 PM (yTvNw)

41 TRex, can’t wait for next week’s cartography. I did several college courses and I’ve always been fascinated. I’ll tell an early story next week

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 06:03 PM (ttrGW)

42 41 TRex, can’t wait for next week’s cartography. I did several college courses and I’ve always been fascinated. I’ll tell an early story next week

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 06:03 PM
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Looking forward to it!

Posted by: TRex - not all who wander are lost at March 14, 2026 06:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

43 The Grateful, what is your stamp going to be ? Red or black wax? What weight paper do you use?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 06:04 PM (+nEug)

44 Anybody knows if Presdent Obama has a cat ??

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at March 14, 2026 06:05 PM (hVcDO)

45 24 OK, all you woodworking hobbyists.... and hello!

A burl! Talk to me... scohargrove protonmail dot com

Where are you? What kind of tree is it? I'm interested!

Posted by: watchin at March 14, 2026 06:05 PM (dewkg)

46 Ikea, the early years...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 14, 2026 06:06 PM (XMwZJ)

47 I learned block lettering in the 8th grade and never looked back.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:07 PM (RIvkX)

48 RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know
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OK dude, what is with the evolving nic? How is it now that I used to know you?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 06:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

49 Honestly, I wonder if part of the reason that traditional calligraphy looks the way that it does has more to do with how much of the quill pen touches the paper when held at a consistent angle. On the downward stroke, more ink is going to flow in a "thicker" profile than when the quill is on an up stroke (less of the pen touches the paper).

I could be blowing smoke out of my a**, too....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 06:08 PM (S7WXb)

50 ok, so if there's a difference then what i do isn't "caligraphy." but if you write cursive with a broad tipped nib positioned so that sliding up right/ down left the line will be thinner, then when the movement is up left/ down right it grows thicker. plus the width will vary as it transitions and tapers back and forth. once your comfortable with maintaining the nib angle, you'll start adding little flourishes and what not.
it makes bad cursive pretty and good cursive gorgeous.

Posted by: cmeat at March 14, 2026 06:09 PM (R11M+)

51 I didn't realize that most people do not end up with residual ink/graphite on their outer fist until much later.

We Southpaws do some interesting contortions with our hands - and the medium used - in order to get our lettering to slant the "correct" way in order to not get points off for bad penmanship.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

The "lefty hook." All us Gen-X'ers who learned "penmanship" in grade school do it.

At least it wasn't like medieval times when they assumed lefties were possessed by demons, and forced them to be right-handed by binding their left hands/arms.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 06:09 PM (VHUov)

52 Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 06:01 PM (jtM2q)

*fustbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:09 PM (RIvkX)

53 44 Anybody knows if Presdent Obama has a cat ??
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at March 14, 2026 06:05 PM (hVcDO)

No Mary, but he has a Mangina and not a Pussy ..........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 14, 2026 06:09 PM (YnF8s)

54 45 24 OK, all you woodworking hobbyists.... and hello!

A burl! Talk to me... scohargrove protonmail dot com

Where are you? What kind of tree is it? I'm interested!
Posted by: watchin at March 14, 2026 06:05 PM (dewkg)

Hey! Mr. TiFW was here first! 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 06:09 PM (S7WXb)

55 TiFW are you enjoying this awesome weather?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:11 PM (RIvkX)

56 I heard they do not teach Cursive Writing in school anymore.....

Also heard stories about this current generation cannot write a check and sign it...

Just use Credit and Debit Cards for everything....

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 14, 2026 06:12 PM (YnF8s)

57 For a year or two in grade school fountain pens became a thing and we were all using them but the moms were in a tizzy because there was always ink all over us and they made the teachers take them away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:13 PM (RIvkX)

58 I usually preferred fine or extra fine nibs on fountain pens and dip pens. They just gave the best results. Over the years that's changed as my motor skills aren't as precise. Not bad, just not as good. I now prefer broad or even stub nibs. I've found that those nibs give a decorative twist to the writing even when you aren't trying to. It's brought back interest in the physical act of writing. And it's fun trying different nibs, inks, and papers.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 06:16 PM (yTvNw)

59 I learned block lettering in the 8th grade and never looked back.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026

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In eighth grade, for some reason (anticipating Joey Tribbiani's wondering if he needed a new walk), I decided to have a second handwriting. I consciously re-molded many of my cursive letters and how they connected together, so that samples of it looked to me very little like my "regular" handwriting. Probably a handwriting specialist would have seen the same traits in both styles, but I found it fascinating to do.

Possibly, too, some of the re-moldings went on to infiltrate my "regular" handwriting once I got out of school and was no longer being trained in the classic cursive. They might be part of my handwriting to this day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 06:16 PM (wzUl9)

60 Ben Had,
Red wax, and obviously card stock for the cards and vellum for writing letters.
Please don't tell T-Rex we can make a seal design....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 06:16 PM (IQ6Gq)

61 San Franpsycho,
Do I see you’re in for temps inthe 80s next week?

Jeepers.

And TiFW, as a fellow southpaw, I feel your pain. My pinky finger always had smudges.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 06:16 PM (A5RD0)

62 I don't like ball point pens so I use a fine point felt tip pen .

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 06:16 PM (+nEug)

63 Try Noodlers Black ink,if a lefty. It's one of the fastest drying inks out there. The Ink Guy has a You Tube channel where he reviews ink and sometimes notebooks. That's where I learned that.

Also The 7 Steps to Elegant Cursive Handwriting is a good book for improving your handwriting. I have the Spencerian workbooks but still haven't used them

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2026 06:19 PM (gQ15S)

64 The Grateful, parchment is fun too.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 06:19 PM (+nEug)

65 I had calligraphy in art class in high school. I got good with it, then graduated and figured I would never need it again. Kind of like I did with grammar..and math...and chemistry..and...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 06:20 PM (snZF9)

66 55 TiFW are you enjoying this awesome weather?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:11 PM (RIvkX)

Just got here last night, and I am recovering from the flight today (had a chemo fill on Thursday). Will know more tomorrow!

So far, we have only seen SF from the ride from the airport to daughter's house, and most of that was Friday afternoon traffic, so I have kind of been disappointed.

We will hopefully be seeing more of the touristy things later on. SIL's mother is being released from medical rehab in Truckee tomorrow (who knew they do that on Sundays?), so our original plan to see the GG Bridge and Muir Woods has had to be put on hold, as he will need to stay in Truckee (at their current house) to be there to help her out.

We are thinking that this trip may end up just being spent hanging out with daughter and the grandsons, and we will plan on another trip for sightseeing in early June, if I am still doing okay healthwise.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 06:20 PM (S7WXb)

67 Teresa, a tour through wine country just for the scenery is a worthwhile trip.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 06:23 PM (+nEug)

68 I hope you enjoy your visit the Sierra is beautiful just don't stop at Donner Pass.

Yes, 80s in the forecast next week. I'm girding myself for all the "heatwave" moaning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:24 PM (RIvkX)

69 Oh, and speaking of carving marble, on our Vegas trip I rather insisted upon seeing the life-size replica of Michelangelo us "David" at the Caesar's Palace resort - realistically, I will probably never have the opportunity to see the original over in Italy.

I did not realize how large it was! But my goodness, what an amazing talent to be able to envision something like that when looking at a mere slab of marble.

We had the "interesting" experience of approaching the statue from the back side 😂😂😂. And the statue was on a fairly high pedestal, so when standing up close to it, one got an eyeful of young David's package.

Dude had extraordinarily large hands and feet...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:41 PM (S7WXb)

It must have been a good copy. I saw the original in Florence and the first thing I thought was ol' Michelangelo must have been on a bender when he did the feet and hands. They looked like they came from an orangutan. Seriously, the hands looked like they were off scale, just too big for the wrist and arms they were attacked to.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 06:26 PM (snZF9)

70 I got two new Bosworth spindles this week. One is Reclaimed American Chestnut. The other is Claro Walnut. I'd never heard of it, but it is pretty. Very similar to Black Walnut.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2026 06:26 PM (gQ15S)

71 Anyway, hobby today is harley maintenance, getting the fleet ready for the nice weather..if it ever gets here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 06:29 PM (snZF9)

72 Your daffodils will spring back. In past winters, not this dry one, we've had a few blooming UNDER the snow once it melts.

We saw the Book of Kells in the Trinity Library several years ago. Incredible. Always a group around the table but people are kind and you get to see the chosen page for the day up close.

Thanks for the video. I bought a book of this from their gift shop and should study it again.

The entire library is incredible. Thanks again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 14, 2026 06:29 PM (WONhk)

73 As I've written with my fountain pens recently I've learned a few things.
- Take your time and enjoy the process of writing.
- I need a flat or slightly inclined surface to use an ink pen well. I have a copy of a colonial era writing box with an inclined lid and it does make a difference.
- I do more writing these days, mostly notes and essays for my own enjoyment, and slowing down my writing pace to accommodate the pens helps with choosing the best words and the process becomes a pleasure of its own. Shelby Foote wrote his Civil War books with a dip pen and believed using one made his writing better.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 06:30 PM (yTvNw)

74 Kindltot, if you're here: You mean the soft wood fuel pellets Tractor Supply offers for stoves will work the same way as the Feline Pine pellets? My local TS has 40 lbs. for $7, and they say they deliver!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 06:32 PM (wzUl9)

75 Waiting for more hospitable weather outside

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)

76 I got two new Bosworth spindles this week. One is Reclaimed American Chestnut. The other is Claro Walnut. I'd never heard of it, but it is pretty. Very similar to Black Walnut.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2026 06:26 PM (gQ15S)

They use it on acoustic guitars, not "too" uncommon. I played a few acoustic guitars that had claro walnut back and sides . They sounded nice.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 06:35 PM (snZF9)

77 I acquired some more radio gear this week, but I'm too busy to mess with it now. I did dig out my RTL-SDR and downloaded an app so I can track flight transponders in my area even if I'm not connected to the internet. Kinda fun, just to play with and see what's possible with some dirt cheap equipment and a phone.

Posted by: PabloD at March 14, 2026 06:41 PM (+HNa2)

78 Another fun paper is the torn edge variety.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 06:45 PM (+nEug)

79 I was going to include content about parchment paper making, but omitted to keep the content from getting out of control. It is a fascinating old world process. Messy. If you're intrigued, there is content on YT.

Posted by: TRex - rock paper scissors dino at March 14, 2026 06:49 PM (IQ6Gq)

80 I do have a black walnut dulcimer, so I know that sounds good on musical instruments. I really just love stuff out of fancy wood

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2026 06:51 PM (gQ15S)

81 I remember barely, at Williamsburg seeing how paper was made, can't see needing to go that far

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 06:52 PM (Ia/+0)

82 the last work mi great. I think we'll see it next week in person.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 14, 2026 06:54 PM (f9h0J)

83 I worked at a paper recycling place once. Used to be a (new) paper mill back in the day (turn of the century.) Fascinating building. Also looked like a health and safety nightmare probably back in that day. Huge rollers. Torches. Catwalk. Blades. Mixers. Coal fired steam generator. Narrow warehouse. Huge rolls of paper.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 06:55 PM (zZu0s)

84 Cursive.. The nuns did not like my cursive, Luckily my printing is plenty fast and readable.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 14, 2026 06:56 PM (f9h0J)

85 Note: that last video is even more funny when you consider that Michelangelo carved the Pieta from a far larger block. With a wooden mallet.

At 18.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

86 The Pieta has got to be the essence of G-d given talent.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 07:00 PM (+nEug)

87 Marble carving is apparently very, very dusty. The video in the content was impressive. I can't imagine tackling that.

Posted by: TRex - dusty dino at March 14, 2026 07:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

88 In HS I taught my self Old English calligraphy. Just clipped the tip off a cartridge pen (never liked ballpoints) and filed it smooth. I was good enough that, in college, people paid me to letter names on certificates. By then I had real calligraphy pens, plus I when to UVa. In Charlottesville, in those days, we had Nathan Glaser, the guy who made goose quill pens for the Supreme Court (and for others) I got several, and got some with flattened points.

I was pretty good, if I say so myself, but I gave it up some years ago when it started hurting my hand. Never much good at italics.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 14, 2026 07:05 PM (AlhUl)

89 Marble carving is apparently very, very dusty. The video in the content was impressive. I can't imagine tackling that.
Posted by: TRex - dusty dino

I wonder how much dust is generated by hand tools. I'll bet quite a bit different amount.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 14, 2026 07:06 PM (f9h0J)

90 Cartography?

Worked for the USGS Western Mapping Agency in Menlo Park from 2000 - 2006. Mostly IT work. But they had some really cool shit there. Including a live seismometer. And turn of the century optical systems long since unused.

Old school cartography was and is, an art. Serious art.

The USGS used to send scouts out west with surveyors and cartographers to plot what would later become US states. Our outfit was mostly involved with drawing up hazards maps (floods, earthquakes, etc.) and National Park topo maps. Those were pretty cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 07:07 PM (jtM2q)

91 17 ...Having gone to Catholic elementary school from K-6, I used to have lovely penmanship (cursive).
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 05:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

I have never been accused of having good penmanship.

*cue wavy lens, as I relive a memory of Miss Snyder putting my paper next to Laura's, saying, "see how nice and straight Laura's L is?"

My rebellious nature was nurtured early.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:09 PM (h7ZuX)

92 oops, just missed Pi day minute
Guess I have to claim I am rounding it up

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:17 PM (rbvCR)

93 Thanks for another interesting and educational Hobby Thread, TRex!

Used to do calligraphy for my own amusement. It helped that I learned cursive writing with old fashioned pen and ink in Catholic school.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 07:18 PM (vrNzf)

94 My handwriting is kind of borderline awful, and calligraphy is absolutely out of the question, but I do almost all of my writing with fountain pens. My preference is a 1.1 stub nib. I particularly love vintage Esterbrook fountain pens, and have a nice collection. More than that, though, I absolutely LOVE collecting and trying new inks. My favorites tend to be from the Pilot Iroshizuku line, although there are several Diamine and Jacques Herbin inks that are in my regular rotation.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at March 14, 2026 07:18 PM (8ILPt)

95 The Grateful, parchment is fun too.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I'm guessing this is different from the stuff I use to bake cookies on!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 07:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

96 Having gone to Catholic elementary school from K-6, I used to have lovely penmanship (cursive).
Posted by: The Grateful

Even through college I'd wager you put "JMJ" on the top of all your term papers too, didn't you?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2026 07:22 PM (cYBz/)

97 41 TRex, can’t wait for next week’s cartography. I did several college courses and I’ve always been fascinated. I’ll tell an early story next week

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 06:03 PM (ttrGW)

Does the story involve a second lieutenant with a compass and a flashlight?

Posted by: a.moron at March 14, 2026 07:22 PM (X5Jzz)

98 I often think I should practice just cursive writing, don't do it much

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 07:22 PM (Ia/+0)

99 Ben Had, the inclined surface is so that the feather quill can be held comfortably to make good letters, and at an angle so the ink does not dribble down to the nib all at once.
The drawback of the quill is that the ink is held against the inside of the shaft of the feather and the bottom nib by surface tension. Ideally this is a thin layer, but there can be more held there. In Western scripts, the end of the nib is also split--often intentionally off center-- so the the two tines will separate slightly when pressed, and the ink will run better to the nib. When the pressure is released for an up stroke there is only the ink that is at the nib to leave on the paper. However if you hold it too vertical, then the ink wants to run down and make a drop at the tip, which makes dribbles, blots, and wastes ink.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:23 PM (rbvCR)

100 Teresa, a tour through wine country just for the scenery is a worthwhile trip.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 06:23 PM (+nEug)

With a 2 year old and 4 year old along for the ride? 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 07:23 PM (S7WXb)

101 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Thanks for being here. Many of you are enthused about next week's theme of maps so come prepared for map hobbying.

Don't forget to stop by Club ONT later for random foolishness and frivolity.

Posted by: TRex - sharpie dino at March 14, 2026 07:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

102 I spent some time trying to teach myself how to cut a feather to make a feather quill. It can be done, but I am very glad to have steel pens instead. Quills can be hard to shape, and take a steady hand to cut, and they wear down so durned fast and need to be resharpened.
Steel pen points just rust.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:24 PM (rbvCR)

103 My rebellious nature was nurtured early.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
**********
Oh, I hear you. I would have had the same response.
Hope things are well with you and in your world.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 07:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

104 You know.... today, cursive writing might just be the modern day equivalent of old school code.

Who can even read it today besides us old farts?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 07:26 PM (jtM2q)

105 Oh, I hear you. I would have had the same response.
Hope things are well with you and in your world.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 07:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

Quite well, thank you, and the same to you!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 07:26 PM (h7ZuX)

106 Even through college I'd wager you put "JMJ" on the top of all your term papers too, didn't you?
Posted by: Tonypete
**********
Do I lose points for saying I didn't? (Please say no). But I did K-6!!!!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 14, 2026 07:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

107 Happy Pi Day, Morons.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 07:29 PM (4NO2D)

108 I spent some time trying to teach myself how to cut a feather to make a feather quill. It can be done, but I am very glad to have steel pens instead. Quills can be hard to shape, and take a steady hand to cut, and they wear down so durned fast and need to be resharpened.
Steel pen points just rust.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:24 PM

Did you heat temper them first?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 07:29 PM (Wnv9h)

109 Today Iran made a plea to France for help with the current situation with the US/Israeli Offense.

Specifically, how did they go about surrendering at Dien Bien Phu to the North Vietnamese......

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at March 14, 2026 07:30 PM (MELMQ)

110 Kindltot, if you're here: You mean the soft wood fuel pellets Tractor Supply offers for stoves will work the same way as the Feline Pine pellets? My local TS has 40 lbs. for $7, and they say they deliver!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 06:32 PM (wzUl9)

I use pellets from Tractor Supply, the Packsaddle brand is 100% wood, and no additives. The BBQ type often has sugar or urea added to increase the heat in burning to coals. It also costs more.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:30 PM (rbvCR)

111 Happy Pi Day, Morons.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 07:29 PM

"Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3.14159!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 07:32 PM (Wnv9h)

112 Did you heat temper them first?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 07:29 PM (Wnv9h)

I tried to "Dutch" the quills with heat, and then by rolling them on a hot surface, which only seemed to burn them or make them brittle, so there is an art to that.
I have also let some sit for a couple of years and that seems to work. Ideally the practice is to put the quills into heated sand to draw a temper on them, and I never quite got around to that.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:33 PM (rbvCR)

113 How much does it cost to have your quill Dutched?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 07:36 PM (iPIE7)

114 I print so that others can read it. Also that I can read it tomorrow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 07:37 PM (9Bsty)

115 Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:33 PM

Ah. Just curious. I have a commercially prepared quill that I love. Writes really smoothly. I never got around to trying to cut my own, though. I probably should one of these days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

116 Writing cursive was required to graduate in my South Carolina school in 67. I was never good at it and pretty much morphed into a combination of cursive and block letters. Today the only cursive I use is on checks and I write those mostly to church

Posted by: Eromero at March 14, 2026 07:41 PM (LHPAg)

117 I read some where, maybe at Monticello, that when Jefferson went to France he brought a few hundred prepared quills in his luggage.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 07:42 PM (yTvNw)

118 Is short hand, done by, you know... hand, still a thing?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 07:44 PM (jtM2q)

119 Ah. Just curious. I have a commercially prepared quill that I love. Writes really smoothly. I never got around to trying to cut my own, though. I probably should one of these days.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2026 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

My skills are too poor to justify a bought quill, and it seemed like a neat skill to learn. I probably need some hands on training to get good.
I was practicing with chicken pin feathers I begged from a co-worker who was amused what I wanted them for. If I could find someone who had geese I think that would help.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 07:46 PM (rbvCR)

120 i fondly remember "the gospel according to peanuts" being my introduction to the comic. one set of panels has mr. brown struggling with his fountain pen and an image of the splotchy final result.
i was super fond of rapidograph and mars/ staedtler super fine fountain pens, they were capable of tiny little lines; a round tube with a hair strand of steel inside.
went looking with daughter, wound up with the new disposable .5 felt tips. she loves them.

Posted by: cmeat at March 14, 2026 07:50 PM (R11M+)

121 TRex, thank you for another stimulating topic.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 07:52 PM (+nEug)

122 113 How much does it cost to have your quill Dutched?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 07:36 PM
$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Eromero at March 14, 2026 07:54 PM (LHPAg)

123 Using a quill also necessitated the need for a pen knife.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 07:57 PM (+nEug)

124 Teresa and Nurse Ratched:
Fellow southpaw here. My doctor is also a southpaw. She curls her hand around as she writes. I keep my hand below what I'm writing. She tells me that means we are using opposite sides of the brain. Anyone else heard this?

Posted by: Wenda at March 14, 2026 07:59 PM (wPfxR)

125 The perfect drinking song doesn't exis--

https://youtu.be/DnLLh-de-3A

Posted by: tankdemon at March 14, 2026 08:19 PM (2mkc5)

126 In late, I nodded of for a nap. Very nice thread. Good stuff.

I worked as a draftsman in another lifetime and writing, in whatever form, is an art and requires practice, something not valued so much these days.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:50 PM (M9gjJ)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 14

Courtesy Troy Rubright

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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It's cat day today!

Courtesy David Thompson:

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings

Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–152 never saw a rhino himself, but by relying on eyewitness descriptions of the one King Manuel I of Portugal intended as a gift to the Pope, he managed to render a fairly realistic one, all things considered.
Medieval artists’ renderings of cats so often fell short of the mark, Youtuber Art Deco wonders if any of them had seen a cat before.
Point taken, but cats were well integrated into medieval society.

Much more information on the death penalty connected with cats and so forth at the link above.

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Courtesy Carla Brown

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Meet The PetMorons

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Tutti Fruitti was in his wicker house, turns 18 in April; Henrietta Hot Paws keeping me company while I sew, in the sun, at almost 14…
Nan in AZ

What lovely companions! Thanks for sharing their photos.

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Hi,
I know it's a bit late. This is moron Dark Litigator. I was the co-owner (3%) of cat Maceo ("MAYseeoh") who I occasionally mentioned over the years. His mama (97% owner) had him for nearly 6 years. He was a special needs rescue cat from the mean streets of Fresno but he blossomed into the coolest, little dude. A few weeks ago he developed late-stage heart and kidney disease so we sadly had to euthanize him at 2pm on 2/22. Here are a couple of pics from his better days, if you could put one or both up.
Thanks.

So sorry you have lost Maceo - - such a cool cat. Thanks for rescuing him. Keep in touch.

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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 7

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway. There was a discussion of pine cat litter in the comments last week. Anyone else try it this week?

Posted by: K.T. at 03:23 PM

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1 pets!

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 03:26 PM (+YA9H)

2 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:27 PM (wzUl9)

3 Cat Fud ------------------->

Posted by: The dog standing just outside the door, waiting at March 14, 2026 03:28 PM (0sNs1)

4 CATS!

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 14, 2026 03:29 PM (TezPK)

5 Yay all pets and their morons !

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 03:29 PM (Kt19C)

6 Hi Wolfus.

Thanks for the pet thread. I'll read later. I'm watching a Japanese horror movie now.

My friends' cat Snowflake, who is now back to being their outdoor cat, is taking the afternoon off from the wild and is sleeping comfortably in my lap at this very moment. She's sound asleep.

Cute. Not my cat.

Back to the movie. Later everyone.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 03:34 PM (Sco7b)

7 Whaddaya know, I breezed right into it --!

Afternoon, Pet Folken. Saturday, Cat Day on the Pet Thread, and Pi Day all in one (at 4 pm, 1600 hours, it will be 3.1416)! Surely all of these things rarely happen at one time. It portends something peculiar!

Joyenz, if you're here: As you mentioned last week, I bought the 20-lb. bag of Feline Pine at Walmart yesterday and changed the cats' box, leaving a layer of the old clay on top. I don't know if I got clumping or non-clumping. There was only one kind on the shelf, and after putting the stuff into the 30-lb. Petco bucket, I threw away the bag without noticing what it said.

Anyway, no disasters yet. The felines seemed startled but were not deterred from using it. I do hope this $12.00 bag will last longer than the $8.00 20-lb. jug of the clay stuff, and be both more effective and easier to clean up!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:34 PM (wzUl9)

8 Awww, look at all the beautiful kitties today.

So sorry about Maceo, he was a handsome boy.

I hope Tutti and Henrietta continue on for many more years.

Our cat blog is updated

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

Posted by: Joyenz at March 14, 2026 03:37 PM (2F0/Y)

9 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 03:37 PM (Ia/+0)

10 Tutti Frutti and Henrietta are both very good-looking cats, and handsome Maceo has a "Don' mess wid me, sucka" look on his face in both photos. How old was he?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:37 PM (wzUl9)

11 Thanks KT!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 14, 2026 03:38 PM (OI3q8)

12 such pretty cats. I will have to start sending in pics of my furry bandits.

I have a cat, Chloe, who is 16 and a bit and is getting thin. I took her to the vet, who did the blood tests, and from all indications the tests came out unremarkable, but she was a bit dehydrated.
The vet offered some anti-nausea shots, and a cat-sized unit of ringer's lactate, and I chose the ringer's.
She is also getting a bit stiff so I will be trying a dab of DMSO on her ears to see if that helps. I use it on my own shoulder, so it may help.
Poor little lady is getting to be a senior citizen. She is doing ok, but the young kittens get rambunctious around her which she disapproves of.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 03:38 PM (rbvCR)

13 Medieval cat on the left looks devilish.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 03:38 PM (Cqx++)

14 Top pic cat looks much like a Ragdoll -- that same patented innocent expression of "Who, me?"

Maceo, I see, had a few speckles of what I was told was cat acne on the edge of his nose. My late red tabby with white, Arizona, developed that in his mature years. Never bothered him or me. Oh, I'd tell him it made him defective and he'd have to go back to the SPCA, but he paid no attention.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:41 PM (wzUl9)

15 i read wicker house as whisker house at first.

Posted by: cmeat at March 14, 2026 03:43 PM (R11M+)

16 Woof!!! Really, isn't every day a cat day? Beautiful cats, thanks for the thread.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 14, 2026 03:43 PM (QZXg7)

17 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:34 PM (wzUl9)

Glad to hear that there are no accidents yet. I think putting the regular litter on top is to slowly help transition them over. Hopefully it continues to only needing the pine.

Your bag will probably last longer than it does us. We have quite a few more cats than you. It's why we buy the 40lb bag from Walmart online and with my sister's employee discount and her free Walmart+, it works out well for us.

Posted by: Joyenz at March 14, 2026 03:43 PM (2F0/Y)

18 Cool looking kitteh neighbor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 03:44 PM (RIvkX)

19 Wolfus, I put a layer of pellet stove pellets down in the litter box, and then a layer of kitty litter. The cats mix the two layers, but the pellets absorb the urine and keep the smell down. There is a technique to separate out the feces from the clean pellets, but it is similar to panning for gold. The pellets turn into wet sawdust, and when the smell gets ahead of the wood pulp, it is time to change out.
The pellets are cheaper than the kitty litter, and do a better job of keeping the smell down.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 03:44 PM (rbvCR)

20 That wasn't acne. Those were nose freckles. He had a few on his lower eyelid too.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 03:44 PM (KAi1n)

21 Poor little lady is getting to be a senior citizen. She is doing ok, but the young kittens get rambunctious around her which she disapproves of.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026

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My long-haired tuxedo cat Oreo was like that when kitten Tatiana Romanova came to live with us. Tati's main idea in life was to PLAY, and Oreo -- who might have been twelve or older -- didn't want to fuss with any of that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:44 PM (wzUl9)

22 Meow....

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at March 14, 2026 03:45 PM (sAmhv)

23 Cats.....yes! But we must ask the question......Why?

Professor Erwin Cory, World Renowned Expert

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at March 14, 2026 03:46 PM (uNwvV)

24 That wasn't acne. Those were nose freckles. He had a few on his lower eyelid too.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026

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Freckles is what I thought too, but to this day Linda insists one local vet told her Arizona had developed acne. I'll give that vet office this, that they kept him alive at a critical juncture when he was fourteen. But they also missed discovering that smart black cat Marie-Antoinette had been born a boy. (Imagine the hilarity when we found that out several years later --!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:49 PM (wzUl9)

25 We adopted a feral cat, born in the shop on an office chair, actually we assisted with her birth at the workplace, and made her one of the team.

I never once heard her purr. Why is that? She was made the queen of the facility. Nicest, friendliest cool cat I've ever seen.

She was hooked on treats like a crackhead.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 03:52 PM (M9gjJ)

26 Great thread. I will come back later to read the rest of the comments.

Very tired as the last few days I have had issues breathing, even with all my medical devices. Time to curl up with the four cats who have deemed me a suitable bed.

Posted by: Joyenz at March 14, 2026 03:53 PM (2F0/Y)

27 Of course, my cat's a jerk. But he eats a lot of rats, and saves me the parts he doesn't like, so I know he's been hard at it. And he doesn't seem to mind much when I get a deer and gloat about it. He is a barn cat and has only cost me a vet bill twice, so I keep him fed and free of fleas and ticks. Every time he sees me he does something he knows I don't like, so, I know he cares.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 14, 2026 03:55 PM (zQagC)

28 Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 03:52 PM (M9gjJ)

Mr. Grey has such a soft purr, you cannot hear or feel it. You know he's purring though by his behavior when he makes biscuits or just flops like a baby into my arms and lap.

Ok, sleep time.

Posted by: Joyenz at March 14, 2026 03:56 PM (2F0/Y)

29 I never once heard her purr. Why is that? She was made the queen of the facility. Nicest, friendliest cool cat I've ever seen.

She was hooked on treats like a crackhead.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026

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Miss Linda swears that Angelique, the Siamese-pointed Siberian who came up to me in a parking lot to be rescued, didn't remember how to purr for a year after she adopted the cat. This is the one who would sit in your lap of her own accord, but if you shifted your leg an inch, she would growl on a rising note, like "I'm gonna explode --!!!" She wouldn't leap away after the growl, but would stay on your lap. (The cat was a bit cracked, I think.)

I believe purring is learned in kittenhood from the mother, and is used to communicate between cats and maybe humans too. It's been found, I think, that cats do not purr when they are alone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:58 PM (wzUl9)

30 The furriest post of the week (if we ignore the cafes).

Know what's on the Moron-adjacent pet thread lunch menu for today?

Four and twenty blackbirds baked into a Pi.

Posted by: mindful webworker - yay pets at March 14, 2026 03:59 PM (O84gh)

31 All cats have a base level of retardation ranging from "mildly amusing" to "won't liver long because of sleeping on engines"

can't help it

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/
89ThOhd75Cw

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 14, 2026 04:00 PM (jrgJz)

32 Marie had a purr you could hear across a quiet room. Most of my other cats, though, you had to put an ear to their ribs or a finger on their throats to hear or feel the purr. I used to think that cat purrs came in one size from the factory, and a big cat had too much mass and insulation to hear the sound well, while you could easily detect a purr from a smaller feline. But big Wolf's purr, while hard to hear, seemed louder than that of Arizona, who was the same size and heft.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 04:04 PM (wzUl9)

33 I may be stuck with Zero G Babymonster. My sister found someone looking to adopt a black cat but I guess it didn't pan out

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 04:05 PM (lUVvE)

34 My sister found someone looking to adopt a black cat but I guess it didn't pan out
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026

***
Those of us who know, know that black cats are the best. At least they are the most easygoing and adaptable, and may even be the smartest. (There can be local variations, of course.) I've loved all my cats, even the difficult Codger Cat Chekov. But the black cats have all had something extra special.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 04:10 PM (wzUl9)

35 Story for the day with my dogs.

"OK, guys. Breakfast time."
Winnie quietly goes to her spot.
"Your turn, Domo."
"WAHOO! YAY! BREAKFAST!" hops everywhere
"In the crate, boy."
"WAHOO!" jumps into the crate
sigh "The other crate, dude."
"Oh right. I forgot." Jumps on two beds and makes it to the correct crate.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2026 04:13 PM (7xrfc)

36 Her defining characteristic right now is "sweet." She is perhaps the sweetest most docile cat I've known

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 04:13 PM (DqQmr)

37 looking to adopt a black cat but I guess it didn't pan out

You've got to brine them before pan ready

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 04:15 PM (Kt19C)

38 Such cute pictures. Thanks, everyone for sending them in and for KT for her work on this and the other threads.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:16 PM (PFs9e)

39 Her defining characteristic right now is "sweet." She is perhaps the sweetest most docile cat I've known
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026

***
There you go.

I suspect, if there really was a fatwa against black cats in medieval Europe, that the smartest and sweetest got themselves hidden and protected by humans, and thus lived to breed and pass on their genes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 04:16 PM (wzUl9)

40 I posted this on the tech thread, but I wanted to repeat it because it's such a cute video of a happy dog:

https://tinyurl.com/4zbhd9rn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:18 PM (PFs9e)

41 Our little kitty Scout was a black cat. She was unbelievably sweet, but had that mischievous streak. We miss her.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 04:19 PM (Ar/17)

42 The shelters are leery of adopting out black cats in September and October, so they tend to have them in those months. I apparently convinced the local shelter that I was of good intentions so I got our Magic the probably Bengal in October.
He hasn't taken over the house to fill the alpha cat role, but since he is so much bigger than the other cats they defaulted to him being in charge.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 04:21 PM (rbvCR)

43 Funny cat videos:

https://tinyurl.com/y76hpwzs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:22 PM (PFs9e)

44 40 I posted this on the tech thread, but I wanted to repeat it because it's such a cute video of a happy dog:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Even if it's a repeat, you can't go wrong posting a happy dog video.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2026 04:22 PM (7xrfc)

45 My sister had a couple of Persians. The boy cat had a very quiet purr. The girl cat, her purr you could hear in another county. A variety of purrs in kittuhs.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at March 14, 2026 04:23 PM (sAmhv)

46 a fatwa against black cats in medieval Europe

Them old Greek homos!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 04:23 PM (Kt19C)

47 How many childrin of coller dyed twoday in that Iran place because of that warmongerang Trump ??

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at March 14, 2026 04:24 PM (hVcDO)

48 A: Thank you for the pet thread! Such a lovely diversion at the end of a week.

II: I was unable to post in a timely manner on last weeks thread, and I see that the pellet thing has come up again this week, and I wanted to throw in my two cents........ pine pellet bedding comes in 40 pound bags at the tractor supply store and Rural King. Those are stores that are all over the place in central Ohio, though I don't know how far across the country they extend. But I have found them to be even slightly cheaper than buying pellets for a stove, and I tell myself that they're better because they've not been treated with anything. I don't know if woodstove pellets have anything added to them, I have not researched it. But I know that the bedding pellets are pine sawdust only. And I'm paying about $7.80 for a 40 pound bag. The disadvantage is that it does not come in smaller sizes than 40 pounds and, I am not aware of a way to get them delivered. So I have to be able to get those bags into my vehicle, unassisted, and then unload them at home unassisted. And for now, I can do that. Not sure what I'll do when I'm not able to heft them by myself, but that's a problem for another day.

Posted by: Appycay at March 14, 2026 04:25 PM (EdYR/)

49 IDK if this link works, but this is Zero G Babymonster

https://is.gd/vC6Jdm

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 04:28 PM (Cqf9B)

50 Not sure what I'll do when I'm not able to heft them by myself, but that's a problem for another day.
Posted by: Appycay at March 14, 2026 04:25 PM (EdYR/)

Get some 5 gallon buckets at KFC or any other fast food joint (pickles and mayo come in those buckets) and see if you can get some help at the store filling them from the bag. Even if you get the bags into your trunk, you can transfer them to the buckets downhill from there and you can choose how heavy to fill that bucket with the handy bail.
Also, you can store the buckets outside if you have lids for them. And if you have an outside.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 04:30 PM (rbvCR)

51 Just finished my taxes.

Can I at least get a thank you letter for each Somalian I am paying for?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 04:33 PM (sKqQm)

52 Addendum to my other post:
Because I am a bad cat mom, I spent no time acclimating them to the new litter, it just got changed over. And neither one seemed to care.
My cats and my plants know that they're not going to get fussed over by me, so they need to be able to take what they are given and be happy with it.
😁

Posted by: Appycay at March 14, 2026 04:34 PM (EdYR/)

53 Lily the House Tiger says hi.

What beautiful cats! I'm a sucker for tufted ears.

Was Maceo a Scottish Fold, or did he just spend too many years in the boxing ring?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 14, 2026 04:34 PM (kpS4V)

54 I have a question. in what ways have your pets comforted you at a difficult time?. Yesterday was a long day as we buried our wonderful organist, Jessie. She was such a dear person. Pynchon, our black cat slept next to me in the bed, which he doesn't do very often. He will sleep on the bed, but not right next to me. I thought it was very sweet.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:34 PM (Nx5jP)

55 Thank you, Kindltot!

Posted by: Appycay at March 14, 2026 04:35 PM (EdYR/)

56 Cats are too independent. I will stick with my little rascal Chihuahua....

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 14, 2026 04:35 PM (jgBQB)

57 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

So adorable. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:35 PM (Nx5jP)

58 PETZZZZ

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 04:37 PM (tcsrY)

59 Thanks Fen

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 04:40 PM (jCZC1)

60 Nyah!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 14, 2026 04:41 PM (BS7wY)

61 Kitty patrol...

1. Jasmine is snoozing in the cat tree by my office window.
2. Penny and Allie are snoozing in my bed, but not curled up next to each other.
3. Kaylee and Hexie were lounging in the sun room, but decided to get up and stretch their legs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 04:44 PM (ESVrU)

62 On another forum I frequent, there are posts of vintage horror pulp magazine covers, and you'd be surprised how often black cats are painted that look nothing like cats.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 14, 2026 04:52 PM (CHHv1)

63 Was Maceo a Scottish Fold, or did he just spend too many years in the boxing ring?
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Ears were permanently folded down from past ear infection scarring. Not a Scottie. Gave him quite a distinguished look though. He also had 4" of tail left after amputation due to nerve trauma + a bear-shaped body + his back legs were slightly longer than his front so he walked a bit like Stegosaurus. He also had the most beautiful tufts on the bottom of his feet. On the SPCA website, they said his name meant "Gift from God" which he was. Some cats are just special and when one of them likes you, life is just a little more special.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 04:53 PM (KAi1n)

64 That's wonderful, Dark Litigator.

Stegosaurus walk! 😆

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 14, 2026 04:58 PM (kpS4V)

65 Just ended a phone call with a dear friend back in California. His Malamute/Australian Shepard mix spirit animal, Kojak, recently crossed the rainbow bridge. My friend is, understandably, bereft.

Kojak was a beautiful dog, bouncing at the end of his chain as I would walk up the driveway waving my arms overhead in greeting. Guess he was kind of my spirit animal too. Good boy, Kojak. Good boy...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 05:00 PM (nbLIj)

66 Cat litter availability is hit or miss here at the Wally World near Casa Some Guy. Unscented clumping has been out of stock as often as not here. "Fresh Scent" clumping -- hey, no problem. I won't buy it though. Decades ago, with a different cat, I switched from regular to something fresh scent to help keep the odor down. The cat went to the bedroom, passed over Mrs Some Guy's side of the bed (as the cat knew whose job it was to change the litter), and made her displeasure known by taking a dump on my pillow. I've been a bit leery of sudden drastic changes in the litter ever since.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 14, 2026 05:01 PM (q3u5l)

67 Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 14, 2026 05:00 PM (

What a lovely testimony to your friends dog, Kojak.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 05:04 PM (rZCVI)

68 Lucy the Fink sends greetings her horde cousins. Maceo was a lovely kitty, Dark Litigator. How is PG amd the big orange cremesickle?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 05:05 PM (A5RD0)

69 ...they also missed discovering that smart black cat Marie-Antoinette had been born a boy. (Imagine the hilarity when we found that out several years later --!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:49 PM (wzUl9)

On a semi- non-cat-related note, we had the unfortunate experience of discovering that the "stewardess" in first class on yesterday's flight to San Francisco.....wasn't.

In fairness, this person was of a slight build, and had immaculately manicured nails, neatly styled hair, and lovely stud earrings. It was always a surprise, though, to hear the male voice accompanying the rest of the package.

Honestly, if we had never heard the voice, it would have taken more than a few double takes to figure out what was wrong with the picture - like I said, this person was of very slight build, and didn't have any of the annoying mannerisms that so many of the more "vocal" activists do. He was very professional and polite.

On the way out , Mr. TiFW even complimented him on how nice his manicure looked.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:09 PM (S7WXb)

70 PG has horked 6 times since last night - some liquid, some chunky. Not sure why. Will monitor. Ginormous Creamsickle finally came by a few days ago after about 6 weeks away. Sniffed my hand but didn't eat much. I couldn't hang out b/c had to work but he looks handsome as ever.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 14, 2026 05:10 PM (KAi1n)

71 Does pumpkin work for cats the way it does for dogs (calms an upset stomach?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 05:16 PM (zZu0s)

72 ...they also missed discovering that smart black cat Marie-Antoinette had been born a boy. (Imagine the hilarity when we found that out several years later --!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 03:49 PM (wzUl9)

On a cat-related note, years ago one of our cats had kittens, and we ended up keeping an adorable grey fuzz ball that the girls promptly named "Puff".

A few weeks later, we noticed that " Puff" had a couple of protuberances in the nether regions which had been concealed by all of the fluffy fur until then.

Whereupon "Puff" was renamed "Puff Daddy" 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:17 PM (S7WXb)

73 Evidently, looking at the net, pumpkin (just pumpkin) is safe for cats.

I did not know cinnamon and nutmeg were toxic for cats, but the article made sure to point it out. Note: i was not suggesting feeding pumpkin pie to the cat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 14, 2026 05:24 PM (zZu0s)

74 Mmmmmmm. Pie.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 05:26 PM (A5RD0)

75 69....we had the unfortunate experience...

Please allow me to rephrase that - the experience was "interesting". Like I said, this person was exceptionally professional, and very nice.

Not a pink or purple hair in sight.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026 05:27 PM (S7WXb)

76 Whereupon "Puff" was renamed "Puff Daddy" 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Ha! Perfect!

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 05:29 PM (VHUov)

77 49 IDK if this link works, but this is Zero G Babymonster

https://is.gd/vC6Jdm
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 04:28 PM (Cqf9B)

Striking! Those eyes, man. If he's indoor/outdoor, I bet if you put one of those FPV video cameras on him, like a GoPro or similar, his day would be YouTube-worthy.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 05:29 PM (Sy6m/)

78 Hi Teresa and nurse!
I hope both of you are well.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 05:30 PM (Sco7b)

79 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

80 Was Puff the magic dragon female?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 05:31 PM (Cqx++)

81 On a cat-related note, years ago one of our cats had kittens, and we ended up keeping an adorable grey fuzz ball that the girls promptly named "Puff".

A few weeks later, we noticed that " Puff" had a couple of protuberances in the nether regions which had been concealed by all of the fluffy fur until then.

Whereupon "Puff" was renamed "Puff Daddy" 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 14, 2026

***
Well, that was Marie's problem. Her little batteries never descended -- "cryptorchidism," we were told -- and her fluffy medium hair back there concealed anything else on a casual look. the lady who passed her on to Linda called her "Marie-Antoinette" because she acted like cat royalty, and the vet who looked at her when she was fairly young apparently missed the essential clue, so "F" she remained until the big revelation years later.

As you see, we still call her "she."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

82 Hi stateless!

Good to see you back. Please take care and don’t just drop off the planet again. Many of us were very worried about you. Know you were fretted upon. And prayed for.

You are worthy, even when you aren’t taking care of someone else.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 05:40 PM (A5RD0)

83 Nurse, in my nic is my website. Brand new. Nothing there yet.
I can be contacted there.

And thank you.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 05:48 PM (Sco7b)

84 And I gave a big update in the prayer thread.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 05:54 PM (Sco7b)

85 Fen so sorry to hear of Jessie may her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:05 PM (RIvkX)

86 Been a bit under the weather for a couple of days, so our Chorkie pup spent about 4 hours napping on my lap in the recliner. Her favourite place that doesn't include my wife...

Posted by: Nazdar at March 14, 2026 06:29 PM (NcvvS)

87 Zero G Babymonster has shown no interest on going outside since I brought her into the house.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 14, 2026 06:39 PM (f0sNM)

88 Posted by: San Franpsycho

Thanks; It is a blessing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 07:29 PM (Nx5jP)

89 aVOID THE YELLOW ONES, THEY ALL SHARE A SINGLE BRAIN CELL!

Posted by: Bob in Houston at March 14, 2026 08:25 PM (XIbv+)

90 It's not cat day! It's pi day.

Posted by: Dyspeptic Curmudgeon at March 14, 2026 11:22 PM (CPVDa)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, March 14

This pansy is the only survivor on the terrace outside of my condo of the harshest winter I've seen since I moved here 6 years ago. It is still perfect.
Lots of little green shoots in my planters though so hope Springs eternal.
Sharon(willow's apprentice)

A wonderful way to start our post today, which comes mostly from the desert.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Last week, WeeKreekFarmGirl shared some information with us about an herb most of us had never heard of, Sculpit. Famous in some parts of Europe, we learned. It is available from Terroir Seeds, a company in Arizona.

Here is one of their summer squashes, Tatume.

It is a firm, round zucchini-type squash known for its heat tolerance. I have grown it before. I tend to prefer the more tender varieties, but this one has the advantage of surviving where others may not.

Here is a little video on another of their offerings,
Cucamelons:

If you are wondering what to do with all of your tiny cucamelons, use them in a salad! They add a delicious cucumber crunch like nothing else.

Ah, Nature

Courtesy Wherever I May Roam Nature and Photography

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Adventure

From a friend:

Hiked 6.66 miles today on the Sonoran Preserve. It was so beautiful and pictures will never show all that beauty. We saw so many gorgeous saguaros and other cacti, two snakes (harmless Sonoran garter snakes), many birds, many butterflies, and wild flowers dropping a splash of color in the desert landscape. We akso saw some Christmas cactus. The highlight was a gorgeous crested saguaro. There are only 17 in Arizona, so it's quite an anomaly. I felt privileged to witness this miracle of nature. . . It was a good day.

That crested cactus is amazing.

Gardens of The Horde

Anything going on in your garden, neighborhood or region?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, March 7

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:29 PM

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1 Plant based!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 01:31 PM (Kt19C)

2 Good afternoon Greenthumbs Daffodils are getting high but no flowers yet. Winter doesn't seem to go away yet

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)

3 DILIT gave me a hydroponic heated, water-circulating grower. I planted five days ago and have the first germinations!

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 01:47 PM (JK1W1)

4 Is picking boogers like harvesting?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 01:48 PM (Kt19C)

5 ah not much going on outside, just bulbs popping up here and there!

inside I started my tomatoes way too early lol

they're happy but getting large

everything else I started (at a more appropriate time) is looking happy! can't wait to put thing outside

got an orchid rebloom this past week and all the girls are looking happy with a strong sun! some of them will go outside too (with limits)

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)

6 3 DILIT gave me a hydroponic heated, water-circulating grower. I planted five days ago and have the first germinations!

ooh nice!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 01:50 PM (j+aD2)

7 Need some Moron planting advice.

Bought a small plum tree (potted) when they were very cheap last fall, and then never got a chance to put it in the ground.

I brought it inside to protect the root ball when we had some temps below 10F.

Of course, it bloomed early in our dining room.

I know it takes a lot of the trees' energy to blossom and leaf out.

Should I plant it ASAP, or give it two weeks of sunlight on the new leaves to produce some more glucose reserves before subjecting it to some transplant shock?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 14, 2026 01:52 PM (HlyYF)

8 3 DILIT gave me a hydroponic heated, water-circulating grower. I planted five days ago and have the first germinations!

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 01:47 PM

Bride of PI has greatly enjoyed those and had good success. Especially when she was suffering "cabin fever" and could not start on her real gardens.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 14, 2026 01:55 PM (HlyYF)

9 Problem being we can’t transplant/plant up here in NH until Memorial Day.
But the directions look like you can produce inside!

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 01:57 PM (J5F+L)

10 where do you live region wise Pillage?

you should not be transplanting when it's blooming I don't think. but if you live in Georgia or something, you could put it outside in the pot and let it partially acclimate?

don't rush the little guy!

anyway take anything I say with a grain of salt I get nowhere with fruit trees except my Garage Fig (which lives in a big pot and I fear leaving outside for very long).

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 01:57 PM (j+aD2)

11 Boogers are made of dried mucus, which is a bodily secretion and not derived from animals, so they can be considered vegan.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 02:00 PM (Kt19C)

12 >>>This pansy is the only survivor on the terrace outside of my condo of the harshest winter I've seen since I moved here 6 years ago. It is still perfect. Lots of little green shoots in my planters though so hope Springs eternal.
Sharon(willow's apprentice)

It's so beautifully defiant!
Maybe "Spring hopes eternal."

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:05 PM (+YA9H)

13 “ When Gila woodpeckers leave their saguaro holes, elf owls move in. Then wrens. Then flickers. One cavity supports decades of tenants. The saguaro becomes a living apartment building. The woodpecker digs once. Everyone
benefits for 40+ years.”

Commie deadbeats.

Posted by: The Dog at March 14, 2026 02:05 PM (XodLO)

14 From Boise area: lows 30-52!, highs 45-64 F. Today is windy, with occasional drizzle. This week is supposed to break 80!, the week after to be cool and damp but not freezing.

Some Johnny Jump-Ups are blooming out by the shed. The crocus behind the kitchen window have flopped, but the hyacinths are coming on. I planted 25 daffodils 2 years ago in a backyard bed, and we have only 4 sprouts so far this year - those things just don't like it here. At least the size of the tulip leaves out front promise a beautiful late spring.

Husband is more than half done with the new dry-stacked stone bed. We'll go to the local native plant society sale in late April to get plants.

I ordered my seeds from Territorial Seed Co., now I'm just waiting for them.

Husband set out our "cat-cam" this week, discovered we are not just feeding our barn cat and the raccoon, we're also feeding 3 other cats and some magpies. This is getting out of hand... Now if we set out the live trap, who knows what we'll catch! Ugh!

Posted by: Pat* at March 14, 2026 02:05 PM (9+hMp)

15 Nice survivor pansy!

I planted some lovely deep purple pansies in the urn out front and the turkeys pecked the flowers off. Blue-faced bastards! *shakes fist*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 14, 2026 02:06 PM (kpS4V)

16 I got my big bag o' various seeds out and I'm gonna start some 'maters and peppers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 14, 2026 02:08 PM (kpS4V)

17 I don't know if this will apply to anyone not in my area, but I bought four-packs of annuals for a dollar apiece at our local Walmart. There were no signs, but the packs had a "clearance" sticker on them. So you might keep an eye out.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 02:12 PM (FMtrg)

18 Okay. Finally seeing some signs of approaching spring. Banks of daffodils sprang up in a few areas almost overnight. There is a line of ornamental cherry trees nearby. Last week they were bare. Now they are half covered with those lovely dark pink and white blossoms. Same for a few sheltered magnolias and patches of forsythias. The forecast still calls for periods of freezing temps but this seems to be a botanical middle finger to the weather forecasters.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 02:14 PM (yTvNw)

19 76° and sunny in van nuys. Feels hotter.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 02:16 PM (Kt19C)

20 Cucamelons appear similar to lemon cucumbers. Maybe smaller.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 02:17 PM (/lPRQ)

21 Still working on the new garden beds.
Planted my two David Austin roses and put in some vegetable and herb seedlings and seed tape and mats.
We discovered that a 1:1 ratio of sad dirt pile dirt and cotton burr compost produces a usable soil- we hope.

Turned the special biodynamic compost heap yesterday and inserted the PVC pipe watering unit in it.

Spring clean-up is still going on. The weather has been lovely here in CenTex, but it's supposed to get cold Sunday night- down to the mid 30's.
High winds are a problem in our valley, so I will take down the bird feeders.

Having so much fun working out what goes where- trying to not get carried away!

Posted by: sal at March 14, 2026 02:20 PM (f+FmA)

22 I love this time of year. We're still getting juncoes at the feeders but grackles and red-winged blackbirds are starting to show up too.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at March 14, 2026 02:22 PM (h/O4U)

23 We remain in deep freeze, but the bird feeder is a riot. So many redpoles that we are filling the feeders every day. The chickadees wait until the redpoles are done, about 7:00 pm or so, and then they come in to get the rest.

The dogs are entertained. Every once in a while they smack the glass door so the birds all fly off. Of course they come right back, but the dogs love the game.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 14, 2026 02:23 PM (I40wl)

24 Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 02:17 PM

Lemon cucumbers are actually real cucumbers. These are not.

Posted by: KT at March 14, 2026 02:34 PM (7vIsy)

25 I FINALLY saw some robins in the yard and it's about time. We typically see them by late January but the unusual frigid temps and the ice storms may have delayed things. We still need coats most days but short sleeve weather is (hopefully) within sight.

The only downside is I'm losing any excuses to stay inside in my recliner and read. Guess I should find my good walking shoes.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 02:35 PM (yTvNw)

26 PI, nice to know. I’ve started on plain old herbs as first attempts.
I think I’m going to clear an 8’ x 16’ garden out next to the driveway in direct sunlight. Many of my attempts alongside the house were blocked by trees to the south.
Got great green beans, though, last year. And I’m converting the potato patch to cherry tomatoes.
My thumb is not very green - more like puce.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 02:38 PM (fRFTM)

27 That single pansy flower in the top photo is gorgeous. I wonder where the idea the pansy came to mean delicate and effeminate. In my experience they are botanical tough guys. Colorful but tough.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 02:43 PM (yTvNw)

28 Those are great photos! I grew up in Phoenix, hiked in the desert often, and I never once saw a crested saguaro! That’s amazing!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 02:45 PM (Mh6s8)

29 I think plant when temperatures outside reach inside but not a expert

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 02:45 PM (Ia/+0)

30 On today's episode of Gunsmoke, Festus runs away with the circus. Then finds out they want him for African Dodger.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 02:46 PM (Kt19C)

31 Good afternoon all
I 've only been to two deserts. The first one was the Negev in Israel. Just completely barren. I don't remember seeing cacti or any vegetation. Maybe our resident Israeli can refresh my memory. This was well before cell phones so I'd have to go find old prints.
The second was in Utah in May, and the cacti were in blossom and it was glorious. So dry though. Again, a long time ago. I actually have pictures hiking in a two piece bathing suit. A really long time ago when I wasn't actually 29 yet IRL. 😉

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 02:47 PM (t/2Uw)

32 31 I actually have pictures hiking in a two piece bathing suit. A really long time ago when I wasn't actually 29 yet IRL. 😉
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 02:47 PM (t/2Uw)

; )

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:49 PM (+YA9H)

33 Wow, the lions of Iran appear to be kicking our asses! The region is on fire.

Posted by: Sid at March 14, 2026 02:51 PM (fpvw+)

34 Pansies usually make it through the entire winter here but this winter has been horrible. Cold and snowy. Unusual. Now predicting crazy weather for Monday. Thunderstorms, tornadoes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 02:52 PM (t/2Uw)

35 A cret saguaro grow within a mile of this house.
They are 1in 200,000 so I think 17 is to low of an estimate.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 14, 2026 02:56 PM (f9h0J)

36 Anyone else have any moringa trees in their yards
We have 10 started from seed right now, maybe 9 as I think one was eaten...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 14, 2026 02:58 PM (f9h0J)

37 Well, the weed in the garden just showed up. Bye, retard.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 03:00 PM (thgqG)

38 And I thought pansies were wimps!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 14, 2026 03:04 PM (o70pw)

39 37
Posted by: RI Red - who is now only somebody that you used to know at March 14, 2026 03:00 PM (thgqG)

Wikipedia:

Somebody That I Used to Know

Not to be confused with Someone I Used to Know or Somebody I Used to Know.

For other uses, see Somebody That I Used to Know (disambiguation).

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 03:06 PM (+YA9H)

40 "This pansy is the only survivor on the terrace outside of my condo of the harshest winter I've seen since I moved here 6 years ago."

Jeez, why didn't you let the little twink come in out of the cold?

Oh, you meant a plant. Never mind.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 14, 2026 03:06 PM (AjG6+)

41 pansy

1 a popular cultivated viola with flowers in rich colors, with both summer- and winter-flowering varieties.

Genus Viola, family Violaceae: several species and hybrids, in particular the commonly cultivated V. cornuta

2 offensive: a gay man.
• a man who is seen as unmasculine, timid, or affected.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 03:08 PM (+YA9H)

42
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from French pensée ‘thought, pansy’, from penser ‘think’, from Latin pensare, frequentative of pendere ‘weigh, consider’.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 03:09 PM (+YA9H)

43 • a man who is seen as unmasculine, timid, or affected.
Posted by: m
See #33.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 14, 2026 03:10 PM (f9h0J)

44 34 ... "Now predicting crazy weather for Monday. Thunderstorms, tornadoes."

Sharon,
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check the forecasts. If your area gets it ours likely will too.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 03:11 PM (yTvNw)

45 don't rush the little guy!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026

We live in southern Kansas. I think the plums (outside) would probably be blooming in 2-3 weeks.

I think I will coddle the plum tree in the pot for a little while and then plant.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 14, 2026 03:15 PM (HlyYF)

46 If you look up

pansy dessert

(instead of pansy desert),

you'll see a bunch of dessert recipes that use pansies!

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 03:16 PM (+YA9H)

47 Monday rain, thunderstorms 65, Tuesday 35.

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)

48 Weather supposed to be really severe

https://tinyurl.com/43thu2yt
Check this link
From SC to Baltimore.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 03:21 PM (t/2Uw)

49 nood pets

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 03:26 PM (+YA9H)

50 Thanks m.
I'll have to check it out because there landscape guys showed up yesterday and replaced all the planters on the terrace. I'll have to send a picture for next week. They really do a fantastic job. In June they come and pull everything out and do gorgeous arrangements with some tropical plants. There are a couple of large crape myrtles they trim back that end up huge with gorgeous flowers. It is the only condo common space and my unit looks out on it. I have a little terrace of my own. Trying to decide if I am going to do veges this year. F

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 03:26 PM (t/2Uw)

51 50 In June they come and pull everything out and do gorgeous arrangements with some tropical plants. There are a couple of large crape myrtles they trim back that end up huge with gorgeous flowers. It is the only condo common space and my unit looks out on it.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 03:26 PM (t/2Uw)

Nice!

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 03:30 PM (+YA9H)

52 Pillage,

I'm in NW KS. I have a Damson plum tree that survived. It is just starting to put out leaves. I'd definitely give yours a little more time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2026 03:37 PM (gQ15S)

53 I'm in NW KS. I have a Damson plum tree that survived. It is just starting to put out leaves. I'd definitely give yours a little more time.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2026 03:37 PM

Thanks!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 14, 2026 04:00 PM (HlyYF)

Talarico's bots are appearing on social media

It's not too surprising that traditional Christians are flummoxed by some of the preaching of James Talarico, and that social media posts concerning his "theology" continue to appear. But I am starting to see some comments on legit pages that seem to be from sources which post little or no content of their own. They have few followers or "friends". They only challenge posts from right-ish points of view.

An unsophisticated example concerning the war in Iran would be:

Jesus loves a bomb.

But there are more sophisticated challenges to posts concerning Talarico from these sites which seem dedicated only to criticism, suggesting that those who disapprove of his theology are mean or perhaps even bad people. For example, the conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well was demonstrating that Jesus was sent to expand the covenant between God and the Jews to other people. It was about Social Justice. Forget the complexities about "living water", salvation and all.

Additionally, Talarico's special affinity for trans children is a lot like Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman. Social Justice.

.@JeffcoSchoolsCo allegedly has 61 males on the girl�s sports team

SIXTY ONE

Wtf pic.twitter.com/Gotdin5TqX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 13, 2026

Come to think of it, there was a lot of Social Justice stuff in the Old Testament. How dare you question Talarico for talking about Social Justice in a religious way?

Best not to interact with these bots, I think. But there's an election coming up.

Partial Review of the Talarico Story

Back before the primaries in Texas, Ace reported that Stephen Colbert lied when he accused CBS of censoring him because he was interviewing James Talarico, a candidate for the upcoming senatorial Democratic primary race in Texas.

Talarico kept the lie going, blaming Trump for trying to silence him. The real story was that the Democrats for trying to silence his primary opponent, Jasmine Crockett.

Anyway, this ploy seems to have been successful, garnering lots of contributions for this guy. In addition, he was interviewed by Joe Rogan, who suggested that he should run for president in 2028. And then there was a long interview by Ezra Klein, included in this report by Mary Rooke: Rising Star James Talarico's Soothing Voice Will Lead Lambs To Slaughter

Good article.

Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico presents himself as a Christian who prays, quotes Jesus Christ extensively, and grounds his politics in faith. However, on several defining moral issues, he does not submit his political ideology to scripture; instead, he reinterprets or ignores scripture to genuflect to his true “god”: far-left orthodoxy.
Talarico, a Texas state representative and self-proclaimed Presbyterian, discussed his supposed Christian faith in a New York Times interview with Ezra Klein released on Tuesday. During which he spoke reverently about God, scripture, and his prayer life. Overall, he defined his faith as trust and acts of love. But there’s an argument to be made that Talarico is not truly Christian but rather a devout practitioner of radical left ideology wrapped in Christian symbolism. . .

Talarico’s interview makes it clear that he doesn’t believe that Christianity is a faith that transforms ideology, but rather that an ideology can selectively reinterpret or override scripture and Christian dogma to remain unchanged. This suggests that his operative authority is not Christ, scripture, or doctrine, but leftist ideology, which is then clothed in Christian language. In this way, he becomes the wolf in sheep’s clothing, leading others to follow down this treacherous path. . .
Probably the most insidious example of this is when Talarico explains his political views on abortion using the Blessed Mary. In the interview, Klein plays a clip from Talarico’s appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience.”

Talarico cites Mary’s consent at the Annunciation, when she exclaims, “Let it be done to me according to your word,” as a biblical foundation for so-called reproductive freedom and a woman’s absolute autonomy over her body. . .

And Klein thought that this would be a fine example, too, I guess.

Talarico’s public presentation of Christianity exposes that his true faith is in human autonomy, sexual liberation, and state-mediated economic equality, with Jesus recast as a mascot for those causes rather than the Lord who demands repentance and transformation.
His calm voice and boyish face aid in this endeavor. They are powerful rhetorical assets that make his presentation of far-left positions feel disarming, sincere, and authentically Christian rather than ideological or confrontational. This makes listeners less likely to categorize him as a partisan activist and more likely to see him as a sincere young believer simply sharing his faith. . .

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:14 AM (Ia/+0)

2 "Tolerate Everything" doesn't seem like a viable theological principle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:21 AM (JkO4W)

3 Go to
DidIwashundermytits.gov

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 11:21 AM (Kt19C)

4 Stopped to read the post, rookie mistake.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2026 11:21 AM (0N4FZ)

5 Can say don't know anything about Talarico but see he is a snake salesman

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)

6 What is "Christian Nationalism?" If it oppose International Socialism, I may like it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:23 AM (d6BF2)

7 It is James Talarico's body, it is James Talarico's sphincter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:24 AM (M9gjJ)

8 Tolerate some other religion than wants you to change to their beliefs can't be right

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:24 AM (Ia/+0)

9 5 Can say don't know anything about Talarico but see he is a snake salesman
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)

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He has the vibe of a guy with a hard drive full of kiddie porn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:25 AM (JkO4W)

10 Or Christian Nationalism is worse the Islamic Nationalism

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:26 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Stopped to read the post, rookie mistake.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Moose at door even told me.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 14, 2026 11:26 AM (qZdIZ)

12 Bringing in illegals is a crime. If the heads of these orgs were paid to do so why aren't they being arrested - along with the Biden regime members that approved the payments?

We have laws for these things. We aren't using them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:27 AM (sKqQm)

13 James Talarico on building a coalition with white nationalists:

“What if we found the courage and the vulnerability to do the difficult work of building a movement based on radical love that could create solidarity between latinx…a movement so powerful it could even liberate WHITE NATIONALISTS”

Framing white nationalists like they are imprisoned and have no agency is crazy work.

The fact that you use LatinX, a term rejected and mocked by all but a small subset of Latinos, tells me that this is about your ego, and not what's good for the presumptive beneficiaries of your white savior syndrome.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

14 His position on illegal immigration alone is enough to sink him with both republicans and independents here in Texas. I doubt he will get the number of independent votes that beto did.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)

15 Amusingly the model for people like Talarico isn't Christ...its Muhammed.

The later took a mismosh of religious ideas - pagan, Jewish, and Christian, and turned them into something he could build a regime out of. Just like Talarico.

If you forced the latter to tell the truth he'd tell you as much - the idea isn't to point people to Christ, the idea is to sell people ideas they otherwise wouldn't accept so you can rule them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:29 AM (sKqQm)

16 There's a video out there with Talarico sincerely expressing how 'prophets like Jesus' have helped him cope with his toxic whiteness.

I think of it as part of his "White Fragility" phase.

Posted by: KT at March 14, 2026 11:30 AM (7vIsy)

17 Isn't the new Ayatollah an autopen?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 14, 2026 11:30 AM (AlhUl)

18 I thought the term "Latinx" had already gone the way of putting pronouns in your bio.

Stupid fads.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:30 AM (JkO4W)

19 I'm white, I Catholic and love my country. I guess that makes me a White Christian Nationalist. *shrugs*. It sure is better than being a White Heathen Traitor.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (lCppi)

20 Jesus loves a bomb.

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Be sure to tune in tomorrow for the Academy Awards. You know, treason with singing and dancing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (ndZc7)

21 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

22 The problem whenever a leftist talks about White Nationalism is that it can mean several different things:

People that oppose unlimited immigration
People that support traditional notions of law and order
People that think America and its ideals are good

Or

Some white guy in a trailer that thinks he's better then the black guy that lives in the next trailer because of the color of his skin.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

23 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Posted by: The guy Talarico claims to follow at March 14, 2026 11:32 AM (sKqQm)

24 Two aphorisms seem to me to be related:
“Leave it to Caesar” and
“all power comes from the barrel of a gun” (Mao)

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 14, 2026 11:34 AM (1FEc1)

25 Bringing in illegals is a crime. If the heads of these orgs were paid to do so why aren't they being arrested - along with the Biden regime members that approved the payments?

We have laws for these things. We aren't using them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:27 AM

Technically they were not "illegal" because biden gave them all temporary asylum when they walked across the border. They became illegal and deportable when they did not go to their first asylum claim hearing.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 14, 2026 11:34 AM (0N4FZ)

26 Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 14, 2026 11:35 AM (baZJK)

27 That Mao may have stunk but he sure knew his shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 14, 2026 11:36 AM (JkO4W)

28 If you have any knowledge of history one of the oddest things about the Modern world is Woke Christianity's view on Islam.

Pull any Christian from 629 AD until around 1914 AD and ask them what the Christian response to Islam should be and you'd get something between DEUS VULT and "let them wallow in their own filth". The notion of PAYING to bring millions of them to the west to practice their religion...and kill Christians and Jews would literally boggle their minds.

Posted by: The guy Talarico claims to follow at March 14, 2026 11:36 AM (sKqQm)

29 Technically they were not "illegal" because biden gave them all temporary asylum when they walked across the border. They became illegal and deportable when they did not go to their first asylum claim hearing.

All you have to do is find *1* for whom the paperwork was not correctly done. Ideally in some red area.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:37 AM (sKqQm)

30 Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.

You had me at sweet little boy.

Posted by: David French at March 14, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

31 I don't trust anyone who uses Christianity as a tool to enrich themselves financially or attain a higher societal position. PERIOD!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

32 "I love Jesus so everything I want He wants"

Eh, it's probably the other way around, dude

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 11:40 AM (tcsrY)

33 Are there any homosexuals in the senate that have accomplished anything except enriching themselves?

Something smells funny here.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:43 AM (M9gjJ)

34 I live in MT and attend a traditional Catholic parish with a priest that preaches what the Bible teaches without reimagining what it says. I'm a thinking mr talarico is one of satan's minions and should be mocked soundly and often.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (SgvkQ)

35
A Christian acquaintance of mine has meetings with her AWFL friends on Sundays and the leader noted a homeless man across the little pond at the park one day and queried the group, "Why is he homeless?" The implication was that society had failed him. The rich are guilty.

I wish I'd been there. I would have answered. "Because of you. You won't bring him into your home. You have a spare bedroom and enough money to support an extra human. Why do you let him languish out here? Hey, I'll go give him your address now!" (gets up and runs to homeless scag)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (y2OcL)

36 I live in MT and attend a traditional Catholic parish with a priest that preaches what the Bible teaches without reimagining what it says. I'm a thinking mr talarico is one of satan's minions and should be mocked soundly and often.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (SgvkQ)

I think the term is false prophet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 11:45 AM (snZF9)

37 Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.

You had me at sweet little boy.

Don't think Talarico wears dresses so you might want to find a different guy. Maybe one of the Jeffco schools has a "female" athlete you could mentor?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 11:45 AM (sKqQm)

38 Thomas Aquinas defined love (agape) not as mere emotion, but as a conscious decision to "will the good of the other" which sometimes means saying the hard thing, not the comfortable thing. . . .
_______
Ite ad Thomam.

Always a good idea.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 14, 2026 11:45 AM (AlhUl)

39 It isn’t for me to judge what is in another person’s heart.

Jesus DOES love everyone. And He will forgive anyone who is truly sorry for what they’ve done and pledge to STOP DOING IT.

Some people want only forgiveness, but will expend no effort to correct their behavior. So, they really aren’t asking for forgiveness. They are asking for permission. Which they will not get for their wicked choices.

But that is between them and God.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2026 11:49 AM (A5RD0)

40 I wish I'd been there. I would have answered. "Because of you. You won't bring him into your home. You have a spare bedroom and enough money to support an extra human. Why do you let him languish out here? Hey, I'll go give him your address now!" (gets up and runs to homeless scag)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2026 11:44 AM (y2OcL)

How delicious that response would be. I’d pay to watch that happen to see the AWFL’s reaction

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 14, 2026 11:50 AM (uq8Bc)

41 > Talarico looks like a sweet little boy who needs a good strapping.
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Living bobblehead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:50 AM (jtM2q)

42 There's a short series on Netflix called Midnight Mass. It's a vampire story but with a very different perspective than what is normally used. This post's subject reminds of it very much.

This is an excellent post, btw.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

43 "Every conversation came back to some version of this: "Jesus summarized everything as love God and love your neighbor, and that overrides the harder moral teachings."

"Love your neighbor (as yourself)" ... I never studied it in depth, but it seems loving one's neighbor is more tribal than "love the whole world, because everyone has a spark of the divine". No, everyone has sin nature. Especially in Biblical times, one's neighbor was likely family and like-minded friends, and fellow Christians.

Jesus instructed to go out to the world and spread the gospel, "And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town".

At some point even among "fellow Christians", "A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject". Titus 3:10. So the One Body of Christ is to be united with itself, not with the world (that rejects them).

There was no "one body of Christ" (The Great Mystery) till Pentecost, but Jesus was giving instructions before the crucifixion.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:53 AM (vbXSk)

44 Every individual has the same rights.

We don't grant rights to groups of like-minded people.

What these odd groups want is privilege. Fuck your group.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:54 AM (M9gjJ)

45 I thought "Latinx" had gone out of style.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 11:56 AM (Cqx++)

46 Every individual has the same rights.

We don't grant rights to groups of like-minded people.

What these odd groups want is privilege. Fuck your group.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 11:54 AM (M9gjJ)

Amen!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:57 AM (g8Ew8)

47
Ran across this while reading 'The Brothers Karamazov'. I marked it:

"These are the people we are most afraid of. They are dreadful people! The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist." -- Dostoevsky

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 11:57 AM (XeU6L)

48 "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit!"

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2026 11:57 AM (GD0B3)

49 to expand the covenant between God and the Jews to other people.
Well, yes.

It was about Social Justice.
WUT? Where is social justice in that, AT ALL? Not even a Venn diagram, just two circles that exist on similar but non-intersecting planes.

Forget the complexities about "living water", salvation and all.
Since, you know, that's what the covenant was all about. /double facepalm/

Talarico is a blasphemer and a heretic. On top of looking like a Damien version of Opie.

Posted by: GWB at March 14, 2026 11:59 AM (XZoNw)

50 No surgery should ever be performed on any confused teenage girl until they're over 18 and have had extensive counselling.

But for boys wanting to play on girls teams, there should be penis removals every Tuesday.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 12:00 PM (Sco7b)

51 James Talarico is just another Nehemiah Scudder wannabe. Of course, there's always the possibility that things may get so out of hand that he looks like the sane and reasonable candidate for president-for-life in the not too distant future.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 14, 2026 12:01 PM (4mmkh)

52 I just finished putting in a ceiling fan. I feel just like prehistoric man taking down a woolly mammoth.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 12:01 PM (3uBP9)

53 Problem is the counselors ard the oned pushing mental illness

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)

54 The Bible commands us to treat migrants (strangers) equally as citizens. "So sayeth the Lord" Leviticus.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Yd4me)

55 In Talerico’s brand of Christianity, there is no super predicate order, ie its leftism with the thinnest of theological veneer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (LOAVH)

56 Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 11:53 AM (vbXSk)

Problem with the first part of your post is that the next question was "Who is my neighbor?" at which point Jesus used the parable of the Good Samaritan. So it's definitely not supposed to just be tribal. The potential neighbor does need to at least show good will though, which is the opposite of what has been brought into the country lately.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (lFFaq)

57 Would it ever be possible for voters to consider candidates based on, you know, the only relevant thing - their likely impact on policy, and life? Instead of this version of Shi'a vs. Sunni or Hutu vs. Tutsi?

Of course that would require at least a hamster's level understanding of public policy. So a non-starter. Oh well.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 12:04 PM (U/Byj)

58 Libtard Preacher Man gave me the stink eye not too long ago when I told him he was attracting all the layabouts and bums to his soup kitchen downtown and that he needs to take them home with him and feed them there while teaching them the good word. His garage and backyard outta do just fine. Just don't go all Jim Jones on me.

Posted by: Foreskin Lint at March 14, 2026 12:05 PM (Ksqrb)

59 Mullah-cide >>> Mulled Cider

Posted by: muldoon at March 14, 2026 12:09 PM (qgHp7)

60 Voter integrity does not help the Democrat party -- in fact, it hurts them. I really don't know why we would do that.

Posted by: John Thune (D - SD) at March 14, 2026 12:10 PM (qUkBO)

61 Would it ever be possible for voters to consider candidates based on, you know, the only relevant thing - their likely impact on policy, and life? Instead of this version of Shi'a vs. Sunni or Hutu vs. Tutsi?

Lefty LIVs will *refuse* to consider this. Their vote is determined solely on who is "good". How do they know who is good? The FNM or their HIV lefty friends tell them.

Then later when the pol they voted for does stuff to make their lives harder these same LIVs will argue either "well it must be bad luck" or just blame it on the nearest Republican/Trump.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)

62 Morning all. Running errands.

If God is non binary and He made a human in his image, why didn't he create Eve first?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:14 PM (vRciE)

63 The funny thing about the whole Talarico situation is that if was caught in a compromising position a la Elmer Gantry at this time his popularity would go up. If not he'll lose by double digits, because every Christian, except for the most left , won't vote for him, and neither will African Americans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 12:14 PM (YsPj+)

64 The funny thing about the whole Talarico situation is that if was caught in a compromising position a la Elmer Gantry at this time his popularity would go up. If not he'll lose by double digits, because every Christian, except for the most left , won't vote for him, and neither will African Americans
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Black southern church ladies? Yeah. He ain't getting that.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:16 PM (vRciE)

65 I was watching a Elisabeth Wheatley video where she was complaining about economists directing policy when it will have no impact on them personally and while she certainly isn't wrong, this seems a core problem with any form of leftwing economics.

No the economist that predicts a recession...or a Biden boom...that never comes won't pay any price. But nor will the pols voting for those policies or the bureaucrats implementing them.

And when there is no accountability well, why would you expect competence?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

66
Digging into the corruption reveals that there's far more of it than we realized. Putting the public liars under pressure forces them to reveal their true nature. It's like what's revealed by turning over a log. It is distressing to see this cavalcade of evil and betrayal day after day. Really difficult sometimes. But I guess it has to be that way. The necessary price of addressing the problem.

But it's nasty.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (PbePe)

67 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa. Also interesting (and on the same page) is his video clarifying his objection to the case the State of California was making to ban larger capacity (i.e. standard capacity) magazines. California’s argument was that the magazine is an accessory to the gun and thus not protected by the second amendment. Judge VanDyke deconstructs this argument in his video (on the same page as the Korean spa link) by deconstructing a typical semi-auto handgun to show that all parts are interchangeable and modifiable. Thus all parts are, by California’s argument, “accessories” and not protected by the second amendment. He reduces California’s argument to absurdity by making a Theseus’s gun analogy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (X5qGl)

68 Eve?
Ribbed for her pleasure

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (HTa/G)

69 Several sessions at Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show oughta straighten James Talarico right up.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (wVcYX)

70 Do you know anyone who follows the progressive Christian pattern?

Methodists.

Posted by: Also bushwackers, sidewinders and hornswogglers at March 14, 2026 12:18 PM (TbWk/)

71 How delicious that response would be. I’d pay to watch that happen to see the AWFL’s reaction

It would be pretty much the same as the famous video where someone went door to door asking AWFLs if illegals should be allowed into the country. And when they said "yes", he had half a dozen Latinos walk up and ask how many she could take.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)

72 Talarico is basically the leftwing stereotype of an out of touch Christian using his faith transparently for power.

And they will still vote for him

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:19 PM (sKqQm)

73 31 I don't trust anyone who uses Christianity as a tool to enrich themselves financially or attain a higher societal position. PERIOD!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew

I'm sorry you feel that way but as a follower of Christ I forgive you!

Posted by: Joel Osteen at March 14, 2026 12:20 PM (TbWk/)

74 Economists are almost never right, and are always never held accountable. That's a sweet fucking gig if you can get it and be paid.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (M9gjJ)

75 Can say don't know anything about Talarico but see he is a snake salesman
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:22 AM (Ia/+0)

Even his name is a fraud.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (8zz6B)

76 It would be pretty much the same as the famous video where someone went door to door asking AWFLs if illegals should be allowed into the country. And when they said "yes", he had half a dozen Latinos walk up and ask how many she could take.

We had this meme on last night's ONT. https://ace.mu.nu/archives/socialism.jfif

It is one of the core problems we have with the left - they don't want to take care of any of the "problems" they claim we face. They want to enslave us to pay for them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (sKqQm)

77 Problem is the counselors ard the oned pushing mental illness
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)

Yup. Today's psychology and psychiatric professions should not be trusted. They are the most woke of the medical world.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (g8Ew8)

78 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.

That's Judge Lawrence "Swinging Dicks" VanDyke to you, pal.

Posted by: Swings a mean gavel he does at March 14, 2026 12:22 PM (TbWk/)

79 Talarico is basically a lizard-alien from V that was trained to be human entirely on David French columns. If the woman from the plane showed up at one of his speeches and yelled that he's not real I'd believe her.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:22 PM (QZThv)

80 When I look at Talarico I see Percy Wetmore.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 14, 2026 12:23 PM (enw9G)

81 Come to think of it, there was a lot of Social Justice stuff in the Old Testament.
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Amalekites must be destroyed?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 14, 2026 12:23 PM (KAqW5)

82 Eve?
Ribbed for her pleasure
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Never not funny.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:23 PM (vRciE)

83 Talarico is an anti-Christ, or in the spirit thereof. Not THE anti-Christ. At least, probably not.

Posted by: Check his scalp for 666 just to be sure at March 14, 2026 12:24 PM (TbWk/)

84 Yup. Today's psychology and psychiatric professions should not be trusted. They are the most woke of the medical world.

The left tells me that doctors don't want to cure your problems, they want to get you coming back on a regular basis so they get paid.

But then they also tell me a psych or trans-butcher that signs you up for a literal lifetime of therapy, surgery, and medical treatments are doing it out of nothing but a desire to "help" the victim.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:24 PM (sKqQm)

85 So the left murdered Charlie Kirk and replaced him with mirror universe Spock (James Talarico.)

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 12:24 PM (smnV3)

86 Morning Hordemates!
Talarico is an idiot. Twisting scripture into politics is a very dumb thing to do, in this life and the next.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

87 So the left murdered Charlie Kirk and replaced him with mirror universe Spock (James Talarico.)

I think that's slander against mirror universe Spock. Nimoy rocked that goatee.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (QZThv)

88 Do you know anyone who follows the progressive Christian pattern?

Methodists.
Posted by: Also bushwackers
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Well, the traditional prevalent Prostetant denominations have generally been rent asunder. What has happened to the UMC is very upsetting, but, the Global Methodist Church is strongly comitted to traditional Methodist ethos.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (XeU6L)

89 Great news!

We may finally get the Western we've always wanted with a black, tranny sheriff in a wheelchair. From ew

"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."

However, the Raiders of the Lost Ark director noted that his Western will try to avoid the conventions — and baggage — of the genre's past. "But there'll be no tropes, I can just tell you that," he said. "There are gonna be no stereotypes, no tropes."

I'm sure it will be epic....

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

90 Will Social Justice issues or economic issues determine the mid terms?

Transgender surgery,; or gas, groceries and jobs?

ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 14, 2026 12:27 PM (Yd4me)

91 Great news!

We may finally get the Western we've always wanted with a black, tranny sheriff in a wheelchair. From ew

"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."

However, the Raiders of the Lost Ark director noted that his Western will try to avoid the conventions — and baggage — of the genre's past. "But there'll be no tropes, I can just tell you that," he said. "There are gonna be no stereotypes, no tropes."

I'm sure it will be epic....
Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

It won't be Silverado, that's certain.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (wVcYX)

92 The troll isn't entirely wrong. Generally the perceived state of the economy is the most important issues in any election

But...I suspect crime will also play a role in this one when we see some surprise red wins in deep blue areas...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

93 Circa 1920 all these sects of Christianity had differences on minute points of doctrine (the split between the Orthodox and Roman Churches was over one vowel in the Nicene creed - in the original Greek). But they all practiced a Christianity that followed scripture and demanded discipline and self-denial among believers. Lo, how the mighty are fallen! Or is that: Low! How the mighty are fallen!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (X5qGl)

94 86 Morning Hordemates!
Talarico is an idiot. Twisting scripture into politics is a very dumb thing to do, in this life and the next.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:25 PM (2WIwB)

I don't know about that. Hucksters have twisted up scripture for their own purposes quite successfully since Tetzel started selling indulgences the Pardoner hustled fake relics. Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF

Posted by: It can be quite profitable at March 14, 2026 12:31 PM (TbWk/)

95 Yup. Today's psychology and psychiatric professions should not be trusted. They are the most woke of the medical world.
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It seems that psychologists/counselors often become enablers, providing rationalizations that justify/reinforce a particular behavior.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:32 PM (XeU6L)

96 Grab Talarico’s head, pull his hair back, and look for any unusual birthmarks!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:32 PM (X5qGl)

97 "... "Who is my neighbor?" at which point Jesus used the parable of the Good Samaritan. So it's definitely not supposed to just be tribal. The potential neighbor does need to at least show good will though"
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

good point, thx.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 12:33 PM (vbXSk)

98 "Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."
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Are you holding auditions?!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM (XeU6L)

99 The troll isn't entirely wrong. Generally the perceived state of the economy is the most important issues in any election

But...I suspect crime will also play a role in this one when we see some surprise red wins in deep blue areas...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 14, 2026 12:29 PM (sKqQm)

Too much of the taxpayers' money goes to support Commies, trannies, and faggots. A remedy exists.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM (8zz6B)

100 My comment was directed entirely at non-left-wing voters, of course. The above post is all about dissecting the religious whatever of a candidate. Like some abstruse debate over the finer points of velayet-i-faqih, between Shi'a clerics, in a painfully boring/stupid conclave in Najaf.

Of course feelz and predominantly irrelevant factors are not limited to religious stuff. "Veteran" candidates, better yet, "combat veteran" candidates, is another example. And the whole "like me" idiocy many voters respond to.

It's a minor miracle the US ever got as far as it did, probably. Even as the guard-rails brilliantly constructed by the founders were stripped away one by one. So there's that.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM (U/Byj)

101 Grab Talarico’s head, pull his hair back, and look for any unusual birthmarks!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:32 PM (X5qGl)
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Might as well give him a swirly, too, if you're to go to that trouble.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 14, 2026 12:35 PM (KAqW5)

102 Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF
Posted by: It can be quite profitable
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Jim and Tammy Baker

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

103 Jesus loves a bomb.

So we've got that going for us. Which is nice.

Posted by: Disney Paramount at March 14, 2026 12:38 PM (Fs0KI)

104 Eyepatch McCain was a politician that traded on his image, rather than his principles. Now that the electorate has gotten to know him better, he has been “shot down” in the primaries, thank the LORD.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 12:39 PM (X5qGl)

105 I don't know what the CIA/NSA plan was that Hegseth is apparently destroying, but they're getting more desperate. Intelligence community mouthpiece Natasha Bertrand pulled 4 words out of a paragraph he spoke and dramatically changed the context. And right on cue, Bill Kristol is repeating her "journalism".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)

106
"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."
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Are you holding auditions?!
Posted by: Alec Baldwin

We're only seeing dancing sheriffs.

Posted by: Producer at March 14, 2026 12:41 PM (Cqx++)

107 74 Economists are almost never right, and are always never held accountable. That's a sweet fucking gig if you can get it and be paid.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 12:21 PM (M9gjJ)

We know ... it's a sweet gig

Posted by: Meteorologists at March 14, 2026 12:43 PM (3sXRv)

108 Are you holding auditions?!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at March 14, 2026 12:34 PM

YOU ARE WORTHRESS AREC BAWLWIN! *fires AK-47*

Posted by: Zombie Kim Jong Il, now even more ronrey at March 14, 2026 12:44 PM (QZThv)

109 We know ... it's a sweet gig
Posted by: Meteorologists
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My favorite forecast; 'There's a 50 percent chance of rain'.

Maybe it will...maybe it won't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:47 PM (XeU6L)

110 Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF
Posted by: It can be quite profitable

Jim and Tammy Baker
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

Daddy Rich.

Posted by: Zombie Richard Pryor at March 14, 2026 12:49 PM (Ksqrb)

111 My favorite forecast; 'There's a 50 percent chance of rain'.

Maybe it will...maybe it won't.

That figure isn't actually as preposterous as it sounds, but they never properly explain it. What it actually means is that 50% of the forecast area will get rain. For a 50/50 that's a pretty subtle difference, but when you get to something like 80/20 or 90/10 it does make a little more sense.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 14, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)

112 We're only seeing dancing sheriffs.
Posted by: Producer

Talk about gay stereotypes.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 14, 2026 12:50 PM (tUSws)

113 I Like eggs!

Posted by: Zombie Joe Biden. Wait, I'm Still Alive? at March 14, 2026 12:55 PM (dmDsy)

114 Looking forward to Spielberg's trope-free GirlBoss rodeo. At the end there will be a tranny blue fairy statue granting last wishes to robotic woke NPC's.

Posted by: 13times at March 14, 2026 12:55 PM (smnV3)

115 Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike.

"Known popularly as "Reverend Ike", his ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s, when his weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across the United States. He was famous for his "Blessing Plan" - radio listeners sent him money and in return he blessed them."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:56 PM (XeU6L)

116 Fast forward to Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen. They're rich AF
Posted by: It can be quite profitable

Jim and Tammy Baker
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

***

Never give to a church that doesn't share the financials.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:56 PM (2WIwB)

117 Ritchie Rich >>> Daddy Rich

Posted by: I Like This Game! at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (dmDsy)

118 NoVa in the news again with about a dozen girls of a Fairfax high school being the victim of an illegal student roaming the hallways doing drive-by gropes of their crotches from behind. Local school administrators are poo-pooing the entire thing, saying they were minor assaults and not acknowledging that they were sexual assaults.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)

119 Vote Bacon!

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (jrgJz)

120 Saw on YouTube Neil DeGrassey opines with his veiw on war
If one cares

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)

121 *victims

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)

122 >>Economists are almost never right, and are always never held accountable. That's a sweet fucking gig if you can get it and be paid.

I would have a agreed faster but I was in the middle of downloading bug fix number 2047495729309.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2026 12:58 PM (viF8m)

123 120 Saw on YouTube Neil DeGrassey opines with his veiw on war
If one cares
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 12:57 PM (Ia/+0)

No sane person does.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 14, 2026 12:59 PM (dmDsy)

124 Ritchie Rich >>> Daddy Rich
Posted by: I Like This Game!
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Daddy Warbucks>>Ritchie Rich>>Daddy Rich

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:59 PM (XeU6L)

125 Before I head up for movies, where my friends' cat Snowflake is currently sleeping in my bed, I'm slumming at Kos.

No mention of TACO.

There's articles wondering whe the hardcore MAGA base will finally wake up. Because we're stupid. And they have the best of Bluesky!!!

Not as many articles about what goes into each orifice as I expected.

All of you have a good day.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 01:00 PM (Sco7b)

126 Known popularly as "Reverend Ike", his ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s, when his weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across the United States. He was famous for his "Blessing Plan" - radio listeners sent him money and in return he blessed them."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:56 PM (XeU6L)

Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send
Ten dollars to the church of the Sacred Bleeding Heart Of Jesus
Located somewhere in Los Angeles, California
And next week they'd say my prayer on the radio...

Posted by: The Rolling Stones at March 14, 2026 01:00 PM (Ksqrb)

127 124 Ritchie Rich >>> Daddy Rich
Posted by: I Like This Game!
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Daddy Warbucks>>Ritchie Rich>>Daddy Rich
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:59 PM (XeU6L)

Scrooge McDuck >>> Daddy Warbucks>>Ritchie Rich>>Daddy Rich

Posted by: I Like This Game! at March 14, 2026 01:00 PM (dmDsy)

128 The term in the 80s. For liberal catholics was Cafeteria Catholic. They pick and choose from the buffet what they like and ignore what they dont. Its a matter ot taste you see. This is cafeteria christianity. You get to decide which things you like on your own and can leave the rest. Who wants to eat vegatables and salad!!!!! More dessert, where is the chocolate fountain!!!

Judge not lest ye be judged. They think they can avoid God judging them if they dont judge others. The saying is about judging people. Judge not other people unless you are judged by them. God still judges everybody. Enabling sin isnt loving your neighbor. Drag shows for children etc are satanic. Tolerance and cooperation With that is evil. You are setting yourself up for a millstone. These people need a wake up call and the failure to call it out is a failure to love. I get that not everyone is going to embrace orthodoxy, but tolerance is not actually virtue. The virtues are known and well described. There are 4 cardinal. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and temperance/moderation. There are theological virtues Faith Hope and Love/charity.

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:07 PM (LILNU)

129 >>>Scrooge McDuck was always my hero until that unfortunate incident when he got a gold doubloon lodged in his gizzard.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 01:08 PM (M9gjJ)

130 They are also defined in opposition to the seven deadly sins as: humility, generosity, chastity, meekness, temperance, kindness and diligence.

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:08 PM (LILNU)

131 >>That figure isn't actually as preposterous as it sounds, but they never properly explain it.

It's like the cone depiction chart put out by the National Hurricane Center in the advance of an approaching hurricane to a U.S. landmass. People don't understand what they are looking at. They think because they are on the outer edge of the cone, they are only going to get some wind and rain and probably some minor storm surge.

That's not what the cone represents to them.

Finally, a few years ago, if I recall correctly, the NHC put out an explanation of what the cone actually represents. I think many never received that explanation.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 01:09 PM (Y1sOo)

132 > Local school administrators are poo-pooing the entire thing, saying they were minor assaults and not acknowledging that they were sexual assaults.
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The definition depends on the race or ethnic background of the perp. And the race or ethnic background of the victim.

As it has always been over the last several years.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 01:11 PM (jtM2q)

133 Sincere argument between Christians and unbelievers, and I rank "progressive Christians" among the latter, is darn near impossible. We start from too separate a viewpoint. Unbelievers think we are imagining things while Christians believe that the unbelievers are blind to what stands obviously before us both.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:11 PM (4NO2D)

134 >>> Talarico's special affinity for trans children ...

Any male who says his his favorite things are 'children', just plain 'children' would be recognized as a sick POS right there. Saying it is 'trans children' should make most people recoil in horror and want to kill it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 01:13 PM (/lPRQ)

135 Two people were shot and killed near the ongoing Players Championship today before the gunman escaped onto the TPC Sawgrass course, leading to a manhunt across Northeast Florida.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 01:15 PM (Y1sOo)

136 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.
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He recognizes the real problem, using coded language. Woke judges. Meaning we have judges, who refuse to Judge, when it is imperative that they do so, because they, as a group have a duty to do so to protect society.

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:15 PM (LILNU)

137 As I learned it, the type of judgment warned against in "judge not" is the judgment of salvation- making our own determination of who, in God's eyes, is redeemed and who is condemned. Of course we're exhorted and expected to recognize sin and to move people away from it (with love, and without assuming they're forever condemned).

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 01:20 PM (lCppi)

138 136 Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.
==
He recognizes the real problem, using coded language. Woke judges. Meaning we have judges, who refuse to Judge, when it is imperative that they do so, because they, as a group have a duty to do so to protect society.
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas
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Yes, and the same principle applies to school boards and libraries when confronted with the publications they put on the shelves for children. The powers that be flinch and shut up advocates and prevent those advocates from reading quotes from the material in public meetings. Yet, they are fine with children being literally exposed to graphic sex at school or at the public library.

Same with quoting the Koran. And that is because it is a pattern--the pattern is our elites in society get upset if their beliefs and principles get examined. And they cannot defend them, so they obfuscate.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

139 Always cute when people who hate religion use religious talking points to attack people who are religious.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (Y5yQx)

140 Any male who says his his favorite things are 'children', just plain 'children' would be recognized as a sick POS right there. Saying it is 'trans children' should make most people recoil in horror and want to kill it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Nasty critter whose internet search history is full of darkness.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (E4rtv)

141 Here is an insight that I found really clarifying: if you look at progressives' Marcusian "tolerant intolerance" (or "liberating intolerance"), and how they apply it (or don't) to Islam, it becomes clear that their highest priority is to be able to get away with sexually molesting children and animals.

On every other subject, Christianity is the more tolerant, "progressive" faith, except for that. And, Islam is wealthy, numerous, patriarchal, violent, supremacist, conquering, and colonialist; it's a strong perpetrator, not a weak victim.

So, when progressives demonstrate a heavy preference for Islam over Christianity, it shows plainly that they would rather give up literally every other freedom, in exchange for just that one: the ability to stick it in kids and beasts without fear of social consequence. That's how important it is to them.

And -- to tie this in -- I think that when you look at James Talarico's Fauxtianity, it has a radical nonjudgmentalism that, if followed to its logical conclusion, would smuggle in the Muslim attitude to beastiality and pedophilia. They would get what they want now, without having to wait for the Caliphate.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (Sy6m/)

142

David Sacks, the White House adviser overseeing artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policy, said the United States has already achieved significant military objectives and should now consider stepping back before the conflict widens further.

Speaking on the widely followed “All-In Podcast,” Sacks argued that the moment may have arrived for Washington to pursue an off-ramp rather than escalate further. “We’ve degraded Iranian capabilities massively,” Sacks said. “This is a good time to declare victory and get out.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

143 139 Always cute when people who hate religion use religious talking points to attack people who are religious.
Posted by: Heroq
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And religious people need to quit taking the bait and assuming these people are acting in good faith. They are not--like their master, they live by lies.

But holding frame is difficult for a lot of people because they don't want to seen as unpleasant and difficult.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (E4rtv)

144 For a change today’s mass shooting wasn’t courtesy of a Muslim.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Y5yQx)

145 21 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

146 Of course always defer to Jesus, but the Old Testament has validity as well. I mean you know?

Posted by: Eromero at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (PaOYH)

147 There are 4 cardinal. Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and temperance/moderation. There are theological virtues Faith Hope and Love/charity.
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas
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Well said.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (E4rtv)

148 145 21 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (Y5yQx)

149 "Unbelievers think we are imagining things while Christians believe that the unbelievers are blind to what stands obviously before us both." Posted by: toby928(c)

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man." I Corinthians 2:14-15

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2026 01:26 PM (vbXSk)

150 Iran knows they don’t have to win they just have to wait out US appetite for war. Which apparently is in the days/weeks timeframe not months/years.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:27 PM (Y5yQx)

151 Or elections until they grt another Islam lover

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:29 PM (Ia/+0)

152
Is there presently, in fact, a lucky religious bigot comfortably ensconced in the role of Flat Ayatollah?

The last that I had heard, it was the previous guy's comatose and minus-one-or-more legs son. Flat Mojtaba, he was, the first of that line.

Then it was reported that he was dead. Have any takers pressed forward to assume that position?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (xG4kz)

153 There's a Zen Buddhist who has said when people argue over religious symbols, it is because they aren't doing the work.

Jesus said a lot of things - and there are a lot of things he notably did not do, like build a church or push top-down solutions in the world of men. This was controversial enough, then. But what you would think a follower of Christ would focus on, is how Christ said to follow him.

He didn't tell the rich young man from Mathew to go tell his neighbors to give away all of his possessions. He told him sell his possessions, give the money to the poor, and follow Him.

He also said to take up your cross, to hate your mother and father, to fast - specifically he modeled fasting for 40 days and nights among other things that you won't find many mainline Christians doing Left or Right.

Knowing what it means to love your neighbors and enemies as yourself comes after these things, not before.

Not doing these things is like being a Buddhist who doesn't meditate. Or a martial artist who doesn't pressure test. Your wisdom is unearned and built on sand.

It is clear what Talarico is not. It is always clear who isn't doing the work, regardless of what side they're on.

Posted by: Mad Jojo at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (LTRDy)

154 So, when progressives demonstrate a heavy preference for Islam over Christianity, it shows plainly that they would rather give up literally every other freedom, in exchange for just that one: the ability to stick it in kids and beasts without fear of social consequence. That's how important it is to them.
Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:22 PM (Sy6m/)

Is this similar to AWFLS giving MohMen a pass on behavior they shriek about in white men? It's been suggested that they have a secret desire to be overcome by strong men. Because they emasculated the ones around them.

Posted by: sal at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (f+FmA)

155 Speaking on the widely followed “All-In Podcast,” Sacks argued that the moment may have arrived for Washington to pursue an off-ramp rather than escalate further. “We’ve degraded Iranian capabilities massively,” Sacks said. “This is a good time to declare victory and get out.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

That is observably false. As long as Iran is able to make new drones, it has not been degraded enough.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:32 PM (Sy6m/)

156 146 Of course always defer to Jesus, but the Old Testament has validity as well. I mean you know?
Posted by: Eromero
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Yes, and Hebrews is basically a pared down version of the Old Testament. Jesus himself said he was here to complete the law; not abolish it. And that is because law without love and compassion is sterile and pro forma in human hands.

The Creator intended his law to be compassionate and loving to make people live their best life. Instead, the law became oppressive in human hands where it became a competition to claim more slavish adherence to the law than others. It lost its heart in the meantime.

Posted by: whig at March 14, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)

157 I read an article earlier this year purporting to explain why conservative believers are wrong. The terms they used were something along the lines of "vertical theology" versus "horizontal theology." You see, conservative Christians only care about their obligation to God and therefore don't care about other people, but the nice progressives care about their fellow humans and thus are more compassionate. (The article was undoubtedly linked in a post or comment here.)

It seems the left is entirely unable to understand the motivations of the right. I often wonder if I as a conservative correctly discern the true motivations of the left. Or am I as blind as they are?

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:32 PM (FMtrg)

158 Speaking on the widely followed “All-In Podcast,” Sacks argued that the moment may have arrived for Washington to pursue an off-ramp rather than escalate further. “We’ve degraded Iranian capabilities massively,” Sacks said. “This is a good time to declare victory and get out.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 01:24 PM (Cqx++)

Either...Sacks is signaling a change...or...he needs to shut his pie hole and leave warfighting to the warfighters. Degraded yes...but we have not achieved the goals laid out by the President.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:33 PM (2WIwB)

159 If I were Trump, Id suspend the federal gas tax and offer states money to suspend theirs as well. If gas can drop by 40,50 cents cents a gallon it would go a long way to making Americans more willing to go the distance and finish the job.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:33 PM (Y5yQx)

160 As long as we don't get caught up in the hunt for a proper supreme leader, we should continue taking out hard assets and let the Israelis do the assassinations for the regime change.

Commerce and trade will work out on its own.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 01:33 PM (M9gjJ)

161
"Well, I'm developing a Western," Spielberg said, prompting thunderous applause. "And it's gonna have horses. There will be guns."

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He wants to disappoint and horrify us. He's jonesing for it, like a serial killer who's gone too long since his last murder.

Who knows what he'll do. A movie about gay 'cowpokes' has already been done. It'll have to be a lot worse than that. He has a reputation to uphold.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 01:34 PM (VWtfl)

162
I think the "let the gubmint do it" crowd's beliefs boil down to something like this --

The reason I don't practice charitable giving all by myself is that I believe that it is important for the Government as Charitable Giver Complex to employ otherwise worthless individuals in some capacity, any capacity, and it does that really, really, really well. And I'm good with that type of double giving, as it were.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:34 PM (xG4kz)

163 There is no such thing as a progressive Christian.

To be a Christian, you have to recognize that you are a sinner in need of a savior, and that Christ is that savior. But that means you have to recognize your personal failure to live according to God's moral standards *as He defines them* (rather easily observed in Scripture).

If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His (which is what progressives require), you are off on your own, doing your own thing. You may as well carve your "Jesus" out of wood or stone for all the good it will ever do you.

Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)

164 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?
Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM

He could never have outfought Santino.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:35 PM (4NO2D)

165 Christian Nationalism is a totally made up bullshit term that the left probably ran through a dozen focus groups before they started using it.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:36 PM (2WIwB)

166 >>> Judge Lawrence VanDyke has strong but precise language about the Washington State Korean women-only spa.
===

Got to be a way for a straight guy to get in on that spa...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 01:37 PM (/lPRQ)

167 This western will undoubtedly have a Latino transgendered woman as the main character, blazing a trail of pride across the west. And the baddie will be a white guy named Tom Johnson who won’t let he/her/they/them be their/her/his true self/selves.

Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:37 PM (Y5yQx)

168 Are we Nationalists that happen to be Christians? Or Christians that happen to be Nationalists? Or is the suggestion that only Christians can be Nationalists, or vice versa?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:38 PM (4NO2D)

169 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?
Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM

He's certainly a temp.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:38 PM (2WIwB)

170
You see, conservative Christians only care about their obligation to God and therefore don't care about other people, but the nice progressives care about their fellow humans and thus are more compassionate.

Sure. That's why you compassionate types allow the wretches to fester, rot, defecate and otherwise infest our cities and their streets. Your compassion is just that deep.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:39 PM (xG4kz)

171
If the new ayatollah has really been in a coma all this time, he's not coming back mentally. The best the Iranian regime will be able to do is roll him in front of a microphone that hides his mouth, and play a recording, like in that old episode of Star Trem about the Nazi planet.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM (VWtfl)

172 If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His
=
That is a succint way to put the whole problem. That person made themself their own god. Not gonna end well. No to mention meanwhile being surrounded by billions of other gods who have their own ideas about what is owed to them and allowed, or even required of you.

Thats not a small problem, is it?

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM (LILNU)

173 Is this similar to AWFLS giving MohMen a pass on behavior they shriek about in white men? It's been suggested that they have a secret desire to be overcome by strong men. Because they emasculated the ones around them.
Posted by: sal at March 14, 2026 01:30 PM (f+FmA)

It's related. It's an example of the Marcusian "tolerant intolerance" (or "liberating intolerance") that I mentioned, where they're selective about what to be tolerant of.

The claim is that they have to be intolerant of intolerance, in order to promote tolerance; the practice is to be intolerant of Christianity and Western culture, while embracing every abusive, repressive foreign practice. Their actions don't match their words, so they're lying about their motive.

The specific example you cite muddies the water a bit. People with the anxious-aversive attachment style naturally have conflicted feelings by definition. So, they may use The Handmaid's Tale as a masturbation aid, while wearing the outfit to protests (as if they were against it), and carrying signs welcoming their new Muhammadan overlords (who actually treat women like that for real).

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 01:41 PM (Sy6m/)

174 If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His (which is what progressives require), you are off on your own, doing your own thing. You may as well carve your "Jesus" out of wood or stone for all the good it will ever do you.
Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)

Yep. Whenever a progressive tells me I'm doing Christianity wrong, they are telling me what Jesus wants me to do and the Jesus they are talking about is communism dressed up in a Bible costume.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:42 PM (FMtrg)

175
If the new ayatollah has really been in a coma all this time, he's not coming back mentally.

Not coming back mentally has never been a disqualifier in the past. Hosting and practicing a burning and murderous rage toward anyone who will not hew to your line of thinking appeared to be priority number one for those guys.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:42 PM (xG4kz)

176 If you've decided on your own moral standards without regard to His
=
That is a succint way to put the whole problem. That person made themself their own god. Not gonna end well. No to mention meanwhile being surrounded by billions of other gods who have their own ideas about what is owed to them and allowed, or even required of you.

Thats not a small problem, is it?
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM

It's hubris, and the original temptation and sin. and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:42 PM (4NO2D)

177 I think the "let the gubmint do it" crowd's beliefs boil down to something like this --

The reason I don't practice charitable giving all by myself is that I believe that it is important for the Government as Charitable Giver Complex to employ otherwise worthless individuals in some capacity, any capacity, and it does that really, really, really well. And I'm good with that type of double giving, as it were.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:34 PM (xG4kz)

Add to it, "And my supporting charity-by-government makes me feel like a I'm a good person too!"

Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 01:43 PM (PrsTH)

178 >>> Judge VanDyke deconstructs this argument in his video (on the same page as the Korean spa link) by deconstructing a typical semi-auto handgun to show that all parts are interchangeable and modifiable. Thus all parts are, by California’s argument, “accessories” and not protected by the second amendment. He reduces California’s argument to absurdity by making a Theseus’s gun analogy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Ah, that VanDyke.
Had to explain to little that if 'X' is protected then some that is literally a part of 'X' is protected.

With 'free speech' these same would that a phrase, a sentence or two is not protected because it wasn't a whole speech.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 01:46 PM (/lPRQ)

179
Not coming back mentally has never been a disqualifier in the past. Hosting and practicing a burning and murderous rage toward anyone who will not hew to your line of thinking appeared to be priority number one for those guys.

This brings us to the observation -- then what distinguished them from other murderous leaders of nations -- Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Saddam, and the like? And the answer is nothing -- they all were cut from the same cloth.

Recall the human wave attacks that the Ayatollah called up for Iranians to mount in the Iraq - Iran War back in the day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:46 PM (xG4kz)

180 169 The new Ayatollah is a gimp.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:31 AM (d6BF2)

And limp.
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM (rpbjO)

What about a pimp?
Posted by: Heroq at March 14, 2026 01:25 PM

He's certainly a temp.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:38 PM (2WIwB)

He's probably room temp.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 14, 2026 01:47 PM (w/O5Q)

181 Thats not a small problem, is it?
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:40 PM

It's hubris, and the original temptation and sin. and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil
Posted by: toby928(c)
==
Yes it is. Isnt that interesting. The made up fairy tale bible accurately describes the fundamental and persistent fault in humanity throughout time. What are the odds???????? Some illiterat goat herder came up with a boffo story and it was so popular it got written thousands of years later and preserved to today.....

Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas at March 14, 2026 01:48 PM (LILNU)

182 A close family member has become re-involved in a church as an adult after being raised in a church. She is progressive. We have attended her church with her. I've observed that the service at her church seems to be oriented toward reassuring the members that they are "good" people, while at our church, we contemplate the goodness of God. Totally different focus.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:49 PM (FMtrg)

183
Add to it, "And my supporting charity-by-government makes me feel like a I'm a good person too!"

Posted by: Vendette

"I don't want to be forced to decide where I'd practice my charity (by giving my time and treasure) -- that would make me all judgey! And judgey people are icky!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 01:49 PM (xG4kz)

184 I think the Christian Nationalism is another name that they link no Nazism which they don't want Socialism connected to it

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

185 I think the important phrase in 'Judge not lest ye be judged' is not the start but the end. By the yardstick you judge others, shall you be judged. It's a call to understanding our own sinfulness rather than a grant of carte blanche to evil.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:54 PM (4NO2D)

186 A close family member has become re-involved in a church as an adult after being raised in a church. She is progressive. We have attended her church with her. I've observed that the service at her church seems to be oriented toward reassuring the members that they are "good" people, while at our church, we contemplate the goodness of God. Totally different focus.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 01:49 PM (FMtrg)

Your 2nd-to-last sentence is a nice, succinct summation of progressive churches.

Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 01:54 PM (PrsTH)

187 The theme of last Sunday's homily at our church was 'While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us'.

I appreciate being reminded of this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 01:56 PM (4NO2D)

188 I think the Christian Nationalism is another name that they link no Nazism which they don't want Socialism connected to it
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

Precisely.
It is just spooky enough and hints at a dark side to nationalism, and since not everyone is a Christian then it becomes exclusionary, hence racist and bad.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

189 Your 2nd-to-last sentence is a nice, succinct summation of progressive churches.
Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 01:54 PM (PrsTH)

There's also a certain amount of "we're better/more caring/more morally-refined than those other people." The first time we went to that church, part of the sermon was the pastor telling us how distressed she was over a church spending money on property maintenance that she felt should be used to help poor people. So she was more attuned to moral issues than the church leadership was.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 02:00 PM (FMtrg)

190 “illegal student”: illegal why? Because groping? Because illegal alien? Not properly enrolled?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 02:01 PM (gqKkr)

191 He recognizes the real problem, using coded language. Woke judges. Meaning we have judges, who refuse to Judge, when it is imperative that they do so, because they, as a group have a duty to do so to protect society.
Posted by: Not Thomas Aquinas

The real problem is swinging dicks. He said so in his opinion.

Posted by: A right proper schlonging he gave them at March 14, 2026 02:01 PM (TbWk/)

192 Outside of maybe a crank or three on the internet, no one is even proposing actual Christian Nationalism, which would be a theocracy. It's a strawman, and the purpose is to invalidate your right to self-rule, since you're Christian, and your policy preferences are based on Christian values, so -- *** here comes the fallacy *** -- you're violating the 1A and establishing your religion in the State when you vote your conscience, therefore your preferences are always morally and legally invalid.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 02:03 PM (Sy6m/)

193 188 I think the Christian Nationalism is another name that they link no Nazism which they don't want Socialism connected to it
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

Precisely.
It is just spooky enough and hints at a dark side to nationalism, and since not everyone is a Christian then it becomes exclusionary, hence racist and bad.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 01:57 PM (2WIwB)

If a nation wants to survive as a nation, it must be exclusionary as a baseline rule, and highly selective as to who it lets in.

Posted by: Of course, destruction is what they want at March 14, 2026 02:05 PM (TbWk/)

194 nood gardening

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:06 PM (+YA9H)

195 >>>The real problem is swinging dicks. He said so in his opinion.

Posted by: A right proper schlonging he gave them

>If your dick ain't swinging, you need to turn up the heat or get under the covers. The showers live in Florida, the growers live everywhere else.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 02:06 PM (M9gjJ)

196 nood gardening was posted at 01:29 PM

Posted by: K.T. at 01:29 PM

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:07 PM (+YA9H)

197 There's also a certain amount of "we're better/more caring/more morally-refined than those other people." The first time we went to that church, part of the sermon was the pastor telling us how distressed she was over a church spending money on property maintenance that she felt should be used to help poor people. So she was more attuned to moral issues than the church leadership was.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 02:00 PM (FMtrg)

Ironically, "can't afford to maintain the building may eventually be a major cause of the church having to sell the building and/or shut down completely.

Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 02:08 PM (PrsTH)

198 I think the important phrase in 'Judge not lest ye be judged' is not the start but the end. By the yardstick you judge others, shall you be judged. It's a call to understanding our own sinfulness rather than a grant of carte blanche to evil.
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I think there's a fair case to be made that what Jesus was talking about in that passage, was warning a believer not to destroy his witness by drawing attention to his own fault by exclaiming it in others (don't be a hypocrite). So don't rag on other people watching internet porn if you're doing it to, as sooner or later you'll be discovered. Or stealing. Or whatever.

Acknowledging a thing is wrong, and admitting I'm weak to it, is another thing. "First take the plank out of your own eye then the speck in your neighbors" seems to suggest that once our struggle with a particular sin has been resolved, we might be better positioned to help someone else with that struggle out of it.

It's similar to the implication of The Lord's Prayer, that we ought to forgive as we've been forgiven (which probably more means we shouldn't be holding on to any offence, which would include as a subset those specific sins we're guilty of), but not exactly.

Posted by: Methos at March 14, 2026 02:08 PM (vSvIl)

199 199

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 02:11 PM (+YA9H)

200 I remain sinful. I judge people that harm children and wish damnation on those that do. I have nothing but ill will towards those that want to pervert the Word of G-d for their own purposes.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 02:13 PM (+nEug)

201 There's also a certain amount of "we're better/more caring/more morally-refined than those other people." The first time we went to that church, part of the sermon was the pastor telling us how distressed she was over a church spending money on property maintenance that she felt should be used to help poor people. So she was more attuned to moral issues than the church leadership was.

Posted by: Emmie at March 14, 2026 02:00 PM (FMtrg)

Ironically, "can't afford to maintain the building may eventually be a major cause of the church having to sell the building and/or shut down completely.
Posted by: Vendette at March 14, 2026 02:08 PM (PrsTH)
***

Hmmm. The poor you will always have, but the church facility can die away unless it is maintained. Something about being good stewards...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 02:17 PM (2WIwB)

202 Joe Rogan has lost his mind

Posted by: Gonzotx at March 14, 2026 02:17 PM (nGraA)

203 I remain sinful. I judge people that harm children and wish damnation on those that do. I have nothing but ill will towards those that want to pervert the Word of G-d for their own purposes.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 02:13 PM (+nEug)

I have always thought that if there were a Don Lemon-like church takeover at my church, I would have the presence of mind to take my lead from the pastor. But if some protestor blocks my exit, touches my wife or me, or shoves a bullhorn in my face, I'm probably going to beat the crap out of him/her. I'm just not sure I could hold back. This isn't turning the other cheek. It is protecting my family and my rights.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 02:23 PM (2WIwB)

204 Diogenes, you are a protector and defender of your family and I respect and admire that.

I saw too much of pastors deserting their flock during covid.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 02:30 PM (+nEug)

205 Joe Rogan has lost his mind
Posted by: Gonzotx at March 14, 2026 02:17 PM

In fairness, he is probably high as fuck.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 02:38 PM (4NO2D)

206 Worlds most hated cyclist.

https://tinyurl.com/29ehpd7k

I have a high level of cyclist hate myself.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 14, 2026 02:40 PM (abIsI)

207 If you love America you are a Christian nationalist see how it works

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 14, 2026 02:48 PM (bXbFr)

208 Outside of maybe a crank or three on the internet
Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 02:03 PM

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: That Crank on the Internet at March 14, 2026 02:48 PM (0sNs1)

209 I have a high level of cyclist hate myself.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 14, 2026 02:40 PM

* smiles *

Posted by: Critical Mass at March 14, 2026 02:49 PM (0sNs1)

210 Because the church is not the buiiding its the community

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 14, 2026 02:50 PM (bXbFr)

211 208 Outside of maybe a crank or three on the internet
Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 02:03 PM

This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: That Crank on the Internet at March 14, 2026 02:48 PM (0sNs1)

I'm not even saying you're wrong, just that people don't want it. Though, experiencing Muhammadans first-hand may change that. Deus vult!

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 02:54 PM (Sy6m/)

212 Theres a minor sect the recomstructionist who have little influence in sodom talarico would have been an elder

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 14, 2026 02:54 PM (bXbFr)

213 'The Bible commands us to treat migrants (strangers) equally as citizens. "So sayeth the Lord" Leviticus.'

Good thing I'm an unbeliever.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 14, 2026 02:55 PM (AjG6+)

214 Yeah thats not what he said

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 14, 2026 03:00 PM (bXbFr)

215 A Neo-Babylonian is just a friend you haven't met.

Streetcar!

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 14, 2026 03:00 PM (4NO2D)

216 Joe Rogan is not somebody I would ever trust for reliable information. He's a clown with a podcast. I think he's taken one too many blows to the head.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 03:24 PM (M9gjJ)

217 Every other human > Cyclist > Frog cyclist

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 03:29 PM (RIvkX)

218 I think Telerico is a serpent.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 14, 2026 03:34 PM (Mwref)

219 He's a wimp and a blimp!

Posted by: jayhawkone at March 14, 2026 05:06 PM (QSaoA)

220 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

221 James Causey aka Talarico is at minimum a fraud and an apostate.

KT's threads always bring it. So early in the morning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 05:53 PM (9Bsty)

222 Talarico is claiming to be something he is not. He is not a Christian. Wanting to help people is all well adn good. He can go and start an organization and raise money. Using the government to conduct charity is illegal. The US Constitution does not give FedGov the authority to engage in charity and most state constitutions do not allow the state governments to do it either.

Let the libs raise money without using the government to steal from us to carry out their desires.

Posted by: Quartermaster at March 15, 2026 03:28 AM (UOf2j)

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Walk on water? Ha. Current lake ice conditions in the Frozen Tundra? 12"-21".]

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Tacoma)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Be exceptional. Don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects is not regulated by the FDA. Good luck there Buckwheat.
4) Have a great weekend!

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
1/24 – Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd posted some updates and requests. In the blessings department: blood glucose has continued to fall, well within normal range. BP is good. The hole where his molar used to be is coming along nicely. The youngest has jaw surgery coming up in February. This is many years in the making and should correct her bite and ease the pain in her jaw and ears. She’s not looking forward to the liquid diet, but is looking forward to the pain relief. Prayers are always appreciated, and based on what they have been through, he knows they are efficacious.
2/14 Update – His daughter’s jaw surgery seems to be fully successful, thanks be to God. She is recuperating rapidly, the swelling is sharply down, and she’s counting the days to getting off the liquid diet.
1/31 – George V asked for prayers for his wife. She needs a heart valve replacement but first needs a heart cath to assess the valve and determine the replacement procedure and perhaps put stents in the coronary arteries that may be partially blocked. Also, the preliminary CT scan of her heart showed spots on her lungs that may be cancerous.
2/21 Update – The prayers are working. Thanks be to God and everyone who prayed. The heart cath showed no blockages in her arteries. The heart valve procedure will be in about 4 weeks. The pulmonologist said the lung spots have a very low chance of being cancerous, but a second scan will tell for sure. So far good news, and thanks to all who prayed for her.
2/14 – Vmom deport deport deport asks for prayers on behalf of her husband, as his employer is expected to file for Chapter 11. They are hoping for a decent severance.
2/14 – TCN in Alaska asked for advice. She is currently allowing her son, his girlfriend, and their infant to live in a condo she owns, and they are providing a terrible environment for the baby: pot-smoking, booze, no food, no formula. TCN in Alaska asked for advice about how to handle the situation. Prayers would help.
2/14 – L gave an update on her brother Ron. He has been in declining health for the last 6+ months, and has been transferred to a nice facility for hospice. They had been discussing this possibility for months. He would make improvements, then relapse, each time ending up more disabled. The best part is that he is at peace with the decision. He is aware enough to assist with the final plans and is enjoying parceling out his remaining possessions to family and friends. L’s daughter’s cardiac recovery continues. L says she cannot thank all sufficiently for the many prayers.
2/19 – mindful webworker requested prayers for his wife. Milady Jo will be having surgery on 2/26. It should be outpatient, and then a couple of weeks of recovery. Prayers are welcome for her, her surgeon, and her hapless husband while she’s down.
2/26 Update – The surgery is for Respiratory Epithelial Adenomatoid Hamartomak (REAH) – basically a blocked up nose. It’s relatively rare. It took a while to find an ENT whose diagnosis and surgical recommendation gave confidence. The surgery should improve her life greatly. It is scheduled for 1 pm.
2/28 Update – Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers for MiladyJo’s surgery. It took about 4 hours and seems to have been completely successful. There has been a great improvement in breathing and even appearance. She said that, after years of waiting, it seems like a dream, and that she knows with family, friends, and Morons and ‘Ettes, she is much loved.
2/20 – Gouveneur Morris requested prayers for herself as she has surgery scheduled for 2/27 for spondylolisthesis.
3/5 Update - Gouveneur Morris’ surgery was successful – every prayer and thought directed her way is appreciated.
2/21 - Skip asked for prayers for his sister and her two children, as they grieve their husband/father. The memorial service was on 2/21.
2/21 – Vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for Gerry and Cathy, the elderly parents of her co-worker, B. Gerry and Cathy are in failing health, and B is bravely trying to keep them cared for and independent while also being a mom to her own kids.
2/21 – San Franpsycho requested a prayer for complete and immediate healing for PS, his oldest living relative, who is back in the hospital due to post-surgery fever and possible pneumonia.
2/21 – Sock Monkey asked for prayers of comfort and peace for Rickb223, who recently lost his wife to cancer. It was apparently a long battle and he was her primary caregiver. He is struggling. Please pray for him.
2/25 – LinusVanPelt posted a request for prayers for himself. He had a health scare and it’s freaking him out a bit. He had a real thing happen, and then received a clean bill of health, but has 2 more doctors to see. He can’t stop irrationally worrying that they’re going to say bad stuff (despite the real reason for the visits is to adjust medication levels).
2/28 Update – He woke up in a hospital ICU recently. Everything checked out, and it was a stress-induced incident, but that means he needs to make changes in his professional life. He is looking for the Lord’s guidance.
2/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted that she might need some prayers. Her PET scan was less than encouraging. She will have more information on 2/26.
2/26 Update – There were 2 new spots on her liver and a couple of weird things in the transverse colon. But the oncologist says he is not worried by anything he saw on the PET scan.
2/27 Update – The newest chemo protocol appears to be working. Her cancer markers are below the “cancerous” range. So for now they will continue with 2 weeks of continuous medication delivered directly into the Hepatic Artery and 2 weeks off. Unfortunately, one of the meds is a low dose of steroids, so her appetite and her Zepbound are currently duking it out.
2/25 – Robert posted that he needed an ‘Ette to kindly bash his brains in. He is suffering yet another massive gout flare up, and needs someone to end it all for him. He asks for an ‘Ette because he knows women are capable of inflicting great violence with only love in their hearts.
2/26 – Farmer could use some prayers. A biopsy is scheduled soon. The dentist said he found a couple of suspect spots. After having had prostate cancer, anything like this really alarms him.
2/26 – Bluebell passed along news from grammie winger: “Tomorrow (2/27) I go in for an all day marathon of tests and consultations. Then Monday (3/2) they will attempt the surgery. It is quite complex and they are not exactly sure they can do it. If they can, it will be a ten hour procedure. I confess to being a little apprehensive. The Rev is a little overwhelmed poor soul. Fortunately my two kids have me covered. My daughter the nurse for the medical side, and my son for the spiritual side. He has been a rock.”
3/10 Update – GrammieWinger’s son said she wanted us to know that she had surgery last Monday, and they were able to get most of the cancer, but they had to remove her colon. It’ll be a long recovery time, but she’s in good spirits and good hands. Grammie’s daughter has been at the hospital every day. Grammie Winger is very thankful for all of your prayers and she looks forward to talking with us soon!
2/27 – turambar posted that his/her mom had surgery for a broken left hip. Lots of pins and a rod were required to fix her up. She is in recovery now and doing okay, but she has a long road ahead since she is 86 years old. Thanks for your prayers; turambar appreciated them so much.
2/28 – 2009Refugee asked for prayers for an older sister who was scheduled for brain surgery on 3/4.
2/28 – no one of any consequence requested prayers for the repose of his oldest friend, who died on 2/22. His friend had returned to the church in recent years. No one of any consequence will be giving the eulogy at his memorial mass.
2/28 – San Franpsycho asked for prayers for P’nina Bat Surel, who remains hospitalized and still is not stabilized.
2/28 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers for a friend, P, who is dealing with a pinched nerve and has to have surgery in a week or so. She also has a daughter, K, who just got out of the hospital having had major mental health problems.
2/28 – LinusVanPelt requested prayers for our troops, President Trump, and for Israel’s government and the IDF as well.
2/28 – Sock Monkey requests prayers for Mrs. Sock. She crashed and burned pretty hard while skiing Thursday. She went to work very sore and using a cane.
2/28 – JJ posted that his wife was discharged from her rehab facility and her prognosis post shunt surgery to regain strength and physical abilities is excellent.
3/2 – RickZ posted that he received bad news. He went to the ER with muscle pain and came out with a cancer diagnosis. He could use prayers for an extremely capable oncological team of cancer specialists, and that God guides their hands and minds as they work to rid Rick of cancer. And also that God would provide him peace and calm, and to help sustain him through this trial.
3/5 – Inogame posted the good news that baby #5 arrived! Baby was overdue by 12 days. Mom and baby are doing well. Baby was 9 pounds 8 ounces, and 21.5 inches long.
3/5 – IrishEI has learned that she needs major surgery on 3/16, and she would really appreciate prayers.
3/7 – Uncle Slayton posted the good news that his son-in-law, Kenny, is almost 3 years cancer-free. He beat lymphoma and leukemia, and Uncle Slayton wanted to thank everyone who prayed for him.
3/7 – Joe Kidd sent an update on a previous prayer, for a young girl named Jasmine. She is the adopted daughter of a friend of a friend. She had been rescued from abuse, but was withdrawn, etc. The friend took the family on an RV trip, and with lots of TLC for Jasmine, things have improved. It appears that God has surrounded this young girl with an army of angels, and your prayers for her are being heard. May those listed here and whispered elsewhere receive similar affirmation.
3/7 – vmom deport deport deport requested prayers for GB, the husband of her friend; he just had a quadruple bypass a couple of days ago, following a heart attack.
3/10 – Warai-otoko asked for prayers for a sister-in-law with some respiratory issues, who just took a hard turn for the worse. Thanks to everyone, even if you just take a fraction of a second for it.
3/10 – Update on Susan, who we have been praying for as she battles cancer. She is hospitalized again with an infection in her colon that quickly turned bad. The doctor says the signs are sepsis but they are running tests to make sure. The good news is that the pancreatic cancer was and is responding to the chemo and her cancer numbers are going down. God bless and thank you!
3/11 – Bulg sends a prayer of thanks. He called his formerly estranged sister on her birthday, and they had a wonderful conversation. It was their second conversation since February, and there was no animosity at all.
3/11 – Doof sent his appreciation for the Horde’s prayers for his mom, who has been in post-hospitalization rehab since mid-January. She has recovered from her illnesses, but her body seems to be increasingly giving up on her. PT has become too painful and exhausting for her. She is also having increased brain fog and is rapidly losing the ability to do things like answer her phone or send texts. Continued prayers requested for her, as she is very sad, and also for Doof and his sister as they figure out what’s next.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

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ESPONJA!!1!!1!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 14, 2026 08:00 AM (tljrc)

2 mornin yall

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

3 3) Running with sharp objects is not regulated by the FDA. Good luck there Buckwheat.
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Is it regulated by OSHA? That might make more sense.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 08:01 AM (ESVrU)

4 OSHA is not recognized here at Hamster Central

Posted by: Mis Hum Phone at March 14, 2026 08:03 AM (2y5+c)

5 I'm going to repost this from the Tech Thread because it's cool and others may know someone in need of this treatment:

My Dad's procedure at Emory yesterday was a success. They used focused ultrasound on his brain to stop the Parkinson's tremors in his left hand. The tremors were so bad he could hardly hold anything and now they are gone.

They do it while the patient is in an MRI machine, and it takes a couple of hours. Right now they are only doing 6 procedures a month, but as the process is perfected that will increase, as will the number of hospitals that offer it.

It took a year of tests and prep to get to this point but it's worth it. It does not cure Parkinson's, but will make his remaining time hopefully more pleasant.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

6 Five? I used to start pinging after more than two shots of genuine Espresso. Good stuff. I hate to admit this, but I think “too much caffeine” is actually possible.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 08:03 AM (Iu0zc)

7 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at March 14, 2026 08:04 AM (oftw2)

8 that is AMAZING fd! Wow!

congrats and I hope these treatments work well and long for your Dad

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 08:05 AM (j+aD2)

9 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 08:06 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Greetings and good morning, one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2026 08:07 AM (7xrfc)

11 this morning awoke to news that CynicalPublius (fantastic follow btw) on X was doxxed by a teacher at the War College (Brad DuPlessis)

It's terrible and dishonorable, I'd wish that DuPlessis was canned, but maybe that's mean or something.

what a weasel tho

not great that leftist weasels teach at the War College

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 08:07 AM (j+aD2)

12 and Good Morning! only here briefly this morning it's my last day with kids home for break

was informed no one will be coming home for summer : - (

I expected it now that they have apartments but I'm a little bit sad

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 08:08 AM (j+aD2)

13 Karq Island? who's ya daddy now?

Posted by: Orange Man Fan Club at March 14, 2026 08:08 AM (ehY6c)

14 En mi casa toman Bustelo!"

So, over helping Mom sort out some of the Old Man's stuff, and Mrs shows up w/Cafe Bustelo for Keurig (normally... bleh).
Much to my surprise - a good cuppa! Two thumbs up for Cafe Bustelo that way...

Posted by: man at March 14, 2026 08:11 AM (XuXeR)

15 Good morning Horde thx MIsHum. Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Prayers for law enforcement officers. I've been telling the story of a NYS trooper who has been on trial twice for murder and manslaughter. A traffic stop went wrong , the driver who had prior warrants and his family in the car took off. The trooper did a pit maneuver and a small child was thrown from the car and killed. The trooper was charger by the NYS AG and found not guilty of murder , but the jury couldn't reach a verdict on manslaughter. A new trial was ordered and yesterday the trooper was found guilty of manslaughter. Father never charged
Ain't going to make cops job any easier. The coo wasn't perfect but they rarely are

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 08:12 AM (YsPj+)

16 Good morning again dear horde and thank you annie and mh and you morons for praying

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

17 That’s the whole point. Make recruitment and retention impossible. Criminals, for their part too, are allowed to prey on the public.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 08:15 AM (Iu0zc)

18 The trooper was charger by the NYS AG...
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Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 08:18 AM (RIvkX)

19 Mr nec and I have seen 29 a couple of times and still opted to take on an 11 week old beagle pup. After the last 3 nights I don't believe there's enough coffee available on this planet to keep me awake. And yes, she's happily sleeping in my lap after waking up at 3:40, eating, going out to do her thing twice and playing. Of course I am wide awake. Going to be a long day.
Prayers up for all on the list.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 14, 2026 08:18 AM (2NHgQ)

20 HAP PI DAY!

I like savory pies more than sweet ones. Actually I just like the crust

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:18 AM (DoBxX)

21 And yes, she's happily sleeping in my lap"

Ain't nothing better...

Posted by: man at March 14, 2026 08:19 AM (XuXeR)

22 fd - good news about the Parkinson's treatment for your dad. My mom has been dealing with that condition for years, though her's has progressed way beyond tremors into Parkinson's Dementia. It's only a matter of time before she will need to go into memory care. I told my wife to drop me in the Alaskan wilderness and let the bears take me if I ever get like that.

Posted by: PabloD at March 14, 2026 08:21 AM (+HNa2)

23 Lavazza Perfetto

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at March 14, 2026 08:21 AM (wOO3z)

24 aw neverenough that's great

I think we're past dogs other than adult dogs at this point but bless you guys!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 08:21 AM (j+aD2)

25 HAP PI DAY!

I like savory pies more than sweet ones. Actually I just like the crust
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:18 AM (DoBxX)
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We have a place in town that gives out free slices of pie on this day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 08:22 AM (ESVrU)

26 For those that saw us yesterday...got the good news my friend's husband is NOT currently deployed in the Middle East as a plane refueler, he's elsewhere. So he wasn't one of the men killed in the refueling plane crash.

RIP to those poor souls who perished.

Posted by: LizLem at March 14, 2026 08:22 AM (CwRQg)

27 this morning it's the Nespresso for me

even their coffee pods are really strong tho yikes

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 08:22 AM (j+aD2)

28 It’ll be interesting to see what the marines are being sent to seize; Kharg Island is a worthy target. I also have noted that there are four other small islands in the straits that are not of that much importance themselves, but which are very strategically located and useful for any force that wants to exert control over traffic through it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 08:25 AM (RBewl)

29 oh, what happy news, fd!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 08:25 AM (MIIRH)

30 fd, thank you for the bit about the Parkinson's treatment. My dad is dealing with this right now and I'll pass on the information to my mom.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2026 08:25 AM (7xrfc)

31 I know of a pizza joint that's offering a second pie today for three dollars and fourteen cents.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

32 Morning peeps.

Got side tracked with the lap cat. It's part of his morning routine. And, I guess, mine.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:26 AM (jtM2q)

33 Had my annual physical yesterday and the very cute and obviously smitten PA told me, while she was checking me out from the corner of her eye, that I could officially stop taking one of my blood pressure meds I've been on for 20 years.

I've lost 60lbs while gaining muscle mass... I look better at 45 than I did at 27.

Enjoying my first cup of Arbuckle's Blonde roast from my Delonghi grind-and-brew maker. Delicious and just the thing to take the edge off of the realization that mother nature was a cunning scrunt last night and dropped 2" of fresh snow on us. I'm so over winter.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 14, 2026 08:26 AM (WYStd)

34 oh, gosh, 3.14, pi day

maybe see if I can get one today ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 08:27 AM (MIIRH)

35 >>>Walk on water? Ha. Current lake ice conditions in the Frozen Tundra? 12"-21"

On a somewhat related note, Spring Break is in full swing here. However, Monday's forecast overnight low is 32 degrees with daytime highs most of the coming week not expected to be beach weather.

Travel all this way and spend all that money just to leave your packed beach attire in the suitcase and hang out in a hotel room or rented condo for a week. Bah.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 08:30 AM (Y1sOo)

36 You bastard! You made me cry this morning.

Posted by: Caligula at March 14, 2026 08:31 AM (gKDq2)

37 Off sock.

Posted by: RickZ at March 14, 2026 08:32 AM (gKDq2)

38 Current coffe brand - Trader Joe's Shade Grown Ground Espresso blend
I use a coffee maker; no espresso maker for me

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:34 AM (eZ5tL)

39 We will make the trek to Mexico Beach this year, later after the Summer vacationers leave and it's not quite so hot.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:34 AM (vFG9F)

40

Oops, forgot the quote

"On a somewhat related note, Spring Break is in full swing here. However, Monday's forecast overnight low is 32 degrees with daytime highs most of the coming week not expected to be beach weather."

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:35 AM (vFG9F)

41 War on sneakers.

Trump Hands Out Dress Shoes to Cabinet to Ditch Sneakers

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 08:37 AM (ndZc7)

42 Trump Hands Out Dress Shoes to Cabinet to Ditch Sneakers
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 08:37 AM (ndZc7)
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When I started working on Wall Street I dressed like Adam Sandler in the wedding singer.

My boss was NFW and took me out and bought me what I was supposed to wear. I had no idea.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

43 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 08:41 AM (ZOv7s)

44 Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen

St. Mathilda, pray for us.

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I have prayed Rosaries for the intentions, both stated and unstated, for the Horde.

I ask for prayers for Mrs. Cop's cousin, "A.B." He has been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. He is a retired police officer that had been hit by a car years ago. He attempted to deal with the pain by self-medicating with too much Tylenol - which ended up poisoning his liver. His only alternative is a liver transplant, but he is uncertain if he wants to have the surgery.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 08:41 AM (ksbjf)

45 My Dad's procedure at Emory yesterday was a success. They used focused ultrasound on his brain to stop the Parkinson's tremors in his left hand. The tremors were so bad he could hardly hold anything and now they are gone.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

Wow, this is amazing!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 08:42 AM (h7ZuX)

46 Prayers for all the horde in need.
God have mercy on us and grant us peace.

Since it is mid Lent, what ate y'alls daily /weekly/ once a while prayers like? If you want to share.

Or other types of spiritual practice.

Not for comparison or bragging or debate but just for - ya know - encouragement. Gainzz?

What's your favorites

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:44 AM (znREB)

47 Trump Hands Out Dress Shoes to Cabinet to Ditch Sneakers
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

They were laughing about it on tv because (they claim) Trump guesses at the shoe sizes and Marco's is too big but they all wear them anyway.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:47 AM (znREB)

48 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 14, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

49 Fd that's so wonderful

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:47 AM (znREB)

50 Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:34 AM (vFG9F)

Ah, the Forgotten Coast. Beautiful area that was leveled by Hurricane Michael. I presume most of it has been rebuilt by now with the usual visual scars that remain, sometimes for many, many years, following such devastation.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)

51 Dirka dirka Mohammad Jihad!

Armed Man in Tactical Gear Arrested at Texas Elementary, Identified as Muhi Mohanad Najm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 08:49 AM (ndZc7)

52 The prayer list is humbling.

Prayers ascending for those who need it, both asked and unasked.

I know the prayer list has helped me and mine in the past. May this mighty community continue to be a force for good going forward.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 14, 2026 08:49 AM (u82oZ)

53 Since it is mid Lent, what ate y'alls daily /weekly/ once a while prayers like? If you want to share.

Or other types of spiritual practice.

Not for comparison or bragging or debate but just for - ya know - encouragement. Gainzz?

What's your favorites
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:44 AM (znREB)

I pray the Rosary during my morning commute to work. Since I get in to work at 6AM, traffic is still pretty light. I can start the Rosary on my residential street, and finish when I reach my off-ramp -- some 20 minutes later. Almost as if it were Providential.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 08:49 AM (ksbjf)

54 Two things about my Dad's Parkinson's. Many years ago, over 50, a Flight Surgeon told my Dad he might develop Parkinson's disease. How he knew, I don't know.

The other is, his symptoms did not develop until after Covid. He and my mom got all the shots. Related? I don't know.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:49 AM (vFG9F)

55 I'm enjoying all the lefties trying to say women will have to take extra steps to vote under the SAVE Act.

That they shouldn't have to do more than men.

Oh?

Like, say, register for the draft to be called up --involuntarily-- at any time to die in war?

Oh no!! You poor dears might, maybe, possibly have to ... go to a government office (or online) to get a copy of a document!!!

That's just like being sent to war!!!

That's what I have to pay to be a citizen.

GTFO with your sob stories; $10 for a copy of a paper.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2026 08:50 AM (HXT0k)

56 Morning again, fellow caffeinators,

Good to hear about all the prayer requests being answered.

I'm fed, cleaned, shaved, and checking my email and the blog before I head out for my haircut &c. This may be hard to believe, but I feel I've had enough coffee for this morning already! Yes! I doubt I'll have time or the inclination to stop off somewhere for a coffee while I'm out, esp. at today's prices.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 08:52 AM (wzUl9)

57 What's your favorites
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:44 AM (znREB)
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A few years ago I began looking at my Lenten practices and decided that "giving things up" wasn't that effective and that I should try to "do more." So i would go to an a daily Mass each week, or say an additional Rosary, but my schedule is making that difficult. My wife and I saw that they are doing a Vespers service on Thursday evenings (Liturgy of the Hours) and we were going to include that, but missed the first two weeks due to health/family issues.

We did got this week and it was pretty cool. It's just a bunch of singing verses, with some Latin prayers added in. It feels ancient, because it is, and I think that's one of the big things bringing people into the Church. Everything modern now feels fake, and people want genuine authenticity.

In terms of food, a couple of years ago I began observing the Friday abstinence from meat year-round (except on feast days) and in accordance with the USCCB's guidelines, I would fast during the day to have meat with dinner. (con't)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 08:52 AM (ZOv7s)

58 Dressed in tactical gear with a firearm and his real name is Kyle Chris, which is Chris Kyle backwards.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 08:52 AM (Y1sOo)

59 UN Accuses Trump of Human Rights Violations Over Immigration Policies

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Most we'll funded useless organization in history.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 08:52 AM (ndZc7)

60 We're supposed to hit the 70s today and 82 tomorrow. Then temps should crash overnight, giving us 40s on Monday morning. I'll work out tomorrow and take it easy on Mon., esp. considering the north wind, which makes it tough to trot or even walk. Maybe Tuesday I can go again, and wash and spray wax the car as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 08:54 AM (wzUl9)

61 > Trump Hands Out Dress Shoes to Cabinet to Ditch Sneakers
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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For nearly 15 years I worked for the Fed in California. Two different places, and departments. The dress code was... pretty much anything. Jeans, t-shirts, sneakers. Sometimes shorts. Maybe sandals or flops.

Transferred back east, to Kentucky. Yea... no. Shirt, tie, slacks, dress shoes. Except for "casual Fridays." Then you had one of the Army's civilian approved outfits.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 08:54 AM (jtM2q)

62 Tom Servo

Most likely the Marines are to widen the tactical options, and complicate the Iranian defense decisions. The added F-35s can help. The helos can be used for anti-drone defense in the Strait.

Plus, our SAR recovery ability will go up.

Do not expect any helo / Osprey using raids.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 14, 2026 08:54 AM (u82oZ)

63 "Ah, the Forgotten Coast. "

My extended family has been going down there since the early 60s. When I was a youngun they would rent a house on the beach for all of us with 8-10 adults and a dozen cousins. Back in those days there was not much there so we would go up to Panama City to hit the stores, arcades, and minigolfs.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:54 AM (vFG9F)

64 It seems kind of silly to be fasting all year and then to go meatless and eat like normal during Lent, so I am fasting and abstaining on Fridays. Kind of tough sledding, but I'm also used to it. The hardest part is the lack of that protein surge I would get from chowing down on pepperoni pizza.

Another factor is that I have Type II diabetes, so my diet is already limited. Happily, a strict diet and increased exercise and weight loss have brought my glucose down to pre-diabetic levels without medication and I'm on the brink of being in normal range. I'll always have to watch what I eat, but being "condemned" to live a healthy and fit lifestyle is something I find easy to accept.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 08:56 AM (ZOv7s)

65 UN Accuses Trump of Human Rights Violations Over Immigration Policies

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Most we'll funded useless organization in history.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 08:52 AM (ndZc7)
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If anyone is an expert at violating human rights, it's the member nations of the Human Rights Council.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 08:57 AM (ESVrU)

66 What's your favorites
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:44 AM (znREB)
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A few years ago I began looking at my Lenten practices and decided that "giving things up" wasn't that effective and that I should try to "do more." ...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 08:52 AM (ZOv7s)

One of the "do more" things, I've decided upon for this Lent is to put more money in the Poor Box at my parish. I told Mrs. Cop how much I put in for March ($100) and she replies, "That's a lot." I told her that's kind of the point, besides we're financially secure at this time and can afford it.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 08:58 AM (ksbjf)

67 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Thank you for the good news.

We need you around to give us your wisdom.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 14, 2026 08:58 AM (u82oZ)

68 I hope everyone is well. Thank you for the prayer list Annie's Stew and Mis Hum.

My brain is coming down after being hyper vigilant being sole caregiver for 14 years. I've only seen my family doctor once in 10 years but we had a phone call. I'm not a pill person but he prescribed pills for anxiety and depression and gave me 4 pills for panic attacks. I found GABA online and bought that from Amazon for anxiety since the pills will take a month to work. Day 5.

I had my first visit from Jillian from the mental health agency. She's coming back next week. We're going to get me through this. I showed her my plans. She was impressed. My brain is processing everything at once and I'm overwhelmed. This will pass. After she left, I did take down all the outside Christmas lights. I'm in Canada and it's been cold. Really.

I did sleep 8 hours without zzzQuil yesterday. Sleeping 8 hours was amazing.

I did have my first ever panic attack Monday. The pill worked. Interesting experience. Not recommended. Once I'm through this, hopefully I can be there in some way for other Horde caregivers. That would make me happy.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 08:59 AM (Sco7b)

69 Have a great day, everyone.

May you get a Spring in your step.

Head on a swivel, and have a plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 14, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

70 Our soldiers, sailors, and airmen are putting their lives on the line getting an incredibly difficult and dangerous job done, but the Grand Old Pussies in the Senate can't even make an honest effort to pass Voter ID which an overwhelming majority of all Americans say we should have and which is really, really important to the credibility of our elections and the future of our country.

Posted by: Thuney Rose at March 14, 2026 09:00 AM (qUkBO)

71 I pray the Rosary during my morning commute to work. Since I get in to work at 6AM, traffic is still pretty light. I can start the Rosary on my residential street, and finish when I reach my off-ramp -- some 20 minutes later. Almost as if it were Providential.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 08:49 AM (ksbjf)
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Years ago, when I was ferrying the kids to school, I started saying morning prayers in my commute. Nothing fancy, just an Our Father and then some Hail Marys. The amount varied by which school I was driving to. The middle school was three decades, the high school was two. Going straight from home is just one. On drill weekends, I might get four decades in before I hit I-69, which was when I wrapped it up with intentions and a closing Our Father.

I keep adding bits to it, so now I sometimes don't finish until I'm walking in from the parking lot or may sit in the car for a minute to finish (depending on the weather).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)

72 I know of a pizza joint that's offering a second pie today for three dollars and fourteen cents.
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I can’t prove it, but that doesn’t even sound rational,

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:01 AM (qQhFt)

73 We need you around to give us your wisdom.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 14, 2026 08:58 AM (u82oZ)
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I'm sure my snark and sock puppets are an inspiration to all.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)

74 I'll be more engaged down the road.

I'm going to spend the weekend watching horror movies. Some Japanese. But I love the Terriifier movies. Goriest mainstream movies ever. Very brutal.

But panic attack and anxiety!!

Yes. But the movies put things into perspective.

At least I'm not being sawed in half vertically.

Later everyone. Stronger later. Have a happy weekend.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 09:03 AM (Sco7b)

75 Happy Pi Day!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2026 09:03 AM (wVcYX)

76 I have made it a point to start dropping prayers on the daily threads, especially when everyone is black-pilling.

I am also refraining from hurling pure insults at the trolls, and while my assumptions may be unflattering (that they are miserable people doing miserable work), I think it is accurate and (though I am surely biased) I think it is effective. They seem to go away after I post it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)

77 Texas elementary school story about the austere religious scholar:

https://tinyurl.com/easdhnrj

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 09:04 AM (2Ez/1)

78 The Marines also have mine clearing gear with them. Equipment to tow behind helicopters and such. Plus whatever drone tech they've been given.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 09:07 AM (jtM2q)

79 It shouldn't be easier to vote than it is to buy a gun.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2026 09:07 AM (0sNs1)

80
Funeral today for a distant in-law; there's a Rosary involved but my wife and I will be out like Protestants at a Roman communion.

Posted by: Auspex at March 14, 2026 09:07 AM (Y8DZL)

81 Our soldiers, sailors, and airmen are putting their lives on the line getting an incredibly difficult and dangerous job done, but the Grand Old Pussies in the Senate can't even make an honest effort to pass Voter ID which an overwhelming majority of all Americans say we should have and which is really, really important to the credibility of our elections and the future of our country.
Posted by: Thuney Rose at March 14, 2026 09:00 AM (qUkBO)
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I have a theory that this is a setup. Trump and Thune are collaborating to drag this out. If the bills goes through, say this week, the issue is off the table. The law goes into effect, and then there are lawsuits and injunctions, etc. Judges asserting a constitutional right to stuff ballot boxes (it's a form of free expression!).

But having this massively one-sided issue just sitting there, week after week, month after month. Forcing the Dems and Rinos to recite the same stupid talking points that women and black people are retarded, that's absolutely toxic.

The 'town halls' and campaign events are going to start, along with outdoor fairs and stuff, and having this sitting there is a great way to create a ruckus.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:08 AM (ZOv7s)

82 A thousand moves and couldn't win a spider solitaire game

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 09:08 AM (Ia/+0)

83 Any time is a good time for pie.

Posted by: Fabienne at March 14, 2026 09:08 AM (0sNs1)

84 GTFO with your sob stories; $10 for a copy of a paper.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2026 08:50 AM (HXT0k)

And they already got that document when they got married, right? If they're too dumb to keep their docs in a safe place, they shouldn't be voting anyway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, things happen. House fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, disorganization, blahblahblah. Suck it up and get your new copy.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 09:08 AM (h7ZuX)

85 Muslim violence is always
Excused
Contextualized
Rationalized
Justified
Explained
Minimized

But attacking back is always
Evil
Islamophobic
Genocidal
Racist
Unprovoked
Venal

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 09:10 AM (RIvkX)

86 The UAE's strategic oil port facility on the Gulf of Oman took a hit.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 09:10 AM (Y1sOo)

87 Yeah, yeah, yeah, things happen. House fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, disorganization, blahblahblah. Suck it up and get your new copy.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 09:08 AM (h7ZuX)
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The business of passports and birth certificates is only there because states decided to issue IDs to illegal aliens. I wish this was stated louder and more clearly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

88 Opening soon! Trump Hotel and Casino Kharg Island! Come enjoy the pleasures of relaxation and comfort in the middle of the Persian Gulf! Food, Fun, Booze! So hop on your camel and go, go, go! Opening in the Fall of 2027!

Posted by: Trump Enterprises Inc. at March 14, 2026 09:11 AM (Ksqrb)

89 I hope everyone is well. Thank you for the prayer list Annie's Stew and Mis Hum.

My brain is coming down after being hyper vigilant being sole caregiver for 14 years. I've only seen my family doctor once in 10 years but we had a phone call. I'm not a pill person but he prescribed pills for anxiety and depression and gave me 4 pills for panic attacks....

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 08:59 AM (Sco7b)

I seem to remember that your mother was a former Catholic nun (religious sister?). Have you tried praying the Rosary? I find it very calming. You don't have to start will all 5 decades -- just ease-in, as it were.

Also, I know you're in Canada, so options might be limited, but is there an orthodox Catholic Church close-by?

Mrs. Cop and I are both reverts back to the Catholic Church. Once you reject the "pure materialism" of the secular world, and embrace the spiritual warfare that we are called the wage, it is source of great solace. The craziness just rolls off my back, now.

Jesus Christ didn't promise us a life without suffering. The Word of God became Man, precisely so that God could experience suffering.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:12 AM (ksbjf)

90 I think the global goons determined sovereign nations were “selfish” a hundred years ago (unelected bureaucrats ruling the world illegitimately, is not selfish, somehow) and must be destroyed.

It isn’t really more complicated than that. Self determination, and “democracy” while right there in the UN charter, is most definitely not wanted by the usual suspects. So it’s no surprise the UN would posit that there is a “right” to invade other countries, basically.

That’s as transparent as the “No Nukes” crowd, who really weren’t against nuclear weapons per se, just against the US having them.

The shithole countries don’t have an illegal alien invasion, amiright? Weird, huh? We can argue about why that is the case.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:12 AM (qQhFt)

91 Tuesday is the last day in Texas for a candidate to withdraw from the runoff election. Since SAVE won't pass, looks like Paxton will remain on the ballot.

Fortunately, Cornyn assures me he votes with President Trump 99% of the time. /sarc

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 14, 2026 09:12 AM (0sNs1)

92 The post at the top describes much of my life before I retired. It's so nice to drink my coffee because it tastes good and not as a substitute for a bodily function like sleep.

Prayers and coffee humor: a good way to start a Saturday.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 09:12 AM (yTvNw)

93 Stateless, glad you are on an upward trajectory b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 09:13 AM (RIvkX)

94 The Coffee Song. Sinatra.

https://youtu.be/zTbJBnkRkFo

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 09:13 AM (2Ez/1)

95 Your worst nightmare: Ecofeminism.

No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)

96 That’s the whole point. Make recruitment and retention impossible. Criminals, for their part too, are allowed to prey on the public.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 08:15 AM (Iu0zc)
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There was a time when politics was about legitimate policy disagreements. American society as a whole was Christian in outlook (if not actual individual belief). From that shared moral foundation, we could argue about tax rates, which laws reduced crime, how to help the poor most effectively, etc.

But as that foundation crumbled, the discussion became impossible. It is no longer possible to win an argument by proving the policy will be a disaster because the people pushing it do not care. They want chaos. They are ruled by demons. There is no other logical, rational explanation. We can use psychological terms and call it "madness" or throw a clinical term in here or there to sound erudite, but the core issue is that they get off on being angry and seeing people suffer. The failure is the goal.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

97 95 Your worst nightmare: Ecofeminism.

No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)

You'd think that spores would be the ultimate expression of 'freedom'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2026 09:16 AM (bss/y)

98 Okay, I'm calming down. I want to hang here a bit.

Skip, literally a 1000 moves?

ChateauLloyd, that's a very cool way to get a nice domain. I was thrilled a few weeks ago when I managed to get larryswebsite. Literally. I love that and can't wait to put it to use.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 09:17 AM (Sco7b)

99 Happy Pi Day!
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2026

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I'd forgotten that! And at 4 pm, 1600 hours, it'll be 3.1416!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

100 The shithole countries don’t have an illegal alien invasion, amiright? Weird, huh? We can argue about why that is the case.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:12 AM (qQhFt)

Great point. I always wonder why millions of dirty euros don't hop a flight to Rhodesia and overflow the country with white folks, demand free shit while establishing no go zones and farming happily ever after while demanding reparations.

Posted by: Zombie Ian Smith at March 14, 2026 09:18 AM (Ksqrb)

101 “Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.”

Psalm 25:5

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2026 09:18 AM (zw+xd)

102 Adam Carolla has termed it "gynofascism."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 09:18 AM (RIvkX)

103 Come see the oppression inherent in the system!

Posted by: Goats and lichens at March 14, 2026 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)

104 Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 08:59 AM (Sco7b)

I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to warn you about the after effects of being a sole caregiver. It is definitely a real thing for the brain to have issues after losing the person who was its object of focus for years. We've seen it happen to several Horde members. Glad you are taking steps.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 09:19 AM (lFFaq)

105 This is why the Dem (and GOPe) arguments are increasingly couched in the terms of moral absolutism, and backed up by outrageous lies. It doesn't matter of gun laws work, they are the Right Thing To Do. It's fine to repeat the easily disproven claim that only the United States has mass casualty events because the lie serves a purpose.

We have gone beyond "the ends justify the means" because no one cares what the ends actually are. No one can articulate them. Oh, the right can, but the left and their allies cannot. The means now justify the means. Cruelty is the goal. They don't want prosperity for all, they want misery for their enemies, even if it rebounds onto them.

We can pray for those people, work for their repentance and salvation, but we cannot trust them. They will break every promise and violate every pledge. They are controlled by pure evil.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

106 Yes over a thousand moves, nearly 2 hours.
Keep saying its evil to play

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)

107 And as icing on the cake, Stirling the big black cat seems to have lost interest in leaping across and kicking me at 3 to 3:30 am. When I woke from my dream (see my recounting of it on the Tech Thread), he was right there sleeping next to me. I got up to hit the head and grab some water, and he was right there to get his dose of cold running H2O, but then I went back to bed for an hour, and found him nestled against me again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 09:21 AM (wzUl9)

108 Great point. I always wonder why millions of dirty euros don't hop a flight to Rhodesia and overflow the country with white folks, demand free shit while establishing no go zones and farming happily ever after while demanding reparations.
Posted by: Zombie Ian Smith at March 14, 2026

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They'd be ignored, or shot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 09:22 AM (wzUl9)

109 Your worst nightmare: Ecofeminism.

No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:16 AM (ndZc7)
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Literally pagan practices. Do they watch the flight of birds as well? Feed chickens and see how hungry they are?

Divination is a sin.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

110 There was a time when politics was about legitimate policy disagreements. American society as a whole was Christian in outlook (if not actual individual belief). From that shared moral foundation, we could argue about tax rates, which laws reduced crime, how to help the poor most effectively, etc.

But as that foundation crumbled, the discussion became impossible. It is no longer possible to win an argument by proving the policy will be a disaster because the people pushing it do not care. They want chaos. They are ruled by demons. There is no other logical, rational explanation. ...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

What I find interesting is that the Trump II administration is embracing the spiritual.

Did you know that the White House worked with Cardinal Burke to write a prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and re-dedicate the United States to Our Lady of Guadeloupe, recently?

Sec. Robert Kennedy is being mocked for discussing the spiritual value of family meals to fight demons.

The usual suspects' ridicule tells me that the administration is over target.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:23 AM (ksbjf)

111 It is no longer possible to win an argument by proving the policy will be a disaster because the people pushing it do not care. They want chaos
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Everything they do actually makes perfect sense viewed from this perspective. And yes, rational debate, trying to persuade using facts, logic, and reason is pointless. I only do it in case someone persuadable is listening, or a “for the record” kind of thing.

Emptying the insane asylums was a deliberate strategy, in hindsight. Think that was bad? They want to empty the prisons next. They are doing that now, if you hadn’t noticed.

“The worse, the better”.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:23 AM (qQhFt)

112 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:12 AM (ksbjf)

Hello. Mom was actually a nun in Cleveland! The convent is closed down now. And I was a computer consultant for 8 years in Columbus. Ohio is such a beautiful state.

I will be looking for a church. I need God. When I was in South Korea teaching, I actually did join a small church. We have a beautiful Catholic church here in town but it's a dwindling and older population.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 09:24 AM (Sco7b)

113 Time I hit the road. Later, all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 09:24 AM (wzUl9)

114 96 ... "But as that foundation crumbled, the discussion became impossible. It is no longer possible to win an argument by proving the policy will be a disaster because the people pushing it do not care. They want chaos. They are ruled by demons."

CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters was supposed to caution us. Turns out he described a procedures manual.

Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 09:24 AM (yTvNw)

115 If you want to consult goats about oppression, maybe start in Afghanistan.

Posted by: PabloD at March 14, 2026 09:24 AM (+HNa2)

116 Stateless that sounds wonderful. Good start!

Long ago someone taught me breathing exercises to do during anxiety attacks.
It's called square breathing or box breathing:

inhaling, holding, exhaling, and holding again for 4 seconds each

ALSO, very IMPORTANT, while doing this hold in your mind a happy or loving memory.
At the time I had 2 young kids, and I would hold the image of one of them sleeping peacefully.

These days, praying will calm me down before I get to an anxiety attack.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 09:28 AM (znREB)

117 I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to warn you about the after effects of being a sole caregiver. It is definitely a real thing for the brain to have issues after losing the person who was its object of focus for years. We've seen it happen to several Horde members. Glad you are taking steps.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 09:19 AM (lFFaq)

Really, I've been here for the better part of 25 years but didn't know that. Maybe I wasn't paying attention.

It'd be nice to have some sort of support group for ones currently caregiving. But I know how busy they are and any Horde caregivers probably aren't hanging out here a lot.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 09:28 AM (Sco7b)

118 Yes over a thousand moves, nearly 2 hours.
Keep saying its evil to play
Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
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Four suits?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 09:29 AM (ESVrU)

119 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:12 AM (ksbjf)

Hello. Mom was actually a nun in Cleveland! The convent is closed down now. And I was a computer consultant for 8 years in Columbus. Ohio is such a beautiful state.

I will be looking for a church. I need God. When I was in South Korea teaching, I actually did join a small church. We have a beautiful Catholic church here in town but it's a dwindling and older population.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 09:24 AM (Sco7b)

Maybe you're being called to help revitalize that Catholic Church?

Our Catholic Church in town has seen a big growth in the number of young families. When we joined seven years ago, there were maybe 6 or 7 young children in Mass. Now, we have 40 or 50. The priest love to hear babies crying!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:29 AM (ksbjf)

120 Emptying the insane asylums was a deliberate strategy, in hindsight. Think that was bad? They want to empty the prisons next. They are doing that now, if you hadn’t noticed.

“The worse, the better”.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:23 AM (qQhFt)
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It's interesting how things work out. In the fall of 2019 I was stricken with acute myocarditis that presented as a heart attack. Wife called 911, rushed to the hospital and after a couple of days of intense tests, that's what it was. God be praised, I took no damage. Ticker is great. But recovery was slow.

Stuck on a couch for weeks, I did a deep dive into an old interest: the Spanish Civil War. Brought it up here a bunch and of course I wrote a book about it. Yes, yes, go buy three copies, one for yourself and two to give away. Anyhow, it is strange to look back at how that chain of events went down precisely so that the book was published in the late summer of 2020. On a topic I hadn't touched on for 30 years.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

121 I've been giving up coffee and alcohol every Lent for many years now, among other things.

But as far as giving goes, I usually compile a short list of worthy organizations to make larger donations to like pregnancy centers, our local Catholic radio station, and some monasteries.

But this year I am doing an empty tomb/garden pencil artwork I hope to have finished by Easter. I hope it brings some added non-verbal praise to the Lord that day.

Everyone's in my prayers.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 14, 2026 09:30 AM (qIH9H)

122 Vanity is considered a sin in Catholic theology, often defined as an inordinate desire for recognition, admiration, or glory, often linked to excessive focus on appearance or accomplishments. It is considered a form of pride (one of the capital sins).

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 09:31 AM (Y1sOo)

123 CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters was supposed to caution us. Turns out he described a procedures manual.
Posted by: JTB at March 14, 2026 09:24 AM (yTvNw)

I have an edition with his extended introduction. C.S. Lewis stated that he refused to write a sequel because he found it so spiritually-draining to think like a demon.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)

124 Emptying the insane asylums was a deliberate strategy, in hindsight. Think that was bad? They want to empty the prisons next. They are doing that now, if you hadn’t noticed.

“The worse, the better”.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:23 AM (qQhFt)
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More importantly, they want to lock US up and let the criminals roam free. It's a variation on their Replacement Strategy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ESVrU)

125 I will be looking for a church. I need God. When I was in South Korea teaching, I actually did join a small church. We have a beautiful Catholic church here in town but it's a dwindling and older population.

Posted by: Stateless March 14, 2026 09:24 AM (Sco7b)
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You could be the pebble that starts the avalanche. My wife and I were dissatisfied with the Lutheran church we were attending (like the pastors, but the Wisconsin Synod considers military service sinful), so she suggested we visit the local Catholic parish. It chanced that they were honoring veterans. She looked at me and said "We're home."

Anyway, we were THE converts that year. Our kids were almost the only ones crying. We had to police my middle kid because she kept trying to rush the altar. We were feeling self-conscious but one day a sweet old lady said that she loved hearing our children and that when someone on the parish council complained of noise, the priest gave a stern rebuttal, saying he wanted the Mass drowned in the noise of young children.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:33 AM (ZOv7s)

126 I like a half a shot of Fireball in my coffee.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

127 Our Catholic Church in town has seen a big growth in the number of young families. When we joined seven years ago, there were maybe 6 or 7 young children in Mass. Now, we have 40 or 50. The priest love to hear babies crying!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:29 AM (ksbjf)
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The Diocese of Lansing will welcome 940 converts this Eastern, the highest number in more than 20 years. Something is happening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)

128 CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters was supposed to caution us. Turns out he described a procedures manual.
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United States Strategic Bombing Survey outlined how to immobilize a modern industrial economy.

It worked in reverse. Never mind ball bearings we don’t even make Aspirin any longer. No nation could be entirely self-sufficient, but the breadth and scope of American de-industrialization is clearly enemy action. No other conclusion is possible. Our politicians have to know this, or should have known.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:36 AM (qQhFt)

129 The enemy is evil, and his goal is chaos. He tries to move towards chaos through division.

Every issue is a chance to divide. To sow hate. To promote hopelessness. To create an environment that tries to convince you differences are irreconcilable.

He is driven by the idea that if you can divide us, you can defeat us.

His mission is undertaken by instilling fear. It operates by using force multipliers to make any division seem larger than it is. It corrupts all the auspices of contemporary society- the internet, media and organized groups to give an appearance of popular support.

His enemy is the truth. It is sunlight that shines brightly on his corruption…of everything. It is also a perseverance to do good. To understand, to honestly debate, to expose mendacity, and to promote the obvious, provable greater good.

Never yield or surrender to what you know are lies. Love your brother, by bathing him in the truth.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2026 09:38 AM (zw+xd)

130 I have an edition with his extended introduction. C.S. Lewis stated that he refused to write a sequel because he found it so spiritually-draining to think like a demon.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)
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He did a short story about Screwtape having a testimonial dinner that's pretty funny.

Evelyn Waugh did a similar thing, writing a short story ("Basil Seal Rides Again") to revisit his old long-running anti-hero from the Smart Set books. If you put in the work to read those books (which are a hoot), it is tremendously rewarding. I do not exaggerate when I say I wept with uncontrolled laughter over the finale. My wife thought I was having a seizure. That man could write!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)

131 Apart from my morning prayers*, I have noticed I am accruing a list of daily saints - each day I have these saints I ask to pray for me regularly:

My daughters' patron saints to look out for them
St Joseph for our family and the men in our family
St Francis & St Rocco when I feed the dog
St Christopher & St Raphael every time I get in the car
St Anthony every time I need to find something
St Jerome for my workplace
St Lucy for my vision
And now St John Henry Newman who will be my confirmation saint

*another post maybe

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 09:38 AM (znREB)

132
91 Tuesday is the last day in Texas for a candidate to withdraw from the runoff election. Since SAVE won't pass, looks like Paxton will remain on the ballot.”

Most all of Texas is relieved that Trump realized that he needed to sit this one out. Let Texas voters handle it, Donald.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 09:38 AM (Mh6s8)

133 There was a time when politics was about legitimate policy disagreements.

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I used to think that we all wanted the US to be strong and prosperous and the argument is about how to get there. Ahh, was I ever so strong?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:39 AM (ndZc7)

134 I've been giving up coffee and alcohol every Lent for many years now, among other things.
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Huh? Wine is fine for Lent.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:39 AM (qQhFt)

135 Thanks Annie. Thanks Mishum. You are greatly appreciated.

Lord, we kneel at the foot of Your cross where the ground is level. None of us are above another, none are worthy , yet you call us beloved. We praise your Holy name. Comfort those who are hurting. Heal those who are sick. Strengthen those of us who are weak Lord. Encourage and lift up those of us who are faltering. Watch over those in danger Lord. Lift up and guide our leaders Lord. Reveal yourself , let your presence be known to those who don't believe. We shall not live in fear Lord for you go before us. We ask these things in Your most precious name.
Amen

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 14, 2026 09:40 AM (7Cdr7)

136 Fortunately, Cornyn assures me he votes with President Trump 99% of the time. /sarc
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What is that 1%, John?

If you put a teaspoon of wine in a barrel of sewage, you have a barrel of sewage.

If you put a teaspoon of sewage in a barrel of wine, you have a barrel of sewage.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2026 09:40 AM (HXT0k)

137 But this year I am doing an empty tomb/garden pencil artwork I hope to have finished by Easter. I hope it brings some added non-verbal praise to the Lord that day.

Everyone's in my prayers.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

That would be wonderful to let the cobs share during the hobby thread or some weekend thread

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 09:40 AM (znREB)

138 Huh? Wine is fine for Lent.

Indeed. I don't drink any wine except the Big Holidays anyway.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 14, 2026 09:41 AM (qIH9H)

139 “But as that foundation crumbled, the discussion became impossible. It is no longer possible to win an argument by proving the policy will be a disaster because the people pushing it do not care. They want chaos. They are ruled by demons. There is no other logical, rational explanation.”

A very wise statement, I’m noting that for the long term.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 09:42 AM (Mh6s8)

140 The business of passports and birth certificates is only there because states decided to issue IDs to illegal aliens. I wish this was stated louder and more clearly.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

Exactly.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 14, 2026 09:43 AM (h7ZuX)

141 @120 A H., I started think about the Spanish Civil War when Lemon and the idiots invaded the church in Minnesota. The burning of churches in Spain was a trigger as I recall. Not a big step from invading to burning.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 14, 2026 09:43 AM (YsPj+)

142 “The worse, the better”.

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I look for that recommendation on my porn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:44 AM (ndZc7)

143 Vanity is considered a sin in Catholic theology, often defined as an inordinate desire for recognition, admiration, or glory, often linked to excessive focus on appearance or accomplishments. It is considered a form of pride (one of the capital sins).
Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 09:31 AM (Y1sOo)
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This is the key to understanding David French and the Bulwark crew. Their paramount need is status. French went to the best schools, has military service (which he brings up all the time even though it's nothing to brag about) and now he works for what he considers the ne plus ultra of media, the NYT.

And yet he doesn't understand why people who used to like him now despise him. He constantly swings from using the Affable, Patient, Christian persona to the Angry Condemnation voice. I know he's a Calvinist (the prototype Yard Sign Calvinist), but he acts like a Southern Baptist.

Only they can seamlessly transition from "I love Jesus, praise God, forgive your neighbor" to "Cindy Lou, you bitch! You keep your whore ass away from may man!"

My wife's family on facebook was a hoot. Anyhow, French doesn't care about outcomes, or theology, just how he looks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

144 used to think that we all wanted the US to be strong and prosperous and the argument is about how to get there
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This was true, to a certain extent. David Horowitz, a red diaper baby discusses this in his book “Radical Son”. He became disillusioned in the Left because he had a front row seat in how the radicals operate.

They weren’t interested in making anything better, only burning the whole thing down. The 60s radicals won. They have been in charge for some time now, and everything is falling apart, and being destroyed, because that was their intention.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:45 AM (qQhFt)

145 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 14, 2026 09:29 AM (ksbjf)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)

My beautiful friends across the street found a nice church in a nearby city. They have a beautiful young family. I don't know what denomination.

But they're incredibly conservative. Seriously, they'd fit in very well here. They'd have to get used to boob threads but they'd fit in well.

Polliwog, if you're still here, what did the other Horde members experience? When you're a caregiver, your brain is constantly listening, like a mother with a newborn. Then there's estate hell, employment or income. I've always been anxious, but this surprised me.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 09:45 AM (Sco7b)

146 My biggest challenge I have recently undertaken is to pray for people I don't like

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 09:45 AM (znREB)

147 The sound of children crying in church is the sound of renewal.

I am always reminded of Isaiah 29:13 and Matthew 15 when people complain.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2026 09:46 AM (zw+xd)

148 United States Strategic Bombing Survey outlined how to immobilize a modern industrial economy.

It worked in reverse. Never mind ball bearings we don’t even make Aspirin any longer. No nation could be entirely self-sufficient, but the breadth and scope of American de-industrialization is clearly enemy action. No other conclusion is possible. Our politicians have to know this, or should have known.
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Check out Prometheus Action on the socials.
Those old ladies are sharp.
One of the recent was how the plan was laid out in the 70's, the "controlled demolition" of the US manufacturing economy. A managed decline.
And how the most consequential speech at Munich recently, wasn't Rubio's--though it was big--it was the speech that declared we are returning to Hamilton's plan for the US economy: self-sufficient and manufacturing based.

There is a reason the whole world's elite are against Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2026 09:48 AM (HXT0k)

149 I'd rather sit in my boat thinking about God than sit in church thinking about fishing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

150 Vanity is defined as an excessive need for the admiration, recognition and love of others. While vanity stems from pride, it is distinct in that it primarily seeks to showcase one's excellence to others.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 09:49 AM (Y1sOo)

151 80
Funeral today for a distant in-law; there's a Rosary involved but my wife and I will be out like Protestants at a Roman communion.
Posted by: Auspex

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My only tip is if it's a Mass, do not go up for Communion.
I do hope it's a Mass - Catholic funeral masses are one of the most beautiful and uniting services in the liturgy.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 09:49 AM (znREB)

152 4 suits Perfessor, I do tend to play hardest solitaire games I can get

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 09:49 AM (Ia/+0)

153 If you're looking for a little pickmeup this morning, I found this to be very encouraging. Much of Latin America appears to be moving rightward towards increased freedom and economic common sense. The people are starting to realize that leftism is all snake oil. Bukele and Milei are being joined by other innovative young leaders coming to the fore.

Sheinbaum and Lula da Silva still need to go, but things are moving in the right direction for that to happen.

The New Monroe Doctrine: The Fear Is Gone

https://is.gd/okeSxF

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 09:50 AM (Riz8t)

154 Actually, I have no idea.

But I heard a vintage 1950s radio advertisement yesterdsy from Roma wine, being hawked by Truman Bradley, and they were extolling how great Roma wines were for Lent. I figure they were closer to what I’d like to believe, anyhow. lol

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:50 AM (mWuSL)

155 Good morning. My sweetheart got MS in 1994. When she passed in 2019, it was very liberating. I thank the Lord daily that such a sweetheart lived. All those doctor appointments became very tiresome.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 09:50 AM (d6BF2)

156 A very wise statement, I’m noting that for the long term.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 09:42 AM (Mh6s

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Thank you. Many years ago Michigan adopted shall-issue concealed carry and I was on Legislative staff when it happened, doing research and providing facts to support it.

Some years later, I met a former Dem state rep through work, and I mentioned that I recalled her quite vividly (she didn't recall me). Most of the Dems were actively rude to GOP staff, even trying to shut elevator doors on them, but she was always polite and friendly, and when she disagreed on issues - like guns - she was sincere in wanting the best for our state. I said: "For what it's worth, you were the GOP staff's favorite Dem."

She had tears in her eyes and gave me a hug. This was an Ann Arbor liberal, btw. I hate Ann Arbor, but it does have some good people.

I think we need to look to the example of Tulsi and RFK. There are people of good will who have been deluded and perhaps we can save at least some of them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

157 Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 09:50 AM (d6BF2)
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May her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

158 Anyhow, French doesn't care about outcomes, or theology, just how he looks.

If he's paying someone to look like that, he isn't getting his money's worth.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 09:53 AM (Riz8t)

159 I'm coasting down to retirement and enjoying the freedom of just not caring anymore. I've begun burying Easter eggs in activity reports just to prove no one reads them. Things like:

There's a new cover sheet for the TPS Reports.
Low expectations are the key to satisfaction.
Indecision is the key to flexibility.

And my favorite:
I came there looking for a job. I can leave the same way.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

160 Big Other shuts down debate. The "we are all citizens of the world" crowd want to destroy Western Civilization.

Yeah, I am more than halfway through "The Camp of the Saints." Looking forward to tomorrow's book thread.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 09:55 AM (d6BF2)

161 If you're looking for a little pickmeup this morning, I found this to be very encouraging. Much of Latin America appears to be moving rightward towards increased freedom and economic common sense. The people are starting to realize that leftism is all snake oil. Bukele and Milei are being joined by other innovative young leaders coming to the fore.
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Also: It can't be a coincidence that Latin America is moving rightward just after USAID was cut.

As I've said, the only thing that will be more shocking than how much our government was working AGAINST us will be how much different it is when it is working FOR us.

Most of us alive today have never lived under a federal government that worked for the American People.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 14, 2026 09:56 AM (HXT0k)

162 "May her memory be a blessing."

It is indeed. My life began when I met her. She loved me with all of her heart.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 09:57 AM (d6BF2)

163 They weren’t interested in making anything better, only burning the whole thing down. The 60s radicals won. They have been in charge for some time now, and everything is falling apart, and being destroyed, because that was their intention.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 09:45 AM (qQhFt)
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Horowitz is a great read. The big difference is that the radicals were a fringe of the party and now they control it. You used to have Scoop Jackson and Sam Nunn types calling the shots, and of course staunchly pro-life Dems. There is still a pro-life Dem organization in Michigan, and it could meet in a single booth at Denny's. I exaggerate only slightly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)

164 There's a new cover sheet for the TPS Reports.
Low expectations are the key to satisfaction.
Indecision is the key to flexibility.

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Trying is the first step to failing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)

165 Maybe two booths.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 09:58 AM (d6BF2)

166 If he's paying someone to look like that, he isn't getting his money's worth.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 09:53 AM (Riz8t)
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I am of course referring to his reputation. I think the reason the "cuck" label sticks to him is that he very much looks the part.

I also have to chuckle every time he talks about being in the Army because he was probably a laughing stock for all the actual soldiers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

167 Fun fact: Horowitz' daughter Sarah z"l wrote our minyan's Prayer for the United States

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

168 A prayer for your minivan?

Posted by: Wait, wut? at March 14, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

169 Maybe two booths.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 09:58 AM (d6BF2)
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Bart Stupak's ghost continues to wander restlessly across the Upper Peninsula. I hope those 30 pieces of silver were worth it. (Stupak was a pro-life Dem who voted for Obamacare and lost what would have been a seat he could have held till death. He still wanders around trying to act important, but the UP has shifted deep red now.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)

170 I used to think that we all wanted the US to be strong and prosperous and the argument is about how to get there. Ahh, was I ever so strong?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 09:39 AM (ndZc7)

I was in Ohio on 9-11. I remember how most of us woke up to what a threat Islam is.

And as the years wore on we realised that our leaders, throughout the west, were the more dangerous enemy. If they pulled Covid in 1998, I would have probably gotten the shot. In 2021, not a chance....

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:03 AM (Sco7b)

171 I believe a lot of people intuitively know when the government is working for the greater good, and when it’s overstepped the power given to them by the citizens and starts to use it against their will. We’ve seen the latter from Democrats during COVID and Biden’s reign. They are actively promising retribution for our current return to a constitutional government that operates within societal boundaries and ultimately on behalf of a clear majority of our citizens.

Democrats have fought against voter id, electoral reform, massive fraud and the profligate use of our taxpayer largess to fund their schemes because they know their authoritarian rule and march towards societal decline are ultimately their only means to seize and hold power.

It all makes sense and only takes a moment of honestly and clarity to recognize.

We now have our boot on the neck of the beast, but it is still dangerous. It’s not the time to relent or declare victory. It’s time to complete its demise.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2026 10:04 AM (R1D6K)

172 A prayer for your minivan?
Posted by: Wait, wut? at March 14, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
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Seats 10

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

173 Another trait of the vane is calling out the vanity in others and not seeing it in themselves.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 10:06 AM (Y1sOo)

174 Dumped Confuser Cellular and got Mint for $15 a month, prepaid for a year. And it's really $15 including all the taxes and fees. The sobs at CC charged me another full month though because they don't prorate bills and I was a few days into the cycle.

Be advised, Mint has zero phone support. Other than that it's been great.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 10:07 AM (vFG9F)

175 ^vain

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 10:08 AM (Y1sOo)

176 Polliwog, if you're still here, what did the other Horde members experience? When you're a caregiver, your brain is constantly listening, like a mother with a newborn. Then there's estate hell, employment or income. I've always been anxious, but this surprised me.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 09:45 AM (Sco7b)

I suspect part of what RickB is going through right now is this, since he just lost his wife. Brother Tim was hit by it very hard after the loss of his dad, and an Ette in Colorado (whose nic I'm blanking on unfortunately) after the loss of the parent she had been caring for.
Your description is very good. That person is what everything else in life is scheduled around and when they aren't there anymore it's a struggle to reorient. That can cause severe depression, on top of natural grief, and if you tend that way already it can be debilitating.
Holding to Christ is the only successful strategy I've seen. Doing so doesn't make the transition easy, but it gives a foundation that is otherwise missing.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:10 AM (lFFaq)

177 168 A prayer for your minivan?
Posted by: Wait, wut?

St Christopher & Archangel Raphael are both patrons of travelers, so you could pray for their protection while you are traveling in your minivan.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 10:11 AM (znREB)

178 I think Trump poses an interesting contrast to people like David French. Trump is not a religious person by temperament, but he does respect religion and particularly religious people. He strikes me as a sinner who is who he is, and hopes to do better, and genuinely admires people who are capable of living a wholly religious life.

I also think that he has experienced a spiritual awakening, and you can see that in unfiltered moments when he speaks about being shot, and also when he talks about salvation. He wants to be saved, is worried that he won't be, and so in his own way, does things within his measure to try to make that happen. And he loves his country and its people.

The French Davidians are certain that they are saved, they know that they are righteous and so feel free to be mean and petty when it strikes them. They see zero conflict between being super-polite to demon-adjacent heretics who bless child mutilation and then immediately denounce faithful religious people who reasoned Trump was less vile than Harris.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

179 I never really thought much about Islam until 9-11

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 10:12 AM (znREB)

180 Everything has been happening so fast over the last 14 months I think we forget how far we've come. Huge geopolitical changes are happening that will change the course of our domestic politics for years.

No time to relax but it's also good to reflect on how far we've come when not to long ago some of things happening today seemed impossible.

>>@usembassyve
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>>Translated from Spanish
On the morning of March 14, 2019, the American flag was lowered for the last time at the United States Embassy in Caracas. This morning, March 14, 2026, at the same hour, my team and I raised the United States flag—exactly seven years after it was removed.

>>A new era has begun for relations between the United States and Venezuela.

>>We're staying with Venezuela. – LFD

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2026 10:13 AM (viF8m)

181 *Another trait of the vane is calling out the vanity in others and not seeing it in themselves.*

It will also tell you which way the wind is blowing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 10:14 AM (2Ez/1)

182 One of Jasmine Crockett's security team was impersonating a police officer, got into a shootout with the Dallas SWAT and was liquidated. Amazing.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 14, 2026 10:16 AM (3uBP9)

183 >>>3) Running with sharp objects is not regulated by the FDA. Good luck there Buckwheat.

"Good luck there Buckwheat."

hahahahaha

That was unexpected!

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 10:16 AM (+YA9H)

184 "Trump is not a religious person by temperament..."

Two Corinthians walk into a bar...

Posted by: Stop me if you've heard it at March 14, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)

185 Good morning, people.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 14, 2026 10:18 AM (nz1sK)

186 Your description is very good. That person is what everything else in life is scheduled around and when they aren't there anymore it's a struggle to reorient. That can cause severe depression, on top of natural grief, and if you tend that way already it can be debilitating.
Holding to Christ is the only successful strategy I've seen. Doing so doesn't make the transition easy, but it gives a foundation that is otherwise missing.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:10 AM (lFFaq)
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My stepmother going into hospice has been a great blessing for my father. It was difficult for him at first, but he visits her every day, feeds her dinner and we talk on the phone just about every other day. With her taken care of, he can drive up and share holidays with us again and it is so extraordinary for his great-grandchildren to know him.

They got sick last week and he sent colorful get well cards. He also randomly sends us food through Amazon: a case of lemonade, box of potato chips, whatever tickles his fancy. Even when he's not around, the grandkids are aware of him. Would that my mother was as kind and engaged.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:19 AM (ZOv7s)

187 >>>@146 My biggest challenge I have recently undertaken is to pray for people I don't like ... Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 09:45 AM (znREB)
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Greetings, VMOM ... To the best of my knowledge, there are no commands in the Bible for us to LIKE one another -- only to LOVE one another ... Praying for people I don't like is how I demonstrate my love for them, but I pray from a distance ... They are forgiven and my resentment is gone, but access to my heart is no longer avaiiable.

Posted by: Kathy at March 14, 2026 10:19 AM (zuKcR)

188 Powerline week in pictures
If Iceland is only country in America's and Europe where do the get breakfast on the run?

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 10:20 AM (Ia/+0)

189 Henry “Scoop” Jackson, and Stu Symington and guys like that weren’t quite as benign as advertised.

If you check out what they did during the Army McCarthy hearings, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities it should ring very familiar as to how Democrats operate today.

Never address the substance of an allegation, but go after the one making the claim. Deflect, deny, and investigate the investigators.

Even Harry Truman, practically patron saint Democrat on the right, secured all the State department background and loyalty investigation files on subversion and espionage among employees against the United States government at the White House, so congress would be unable to view them,

The notion that the Soviet Union would ever “cooperate” or co-exist was a foreign policy blunder of the first water. Fascism, communism, all those particular isms are the same goddamned thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:21 AM (3fPvA)

190 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

Very thoughtful contrast. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 14, 2026 10:21 AM (xT8gx)

191
>182 One of Jasmine Crockett's security team was impersonating a police officer, got into a shootout with the Dallas SWAT and was liquidated.
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Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at March 14, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

192 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

May God continue to shower blessings and grace on all of His children this day.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 14, 2026 10:22 AM (vrNzf)

193 Man, I wish.

When I was young, I could do 2-3 hours a night for a month and be absolutely fine, coffee or no coffee.

But once I turned about 30, I started needing more and more sleep. Now, in my 40s, if I get 2 hours of sleep, no amount of coffee helps, and I feel like I contracted malaria or something for the next 2 days.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2026 10:23 AM (BI5O2)

194 I dropped Verizon Wireless on the last day of the billing cycle. No problems.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 10:23 AM (d6BF2)

195 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:10 AM (lFFaq)

Thank you. This helps.

I want to expand my two cents. I listened for Mom 24-7. It was like a mother listening for her new baby except the baby eventually grows.

For Mom, I would hear the dog jump off the bed multiple times a night as Mom went to the washroom. I'd always call out "Rose, are you alright?'

And that went on for years. I know all of us would take a deep breath, gird our loins and do it again if needed. But the brain stays on hyper-alert status for years constantly looking for threats.

Mine stayed like that through estate hell, calmed only by booze and later edibles. I was under threat.

Now things are finally stable. And I think my brain is processing EVERYTHING at once. I've always been anxious but would self-medicate occasionally whenMom was safe and asleep. That was my only vacation.

I'm really not a pill person. The pharmacy knows me because of Mom but were very surprised to hear from me. It'd be great to be the last Horde to go through this. This was my experience.

Thank you for letting me know about the other caregivers.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:23 AM (Sco7b)

196 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:19 AM (ZOv7s)

Hopefully, this intermediate transition will make her eventual loss less destabilizing for him.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:23 AM (lFFaq)

197 A late good morning to you, Horde, and an abundance of prayers for all of you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 10:24 AM (0nHVk)

198 Good Morning all
Just want to start by saying how much I appreciate Annie and Mis Hum for doing this. It just feels right to catch up with how everyone's doing and share a bit of the personal. It is what makes this place different and special. Hopeful.
Bulg, if you're still here, I also talked to one of my sisters this week around my birthday. Not the one who has cut me off but the one who understood what I was going through at the time. It still felt like a first step, reopening communication.
So, I get what you are going through. Hope I get to see you at the MoMe so I can give you a hug.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 10:24 AM (t/2Uw)

199 Many weeks see neat stuff for Coffee Thread then forget where I saw them

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 10:24 AM (Ia/+0)

200 If you're looking for a little pickmeup this morning, I found this to be very encouraging. Much of Latin America appears to be moving rightward towards increased freedom and economic common sense. The people are starting to realize that leftism is all snake oil. Bukele and Milei are being joined by other innovative young leaders coming to the fore.
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Also the elimination of USAID money is affecting the Latin American communists.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 14, 2026 10:25 AM (xvV+O)

201 Over the past 6 years, I have been able to travel and get to know my grandkids and they know me. It is wonderful.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 10:25 AM (d6BF2)

202 My son told me yesterday "Trump is the best President since George Washington."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 10:26 AM (d6BF2)

203 The Dems definitely want to run against Paxton but what they don't realize is that Paxton voters will also stay home if Cornyn is the nominee. Republicans like to cut their nose off to spite their face. It's a retarded catch 22. I don't like either guy but won't stay home.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 14, 2026 10:26 AM (oob1u)

204 When you're a caregiver, your brain is constantly listening, like a mother with a newborn. Then there's estate hell, employment or income. I've always been anxious, but this surprised me.

Posted by: Stateless
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My mother only lived with me for 2 years, and my brother and I had no estate hell or conflict (my brother is the best). I constantly felt like I had no idea what I was doing, that whatever I did would turn out to be wrong. Not because of my mother - she was usually cheerful and often expressed her gratitude to me. (Her neuro made me feel like a shitty caregiver.)

I knew I was constantly missing or overlooking things, when I suddenly had to manage 2 people's lives and someone else's financial affairs and medical issues. When I had always been VERY on top of things for myself. Even after she is gone I constantly have the feeling I'm forgetting things (and this is not just a feeling, it is often true). Now it manifests in work stress and in anxiety about taking care of the house (which I am now trying to resolve a lot of problems with). Some (most?) of it is probably my life stage (perimenopause, sorry for TMI). 1/2

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 14, 2026 10:27 AM (MSrAy)

205 >>Also the elimination of USAID money is affecting the Latin American communists.

Chile is the latest to flip.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2026 10:27 AM (viF8m)

206 Hopefully, this intermediate transition will make her eventual loss less destabilizing for him.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:23 AM (lFFaq)
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Yes, I think it is. He seems to be taking it in stride. Remarkably collected guy. The other day he told me how he went to the store wearing a furry winter hat and a woman smiled at him and said "I love your hat!" He was very pleased because the woman was attractive and couldn't help but observe "I'll probably be back on the market soon. Nice to know I can still work my magic with the ladies."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

207 "The failure is the goal"

spot-on A. H. L.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 10:29 AM (MIIRH)

208 >>>OSHA is not recognized here at Hamster Central

Posted by: Mis Hum Phone

>Hand fashioned boxcutters FTW! Just put some gorilla tape around where you want the handle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 10:30 AM (M9gjJ)

209 Henry “Scoop” Jackson, and Stu Symington and guys like that weren’t quite as benign as advertised.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:21 AM (3fPvA)
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They were selfless heroes compared to the Dems of today.

Let's also recall that the GOP in those years had plenty of villains, like that nice, proper and respectable George H.W. Bush who almost drove his wife to suicide. Such good people.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)

210 [cont'd]

I *know* the worry is making things worse and clouding my (already poor) judgment. I *know* it's rooted in unbelief. I'm praying about this but my brain still wants to obsess.

Anyway, I'm popping my email in my nic if you or others ever want to chat about caregiving and adjusting to life after caregiving ends. I always love to hear from 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 14, 2026 10:31 AM (MSrAy)

211 Chile is the latest to flip.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2026 10:27 AM (viF8m)
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It's funny how when you stop supporting your enemies, they crumble almost without effort.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:32 AM (ZOv7s)

212 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:19 AM (ZOv7s

I'm very happy for your father. And the best for your mother.

I can only imagine how difficult it was for him. But he's still caring for her. It doesn't mean he loves her less. And it must be such a deep relief for him.

Like a very deep exhale.

Mom and I had great years together. Doesn't mean it didn't take a toll.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:32 AM (Sco7b)

213 "The notion that the Soviet Union would ever “cooperate” or co-exist was a foreign policy blunder of the first water. Fascism, communism, all those particular isms are the same goddamned thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:21 AM (3fPvA) "

Blunder? Homie don't think so!

IMHO, it was totally intentional, and demonstrates that the gummint was already well on its way to the present rotten-to-the-core state. just my 0.02

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 10:33 AM (MIIRH)

214 For me, my daughter was deathly ill for about 4 years. She's over that for a couple years now (though there are still occasional rough spots, but not life or death stuff, thank G-d).

I can tell you, in this scenario, the stress reaction doesn't really end. It's not constant, and it's much easier to manage. But I think even if a fairy godmother wove a wand and said "she is cured, go forth and worry no more," that hypervigilance would still hang around like a phantom limb.

I think that fear of doing something wrong or missing something for the person you're looking after probably sticks around forever, and the best you can do is remind yourself it's not really rational anymore and there are other things you need to do now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 14, 2026 10:33 AM (BI5O2)

215 Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:23 AM (Sco7b)

I helped my parents *once* with my grandparents overnight and it was exhausting. It took 3 70 year olds to watch them or 4 50 year olds. It definitely isn't something the weak can accomplish, but even the strongest get worn down. Doing it alone is the action of a saint. Once again, I'm very sorry I hadn't realized your situation and missed the chance to help you be prepared for the after effects.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:35 AM (lFFaq)

216 by: screaming in digital at March 14, 2026 10:31 AM

Already emailed you.

Give me a few weeks. I can be a sounding board and hopefully help in some way letting you know you're not alone.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:36 AM (Sco7b)

217
Anxiety.

What are the methods, natural and /or prescription, that others here who have suffered anxiety used to assuage or eliminate this problem? Mostly interested in natural methods, but do any prescriptions really address this?

I've recently been overcome with this. A cascade of family issues and..... my beloved dog died. Argh.

Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 10:37 AM (cZ6Sn)

218 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:35 AM (lFFaq)

Don't give it a second thought. We are good.

We can keep an eye out for comments from others in the same situation and offer them help in some small way.

This is comforting me.

Thank you all

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:39 AM (Sco7b)

219 I'm very happy for your father. And the best for your mother.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:32 AM (Sco7b)
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Thank you. I should clarify that my parents are divorced and my actual mother has a very fraught relationship with me and by extension the family. This is quite surprising and if you asked me when I was a teenager, who would be the better grandparent, I'd have insisted without hesitation it would be Mom. My father is often distant, doesn't express a lot of emotion, and is even worse than I am (if possible) in going on about a topic of interest to no one but himself.

He's mellowed with age, however, and is more interesting in listening than talking. My conversations with him are a blessing. I was not close to my stepmother. It wasn't her fault. She's a nice lady and my wife and kids love her. But Dad remarried about the same time my mother did, and her choice was...poor. She'd also gone through two boyfriends by then, so my stepmother was sort of caught in the emotional blast radius.

I've had some interesting talks with Dad about what no-fault divorce did to children who had to live through it. I don't think he ever thought about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:40 AM (ZOv7s)

220 Oh, and for Lent, I just ordered and received all of Brandt Pitre's books. Started with the case for Jesus. He is a Catholic theologian, phd in Latin Aramaic Greek and Hebrew. Always sources from Jewish tradition.

He's amazing.

Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 10:41 AM (cZ6Sn)

221 Let's turn this water to wine and get the party started!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 10:42 AM (M9gjJ)

222 Hi folks. I'm going to slip in here just before the likely end of the thread to put in a request. A couple months ago I told y'all that I was going to be laid off. I was and the job hunt is not going well. The severance package has run its course and as of today, we're dipping into savings to make rent and bills.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2026 10:42 AM (Fs0KI)

223 "University of Maryland student government to pledge solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran"
https://tinyurl.com/4xubzhds

Sponsors of the resolution:
Zyad Khan
Saad Ijaz
Mohammad Abukhdeir
Hasan Islam

More instigators like the recently deported Columbia University student?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 14, 2026 10:42 AM (cWLG3)

224 Blunder? Homie don't think so!

IMHO, it was totally intentional, and demonstrates that the gummint was already well on its way to the present rotten-to-the-core state. just my 0.02
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 10:33 AM (MIIRH)
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Churchill deeply, sincerely felt it was possible to come to an arrangement with Stalin that would lower tension and end the Cold War. I think it is one thing to be foolish in uncharted territory.

The difference now is that the evidence is overwhelming and undeniable. There is no possible way for their policies to work. That's the whole point.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)

225 Before I posted my long ramble, I should have said Mornin' Horde and prayers for y'all and your loved ones. I had a work trip this week so I haven't been here much lately. I miss y'all even when I'm not here for a day or three.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 14, 2026 10:43 AM (MSrAy)

226 Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 10:37 AM (cZ6Sn)

VMom mentioned "box breathing" while holding a positive thought/image. It helps to have the positive thing pre-decided as it may be difficult to come up with one in the moment of need. Prayer definitely helps. Also, pre-choosing a hymn or praise chorus. You can just hum it if you don't like your singing voice.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:44 AM (lFFaq)

227 I've recently been overcome with this. A cascade of family issues and..... my beloved dog died. Argh.
Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 10:37 AM (cZ6Sn)

Check with your family doctor. Mine has me on longer term stuff and a few for panic attacks.

I have done 5000 hours of meditation, but when so many things hit at once.

I would have preferred natural things also. But that just led to booze and edible pills. The pills helped but I was getting used to them. And while I could hold my booze, it wasn't helping. I have an 14 year old dog that needs me.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:45 AM (Sco7b)

228 Stateless...

Go fishing.

Posted by: creeper at March 14, 2026 10:46 AM (80oeU)

229 Stateless, in the last decade of his life, my husband went from radiation for prostate cancer, which seemed to pitch him down the stairs of Parkinson's, then dementia. He finally died with covid, so I wasn't even allowed to be with him.

It was hard caring for him when he no longer knew who I was. But he still trusted me. I used to tell him stories of his own childhood, and he listened like a child.

I still get angry at how limited he was at the end--for his sake, not mine. This was a man who once designed radar systems for fighter planes.

I think it takes years to move on. I'm still weeping as I write this.

Posted by: Wenda at March 14, 2026 10:47 AM (wPfxR)

230 Oddbob, may the Lord bless you and your family, may He lighten your load and ease your burdens.
Please Lord help Oddbob to find material stability and the opportunity to employ his talents so as to provide for his family.
We ask this through Christ, our Lord, our Savior and Redeemer.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 10:48 AM (DoBxX)

231 For folks recovering from caregiver fatigue, may I suggest some light volunteer work with a local charity? My wife has had struggles with what to do in life with the kids grown up and the grandkids now less labor intensive. Her job skills have atrophied, and she was pretty much inert.

She started volunteering with St. Vincent Catholic Charities, only a few hours a week, and it gave her a renewed sense of purpose. She can see the good she is doing and this brings her immense satisfaction and peace. It may be hard to find a suitable place, especially if one is not religious, but I recommend St. Vincent (they are everywhere) because they are all-volunteer, with no paid staff.

They do hands-on work handing out clothes, making meals and other practical things. Not only does my wife feel better for helping, she also is more grateful for everything she has, which is always helpful.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)

232 Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2026 10:42 AM (Fs0KI)

Father, please bring Oddbob to the place of employment you have prepared for him. In the meantime, let his family see Your love and pro visitor them and use this situation to increase their love for You and each other as well as their trust in You. Amen.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:49 AM (lFFaq)

233 AH Lloyd, if you're still here -- did you know that Sienna Heights Univ in Adrian, MI is closing? Dominicans, hmmm.
Just saw a friend there and she told me. Lourdes in OH is also closing.
I asked my friend who is Catholic, how their parishes are doing in Adrian. Not well, she said. Many of the smaller ones are merging, attendance is down, and so is membership.
I told her that you are seeing the opposite where you are. I think you are in a different diocese. She said they are in the Lansing one.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 14, 2026 10:49 AM (nz1sK)

234 I just put a new radiator in my minivan the other day, and prayed before, during and after.

Posted by: Holy Roller at March 14, 2026 10:49 AM (oftw2)

235 222 Hi folks. I'm going to slip in here just before the likely end of the thread to put in a request. A couple months ago I told y'all that I was going to be laid off. I was and the job hunt is not going well. The severance package has run its course and as of today, we're dipping into savings to make rent and bills.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2026 10:42 AM (Fs0KI)

Go online.

I was looking into it and you'll have to do your research, but there are AI data jobs online. Labelling things. And you can build other skills and move up.

That may tide you over for awhile.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:52 AM (Sco7b)

236 I have found, much to my surprise, that working in my yard is tremendously therapeutic. Very odd, considering I have no idea what I'm doing out there either. But I can work my ass off and keep it from looking like a meth house.

(Also, exercise helps get the junk out of my head, I missed a couple days due to being on the road and I can tell. The scale will also tell...)

I started the first spring mow yesterday and hope to finish today. So I'd better get to it. Later y'all.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 14, 2026 10:52 AM (MSrAy)

237 It's all about the healing. Everything else is just religious activity.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)

238 Greetings. Last night an individual cited a WSJ article about 5 tanker planes, that were supposedly destroyed.. It is always best to wait until the truth comes out. One of DJT's messages this morning is about that - 4 with "virtually no damage" and are already in service. One remaining will be in the air shortly. That's it.

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2026 10:55 AM (GD0B3)

239 I use exercise to overcome anxiety. Walking with headphones listening to music really looking at everything around me, takes my mind off me. I try to smile at people and look at them. Most seem surprised and smile back. I also swim which is completely different. Like meditating. Focusing on my breath going in and out.
The point is to focus on what you can do that uses your entire attention. Doing a puzzle, playing scrabble online, anything that focuses your attention on something other than the issues you are facing. It's okay to do that.
Anyone wants to talk, my nic also connects to email. You all rescued me when I was at my lowest. It is what this place does.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 10:55 AM (t/2Uw)

240 >>>What are the methods, natural and /or prescription, that others here who have suffered anxiety used to assuage or eliminate this problem? Mostly interested in natural methods, but do any prescriptions really address this?

I was hit with bouts of anxiety after my wife passed away due to not only having to deal with the avalanche of administrative stuff in going about settling her personal affairs, but also to take on the role of the president of her CPA business (I know nothing about CPA-ing), following IRS 'best practices' in such a situation and seeing to it that all of her clients were taken care of. It was pretty overwhelming for the first couple of months.

The major symptom was a racing heart rate that would come on out of nowhere. Saw the doc and he prescribed propranolol. It worked wonderfully.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 10:55 AM (Y1sOo)

241 And now St John Henry Newman who will be my confirmation saint

*another post maybe
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 09:38 AM (znREB)

Congratulations!! Welcome home.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 10:56 AM (lCppi)

242 AH Lloyd, if you're still here -- did you know that Sienna Heights Univ in Adrian, MI is closing?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 14, 2026 10:49 AM (nz1sK)
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That is my diocese, and lots of the trends are also impacted by larger population shifts. As communities shed people, they also shed Catholics. Also the surge in seminarians is wonderful, but there is a deep hole to fill.

Sienna Heights closing is part of much larger trends in higher education. Yes, colleges are woke. Yes, they are too expensive. But a factor that is often overlooked is that the Baby Boom caused a huge surge in college attendance that could not be demographically sustained. The nonsense that "everyone should go to college" which lowered admission standards was not enough to cover the baby deficit, and the importation of foreign students is also inadequate (and Trump is stopping it anyway).

Expect a lot of smaller schools to close in the near future. Last I saw, enrolment at ALL Michigan colleges is down except for 3: Michigan, Michigan State, and Michigan Tech. I think CMU is on life support.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)

243 Getting windy out, heard 40mph gusts at some point

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 10:56 AM (Ia/+0)

244 He finally died with covid, so I wasn't even allowed to be with him.
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Posted by: Wenda
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This infuriates me. Jesse's son and I were at least both allowed to stay with him at the end. The hospital banned me for 10 of his last 20 days because I got COVID too. I have forgiven but I will not forget.

Hugs to you, dear Wenda.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 14, 2026 10:56 AM (MSrAy)

245 Exercise is always a good idea. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:57 AM (ZOv7s)

246 I think it takes years to move on. I'm still weeping as I write this.

Posted by: Wenda at March 14, 2026 10:47 AM (wPfxR)

I can't even imagine that. Mom was great up to the end. And she passed in about a week.

I know I was blessed.

There are caregiving organizations that may be able to help. I was sent links when I finally reached out. We're here to.

My email is in the website in my nic if you ever need to vent. I have been finding that talking is helping.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 10:57 AM (Sco7b)

247 He's amazing.
Posted by: Derak

Brant Pitre IS amazing!
Our parish has classes based on his Formed Lectio lectures - absolutely fantastic insights.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 10:57 AM (znREB)

248 Sharon, computer glitch. Text me, please.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2026 10:57 AM (+nEug)

249 It's all about the healing. Everything else is just religious activity.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)

Not exactly. The healing comes from *relationship*. If there's no relationship, then it is indeed empty religious activity.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:58 AM (lFFaq)

250 It's all about the healing. Everything else is just religious activity.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)

Not exactly. The healing comes from *relationship*. If there's no relationship, then it is indeed empty religious activity.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 14, 2026 10:58 AM (lFFaq)
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The "religious activity" is how I have found healing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)

251 Henry “Scoop” Jackson, and Stu Symington and guys like that weren’t quite as benign as advertised.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 10:21 AM (3fPvA)
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They were selfless heroes compared to the Dems of today.

-
Of course, so was Tokyo Rose.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 10:59 AM (ndZc7)

252 Congratulations!! Welcome home.
Posted by: LASue

Thank you!
Cradle Catholic who only got as far as first Holy Communion before things fell apart for the family; so happy to have found my way back.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 11:00 AM (znREB)

253 OddBob, still here...?

Hope he saw that.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 11:00 AM (Sco7b)

254 {{{Wenda}}}

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 11:00 AM (znREB)

255 When my wife was in Medicaid, with a Home health aid coming to the house to bathe her, etc., I asked the case manager if I could go on vacation and she could be put into a Nursing home temporarily. She said "Yes." I never took her up on the offer.

If you have a bad case of caregiver fatigue, look into it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:00 AM (d6BF2)

256 Baby Trump Roasts Ghost Khamenei- funny!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GeFwWCjdu28

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 14, 2026 11:00 AM (dmDsy)

257 Oh, and for Lent, I just ordered and received all of Brandt Pitre's books. Started with the case for Jesus. He is a Catholic theologian, phd in Latin Aramaic Greek and Hebrew. Always sources from Jewish tradition.

He's amazing.
Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 10:41 AM (cZ6Sn)

Agreed. His books were stepping stones on my path to Catholicism. If you haven't seen it, the recent Pints with Aquinas where he debunks tik Tok critiques of the Bible and Church is a fun watch.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 11:01 AM (lCppi)

258 {{{Ben Had}}}

Will do

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 14, 2026 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)

259 I used to walk for anxiety, exercise is really good. This led to two other things, I made it my goal to talk to three people each day who I was not buying from (I was living alone at that time) and I looked for crows.
I decided that if crows were going to be my hobby, then anything I was stressing and building up an internal spiral on would turn out OK anyways, maybe not for the best, but it would turn out.
Then after a month or so, I "figured out" that if bad things I was thinking about would turn out OK, then if I were thinking about good things, those things would turn out even better!
Crows are pretty random around here, they are not fixed in space like stop signs, so they sort of surprise you. The goal is to think about the positive things, and things you can do to make things better in your world.

There are breathing exercises you can do for stress, and good sleep is important, having a community and a goal are important, but that is hard to get to if you are in a wad of misery and anxiety. You have to focus outside of the wad of misery and anxiety, and that is the hardest part. It doesn't matter how you do it, I used spotting crows and saying I had to breathe and relax

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:03 AM (rbvCR)

260 > He finally died with covid, so I wasn't even allowed to be with him.
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Posted by: Wenda
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My mom passed in May, 2020 during the height of the covid stupidity. It was surreal driving down to NC with hardly anyone on the roads, the weird conversations with lawyers, clergy and whatnot from across the room, via phone, etc.

No service. No memorial. Nothing.

I still rage about it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2026 11:03 AM (jtM2q)

261 Man, I wish.

When I was young, I could do 2-3 hours a night for a month and be absolutely fine, coffee or no coffee.

But once I turned about 30, I started needing more and more sleep. Now, in my 40s, if I get 2 hours of sleep, no amount of coffee helps, and I feel like I contracted malaria or something for the next 2 days.

I have bad news...

Posted by: Those of us who are well over 29 at March 14, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

262 My local parish is ok....lotta older folks but there has been an uptick in new parishioners (very very small town).... the priest is Nigerian and that causes some issues for me, mostly that in his culture, they are very exuberant, claps and sings like old times prayer revival. It makes me really uncomfortable when he demands applause for the pianist, alter boys and cookie lady.
Strikes me as irreverent . .

The parish 40 miles away has a Jesuit priest who surprisingly is converting the entire parish into a more traditional Latin based mass, veils, chants, deep deep sermons. His parish is being overwhelmed with new parishioners with small children from all over the region. The older parishioners left in protest to the veiling and Latin.

It's a sight to behold. Fascinating.

Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 11:03 AM (cZ6Sn)

263 Lloyd, I figured SHU closing might have had something to do with how far left they had become.
They are left with quite a large campus with a lot of new buildings.
My friend is very discouraged by the trend in the parishes there. She isn't unhappy about the university.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 14, 2026 11:03 AM (nz1sK)

264 To qualify for Medicaid, we had to dispossess my wife of any wealth. There is good assets and bad assets. Probate was ridiculously easy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:04 AM (d6BF2)

265 Listening to Gregorian chants really helps me with anxiety.

Now every day I listen to Paul Rose sing Lauds on spotify. Started also listening to Vespers.
@singthehours is also on utube but the ads irk me

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 11:04 AM (znREB)

266 this morning awoke to news that CynicalPublius (fantastic follow btw) on X was doxxed by a teacher at the War College (Brad DuPlessis)

It's terrible and dishonorable, I'd wish that DuPlessis was canned, but maybe that's mean or something.

what a weasel tho

not great that leftist weasels teach at the War College
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 14, 2026 08:07 AM (j+aD2)

Did a search of that name (duplessis). First hit: Bluesky account. So deranged faggotry confirmed. I expect his life is about to become very miserable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 11:05 AM (8zz6B)

267 Darkly amusing thread in which Governor ~~Wienerschnitzel~~ Spanberger asks how the ODU terrorist could've been released early from his terrorism sentence.

https://is.gd/C1RICx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 11:06 AM (ndZc7)

268 If you have a bad case of caregiver fatigue, look into it.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:00 AM (d6BF2)

You were of much consequence to someone.

It is very hard to just trust others and go on vacation. A vacation would have done me a world of good.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 11:06 AM (Sco7b)

269 Time to get going on the chores. God be with you!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 14, 2026 11:07 AM (ZOv7s)

270 @266
I assume you've seen this from DataRepublican, but perhaps others haven't.

https://is.gd/swKiJa

Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

271 When someone is in a nursing home, the staff treat them well when someone visits regularly.

When no one comes to visit, the staff sometimes neglects the poor patient.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 14, 2026 11:09 AM (d6BF2)

272 The major symptom was a racing heart rate that would come on out of nowhere. Saw the doc and he prescribed propranolol. It worked wonderfully.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 10:55 AM (Y1sOo)

Wow. Thanks. I just got this from my doc and have had...anxiety hahaha....over even taking it.

That's my symptom to a tee. Thanks all, for the advice! I'm doing all the praying excercise and labor I can muster but I keep getting hit.

I'm starting to think the devil is attacking me because I'm helping some people overcome their own demons.

Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 11:10 AM (cZ6Sn)

273 They're all Civil War threads so . . .

Mayor who wanted to make Gettysburg gay arrested for grooming boy

https://is.gd/ivboOl
-
Completely disrespects the LGBTEIEIO heritage of the battle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 14, 2026 11:12 AM (ndZc7)

274 Stateless, I went to the MoMe in Texas for the first time to get away from my responsibilities here. My kids tended to their Dad in my absence. I came home rejuvenated and able to keep caring for him, it was the best thing that I ever did for myself.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 11:12 AM (0nHVk)

275 Stateless and Screaming in Digital: thanks.

My kids have been wonderful. My daughter was the one who said, Mom, this is above your pay grade. And she and my son have been there for me at every turn. Hard to believe we could be that close.

Posted by: Wenda at March 14, 2026 11:12 AM (wPfxR)

276 I think Trump poses an interesting contrast to people like David French. Trump is not a religious person by temperament, but he does respect religion and particularly religious people. He strikes me as a sinner who is who he is, and hopes to do better, and genuinely admires people who are capable of living a wholly religious life.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

if I could make a wild comparision, it's how I imagine the Right trying to make sense of Teddy Roosevelt. Albeit in a different time, he was not a hail fellow well met. He was as ugly a thing as Trump is today to the well heeled and educated that pretend to be our betters.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 11:12 AM (diia5)

277 I used to regularly wake up around 3 am with a surge of anxiety It felt like i had been injected with adrenaline directly into my gut. After trying a bunch of things (reading, exercise, tv, melatonin, just laying there, etc.,)I found that immediately praying 3 hail Mary's usually dissipated it. If it didn't, I'd start silently praying the rosary. I would almost always be asleep by the second decade.

Posted by: LASue at March 14, 2026 11:13 AM (lCppi)

278 KT HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 11:14 AM (Ia/+0)

279 But once I turned about 30, I started needing more and more sleep. Now, in my 40s, if I get 2 hours of sleep, no amount of coffee helps, and I feel like I contracted malaria or something for the next 2 days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

One of the guys my parents went to college with had this theory, I am told, that every person was born with a certain number of all-nighters to pull. The number of all-nighters varies from person to person, but when you've exhausted your allotment, you will never be able to stay up all night ever again.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2026 11:16 AM (C0Nlv)

280 ... yes, I know in many respects the comparison is ridiculous considering Trump isn't the vet, he is not the Rough Rider. But I think Teddy would recognize Trump as some sort of compatriot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 14, 2026 11:17 AM (diia5)

281 274 Stateless, I went to the MoMe in Texas for the first time to get away from my responsibilities here. My kids tended to their Dad in my absence. I came home rejuvenated and able to keep caring for him, it was the best thing that I ever did for myself.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 11:12 AM (0nHVk)

That must have been so much fun for you. I can't wait to make one of those.

You're very blessed that your kids are helpful and caring like that.

Thank you all for the therapy. I didn't realise there were so many caregivers here.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 11:20 AM (Sco7b)

282 Since it is mid Lent, what ate y'alls daily /weekly/ once a while prayers like? If you want to share.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 08:44 AM (znREB)

It finally occurred to me- like Ace, sometimes I'm dumb- that I could move all my devotional books into his study, where I can turn on the lights without waking him.
This has been a game changer for me.
I try to do Prime (I own a set of the Office), the Mass Propers for the day, and then the Lessons from Matins, which are usually sermon excerpts on the Gospel, then my batch of prayer cards.
But this varies- today we slept a little late, so I only did Prime and prayer cards.
I say Compline a few times a week.
I should point out that he is retired, our time is our own and my volunteer job is on hiatus.
So this is my ministry, as it were.

Again, thanks for the prayers for our SIL. Graduation plans for their youngest are coming along and they seem to be coping well.

Posted by: sal at March 14, 2026 11:21 AM (f+FmA)

283 One of the guys my parents went to college with had this theory, I am told, that every person was born with a certain number of all-nighters to pull. The number of all-nighters varies from person to person, but when you've exhausted your allotment, you will never be able to stay up all night ever again.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2026 11:16 AM (C0Nlv)

I have a better theory. I must have stole them all. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 11:34 AM (snZF9)

284 OddBob, still here...?

Hope he saw that.

Stateless, I'm popping in and out. Thanks for the suggestion.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2026 11:38 AM (Fs0KI)

285 On care-giving: we had a much milder and short-term situation than most here, but there were lasting effects, which was part of our decision to move out of the big city to a small town.
Our youngest daughter lived with us for four years while recovering from a bad car accident, which left her with a TBI that caused severe anxiety.
Her dad, who's a mother hen at the best of times, went on hyper-alert and did not calm down until she was able to move out and live on her own. He still considers that he has a form of ptsd.
My job was to monitor her stress- "Please turn off your phone"- and remind everyone that TBI's heal on their own time frame.
So, we had a good outcome- she's married and working and has a productive and happy life- but it was hard to get over the care-giver part.

Posted by: sal at March 14, 2026 11:40 AM (f+FmA)

286 Posted by: Oddbob at March 14, 2026 11:38 AM (Fs0KI

All the best.

You got this.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 11:40 AM (Sco7b)

287 sal, I'm glad everything worked out.

And it's so nice that she is married and happy.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 11:43 AM (Sco7b)

288 Don’t go to the Senate tomorrow.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2026 11:46 AM (rbvCR)

289 I assume you've seen this from DataRepublican, but perhaps others haven't.

https://is.gd/swKiJa
Posted by: Archimedes at March 14, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

Not on Twatter, so did not see it. Good post by Datarepublican. Looks like DuPlessis is a real shitmaggot. Many years ago, the Province of Quebec had a Premier Maurice DuPlessis, a virtual Nazi. The name is cursed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 11:59 AM (8zz6B)

290 That's my symptom to a tee. Thanks all, for the advice! I'm doing all the praying excercise and labor I can muster but I keep getting hit.

I'm starting to think the devil is attacking me because I'm helping some people overcome their own demons.
Posted by: Derak at March 14, 2026 11:10 AM (cZ6Sn)

When I was much younger, I had a few panic attacks. Visual disturbances, like slowly rotating fan blades in my peripheral vision. And a terrible sense of dread. I had never heard of panic attacks. Once I learned what they were, and that they were basically my brain playing tricks on me, they stopped. Just. Like. That.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 12:02 PM (8zz6B)

291 Pretty sure the egomaniacal blowhard never realized that my posts about vanity were directed at him.

That not's surprising, though.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 14, 2026 12:09 PM (Y1sOo)

292 As always, I pray for the Lord to lead us not into temptation, but harden the hearts of the DoJ against mercy for the fraudsters, which would be punishment for the victims (all of us) and also a failure to disincentivize. I have never made six figures, and the service provider scams (like daycare and medical transport) are auto-laundering, since the money comes from an official business already. If they go "oh well, we just don't have enough resources for more than the 7-figure scammers," then working hard will make you a dumb sucker-chump, and staying honest will be like an alcoholic walking past a tavern every day. It's easier to avoid temptation than to resist it, so I pray for every fraudster to get hard time in Federal prison, amen.

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 12:52 PM (Sy6m/)

Daily Tech News 14 March 2026

Top Story

Two more long-lost Doctor Who episodes have been rediscovered decades after they first aired. (BBC)

The two episodes are from the sprawling 12-episode story The Dalek Master Plan that aired in Britain in 1965 - and never aired anywhere else because Australian censors deemed it too violent and that made it unprofitable to resell in smaller markets.

And then the BBC, in the long tradition of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing, wiped the tapes to reuse them, deeming the tapes themselves more valuable than their contents.

Which left little hope because most of the episodes rediscovered over the years have been from the archives of channels elsewhere in the world that "accidentally" held on to copies for decades after their rights expired.

These two episodes were left to a film archiving foundation as part of a "ramshackle" private collection.

In a nice touch, one of the actors who appeared as the Doctor's companion in the story - Peter Purves, now 87 - was invited to the screening, but only told that it was for an interview. To be fair, they did interview him afterwards.
Yes, it's a quiet news day.

Tech News

The CEO of Adobe will be stepping down after 18 years of delighting investors and pissing off customers. (CNBC)

Mostly because lately he's been pissing off customers and investors in equal measure.
Italian prosecutors want to proceed to trial against Amazon on charges of tax evasion even after the company settled with the Italian revenue agency. (Reuters)

Tread carefully. Amazon does have space lasers, even if not quite so many as Twitter.
No, you can't phone a friend. (BBC)

Not when you're a witness in a case in Britain's High Court.

And not when you claim that the number called by the smart glasses you were wearing at the time was for a taxi driver.
Before quantum computing arrives, this startup wants enterprises already running on it. (Tech Crunch)

Congratulations, Tech Crunch. This level of incoherence is worthy of The Verge.
A study conducted by a studio creating a game with AI-powered NPCs claims 96% of players enjoy AI-powered NPCs. (WCCFTech)

Well, first, Mandy Rice Davies applies.

And second, NPCs are AI-powered by definition.
Nvide claims future GPUs will bring a million-fold performance increase in path-tracing. (WCCFTech)

Mostly by not performing path tracing. And the comparison is against ten year old hardware that also didn't perform path tracing.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: It may be too late for goodbye, but it's never too late for hello.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 !!

Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 04:03 AM (A4VRU)

2 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 14, 2026 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'mornin' everyone!
and a Good Day! to those in time zones far from CONUS!

19 degrees in Wisconsin, cloudy, light airs.

snowpocalypse forecast for tomorrow, yay.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 04:03 AM (MIIRH)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 14, 2026 04:03 AM (NcvvS)

5 slow news day is good news!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 04:06 AM (MIIRH)

6 Happy dog on a walk:

https://tinyurl.com/yamxuhuk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:09 AM (rZCVI)

7 Nice about the old Dr. Who, anyway ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 04:10 AM (MIIRH)

8 32 degrees and clear in Kentuckiana. Supposed to get near 60 today, 75 tomorrow, and back to 32 tomorrow night.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 14, 2026 04:10 AM (NcvvS)

9 No, you can't phone a friend.
****

Did this guy think he was testifying to the US Congress?

Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 04:12 AM (A4VRU)

10 Haven't watched Dr Who since the first time the BBC ended it, and saw very few of the Colin Baker episodes.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 14, 2026 04:14 AM (NcvvS)

11 I could look this up, but I'm sure someone here will know: "What are smart glasses?"

https://tinyurl.com/yamxuhuk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:16 AM (rZCVI)

12 Didn't mean to put in the link from above. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:17 AM (rZCVI)

13 The introduction of the Macbook Neo has caused a bit of a ruckus in the PC universe. But it was at Mac World 2008 when Steve Jobs kicked off a revolution when he introduced the MacBook Air, argueably the first truly modern laptop.

https://youtu.be/EJqP8P0dh2o

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 14, 2026 04:18 AM (BnDlA)

14 w00t

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 04:18 AM (+YA9H)

15 This wasn't me yesterday:

6 anti-woot!
Posted by: w at March 13, 2026 04:08 AM (NKG8q)

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 04:20 AM (+YA9H)

16 10 Haven't watched Dr Who since the first time the BBC ended it, and saw very few of the Colin Baker episodes.
Posted by: Nazdar

Some of New Who is actually very good, but the BBC killed it again - first with terrible scripts starting in 2018 with Jodie Whittaker's tenure, and then more recently by not having anyone prepared to take the role thanks to years of terrible scripts.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 14, 2026 04:21 AM (BLOW1)

17 Thank the gods there wasn't any yoko harmed in the making of this video.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 04:25 AM (M9gjJ)

18 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 04:25 AM (Ia/+0)

19 4:20

Ahhh. I'm doing dishes and mt friend and neighbours' beautiful cat Snowflake is outside on the window ledge looking in. I've taken their cats in before.

I'm not a cat person but they're exceptions. Everyone have a great day.

Posted by: Stateless at March 14, 2026 04:28 AM (Sco7b)

20 Man writes Christian devotional on God's timing and 2nd Peter 3:8-13. "Our Daily Bread" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/3avszrw4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:30 AM (PFs9e)

21 Adobe was the first company to introduce the subscription based software model, better known as the you will own nothing and like it model.

They and Microsoft are quickly becoming companies that people are trying to figure out how to replace, and when a company engenders that feeling in people, that’s gotta be earned.

Great job guys.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 04:35 AM (XV/Pl)

22 Father and son finally redeem decades old promise of free oysters:

https://tinyurl.com/3ftx7a4y

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:35 AM (PFs9e)

23 21 Adobe was the first company to introduce the subscription based software model, better known as the you will own nothing and like it model.

Yep. This CEO is the one who brought that in at Adobe.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 14, 2026 04:36 AM (BLOW1)

24 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 04:38 AM (Iz+f5)

25 >>Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 14, 2026 04:21 AM (BLOW1)

My enjoyment of Dr Who dwindled during the Peter Davison years because, to me, he was simply unlikable. And viewing got hit-and-miss as a result. Might say I fell out of the habit of watching and it never came back.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 14, 2026 04:38 AM (NcvvS)

26 "What are smart glasses?"
****

Thanks to miniaturization of cameras and microphones, 'smart' glasses have the capability to record and transmit sound and images to earpieces and image projectors in what look like typical eyeglasses. They may also receive and transmit sound and video through the use of wifi.

Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 04:41 AM (A4VRU)

27 yup, that's why Mrs Eez is still running the adobe CS2 we purchased o so very long ago,on our only remaining windows box, which is dedicated to that purpose.
(oem win 10 with no network connection, so no updates)
(just sneakernet)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 04:43 AM (MIIRH)

28 Adobe was the first company to introduce the subscription based software model, better known as the you will own nothing and like it model.

They and Microsoft are quickly becoming companies that people are trying to figure out how to replace, and when a company engenders that feeling in people, that’s gotta be earned.

Great job guys.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

It should be noted that Microsoft, unlike Adobe, still sells perpetual license versions of Office.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 14, 2026 04:45 AM (BnDlA)

29 Anyone have recommendations for webcams that I could use to stream an image of my desktop or drafting board?

I'm thinking it needs to have a reasonably high frame rate and good focal capabilities to see the pencil lines on the paper.

I just have no idea where to start looking for a more trustworthy and accurate description than Amazon provides

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2026 04:45 AM (C0Nlv)

30 Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes

He sounds like his dad. Maybe?

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 04:48 AM (+YA9H)

31
Every so often my Windows laptop perks up and suggests that now would be a good time to finish installing the O/S. "No, it's not," I say as I send it back to think over its impertinence.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 04:49 AM (xG4kz)

32 I may pick up a Macbook of some sort. I'm waffling between Neo and Sky.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 04:51 AM (Iz+f5)

33
Today is the memorial service for my MiL's friend, Louise, who passed this week at age 97. That old gang of my MiL is pretty well thinned out at this point, sadly.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 04:52 AM (xG4kz)

34 Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 04:41

Thanks. So someone could use them in testifying in court or before a judge to receive some "coaching" from an outside source, and it didn't occur to the individual that this would not be allowed?!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:53 AM (rZCVI)

35
He sounds like his dad. Maybe?

Posted by: m

Well, he was the Jude, of "Hey Jude".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 04:54 AM (xG4kz)

36 30 Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes

He sounds like his dad. Maybe?
Posted by: m

Yep. He sounds a lot like his dad.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 14, 2026 04:54 AM (BLOW1)

37 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 04:52 AM (xG4kz)

May it be a blessing to all who attend. Yesterday was our former organist's memorial service. She was 98.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 04:55 AM (rZCVI)

38 Good for you K vs C!
Sharp blows to the mazard are often required to keep unruly microsponge products operating.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 04:56 AM (MIIRH)

39 A weary soul sighs
Dreaming of the springs delights
The moon's white glow shines

fin

Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 04:56 AM (A4VRU)

40 The FAA temporarily stopped traffic at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) and Richmond International Airport (RIC) because of a strong chemical smell at the Potomac TRACON that is impacting some air traffic controllers. Ground stop occurred from about 1630 to 1930 (Friday) and was traced to a burned circuit board.
Kind of worrisome that a minor incident could cause such an impact.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at March 14, 2026 04:59 AM (YoT4f)

41
Here is an interesting video that reviews the creative process for the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" (from the Abbey Road album) --

https://youtu.be/WPKHKkylciI?si=28cylaBotQVpvb81

Well worth the watch, in my humble opinion.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 04:59 AM (xG4kz)

42 huh, burned circuit board is a unique and distinctive odor ... surprised that no one recognized it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 05:02 AM (MIIRH)

43 Well worth the watch, in my humble opinion.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026

It really is an excellent video.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 14, 2026 05:03 AM (BnDlA)

44 I might just go back to bed and try to catch one or two more Zs ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 05:03 AM (MIIRH)

45 - 2Peter 3:8-13

Ah yes, one of the passages used to "prove" an unbiblical view of Christ's second coming and the rapture.
But, a thief in the night to who?

1Thess 5:1-4 clears that up. Who are "they?" Those not in Christ, of course. The brethren are not in darkness. Why not?
Because Paul had taught them things that will occur before that day. Which of course they forgot.

What signs? See 2Thess 2:1-5. I sense a bit of frustration in verse 5.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 14, 2026 05:05 AM (Gk2Bn)

46 @41

>> Well worth the watch, in my humble opinion.

One of the best scenes in the Get Back doc, was watching Paul literally summoning the song Get Back from the ether.

Or pretty much any scene when some Beatles are kibitzing and in the background you can here one of the other Beatles noodling on something that would eventually become a masterpiece.

One of my other favorites is when George is trying to figure out the words to Something and one of the original lines is, her love attracts me like a pomeegranit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 05:07 AM (XV/Pl)

47 Every so often you bump into a musician who is meant to perform a composer's work. Douglas Mitchell was meant to do Paul McCartney songs. These are some of the best covers I've ever heard. If you found this enjoyable, he has more Paul McCartney videos plus other covers on this channel.

Douglas Mitchell
Mother's Nature Son
https://youtu.be/xK6tdqhYMso

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 14, 2026 05:11 AM (BnDlA)

48 nood!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Every nood day is a good day

G'day

Posted by: The Wisdom of Miklos at March 14, 2026 05:12 AM (Al4HM)

49
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 14, 2026 05:16 AM (tljrc)

50 As you age you will get fewer people at your funeral.

Posted by: Colin at March 14, 2026 05:16 AM (e8qy3)

51 - Not just one but two who appreciate The Beatles?
I make it a trifecta.

Only recent music I knew before them was older sis' Bobby Vinton "blue" album.
And then, I'm a couple months shy of 9yoa and she's running around the house screaming The Beatles are going to be on Ed Sullivan.
Me - What's a Beatle?

Posted by: TeeJ at March 14, 2026 05:21 AM (Gk2Bn)

52 "As you age you will get fewer people at your funeral."

If you're the last one standing, there won't be any at all when you finally check out of the net.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 14, 2026 05:22 AM (AjG6+)

53 Words you will never hear: I think my neovim config is complete.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2026 05:28 AM (XV/Pl)

54 Disclaimer: It may be too late for goodbye, but it's never too late for hello.

Hello!

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 05:30 AM (+YA9H)

55 One of my favorite Beatles recordings is their cover of Chuck Berry's Rock and Roll music. On October 18th, 1964 in a session that lasted over 9 hours and included the recording of Eight Days a Week. They recorded Rock and Roll music sometime around 11:00 p.m. Legend has it that McCartney was on piano, Harrison was on the Hofner bass, and Lennon supplied the Rickenbacker 325 guitar and scorching vocal. The track was done live in one take and is a prime example of how great a band they were live.

https://youtu.be/IRF6nmqcbxo

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 14, 2026 05:34 AM (BnDlA)

56 heh

Bonchie retweeted
Jarvis
@jarvis_best
11h
The entire economy is just podcasters getting mad at other podcasters.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 05:36 AM (+YA9H)

57
By the time our Mom passed, coming up on four years ago in May, any thought of interring her cremated ashes is a custom built and weighted cedar box, taking it out on a boat on Lake Superior and dropping it overboard at the location where we had done the same for Dad twenty-five years earlier was out of the question, as whoever had assisted us in the on water part was no longer in the area.

So we four kids and our spouses placed her ashes in the midst of the natural area that constituted her view from her kitchen window and her back patio.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 05:37 AM (xG4kz)

58 I was up for a hour in the middle of the night, just got that hour back.
I nedz coveffe

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 05:39 AM (Ia/+0)

59 57 her view from her kitchen window and her back patio
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 05:37 AM (xG4kz)

Nice.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 05:41 AM (+YA9H)

60
The entire economy is just podcasters getting mad at other podcasters.

Posted by: m

At least that much is tangible these days, unlike the stuff and puffery of the AI bubble.

As was mentioned yesterday, whatever became of the "eat ze bugs!" flim-flam?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 05:42 AM (xG4kz)

61 wow

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
9h
Ummm

J.D. Miles
@jdmiles11
10h
#Breaking US Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's security officer has been shot and killed by Dallas Police SWAT officers while under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 05:46 AM (+YA9H)

62
This summer will be noted as "birfin' summer", as two nieces in my family are due to deliver their first chirruns then.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 05:47 AM (xG4kz)

63 Clean comedian Tim Hawkins" What if various performers sand the National anthem?:

https://tinyurl.com/4mycy574

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 05:48 AM (rZCVI)

64 "Sang" not sand

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 05:49 AM (rZCVI)

65 >>As you age you will get fewer people at your funeral.

'Senescence begins and middle-age ends
The day your descendants outnumber your friends.'

Ogden Nash, maybe.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 14, 2026 05:49 AM (NcvvS)

66
#Breaking US Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's security officer has been shot and killed by Dallas Police SWAT officers while under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer.

Posted by: m

Doing "sumpthin' stoopid"? Or will we hear endless screeching about "raaaaaacist cops"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 05:50 AM (xG4kz)

67 The som our former organist told me to make 40 bullfinch for her memorial service . There must have been 60 people there For the funeral for our Korean War vet and patriarch who lived his whole life in the town there was not an empty seat in the church. I think this was a credit to the type of people they were.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 05:53 AM (rZCVI)

68 "bullfinch" WTH? Supposed to be "bulletins" I hate autocorrect .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 05:55 AM (rZCVI)

69 "King" was not the guy's real name and the shooting occurred earlier this week... via CBS --

Images obtained by CBS News Texas show King standing close to Crockett at events and on the campaign trail during her recent run for a U.S. Senate seat. Sources say he oversaw teams of security officers at several downtown Dallas hotels and at his church.

Law enforcement sources also say King drove a replica undercover police vehicle and used license plates stolen from cars outside a military recruiting office. His background – which sources say includes a criminal history – raises questions about how he managed extra‑duty jobs for police officers and secured a high‑level security role for a sitting member of Congress.

Documents obtained by CBS News Texas show a person named Mike King received payments for "security services" from Crockett as recently as last year.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 05:56 AM (xG4kz)

70 oooh

Magills
@magills_
13h
If Muslims hate dogs so much someone please explain Mamdani’s marriage

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 05:56 AM (+YA9H)

71 Is there any way to delete holidays of other religions or death cults?

Posted by: Accomac at March 14, 2026 05:58 AM (8jVAy)

72 From iPad

Posted by: Accomac at March 14, 2026 05:58 AM (8jVAy)

73 I don't think that Mayor Mandami's wife is unattractive physically. I just think she's terribly unattractive with her outrageous anti semetic comments about 10/7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 06:01 AM (rZCVI)

74
I'm out for now. The siren stories of who worked what hardscrabble patch of ground in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle in Norway centuries ago are calling out to me.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 06:05 AM (xG4kz)

75 ODU shooter is alleged to have bought a stolen. The seller has been charged by Blondie.

Posted by: Accomac at March 14, 2026 06:06 AM (T8bqm)

76 ODU shooter is alleged to have bought a stolen. The seller has been charged by Blondie.
Posted by: Accomac

What? The Feds actually enforcing federal gun laws on criminals?

It's an age of miracles!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 14, 2026 06:08 AM (C0Nlv)

77 Bought a stolen gun.
I am surprised UPS vans aren’t knocked over after leaving known gun maker or dealer stops.
I did not know that guns.comm is a storefront and now I have to wait for radical to process my order.

Posted by: Accomac at March 14, 2026 06:11 AM (T8bqm)

78 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Goodbye hello hello goodbye .

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 14, 2026 06:11 AM (KAqW5)

79 #Breaking US Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's security officer has been shot and killed by Dallas Police SWAT officers while under investigation for impersonating a law enforcement officer.
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They investigate pretty hard in Dallas.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 14, 2026 06:12 AM (KAqW5)

80 I saw the crawl headline and was w the f. Google filled me in.
They know who has a legal gun in urban areas. I do wonder how many illegal gun possessors use cash to feed the gun.
I bet DOGE could figure it out.
I would also bet ATF already has.

Posted by: Accomac at March 14, 2026 06:15 AM (T8bqm)

81 Bonchie retweeted
Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
9h
Will someone explain to me how the left thinks guns are bad and want to ban them yet the same people can’t be bothered to prosecute the most obvious and tragic gun crimes??

Ooh! *raises hand* I know! I know!
It's the GUNS that are bad.
Not the people.
--the left

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:16 AM (+YA9H)

82 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 14, 2026 06:17 AM (bQ4nt)

83 I consulted with AI about the superstition of Friday the 13th and it recommended I shove a couple of garlic cloves up my bum.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 06:21 AM (M9gjJ)

84 Pinned Tweet
AG
@AGHamilton29
Mar 12
A lot of evil in this world, but there is also plenty of heroic people willing to stand up to it.

Today’s attack in Michigan was stopped by security guards who shot the assailant.

And the attack at Old Dominion was stopped by a heroic ROTC student who stabbed the terrorist.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:24 AM (+YA9H)

85 Interesting discussion. Topics like public health policy and scientific transparency are important for people to understand better. Open debate and access to reliable information help readers form more balanced opinions.

I also enjoy reading and sharing useful information online: Tezvi Cosmetics

Posted by: Rahula at March 14, 2026 06:26 AM (iRJO5)

86 Posted by: Rahula at March 14, 2026 06:26 AM (iRJO5)
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No lace wigs?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 14, 2026 06:29 AM (KAqW5)

87 Whiteness creates social conditions that require POC’s to engage in whiteness in order to survive or be seen by whiteness.
All POC actions, then, are in response to whiteness and are not the result of authentic POC decision making. Therefore, great deference should be given to how POC manifest their interactions with whiteness.
Simple, really

Posted by: Accomac at March 14, 2026 06:32 AM (T8bqm)

88 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 14, 2026 06:34 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

* gestures vaguely *

Somewhere in that snowdrift.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 06:36 AM (VHUov)

90 70 oooh

Magills
@magills_
13h
If Muslims hate dogs so much someone please explain Mamdani’s marriage
Posted by: m

They hate dogs but they can appreciate a good beard.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 14, 2026 06:40 AM (BLOW1)

91 Ooh, Pixy! Score.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:41 AM (+YA9H)

92 Evening and morning, AoSHQ satellites! Sattiday again, innit?

Had a peculiar dream just now. I was waiting for a redhaired woman in a park. When she arrived, she told me she was too tired to go on our trip. So I set off across a park area, a college courtyard, and on into a train station/mall. Apparently I was in Finland -- all the signs looked to my eye like Finnish -- and was on my way by rail to cross at least one border and river, and end up in a town called "Jensen," which sounds Swedish or Norwegian. Oddly, while I had no backpack or rain gear, I was aware the whole time that I had made this trip *before* with such gear, and was going by memory. I found a big map of the area, though for some reason it had "Bourbon St" printed in red on it.

I was going to Jensen to visit a bank, either to deliver 40,000 euros or to collect them from an account there. What's it mean, Doctor?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

93 I consulted with AI about the superstition of Friday the 13th and it recommended I shove a couple of garlic cloves up my bum.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026

***
Been doing that for years!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at March 14, 2026 06:43 AM (wzUl9)

94 If you have crow's feet, a turkey neck and chicken legs, you just may be a bird from across the pond.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 06:44 AM (M9gjJ)

95 93 I consulted with AI about the superstition of Friday the 13th and it recommended I shove a couple of garlic cloves up my bum.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026

***
Been doing that for years!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at March 14, 2026 06:43 AM (wzUl9)

Ha ha, Wolfus!

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:44 AM (+YA9H)

96 Good morning morons

That Julian Lennon tune was snappy, too bad he couldn't sustain anything.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 06:45 AM (RIvkX)

97 92: it means you're moving to Finland. Hey, you wanted cooler weather!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 14, 2026 06:47 AM (sAmhv)

Posted by:
at March 14, 2026 06:48 AM (iKuGE)

99 92: it means you're moving to Finland. Hey, you wanted cooler weather!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 14, 2026

***
It'd be nice if I could read the street signs in my new home, though. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 06:50 AM (wzUl9)

100 100

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:50 AM (+YA9H)

101

98 = Marcel Marceau?

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:51 AM (+YA9H)

102
I was going to Jensen to visit a bank, either to deliver 40,000 euros or to collect them from an account there. What's it mean, Doctor?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

You will be solicited to take a key role in a wonderful financial opportunity by a prince from Nigeria or Niagara Falls, Ontario any day now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 14, 2026 06:54 AM (xG4kz)

103 Jarvis retweeted
Robynnnnnn
@robynngarfield
Mar 13
In the middle of making dinner I check X and see that Pete Hegseth's dad reshared something I wrote earlier today for @TheBabylonBee. I lead a very strange, wonderful life.

which was:

The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Mar 12
Morbidly Obese Pete Hegseth Denies Any Knowledge Of What Happened To Leftover Lobster For The Troops

[photo of a morbidly obese Pete wearing a lobster bib while speaking from a podium]

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:57 AM (+YA9H)

104 Anyway, melatonin-fueled dreams aside . . . the furry thugs are doing well, having both been fed. I'm trying the new-to-me-and-them Feline Pine litter that Joyenz recommended on the Pet Thread last week. So far they are not objecting to it. I had pictured little pine flakes, but these are like tiny logs. Currently the new stuff is mixed with their usual clay-type litter, so as not to give them a sudden shock.

When I clean the box again, I'll use this new stuff entirely and see what happens.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 06:58 AM (wzUl9)

105 Any time a judge says that the Trump administration lacks the power to do something that would be perfectly acceptable if the president were a Democrat, based on the Trump administration’s alleged motivations, that judge is wrong and is acting as a partisan hack. I think the general public would be astonished at how often that happens. - John Hinderaker
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So much for an impartial apolitical judiciary.

The judges must be swept away because they are partisan political operatives corrupting rather than preserving the Constitutional order. They are traitors to the United States.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 07:02 AM (RIvkX)

106 Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 06:57 AM (+YA9H)

That was funny; Thanks. I may have to subscribe to the Babylon Bee so that if I have any ides for stories I can submit them

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 07:05 AM (looXz)

107 “ Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”

1 Peter 1:22-33

Posted by: Marcus T at March 14, 2026 07:06 AM (04KGT)

108 You guys are on fire today:
Dogs and Mamdani's marriage
Garlic and Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 14, 2026 07:08 AM (wWENI)

109 Yep. This CEO is the one who brought that in at Adobe.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 14, 2026 04:36 AM (BLOW1)

He also brought in the "disable software you already own" model.

I had Photoshop CS4, which I'd bought and paid for from Adorama. After having it for quite a few years, Adobe disabled the servers that validated the software and it quit working. I complained and Adobe provided a standalone version.

After a few years, I suddenly started getting notices along the lines of it was pirated software or I'd have to start paying a subscription for it. Turns out Adobe had installed a program on my computer without my permission that was doing this and I found it and disabled it.

Adobe's CEO is a flat-out thief.

Posted by: Zombie Ricardo Montalban at March 14, 2026 07:12 AM (/HDaX)

110 /sock off

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 14, 2026 07:12 AM (/HDaX)

111 So much for an impartial apolitical judiciary.

The judges must be swept away because they are partisan political operatives corrupting rather than preserving the Constitutional order. They are traitors to the United States.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 07:02
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The way the Constitution was written, judges were meant to be the weakest of the three branches. Not legislators, not executives. Just neutral parties applying the law.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 14, 2026 07:14 AM (wWENI)

112 mornin yall. My Dad's procedure at Emory yesterday was a success. They used focused ultrasound on his brain to stop the Parkinson's tremors in his left hand. The tremors were so bad he could hardly hold anything and now they are gone.

It took a year of tests and prep to get to this point but it's worth it. It does not cure Parkinson's, but will make his remaining time hopefully more pleasant.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

113 Morning all,

Doing a final launch reminder.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-48
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 14, 2026
Launch Time: 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 UTC, 13:37 CET)

https://youtu.be/d_g_YYUhtLU

Posted by: Joyenz at March 14, 2026 07:19 AM (2F0/Y)

114 *They investigate pretty hard in Dallas.*

Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: In the words of Dennis Miller at March 14, 2026 07:21 AM (2Ez/1)

115 Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

I am glad to hear that. Thanks for letting us know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 14, 2026 07:22 AM (8Xy/A)

116 112 mornin yall. My Dad's procedure at Emory yesterday was a success. They used focused ultrasound on his brain to stop the Parkinson's tremors in his left hand. The tremors were so bad he could hardly hold anything and now they are gone.

It took a year of tests and prep to get to this point but it's worth it. It does not cure Parkinson's, but will make his remaining time hopefully more pleasant.
Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

; )

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 07:22 AM (+YA9H)

117 My Dad's procedure at Emory yesterday was a success.
=====
b"h for good health!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

118 You guys are on fire today:
Dogs and Mamdani's marriage
Garlic and Pete Buttigieg
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 14, 2026

***
Finland and Feline Pine!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 07:24 AM (wzUl9)

119 Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 07:22 AM (+YA9H)

So wonderful to hear :-)

Posted by: Joyenz at March 14, 2026 07:25 AM (2F0/Y)

120 fd that to.me is amazing that is even possible

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 07:25 AM (Ia/+0)

121 Who played Doctor Who in 1965? The only one I remember, when the show first came to America in the mid-'80s, was Tom Baker.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)

122 We are not the only country now ruled by judges

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 07:29 AM (Ia/+0)

123 "to.me is amazing that is even possible
Posted by: Skip "

It really is amazing. They knew the specific spot to zap, and the result was immediate.

They do it while the patient is in an MRI machine, and it takes a couple of hours. Right now they are only doing 6 procedures a month, but as the process is perfected that will increase, as will the number of hospitals that offer it.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

124 Finally getting around toi making sausages and pancakes, spider solitaire is evil, and didn't finishing it yet

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 07:43 AM (Ia/+0)

125 A sci-fi dream of mine is something akin to the 'Future Reader' of Paycheck. Except turned the other way, into the past, as a means of archival.

Lost Dr. Who episodes from the earliest days? Wayback to when it was filmed, or broadcast, and capture the video and audio of the time. Lost software? Capture the code from the screen as the programmers were developing it. The Library of Alexandria? Archivists tracking each and every scroll before it was lost to history.

More power if it could actually scan something and duplicate it, nano-tech or replicator-like.

Posted by: Another Anon at March 14, 2026 07:46 AM (4h45B)

126 "A humanoid robot has been detained by cops for terrorizing an elderly woman on a Chinese street.

The surreal incident occurred last week in the city of Macau, with the startled 70-year-old ending up in the hospital following her encounter with the 4-foot 4-inch bot."

I might need to build a mini EMP projector to handle these robotic street walkers.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 07:48 AM (vFG9F)

127 Radio & TV broadcast signals are bouncing around the aether somewhere. Once in a while they’ll boomerang back to Earth years after the fact. So stay tuned!

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 07:49 AM (Iu0zc)

128 127 Radio & TV broadcast signals are bouncing around the aether somewhere. Once in a while they’ll boomerang back to Earth years after the fact. So stay tuned!
Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 07:49 AM (Iu0zc)

Never give up! Never surrender!

Posted by: Jason Nesmith at March 14, 2026 07:52 AM (eOFY+)

129 Breakfast today is a bacon and cheddar Bubba Burger. No bun. A little mayo, ketchup and mustard. Grilled a batch of them a few days ago and put in the fridge. Sixty seconds in the nukelator and it's ready. Some cantaloupe and blackberries on the side. Coffee.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 14, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

130 126 A humanoid robot has been detained by cops for terrorizing an elderly woman on a Chinese street.
Posted by: fd

Damn clankers. I'm sure his programmers will tell us he was a good boy who didn't do nothin.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 14, 2026 07:54 AM (7xrfc)

131 "State senators on Friday grilled former special prosecutor Nathan Wade who led the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump about communications his team had with federal investigators. But their efforts were largely frustrated by his repeated assertions that he couldn't remember details"

Poor guy. The trauma of sex with Fani must have caused those memories to be suppressed.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

132 Time I got cleaned up and shaved. Haircut time today, then the library, and a visit to Whole Paycheck for some pasta Miss Linda has a coupon for. I may buy one of their six-packs of sparkling mineral water, too. Aldi has the same stuff, but in small bottles that don't last long.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 14, 2026 07:55 AM (wzUl9)

133 "...But their efforts were largely frustrated by his repeated assertions that he couldn't remember details"

The Hillary Defense.

Posted by: davidt at March 14, 2026 07:57 AM (Q+gd/)

134 Tousi reports daytime strikes in Tehran during a large public rally a large IRGC installation was blown up, and has video.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

135 "I might need to build a mini EMP projector to handle these robotic street walkers.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 07:48 AM (vFG9F) "

at tabletop range the magnetron out of a microwave oven fitted with a feedhorn might work ...
lithium ion battery and HV power supply would make it portable; thinking the general form-factor of an old Stanley lunchbucket.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 08:00 AM (MIIRH)

136 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at March 14, 2026 08:02 AM (2Ez/1)

137 Thousands of fascists marching in the street and then the building blows up.

The Form of Your Destructor: a goombah from Queens.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 14, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

138 Nood

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

139 "at tabletop range the magnetron out of a microwave oven fitted with a feedhorn might work ...
lithium ion battery and HV power supply would make it portable; thinking the general form-factor of an old Stanley lunchbucket.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez "

My thoughts exactly.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2026 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

140 Thanks, Pixy! Happy weekend.

Posted by: m at March 14, 2026 08:17 AM (+YA9H)

141 *fistbump!*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 08:22 AM (MIIRH)

142 @121/Wolfus: "Who played Doctor Who in 1965? The only one I remember, when the show first came to America in the mid-'80s, was Tom Baker."

Tom was the 4th doctor.

In order up to that point:

William Hartnell (1963–1966)
Patrick Troughton (1966–1969)
Jon Pertwee (1970–1974)
Tom Baker (1974–1981)

And at that point it was on to Peter Davison and like Nazdar in comment # 25, I started tuning out at that point. Davison chose a piece of celery as part of his character's outfit. Wilted celery is kind of how I interpreted his whole take on "The Doctor".

Didn't watch anything after that until the show was revived from the dead with Christopher Eccleston as the 9th doctor. Lasted about two more doctors and then got seriously annoyed at the regeneration giving the Doctor god-like powers instead of making him weak and vulnerable (including memory loss) for a significant period of time until he was back to normal. The weakness effect was canon up till the new series.

Then the series veered off into seriously woke-land and I gave up on it again.

It's dead now. Good.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 14, 2026 09:35 AM (O7YUW)

143 Doctor Who fans hadn't been happy for years since the last episode in 2017. Nice to have some good news from the First Doctor era, the true First Doctor, the only First Doctor, there will never be another First Doctor.

Posted by: hadsil at March 14, 2026 11:07 AM (Xht4H)

144 1971 I was stationed in British occupied West Germany at a U.S. security site. Every afternoon BBC Radio Europe broadcast a delightful children’s program called BIG WOODS. It was a big hit with us Americans. One man did all the voices of the animals who resided in BIG WOODS. I have hours of BIG WOODS that I taped and have had digitized. My internet search has failed to find any trace of BIG WOODS. Likely, the Brits let BIG WOODS go the way of their culture and their backbone: lost and forgotten.

Posted by: twolaneflash at March 14, 2026 11:16 AM (5asE/)

145 >>The only one I remember, when the show first came to America in the mid-'80s, was Tom Baker.

Way late and probably won't be noticed, but it started showing up on public television in the mid-70s.

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Look At Me I'm ONT

Hello good folks! Welcome to Friday's ONT!

Fido Friday: Fooled ya!

pic.twitter.com/HDVNu1fCE5
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 13, 2026

Carrot

Sorry, Maverick

Grab a few beers

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 13, 2026

I need a copy of this

Socialism

Whoopin' his ass

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 13, 2026

Anybody got to go?

The French are helping!

Ski-W-I

pic.twitter.com/zNqRnhshRt
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 13, 2026

Well, that's useless

I'm ashamed I laughed

The female mind can't comprehend this

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 14, 2026

Cauliflower

Feel good story of the day

This gves me an idea...

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 14, 2026

How to prune trees

Iran is kicking our ass

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— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) March 14, 2026

Prom season is coming

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by dinner:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 PERVY CARROT!!!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 13, 2026 09:51 PM (tcsrY)

2 If only it were Friday so WeirdDave could entertain us with his witty meme selections!

Posted by: mindful webworker - well, then at March 13, 2026 09:52 PM (O84gh)

3
vmom,

You nailed first!

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 09:57 PM (3ek7K)

4 the ol' carrot and the stick routine

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 13, 2026 09:59 PM (BLc2P)

5 Sorry I'm late, Mrs. Vorhees needed to borrow the whetstone.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 13, 2026 10:00 PM (qhRTK)

6 Pizza Crunch-- you want to try it but you know you'll be sick

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 10:00 PM (yeRBj)

7 Teacher has a hangover!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 10:02 PM (kpS4V)

8 the ass whoopin brought me to tears... of joy

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 13, 2026 10:02 PM (BLc2P)

9 The French need to send Macron's wife to Iran. She's hell on wheels.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 10:03 PM (JkO4W)

10 no

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 13, 2026 10:03 PM (jrgJz)

11 wtf, does the pizza crunch come pre-eaten?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 13, 2026 10:03 PM (BLc2P)

12 The Scots are absolute demons about deep-fried carny foods. Hell yeah I'd try that pizza.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 10:04 PM (kpS4V)

13 I read and viewed video. Where did I wind up?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:04 PM (X5qGl)

14 Peanut butter crunch > pizza crunch < Ka-boom crunch < tech crunch

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:05 PM (2GVsD)

15
You wound up 13th on Friday the 13th.

Scary.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

16 Prom season is coming

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That pic has something profound to say, but I have no idea what it is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 10:06 PM (JkO4W)

17 I saw the cartoon with the pink haired girl in another forum I visit.

And it really is one of the core problems with leftism.

I remember during the Obamacare debate pointing out to leftists that if they thought healthcare was a right there was nothing stopping them from pooling their money with any group of people they wished and sharing costs equally.

And the answer was ALWAYS, but then YOU wouldn't have to pay for it

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 10:07 PM (sKqQm)

18 The justly deserved beating: if this is real (big if), the two meting out justice would be put on trial and convicted. But you wish it weren’t so!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:07 PM (X5qGl)

19 There was an underground comic character named The Flaming Carrot.

No word if he ever met his fate getting shredded and sprinkled in some Chernobyl Chili.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:07 PM (2GVsD)

20 You wound up 13th on Friday the 13th.

Scary.
Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

The last normal day we had was Friday the 13th, March 2020.
The next Friday the 13th in March was today
Here is hoping things correct themselves.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2026 10:08 PM (rbvCR)

21 Chicken Fried Pizza

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 10:08 PM (/lPRQ)

22 Prom season: she’s flaunting it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:08 PM (X5qGl)

23 Tonight's lesson: don't f*ck with bulls and don't f*ck with Sikhs.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 13, 2026 10:09 PM (Fs0KI)

24 Good evening Horde. Thanks WD!

Posted by: TRex - deep fried dino at March 13, 2026 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

25 Eris,

Teacher? The never filmed sequel named Alien Prom and that was a costume test shot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:09 PM (2GVsD)

26 I started listening to the advice with "Have a bunch of beers" and haven't progressed much past that point.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 13, 2026 10:09 PM (CHHv1)

27 Wait, it's ONT already? What am still doing awake?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 10:10 PM (h7ZuX)

28 I worked for a water hauling company for a few years. One of our drivers hit a bull that had gotten out onto the highway. The truck caught on fire and burned completely, but, luckily, he escaped. The bull ran away. The next day, the brand inspector went out and found the bull outside the pasture. He got out to take a look at the damage on the bull and his brand, but the bull came after him, knocked him down, rolled him up and started back for more. The guy pulled his sidearm and shot the bull several times before the bull ran away. The brand inspector had a broken arm. I'm not sure what happened to the bull.

Posted by: huerfano at March 13, 2026 10:10 PM (98kQX)

29 The justly deserved beating: if this is real (big if), the two meting out justice would be put on trial and convicted. But you wish it weren’t so!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Axe handle is better.

Even more better with double bit axe head still in it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 10:10 PM (/lPRQ)

30 Feel good story:

It's allergy season, darnit! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Posted by: RandomDave at March 13, 2026 10:11 PM (aJQbY)

31 12 The Scots are absolute demons about deep-fried carny foods. Hell yeah I'd try that pizza.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 10:04 PM (kpS4V)

I would try that, too. Bet it pairs well with Chianti.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 10:11 PM (h7ZuX)

32 "Look at me I'm ONT
Bap bap ba ba bap, ba bap-pap-bap."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 13, 2026 10:11 PM (CHHv1)

33 Good stuff. Some classics I haven't seen in years. Prom night. Whooping his ass. Useless tool. Good fight. Shows that the best memes never grow old, they just ripen with age. Feel good story felt good.

Tip o' the ol' mindful topper to the mighty WeirdDave.

https://bit.ly/mindful-avatar

Posted by: mindful webworker - or is that mindless? at March 13, 2026 10:12 PM (O84gh)

34 My 3rd cousin twice removed, from my mother's uncle's side of the family. It's a family trait.

tiny.cc/4ub0101

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 10:12 PM (7Cdr7)

35 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 13, 2026 10:12 PM (Iz+f5)

36 Sorry, was watching Scarpetta and forgot to nood

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 13, 2026 10:12 PM (eZ5tL)

37 Red car, blue shirt: they settled it like men.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:12 PM (X5qGl)

38 USA 5
Canada 3
Top of the 7th

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 10:13 PM (A5RD0)

39 There was an underground comic character named The Flaming Carrot.

“There’s more hoods here than we thought.”

“Then shoot more bullets.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 13, 2026 10:14 PM (W/QOq)

40 I see Yang Poon made that phillips screw driver.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:14 PM (snZF9)

41 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)

Evidence:
https://tinyurl.com/3bbn6bnf
Posted by: beckster

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

Jeez, they don't even bother changing out of those Halloween costumes.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

====

At least the Arabs get normal once in the air.
/ so I hear.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 10:14 PM (/lPRQ)

42 Today's lesson: if you're going to play a Ms. Rachel video for your grandkid, use an incognito window or your Youtube feed will be filled with them.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 13, 2026 10:15 PM (Fs0KI)

43 the ass whoopin brought me to tears... of joy
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 13, 2026 10:02 PM (BLc2P)

Brother got two Sikhs on his hide...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 10:15 PM (8zz6B)

44 My lucky day. But, not everybody's.

https://bit.ly/pogo-fri-03-13

Posted by: mindful webworker - horra-blatz! at March 13, 2026 10:16 PM (O84gh)

45 28 I worked for a water hauling company for a few years. One of our drivers hit a bull that had gotten out onto the highway. The truck caught on fire and burned completely, but, luckily, he escaped. The bull ran away. The next day, the brand inspector went out and found the bull outside the pasture. He got out to take a look at the damage on the bull and his brand, but the bull came after him, knocked him down, rolled him up and started back for more. The guy pulled his sidearm and shot the bull several times before the bull ran away. The brand inspector had a broken arm. I'm not sure what happened to the bull.
Posted by: huerfano at March 13, 2026 10:10 PM (98kQX)

This sounds like the plot for a Cohen Brothers movie. Or Quentin Tarantino, I'm not sure which.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 10:16 PM (h7ZuX)

46 There was an underground comic character named The Flaming Carrot.

“There’s more hoods here than we thought.”

“Then shoot more bullets.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 13, 2026 10:14 PM (W/QOq)
----

I have many issues of Flaming Carrot. A favorite: "They Cloned Hitler's Feet".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 10:17 PM (kpS4V)

47 Good evening morons und danke wd.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 10:18 PM (RIvkX)

48 Deep fried pizza?

Holy shit, I thought southerners were crazy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 10:20 PM (6ydKt)

49 There was an underground comic character named The Flaming Carrot.…
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's what I thought seeing that pic. An original member of the Mystery Men, but he was just too weird to be in the movie.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Baby Bowler! at March 13, 2026 10:20 PM (O84gh)

50 the pantifa in texas were all found guilty.........now they get to exp the idea of prison

go find your own link

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 13, 2026 10:22 PM (jrgJz)

51 Alt Pilgrim linked to an Equadorian gravity racing video in the prior thread, similar to what Weird Dave had linked in the body.
Except at least half the racers going down the Andes didn't bother wearing helmets.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 13, 2026 10:23 PM (sl73Y)

52 Apologies, didn't intend to take up tank's space but I was out with BF3 In The Viper Helicopter over at Kharg Island.

youtube.com/watch?v=ec9JWTJWGic

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 10:24 PM (BENy5)

53 Eris

How many issues of Concrete? Or Domino Chance, Roach Extraordinaire?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD)

54 Actually, Aces post, and comment 233 by AP for the link.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 13, 2026 10:26 PM (sl73Y)

55 I've seen that Whoopin' His Ass video a few hundred times, and I think it's just terrible! Dude used a freaking broomstick on that guy! Just sick. Am I to believe there were no baseball bats nearby?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at March 13, 2026 10:26 PM (I9a5Z)

56 Evening all,

Launch in the morning, but the time keeps changing.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-48
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 14, 2026
Launch Time: 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 UTC, 13:30 CET)

https://youtu.be/d_g_YYUhtLU

Posted by: Joyenz at March 13, 2026 10:26 PM (2F0/Y)

57 I'll just post this here and let people gape in shock.

https://youtu.be/B8TxDZooIRA

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:28 PM (2GVsD)

58 Does anyone really like their car insurance company and if so, which is it?

Also, anyone else too annoyed at Progressive's ads to ever sign up with them?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 13, 2026 10:28 PM (znREB)

59 I just opened a jar of peanut butter for some crackers, which I haven't eaten in years, and there is so much sugar in it, it was like candy. WTF? I won't be buying that brand in the future.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 10:29 PM (M9gjJ)

60 Happy Friday Evening!

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 10:29 PM (OoFl2)

61 > Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
----------
If I were anyone of any significance in Canada, and this turns out to be true... I'd be really nervous about now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 10:30 PM (jtM2q)

62 Rich Baris on the Youtube Algo again. Going hard. Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.

I got nothin

Posted by: GigantorX at March 13, 2026 10:31 PM (x8k2o)

63 Are you sure that was an Ayatollah and not Justine Trudeau cosplaying?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:31 PM (2GVsD)

64 48 Deep fried pizza?

Holy shit, I thought southerners were crazy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026

Now you just wait a cotton pickin’ minute, there!

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 10:31 PM (OoFl2)

65 Regarding pruning trees:

If it is a Bradford Pear, start at the bottom and just cut the f***er down at the stump.

The End

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 10:31 PM (cYBz/)

66 Well, that's useless
It could still be used as a bottle opener, maybe.

Posted by: GWB at March 13, 2026 10:32 PM (RGxCT)

67 I LOVE the violence inherent in tonight's ONT!

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at March 13, 2026 10:32 PM (I9a5Z)

68 Whoot!

Got out a jam there in the bottom of the 7th.

USA!
USA!
USA!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 10:33 PM (A5RD0)

69 Piper

Don't think anyone has yet to try BBQ crawfish.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD)

70 Prom season: The gold ring in her lower lip is the perfect accent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 10:36 PM (BENy5)

71 And, yes, someone should report the mural artist and hire someone to paint pants on the perv carrot.

Posted by: GWB at March 13, 2026 10:36 PM (RGxCT)

72
69 Piper

Don't think anyone has yet to try BBQ crawfish.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD)

J ate crawfish from the Pig tonight. I make him eat them outside. But I swear if I find any shell or leg remains by the pool…I will need a Louise to my Thelma.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 10:36 PM (OoFl2)

73 Regarding pruning trees:

If it is a Bradford Pear, start at the bottom and just cut the f***er down at the stump.

The End
Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 10:31 PM (cYBz/)
----
Yep.

I had one of those that fell in my driveway THREE times before I figured out the best way to deal with it...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 10:36 PM (ESVrU)

74 >>>Piper

Don't think anyone has yet to try BBQ crawfish.

Posted by: Anna Puma

>Air fry might be worth a try, but get a drip pan.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 10:37 PM (M9gjJ)

75 Big COCK on that carrot!

Posted by: GigantorX at March 13, 2026 10:37 PM (x8k2o)

76 Both Jules and I are of Scottish descent and appreciate our heritage.

However this pizza crunch shows their poor culinary skills. It may make haggis sound appealing.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at March 13, 2026 10:37 PM (55Qr6)

77 I went with a girl in college and her roommate was a student from Glasgow. Couldn't understand a word she said.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

78 More Skybrows - "It's Gonna Be"

Lyrics were written 20 years ago by his mother as part one of a four-part psychedelic rock song saga.

https://youtu.be/m8dMy5_Lox4

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:38 PM (2GVsD)

79
18 The justly deserved beating: if this is real (big if), the two meting out justice would be put on trial and convicted. But you wish it weren’t so!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:07

------

I saw that video a couple of years ago, before the AI madness. It's real.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 10:38 PM (azNOR)

80 66 Well, that's useless
It could still be used as a bottle opener, maybe.
Posted by: GWB
---

You don't have to be an interpreter to know the instructions were written in Chinese, not Japanese.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 10:39 PM (BENy5)

81 I made a boiling water crust for a pot pie tonight, it was an experiment to see if it was as good as a rough pastry crust. It wasn't, at least the way I made it, but I think it can be better.
It is a lot easier, however.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2026 10:40 PM (rbvCR)

82 58 Does anyone really like their car insurance company and if so, which is it?

Also, anyone else too annoyed at Progressive's ads to ever sign up with them?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 13, 2026 10:28 PM (znREB)

Yes and yes. We've been with Farmers for years and they're OK. My wife's six-month old car got totaled in a hail storm a few years ago, as in multiple broken windows and every body panel had multiple divots. Farmers was easy to deal with and treated us right. We have a local agent and he's been very helpful. I don't know how they are on price, years ago I shopped around and Farmers wasn't the cheapest, but were within $25 or so per year of the cheapest.

Progressive's ads blow goats, and the guy who runs the company is a big-time lib and donates tons of money to the Dims and liberal causes.

Posted by: a.moron at March 13, 2026 10:41 PM (X5Jzz)

83 The guy pulled his sidearm and shot the bull several times before the bull ran away. The brand inspector had a broken arm. I'm not sure what happened to the bull.
Posted by: huerfano
---

Rule #1 about bulls, don't mess with the bull.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 10:42 PM (BENy5)

84 Carrot artist knew what he was doing.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 10:42 PM (gKWVE)

85 Does anyone really like their car insurance company and if so, which is it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

I've used Erie for both car and homeowners for 35 years or so. Excellent service and reasonably priced coverage. They haven't fought me on any of my claims.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 10:42 PM (cYBz/)

86 63 Are you sure that was an Ayatollah and not Justine Trudeau cosplaying?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:31 PM (2GVsD)

Brownface?

Posted by: a.moron at March 13, 2026 10:42 PM (X5Jzz)

87 I saw that video a couple of years ago, before the AI madness. It's real.

Could still be actors, acting, but it looks real.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:42 PM (X5qGl)

88 59 I just opened a jar of peanut butter for some crackers, which I haven't eaten in years, and there is so much sugar in it, it was like candy. WTF? I won't be buying that brand in the future.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 10:29 PM (M9gjJ)

Teddie peanut butter is very good. No sugar just nuts and oil. Gotta stir it though.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 13, 2026 10:44 PM (y171U)

89 The screwed up screwdriver: there’s kana and kanji in the parts list - looks Japanese.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:45 PM (X5qGl)

90 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
----------
If I were anyone of any significance in Canada, and this turns out to be true... I'd be really nervous about now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 10:30 PM (jtM2q)

If so, Delta can just walk across the border and smoke them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:45 PM (snZF9)

91 18 The justly deserved beating: if this is real (big if), the two meting out justice would be put on trial and convicted. But you wish it weren’t so!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:07

------

I saw that video a couple of years ago, before the AI madness. It's real.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

I had a couple of Sikh brothers as clients. They owned two convenience stores. Very reserved respectful gentlemen. 357 under the register and a thin hardwood cane behind the counter at each store. Almost all of the employees were family. They had very little theft loss.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 10:46 PM (7Cdr7)

92 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
----------
If I were anyone of any significance in Canada, and this turns out to be true... I'd be really nervous about now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 10:30 PM (jtM2q)

If so, Delta can just walk across the border and smoke them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:45 PM (snZF9)
----
How soon can we expect Mamdani to offer them sanctuary in NYC?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 10:46 PM (ESVrU)

93 Well, that's useless
It could still be used as a bottle opener, maybe.
Posted by: GWB
---

You don't have to be an interpreter to know the instructions were written in Chinese, not Japanese.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 10:39 PM (BENy5)

YANG POON!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:47 PM (snZF9)

94 Oh noes, Piper no fan of mudbugs.

But just think on it. How desperate do you have to be, or starving I should say, to think one could make a whole meal from those critters.

Talk about desperation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

95 You don't have to be an interpreter to know the instructions were written in Chinese, not Japanese.

Posted by: Braenyard
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Seeing a lot of katakana there...

Posted by: JQ at March 13, 2026 10:48 PM (rdVOm)

96 The unfortunate restroom graphic made me laugh

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 10:48 PM (ZxPkt)

97 Teddie peanut butter is very good. No sugar just nuts and oil. Gotta stir it though.

Ditto with Trader Joe’s peanut butter.

Also, if you have a blender or a food grinder (such as an attachment to a stand mixer), you can make peanut butter easily enough with roasted peanuts and a little peanut oil. Then you can control everything that goes into it.

Including garlic.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 13, 2026 10:48 PM (W/QOq)

98

People like what they like.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 10:48 PM (3ek7K)

99 Allison Guerriero@AllisonGuerrier . 33s
Replying to @mirandadevine

@RogerJStoneJr just wrote a very interesting article about Kharg Island on March 5! He was right. I had a feeling that Kharg Island would be demolished by the end of this week too
---

Muzzies have their memorial dates.
We do too. hahahahaha

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 10:48 PM (BENy5)

100 What is worse than Yang Poon?

Temu Yang Poon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:48 PM (2GVsD)

101 I just looked at it again
still laughing

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 10:48 PM (ZxPkt)

102 How soon can we expect Mamdani to offer them sanctuary in NYC?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 10:46 PM (ESVrU)

That would be sweet. Delta can just drive to NYC, whack the targets, and maybe do some uh..fortunate collateral damage.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:49 PM (snZF9)

103 I went with a girl in college and her roommate was a student from Glasgow. Couldn't understand a word she said.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

"Are ye comin' hame wi' me for a pump thenight?"

or

"Fancy a ride home, big man?"

is pretty much the same in any language at closing time.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 10:49 PM (cYBz/)

104 I will need a Louise to my Thelma.
Posted by: Piper

*raises hand*

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 10:49 PM (A5RD0)

105 My dog hated magic tricks.
He'd just walk away.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 10:49 PM (2WIwB)

106 I went with a girl in college and her roommate was a student from Glasgow. Couldn't understand a word she said.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 10:37

Yep, they say we have strong regional accents. Jules understood the Scots, her Grandma emigrated from there.

Try to understand a strong Yorkshire accent. It's a different, older version of English.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at March 13, 2026 10:50 PM (55Qr6)

107 Seeing a lot of katakana there...
Posted by: JQ
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Show off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 10:51 PM (BENy5)

108
104 I will need a Louise to my Thelma.
Posted by: Piper

*raises hand*
Posted

Posted by: nurse ratched

It is so good to have friends you can count on in this world!

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 10:52 PM (OoFl2)

109 Show off.
Posted by: Braenyard
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LOL. Didn't say I could *read* it! Just recognize some characters.

Posted by: JQ at March 13, 2026 10:53 PM (rdVOm)

110 104 I will need a Louise to my Thelma.
Posted by: Piper

*raises hand*
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 10:49

I'll do the video!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 10:53 PM (2WIwB)

111 Brother carrot is striding proud!

Posted by: Tybo the Carrot Man, Lost in Space at March 13, 2026 10:53 PM (wVcYX)

112 58 Does anyone really like their car insurance company and if so, which is it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

I have Farmers. My boys went to parochial school
And high school with my agent. I have made one claim when I got hit by a person exiting a parking lot and my son had a claim when his car was stolen and totaled. Both times everyrhing went perfectly.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 10:54 PM (A5RD0)

113 With my agent’s sons. Lord.

Watching baseball.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 10:54 PM (A5RD0)

114 106 I went with a girl in college and her roommate was a student from Glasgow. Couldn't understand a word she said.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 10:37

Yep, they say we have strong regional accents. Jules understood the Scots, her Grandma emigrated from there.

Try to understand a strong Yorkshire accent. It's a different, older version of English.
Posted by: Farmer

Newcastle accents. Even the English need a translator for them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 13, 2026 10:55 PM (Iz+f5)

115 Japan - how to sell a non-stick pan.

https://youtu.be/snUy2tpAAsU

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:57 PM (2GVsD)

116 Fried Pizza? I dunno…. Pizza is already among Nature’s Most Perfect Foods. Done right anyway.

Are they taking already shitty pizza and then deep frying? Most likely. I like thinking outside the box, though. Maybe it’s good.

I like making breakfast burritos, or basically wrapping scrambled eggs and cheddar, sausage etc in a soft tortilla. Char ‘em good on the stove burner and stuff ‘em full. One thing I’ve been meaning to try is smother them in sausage gravy. Not as tasty as scratch biscuits but should be good.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 10:57 PM (Ms2yN)

117 How many issues of Concrete? Or Domino Chance, Roach Extraordinaire?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD)
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I think one Concrete, plus some in Dark Horse Presents. Not really my jam.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 10:58 PM (kpS4V)

118 Progressive's ads blow goats, and the guy who runs the company is a big-time lib and donates tons of money to the Dims and liberal causes.
Posted by: a.moron

Add to that they're very woke and blatantly anti-white. They recently won a discrimination lawsuit because the court ruled the plaintiff didn’t have standing.

tiny.cc/yub0101

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 10:59 PM (7Cdr7)

119 Dark Horse Presents?

Some Sin City and Aliens vs Predator huh?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

120 Yup, Anna. Now I want to dig that stuff up. I have boxes of it on the basement.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 11:01 PM (kpS4V)

121 Well I was going to bed, but Saijo just found a ball somewhere. I have no idea where it came from.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)

122 Newcastle accents. Even the English need a translator for them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 13, 2026 10:55 PM (Iz+f5)

Man, you're not kidding.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 11:02 PM (snZF9)

123 I wanna try Pizza Crunch.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 11:03 PM (bss/y)

124 The Boring Company@boringcompany . 3h
Prufrock-3 launching off The Monster!

The Monster tilts down, allowing the boring machine to mine directly into the parking lot ground without any pit/shaft/excavation
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That's a long way from Reed Roller Bit.

https://tinyurl.com/mp87z3m9

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:03 PM (BENy5)

125 Progressive's ads blow goats, and the guy who runs the company is a big-time lib and donates tons of money to the Dims and liberal causes.
Posted by: a.moron

Add to that they're very woke and blatantly anti-white. They recently won a discrimination lawsuit because the court ruled the plaintiff didn’t have standing.

tiny.cc/yub0101
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables
====

There is a reason why they are named Progressive.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 11:04 PM (/lPRQ)

126 If we don't hear from Eris in a couple hours, call 911 as a comic avalanche has buried her.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 11:05 PM (2GVsD)

127 USA! USA!! USA!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 11:06 PM (A5RD0)

128 USA beat Canada. Again.

Hey Canada, go blow a goat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 11:07 PM (A5RD0)

129 I have Allstate insurance. They have a bundle plan where my house and car are covered at a discount. They are a reputable company. They never bother me about anything. If I have a question they will promptly answer it for me. So I have let them insure my stuff for years with no problems.

Posted by: Case at March 13, 2026 11:08 PM (pvf3X)

130 just opened a jar of peanut butter for some crackers, which I haven't eaten in years, and there is so much sugar in it, it was like candy. WTF?
——-

They thinned it out too, which was the last straw for me. I discovered that hydrogenated oils - soybean, canola etc,- leave me feeling vaguely sick or nauseous too. Tears up my gut too. Took me a long time to figure that out.. My stomach and guts aren’t 29 any more.

Kroger natural peanut butter is pretty tasty. Peanuts and salt, that’s it. I pour off the peanut oil on the natural stuff.

Otherwise it runs about the consistency of pancake batter, which is also bullshit. Peanut butter in a sandwich needs to be about 3/8ths to 1/2” thick, and needs to stay put, not drip all over everything. Shit sure gets complicated these days with corporations run by nicklefvckers.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:09 PM (Ms2yN)

131 Don't think anyone has yet to try BBQ crawfish.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:33 PM (2GVsD)

BBQ them just like you BBQ shrimp, which has absolutely nothing to do with BBQ

Posted by: javems at March 13, 2026 11:09 PM (qA4VG)

132 Prom time.

Or quinceanera.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 13, 2026 11:09 PM (4/BuS)

133 You can go to the Houston Rodeo going on right now and get deep fried anything.

Weirdest is deep fried Coca Cola.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 11:09 PM (oob1u)

134
How would you deep fry Coke?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:11 PM (3ek7K)

135 134
How would you deep fry Coke?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:11 PM (3ek7K)

*Richard Pryor has entered the chat*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 13, 2026 11:12 PM (xcxpd)

136 I have Allstate insurance. They have a bundle plan where my house and car are covered at a discount. They are a reputable company. They never bother me about anything. If I have a question they will promptly answer it for me. So I have let them insure my stuff for years with no problems.
Posted by: Case

We've been with Allstate for 25+ years. No complaints.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 11:12 PM (7Cdr7)

137 Fast becoming one of my favorite follows on X

https://tinyurl.com/39t4pf49

she cooks

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 11:13 PM (ZxPkt)

138 119 Dark Horse Presents?

Some Sin City and Aliens vs Predator huh?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

The best Dark Horse is best comics.

The worst Dark Horse is utter trash. Still...better than Marvel and Dc....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 13, 2026 11:14 PM (xcxpd)

139 Newcastle accents. Even the English need a translator for them.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 13, 2026 10:55 PM (Iz+f5)

Man, you're not kidding.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 11:02

OK, I cheated and looked it up. Both Yorkie an Newcastle are part of the Northumbrian accent group.

I swear everyone else has an accent but us in the Midwest. Isn't the general language in the MSM Midwestern, everyone understands it?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at March 13, 2026 11:15 PM (55Qr6)

140 How soon can we expect Mamdani to offer them sanctuary in NYC?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 10:46 PM (ESVrU)

That would be sweet. Delta can just drive to NYC, whack the targets, and maybe do some uh..fortunate collateral damage.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:49 PM (snZF9)

There's always the final scene from the movie "Failsafe"....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 13, 2026 11:15 PM (S/Y4j)

141 108
104 I will need a Louise to my Thelma.
Posted by: Piper

*raises hand*
Posted

Posted by: nurse ratched

It is so good to have friends you can count on in this world!
Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 10:52 PM (OoFl2)

She packs heat

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 13, 2026 11:15 PM (xcxpd)

142 134
How would you deep fry Coke?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:11 PM (3ek7K)

Super heat Stevie Nicks's ass.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 13, 2026 11:16 PM (4/BuS)

143 I swear everyone else has an accent but us in the Midwest. Isn't the general language in the MSM Midwestern, everyone understands it?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at March 13, 2026 11:15 PM (55Qr6)

There is a difference between everyone understanding and having no accent.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR)

144 Kroger natural peanut butter is pretty tasty. Peanuts and salt, that’s it. I pour off the peanut oil on the natural stuff.
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HORRORS!
No, chuck up a beater in your drill and mix the oil back into the butter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:17 PM (BENy5)

145
Lol bear

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:18 PM (3ek7K)

146 There is a difference between everyone understanding and having no accent.
Posted by: Kindltot
--

There is a definite benefit to being understood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:18 PM (BENy5)

147 How would you deep fry Coke?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:11 PM (3ek7K)

It's just mixed with the batter and I think eggs mixed in also.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 11:19 PM (oob1u)

148 134 How would you deep fry Coke?
Posted by: fourseasons
*Richard Pryor has entered the chat*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo

Some days, you deep fry the coke... some days it deep fries you

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 11:22 PM (gKWVE)

149
So a fritter with coke as the liquid.

It's probably good.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:23 PM (3ek7K)

150 I have Allstate insurance. They have a bundle plan where my house and car are covered at a discount. They are a reputable company. They never bother me about anything. If I have a question they will promptly answer it for me. So I have let them insure my stuff for years with no problems.

They're refusing to pay for clear hail damage to my roof.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 13, 2026 11:23 PM (df/te)

151 I'm convinced that Musk's motivations all came from the movie Total Recall.

Brain implants
Robo Taxis
Rocket ships to Mars
Boring machines
AI
3 titted women

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 11:25 PM (oob1u)

152 149
So a fritter with coke as the liquid.

It's probably good.

Posted by: fourseasons
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Watch out for the first bite splash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:25 PM (BENy5)

153 They're refusing to pay for clear hail damage to my roof.
Posted by: Weirddave at March 13, 2026 11:23 PM (df/te)

How old is your roof?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 11:25 PM (oob1u)

154 Three additional B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bombers with the U.S. Air Force’s 5th Bomb Wing, based out of Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, landed early Friday at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, joining 12 B-1B Lancers and 3 other B-52H Stratofortresses that have been forward deployed to the United Kingdom

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:26 PM (BENy5)

155 I have never understood the three tit thing.

Why mess up the symmetry? It is not more of a good thing, it is frankenstein.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 11:26 PM (bss/y)

156 No, chuck up a beater in your drill and mix the oil back into the butter
——

Can’t. It turns into something like pancake batter, which is, as mentioned, bullshit.

Peanut Butter should not be a pourable. Sandwiches drip all over, and make a mess. Trust Me. There’s plenty of oil remaining, it turns out just right. I use the peanut oil to fry spuds or whatever, pop corn,

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:26 PM (Ms2yN)

157 If you have WINCO stores, back in bulk foods there are machines with honey roasted peanuts, regular peanuts, or almonds that grind them into cups that hold about a pound. You can make your own peanut butter...

Posted by: ChrisP at March 13, 2026 11:27 PM (2/K/k)

158 @sentdefender
1h
Massive explosions being reported across Baghdad, amid ongoing strikes against Iranian-backed paramilitary forces by the U.S. Air Force.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:29 PM (BENy5)

159 I bet Coca-Cola syrup could be deep fried. That might be interesting, for pure areterio-sclerotic delight.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:29 PM (Ms2yN)

160 I swear everyone else has an accent but us in the Midwest. Isn't the general language in the MSM Midwestern, everyone understands it?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at March 13, 2026 11:15 PM (55Qr6)

There is a difference between everyone understanding and having no accent.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2026 11:17

OK, I'm slow tonight (well maybe slower than usual) but I finally get it. I did get the idea that there is a strong Midwestern twang, maybe harsh, when I was learning Spanish on Mexican visits.

But I think a case could be made that Midwestern is the standard accepted media spoken accent.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at March 13, 2026 11:30 PM (55Qr6)

161 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:29 PM (BENy5)

Good. IED bastards.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 11:30 PM (oob1u)

162 159 I bet Coca-Cola syrup could be deep fried. That might be interesting, for pure areterio-sclerotic delight.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:29 PM (Ms2yN)

The syrup on ice cream.

I remember back in the day, working at mcdonalds, putting the syrup for the chocolate shakes on ice cream. It was delicious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 11:31 PM (bss/y)

163 I bet Coca-Cola syrup could be deep fried. That might be interesting, for pure areterio-sclerotic delight.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:29 PM (Ms2yN)

They pour some Coke syrup on top of the fried concoction.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 11:31 PM (oob1u)

164 no no no
you stir the oil back into the peanut butter

then you keep it in the fridge, so it's not all soupy

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 11:32 PM (ZxPkt)

165 there are machines with honey roasted peanuts, regular peanuts, or almonds …. You can make your own peanut butter...
——

That’s what makes me dislike Big Food. They extract the peanut oil, and then substitute soybean oil, and lace it with corn syrup. It takes special effort to fuck up peanut butter, but they persevere.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:33 PM (Ms2yN)

166 When I moved to NYC from Louisiana, I had to repeat myself quite often .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 11:34 PM (oob1u)

167 164 no no no
you stir the oil back into the peanut butter

then you keep it in the fridge, so it's not all soupy
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 11:32 PM (ZxPkt)

I'm sorry man, I agree, stirring the oil back in makes it too soupy.

Without, it's about the right consistency.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 11:34 PM (bss/y)

168 Peanut oil is far more valuable for sale than soybean oil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 11:35 PM (bss/y)

169 Just watched Melania.

Excellent!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 11:35 PM (2WIwB)

170 Midwestern used to be "newscaster" standard, but I think that has changed since I was a kid.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2026 11:36 PM (rbvCR)

171 then you keep it in the fridge, so it's not all soupy
——

I don’t want to keep it in the fridge. That’s bullshit.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:36 PM (Ms2yN)

172
California doesn't have an accent.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 11:40 PM (azNOR)

173 It's a prom gown wedding gown.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 13, 2026 11:43 PM (NFX2v)

174 172
California doesn't have an accent.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 11:40 PM (azNOR)

Oh my god, really?

Posted by: Valley Girl at March 13, 2026 11:44 PM (bss/y)

175 I am now in the restaurant/food service business again.

For anybody who ever thought I was Smart

You are proven RONG

Posted by: Miklos knows a good bankruptcy lawyer at March 13, 2026 11:44 PM (Al4HM)

176 Valley Girl with a Spanish accent si?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 11:44 PM (2GVsD)

177 Midwestern used to be "newscaster" standard, but I think that has changed since I was a kid.
———

Orien Samuelson’s deep baritone, cranking out the Farm Market report at 5 AM. “March corn futures down two and an eighth in heavy trading”.

Radio announcers used to have good voices, I mean, it comes with the territory, they were selected for a pleasing well modulated tone. Now testosterone itself is practically banned, it sounds like 90 percent of them are chicks who huff helium before going on.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:46 PM (Ms2yN)

178 Just watched Melania.

Excellent!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

So

Those X-ray glasses work

Posted by: Miklos also bought Sea Monkeys...was dissapoint at March 13, 2026 11:47 PM (Al4HM)

179 Just posted new Tensor stuff, time to head to bed.

Jya ne minna.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 11:47 PM (2GVsD)

180
Miklos,

I hope fried catfish is on the menu.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:47 PM (3ek7K)

181 Miklos,

I hope fried catfish is on the menu.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:47 PM (3ek7K)

If he opened it San Angeles, it might be fried rat or rat burger.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 13, 2026 11:50 PM (S/Y4j)

182 Those X-ray glasses work
——-

The Submarine is kinda lame though! The “itching powder” worked real good, it was some kind of fiberglass,

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:51 PM (Ms2yN)

183
We moved to Wyoming from South Carolina, grandchildren.

Lordy do we miss catfish.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 13, 2026 11:52 PM (3ek7K)

184 You are proven RONG
Posted by: Miklos knows a good bankruptcy lawyer at March 13, 2026 11:44

Good clue Miklos, so you are now a part-owner of a Chinese restaurant? Let us know where it is, we would be glad to patronize and support it.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at March 13, 2026 11:52 PM (55Qr6)

185 I bet Coca-Cola syrup could be deep fried. That might be interesting, for pure areterio-sclerotic delight.
Posted by: Common Tater

Considering that Emory University was largely funded by the Chandler (Coca-Cola) fambly, they should fund this research. Bigly

Posted by: Miklos is a Royal Cola man at March 13, 2026 11:53 PM (Al4HM)

186
That’s what makes me dislike Big Food. They extract the peanut oil, and then substitute soybean oil, and lace it with corn syrup. It takes special effort to fuck up peanut butter, but they persevere.
Posted by: Common Tater
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The crap peanut butter requires no refrigeration. There are three jars of that in the pantry with companion jelly. For the burning time. Otherwise it's Smuckers or something similar.
Ingredients: peanuts, salt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 11:54 PM (BENy5)

187 Good clue Miklos, so you are now a part-owner of a Chinese restaurant? Let us know where it is, we would be glad to patronize and support it.
Posted by: Farmer

It is just reconciliation of all the local businesses that Covid mental illness killed.

The goal is to get back to the Before Times.

Posted by: Regretfully Entrepreneurial Miklos at March 13, 2026 11:56 PM (Al4HM)

188 I have Allstate insurance. They have a bundle plan where my house and car are covered at a discount. They are a reputable company. They never bother me about anything. If I have a question they will promptly answer it for me. So I have let them insure my stuff for years with no problems.

They're refusing to pay for clear hail damage to my roof.
Posted by: Weirddave
===

Coworker just got Allstate. Said roof coverage for excessive weather related wear is an additional cost rider.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 11:57 PM (/lPRQ)

189 Over at Insty:

DEMOCRATS AS THEY ARE: Breaking: Jasmine Crockett Security Officer Shot, Killed by SWAT Team. “A man who was shot and killed by police in Dallas was part of Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s security detail, multiple sources reported on Friday. According to CBS News, the individual in question was ‘known publicly as Mike King,’ although he’d been using various aliases to gain employment.”

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 11:59 PM (bss/y)

190 I bet Coca-Cola syrup could be deep fried. That might be interesting, for pure areterio-sclerotic delight.
Posted by: Common Tater

Use as jelly filling for a Bismark.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 12:00 AM (/lPRQ)

191 Team USA beat Canada again. This time in baseball (The World Baseball Classic). It's not nearly on the scale of the Olympic hockey wins, but still...one more thing to poke them with.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at March 14, 2026 12:00 AM (xverI)

192
182
The Submarine is kinda lame though! The “itching powder” worked real good, it was some kind of fiberglass,
Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 11:51 PM

-----

If I recall correctly, the itching powder was also marketed as skin cancer powder and emphysema powder. "Disfigure your friends! What a laff riot!" and there was this drawing of hunched over saps with people pointing snd laghing. "Johnson's a cripple! Wow!"

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 12:03 AM (azNOR)

193 The best guy who had people lined up for catfish, fried flounder, shrimp, oysters...great place, great food

Went to jail for cheating on state taxes.

When he gets out, he will run the kitchen and staff, and do what they call "ghost Kitchen" for the City People downtown. Just remote food prep, nothing special.

As long as he is on Probation, I only have to pay him minimum wage, and get a Tax Deduction for that.

Posted by: Regretfully CPA Entrepreneurial Miklos at March 14, 2026 12:05 AM (Al4HM)

194
Dang, they missed Crock of Shit!!

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:05 AM (3ek7K)

195 I have Jersey Manufacturer for car insurance. We got it because of Mrs B's job. The requirement used to be you had to work for a manufacturer in jersey, but not sure if thats the case these days. By myself I would probably qualify for yang poon. We have had it for years. They have been very good. I have one of their subsidiaries for the classic car insurance and its cheap as shit. The car is insured for 40K, and it only costs a few hundred a year.

Progressive? Oh hell no. Yeah, the commercials are annoying and the owner is a leftist dick head.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 12:06 AM (snZF9)

196 ‘known publicly as Mike King,’ although he’d been using various aliases to gain employment.”

Posted by: Aetius451AD

*tries to yawn*

*nope*

Posted by: Unsurprised Miklos at March 14, 2026 12:07 AM (Al4HM)

197
So sad.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:08 AM (3ek7K)

198 DEMOCRATS AS THEY ARE: Breaking: Jasmine Crockett Security Officer Shot, Killed by SWAT Team. “A man who was shot and killed by police in Dallas was part of Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s security detail, multiple sources reported on Friday. According to CBS News, the individual in question was ‘known publicly as Mike King,’ although he’d been using various aliases to gain employment.”

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 11:59 PM (bss/y)

Let me put on my surprised face.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 12:09 AM (snZF9)

199 They're refusing to pay for clear hail damage to my roof.
Posted by: Weirddave

Allstate is the insurance the other driver has who bumped my rear end at a 2 way stop inside a parking lot; they won't cover it because they say, physics be damned, it was my fault. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:09 AM (DoBxX)

200
196 ‘known publicly as Mike King,’ although he’d been using various aliases to gain employment.”

Posted by: Aetius451AD

*tries to yawn*

*nope*
Posted by: Unsurprised Miklos at March 14, 2026 12:07 AM

------

The press should ask Jasmine Crockett to comment on this gross injustice, including follow-up questions like "How big was his dick? Was he any good?"

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 14, 2026 12:12 AM (azNOR)

201 If I'm picking Mike and a generic 1 syllable last name, I'm going Mike Hunt.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 14, 2026 12:12 AM (R86kT)

202
I bet Coca-Cola syrup could be deep fried. That might be interesting, for pure areterio-sclerotic delight.
Posted by: Common Tater

Use as jelly filling for a Bismark.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Which you must sink!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 12:14 AM (Cqx++)

203
Progressive? Oh hell no. Yeah, the commercials are annoying and the owner is a leftist dick head.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
=====

Hope that you never have a claim with the bastards. I fussed with them for two months after one of their policy holders rammed my truck. They steadfastly refused to settle. My only recourse was to file suit against the guy who ran into me. Didn't do it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:14 AM (XeU6L)

204 I remember decades ago when the national news was interviewing some old coot from deepest, darkest Appalachia.

They put subtitles on him.

I'd imagine the ol' boy was pissed if he found out about it.

Those intense regional dialects and accents mostly don't exist today... movies, radio, and TV killed 'em off.

Oh, there are still southern accents and whatnot, but ones so strong that they need subtitles are gone.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 14, 2026 12:15 AM (IG3/x)

205 People tend to forget that the insurance companies are in business to make money... not to be a support system for the policy holders.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 14, 2026 12:17 AM (XeU6L)

206 Our insurance company got bought by National General. They are great about claims. It's just , need to check prices of others.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:18 AM (eZ5tL)

207 Use as jelly filling for a Bismark.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Which you must sink!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Let's not be too pastry here

Posted by: HMS Hood at March 14, 2026 12:21 AM (Al4HM)

208 Let's not be too pastry here
Posted by: HMS Hood

Oh, since it's officially Saturday, HAPPY PI DAY!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:22 AM (eZ5tL)

209 183
We moved to Wyoming from South Carolina, grandchildren.

Lordy do we miss catfish.

Posted by: fourseasons

I'm not up on my regional fishes. Are there not catfish in the rivers in Wyoming? I understand what your saying though. I miss the fried catfish down in the south. Spent a couple of summers in Biloxi many years ago. Some good eatin' down there.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 12:23 AM (Iz+f5)

210 flying carpets > drones

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2026 12:23 AM (BT3km)

211 Jasmine Crockett’s Security Guard Fatally Shot By Dallas SWAT In Standoff

Officers from the police fugitive task force tracked the individual ...during a surveillance operation

[for an] active warrant for impersonating a law enforcement officer.

he pointed a gun at them, leading to the officer-involved shooting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 12:23 AM (BENy5)

212 Adam Clayton, bass guitarist of U2, was born today in 1960. If you don't care for Bono, you may like this one off of the "rockumentary" album Rattle And Hum, since B.B. King's stage presence takes over; it's also just one of my favorite songs of theirs. Since this is about Adam, I suggest listening to the absences of the bass, how he builds tension by removing the steady presence he built up, and then a single note is enough for an emphasis:

U2 - When Love Comes To Town (Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/_TGU35i8czo

David Draiman, lead singer of Disturbed and fellow baritone, was born today in 1973. I'm not really familiar with their larger body of work, but it would be hard to have not heard this one, and it's really good:

Disturbed - Down With The Sickness (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]
https://youtu.be/09LTT0xwdfw

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 12:23 AM (Sy6m/)

213 People tend to forget that the insurance companies are in business to make money... not to be a support system for the policy holders.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

State Farm is like a Good Neighbor...who sets up a crack house next door, lets half burn, brings in the Cartels, and says YOU are liable

Posted by: Miklos has stories about State Farm for which I cannot be sued because TRUE at March 14, 2026 12:24 AM (Al4HM)

214 Jasmine got her ghetto on too tight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 12:24 AM (BENy5)

215 She could'a been a kwane.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 12:26 AM (BENy5)

216 Siiigh. 🙄 Our agent hooked us up with Progressive years ago. We know their rep, and have long considered finding another company. That said, their rates were the lowest; they promptly paid the other guy in a fender-bender that was, technically, our fault; didn't raise our rates after that; and our agent said they're the most likely to pay out willingly and promptly. Hope we don't have to test that. And that they don't find out we're White and MAGA. And Morons. Oh, and their commercials don't bother me because I don't watch commercial teevee. Still, don't like funding "progressives."

Posted by: mindful webworker - you're in all hands with deep state at March 14, 2026 12:27 AM (O84gh)

217 Adam Clayton, bass guitarist of U2, was born today in 1960.

I consider this as a Daily Affirmation

I was not born in 1960, and have never been in any way associated with U2

Posted by: Miklos is temporaneously Happyed at March 14, 2026 12:28 AM (Al4HM)

218
Hiya Puddleglum,

No catfish.

We love being here with our grandchildren, but we do miss Southern food.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:29 AM (3ek7K)

219 I'm not up on my regional fishes.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Regional Fishes would be a pretty good band name

Posted by: Miklos despises Phish an all of That Kind at March 14, 2026 12:30 AM (Al4HM)

220 According to Axios, citing an unnamed source close to the matter, U.S. President Donald J. Trump rejected a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin to move Iranian enriched uranium to Russia in order to end the war...
--

rolol

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 12:30 AM (BENy5)

221
That said, their rates were the lowest; they promptly paid the other guy in a fender-bender that was, technically, our fault; didn't raise our rates after that; and our agent said they're the most likely to pay out willingly and promptly.

It's hard to argue against being a customer in that case.
Even if they are lefties.

I hear these ads for Patriot Mobile saying they dontate to right wing causes. I'd rather my phone provider use any money they would otherwise donate to insuring the service they provide is quality.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 12:32 AM (Cqx++)

222
We love being here with our grandchildren, but we do miss Southern food.

Posted by: fourseasons

They call it the Flying Pig

Delivery anywhere in the USA

(Even AOP liked the ribs)

https://www.piggiepark.com/shop/

Posted by: Miklos is most pleased for help at March 14, 2026 12:33 AM (Al4HM)

223 he pointed a gun at them, leading to the officer-involved shooting.
Posted by: Braenyard -

"wHy were tHeY using rEaL bullEtzz?!"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:33 AM (tcsrY)

224 USAA

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:35 AM (2WIwB)

225

March 14, 1519 pi day

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 14, 2026 12:35 AM (Cqx++)

226 Kharg Island went khargboom

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:35 AM (tcsrY)

227 You can get anything you want at Miklos' restaurant.

Happy Friday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 12:36 AM (0nHVk)

228 SNAP Recipients Sue Trump Administration Over Sugary Food Restrictions
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 12:36 AM (BENy5)

229 224 USAA
Posted by: Diogenes

We are all civvies

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:36 AM (tcsrY)

230 Terminate SNAP let them go to work and buy their own damn cookies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 12:37 AM (BENy5)

231
They want to keep their svelte figures.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:37 AM (3ek7K)

232 rolol
Posted by: Braenyard

Does "unnamed' or "anonymous" source pay cash MONEYS?

19669$ each month from home with simple computer?

Posted by: Miklos is have question at March 14, 2026 12:38 AM (Al4HM)

233 Accents? This native Oklahoman went to college in Wisconsin. I spoke standard urban major network television. No sub-titles needed.

Sitting in my room one day, friends asked about my lack of accent. I tried to imitate a rural Oklahoma accent. Naw, I said, that's more Deep South. I tried another accent, but decided that was too South Texas. Again I tried an accent, but, no, that was more Arkansas-Missouri hillbilly.

It was at that moment that the only other student there from Oklahoma was looking for me, and from down the hall, we heard this loud gal's voice hollering, "Wharr's th' gaahyy from OAK-luh-HOma?"

I exclaimed, "That's it! That's the accent!" Followed by, "Quick! Close the door!"

True story.

Posted by: mindful webworker - from the sooner or later state at March 14, 2026 12:39 AM (O84gh)

234 Terminate SNAP let them go to work and buy their own damn cookies.

Posted by: Braenyard

H8R

Posted by: Guy in Girl Scout outfit selling "cookies" at March 14, 2026 12:39 AM (Al4HM)

235 Aargh island

Posted by: wth at March 14, 2026 12:39 AM (BT3km)

236 Someone told me today I have a lovely accent.
My thought bubble : "I have an accent?"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:41 AM (eZ5tL)

237 229 224 USAA
Posted by: Diogenes

We are all civvies
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:36 AM (tcsrY)

Good.company.
Can't help ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2026 12:42 AM (2WIwB)

238
Living in Wyoming with a southern accent is interesting.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

239 224 USAA
Posted by: Diogenes
---

A friend's brand, spanking, new F-250 was stolen. The cop's report said it was stolen. He had to make four payments before USAA acknowledged that it was stolen and they didn't cover the back payments.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 12:45 AM (BENy5)

240 The crap peanut butter requires no refrigeration.
——

Neither does all-purpose bearing grease, but I don’t eat that shit either. To your point though, they have noticeably thinned out even the crap ersatz peanut butter in recent months or years, it’s not quite soupy but it’s getting there. I’m not really a snob or a foody but Jeeze Louise give me simple, real foods.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 12:45 AM (Touuh)

241 What's the Wyoming accent like?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:45 AM (tcsrY)

242
mom,

I have no clue, lol.

We understand what people say, but they don't get us, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:47 AM (3ek7K)

243 Yay, F it all Friday night!

Howdy, horde!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

244 Getting close to Midnight here in God's favorite time zone (albeit corrupted by Saving crap).

I followed my usual ritual. Walked under a ladder, had our dear old black cat cross my path, broke a mirror, and opened an umbrella in the house. I expect to have nothing but good luck until the *next* Friday the 13th.

https://youtu.be/yRvljAT4O6Q

G'nate, y'awwwlll.

Posted by: mindful webworker - fortunate son at March 14, 2026 12:47 AM (O84gh)

245 I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed that the naked carrot was not a mystery click. ("I saw Naked Carrot open for Regional Fishes at...")

Posted by: SciVo at March 14, 2026 12:48 AM (Sy6m/)

246
JQ,

I'm glad you are JQ again .

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:49 AM (3ek7K)

247 Hi, fourseasons!

Yeah, I'm glad I'm JQ again, too.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

248
We're supposed to have 70 degree temps next week here in Wyoming.

Weird weather, we've not had a normal Wyoming winter.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 12:55 AM (3ek7K)

249 I'm not up on my regional fishes. Are there not catfish in the rivers in Wyoming? I understand what your saying though. I miss the fried catfish down in the south. Spent a couple of summers in Biloxi many years ago. Some good eatin' down there.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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No catfish in Wyoming... the water is too clean.
Catfish are not native to earth, they're an alien species. When I was a kid, you could go down to the Monongahela, throw a line in the water with a worm on it and catch a catfish. The river was lined with steel mills and heavy industry for miles, and everything got dumped in the river. The only thing anyone ever caught was catfish, because normal.earth species would be poisoned by all that crap, but catfish... catfish thrived.
I won't eat catfish. Who knows how that alien protein is gonna react with humans. I'll bet that serial killers eat a lot of catfish.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 14, 2026 12:57 AM (8UIB5)

250 Haven't had 'normal winter' here either, fourseasons.

Christmas (weather) arrived earlier this week: snow & cold. Not much snow & it melted right away.

Rain & flood watch now... and cold, but above freezing. Windy. Bleh!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

251 I will buy "farm raised" catfish at the grocery. Very tasty!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm)

252 I lost a few squares of shingles after an intense windstorm. Roof had last been shingled maybe 20+ years ago at the time. Hired a guy to lay some more down, till I could get it re-roofed entirely.

He told me to submit a claim on my homeowners. This made no sense to me. It’s fucking 20+ years old, about due for re-roof anyway, what do you expect? If it was 5 years that might be different.

There’s something called “depreciated value” that simply doesn’t register with people.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 14, 2026 12:59 AM (Touuh)

253 Yeah, I'm glad I'm JQ again, too.
Posted by: JQ

*approved for one week PTO and disability*

Posted by: Regional Manager Miklos at March 14, 2026 01:00 AM (Al4HM)

254 What's the Wyoming accent like?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 14, 2026 12:45 AM (tcsrY)

I was there a bunch of times, but I don't seem to remember it being all that crazy. Its different, but I guess it might matter where in wyoming you are. To my ears its like Kristi Noem, you don't hear anything out of the ordinary.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 01:01 AM (snZF9)

255 249: Heh! Grew up in the same area, just an hour or two north. Little more country up there so the streams were cleaner. It was good fishing in NW PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 14, 2026 01:01 AM (Iz+f5)

256 I will buy "farm raised" catfish at the grocery. Very tasty!
Posted by: JQ

Check Mississippi v Brazil

Posted by: Picky Miklos at March 14, 2026 01:01 AM (Al4HM)

257 Haha, Miklos... *muah!* Thanks!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

258 Seekng what time it is

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2026 01:02 AM (Ia/+0)

259 Catfish is the kind of thing I can eat if it’s batter fried and soaked in tartar sauce where I don’t have to actually taste it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 01:04 AM (RBewl)

260 182
The Submarine is kinda lame though!
- - - - -

Just try to find one of those comic book cardboard Polaris subs today. So rare they're impossible to find. You could buy a new car with what one would go for in an auction...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at March 14, 2026 01:04 AM (NF0QK)

261 Mississippi v Brazil? Probly MS, since it says USA..

Could also be somewhere more local, PNW.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

262
JQ, are you still hosting the BIL? I haven't been caught up the past few nights.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2026 01:05 AM (y2OcL)

263 I'll bet that serial killers eat a lot of catfish.
Posted by: buddhaha
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Wondering if fourseasons really has grand kids in WY?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 01:06 AM (BENy5)

264 There’s something called “depreciated value” that simply doesn’t register with people.
Posted by: Common Tater

I did that once after a hailstorm. My option to take.
No worse off than the neighbors that had the whole roof replaced. But I was moving soon and pocketed the 'depreciated value' less deductable. Since I moved it had no impact on my insurance. Everybody else probably got their rates jacks or were dropped.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 14, 2026 01:07 AM (/lPRQ)

265 Just try to find one of those comic book cardboard Polaris subs today. So rare they're impossible to find. You could buy a new car with what one would go for in an auction...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at March 14, 2026 01:04 AM (NF0QK)

You mean they were real?? They actually existed?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 01:07 AM (snZF9)

266 At least Jasmine doesn’t have to explain how Mike Hunt confronted the police.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2026 01:08 AM (RBewl)

267 I grew up in Wyoming. The accent is more of a lack of accent. Some folks said words like warsh, or whatnot, but that's something I have heard from people all over the country.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 01:08 AM (Ar/17)

268 250 Haven't had 'normal winter' here either, fourseasons.

... Bleh!
Posted by: JQ
---

Bastardi did a thing yesterday on normal weather.
Said, all weather is normal except that tornado across the frozen lake in MI. Said that was abnormal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 01:09 AM (BENy5)

269 Yes, Blondie... Until next Friday. App't Thursday late afternoon with local "referral" service for possible solutions to his situation, based on an info-gathering session this week.

Meanwhile, we wait for his I.D. card to arrive in the mail (general delivery, next town over) and I will help him sort out his lost smartphone/ get a new one/ whatever...

I accept no payment for his stay here, and he receives no mail here, lest I become his "landlord"!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

270
Braenyard,

Four wonderful grandchildren, lol.

Much better than catfish, lol.

Seriously, we are blessed to live four blocks away. Watching them grow up is wonderful.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:11 AM (3ek7K)

271 Dey the best is from Mississippi

Lawd, Mississippi

*plays the Blues on his Dobro*

Posted by: Blues Man Miklos "Catfish" Lemon Jefferson, yes indeed chirren at March 14, 2026 01:13 AM (Al4HM)

272 I grew up in Wyoming. The accent is more of a lack of accent. Some folks said words like warsh, or whatnot, but that's something I have heard from people all over the country.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, at March 14, 2026 01:08 AM (Ar/17)

That was my observation. I did the sturgis rally 10 years in a row, and I always ended up in wyoming for either devils tower, or some event in one of the towns, or some bars, etc. It just always sounded like plain language, nothing out of the ordinary. Like I said, it was like listening to kristi noem.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 01:13 AM (snZF9)

273 If BIL *doesn't like* the solutions offered by referral service or refuses to go to the homeless shelter, I'm driving his deadbeat a$$ back to the bus station & he will pay for his own ticket to I don't care where.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

274
JQ,

Good for you! You shouldn't have to deal with him.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:16 AM (3ek7K)

275 I've seen that Whoopin' His Ass video a few hundred times, and I think it's just terrible! Dude used a freaking broomstick on that guy! Just sick. Am I to believe there were no baseball bats nearby?

It wasn't a broomstick, it was a cane. Let somebody, like me, who knows how to use a stick as a weapon, hit you one time with a cane, and you won't want a second hit. I was very lucky to have a Black Belt Hall of Fame Sensei, who really knew what he was doing, and how to teach it. The guy using the cane didn't know how to use it properly.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at March 14, 2026 01:16 AM (Da7Vv)

276 BIL GTFO

Posted by: Miklos summarizes at March 14, 2026 01:18 AM (Al4HM)

277 You shouldn't have to deal with him.
Posted by: fourseasons
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Egg-fkin-zactly!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

278 China Owns Canada's Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 01:21 AM (BENy5)

279 Seriously, we are blessed to live four blocks away. Watching them grow up is wonderful.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:11 AM (3ek7K)

The wife and I get the oldest by himself tomorrow. Brother has T-ball practice them we'll get him probably about 1 ish. Older is looking forward to hanging out with us without his shadow. I'm loving watching those two. They are a bit farther apart than my brother and I but the dynamics are the same. I can almost read their minds when they fight. It's like living it again.
Older will start pushing buttons.
Younger falls for it.
"YOU. Stop that."
"Stop what."
"You know what you are doing. I have more brothers than you. I did it myself, now stop."
"Okay."

They are so awesome.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:22 AM (rpbjO)

280 I'm not heartless. I don't hate the guy. He definitely has real problems. BUT!

There's *so much* in play here (I will spare you the details) but bottom line is-- I am not his guardian, nor will I be.

He needs much more assistance than I can provide.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

281 China Owns Canada's Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 01:21 AM (BENy5)

And canada don't have the balls to nationalize it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 01:28 AM (snZF9)

282 The guy using the cane didn't know how to use it properly.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President
---------

It is refreshing to see big mouth, thief get what for.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 01:28 AM (BENy5)

283 This gves me an idea...
________________________

Ok, bulls patrolling the city streets. I guess that's ok. But, I was really hoping you'd make the 113th Tour de France one for the record books.

Posted by: Orson at March 14, 2026 01:28 AM (dIske)

284
Reforger,

We have a 12 y/o, a 7 y/old, a 5 y/old and a 3 y/o.

It's so much fun watching them grow up.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:31 AM (3ek7K)

285
I accept no payment for his stay here, and he receives no mail here, lest I become his "landlord"!
Posted by: JQ

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

So there are a few hidden traps in the system? Sounds like the stray animal laws in some precincts. If you feed a dog that strays around your neighborhood, you're considered the owner. If it bites someone, you're liable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 14, 2026 01:32 AM (y2OcL)

286 He needs much more assistance than I can provide.
Posted by: JQ

I have dealt with people who are in difficult situations like BIL

I have come to the realization that states that claim to spend a lot on money to help or take care of such people, really don't.

Stingy states like South Carolina somehow always do have money, and the people get help.

Posted by: Miklos does not necessarily suggests a bus ticket to SC, but there would be a place immediately, at March 14, 2026 01:32 AM (Al4HM)

287
JQ,

You have gone over and beyond for him.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:33 AM (3ek7K)

288 Those Sikhs were too kind. I would have given him a few whacks to the nuts and the face.

Posted by: Toad-0 at March 14, 2026 01:34 AM (xiBFj)

289 You can go to the Houston Rodeo going on right now and get deep fried anything.

Weirdest is deep fried Coca Cola.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Deep Fried Beer debuted at the Texas state fair in 2010.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 01:34 AM (VHUov)

290 And canada don't have the balls to nationalize it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Wonderful mine, great mine, one of the best

Posted by: Doanld looking over at Marco and Pete at March 14, 2026 01:34 AM (Al4HM)

291 China tried shutting down England's oldest steel mill. My inlaws live in the town that is is in. I guess the locals did something about it but like 3 or 4 or the furnaces were shuttered and rendered useless. They bought it. "Saved it". Shipped all the good shit out. Let it rot long enough to rob shit tons of ore and then tried to kill it.
The town is called Skunthorpe or something like that.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:36 AM (rpbjO)

292 >>So there are a few hidden traps in the system?
----------

Of course! There are always 'traps' especially re: disabled or minority, when it comes to tenancy/ squatters' rights.
He needs to be OUT a.s.a.p. Don't want some bleeding heart agency to sue me (in his behalf) later on!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

293 I think think National Walk Your Dog Month should coincide with Ramadan

Just an idea

Posted by: Miklos needs moar and bigger dogs at March 14, 2026 01:37 AM (Al4HM)

294 The guy using the cane didn't know how to use it properly.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

Needs lessons in escrima. (eskrima, arnis, whatever you call it.)

1) Here's how to beat someone with just a stick.

B) Everything is a stick.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 01:38 AM (VHUov)

295
Miklos,

I think we should have dog parades in every muzzie occupied location. Our taxes pay for the roads so they can fuck right off if they complain.

Do they hate pigs? If so pig parades are on the schedule.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:41 AM (3ek7K)

296 We have a 12 y/o, a 7 y/old, a 5 y/old and a 3 y/o.
It's so much fun watching them grow up.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:31 AM (3ek7K)

Mine are 9 and 5 and I can't believe it. Seems like just yesterday they were...

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:41 AM (rpbjO)

297 The town is called Skunthorpe or something like that.
Posted by: Reforger

Scunthorpe?

After which is named The Scunthorpe Problem.

"Why you can't just ban a series of letters that spells something obscene, because you'll block some perfectly cromulent words or names along with it."

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 01:41 AM (VHUov)

298 It wasn't a broomstick, it was a cane. Let somebody, like me, who knows how to use a stick as a weapon, hit you one time with a cane, and you won't want a second hit. I was very lucky to have a Black Belt Hall of Fame Sensei, who really knew what he was doing, and how to teach it. The guy using the cane didn't know how to use it properly.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at March 14, 2026 01:16 AM (Da7Vv)

In my Western Martial Arts group? We actually played around with Bartitsu. Using a Cane to protect yourself.

It... is... a valid form.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 14, 2026 01:42 AM (mP0Kj)

299 296 We have a 12 y/o, a 7 y/old, a 5 y/old and a 3 y/o.
It's so much fun watching them grow up.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:31 AM (3ek7K)

Mine are 9 and 5 and I can't believe it. Seems like just yesterday they were...
Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:41 AM (rpbjO)

Mine turns 35 on Sunday.... how the hell did that happen.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 14, 2026 01:42 AM (mP0Kj)

300 B) Everything is a stick.
Posted by: mikeski

It is a sword cane

Back away, young miscreant

Posted by: Elderly but feisty Sir Miklos at March 14, 2026 01:43 AM (Al4HM)

301
Time passes quickly.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:44 AM (3ek7K)

302 I’ve been meaning to try is smother them in sausage gravy. Not as tasty as scratch biscuits but should be good.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 13, 2026 10:57 PM (Ms2yN)
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A small diner near me makes great breakfast burritos including a chicken fried steak breakfast burrito with country gravy over it instead of green Chile. They are really good but they wreck you for the day.

Posted by: 496 at March 14, 2026 01:44 AM (lGyAR)

303 Shit... did not read upthread...

You all talking Kids, or Grandkids...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 14, 2026 01:44 AM (mP0Kj)

304 "Why you can't just ban a series of letters that spells something obscene, because you'll block some perfectly cromulent words or names along with it."
Posted by: mikeski

Ylllenyyllwwlly!

Posted by: Miklos trab\nslates from the original Welsh at March 14, 2026 01:45 AM (Al4HM)

305 300 B) Everything is a stick.
Posted by: mikeski

It is a sword cane

Back away, young miscreant
Posted by: Elderly but feisty Sir Miklos at March 14, 2026 01:43 AM (Al4HM)

Not that I've... oh... researched this... but Sword Canes are considered concealed weapons... even when you can carry a sword on your hip legally.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 14, 2026 01:46 AM (mP0Kj)

306 Time passes quickly.

Posted by: fourseasons

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the.....

NAME THAT SOAP OPERA

Posted by: Miklos with an Easy softball at March 14, 2026 01:47 AM (Al4HM)

307 Days of Our Lives...

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

308
Romeo,

It's okay. Whether kids or grandkids, time flies.

Do you have days when you feel 35 and then realize, oh shit, I'm old?

Hubby and I feel like that sometimes.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 14, 2026 01:48 AM (3ek7K)

309 In my Western Martial Arts group? We actually played around with Bartitsu. Using a Cane to protect yourself.

It... is... a valid form.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 14, 2026 01:42 AM (mP0Kj)

I did Kendo and Fencing when I was in High School. I'd mess a mf'er up with a cane. For years I did my "fight a night" where the last thing I would do is kick the shit out of a dummy and a bag I have hanging out here in the shop for about 15 minutes..
That was back when my son was the age of my grandkids now. Been a few years since I tried it.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 01:51 AM (rpbjO)

310 China Owns Canada's Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 01:21 AM (BENy5)

FWIW, I have a nice specimen of stibnite crystals, came from central Montana. Stibnite is the major ore of antimony. Stuff is pretty widespread, but rarely found in large mineable deposits. But there are plenty of little mines, maybe worked for gold and silver, that had stibnite as an accessory mineral. If antimony was really valuable, and nearly impossible to get on the market, those little mines could be reopened, or their waste dumps reworked, and antimony produced.

Probably the reason that particular mine is Canada's only antimony mine is that it's one of those metals where one or two big producers own the market, and the price is based more on long-term contracts than a spot market.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 01:52 AM (8zz6B)

311 Sitting in my room one day, friends asked about my lack of accent. I tried to imitate a rural Oklahoma accent. Naw, I said, that's more Deep South. I tried another accent, but decided that was too South Texas. Again I tried an accent, but, no, that was more Arkansas-Missouri hillbilly.

It was at that moment that the only other student there from Oklahoma was looking for me, and from down the hall, we heard this loud gal's voice hollering, "Wharr's th' gaahyy from OAK-luh-HOma?"

I exclaimed, "That's it! That's the accent!" Followed by, "Quick! Close the door!"
Posted by: mindful webworker

The "Minnesota Accent," as spoken by Marge Gunderson in Fargo, is a real thing. Oh, yah shure, ya betcha, donchaknow.

But it's like hillbilly-speak everywhere. A small group of multi-generational rural folk speak that way. Go to Minneapolis? Or Fargo/Moorhead? Nobody there talks like that, unless they're visiting from the farm near Bemidji.

You might hear a bit of the "Swedish Chef" sing-song cadence, since most of the MN settlers were Norwegians and Swedes.

One of my brothers, who moved to Missouri (Mizz-uhr-uh), was accused of having a Canadian accent.

Posted by: mikeski, fer shure at March 14, 2026 01:54 AM (VHUov)

312 Cane guns existed, too. Repeaters, even.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 14, 2026 01:55 AM (8zz6B)

313 I think think National Walk Your Dog Month should coincide with Ramadan

Just an idea

Posted by: Miklos needs moar and bigger dogs at March 14, 2026 01:37 AM (Al4HM)

Serious out of the box thinking.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 01:58 AM (snZF9)

314 I like to go fishing but I don't really like to eat it.
Salmon, tuna, shrimp are ok if they are cooked right.
Never liked fish,or seafood, that taste fishy.

Posted by: Case at March 14, 2026 02:01 AM (pvf3X)

315 It's actually weird how accents can change. My wife is English and as a young girl had the accent. Then moved to America an through being teased in school changed to Californian. When she got drunk with me once when we were dating she slipped. All of a sudden this women is speaking like Hycinth Bucket. I'm all WTF? And when I pointed it out she started laughing and couldn't stop. That was a really fun night.

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 02:04 AM (rpbjO)

316 Last!

Posted by: Reforger at March 14, 2026 02:12 AM (rpbjO)

317 Hi, Reforger! How did the job *situation* go today? Still employed?

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:15 AM (rdVOm)

318
@mitchellvii . Mar 12

You want to know how we know that Thune is a major problem?

The Media NEVER attacks him.

@elonmusk . 16h
Exactly. Legacy media is a propaganda arm of the far left.
--

It's a tell.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 02:17 AM (BENy5)

319 Re unaccented American English: There's a good reason the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Journalism was located in Detroit. From Detroit south thru Toledo (where I grew up) south to Bowling Green OH to US-6 and west to the Fulton-Lucas county line, the locals have the same pronunciation and grammar/syntax as was taught at Specs Howard. South of US-6 and west of Lucas and Wood Counties, one hears "warsh", not "wash", and dropped infinitives (my car "needs washed", not "needs to be washed"), regardless of demographics or educational level. The language taught at Detroit is the "modern broadcast" model, very much different from the voices in the old newsreels and shows such as those Weasel puts up weekly. Back then, the voice of choice was akin to "Locust Valley Lockjaw" (think Thurston and Lovie Howell on Gilligan's Island)...

Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at March 14, 2026 02:18 AM (2U/Sd)

320 JQ, a round for the bar please.

I speak Bahstonese.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 02:21 AM (0nHVk)

321 Hi, Debby!

*sets up beers & bourbons; a Chivas for Deb*

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:23 AM (rdVOm)

322 Wazzzzzzuuuuup, girlfriend?!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:23 AM (rdVOm)

323
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the.....

NAME THAT SOAP OPERA
Posted by: Miklos with an Easy softball

Days of the Week.

Alas, half of the cast members -- or close to half of them -- are no longer with us.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 14, 2026 02:23 AM (xG4kz)

324 Coolest soap opera evah, was Dark Shadows

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

325 Chris Olivarez . @LtChrisOlivarez Mar 12

Texas DPS Brush Team Apprehends Special Interest Alien in Starr County

3/12/26: The @TxDPS Brush Team & a tracking K-9 in Starr County, working alongside U.S. Border Patrol, apprehended a special interest alien (SIA) from Pakistan near Roma, TX #RGV.
DPS remains committed to protecting public safety and securing the border by deploying specialized teams to detect, track, and prevent potential gotaways.
-
Jorge Ventura Media@VenturaReport . 6h

This is a major national security issue , I just confirmed with @LtChrisOlivarez that the special interest alien apprehended yesterday in Starr County , the Pakistan national was issued a ‘permanent resident’ ID by the Mexican government , begs the question , why are Mexican officials issuing these ID’s to Middle Eastern men with the intentions of crossing illegally into the U.S. ?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 02:26 AM (BENy5)

326 Re unaccented American English: There's a good reason the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Journalism was located in Detroit. From Detroit south thru Toledo (where I grew up) south to Bowling Green OH to US-6 and west to the Fulton-Lucas county line, the locals have the same pronunciation and grammar/syntax as was taught at Specs Howard.
Posted by: Cowboyneal

"Midwestern Ohio Newscaster" is the US version of the Brit's "received pronunciation."

"This is what it sounds like to not have an accent."

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 02:27 AM (VHUov)

327 why are Mexican officials issuing these ID’s to Middle Eastern men with the intentions of crossing illegally into the U.S. ?
****

Because someone was paid big money? for $1000, Alex.

Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 02:29 AM (A4VRU)

328 South of US-6 and west of Lucas and Wood Counties, one hears "warsh", not "wash", and dropped infinitives (my car "needs washed", not "needs to be washed"), regardless of demographics or educational level.
Posted by: Cowboyneal

Huh. I always associated that "needs washed" grammar with Indian (dot) English.

Never knew it was a native American (not feather) thing.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 02:31 AM (VHUov)

329
Coolest soap opera evah, was Dark Shadows
Posted by: JQ

The missus was binge watching that last summer. I stayed in the room where it was playing for about two minutes and said, "Just shoot the TV to put it out of its misery," as I left the room.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 14, 2026 02:35 AM (xG4kz)

330 JQ, it is so good to have you back.

four seasons, I get that same feeling many times, where did all of those years go?

Just had a flurry of snow outside.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 02:36 AM (0nHVk)

331 Cheers, Debby!

*clinks glass*

Yeah, where did all those years go? Been reflecting A LOT lately..

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

332 Coolest soap opera evah, was Dark Shadows
Posted by: JQ

The missus was binge watching that last summer. I stayed in the room where it was playing for about two minutes and said, "Just shoot the TV to put it out of its misery," as I left the room.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 14, 2026 02:35 AM (xG4kz)

Dark shadows? Was that the weird vampire type dude, barnacle collins or some shit? I remember my mother watching that shit when I was really young.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 02:39 AM (snZF9)

333 Yes, Bers! I was a little kid then, too-- Barnabas Collins was *mysterious and cool* to little JQ and her older brother, LOL!

Probably couldn't stand the show, now.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

334 Yeah, where did all those years go? Been reflecting A LOT lately..

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

I try not to. It seems like it blew by like a bullet train, but when I think about all the shit I did over the years it almost seemed like it was enough for 2 or 3 lifetimes. But yeah, where the hell did it all go.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 02:44 AM (snZF9)

335 If President Trump can't keep the straits of hormuz open Iran wins.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 14, 2026 02:44 AM (U0QHr)

336 A man dressed in military-style clothing and carrying a holstered firearm entered Zwink Elementary School in Spring Tuesday, prompting a multi-agency investigation that led to a felony arrest, according to court documents and a letter from school officials.

Kyle Najm Chris, also known as Muhi Mohanad Najm, 39, of Klein, was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, a third-degree felony, carrying weapons on school premises.
---slipped in an unlocked gate - when stopped gave no name and showed no ID. Then voluntarily exited. (doesn't say who confronted him, speculating it was coach type)---

Investigators identified Chris through security camera footage, facial recognition and the Texas Department of Public Safety's Flock license plate database.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 02:44 AM (BENy5)

337 Yes, Bers! I was a little kid then, too-- Barnabas Collins was *mysterious and cool* to little JQ and her older brother, LOL!

Probably couldn't stand the show, now.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

I remember it being weird. Now that I think about it, it was playing on some channel maybe 20 years ago, might have been the sci-fi channel. Earlier in the day. I remember seeing a few episodes playing in the background since the sci-fi channel was always on. Well, when it was worth a shit anyway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 02:47 AM (snZF9)

338 Heh. I don't watch much tv.. Only have it on when company wants to watch. BIL watches FNM bs.. thankfully, can mute it & subtitles for him.

Last time it was on, was when MY bro & his son visited last summer-- had kid shows on for the lil guy.

No cabletv, just roku streaming.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

339 In general, I thought soap operas were the stoooopidest things ever to be on TV.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 02:52 AM (snZF9)

340 I never saw Dark Shadows but I did see The Edge of Night, my friend's mom watched it all the time, usually smoking a cig while ironing clothes. That was before housewives became daytime wine drinkers.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 02:52 AM (0nHVk)

341 Soaps were laughably idiotic! But then, what could a hausfrau have for company back in the Big3 network days?

Serious question: was Dark Shadows in color? Because we had only a B/W tv back then.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

342 In general, I thought soap operas were the stoooopidest things ever to be on TV.
Posted by: Berserker

And then Reality TV made them look positively brilliant.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 02:55 AM (VHUov)

343 And then Reality TV made them look positively brilliant.
Posted by: mikeski
----------

Comment of the week! Bravo!

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

344 Visiting a friend at hospital, buzz in the hall, General Hospital's coming on! All of the green shirts that could gathered in the visitor room to watch.

These people are taking care of patients?
Very disappointing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 02:58 AM (BENy5)

345 Heh. I don't watch much tv.. Only have it on when company wants to watch. BIL watches FNM bs.. thankfully, can mute it & subtitles for him.

Last time it was on, was when MY bro & his son visited last summer-- had kid shows on for the lil guy.

No cabletv, just roku streaming.

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

2 TVs here, well 4 if you count the one in the works shop and the gaming TV, but 2 of them burn like the flame on kennedy's grave. One in the living room, where Mrs B can see it while she's buzzing around the house doing shit, and one in the family room where my computer and guitars are. They're always on.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 02:59 AM (snZF9)

346 In general, I thought soap operas were the stoooopidest things ever to be on TV.
Posted by: Berserker

And then Reality TV made them look positively brilliant.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 02:55 AM (VHUov)

Right?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 03:00 AM (snZF9)

347 Visiting a friend at hospital, buzz in the hall, General Hospital's coming on! All of the green shirts that could gathered in the visitor room to watch.

These people are taking care of patients?
Very disappointing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 02:58 AM (BENy5)

Genital hospital.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 14, 2026 03:01 AM (snZF9)

348 I'll be needing another Chivas, just spit mine all over the keyboard.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 03:04 AM (0nHVk)

349 Serious question: was Dark Shadows in color? Because we had only a B/W tv back then.
Posted by: JQ

Started in BW then switched to color at some point before the end of its run. I know because I have episodes on disc. When I watched it as a kid I watched on a BW set.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 03:08 AM (X5qGl)

350 *replacement Chivas for Debby*

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)

351 Started in BW then switched to color at some point before the end of its run. I know because I have episodes on disc. When I watched it as a kid I watched on a BW set.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
---------

Thank you, Nemo! Always wondered...

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 03:12 AM (rdVOm)

352 Entifadh Qanbarانتفاض قنبر@eqanbar . 3h

ELIMINATED

The Commander of the Missile System in the Badr Brigade has been killed.

Rahif Qasim, known as “Abu Ali al-Karbalaei”, served as an official and a key commander of the missile system within the Badr Brigade.

Sources told me that Qasim relocated only three days ago to an alternative location a small, run-down apartment in an attempt to disguise himself and evade detection.

He was struck moments after entering the residence.
---
cue, Sly Stone: Somebody's Watching You

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 14, 2026 03:13 AM (BENy5)

353 Oh, darn it... I need to clock out.

Hubby wants beard-trim tomorrow, so will be busy day.

Good night, horde! <3

Posted by: JQ at March 14, 2026 03:15 AM (rdVOm)

354 >>>I like to go fishing but I don't really like to eat it.
Salmon, tuna, shrimp are ok if they are cooked right.
Never liked fish,or seafood, that taste fishy.

Posted by: Case

>Take a brookie, cutthroat or steelhead right off of the hook, dress it out and drop it right on grill. There's nothing better.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 03:15 AM (M9gjJ)

355 A quick query on the internet says Dark Shadows was BW in its first year then switched to color on August 1, 1967.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 03:17 AM (X5qGl)

356 Take a brookie, cutthroat or steelhead right off of the hook, dress it out and drop it right on grill. There's nothing better.
****

Until someone puts it in a smoker.

Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 03:17 AM (A4VRU)

357 Most of my childhood was black and white tv, we weren't allowed to watch it at my house too much, so. I went to a lot of friend's houses after school just to hang out and watch tv. I watched a lot of Quinn Martin productions, that name just rose to the surface out of nowhere.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 03:19 AM (0nHVk)

358 Get your hands on some walleye fillets and deep fry them. The fresher the better, right off of the hook.

Bring your pole and a gas fueled griddle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 03:26 AM (M9gjJ)

359 I have been known to catch and release, but fuck that, I want to eat them. And I don't want to take the mess home.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 14, 2026 03:35 AM (M9gjJ)

360 Good night JQ.

Sweet dreams Horde, enjoy your fishing, I'll leave you a bucket of beers.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 14, 2026 03:38 AM (0nHVk)

361 Ted Cruz is reading a Christian apologetics supposedly written by the “AI” (LLM) Claude. You can hear him read it on the YouTube in the link below starting at about 25 minutes. I may have seen this link here, I can’t track it down at the moment. The apologetics essay is very good: I recommend it on its own merits, but I don’t think it was written by a Large Language Model. For example, the LLM makes assertions based on its broad understanding of human nature. An LLM has a broad understanding of human nature? Go on, pull the other leg: it has bells on it. Cruz is committing what amounts to a pious fraud, perhaps unwittingly.

Here’s the link:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RnR7Wz-XzHI

Go see for yourself: the essay is good.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 14, 2026 03:39 AM (X5qGl)

362 In general, I thought soap operas were the stoooopidest things ever to be on TV.
Posted by: Berserker

And then Reality TV made them look positively brilliant.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 02:55 AM (VHUov)

Right?
Posted by: Berserker

Until alternate reality TV showed up on YouTube in the form of congressional hearings and brought down the national IQ by about 25 points.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 14, 2026 03:47 AM (BnDlA)

363 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: clarence at March 14, 2026 04:02 AM (A4VRU)

364 Pixy's up.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 14, 2026 04:03 AM (NcvvS)

365 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 14, 2026 04:04 AM (MIIRH)

The Ocho Cafe

I didn't know this, but the fake ESPN channel created for Dodgeball, ESPN8 "The Ocho" -- "If it's almost a sport, it must be The Ocho!" -- was actually turned into a real annual event by ESPN.

Here's some of The Best of The Ocho from eight years ago.

Here's some more competitions that are Almost A Sport, many of which are actually more awesome than conventional sports.

The actual dodgeball championships, US v. Canada, from 2014.

High-speed downhill soapbox derby racing.

Soapbox derby, Wacky Races Division.

High speed downhill-racing skateboarding.

Skateboarding down a Norwegian mountain road. When he balances by touching his gauntleted hand to the pavement, sparks fly. I like that.

Jetsuit racing (finals). If you want to see the earlier heats, start at about 8:00.

Women's division rock-climbing championships.

Rock-climbing on a dam.

Japanese (who else?) Mech MMA.

This whole video showing bikers testing the newest version of the Redbull Hardline extreme bike course is worth watching, but if you want to cut to the really good part, go here, to see the ramp jump across a chasm that I was sure was just a promotional thing that no one intended to actually jump. Wrong, they do jump it. It's insane. Several make it and one wipes. After testing it, and being told repeatedly "that jump will kill somebody," they decided the jump was just too insane and so they removed it from the bike course.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM

Comments

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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 07:21 PM (cYBz/)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 13, 2026 07:21 PM (LdBR/)

3 Thanks, Ace! Have a great weekend!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 07:23 PM (MIIRH)

4 Time to mainline adrenaline again. It's the Cafe!

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (ICjqV)

5 I have sad faces for the last four videos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (zZu0s)

6 What? 'The Ocho' isn't real?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (4NO2D)

7 I miss being able to play racquetball and volleyball.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (+nEug)

8 Nvm, there we go.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (zZu0s)

9 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

10 The deployment of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit does not mean it will be used as a ground force in Iran, but it provides land, amphibious and aviation assets available to military commanders if needed, ABC News reported.

The 31st MEU also includes a squadron of F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters and a squadron of MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft.

I smell a takeover of Kharg Island thus shutting down Iran's Oil Industry....

Just Say'n ???????????????

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 13, 2026 07:28 PM (tNUCp)

11 Jetsuit racing (finals).

At first (and second) reading, I swear to God I thought this said Jesuit racing. So then,

The Discernment 400m Dash
Sprint while reciting the Spiritual Exercises in order
The Marathon of Mercy - A full 26.2 miles where runners must stop every mile to hear confessions from volunteers stationed along the route.
Synchronized Apologetics Swimming - Teams in the pool do perfectly timed backstrokes while defending controversial papal encyclicals. Judges deduct points for splashing (lack of composure) or failing to cite Suarez in Latin.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 07:28 PM (cYBz/)

12 What kind of sport is Kabaddi?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 07:29 PM (6ydKt)

13 "What? 'The Ocho' isn't real?"

I thought the same thing, lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 07:29 PM (MIIRH)

14 ace is being Xtreme this cafe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 07:30 PM (zZu0s)

15 11 Jetsuit racing (finals).

At first (and second) reading, I swear to God I thought this said Jesuit racing. So then,

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 07:28 PM (cYBz/)

Just so long as they aren't sitting in the box when I go to confession. Those guys wear me out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 13, 2026 07:30 PM (I40wl)

16 7 I miss being able to play racquetball and volleyball.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (+nEug)

My ability to play volleyball is directly inversely proportional to my volume of alcohol intake.

I didn't say I was any good at it, just that enough booze means I will play it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 13, 2026 07:31 PM (I40wl)

17 A reminder of the noted urban justice activist's poignant comment last night in the Café that "B is for bats".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 07:31 PM (0sNs1)

18 "At first (and second) reading, I swear to God I thought this said Jesuit racing"

Horde mind. So did I. 🤣

Posted by: Tuna at March 13, 2026 07:32 PM (lJ0H4)

19 Jackson Goldstone is fucking amazing.

That Hardline Run is spotless and he finished it with a massive tailwhip on an 80 footer.

Insane.

Posted by: Spa Signage at March 13, 2026 07:32 PM (erF49)

20 surprised no one's talking about the Armored MMA yet

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 07:32 PM (1wjle)

21 SignageOFF

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 07:32 PM (erF49)

22 Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 07:28 PM (cYBz/)

The Divine Olympics. Haha! Several of us saw "jesuit" on last night's cafe, too.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 07:32 PM (h7ZuX)

23 Number 7 from Canada was putting some serious spin on the ball in the 2014 Dodgeball Championship.

I've seen curveballs with less swerve.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 07:33 PM (6ydKt)

24 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 07:36 PM (77rzZ)

25 Married guys that keep touting boobs must have really flat chested wives.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:38 PM (+nEug)

26 The Ocho is only seasonal? I noticed I had it the last time I switched cable providers, but didn't actually watch it. I didn't see anything particularly special about their volleyball, and didn't have any interest in men's pillow fighting.

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 07:38 PM (vSvIl)

27 No, Bulg, if they was any boobs, I'd seen 'em.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 07:38 PM (vd6bO)

28 Jesuit racing?

“Eat my dirt, suckers!”
— Zombie Pope Francis

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 07:38 PM (77rzZ)

29 I didn't see Penelope Pitstop or the Boulder mobile.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 07:39 PM (Cqx++)

30 25 Ben Had, you truly do not understand the power of boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 07:40 PM (77rzZ)

31 Have to admit, our ramp with cinder blocks and plywood seem a little tame. But none of us fell into a canyon on our street.

Posted by: Elect me because i'm dyslexic and racist at March 13, 2026 07:40 PM (Drzka)

32 Young Bulg had a thing for Penelope Pitstop.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 07:41 PM (77rzZ)

33 More violence in an average NHL game than in the armored knights octagon "battle".

Posted by: Archer at March 13, 2026 07:42 PM (wvc0i)

34 >>Have to admit, our ramp with cinder blocks and plywood seem a little tame. But none of us fell into a canyon on our street.

Bernard Kerr, the guy who jumped that Canyon Gap first, is a beast of a rider.

That guy jumping his house nearly overcooked that last jump without the scaffolding. That was some huge air.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 07:42 PM (erF49)

35 30 25 Ben Had, you truly do not understand the power of boobs.
Posted by: Bulg

Now you've done it.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 13, 2026 07:42 PM (NFX2v)

36 Boasberg at it again.

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 07:43 PM (YwEeS)

37 I'm too old for armored MMA, ace...gotta get 'em from .308 distance if I'm gonna have any chance. Just sittin' over here waiting for comment 100 so I can ask the mechanics of the crowd the best way to clean the inside of an intake manifold on my Jeep. Thanks for all the content. There has been a lot going on to cover lately!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 07:43 PM (vd6bO)

38
These Red Bull extreme demos, if they're real, look like a good way to get people killed.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 07:44 PM (azNOR)

39 The Armored MMA is odd but watchable.

Are they going to bring back jousting next?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 07:45 PM (6ydKt)

40 Wacky Cars are wacky

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

41 [WILLOWED from a couple threads ago (h/t Way, Way Downriver for humorously catching my typo):]

Or maybe a detachment of heavily armed IRS agents who land on Cuban shores will help convince them to take an indefinite siesta.

------------

Led by recently promoted Colonel Scott Bessent.

I can see him now, shirtless with a great tan, wearing the same Air ~~Calvary~~ Cavalry Cowboy Hat, Sunglasses, and Bandana a la Robert Duvall's Col. Kilgore.

"I love the smell of Date Palm in the morning ... it smells like VICTORY!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:46 PM (My0zW)

42 36 What’s he done now?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 07:46 PM (77rzZ)

43 We (three in our crew) used to host sanctioned AMA Observed Trials riding events in the High Sierra. Everything is slow speed but scary as hell. I broke three ribs going no faster than 2-3 miles an hour.

Those guys shown on the downhill videos are a rare breed. One wrong move and you're never riding again Sonny Bono style.

Took us five summers just to cut six miles of trail (loop) through dense, third-growth forest. USFS rangers were reasonable with a few prickly exceptions

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 07:47 PM (137rY)

44 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)

45 I understand that single guys are entitled to every boob they want to look at or comment on. Married guys are showing disrespect to their wives by rating others boobs against their wives. You think it unintentional but it ain't.

I can look at all the male ass I want to because I am single.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:48 PM (+nEug)

46 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
_-_
There goes the neighborhood.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 07:48 PM (vd6bO)

47 >>I can look at all the male ass I want to because I am single.

What's ace's excuse?

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (erF49)

48 Ugh. Ground stop at Reagan Dulles BWI. Radar out, it seems. I’m stuck in KC airport still.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (t9vjs)

49 39 The Armored MMA is odd but watchable.

Are they going to bring back jousting next?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 07:45 PM (6ydKt)

I know multiple people who are trying to do just that.

There already is both a National and International League set up.... just not getting any real Media attention yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (mP0Kj)

50 Married guys that keep touting boobs must have really flat chested wives.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:38 PM (+nEug)

—————-

The Duchess is rather well endowed, but as Ron White said, once you’ve seen one, you pretty much want to see them all.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (u73oe)

51 Headline from the World of Corrupt Sports (AP):

"WADA to weigh barring Trump, US officials from LA Olympics and possibly World Cup over unpaid dues"

Excerpt:

"The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering rewriting its rules to try barring President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending the LA Olympics in 2028 in a move that could also have implications for the World Cup being hosted by the U.S. this summer.

The proposal, on the agenda for next Tuesday's meeting of the global drug-fighting watchdog's executive committee, is the latest maneuver to come out of a yearslong refusal of the U.S. government to pay its annual dues to WADA. The refusal is part of the American government's unanimous, bipartisan protest of the agency's handling of a case involving Chinese swimmers and other issues."

Posted by: mrp at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (rj6Yv)

52 The red robot in the Mecha MMA getting up, in multiple ways, after landing horizontal is awesome.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (6ydKt)

53 no comment

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:50 PM (+nEug)

54 The Mullahs will be welcome setting up Mosque in Canada or England

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

55 Ben Had, you truly do not understand the power of boobs.

Posted by: Bulg

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I've had many near-accidents as a result of the existence of boobs -- and asses -- but mostly asses.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:50 PM (My0zW)

56 I can look at all the male ass I want to because I am single.
Posted by: Ben Had

And don't think we didn't notice!!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 07:51 PM (cYBz/)

57 I agree, Ben Had.

Disrespectful amd attention seeking.

Posted by: Sick of it at March 13, 2026 07:52 PM (8Xlir)

58 I find it particularly exhilarating when octogenarians get into brawls in a highly contested pickleball match. No quarter. Come get some, bitch!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 07:52 PM (M9gjJ)

59 The Mullahs will be welcome setting up Mosque in Canada or England

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

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Old & Busted: MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying).
New Hotness: MAID (Muslim Assistance in Dying).

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:52 PM (My0zW)

60 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
-
I doubt snow is going to slow down our bombers.

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 07:53 PM (vSvIl)

61 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
-
I doubt snow is going to slow down our bombers.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 07:53 PM (vSvIl)
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It may slow down theirs, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 07:54 PM (ESVrU)

62 Canada is going to accept all these Iranian mullahs? Disgraceful!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 07:54 PM (fQqaC)

63 I forgot the Boasberg link

https://instapundit.com/782480/

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 07:54 PM (YwEeS)

64 I know multiple people who are trying to do just that.

There already is both a National and International League set up.... just not getting any real Media attention yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm guessing if somebody gets killed during a tournament it would become world-famous quickly.

But I'd watch it for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 07:54 PM (6ydKt)

65 Boobs! Has been a running gag here for years. Y’all have a good evening.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (u73oe)

66 I make no apology for my love of boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (77rzZ)

67 Anyway, an all around, exciting Ocho Cafe, Ace.

The folly of youth.

Thanks, and good weekend.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (NFX2v)

68 Canada giving us an excuse...

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (YwEeS)

69 What's all this about protecting the Straights of Hormuz but nothing for the Gays of Hormuz? I'm sure they're fabulous!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (ndZc7)

70 Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:52 PM (My0zW)

Well turned phrase, ShainS.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (fQqaC)

71 Well turned phrase, ShainS
_-_
Acronym reconfliction

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 07:56 PM (vd6bO)

72 Superman Punch in Armor: Armored MMA

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Remind me again that we're NOT in the Bread & Circuses stage of the Death of The Republic?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:57 PM (My0zW)

73 Mullahs in Canada:

What's a Mullah without some Mullees?

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:57 PM (8avO+)

74 What? No Australian Rules Tractor Pulling?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 13, 2026 07:57 PM (zZSxi)

75 Superman Punch in Armor: Armored MMA

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Remind me again that we're NOT in the Bread & Circuses stage of the Death of The Republic?

/rhetorical
Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:57 PM (My0zW)

The Circuses had good shows, unlike Hollywood.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:58 PM (8avO+)

76 Is anybody else getting a bunch of crazy email spam? Not the ordinary stuff, weird, maybe AI generated spam that makes no sense. Are we being spammed by Islamists?

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

77 My supersweet husband took my glasses to clean, and I was reading the links, and thought I saw Jesuit racing. I would subscribe to the Ocho just for that.

Posted by: moki at March 13, 2026 07:59 PM (wLjpr)

78 Boasberg should just run for President,
Oh, but then some othrr Commissar Judge will rule him out.
Oh well, back to.my drawing board

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

79 The red robot in the Mecha MMA getting up, in multiple ways, after landing horizontal is awesome.

The flying dropkick was cool if not particularly effective.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 13, 2026 08:01 PM (Fs0KI)

80 I forgot the Boasberg link

https://instapundit.com/782480/

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 07:54 PM (YwEeS)

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"YES, IT’S JUDGE BOASBERG AGAIN: Judge blocks DOJ’s criminal probe of Federal Reserve, blasting it as political."

You can't investigate criminality by Democrat-Communists, h8rs!

/Will no one rid me of this meddlesome creep?

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 08:01 PM (My0zW)

81 Persian oppo forces have set up a website to publish addresses of Basij thugs. Israel has said they will be targets at home.

IGRC is telling Basij to go into sewers to avoid air attack.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 08:01 PM (8avO+)

82 Michigan state Ohio state and grand valley state have the best college dodgeball teams in the country every year.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 08:01 PM (YZ0Fo)

83 76 Is anybody else getting a bunch of crazy email spam? Not the ordinary stuff, weird, maybe AI generated spam that makes no sense. Are we being spammed by Islamists?
Posted by: fd

I have a paid service that removes data from databrokers where my email and other personal info appears. And checks the darkweb. Lots of emails though I never see as have decent screening where they go to the bin automatically.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 08:01 PM (E4rtv)

84 A man shot and killed by Dallas police earlier this week was a familiar figure in North Texas law enforcement – and part of the security detail for U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, sources told CBS News Texas.

Multiple law enforcement sources tell CBS News Texas the man, known publicly as Mike King, had been using aliases while running a business that placed officers in off‑duty jobs.

King was killed Wednesday night after a standoff with Dallas police SWAT officers. Police say he fled into a hospital parking garage, barricaded himself inside a vehicle, and was forced out by tear gas before pulling a gun on officers.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 13, 2026 08:03 PM (CNl8/)

85 "YES, IT’S JUDGE BOASBERG AGAIN: Judge blocks DOJ’s criminal probe of Federal Reserve, blasting it as political."

-
No one is above the law except the Fed!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 08:04 PM (ndZc7)

86 Ha! Racing Jesuits pursued by the Domini Canes. I'd watch!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 08:05 PM (kpS4V)

87 Those downhill "soapbox" racers look a lot more like midget racers, minus engines. Some of them have pretty elaborate suspensions, and they are using small auto wheels.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:05 PM (8zz6B)

88 Looks like we bombed the island in Iran.

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 08:05 PM (I7J98)

89 It's not a real cafe without puppehs!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 13, 2026 08:06 PM (tcsrY)

90 Wind's been blowing fiercely all day. No trees down, yet.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

91 We bombed the island in Iran, except the oil facilities.

Iran has figured out bombing our refuelers on the ground is a good strategy (they apparently have done 6 on the ground now, although all are repairable - although maybe I'd get those planes some parachutes, just in case the repairs don't take well enough)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:07 PM (tOcjL)

92 Still snowing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 08:07 PM (A5RD0)

93 Ugh. Ground stop at Reagan Dulles BWI. Radar out, it seems. I’m stuck in KC airport still.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (t9vjs)
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WTOP is reporting that the ground stop is lifted and planes have been taking off, so hopefully you'll be able to come home soon!

Posted by: bluebell at March 13, 2026 08:08 PM (afFes)

94 90 Wind's been blowing fiercely all day. No trees down, yet.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

We had trees down on main roads, train tracks, and power lines - I just got power back after 3+ hours...and my lines are underground in my community, so the line that went down was on the main road...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:08 PM (tOcjL)

95 Most of my spam gets filtered too. Not these though, too random and weird. I was just wondering if it was a trend.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (vFG9F)

96 93 Ugh. Ground stop at Reagan Dulles BWI. Radar out, it seems. I’m stuck in KC airport still.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at March 13, 2026 07:49 PM (t9vjs)
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WTOP is reporting that the ground stop is lifted and planes have been taking off, so hopefully you'll be able to come home soon!
Posted by: bluebell at March 13, 2026 08:08 PM (afFes)

Power was lost many places here starting around 4pm, so that's not a surprise...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (tOcjL)

97 >>Still snowing.

Snowed all day, today. Probably get more tonight, too.

But it will be 70 in a few days. So, fun to see.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (erF49)

98 Looks like we bombed the island in Iran.
Posted by: beckster

I think it was Kong Island. This could mean trouble.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (ndZc7)

99 Iran has figured out bombing our refuelers on the ground is a good strategy (they apparently have done 6 on the ground now, although all are repairable - although maybe I'd get those planes some parachutes, just in case the repairs don't take well enough)...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:07 PM (tOcjL)

interesting, can I get a link for this piece of information ? thanks

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (GD0B3)

100 Square profile picture
The White House
@WhiteHouse
·
55m
“Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island...

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:10 PM (ZxPkt)

101 I think it was Kong Island. This could mean trouble.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (ndZc7)

Kharg...

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:10 PM (GD0B3)

102 \🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:10 PM (GD0B3)

103 It’s been a crazy, beautiful snowstorm all day today. Weathercasters totally missed it.

So funny.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 08:10 PM (A5RD0)

104 98 Looks like we bombed the island in Iran.
Posted by: beckster

I think it was Kong Island. This could mean trouble.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (ndZc7)

Kharg Island

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:10 PM (tOcjL)

105 44 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)

Evidence:
https://tinyurl.com/3bbn6bnf

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 08:11 PM (I7J98)

106 Looks like we bombed the island in Iran.
Posted by: beckster

I think it was Kong Island. This could mean trouble.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 08:09 PM (ndZc7)

only for Tokyo

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 08:12 PM (8avO+)

107 "Five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were struck and damaged on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia, according to two U.S. officials.

The tankers were hit during an Iranian missile strike on the Saudi base in recent days, the officials said. U.S. Central Command declined to comment. The tankers were damaged but not fully destroyed and are being repaired, one of the officials said. No one was killed in the strikes.

The news brings the total number of Air Force refueling planes damaged or destroyed to at least seven."

Zerohedge stole a Wall Street Journal update (I believe it's paywalled there, but it starts from them)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:12 PM (tOcjL)

108 Star Trek is on. It's then one where they go to a place that is a lot like Earth in a different century.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:12 PM (vFG9F)

109 Canada is going to accept all these Iranian mullahs? Disgraceful!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 07:54 PM (fQqaC)

If they put any in my 'hood, I will send Pete Hegseth the co-ordinates. But they won't, of course. Those goatrapers will get cushy apartments in the biggest cities.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:12 PM (8zz6B)

110

I'm so jealous of others getting snow.

No snow here in SW Wyoming and we need it to fill the reservoir and to have enough water to make it through fire season.

It ain't looking good this year.

Posted by: four seasons at March 13, 2026 08:12 PM (3ek7K)

111 And Ben Had,

I’ll sit and enjoy the view any time. Married men really should keep Their tongues in their mouths. Observing and grinning is different than openly salivating all the time. It gets old.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 08:12 PM (A5RD0)

112 You announce Kharg Island bombing on a Friday so the commodities traders have a few days to get a grip before oil trading starts again on Monday.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 13, 2026 08:13 PM (CNl8/)

113 I go the joke!! OK?!

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:13 PM (GD0B3)

114 So 6 + the one that crashed killing everyone b/c of no parachutes.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:13 PM (tOcjL)

115 I can look at all the male ass I want to because I am single.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:48 PM

Just to be clear, that's fine gentlemen gluteals, and not, say, Adam Schiff or Eric Swalwell, correct? ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 08:14 PM (0sNs1)

116 What's all this about protecting the Straights of Hormuz but nothing for the Gays of Hormuz? I'm sure they're fabulous!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (ndZc7)

Would female bovines of loose morals be Whoremoos?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:14 PM (8zz6B)

117 ‘Ettes are getting upset over ‘Ron’s talking about boobs? Really?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

118 all I see is "Reuters could not immediately verify the report."

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:15 PM (GD0B3)

119 The Jesuits are pimps. They could never outrace the Benedictines.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 08:16 PM (JkO4W)

120
Bulg,

I know you are looking for a job.

Why don't you get involved with porn videos. You could direct or whatever and hopefully get your fill of boobs.

I bet you would make lots of money in the porn business.

Posted by: four seasons at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (3ek7K)

121 "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome creep?
Posted by: ShainS"

I do not understand why they have not found the skeleton in this guy's closet yet. Just look at him. Would you be surprised if you found out he eats bugs?

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (vFG9F)

122 No one said why refueling plane went down in Iraq, but two planes were involved, one landed safely in Israel, the other unfortunately went down in Iraq. Details of why are unknown.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (GD0B3)

123 It’s been a crazy, beautiful snowstorm all day today. Weathercasters totally missed it.

So funny.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 08:10 PM

Enjoy that last bit of winter!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (Wnv9h)

124 Lol

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 08:18 PM (A5RD0)

125 I’ll sit and enjoy the view any time. Married men really should keep Their tongues in their mouths. Observing and grinning is different than openly salivating all the time. It gets old.

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I guess the eye-bulging and the aaa-OOO-gah sound effects are right out then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 08:18 PM (JkO4W)

126 As far as the damage to the planes in Saudi, I will wait for the report from Pentagon.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:18 PM (GD0B3)

127 60 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
-
I doubt snow is going to slow down our bombers.
Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 07:53 PM (vSvIl)

Please do.

Of all the Islamist ass kissing Western nations in the world, how bad is it, that Canada is the prefered destination? Hell, France probably wasn't even given a second thought over this Islamist loving shithole.

"Well Mohamad, it'll be about 80 degrees colder, but I'd feel safest in Canada!'

I just watched the Terrifier trilogy but now I'm in the mood for something even more brutal. By theway, great movies and the lead actresses breasts in the second movie were mesmerizing.

If the Horde is into stuff like that. Night all....

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 08:18 PM (Sco7b)

128 116 What's all this about protecting the Straights of Hormuz but nothing for the Gays of Hormuz? I'm sure they're fabulous!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 07:55 PM (ndZc7)

Would female bovines of loose morals be Whoremoos?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:14 PM (8zz6B)

No Gays of Hormuz until June... Pride month ya know?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 08:19 PM (mP0Kj)

129 I do not understand why they have not found the skeleton in this guy's closet yet. Just look at him. Would you be surprised if you found out he eats bugs?

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (vFG9F)

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If it looks like a pedo, talks like a pedo, and rules like a pedo ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 08:19 PM (My0zW)

130 The female gaze. It's real.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 08:20 PM (0sNs1)

131
Go ahead, close out.

I'm here for you, Weird Dave.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 08:20 PM (Y8DZL)

132 Cicero,
It’s funny but not on a constant basis. Some commenters don’t know the difference between comic relief and being creepy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 08:20 PM (A5RD0)

133 a week ago WSJ was reporting that the Kurds are crossing into Iran...they have great sources

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:21 PM (GD0B3)

134 120 Nah, I got no video skills. Unlike TJM.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 08:21 PM (77rzZ)

135 I guess the eye-bulging and the aaa-OOO-gah sound effects are right out then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 08:18 PM

But we can still go "honk-honk" while squeezing our nose, right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

136 I guess the eye-bulging and the aaa-OOO-gah sound effects are right out then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 08:18 PM (JkO4W)
----
Tex Avery hardest hit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 08:21 PM (ESVrU)

137 Good evening, friends! Kind of a late evening, just got in. Making salad for the crew with grilled chicken, strawberries, blueberries and spinach. Not the fanciest, but quick!

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 08:21 PM (p4NUW)

138 No one said why refueling plane went down in Iraq, but two planes were involved, one landed safely in Israel, the other unfortunately went down in Iraq. Details of why are unknown.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (GD0B3)

Sounds like a mid-air collision. I saw a report here last night that the plane which made it to israel had a big chunk missing from its vertical stabilizer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:22 PM (8zz6B)

139 122 No one said why refueling plane went down in Iraq, but two planes were involved, one landed safely in Israel, the other unfortunately went down in Iraq. Details of why are unknown.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (GD0B3)

The Reuters report of the WSJ article are different planes.

CNN has the video of the refueler that landed in the 2 plane issue - the landed plane has noticeable tail damage. It was well done of the pilot to safely land it.

Planes with no parachutes has got to be fixed asap.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:22 PM (tOcjL)

140 Them gay Hormuzez can take dat rainbow flag and shove it whea da sun don't shine!

Posted by: zombie Archie Bunker at March 13, 2026 08:22 PM (vFG9F)

141 Fancy enough for me, Piper. Pass some o' that over here!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 08:23 PM (vd6bO)

142 I loved my mom's salad made with mandarin oranges and slivered almonds. Classy!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (kpS4V)

143 It's Friday and you deserve to hear “Addicted To Love” in Cantonese.
https://tinyurl.com/4vuhzweh

Posted by: Yer Sistas Ass at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (VPPG8)

144 If the Ayatollahs really fled to Canada then US and / or Israel should send in hit teams to eliminate* them.

*Capture for crimes against humanity, try, and if convicted, execute, all done within five minutes. They earned no more justice the Iranian protesters received. So this would be giving them leniency.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (/lPRQ)

145 "The female gaze. It's real.
Posted by: Duncanthrax "

I do try to ignore it. Let 'em have their thrill.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

146 120
Bulg,

I know you are looking for a job.

Why don't you get involved with porn videos. You could direct or whatever and hopefully get your fill of boobs.

I bet you would make lots of money in the porn business.
Posted by: four seasons at March 13, 2026 08:17 PM (3ek7K)

Don't be fooled, the adult content industry is very, very competitive. It's a dong eat dong world out there.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (w/O5Q)

147
Wine beer and popcorn here tonight.

Hey, it's Friday night!

Posted by: four seasons at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (3ek7K)

148 Hi Piper and everyone else.
Rant over, heading up.
Slight cold coming on.
Good night all.

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (Sco7b)

149
Trump has publicly stated years ago that we'll seize Kharg island.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 08:25 PM (Y8DZL)

150 141 Fancy enough for me, Piper. Pass some o' that over here!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 08:23 PM

Let me make this vinaigrette and I will send it on over!

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 08:25 PM (p4NUW)

151 There already is an Ayatollah in Canada, the Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah, Chris Jericho.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at March 13, 2026 08:25 PM (h/O4U)

152 Planes with no parachutes has got to be fixed asap.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:22 PM (tOcjL)

Is it possible for crew members to don a parachute, and then safely reach an exit that is safe to jump from?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:25 PM (8zz6B)

153 KHARG!!

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:26 PM (ZxPkt)

154 Never watched ESPN but it appears to have gone full faggot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 08:26 PM (BENy5)

155 Trump has publicly stated years ago that we'll seize Kharg island.

==

cool, I think it's happening

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:26 PM (GD0B3)

156
Trump has publicly stated years ago that we'll seize Kharg island.
Posted by: Auspex

Sounds like a Klingon name.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 08:27 PM (Cqx++)

157 >No one said why refueling plane went down in Iraq, but two planes were involved, one landed safely in Israel, the other unfortunately went down in Iraq. Details of why are unknown.
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mid-air collision

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:27 PM (ZxPkt)

158
132 Cicero,
It’s funny but not on a constant basis. Some commenters don’t know the difference between comic relief and being creepy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 08:20 PM (A5RD0)

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See? This is why I always intersperse my hound-doggage with higher, more erudite wit, usually having to do with Christian heresies or bodily functions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 08:27 PM (JkO4W)

159 wait a minute...He said we will take Greenland ! uh oh..

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:27 PM (GD0B3)

160 Trump Kharg Island ?

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:28 PM (GD0B3)

161 Kong Island is , well, you know where King Kong is from

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 08:28 PM (Ia/+0)

162 152 Planes with no parachutes has got to be fixed asap.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:22 PM (tOcjL)

Is it possible for crew members to don a parachute, and then safely reach an exit that is safe to jump from?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:25 PM (8zz6B)

In the refuelers - yes. HOWEVER, the Air Force cheaped out in 2008 and took them out. So, they currently have none. I think the enemy have figured that out, so we need these sitting ducks fixed asap both inside and outside the plane.

Parachutes are cheap - and can save at least 4-5 of the normal 6 folks on board...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:28 PM (tOcjL)

163 Don’t laugh but Canadascheduled to be our Lebanon.

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 08:29 PM (AZXeW)

164 is it safe to parachute from a jet aircraft

not talking about ejection seat
I mean, can you open a side door and bail out

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:29 PM (ZxPkt)

165 Kong Island is , well, you know where King Kong is from
Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 08:28 PM

Ahem.

Posted by: Donkey at March 13, 2026 08:30 PM (0sNs1)

166 The ladies freaking out over boob talk cracks me up.

Ladies, we men look at boobs ALL THE FREAKING TIME, whether we’re married/hooked up or not. How can you not know this?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 08:30 PM (77rzZ)

167 It's probably safer than crashing.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:30 PM (vFG9F)

168 Might be some airspeed considerations there. Never tried bailing out of a plane of any type.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 08:31 PM (vd6bO)

169 Let's take ALL the islands! Kharg, Greenland, Ibiza, Bermuda, Baffin..,

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 08:31 PM (kpS4V)

170 is it safe to parachute from a jet aircraft

not talking about ejection seat
I mean, can you open a side door and bail out
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:29 PM

Don't ask me.

Posted by: D.B. Cooper at March 13, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

171 80

'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome creep?'

Does shaking my fist at him and wishing him dead help?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2026 08:31 PM (fd80v)

172 164 is it safe to parachute from a jet aircraft

not talking about ejection seat
I mean, can you open a side door and bail out
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:29 PM (ZxPkt)

YES. It's why they had parachutes til 2008. They weren't taken out b/c you couldn't jump out. They were taken out b/c they were deemed to expensive to keep safe and personnel trained on planes that were deemed not to be under much threat.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:31 PM (tOcjL)

173 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!

And the UK. Bastards.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 08:32 PM (7Cdr7)

174 Kong Island is , well, you know where King Kong is from
Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 08:28 PM (Ia/+0)

Kharg Island is where Queen Kharg came from. You know, the giant nightcrawler that popped its head up in the courtyard of the Pentagon. The movie was a bust. Nobody took the bait.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:32 PM (8zz6B)

175 weaselacres on tousi

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 08:33 PM (nLdZ2)

176 Military genius. Let's cut the stuff that keeps our troops safer (like parachutes and parachute training) so that we can probably fund worthless climate change or DEI stuff - that would have been 2008 onward...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:33 PM (tOcjL)

177
Jetsuit racing (finals).

Those racing Jesuits consume high octane souls at an alarming rate!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 13, 2026 08:33 PM (xG4kz)

178 is it safe to parachute from a jet aircraft

not talking about ejection seat
I mean, can you open a side door and bail out
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:29 PM

Short answer, yes.

Even the C-5A Galaxy is man-rated. But the the C-5A's case, just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done, according to the men who jumped.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 08:33 PM (0sNs1)

179 Who was president in 2008? Hmm .

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

180 King Kong is from Skull Island.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 08:34 PM (Cqx++)

181 YES. It's why they had parachutes til 2008. They weren't taken out b/c you couldn't jump out. They were taken out b/c they were deemed to expensive to keep safe and personnel trained on planes that were deemed not to be under much threat.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:31 PM (tOcjL)
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I did not know this.

If I were a pilot, and bored, I'd eject two dummies in pilot uniforms with time-release parachutes, and listen to the howls of terror from the cabin.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 08:34 PM (kpS4V)

182 King Kong is from Skull Island.

===

Should we take that too ?

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:34 PM (GD0B3)

183 I'm not sure we want Monster Island. Like the man said, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:36 PM (vFG9F)

184 At some point the outflow of Ayatollahs will become difficult for Iran to sustain.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 08:36 PM (JkO4W)

185 just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done
_-_
Yeah, that's what I was wondering about...clearly better than staying in a plane that will crash, but there might be some measures necessary to survive the thing depending on airspeed and altitude?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 08:36 PM (vd6bO)

186 Should we take that too ?
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:34 PM (GD0B3)

weren't there some dinosaurs and ooga-booga natives, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:37 PM (8zz6B)

187 Don't be fooled, the adult content industry is very, very competitive. It's a dong eat dong world out there.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (w/O5Q)

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* golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 08:37 PM (My0zW)

188 I better call it a night, no reason to get up tomorrow but doesn't mean I wont.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 08:37 PM (Ia/+0)

189 "Sounds like a Klingon name."

"King Kong is from Skull Island."

Kharg, son of Skull

Posted by: Tuna at March 13, 2026 08:38 PM (lJ0H4)

190 Skull Island also had dinosaurs on it. Not sure we want it.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 08:38 PM (77rzZ)

191 >No one said why refueling plane went down in Iraq, but two planes were involved, one landed safely in Israel, the other unfortunately went down in Iraq. Details of why are unknown.
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mid-air collision
Posted by: Don Black

SIL is a former KC135 captain. He said refueling during combat scenarios is hairy. Most often it involves multiple tankers in close proximity with customers qued up.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 08:38 PM (7Cdr7)

192 145 "The female gaze. It's real.
Posted by: Duncanthrax "

I do try to ignore it. Let 'em have their thrill.
Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

I don't know what's happened to me, but sometimes when I'm driving and I see a particularly nice-looking man walking, or working, I want to stick my head out the window and yell "hey, handsome!" or "nice ass!"

And I think of all of my indignation at being the object of such attention as a young gal. I keep mouth shut, but it kinda makes me laugh.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 08:38 PM (h7ZuX)

193 The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted a significant strike on Kharg Island, Iran’s key oil terminal, as announced by President Trump.

The operation targeted military assets while sparing the island’s oil infrastructure, which is crucial for nearly 90% of Iran’s oil exports. Trump emphasized the power of the U.S. weapons used but chose not to destroy the oil facilities to maintain decency.

CENTCOM’s latest release highlighted missions involving B-2 stealth bombers but did not confirm the specific targeting of Kharg Island.
_/mynewswave.com

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 08:39 PM (BENy5)

194
I thought that Kharg Island was where KHAN! was exiled by the Federation.

That "Settee Alpha Six" appellation was just a smoke screen to fool the Starfleet brass that they had shipped Khan's hiney to "...up way over yonder!"

Were Starfleet's brass unaware that Settee Alpha Six was inhabited solely by naked fat men on Ottomans? I think not!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 13, 2026 08:39 PM (xG4kz)

195 The crew other than the pilots may have no reason to stay on board and should at least have the option.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 08:39 PM (vFG9F)

196 Eater Island.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:40 PM (GD0B3)

197
We all learned here yesterday that you can toss a cat out of a plane, no problem.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 08:40 PM (Y8DZL)

198 190 Skull Island also had dinosaurs on it. Not sure we want it.
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 08:38 PM (77rzZ)

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There's big money to be made in dinosaurs.

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at March 13, 2026 08:40 PM (JkO4W)

199 Turok, Son of Stone

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 08:40 PM (77rzZ)

200 t some point the outflow of Ayatollahs will become difficult for Iran to sustain.
Posted by: Cicero

Avocado oil is better.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 08:41 PM (/lPRQ)

201 The operation targeted military assets while sparing the island’s oil infrastructure, which is crucial for nearly 90% of Iran’s oil exports. Trump emphasized the power of the U.S. weapons used but chose not to destroy the oil facilities to maintain decency.

CENTCOM’s latest release highlighted missions involving B-2 stealth bombers but did not confirm the specific targeting of Kharg Island.
_/mynewswave.com
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 08:39 PM (BENy5)

It's almost like Trump wants the next Shah to have some income-earning potential for his country when he is able to take over.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:41 PM (8zz6B)

202 > trained on planes that were deemed not to be under much threat.
----
I'm no aviator, though I have seen Son Of Flubber. But it seems to me that any plane up in the air is under threat, however remote, of falling to the ground unexpectedly.

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:42 PM (ZxPkt)

203 105 44 Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)
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Put my money on Paris, many said Russia. Who had Canada on their dance card? Well, we won't have to travel so far to kill them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 08:42 PM (BENy5)

204 And I think of all of my indignation at being the object of such attention as a young gal. I keep mouth shut, but it kinda makes me laugh.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026

Those situations require a Mr. Microphone, which you wouldn’t have with you, so it helps the self control, too.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 08:42 PM (Q9G/L)

205 Those situations require a Mr. Microphone, which you wouldn’t have with you, so it helps the self control, too.
Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 08:42 PM (Q9G/L)

Many CB radios had a P.A. function, using a horn speaker discreetly mounted under the hood of your car.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:44 PM (8zz6B)

206
I'm not sure we want Monster Island. Like the man said, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Posted by: fd

They can form a three site sports league with the lovely cannibals from North Sentinel Island near India and the serpents on Snake Island off the coast of Brazil.

The frightfully high turner of athletes would make the phrase, "Sure, we're a young team, Cotton, but with loads of potential!" a continuing staple in every on-air interview.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 13, 2026 08:44 PM (xG4kz)

207 202 > trained on planes that were deemed not to be under much threat.
----
I'm no aviator, though I have seen Son Of Flubber. But it seems to me that any plane up in the air is under threat, however remote, of falling to the ground unexpectedly.
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 08:42 PM (ZxPkt)

Yes, having been Air Force, but having left before 2008, I'm shocked they forgot that 1st rule. Like, it's the AIR Force, not the Chair Force...I wanna know which bean counter told the 4 star or the civilian chief that THIS cut was the one that should be made to fund the climate change initiative.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:44 PM (tOcjL)

208 Put my money on Paris, many said Russia. Who had Canada on their dance card? Well, we won't have to travel so far to kill them.

Posted by: Braenyard -

Apparently some did originally flee to France but France has kicked them out.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 08:44 PM (7Cdr7)

209 The clerisy is probably not welcome in Russia.

In reality there is no escape for them.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 08:45 PM (RIvkX)

210
It's almost like Trump wants the next Shah to have some income-earning potential for his country when he is able to take over.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

Some of the first military targets would be infrastructure such as power generating and water purification/distribution plants. Neither US nor Israel has touched them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 08:45 PM (BENy5)

211 I mean, I say climate change inititiave...it could have also been all sorts of leftwing cause celeb...but that was the biggie in 2008, I'd think...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:45 PM (tOcjL)

212 188. ‘Night, Skip.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 08:46 PM (77rzZ)

213 Lots of disappearing space in Canada for goatraping clerics.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 13, 2026 08:46 PM (+aHIC)

214 Those situations require a Mr. Microphone, which you wouldn’t have with you, so it helps the self control, too.
Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 08:42 PM (Q9G/L)

LOL, so true.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 08:46 PM (h7ZuX)

215 152 Planes with no parachutes has got to be fixed asap.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:22 PM (tOcjL)

Is it possible for crew members to don a parachute, and then safely reach an exit that is safe to jump from?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:25 PM (8zz6B)

Probably not on a jet tanker, would be going too fast, and would need ejection seats, which would require a major redesign.

Posted by: a.moron at March 13, 2026 08:47 PM (X5Jzz)

216 Stopped at Costco today. The parking lot was almost full, but it wasn't a zoo inside. I don't think I saw any diversity (wink, wink) today, as opposed to a year ago.

I did notice that the entryway, where they normally put their sale items, was lined with nothing but allergy medicines today.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 13, 2026 08:47 PM (zZSxi)

217 Put my money on Paris, many said Russia. Who had Canada on their dance card? Well, we won't have to travel so far to kill them.

Posted by: Braenyard

Canada would be OK because Trump can just close the border until they are turned over for something something crimes. Oh, yeah, having unarmed protesters shot in the streets. Tens of thousands of them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 08:48 PM (/lPRQ)

218 "Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!"

Why would they think they would be safe in Canada?

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 08:49 PM (Q+gd/)

219
Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!

MAID men

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 08:50 PM (Cqx++)

220 vThat "Settee Alpha Six" appellation was just a smoke screen to fool the Starfleet brass that they had shipped Khan's hiney to "...up way over yonder!"

Ceti alpha six... a planet encased in rich Corinthian leather...

Posted by: Zombie Ricardo Montalban at March 13, 2026 08:50 PM (/HDaX)

221 Yes, having been Air Force, but having left before 2008, I'm shocked they forgot that 1st rule. Like, it's the AIR Force, not the Chair Force...I wanna know which bean counter told the 4 star or the civilian chief that THIS cut was the one that should be made to fund the climate change initiative.
Posted by: Nova Local

Not just the parachutes, but the whole support chain that comes with it. Probably million$ saved!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 08:50 PM (/lPRQ)

222 Canada is home to a HUGE Iranian diaspora. Some of the biggest pro Shah demonstration were in Toronto. the ayatollah will need to shave his beard and his women will need to take those garbage bags off to fit in !

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:51 PM (GD0B3)

223 "Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!"

Why would they think they would be safe in Canada?
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China told them they'd be cool there.

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 08:51 PM (vSvIl)

224
Apparently some did originally flee to France but France has kicked them out.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables

Surely you remember that the Firstest Ayatollah and Chief Asshole-a, Ruhollah Khomeini, was living in exile in Paris when the Shah was rousted out of Iran back in 1979.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 13, 2026 08:51 PM (xG4kz)

225 Why would they think they would be safe in Canada?
Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 08:49 PM (Q+gd/)
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Because the Frogs will give them a parade down Rue St Catherine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 08:52 PM (RIvkX)

226 Jetsuit racing (finals). If you want to see the earlier heats, start at about 8:00
***

I read that as "Jesuit racing (finals)..."
Which would be fun in a different way.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 08:53 PM (lCppi)

227 Surely you remember that the Firstest Ayatollah and Chief Asshole-a, Ruhollah Khomeini, was living in exile in Paris when the Shah was rousted out of Iran back in 1979.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Macron pulled his finger out of his ass and tested the wind.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 08:54 PM (7Cdr7)

228 Don’t they own a ton of properties in the UK? Why not go there? They would be right at home.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 08:54 PM (p4NUW)

229 Plane issue in DC...

"In a statement to WTOP, the FAA said the ground stops are due to a “strong chemical smell” at the Potomac Consolidated Terminal RADAR Approach Control (TRACON) in Virginia, affecting some air traffic controllers. No injuries were reported."

Hopefully this was a tree down that hit something or an idiot employee accident...

https://wtop.com/local/2026/03/ ground-stop-at-3-dc-area-airports- due-to-strong-chemical-smell/

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:54 PM (tOcjL)

230 Canada is home to a HUGE Iranian diaspora. Some of the biggest pro Shah demonstration were in Toronto. the ayatollah will need to shave his beard and his women will need to take those garbage bags off to fit in !
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:51 PM (GD0B3)

Pahlavi Jr. becomes Shah. Some of his homies still in Canada whack the ayatoolahs and mullahs who fled to Canada, then they beat feet to Iran. Cuck Carney demands their extradition. Shah says, "fuck you". LOL

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:55 PM (8zz6B)

231 Don’t they own a ton of properties in the UK? Why not go there? They would be right at home.
Posted by: Piper

The UK is the other primary destination.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 08:56 PM (7Cdr7)

232
142 I loved my mom's salad made with mandarin oranges and slivered almonds. Classy!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 08:24 PM (kpS4V)

Yum! My dad made his with mandarin oranges, pineapple chunks, maraschino cherries, coconut and a mixture of sour cream and whipping cream, with the slivered almonds on top. Really refreshing with a heavy holiday meal. And it counted as salad, not dessert!

Posted by: moki at March 13, 2026 08:56 PM (wLjpr)

233 Ecuador has an excellent gravity racer scene.

https://youtu.be/MXQqJQWe7g8

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 13, 2026 08:56 PM (BnDlA)

234 Troops on the ground in Iran. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 13, 2026 08:56 PM (otZRM)

235 Surely you remember that the Firstest Ayatollah and Chief Asshole-a, Ruhollah Khomeini, was living in exile in Paris when the Shah was rousted out of Iran back in 1979.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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It's also where Bani Sadr fled after he was impeached by the mullahs.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 13, 2026 08:57 PM (0bjKf)

236 Hopefully this was a tree down that hit something or an idiot employee accident...

https://wtop.com/local/2026/03/ ground-stop-at-3-dc-area-airports- due-to-strong-chemical-smell/
Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 08:54 PM (tOcjL)

Guess we shouldn't have had Louie's retirement party at Chipotle!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 08:57 PM (8zz6B)

237 Khan was exiled to the planet Ceti Alpha V.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (6ydKt)

238 Ah, Paris, gouttes de sang.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (BENy5)

239 We'll always have Paris.

Posted by: Ayatollah Ilsa at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (Q+gd/)

240
I read that as "Jesuit racing (finals)..."
Which would be fun in a different way.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 08:53 PM (lCppi)

Thanks heavens, I thought it was just me!

Competition of the Friaries and Monasteries, winner takes all ... of what, I'm not sure, since they are supposed to have taken a vow of poverty...

Posted by: moki at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (wLjpr)

241 We'll always have Paris.
Posted by: Ayatollah Ilsa

😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 08:59 PM (GD0B3)

242 Competition of the Friaries and Monasteries, winner takes all ... of what, I'm not sure, since they are supposed to have taken a vow of poverty...
Posted by: moki at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (wLjpr)

Posted by: Trappists, doing the play-by-play at March 13, 2026 08:59 PM (8zz6B)

243 damn, you people are cruel

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 09:00 PM (GD0B3)

244 I only say that b/c between 5 VA college library bomb threats today (all on spring break and all deemed fake) and then the ground stop at all the VA airports for "smell"...well, if it was all coordinated, that's not a great sign after yesterday...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 09:00 PM (tOcjL)

245 I notice when I refresh the page, it's not jumping all over the place as usual

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 09:00 PM (ZxPkt)

246 Khan was exiled to the planet Ceti Alpha V.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (6ydKt)
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The entire plot of Star Trek II was caused by a Starfleet bookkeeping error.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:00 PM (ESVrU)

247 >damn, you people are cruel
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you gotta be cruel to be kind

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 09:01 PM (ZxPkt)

248 243 damn, you people are cruel

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 09:00 PM (GD0B3)

We aim to one day make Victor Davis Hanson proud.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:01 PM (6ydKt)

249 I'm checking out now, too...hoping for a less newsworthy weekend to come. Boring is beautiful!

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 09:01 PM (tOcjL)

250 damn, you people are cruel
Posted by: runner

You catch on fast.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 09:02 PM (7Cdr7)

251 Thanks heavens, I thought it was just me!

Competition of the Friaries and Monasteries, winner takes all ... of what, I'm not sure, since they are supposed to have taken a vow of poverty...
Posted by: moki at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (wLjpr)
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If it's to the death, then the loser is first through the Gates of Paradise...which makes them technically the winner?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:02 PM (ESVrU)

252 I read that as "Jesuit racing (finals)..."
Which would be fun in a different way.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 08:53 PM (lCppi)

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"While in the lead for the Americans, Father Jason hands the baton off to Father Karl ... who stops, and blesses himself as the Jamaican Jesuit runs past him!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 09:02 PM (My0zW)

253 Trump says US destroyed every military target on Iran’s Kharg Island, threatens oil infrastructure if tankers blocked

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 09:02 PM (BENy5)

254 243 damn, you people are cruel

and unusual

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 09:03 PM (Q+gd/)

255 228 Don’t they own a ton of properties in the UK? Why not go there? They would be right at home.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 08:54 PM (p4NUW)

I read an article couple days ago claiming the new Supreme Leader, son of bombed-to-death Supreme Leader, personally owns properties in London worth tens of millions of dollars.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 09:03 PM (5rh/l)

256 246 Khan was exiled to the planet Ceti Alpha V.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (6ydKt)
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The entire plot of Star Trek II was caused by a Starfleet bookkeeping error.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:00 PM (ESVrU)

Without looking it up, wasn't the plot in ST II that Khan and his people had to move to Ceti Alpha VI because the star in the system was destroying Ceti Alpha V?

It's been awhile since I've seen it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:03 PM (6ydKt)

257 SpeakingOf, other way around I think. The star was destroying VI, which fucked up the other planets, so V became a hellworld. "THIS IS CETI ALPHA V".

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 09:05 PM (gKWVE)

258 "Without looking it up, wasn't the plot in ST II that Khan and his people had to move to Ceti Alpha VI because the star in the system was destroying Ceti Alpha V?"

Yes, Khan's wife was killed, really pissing him off.

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 09:05 PM (Q+gd/)

259 read an article couple days ago claiming the new Supreme Leader, son of bombed-to-death Supreme Leader, personally owns properties in London worth tens of millions of dollars.
Posted by: Gref

Inherited it from daddy. $200+ million dollar property. It overlooks the Israeli embassy. No security issues there.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 09:05 PM (7Cdr7)

260
I read an article couple days ago claiming the new Supreme Leader, son of bombed-to-death Supreme Leader, personally owns properties in London worth tens of millions of dollars.
Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 09:03 PM (5rh/l)

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Just slap a barcode on him and DHL could get him there overnight.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 09:05 PM (nWPIJ)

261 I read an article couple days ago claiming the new Supreme Leader, son of bombed-to-death Supreme Leader, personally owns properties in London worth tens of millions of dollars.
Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 09:03 PM (5rh/l)

I wish I had the business card monopoly in Tehran. Think of all the repeat business for Supreme Leader cards!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 09:05 PM (8zz6B)

262 240
I read that as "Jesuit racing (finals)..."
Which would be fun in a different way.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 08:53 PM (lCppi)

Thanks heavens, I thought it was just me!

Competition of the Friaries and Monasteries, winner takes all ... of what, I'm not sure, since they are supposed to have taken a vow of poverty...
Posted by: moki

The Big East Tourney is going on, though the Providence Friars are no longer in it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 13, 2026 09:06 PM (Iz+f5)

263 Without looking it up, wasn't the plot in ST II that Khan and his people had to move to Ceti Alpha VI because the star in the system was destroying Ceti Alpha V?

It's been awhile since I've seen it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:03 PM (6ydKt)
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Something happened to Ceti Alpha VI, disrupting the orbit of Ceti Alpha V, which wiped out nearly all life on the planet.

Apparently the starship Reliant's databases hadn't been updated with new information about the star system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:07 PM (ESVrU)

264 Something happened to Ceti Alpha VI, disrupting the orbit of Ceti Alpha V, which wiped out nearly all life on the planet.

Apparently the starship Reliant's databases hadn't been updated with new information about the star system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:07 PM (ESVrU)

And there were no parachutes.

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 09:08 PM (Q+gd/)

265 257 SpeakingOf, other way around I think. The star was destroying VI, which fucked up the other planets, so V became a hellworld. "THIS IS CETI ALPHA V".

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 09:05 PM (gKWVE)
258 "Without looking it up, wasn't the plot in ST II that Khan and his people had to move to Ceti Alpha VI because the star in the system was destroying Ceti Alpha V?"

Yes, Khan's wife was killed, really pissing him off.

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 09:05 PM (Q+gd/)

I just remember watching it and thinking; "How the hell was Kirk supposed to know that was going to happen when he left you there, you crazy Latino-Sikh?".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:08 PM (6ydKt)

266 239 We'll always have Paris.

Posted by: Ayatollah Ilsa at March 13, 2026 08:58 PM (Q+gd/)

The Germans wore grey. You wore a bag over your head.

Posted by: Ayatollah Rick at March 13, 2026 09:10 PM (X5Jzz)

267 Apparently the starship Reliant's databases hadn't been updated with new information about the star system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:07 PM (ESVrU)

It's nice to know the bureaucrats of the 22nd Century are just as incompetent as they are now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:10 PM (6ydKt)

268 What's the email for the pet thread?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 13, 2026 09:10 PM (KAi1n)

269 I just remember watching it and thinking; "How the hell was Kirk supposed to know that was going to happen when he left you there, you crazy Latino-Sikh?".
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:08 PM (6ydKt)
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I guess Khan blamed Kirk for not performing due diligence on the star system, ensuring that the star was relatively stable.

Again, chalk it up to improper Starfleet bookkeeping.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:11 PM (ESVrU)

270 you crazy Latino-Sikh?".
Posted by: SpeakingOf

But the crew still had excellent hair.
youtu.be/zlCqgQMjuNw

Posted by: Manowar would be envious at March 13, 2026 09:12 PM (gKWVE)

271 I guess Khan blamed Kirk for not performing due diligence on the star system, ensuring that the star was relatively stable.

Again, chalk it up to improper Starfleet bookkeeping.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:11 PM (ESVrU)

Shit happens.

Khan is lucky Kirk didn't just blow them all out of an airlock after their first encounter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:12 PM (6ydKt)

272 It's nice to know the bureaucrats of the 22nd Century are just as incompetent as they are now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:10 PM (6ydKt)
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There's a great line in Babylon 5 by a doctor completing her paperwork (23rd century). It goes something like:

"Every time people say we're going to a paperless society, I get three new forms to fill out."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:12 PM (ESVrU)

273 I don't know what's happened to me, but sometimes when I'm driving and I see a particularly nice-looking man walking, or working, I want to stick my head out the window and yell "hey, handsome!" or "nice ass!"

And I think of all of my indignation at being the object of such attention as a young gal. I keep mouth shut, but it kinda makes me laugh.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Dash, you've just hit on (swidt?) a major difference between men and women.

Even at our advanced age of 29 (or maybe because of it, we'd laugh and smile bigly over you doing that!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 09:13 PM (cYBz/)

274 According to Investing.com, Trump leveled Iranian military sites on Kharg Island but spared oil terminals

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 09:14 PM (BENy5)

275 Poor Victor David Hanson is very ill.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 09:14 PM (GD0B3)

276 But the crew still had excellent hair.
youtu.be/zlCqgQMjuNw

Posted by: Manowar would be envious at March 13, 2026 09:12 PM (gKWVE)

lol

I don't know where Khan's son got the blow dryer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:14 PM (6ydKt)

277 The USS Reliant's Captain Clark Terrell and first officer Commander Pavel Chekov beamed down to evaluate a planet they mistakenly believed to be Ceti Alpha VI. After capture by Khan Noonien Singh, he explained that they are on Ceti Alpha V.

Fifteen years prior Kirk had exiled Khan and his followers on Ceti Alpha V, but six months later, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, drastically changing Ceti Alpha V's orbit.

Misidentifying Ceti Alpha was obviously a very easy mistake to make, much like forgetting to close a center tag at the end of a post.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 09:16 PM (0sNs1)

278 Yes, Khan's wife was killed, really pissing him off.
Posted by: davidt

=======

Devoted Husband finds himself on space joyride

This . . . is CNN

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 13, 2026 09:16 PM (8AONa)

279 Babylon Bee story on Islam:

https://tinyurl.com/pa36wv4p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 09:16 PM (fQqaC)

280 275 Poor Victor David Hanson is very ill.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 09:14 PM (GD0B3)

I thought he was better after the surgery?
He's been doing his podcast and writing articles again for a few weeks now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:16 PM (6ydKt)

281 I wonder if Cyrano Jones ever finished picking up all the tribbles.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 13, 2026 09:16 PM (KAi1n)

282 What's the email for the pet thread?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 13, 2026 09:10 PM (KAi1n)

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petmorons@protonmail.com

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 09:17 PM (My0zW)

283 It wasn't Ceti Alpha that was unstable, it was Ceti Alpha VI.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 09:17 PM (0sNs1)

284 Just saw Hanson on a podcast the other day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 09:17 PM (BENy5)

285 "Every time people say we're going to a paperless society, I get three new forms to fill out."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 09:12 PM (ESVrU)

In triplicate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:17 PM (6ydKt)

286 Husband's English and speech teacher, Father Bernard DeBossier would have to stop mid race and smoke a cigarette. Not sure what order his school was affiliated with, either Franciscan or Benedictine. Maybe a wild card team.

Posted by: moki at March 13, 2026 09:18 PM (wLjpr)

287 That armored mma definitely a step up from the fake ren faire stuff, gives an indication of actual knight action assuming there was knight action back in the day.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 09:19 PM (n5tGW)

288 nurse ratched

I'll work on being the plucky comic relief, rather than a creepy one.

Have a great day, and enjoy the snow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:19 PM (u82oZ)

289 assuming there was knight action back in the day.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 09:19 PM

Unfortunately, it got stopped just before it was going to get started.

Posted by: Sister Zoot, on behalf of the ladies of Castle Anthrax at March 13, 2026 09:20 PM (0sNs1)

290 Even at our advanced age of 29 (or maybe because of it, we'd laugh and smile bigly over you doing that!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2026 09:13 PM (cYBz/)

I know, right? The irony is men are, in a way, treating us as they'd like to be treated.

A gray-haired old lady is pretty non-threatening, though. Unlike a carful of men, when you're a young woman.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 09:21 PM (h7ZuX)

291 @e_durneika
13s
Please target Kharg Island's oil infrastructure next.

About 90% of Iran's oil exports flow through Kharg. It's critical to the Iranian economy — and the survival of the IR regime
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Put him on the "I'm really stupid" or "agent for the Company" list.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 09:21 PM (BENy5)

292 Fifteen years prior Kirk had exiled Khan and his followers on Ceti Alpha V, but six months later, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, drastically changing Ceti Alpha V's orbit.

Misidentifying Ceti Alpha was obviously a very easy mistake to make, much like forgetting to close a center tag at the end of a post.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 09:16 PM (0sNs1)

Yup, now the story and Khan's speech about it is coming back to me.

I was probably still getting over the ear scorpions to pay attention to all the talking.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:22 PM (6ydKt)

293 I thought he was better after the surgery?
He's been doing his podcast and writing articles again for a few weeks now.

==

well, he had an operation and is managing. but I wish he was in better health.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 09:22 PM (GD0B3)

294 {{{ moki }}}

This could be a great sport, and boost fitness of the priests, monks, and nuns.

Put no money down on the Carmelites.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:22 PM (u82oZ)

295 Canada is run by China and China and Iran are mates.

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 09:23 PM (T8bqm)

296 My lucky day. But, not everybody's.

https://bit.ly/pogo-fri-03-13

Posted by: mindful webworker - horra-blatz! at March 13, 2026 09:25 PM (O84gh)

297 NOW: “We Proclaim Our Support for Islamic Republic” speaker announced as crowds chant “Shame Shame USA” at Times Square protest billed as a “Quds Rally,” where demonstrators also held portraits of Ayatollah and waved a Hezbollah flag as counterprotesters gathered nearby.

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A simple Sieg Heil would've said as much

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 09:25 PM (ndZc7)

298 198 There's big money to be made in dinosaurs.

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at March 13, 2026 08:40 PM
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You have my attention...

Posted by: TRex - entrepreneur dino at March 13, 2026 09:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

299 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

Hope we got facial pics for data inputs, along with license tags. Need to know who to round up at Go time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:27 PM (u82oZ)

300 well, he had an operation and is managing. but I wish he was in better health.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 09:22 PM (GD0B3)

Ahh, me too.
VDH is a national treasure at this point.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:28 PM (6ydKt)

301 TRex

Glad you like my present and the story behind it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:28 PM (u82oZ)

302 SpeakingOf

I want VDH to debate Tucker in warfare, and Sowell to debate AOC in economics.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:29 PM (u82oZ)

303 It will be necessary to put boots on Kharg Island to keep free radicals from destroying the oil infrastructure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 09:30 PM (BENy5)

304 I want VDH to debate Tucker in warfare, and Sowell to debate AOC in economics.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:29 PM (u82oZ)
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Only in an alternate timeline would that happen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 09:30 PM (RIvkX)

305 297 NOW: “We Proclaim Our Support for Islamic Republic” speaker announced as crowds chant “Shame Shame USA” at Times Square protest billed as a “Quds Rally,” where demonstrators also held portraits of Ayatollah and waved a Hezbollah flag as counterprotesters gathered nearby.

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A simple Sieg Heil would've said as much

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 09:25 PM (ndZc7)

And they all had conniption fits over Trump at MSG because the American Nazis once had a convention there in the 1930s.

It must be nice getting through life being so politically hypocritical, but I guess you'd need some kind of moral framework to even realize the hypocrisy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:30 PM (6ydKt)

306 > Ecuador has an excellent gravity racer scene.
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Just outside of Monterey, CA... not far from Laguna Seca is "Laureles Grade." Something I used to do with my 914 periodically. Twisty, fast, absurd.

Perfect for a gravity run.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 09:32 PM (jtM2q)

307 3 observations:1. The difference between “being creepy” and “comic relief/charming rogue is often when the fella looks like Tom Brady versus Fred Alison. 2. The Marines will secure Karg Island and we should keep it as a spoil of war. 3. Finally- boobs!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 13, 2026 09:32 PM (IX8iX)

308 301 TRex

Glad you like my present and the story behind it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:28 PM
***
Priceless treasure. Sits right next to a Club ONT restroom token in my home office. Danke!

Posted by: TRex - acquatic dino at March 13, 2026 09:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

309 I want VDH to debate Tucker in warfare, and Sowell to debate AOC in economics.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:29 PM (u82oZ)

Neither would be that stupid to take on those powerhouses even in their 70s and 80s.

I don't think I ever saw Tucker debate VDH on Fox when he was on Laura Ingram's show all the time.

But Tucker wasn't nearly as coocoo for cocoa puffs back then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:34 PM (6ydKt)

310 SpeakingOf

This process of estrangement is dangerous.

I see the Left want to smite Trump officials.

They keep moving away from American core values, and can set up a wave of violence against the Left "Others." Tutsi vs Hutu bad is possible.

*Reminds self to keep unnatural hair coloring off my shampoo list.*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:34 PM (u82oZ)

311 Add on Chase Tag and Power Slap

Posted by: Lex at March 13, 2026 09:35 PM (y4H1r)

312 I want VDH to debate Tucker in warfare, and Sowell to debate AOC in economics.

==

cucker , aoc are trolls, you don't "debate" trolls

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (GD0B3)

313 273- that’s funny Dash. Older white women, black women of all ages and gay men catcall me all the time, but younger white women (35 and under, generally) just kind of blush and demurely smile/look away. I think it’s a cultural thing and older women just don’t buy into it anymore.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (IX8iX)

314 If we take Kharg Island it'll be game over for the mullahs/IRGC.

I mean, it still won't be a picnic, but they depend on that one island for like 90% of their revenue.

It would be devastating.
And I recently watched an old clip of Trump mentioning this strategy way back in the 80s talking about Iran.

Trump really has been thinking about these things for four decades. No wonder the man hardly sleeps, his brain never shuts off.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (6ydKt)

315 Lex

I guess laser-tag is passé.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (u82oZ)

316 Someone want to explain to me why Iran is shipping any oil anywhere? I mean, we're bombing the fuck out of them, but otherwise they get to carry on as usual?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (otZRM)

317 Ex Rex Reeder

Only way the Iranians can pay the security forces. Tehran is even running out of potable water.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:39 PM (u82oZ)

318 Someone want to explain to me why Iran is shipping any oil anywhere? I mean, we're bombing the fuck out of them, but otherwise they get to carry on as usual?
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (otZRM)

Sheesh. Tell us about it.

Posted by: Ukraine at March 13, 2026 09:40 PM (zZSxi)

319 Did Tehran/Iran ever fix their drinking water problems?

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 09:40 PM (Q+gd/)

320 Someone want to explain to me why Iran is shipping any oil anywhere? I mean, we're bombing the fuck out of them, but otherwise they get to carry on as usual?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (otZRM)

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Their Chy-na ChiComm masters are demanding it?

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 09:41 PM (My0zW)

321 davidt

No.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:41 PM (u82oZ)

322
cucker , aoc are trolls, you don't "debate" trolls
Posted by: runner

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

Cucker is a madman, so that debate is out.

aoc is stupid but vain as fuck. Legit target of debate. I really hope it's Rubio vs Ocasio-Cortez in 2028, with one debate to be held in Spanish, so she can destroy her political career in 2 languages.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 09:42 PM (y2OcL)

323
319 Did Tehran/Iran ever fix their drinking water problems?
Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 09:40 PM

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No increase in supply, but demand was reduced.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 09:42 PM (VWtfl)

324 323-lol

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 13, 2026 09:43 PM (IX8iX)

325 Semi-Literate Thug

Those fires in Tehran must be worse without firefighting water. Even foam for the big Bravo fires needs water.
Thanks for making me think about this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:44 PM (u82oZ)

326 They keep moving away from American core values, and can set up a wave of violence against the Left "Others." Tutsi vs Hutu bad is possible.

*Reminds self to keep unnatural hair coloring off my shampoo list.*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:34 PM (u82oZ)

It's really a game of us vs. them with the left for awhile.
That's why I liken them to a cult.

They are, at heart, a clueless sort of person, devoid of morality, looking to belong, and the leaders take advantage of all of this vulnerability just like a cult leader would, make them afraid of and hate anybody who opposes the cult while forcing them to abandon family and friends who try to make them see sense.

It's a decentralized secular cult that indoctrinates people via culture and the education system.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:45 PM (6ydKt)

327 Babylon Bee story on Islam:
_-_
Good to see that truth getting some light on it. 'Evenin', Fen...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 09:45 PM (vd6bO)

328 They actually have a pillow fighting championship also pretty disgusting

Posted by: Gonzotx at March 13, 2026 09:46 PM (nGraA)

329 Let me amend my question above then- why are we allowing them to ship oil when we are, at the same time, bombing the fuck out of them? At the least, maybe tell them if no ships goes through the Straits of Hormuz, then no ships leave Iranian waters. Some do not call it war, but I think it's war.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 13, 2026 09:46 PM (otZRM)

330 That red Marin bicycle that dude was racing on cost almost 6K. Thats nuts.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 09:48 PM (snZF9)

331 I just learned that Star Trek /The Federation only operated in the Milky Way galaxy.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:48 PM (oob1u)

332 316 Someone want to explain to me why Iran is shipping any oil anywhere? I mean, we're bombing the fuck out of them, but otherwise they get to carry on as usual?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 13, 2026 09:37 PM (otZRM)

Trump doesn't want to destroy their oil capabalities because of several reasons.

1. It would severely hamper the succesor regime's ability to keep the economy going, and feed the people as oil is all they have to export.

2. It would keep oil prices high if China is forced to go to the open market to replace the lost imports from Iran. Trump doesn't want this to cause an energy price induced inflation jump in an election year.

Trump is using Kharg as a bargaining sword of Damocles with Iran so they don't keep attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
"If you don't do it, I won't do this, but if you do... kiss it all goodbye."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:50 PM (6ydKt)

333 Ex Rex Reeder

1) Let us not back China into a corner. Bad stuff happens then.

Like our embargo on Japan in 1941. The insiders knew that war with the US would lead to defeat, but the embargo forces the hands of the militants.

2) We can seize the tankers, if legal to do so, off of Singapore. Better that way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:50 PM (u82oZ)

334
Just outside of Monterey, CA... not far from Laguna Seca is "Laureles Grade." Something I used to do with my 914 periodically. Twisty, fast, absurd.

Perfect for a gravity run.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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I sat on a jury in a civil case for someone who was injured on Laureles Grade. Car came around a corner and ran over the foot of the idiot who was sauntering across the road to get to a garage sale.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 09:50 PM (y2OcL)

335 And they all had conniption fits over Trump at MSG because the American Nazis once had a convention there in the 1930s.

It must be nice getting through life being so politically hypocritical, but I guess you'd need some kind of moral framework to even realize the hypocrisy.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Nevermind that it is a different venue with the same name or that on order 10,000 events have been held there since the last Nazi convention.
Fake concern. Tell us how many Democrat rallies were held there (other than the Nazi one).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 09:51 PM (/lPRQ)

336 I recorded "Apocalypse Now" off TCM and I'm going to watch a bit of it now after finishing "The Last Kings of Hollywood: Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas".

Saw it when it came out and thought it was self-indulgent; curious to see how I'll feel now.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 09:51 PM (kpS4V)

337 330 That red Marin bicycle that dude was racing on cost almost 6K. Thats nuts.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 09:48 PM (snZF9)

You can get a decent 1200 Sportster for that.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:51 PM (oob1u)

338
Boasberg should just run for President,

Posted by: Skip

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Why bother? He's already got the powers of the judiciary AND the executive in his current job.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 09:52 PM (y2OcL)

339 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 09:51 PM (kpS4V)

Didn't like anything about it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:52 PM (oob1u)

340 331 I just learned that Star Trek /The Federation only operated in the Milky Way galaxy.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:48 PM (oob1u)

Yes, and only a good portion of one quadrant of the galaxy at that. The Klingons and Romulans controlled the other quadrants and the Dominion, it was learned later on, controlled the Delta quadrant.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:53 PM (6ydKt)

341 328 pillow fight.

The kind with co-eds wearing teddies at the sorority?

Yeah. Horrifying.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 09:54 PM (Y8DZL)

342 You can get a decent 1200 Sportster for that.
_-_
I'd sell ya one o' my cars for that...heh...HAHAHAHAHAHA...ahem...excuse me....

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 09:54 PM (vd6bO)

343 315...oh man! We all had those dumb get ups in the 80s and 90s. It was big. I think paintball killed it though.

Posted by: Lex at March 13, 2026 09:54 PM (y4H1r)

344 SpeakingOf

Where do the Borg fit in this?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 09:54 PM (u82oZ)

345 336 I recorded "Apocalypse Now" off TCM and I'm going to watch a bit of it now after finishing "The Last Kings of Hollywood: Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas".

Saw it when it came out and thought it was self-indulgent; curious to see how I'll feel now.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes.

I always liked it. It had this weird dreamy quality to it. Like you were watching someone's fever dream. I heard a theory once, that probably doesn't work, that Sheen's character had actually succeeded in committing suicide at the beginning of AN. The rest of the film is just Dante's Inferno re-imagined.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 13, 2026 09:55 PM (Iz+f5)

346 iirc, Apocalypse Now is based on Heart of Darkness.

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)

347 Just outside of Monterey, CA... not far from Laguna Seca is "Laureles Grade." Something I used to do with my 914 periodically. Twisty, fast, absurd.

Perfect for a gravity run.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 09:32 PM (jtM2q)

Anarchist Mountain, in British Columbia, just 4 miles of the U.S. border has a highway that climbs from 910 feet elevation in the town of Osoyoos, to 4045 feet at the lookout, getting there in numerous switchbacks. It would be a great venue for a downhill race. The road is a major highway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 09:56 PM (8zz6B)

348 Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 09:53 PM (6ydKt

One quadrant of one galaxy out of more than 200 Billion galaxies. Kind of overwhelming.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:57 PM (oob1u)

349 336 I recorded "Apocalypse Now" off TCM ...

Saw it when it came out and thought it was self-indulgent; curious to see how I'll feel now.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 09:51 PM (kpS4V)

I was tripping balls on orange sunshine when I saw that in the theater. It was a different movie entirely when I watched it again a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 13, 2026 09:57 PM (h7ZuX)

350 That's an interesting view, Puddleglum.

Sheen almost died while making the picture. Thought he was having a heart attack, crawled out of his hotel room, a bystander called a local priest for last rites and they whisked him off to the hospital.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 09:59 PM (kpS4V)

351
Tousi reporting the Ayatollahs are fleeing to... Canada!!
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:47 PM (8avO+)

Evidence:
https://tinyurl.com/3bbn6bnf
Posted by: beckster

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Jeez, they don't even bother changing out of those Halloween costumes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 09:59 PM (y2OcL)

352 WD ONT.

Posted by: clarence at March 13, 2026 10:00 PM (3nIF0)

353 That red Marin bicycle that dude was racing on cost almost 6K. Thats nuts.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 09:48 PM (snZF9)

You can get a decent 1200 Sportster for that.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:51 PM (oob1u)

Sportster? I paid $4200 for my springer softail.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:00 PM (snZF9)

354 Sweet smoking crack, Dash!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 10:00 PM (kpS4V)

355 I just learned that Star Trek /The Federation only operated in the Milky Way galaxy.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:48 PM (oob1u)

Yup, and a very small part of it. Look at Voyager, it was going to take them 70 years to get home and they were still in the milky way.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 10:01 PM (snZF9)

356 One quadrant of one galaxy out of more than 200 Billion galaxies. Kind of overwhelming.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 09:57 PM (oob1u)

And all of those billions of galaxies in the universe each with billions of star systems in them make me believe we aren't alone. What a complete waste of space if we were all there was.

That doesn't mean they could travel here but I'm certain there are other intelligent species. Perhaps billions of civilizations that have come and gone over the billions of years of the existence of the universe.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 10:03 PM (6ydKt)

357 Oh my bad, the Dominion controlled the Gamma Quadrant.

Voyager ended up in the Delta Quadrant.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 10:06 PM (6ydKt)

358 Nood ONT

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 10:09 PM (u82oZ)

359 Red car, blue shirt: they settled it like men.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:12 PM (X5qGl)

360 Sorry that was for the thread above (the ONT).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 13, 2026 10:17 PM (X5qGl)

The Week in Woke

GET. OUT.

His longtime neighbor Kandie Zaidieh, who described Ghazali as 'my rock,' was shocked to learn of his involvement in the attack and suspects the tragedy in Lebanon may have played a role in his decision-making.
'Because his brother died, right?' Zaidieh, 60, questioned when approached by the Detroit Free Press. She added: 'He was the best. The best neighbor. Always quiet, a hard worker. He was always pleasant. Everybody liked him.'

This was no tragedy -- this was justice. His two brothers were OFFICERS IN THE TERRORIST ARMY HEZBALLAH, CURRENTLY LOBBING MISSILES AT THE ISRAELI POPULATION.

'He was a very hospital [sic] man and a loving father,' Hamido patron Timothy Jacob shared in a Dearborn Heights community group. 'He always greeted me with a smile and always treated my family with kindness. He will be missed.'
Mike Smith, who said he visited the restaurant the day before the synagogue attack, said it was 'shocking' to hear about Ghazali.
'This guy was always a nice guy, one of the kindest people you can ever meet,' Smith wrote, adding that Ghazali's 'customer service was great.'
Siran Mouhanna, admitting she did not know Ghazali well, said that during the encounters they shared, 'he was the kindest, most respectful guy.' She added: 'It breaks my heart.'
'I don't believe Ayman can do something like this,' said Mike Dalou. 'He is the most respectful man and very kind. I'm lost for words. I pray for him, his family and everyone involved.'
Ghazali was born in Lebanon in 1985 and entered the United States in May 2011 on an immediate relative visa as the spouse of an American citizen, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
He then applied for naturalization on October 20, 2015, and became a citizen on February 5, 2016, under the Obama administration.
...
Ghazali drove a truck filled with explosives into Temple Israel, which also serves as a preschool, at around 12.20pm on Thursday.

YASSS: Conservative lawyer Ted Frank is suing pro-Palestinian protesters in a class action lawsuit, representing the innocent victims they "kidnapped" by locking them in frozen traffic by blocking the roads.

He says this is legally false imprisonment. He's right. The defendants claim they have the right to illegally detain people to "protest" in favor of their kidnap/murder cousins in "Palestine."

Of course, a lefty judge threw out the case and even hit him with sanctions -- a big money fine -- for making an argument the judge didn't like about leftwing groups the judge does like.

Ted Frank, a conservative public interest lawyer in Washington, D.C., has built a reputation objecting to the terms of class action settlements that he says provide scant benefits to plaintiffs but richly reward their lawyers.
In a twist, Frank and colleagues at the non-profit Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute are pressing a class action, opens new tab of their own, appealing after a federal judge last year blasted their arguments as "baseless," dismissed the case, and hit them with to-be-determined monetary sanctions.
Frank and his team brought the case in 2024 on behalf of drivers stuck for ‌hours in a traffic jam while pro-Palestinian protesters blocked a highway near Chicago's O'Hare airport. On its website, opens new tab, Hamilton Lincoln says they sued to hold the activists accountable and "prevent further politically-motivated attacks in the future."
The filing made the novel argument that the motorists were falsely imprisoned in their cars and sought $36 million in damages for thousands of drivers.
The defendants -- which include alleged protest organizers and supporters -- frame the complaint in court papers, opens new tab as a legally-deficient attempt to attack their political movement.
"Being stuck in traffic does not amount to false imprisonment," said Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a lawyer for defendant Wespac Foundation, which describes itself as a "peace and justice action network."

Yes it does. You are using force to trap people into becoming props in your terrorist "protest" against their will.

The government may not be able to object to your protests -- but the citizens you're kidnapping can object. We are not your captives.

In Seattle, a transgender demanded entry to a women-only spa where women routinely get naked in the spa rooms. The Korean owned spa refused -- because it's for women only and because women do not want to show their naked bodies to a shman, nor see a shman's big hanging balls.

Jason Rantz on Seattle Red
@jasonrantz
Nov 18, 2024
9th Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing Olympus Spa v Armstrong. The case comes after WA state forced a women's-only, nude spa to accept trans females (biological men).
To Judge M. Margaret McKeown, it's equivalent to a "whites only" business. We're not living in serious times.

Video here.

Here's the abusive pervert bringing the discrimination case:

The Ninth Circuit rules against the Korean spa, because they're insane. The spa asked for an en banc rehearing, where the entire Ninth Circus hears the case instead of just the three-judge panel that heard the appeal.

Once again, they ruled that male perverts have a right to see naked women and also expose themselves to those women.

One judge dissented. And he used vulgar language to impress upon the reader how insane this is:

After earlier set-backs, the owners of the spa vowed to keep appealing all the way to the Supreme Court:

Jonathan Choe
@choeshow
UPDATE ON KOREAN SPA CONTROVERSY: This is my latest collaboration with the Lynnwood Times. I spoke to Olympus Spa owner Sun Lee Monday morning. He's thankful for the community support and plans to take this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if it comes down to it. He declined an on camera interview but says: �I believe in the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, women�s rights, and I will always protect my wife and mother."

Let's hope so.

Ho-hum, another teacher having sex with two of his underage students.

The Soros DA of Fairfax County dropped all charges against this guy in 2024:

Nick Minock
@NickMinock
🚨 Court records show Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano's office dropped charges against the suspect who was accused of trying to shoot his way through a KinderCare daycare in Springfield with dozens of kids inside.

Adam Carolla lays into an AWFUL teaching her child to be a fearful psychotic wreck like she is.

I never thought I'd see a trans "woman" shouting aggressively and menacingly, almost as if he has a high testosterone and is potentially violent.

Australia placed two foster children in a home containing a transgender serial killer.

I would say "I'm not joking," but you already knew that. Extreme horror against children perpetrated by "our" governments is now commonplace.

Vulnerable foster children placed with transgender serial killer in Australia
https://t.co/pfd6vyMSgq
— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 11, 2026

�He told police he was in the female toilets because �he wasn�t sure about his gender��

It�s literally the get out of jail free card for sexual predator men. https://t.co/T15hj088QE
— Sall Grover (@salltweets) March 13, 2026

Thanks to Comrade Arthur.

It's all completely normal -- it's perfectly natural and normal that adult males should constantly share their kinks with little children.

Teacher at @JeffcoSchoolsCo reportedly displayed s*xual images to kids and had a public site which students found that had s*xual pictures

What�s @JeffcoSchoolsCo doing about this? https://t.co/plDAKNc3sU
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 13, 2026

ICYMI

Top Democrat political strategist wanted to put a picture of his p*nis in a kid�s book

I�m not kidding https://t.co/xh5RzKNgD9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 13, 2026

BREAKING: Chad Alan-Carr, the former Democrat Mayor of Gettysburg, PA, has been arrested on multiple charges of CHILD S*X CRIMES.

Charges include:
-Two felony counts of Photograph/Film/Depict On Computer Sex Act-Child
-One count of Corruption of Minors.

This comes just two� pic.twitter.com/JKvViVbJk5
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 13, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:10 PM

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1 \o/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

2 italicans

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at March 13, 2026 06:13 PM (P58jr)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 13, 2026 06:14 PM (LdBR/)

4 This country needs a kerosene enema.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (P+WAR)

5 Saddest thing is to read the content and then scroll down to see

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Posted by: Oddbob at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (Fs0KI)

6 Read at Frontpage Mag there are well over 5 million Muslims here now. Like oil andxwater they will never mix in.

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (Ia/+0)

7 That's the kind of thing that warns it should be shot on sight.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 06:16 PM (vFG9F)

8 Jack Black goes to Korean spas??

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at March 13, 2026 06:16 PM (P58jr)

9 So Boasberg has now blocked the grand jury investigation of the federal reserve. Now Jerome Powell has complete immunity from investigation.

See how that works?

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 06:16 PM (3uBP9)

10 ***Mike Smith, ...said it was 'shocking' to hear about Ghazali.

'This guy was always a nice guy, one of the kindest people you can ever meet,' Smith wrote, adding that Ghazali's 'customer service was great.'
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They can be the nicest, well mannered, helpful folk but it's part of their religion of deception. It's all a rouse until they decide to kill you.
It's in the book.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 06:16 PM (BENy5)

11 He was the best. The best neighbor.
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A lot of people have said they've never seen a neighbor like him. It's true.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:17 PM (vE0+H)

12 So what are you pushing? A "Don't say 'puberty' bill?"

Have they yet come up with a way to phrase, sympathetically, child abuse?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2026 06:17 PM (AlhUl)

13 And no, boasberg will never be impeached.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (3uBP9)

14 He was the best. The best neighbor.
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A lot of people have said they've never seen a neighbor like him. It's true.
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:17 PM (vE0+H)

I'm shocked that nobody used the traditional description of your future serial killer from neighbors: "Kinda quiet though"

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (8avO+)

15 He was a very nice boy! He used to cut my grass!

Posted by: Burka-headed lady next door. at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (vFG9F)

16 That feeling you get when you read the content and discover an empty comments section.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (Wnv9h)

17 And no, boasberg will never be impeached.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (3uBP9)

Transfer him to the Alaskan north slope circuit.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (8avO+)

18 I wonder if things were like this right before the Flood..

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (ZxPkt)

19 Well, JeffCo voted in a board that tried to stop all this degeneracy.
The teachers' union called a strike and the teachers followed it like good little sheep.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:19 PM (gKWVE)

20 I'll need a shower after this thread. So I'll sit this one out, check on the war instead , load the tobacco pipe and drink some coffee.

Posted by: kingsman at March 13, 2026 06:20 PM (ehY6c)

21 Lots of perverts out there. And stupidity. Ut I guess mostly stupidity.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 13, 2026 06:20 PM (cxFcK)

22 "For Curious Boys"
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Uh huh. Talk about on the nose.

Some of the people who are like this sometimes should be fucking executed. See? I've moderated.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:20 PM (vE0+H)

23 democrat sodomites are on the loose. Hide yo husbands, hide yo wives, hide yo chirruns because they be raping errbody up in here.

Posted by: Antoine Dodson at March 13, 2026 06:20 PM (Ksqrb)

24 I wonder if things were like this right before the Flood..
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (ZxPkt)

Lots of pillars of salt in Iran these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:21 PM (8avO+)

25 I recognized "GET. OUT." as a Terminator quote. But didn't realize the terminator says it four times in different movies.

https://youtu.be/0GKCBH8TcQE?t=2

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2026 06:23 PM (vbXSk)

26 Cannot wait for the file to drop on Scott Weiner.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:25 PM (RIvkX)

27 hitler loved his dog, himler loved his wife, children, his mistress and their children, model family man...just saying

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 06:27 PM (GD0B3)

28 This shit is depressing as hell. Society has gone mad.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 06:27 PM (8DR9B)

29 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.

Posted by: Second? at March 13, 2026 06:27 PM (TbWk/)

30 It's fucking Groomers.

All the way down.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 06:28 PM (erF49)

31 Cannot wait for the file to drop on Scott Weiner.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:25 PM (RIvkX)

I thought he was pretty out and proud with his MAPishness?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)

32 If the left establishes that bringing traffic to a standstill is constitutionally protected protest activity they may find that this new rule puts them at a greater disadvantage than those in opposition to their agenda.

STARVE THE CITIES!!

Posted by: Minuteman at March 13, 2026 06:29 PM (47/pr)

33 Functioning societies ALWAYS have a system of justice.

If Leftists in the court system are going to deny justice to the female victims of skeevy pervs, then an "alternative justice system" is bound to be created.

The pervs are NOT going to like the application of justice from THAT system.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 13, 2026 06:29 PM (HlyYF)

34 10 ***Mike Smith, ...said it was 'shocking' to hear about Ghazali.

'This guy was always a nice guy, one of the kindest people you can ever meet,' Smith wrote, adding that Ghazali's 'customer service was great.'
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They can be the nicest, well mannered, helpful folk but it's part of their religion of deception. It's all a rouse until they decide to kill you.
It's in the book.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 06:16 PM (BENy5)

The Kids who did the Columbine shootings? They literally delivered Pizza to my house... they worked as Pizza Delivery, and yes, I recognized their pictures.

So... strange feeling to know that some of the tips I gave them, went to buy guns and ammo.

You can have a brush with Evil, and never know it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 06:29 PM (mP0Kj)

35 I read on X that Ayman bought 2 grand worth of fireworks at Phantom Fireworks recently. An employee at the store thought it was unusual, given the time of year. Ayman told him they were to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 06:29 PM (I7J98)

36
Mr. Cao, the upskirting fvck in women's bathrooms, is free to become a doctor in Australia.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 06:30 PM (y2OcL)

37 Depressing *and* enraging. Ugh.

Where's that time machine? Even the Cold War era wasn't this bad!

Posted by: JQ at March 13, 2026 06:30 PM (rdVOm)

38 29 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.

Posted by: Second? at March 13, 2026 06:27 PM

That opinion kind of sounded like something that Ace would have written.

Did Ace accidentally reveal his true identity?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 13, 2026 06:31 PM (HlyYF)

39 18 I wonder if things were like this right before the Flood..
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 06:18 PM (ZxPkt)

We have TWO new subdivisions to choose from...

Sodom and Gomorrah!

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 06:31 PM (mP0Kj)

40 30 It's fucking Groomers.

All the way down.
Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 06:28 PM (erF49)

And the ones sho aren’t being groomed for sex are being groomed to be dysfunctional leftists and ideological terrorists.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 06:31 PM (6ydKt)

41 I see a lot of dudes that need a good punch in the mouth in this post.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 06:31 PM (n5tGW)

42 Australian's are descendants of felonious criminals so, I'm not too shocked about there total disregard for children.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2026 06:31 PM (abIsI)

43 their

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2026 06:32 PM (abIsI)

44 Most everyone on this here site had predicted a radical Islamic "backlash" here in the US because of the thousands of Muslims allowed, unfettered, to infiltrate the US. They've got plenty of leftists willing and able to provide support.

We're in for a long, long couple of years with this shit unless the Feds get their act together. And local LE not compromised by the Democrats. Which isn't many.

The war in Iran is a catalyst for it. But I don't think it'll stop anytime soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 06:32 PM (jtM2q)

45 I made curry. It was delicious. THAT'S A PEACE PRIZE!

Posted by: pookysgirl with a throwback to 2009 at March 13, 2026 06:32 PM (Wt5PA)

46 A little detail about the Olympus Spa case I haven't seen mentioned ... the management specifically said post-op trans clients can use the facilities. It's just the male genitalia that aren't allowed. Not transphobic. Just ... requiring some proof of commitment to the new lifestyle, vs. being a generic perv.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at March 13, 2026 06:32 PM (PHjsi)

47 Cultural Marxism pushes sexual deviously

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 06:32 PM (Ia/+0)

48 >>A little detail about the Olympus Spa case I haven't seen mentioned ... the management specifically said post-op trans clients can use the facilities. It's just the male genitalia that aren't allowed. Not transphobic. Just ... requiring some proof of commitment to the new lifestyle, vs. being a generic perv.

Cash ONLY

Please, No DONGS

Posted by: Spa Signage at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (erF49)

49 One judge dissented. And he used vulgar language to impress upon the reader how insane this is:

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Reminds me of all those school board meetings across the country where parents -- reading from the vulgar, sexualizing "children's books" being taught to their children and residing in elementary school libraries -- were silenced and or forcibly removed.

Commie Cognitive Dissonance is not just a river in Egypt ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (My0zW)

50 For many years, people said after the trans movement, which followed the gay movement, the pedo movement would follow.

As I politely pointed out, the pedo movement would in fact NOT follow the trans movement.

Because the trans movement IS the pedo movement.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vE0+H)

51
Mr. Cao, the upskirting fvck in women's bathrooms, is free to become a doctor in Australia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Or the Prime Minister.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (Cqx++)

52 Was Ghazali a "gentle giant who was just beginning to turn his life around?"

Did he "cross into the city for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the Jewish temple during abnormally warm weather?”

I'm just trying to fit in with all of the pre-approved narratives.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (X+xvk)

53 I'd bet a James O'Keefe style covert filming of "Peaceful Muslims" would reveal they either encourage or accept jihadist violence and murders against innocent Americans. Of course James would need a former Muslim to get that admission, since most Muslims know better than to talk openly about their dreams of conquest.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vbXSk)

54 36
Mr. Cao, the upskirting fvck in women's bathrooms, is free to become a doctor in Australia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 06:30 PM (y2OcL)

Seems his lifelong goal of becoming a gynecologist is now in reach now that his upskirt conviction fell through.

Australia is the land of opportunity.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (6ydKt)

55 It's an alien invasion. They may not be extraterrestrials, but they don't belong on this planet.

Can we shoot them into the Sun?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (M9gjJ)

56 I made curry. It was delicious. THAT'S A PEACE PRIZE!
Posted by: pookysgirl with a throwback to 2009 at March 13, 2026 06:32 PM (Wt5PA)

#AttackWatch

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vE0+H)

57 During better times, the husbands/ boyfriends/brothers/fathers would beat the ever-loving shit out of these trans freaks.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at March 13, 2026 06:35 PM (pE12i)

58
Morris Katz is a "political advisor."

Chad Alan-Carr was the mayor of Gettysburg.

Teacher was showing kids his own porn site.

Armstrong the Perv is suing and winning in federal court.

THEY HAVE AN OFFENSE AND WE DON'T.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 06:35 PM (y2OcL)

59 And local LE not compromised by the Democrats. Which isn't many.

Correct. Go check out your local PD if you have one. You may be shocked to find how much time and effort they put into narcan giveaways, school supplies for baby mommas and the "community" officers who do everything but fight crime.

Posted by: Support Your Local Sheriff at March 13, 2026 06:35 PM (Ksqrb)

60 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.
Posted by: Second? at March 13, 2026 06:27 PM (TbWk/)

Seconded!

Posted by: pookysgirl, waving hi to the judge at March 13, 2026 06:36 PM (Wt5PA)

61 I made curry. It was delicious. THAT'S A PEACE PRIZE!
Posted by: pookysgirl with a throwback to 2009 at March 13, 2026 06:32 PM (Wt5PA)

No, sorry. Unless it was curried dog.

Posted by: President Barky at March 13, 2026 06:36 PM (gKDq2)

62
Mr. Cao, the upskirting fvck in women's bathrooms, is free to become a doctor in Australia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Or the Prime Minister.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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

If he fails in medical school on the grounds of being an idiot or a perv, politics is the next obvious career.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 06:36 PM (y2OcL)

63 52 Was Ghazali a "gentle giant who was just beginning to turn his life around?"

Did he "cross into the city for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the Jewish temple during abnormally warm weather?”

I'm just trying to fit in with all of the pre-approved narratives.
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (X+xvk)

Aspiring Rap er... or Rape r...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 06:37 PM (mP0Kj)

64 On topic:

ibs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
·
23m
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order establishing the new "Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs" headed by Taylor Brown, a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman.

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 06:37 PM (I7J98)

65 We're gonna need a bigger wood chipper

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 13, 2026 06:37 PM (eZ5tL)

66 I made curry. It was delicious. THAT'S A PEACE PRIZE!

Any leftovers?

Posted by: Nikki Haley at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (abIsI)

67 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.
Posted by: Second?
- - - - -
Seconded!
- - - - -

All in favor?

*Aye!*

Posted by: JQ at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (rdVOm)

68 This is the Cafe, right?

Posted by: Easily Confused at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (oftw2)

69 Regarding the pervert in Seattle--I thought Washington state has a lot of wooded area? Perhaps he could be introduced to it?

Posted by: Crusader at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (TN0g+)

70 I would have to guess that we've always been awash with sick and perverted puke-headed monsters. But now, for some reason they feel comfortable enough to show their ugly, smirking mugs, to parade around and advertise. No shame (like the Australian drag-queen-serial killer), but instead gloat, boast, laugh. They all must feel pretty damned protected at this point in time.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 13, 2026 06:39 PM (xuIiP)

71 I thought he was pretty out and proud with his MAPishness?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)
====
He certainly carries their water in Sacramento.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:39 PM (RIvkX)

72 58
Morris Katz is a "political advisor."

Chad Alan-Carr was the mayor of Gettysburg.

Teacher was showing kids his own porn site.

Armstrong the Perv is suing and winning in federal court.

THEY HAVE AN OFFENSE AND WE DON'T.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

They ARE offensive if you're a normie.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 13, 2026 06:39 PM (qZdIZ)

73 We're gonna need a bigger wood chipper
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 13, 2026 06:37 PM (eZ5tL)

We're going to need a wood chipper factory at this point.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 06:39 PM (gKDq2)

74 Ben Had's de nutting emporium. Guaranteed to slap a hot iron on the removal site.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 06:40 PM (+nEug)

75 60 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.
Posted by: Second? at March 13, 2026 06:27 PM (TbWk/)

Seconded!
Posted by: pookysgirl, waving hi to the judge at March 13, 2026 06:36 PM (Wt5PA)

When the Left has no hesitation, nor care, if they insult me.

Why should I bother being polite to them?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 06:40 PM (mP0Kj)

76 50 For many years, people said after the trans movement, which followed the gay movement, the pedo movement would follow.

As I politely pointed out, the pedo movement would in fact NOT follow the trans movement.

Because the trans movement IS the pedo movement.
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vE0+H)

I honestly thought at the time they’d try to legalize polygamy and then move on to beastiality and then pedophilia but nope they jumped right into drag queens and troons as the hill to die on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 06:40 PM (6ydKt)

77 Ben Had's de nutting emporium. Guaranteed to slap a hot iron on the removal site.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 06:40 PM

As is the Horde Way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2026 06:40 PM (Wnv9h)

78 They all must feel pretty damned protected at this point in time.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 13, 2026 06:39 PM (xuIiP)

The only saving grace was that dumbshit "pride" was very toned down last year, I suspect because much of the taxpayer funding that went to these corporations and their fag flag had been cut.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:40 PM (vE0+H)

79 Love ya Ben Had.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:41 PM (vE0+H)

80 Any leftovers?

Posted by: Nikki Haley at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (abIsI)

Nope! It's a lot of effort, but everyone loves it. Lil Pooky ate half a breaded pork tenderloin, while Pookette demolished the other half.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs someone to come and do her dishes at March 13, 2026 06:42 PM (Wt5PA)

81 Even if the Australian tranny serial killer wasn't one, there's still no way I'd entrust children into its care.

It *looks* like a tranny serial killer.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 06:42 PM (ESVrU)

82 Mel's Hole is in Washington.

Posted by: Art Bell's Analyst at March 13, 2026 06:42 PM (oftw2)

83 "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order establishing the new "Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs" headed by Taylor Brown, a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman."

So Mamdani is not a real Muslim? Or does he have a plan to put the queers in camps, or worse? Of course Muslims seem to ignore the gay sex of men with boys, and marriage to nine year old girls ... but not "Gayness" in general.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2026 06:43 PM (vbXSk)

84 ..., love to you as well.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 06:43 PM (+nEug)

85 "During better times, the husbands/ boyfriends/brothers/fathers would beat the ever-loving shit out of these trans freaks."

And they would keep their freaky shit quiet. This tolerance bullshit gave them the go ahead to let it all hang out.

Posted by: Burka-headed lady next door. at March 13, 2026 06:43 PM (vFG9F)

86 Olympus Spa is in Lynnwood, a city to the north of Seattle. As far as I can tell, Lynnwood isn't anywhere near as crazy as Seattle, but it is in Washington state so it's subject to crazy stuff like this.

In 2023 there was a pro-woman demonstration to support Olympus Spa. Antifa showed up to intimidate the support, but were surprised that the people of Lynnwood weren't thrilled to have them there.

https://tinyurl.com/2e7v7nch

Posted by: mr_jack at March 13, 2026 06:43 PM (LNPSJ)

87 Katsuuuuuuuuuu!!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:43 PM (RIvkX)

88
I honestly thought at the time they’d try to legalize polygamy and then move on to beastiality and then pedophilia but nope they jumped right into drag queens and troons as the hill to die on.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

You mean the hill to kill on?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 06:44 PM (Cqx++)

89 In small words, please, explain to me the error of the Three Strikes And You’re Out law in California. Oh, wait, I remember now. Cost cutting measures.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 13, 2026 06:44 PM (YlWIZ)

90 I'm pretty sure the human race has survived on account of the restriction of swinging dicks to people who might actually want to see them. They used to be called "wives".

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:45 PM (gKWVE)

91 Trump says Ric Grenell is being replaced as Kennedy Center head

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2026 06:45 PM (abIsI)

92
re the serial killer baby sitter...

Ms Washington confirmed the Department of Communities and Justice had initiated a review into the incident.

"This review is going to go through the whole timeline," she said.

"Who knew what, when? And who made what decisions, when?"

Do let us know when you find out! We have several openings in upper management that we need to fill.

Posted by: Office of Care and Concern at March 13, 2026 06:45 PM (y2OcL)

93 Mamdani Invites all LGBTQIA+ People To Join Him For A Rooftop Party

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at March 13, 2026 06:45 PM (vFG9F)

94 Deus Vult Motherfuckers.

Posted by: Vengeance at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (XFXIk)

95 Van Dyke is also the author of another famous dissent, in this one, he uses a video format to shred the 9th Circuit for its ruling that a 10 round magazine limit was reasonable.

Duncan v. Bonta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMC7Ntd4d4c

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (E4rtv)

96 Demonic free pass by liberal judges, who are afraid of not being woke. Demons walk among us (well, not me, but they are out there).

In the case of the moose limbs, their free pass is Taqiyya, taught to them from the koran all of their lives. Means to an end.

Hairy wolves in sheeps clothing to present a "kind" face while hating our people, our country and our beliefs.And they can do this for decades as theirs, thanks to GWB, is the peaceful religion. SPIT.

I don't trust any of them. None. They can turn on a red hot minute and go jihad.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (WONhk)

97 This was no tragedy -- this was justice. His two brothers were OFFICERS IN THE TERRORIST ARMY HEZBALLAH, CURRENTLY LOBBING MISSILES AT THE ISRAELI POPULATION.

I agree, that is the only read. But here's the thing: their argument is that bad things were done to people he loves, to his PEOPLE, so attacked others. There is a sense of justice in his actions, is their implication.

Which means they have to support the Israeli response to October 7th. They have to back the destruction of Gaza, by that logic

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (PYyV9)

98 Aspiring Rap er... or Rape r...
Posted by: Romeo13

He didn't leave out a P, Diddy?

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (X+xvk)

99 see a shman's big hanging balls.

or tiny bugnutz

Posted by: DaveA at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (FhXTo)

100 Ric Grenell is really the one going to be running Cuba.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (RIvkX)

101 The Muslims and Marxists are in bed together, after they takeover they will fight it out

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 06:47 PM (Ia/+0)

102 ...by that logic
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 06:46 PM (PYyV9)
====

I'm beginning to see the problem here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:47 PM (RIvkX)

103 Fking Arab Muzz are the worst. They were savages even before Islam came along.

Posted by: fd at March 13, 2026 06:48 PM (vFG9F)

104
Neighbor: He was a quiet guy, kept mostly to himself.
Reporter: Do you believe he did it?
Neighbor: Oh yeah, killing Jews was all he ever talked about.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 06:48 PM (4NO2D)

105 Conservative lawyer Ted Frank is suing pro-Palestinian protesters in a class action lawsuit, representing the innocent victims they "kidnapped" by locking them in frozen traffic by blocking the roads.

He says this is legally false imprisonment. He's right.

I agree. The "right to protest" has been given way too much force and emphasis in law. You can protest, but you cannot screw other people over in the process, whether its destroying public property, disrupting normal flow of society, blocking traffic or burning buildings. Protest does not supercede all other rights such as liberty, property, or commerce.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 06:48 PM (PYyV9)

106
Trump says Ric Grenell is being replaced as Kennedy Center head

Posted by: Maj. Healey

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

I hope Trump has something bigger and better for Grenell to do.

Posted by: Office of Care and Concern at March 13, 2026 06:49 PM (y2OcL)

107 I'm beginning to see the problem here.

Well, that is the issue: they don't function on logic. But its like their argument that its unAmerican and hateful to say "maybe we should stop importing Muslims" also argues that we cannot block an other groups that cause trouble like Nazis.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 06:50 PM (PYyV9)

108 I'd bet a James O'Keefe style covert filming of "Peaceful Muslims" would reveal they either encourage or accept jihadist violence and murders against innocent Americans. Of course James would need a former Muslim to get that admission, since most Muslims know better than to talk openly about their dreams of conquest.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2026 06:34 PM (vbXSk)

all it takes is an opinion poll. About 80 pct worldwide

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:50 PM (8avO+)

109
Posted by: Office of Care and Concern at March 13, 2026 06:49 PM (y2OcL)

=========

Woops, sock. I really do hope Trump has something else for him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 06:51 PM (y2OcL)

110 I honestly thought at the time they’d try to legalize polygamy and then move on to beastiality and then pedophilia

===

they were going there, and then Trump was elected

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 06:51 PM (GD0B3)

111 From Pew research;

Around two-thirds of U.S. registered voters who are Filipino (68%), Indian (68%) or Korean (67%) identify as Democrats or lean Democratic. Chinese American voters are also majority Democratic (56%), while Vietnamese American voters tilt to the GOP (51% Republican, 42% Democratic). Koreans are 67% Democrat. Every Asian group is Democrat except Vietnamese.

Maybe they’ll get in another 40 years.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 06:52 PM (Y5yQx)

112 Neighbor: He was a quiet guy, kept mostly to himself.
Reporter: Do you believe he did it?
Neighbor: Oh yeah, killing Jews was all he ever talked about.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 06:48 PM (4NO2D)

Neighbor: Salt of the earth!!!

Reporter: Kind to everyone?

Neighbor: Yeah, everyone.

Reporter: Even the Jews?

Neighbor: Oh no, not the filthy Jews.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:52 PM (vE0+H)

113 Wasn't there a whole thing about how protests (or rallies, whatever) around abortion clinics was a restriction of access?
And that was just to the clinic itself. I don't believe any of those gatherings spilled into the road to prevent civilians going to completely different parts of the city. I think if they had, the book would have been thrown at them (and rightly so).

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:52 PM (gKWVE)

114 Stinky:

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING: Air traffic at ALL THREE major Washington, DC area airports has been HALTED after a strong chemical smell was detected at the Air Traffic Control center at the Potomac TRACON

No word on what the substance in the air is.

America’s on edge, and DHS is STILL CLOSED.

Infuriating.

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 06:53 PM (I7J98)

115 Every prevention of sexual harassment lecture/class I ever attended has been rendered null and void by this 9th Circuit decision.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 13, 2026 06:53 PM (qhRTK)

116 “He told police he was in the female toilets because “he wasn’t sure about his gender…”

It’s literally the get out of jail free card for sexual predator men.

Yeah that one. Dude took 150 pictures of women in the bathroom, it doesn't even matter how he felt about it or how confused he was its illegal to photograph people in the bathroom

Sure, he shouldn't have been in there to begin with but its irrelevant to the court case.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 06:54 PM (PYyV9)

117 BTW, I've been trying to remember where I had heard the name "Jalloh" before yesterday. It was bugging me because I was certain it had been in the news real recently, but I couldn't find it. (My search-fu sucks.)

Well, I finally found it. The other Jalloh I was remembering had been just a week or so ago, as a matter of fact. Remember the guy who had been let off the hook a bunch of times and knifed a woman to death after she got off the bus in northern VA? Well, that guy's name was Abdul Jollah.

So, now I (and you) know.
Connection?* That we don't know.

(* Apart from both should have been held accountable in ways that prevented them from ever doing it again, but weren't.)

Posted by: GWB at March 13, 2026 06:54 PM (RGxCT)

118 The rule is Muslims can kill Jews at will in response to the Iran war but Jews couldn’t harm a fly in response to 10/7.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 06:54 PM (Y5yQx)

119 The potomac probably just smells bad because of all the crap MD / VA dumped into there by accident

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:55 PM (gKWVE)

120 "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order establishing the new "Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs" headed by Taylor Brown, a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman."

So Mamdani is not a real Muslim? Or does he have a plan to put the queers in camps, or worse? Of course Muslims seem to ignore the gay sex of men with boys, and marriage to nine year old girls ... but not "Gayness" in general.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2026 06:43 PM (vbXSk)

is it on the top floor of a high building perchance?

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:55 PM (8avO+)

121 Once again, they ruled that male perverts have a right to see naked women and also expose themselves to those women.

And that is what its about. Like the disgusting teacher who admitted that being called a woman by his students made him aroused, its about sexual pleasure from what they do. Even if I at any point bought into the "they really are the opposite sex somehow" thing, the fact that they do it because it gets their rocks off would repulse me and make me oppose their actions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 06:56 PM (PYyV9)

122 I've gone hot potting with my swinging dick in Yellowstone before and there was never any problem with anybody who was doing the same, but this freakshow is beyond reasonable propriety.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 06:56 PM (M9gjJ)

123 Even if we stipulate, in contradiction to biology and common semse, that trannies truly do beleive they are the gender they claim to be rather than the one their chromosomes claim them to be, why does that obligate anybody else to treat them as such?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 13, 2026 06:57 PM (qhRTK)

124 115 Every prevention of sexual harassment lecture/class I ever attended has been rendered null and void by this 9th Circuit decision.
Posted by: tankdemon

You haven't used the lecture/class as a tardiness excuse. At least not yet.

Posted by: I Write Everything Down at March 13, 2026 06:57 PM (oftw2)

125 Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 BREAKING: Air traffic at ALL THREE major Washington, DC area airports has been HALTED after a strong chemical smell was detected at the Air Traffic Control center at the Potomac TRACON

No word on what the substance in the air is.

America’s on edge, and DHS is STILL CLOSED.

Infuriating.
Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 06:53 PM (I7J9

Make those assholes in DC stay there.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:57 PM (8avO+)

126 Australian's are descendants of felonious criminals so, I'm not too shocked about there total disregard for children.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 13, 2026 06:31 PM (abIsI)

Iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows.

Posted by: Vizzini at March 13, 2026 06:57 PM (EpR50)

127 I hate, hate, hate the Olympus Spa ruling and the men in women's sports, and yea, these guys are just jerks and perverts and yet...
Women have been forcing their way into men's spaces since (clubs, college sports, even female reporters in locker rooms) I was a kid. They would either get in or destroy them. Anyone men who had a problem with it was called a pig or a prude.
If not for that, and the attitude behind it and the precedents the lawsuits set, I don't know that this would be happening.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 06:58 PM (0MjtC)

128 Islam is taking its biggest nut punch in history. Money has changed the culture in KSA, Bahrain and UAE. When Iran is free the Middle East is is going to have the biggest cultural revolution in a century. The only nut cases left will be Afghanistan and Yemen and they are going to starve to death.

This war has changed the world.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 06:58 PM (+nEug)

129 Every prevention of sexual harassment lecture/class I ever attended has been rendered null and void ~~by this 9th Circuit decision.~~ when Willie Brown boinked his campaign manager
Posted by: tankdemon at March 13, 2026 06:53 PM (qhRTK)
====
My version.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:58 PM (RIvkX)

130
Judge "Dicks" VanDyke? Is this real?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 06:58 PM (azNOR)

131 And she got pregnant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 06:59 PM (RIvkX)

132 Uhmm, how does a judge have the authority to order the DOJ to stop investigating something?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 13, 2026 06:59 PM (XV/Pl)

133 I hate, hate, hate the Olympus Spa ruling and the men in women's sports, and yea, these guys are just jerks and perverts and yet...
Women have been forcing their way into men's spaces since (clubs, college sports, even female reporters in locker rooms) I was a kid. They would either get in or destroy them. Anyone men who had a problem with it was called a pig or a prude.
If not for that, and the attitude behind it and the precedents the lawsuits set, I don't know that this would be happening.
Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 06:58 PM (0MjtC)

Of course it would. Pervs have been around for centuries longer than reporterettes.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:59 PM (8avO+)

134 Note with this judicial decision, once again religious beliefs don't matter, unless it's about abortion. Who knows, maybe that swinging dick's religion compels him to enter women's only nude spas, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 13, 2026 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

135 The only nut cases left will be Afghanistan and Yemen and they are going to starve to death.

This war has changed the world.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 06:58 PM (+nEug)

What about Syria and Jordan?

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 07:00 PM (vE0+H)

136 Air Traffic Control center at the Potomac TRACON

Wasn't me. Swearsies!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) at March 13, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

137 Call 1-800-1WE-CHIP

Posted by: Wood Chipper Rentals at March 13, 2026 07:00 PM (UjdFS)

138 Women have been forcing their way into men's spaces since (clubs, college sports, even female reporters in locker rooms) I was a kid.

Actually a valid point, 29Victor.
There has to be a mutual agreement between us. We have to live by the same book of rules. Female spaces are important. Well, so are male spaces.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

139 I don't understand.

Jeffco's mission statement is to provide a world-class education that prepares all Jeffco students for bright and successful futures locally and globally. They were only kidding?

A 2.2 Star review (25 total reviews) on Google that includes comments such as -

My kids life was threatened by another student

(Advice about the school district) Watch your back.

Scores for language arts, math, and science are better than state averages, they are still abysmal for the 2024-2025 school year.

Autistic son who was a happy and good boy before he attended this school.

Called my child a liar never notified me that my child was put in in school detention for that hour.

They're helping transition young kids behind parents backs.

😬

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (NFX2v)

140 we have some work to do , DEPORT!!

NYC under aytollah mumdani celbrating al quids day..

"We Proclaim Our Support for Islamic Republic…we condemn to the absolute highest degree the US-Zionist targeted assassination of the leader shahid martyr Seyyed Ali Khamenei…martyrdom is our highest honor.”"

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (GD0B3)

141
The war in Iran is a catalyst for it. But I don't think it'll stop anytime soon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
--

Obarky was catalyst back in his day, many attacks under his realm. Difference today; people are shooting back with kinetic efficiency.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (BENy5)

142 You haven't used the lecture/class as a tardiness excuse. At least not yet.
Posted by: I Write Everything Down at March 13, 2026 06:57 PM (oftw2)

So you people ARE keeping track. There goes my plan to start re-using old excuses.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (qhRTK)

143 Sorry that was only supposed to quote your first line not the second. There is no doubt this war is going to change everything. Trump was always capable of this which is why they worked so hard to stop him.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (vE0+H)

144 Of course it would. Pervs have been around for centuries longer than reporterettes.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:59 PM (8avO+)

They would be trying to get in, but would they be allowed?

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (0MjtC)

145 I agree. The "right to protest" has been given way too much force and emphasis in law. You can protest, but you cannot screw other people over in the process, whether its destroying public property, disrupting normal flow of society, blocking traffic or burning buildings. Protest does not supercede all other rights such as liberty, property, or commerce.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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There is no right to protest per se. There is a right to peaceably assemble and time, place, and manner restrictions can be put on those assemblies. If you violate those laws, you can be arrested and convicted.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (E4rtv)

146 They all must feel pretty damned protected at this point in time.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 13, 2026 06:39 PM (xuIiP)
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If you're not familiar with the 'toaster f*cker' tweet that explains this, I recommend reading it. The guy nails it - he perfectly describes how we got here. It's well done

https://tinyurl.com/4bfft2r3

Posted by: 496 at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (2hq3T)

147 'This guy was always a nice guy, one of the kindest people you can ever meet,' Smith wrote, adding that Ghazali's 'customer service was great.'

Depending on your definition of "customer"

Posted by: Miklos' Kosher Deli at March 13, 2026 07:02 PM (Al4HM)

148 Actually a valid point, 29Victor.
There has to be a mutual agreement between us. We have to live by the same book of rules. Female spaces are important. Well, so are male spaces.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

Yep. Sorry. Maybe I'm a little sensitive about this. I did watch several men's spaces get destroyed while I was growing up and the members mocked for caring. Also, I raised my kids in Boy Scouts. Which is no longer Boy Scouts. It's just Scouts. Because, even though girls had Girl Scouts, it just wasn't enough.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (0MjtC)

149 There is no right to protest per se. There is a right to peaceably assemble and time, place, and manner restrictions can be put on those assemblies. If you violate those laws, you can be arrested and convicted.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (E4rtv)

Yup. The Nazis in Illinois marching through Skokie had to get a permit and police escort and protection was given to them back in the day. This 'lets pretend riots are protests' is very modern.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (8avO+)

150 59 And local LE not compromised by the Democrats. Which isn't many.

Correct. Go check out your local PD if you have one. You may be shocked to find how much time and effort they put into narcan giveaways, school supplies for baby mommas and the "community" officers who do everything but fight crime.
Posted by: Support Your Local Sheriff at March 13, 2026 06:35 PM (Ksqrb)

And pumping out traffic tickets to meet quotas and fund their Christmas parties.

Posted by: Cops in suburbia at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (EpR50)

151 Ackually... keeping our political betters sequestered in the capitol city could lead to.... something positive?

And by "sequestered" I mean like a month or forever.

Mostly.... forever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (jtM2q)

152 Nothing worse than hiring mentally unstable to government positions

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (Ia/+0)

153 Of course it would. Pervs have been around for centuries longer than reporterettes.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:59 PM (8avO+)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Caligula at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (gKDq2)

154 There is no right to protest per se. There is a right to peaceably assemble and time, place, and manner restrictions can be put on those assemblies. If you violate those laws, you can be arrested and convicted.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM (E4rtv)

Bingo. But, since the 1960s at least, the "peaceably" has been ignored if the protester had the right politics.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 07:04 PM (0MjtC)

155 Difference today; people are shooting back with kinetic efficiency.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM

Newsletter?

Posted by: Imperial Storm Troopers at March 13, 2026 07:04 PM (0sNs1)

156 128. This war has changed the world.
Posted by: Ben Had

From your lips to G-d's ears.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 13, 2026 07:05 PM (NFX2v)

157 Yep. Sorry. Maybe I'm a little sensitive about this. I did watch several men's spaces get destroyed while I was growing up and the members mocked for caring. Also, I raised my kids in Boy Scouts. Which is no longer Boy Scouts. It's just Scouts. Because, even though girls had Girl Scouts, it just wasn't enough.
Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (0MjtC)

Sure, but one isn't a reaction to the other. Men did not react to them taking their reserved places by perving out. We just took the blow like men.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:05 PM (8avO+)

158
62
Mr. Cao, the upskirting fvck in women's bathrooms, is free to become a doctor in Australia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Or the Prime Minister.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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If he fails in medical school on the grounds of being an idiot or a perv, politics is the next obvious career.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 06:36 PM

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Ths way it works now, be has DEI points that mean he can't fail. So incompetent perverted sack of shit with an MD, that nobody can touch. Maybe he'll get the equivalent of Fauci's job.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 07:06 PM (azNOR)

159 The blog is dorked with ads.

Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 07:06 PM (uQzkA)

160 >>@nicksortor
·
1h
>>🚨 BREAKING: ALL NINE members of an Antifa cell in TX have just been found GUILTY of TERRORISM charges brought by the DOJ, per
@MrAndyNgo

>>This is HUGE, as it's the first terrorism trial against Antifa members in US history!

>>A precedent has been SET 🔥

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)

161 And local LE not compromised by the Democrats. Which isn't many.

Correct. Go check out your local PD if you have one. You may be shocked to find how much time and effort they put into narcan giveaways, school supplies for baby mommas and the "community" officers who do everything but fight crime.
Posted by: Support Your Local Sheriff at March 13, 2026 06:35 PM (Ksqrb)

And pumping out traffic tickets to meet quotas and fund their Christmas parties.
Posted by: Cops in suburbia at March 13, 2026 07:03 PM (EpR50)

Administration cops should be capped at 10-20 percent of street cops.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:07 PM (8avO+)

162 59. Correct. Go check out your local PD if you have one. You may be shocked to find how much time and effort they put into narcan giveaways, school supplies for baby mommas and the "community" officers who do everything but fight crime.
Posted by: Support Your Local Sheriff

True that.

Posted by: SE Pennsylvania at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (NFX2v)

163 ..., Syria I don't see as going more islamist. Jordan maintains the status quo. Turkey is going to be the loser in regional power as more countries sign onto the Abraham Accords.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (+nEug)

164 Once again, they ruled that male perverts have a right to see naked women and also expose themselves to those women.

This is a good point: its tough to make a legal argument that you cannot let men into women's spaces if you have spent forty years arguing that women must legally be allowed into every male space.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (PYyV9)

165 So you people ARE keeping track. There goes my plan to start re-using old excuses.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 13, 2026 07:01 PM

The AoSHQ Commentator Permanent Records.

They're real, and they're spectacular!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)

166 Olympus Spa twisted mental patient looks like Jack Black.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (qBdHI)

167 Bingo. But, since the 1960s at least, the "peaceably" has been ignored if the protester had the right politics.
Posted by: 29Victor
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Unions did it before the current leftists and before them, segregationists and before them, abolitionists. And when they went too far and got a bunch of people shot and hurt trying to put the riots down, people brooded on it for decades after.

There are sound reasons why the Founders put peaceably as a limit. They grew up with the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, and other unpleasant protests that became riots where no one was safe.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:09 PM (E4rtv)

168 Conservative lawyer Ted Frank is suing pro-Palestinian protesters in a class action lawsuit, representing the innocent victims they "kidnapped" by locking them in frozen traffic by blocking the roads.
He says this is legally false imprisonmen

Good. And a win here means I can use reasonable force to extract myself and/or my family from being kidnapped.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 07:10 PM (+r9vd)

169 Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (+nEug)

I worry a lot about those two and the two you initially mentioned. That's why I asked.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 07:10 PM (vE0+H)

170 I was assured by the Pedo Left that the Pedo Problem in America was a conspiracy theory.

I don't understand why more Rabid Homicidal Trannies and Democrat Pedos aren't mysteriously disappearing daily ... their bodies never to be found.

Make La Cosa Nostra Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:10 PM (My0zW)

171 And all the AWFL's believe her:

Senator Mazie Hirono

@maziehirono
·
9h
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 07:10 PM (I7J98)

172 >>🚨 BREAKING: ALL NINE members of an Antifa cell in TX have just been found GUILTY of TERRORISM charges brought by the DOJ, per
@MrAndyNgo

>>This is HUGE, as it's the first terrorism trial against Antifa members in US history!

>>A precedent has been SET 🔥
Posted by: JackStraw
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So much for just being an idea.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)

173
I hate, hate, hate the Olympus Spa ruling and the men in women's sports, and yea, these guys are just jerks and perverts and yet...
Women have been forcing their way into men's spaces since (clubs, college sports, even female reporters in locker rooms) I was a kid. They would either get in or destroy them. Anyone men who had a problem with it was called a pig or a prude.
If not for that, and the attitude behind it and the precedents the lawsuits set, I don't know that this would be happening.
Posted by: 29Victor

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Yeah, bullshit that trannies in women's spaces wouldn't be happening had the girl reporters never entered men's locker rooms. Men have been trying to spy on naked women since time began, and the tolerance of this mixing of opposite sexes in formerly sexually segregated spaces is a single thing, not a sequence of things, that is high on the lefty agenda.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (y2OcL)

174 There is no right to protest per se. There is a right to peaceably assemble and time, place, and manner restrictions can be put on those assemblies.

That's why I put it in quotes, because its not technically a legal right... except it kind of is because precedent and practice has been set that lets you do pretty much anything you want as long as you are protesting (at least, a leftist protest).

Police are specifically ordered to NOT arrest people protesting no matter what they do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (PYyV9)

175 Syria I don't see as going more islamist. Jordan maintains the status quo. Turkey is going to be the loser in regional power as more countries sign onto the Abraham Accords.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (+nEug)

I think the Turks overpowered most of the fringe groups in Syria when it blew up a few years back. Russia pulled out entirely, I think we still have a few people there. On the other hand the Turks have been less crazy that your other Mideast folks, so their takeover might be a decent sign.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (8avO+)

176 GET. OUT.

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I feel like we're missing a couple of words in between there ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (My0zW)

177 US Senate Votes To Include CBDC Ban In Bipartisan Housing Bill

Central Bank Digital Currency

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (BENy5)

178 And this is what we get for letting these perverts, yes, perverts, come out of the closet.

Chesterton's Fence.

Posted by: Beverly at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (reMys)

179 Where's that time machine? Even the Cold War era wasn't this bad!
Posted by: JQ at March

The last ten years or so was actually pretty cool

Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (Al4HM)

180 We just hit military, not oil, installations on Kharg Island.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

181 Let that sink in.
Posted by: beckster

She is trying for the all time Senate Hall of Fame as the stupidest senator ever elected. Even a semi comatose Mitch has a higher iq with his glitching.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:12 PM (E4rtv)

182 9h
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.

Let that sink in.
Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 07:10 PM (I7J9

Only if you are voting fraudulently Maizie.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:12 PM (8avO+)

183 Sure, but one isn't a reaction to the other. Men did not react to them taking their reserved places by perving out. We just took the blow like men.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:05 PM (8avO+)

I'm not saying that the men want in because women got in. I'm saying that our culture has pretty much destroyed the idea of sex segregated spaces and that men and women are different and can have different things.
Fer instance -- Nancy Mace raves against allowing "trans" men into the bathrooms in the Capitol, but at the same time she brags about being one of the first women cadets enrolled in the Citadel. The Citadel only began admitting females because SCOTUS forced them to. And this was seen as a wonderful moment and the women as heroes.
That kind of thing sets precedent and changes the culture.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 07:12 PM (0MjtC)

184 180 We just hit military, not oil, installations on Kharg Island.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Some speculation that the MEU just ordered to the middle east along with the USS Tripoli is aiming at occupying Kharg Island to shut off all Iranian income.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM (E4rtv)

185 whig, I need your opinion on something. I just watched a youtube vid that claimed that JD Vance could, in his capacity as President of the Senate, walk into the chamber more-or-less without notice and take the gavel from Thune and start action on the SAVE Act. Is that correct?

Posted by: Oddbob at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM (Fs0KI)

186 Itx been a slippery slope downhill since the 60s

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM (Ia/+0)

187 *BOEING IS REPAIRING 25 MAX JETS AS WIRE FLAWS HALT DELIVERIES

hey, hey, ho, ho
Boeing jets fall out the sky

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM (BENy5)

188 The AoSHQ Commentator Permanent Records.

They're real, and they're spectacular!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 07:08 PM (0sNs1)
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Morons be delurking only once every 5 years just because someone misspelled the name of a cheese.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM (RIvkX)

189 BREAKING: ALL NINE members of an Antifa cell in TX have just been found GUILTY of TERRORISM charges brought by the DOJ, per
@MrAndyNgo

>>This is HUGE, as it's the first terrorism trial against Antifa members in US history!

>>A precedent has been SET 🔥
Posted by: JackStraw
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So much for just being an idea.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)

Huh. Something happened. Cool.

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM (vSvIl)

190 Senator Mazie Hirono

@maziehirono
·
9h
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.

Let that sink in.
Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 07:10 PM (I7J9

So... Federal Background check, Picture ID, 2 week waiting period?

I'm OK with that. IMO Voting is more dangerous than a gun. You can kill more people with it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 07:14 PM (mP0Kj)

191 Anyone else find if very telling and disconcerting that in the US we find what is defined as a "Muslim Enclave"?

The fact that it exists in a form that allows such description only solidifies the opinion that there is little to no effort at assimilation into our society. Anyone aware of an Irish Enclave...a German Enclave...a Catholic Enclave?

I still think Liechtenstein, of all places, has the right idea on immigration even though it is a member of the EU. And, it might surprise you. They require 30 year LEGAL residency; municipality must vote approval of applicant; must speak German fluently; renounce previous citizenship; famiarity and acceptance of local customs; and there is more.

Posted by: Orson at March 13, 2026 07:14 PM (dIske)

192
its tough to make a legal argument that you cannot let men into women's spaces if you have spent forty years arguing that women must legally be allowed into every male space.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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The two are quite different. A skinny female reporter in a room full of football players vs a man in the shower area with 14-year-old girls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 07:14 PM (y2OcL)

193 That's why I put it in quotes, because its not technically a legal right... except it kind of is because precedent and practice has been set that lets you do pretty much anything you want as long as you are protesting (at least, a leftist protest).

Police are specifically ordered to NOT arrest people protesting no matter what they do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Ignoring the law is a leftist specialty all the way up to their Supreme Court judges and Presidents.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (E4rtv)

194 1.5%of all US live births are classes as intersex because of abnormalities in hormonal levels or in chromosomes
1 live birth in 5000 are born with ambiguous genetalia.
People are cruel

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (GTLdG)

195 The U.S. Men's National Team (USMNT) will begin their 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign Friday, June 12, 2026.

Millions & millions are coming into the country for the event. No DHS in whole by Monday, shut them down.

The country's at too great a risk otherwise.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (NFX2v)

196 Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central Command for an element of an amphibious ready group and attached Marine expeditionary unit, typically consisting of several warships and 5,000 Marines: WSJ

USS Tripoli, attached Marines now headed for Mideast:_WSJ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (BENy5)

197 Of course, a lefty judge threw out the case and even hit him with sanctions -- a big money fine -- for making an argument the judge didn't like about leftwing groups the judge does like.

Ok. No matter.
Not like I need your permission judge. (Spits)

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (+r9vd)

198 OT:

Earthquakes 'migrating' towards Istanbul'. (Insty.)

I'm, these guys do realize that one of the few flaws in Constantinople's position is that it is prone to earthquakes, right? The one I remember was when one struck while the Huns were bearing down on the city and did massive damage to the wall. The townspeople had to hump it to get it rebuilt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

199 pi]The two are quite different. A skinny female reporter in a room full of football players vs a man in the shower area with 14-year-old girls.

I agree, but for decades, women have been allowed to invade men's-only clubs, boys-only organizations, men's only sports, etc, not just reporters. And every legal argument that was made to allow women into these places makes the argument you have to let men into places that much stronger.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 07:16 PM (PYyV9)

200 huh, US destroyed everything military on Kharg island... I can see marines, that are rumored to be sent to the Persian Gulf, taking over the oil infrastructure there...

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 07:17 PM (GD0B3)

201 >>USS Tripoli, attached Marines now headed for Mideast:_WSJ

Sounds like they are headed for Kharg Island.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m)

202 So much for [antifa] just being an idea.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)

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F. Joe Mugabe (if he's not yet a Zombie) and Chris "Feh" Wray hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:17 PM (My0zW)

203 Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 07:12 PM (0MjtC)

Yup, Nancy Mace took a spot in a premier military school.... and then never served.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 07:17 PM (mP0Kj)

204 Boeing jets fall out the sky
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM

and they stand there..

Posted by: Jon Anderson at March 13, 2026 07:18 PM (4NO2D)

205 Trump doctrine, "take their oil".

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 07:18 PM (GD0B3)

206 Some speculation that the MEU just ordered to the middle east along with the USS Tripoli is aiming at occupying Kharg Island to shut off all Iranian income.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM (E4rtv)

They probably don't need those 2500 (?) just for Kharg. Might be able to replace other allied troops security in country to free up those forces.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:18 PM (8avO+)

207 >>USS Tripoli, attached Marines now headed for Mideast:_WSJ

Sounds like they are headed for Kharg Island.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m)

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"KHAAAAAAAARG!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (My0zW)

208 "Police are specifically ordered to NOT arrest people protesting no matter what they do." Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

We saw that with Antifa as they smashed windows and set things on fire. I can't think of conservative protests where there was harm from one side or the other ... but guess conservatives might be treated differently.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (vbXSk)

209 Morons be delurking only once every 5 years just because someone misspelled the name of a cheese.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I do not think that cheese is spelled the way you spell

PREPARE TO DIE

Posted by: Inigo Miklos Manchego-Montoya at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (Al4HM)

210 >>huh, US destroyed everything military on Kharg island... I can see marines, that are rumored to be sent to the Persian Gulf, taking over the oil infrastructure there...

Maybe even more important helping insure safe passage in the strait.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (viF8m)

211 What I can't understand is why we don't escort ships through the straits, I mean its an extremely old and well-established thing for shipping.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (PYyV9)

212 Can only pray for the Marines

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (Ia/+0)

213 Romeo13, how does that happen? I guess mistakenly that service was part of the deal.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (+nEug)

214 old and busted: Chagos Islands
new hotness: Kharg Island!

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 07:20 PM (GD0B3)

215 185 whig, I need your opinion on something. I just watched a youtube vid that claimed that JD Vance could, in his capacity as President of the Senate, walk into the chamber more-or-less without notice and take the gavel from Thune and start action on the SAVE Act. Is that correct?
Posted by: Oddbob

Hasn't been done without prearrangement to appeal the ruling of the chair (nuclear option). Basically the rules are what the majority wants to make of them and because it is a political question, courts are not going to rule on it (Senate and House specifically have the right to make their own rules of procedure see Nixon (Judge not prezzie) v. US. So, it is whether or not 50 votes plus JD want something when it comes down to it.

Someone can raise a point of order, chair rules, then appeal the ruling of the chair. It gets weird because the SAVE act has been passed in several iterations by the House and that makes it a privileged motion to bring to the floor. Under Senate rules, normally that is the majority leader, but Constitution puts VP as president of the Senate. So not going to say no, but I would have to do more research.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:20 PM (E4rtv)

216 We just took the blow like men.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:05 PM (8avO+)

You mean we took the blow like defeated dogs.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 07:20 PM (gKWVE)

217
201 >>USS Tripoli, attached Marines now headed for Mideast:_WSJ

Sounds like they are headed for Kharg Island.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:17 PM

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How wouid they not be sitting ducks for drone attacks?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 07:20 PM (azNOR)

218 'He always greeted me with a smile and always treated my family with kindness. He will be missed.'
He was not him. The security guards hit him with every shot.

Posted by: Chemist at March 13, 2026 07:20 PM (AJlna)

219 OT:

Earthquakes 'migrating' towards Istanbul'. (Insty.)

I'm, these guys do realize that one of the few flaws in Constantinople's position is that it is prone to earthquakes, right? The one I remember was when one struck while the Huns were bearing down on the city and did massive damage to the wall. The townspeople had to hump it to get it rebuilt.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

the pattern of quakes moving up and down that fault has been known for a long, long time.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:21 PM (8avO+)

220 Trump doctrine, "take their oil".

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 07:18 PM (GD0B3)

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Leave the unholy.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:21 PM (My0zW)

221 How wouid they not be sitting ducks for drone attacks?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 07:20 PM (azNOR)

No drones, really. But in practice you can dig in against drones. Ukraine shows that.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:22 PM (8avO+)

222 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order establishing the new "Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs" headed by Taylor Brown, a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman.
Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 06:37 PM (I7J9

So, another pervert gets a sinecure on the taxpayers' dollar.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 07:22 PM (8zz6B)

223 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.
Posted by: Second?
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Seconded!
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All in favor?

*Aye!*

Posted by: JQ at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (rdVOm)

Got my vote.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 07:22 PM (snZF9)

224 Being stuck in traffic does not amount to false imprisonment," said Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a lawyer for defendant Wespac Foundation, which describes itself as a "peace and justice action network."

True; and having sex does not amount to felony sexual assault, unless it's intentionally forced on you against your will.

Joshua seems like a real dolt.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 07:22 PM (lCppi)

225 CNBC - Politics, now
Iran’s ‘oil lifeline’ has been left untouched in the conflict. What happens if it’s seized?

Analysts say any attempt to attack or seize Iran’s strategic oil hub is likely to be fraught with risk.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 13, 2026 07:22 PM (NFX2v)

226 What I can't understand is why we don't escort ships through the straits, I mean its an extremely old and well-established thing for shipping.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (PYyV9)

We have offered. Not sure if anyone took us up on it.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:23 PM (8avO+)

227 196 Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central Command for an element of an amphibious ready group and attached Marine expeditionary unit, typically consisting of several warships and 5,000 Marines: WSJ

USS Tripoli, attached Marines now headed for Mideast:_WSJ
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 07:15 PM (BENy5)

Hmmm... never saw 5000 Marines in a MARG...

USS Tripoli has 2500 Marines...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 07:23 PM (mP0Kj)

228 Regarding the pervert in Seattle--I thought Washington state has a lot of wooded area? Perhaps he could be introduced to it?
Posted by: Crusader at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (TN0g+)

Plenty of hungry crabs on the bottom of Puget Sound, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 07:23 PM (8zz6B)

229 Of course, a lefty judge threw out the case and even hit him with sanctions -- a big money fine -- for making an argument the judge didn't like about leftwing groups the judge does like.

Lots of shore batteries for them to go after as well.

And...the Marines scare the crap out of them...They could make a nice diversion too.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (+r9vd)

230 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (MIIRH)

231 181 Let that sink in.
Posted by: beckster

She is trying for the all time Senate Hall of Fame as the stupidest senator ever elected. Even a semi comatose Mitch has a higher iq with his glitching.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:12 PM (E4rtv)
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I can't figure out how she got through law school.

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (I7J98)

232 >>How wouid they not be sitting ducks for drone attacks?

I guess they would be anywhere they go but maybe Iran doesn't want to shoot drones at their own oil infrastructure. I also gotta believe supplies are starting to dwindle.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)

233 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order establishing the new "Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs" headed by Taylor Brown, a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman.
Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 06:37 PM (I7J9

So, another pervert gets a sinecure on the taxpayers' dollar.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 07:22 PM (8zz6B)

I would not be too comfortable given Mandami is mayor.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (8avO+)

234 I've about had enough of our legal system. Seems the leftists have taken it over. They don't go by the law anymore not even the spirit of the law. They make up law from the bench or from their personal politics. They have f*cked up the system. If they can't or won't do their job they should be fired. I don't give a crap how they "feel" politically, but that should be left at home. It has no place in court. Just apply the law that's on the books.

Posted by: Case at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (pvf3X)

235 Analysts say any attempt to attack or seize Iran’s strategic oil hub is likely to be fraught with risk.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

It's twoo, It's twoo!

Posted by: Fraught Analyst at March 13, 2026 07:25 PM (Al4HM)

236 We have offered. Not sure if anyone took us up on it.

I mean, you go do it anyway, its not like they can stop you LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 13, 2026 07:25 PM (PYyV9)

237 Trump today on Fox

RedWave Press
@RedWavePress
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Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: “Are you thinking about taking Kharg Island where 90% of the Iranian oil goes through?”

President Trump: “Yeah, but, Brian, I can’t answer a question like that. And you shouldn’t ask it. You shouldn’t even be asking it. It’s one of so many different things. It’s not high on the list, but it’s one of so many different things. And I can change my mind in seconds, but, you know, for you to ask the question — who would answer a question like that? You’re asking me a question. Kharg Island. Who would ask a question like that and what fool would answer it? Let’s say I was gonna do it or I wasn’t gonna do it, what would I tell you? ‘Oh, yes, Brian, I’m thinking about doing it. Let me let you know what time and when it will take place.’ It’s not — you know, it’s sort of a foolish question. A little surprising for you because you’re a smart man.”

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:25 PM (E4rtv)

238 >>USS Tripoli, attached Marines now headed for Mideast:_WSJ

Sounds like they are headed for Kharg Island.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:17 PM

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How wouid they not be sitting ducks for drone attacks?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 07:20 PM (azNOR)

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The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its anti-drone defenses in response to growing threats from small, low-cost, and swarm-capable drones.

A layered defense strategy integrates active and passive measures, combining: electronic warfare; directed-energy weapons; kinetic interceptors; and physical hardening.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 07:25 PM (My0zW)

239 I can't figure out how she got through law school.

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (I7J9

same way an illegal who can't speak English can get a CDL.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 07:25 PM (MIIRH)

240 213 Romeo13, how does that happen? I guess mistakenly that service was part of the deal.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 07:19 PM (+nEug)

Only if it is one of the Service Academies... Citadel, is not.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)

241 It *looks* like a tranny serial killer.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 06:42 PM (ESVrU)

It looks like a shark barfed it up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (8zz6B)

242 Morons be delurking only once every 5 years just because someone misspelled the name of a cheese.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 07:13 PM

Inshallah, we can use this Iran unpleasantness to get the Kurds out of the way.

Posted by: Turks at March 13, 2026 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

243 Morons be delurking only once every 5 years just because someone misspelled the name of a cheese.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
.......

I like Škripavac.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 07:27 PM (UjdFS)

244 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.
Posted by: Second?
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Seconded!
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All in favor?
*Aye!*
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Got my vote.
Posted by: Berserker
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Motion carried! Judge VanDyke is hereby accepted as an Honorary Moron.
*Raps gavel*

Posted by: JQ at March 13, 2026 07:27 PM (rdVOm)

245 What about Syria and Jordan?

Small Potatoes.

Posted by: Dan Quayle at March 13, 2026 07:27 PM (Ksqrb)

246 (it's Croatian "squeaky" cheese)

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 07:28 PM (UjdFS)

247 232 >>How wouid they not be sitting ducks for drone attacks?

I guess they would be anywhere they go but maybe Iran doesn't want to shoot drones at their own oil infrastructure. I also gotta believe supplies are starting to dwindle.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)

Shotguns, and a Skeet Shooting competition on the Flight Deck? /smile

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 07:28 PM (mP0Kj)

248 The MEI might be heading for the Iranian side of Hormuz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 07:34 PM (YsPj+)

249 MEU not MEI

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 07:35 PM (YsPj+)

250 So he killed himself + had the fireworks I posted about earlier......how does a restaurant worker have 2 grand to spend on fireworks?

Fox News
@FoxNews
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NEW: The synagogue attacker jammed his truck into a hallway, couldn't get out, and then shot himself in the head when confronted by security officers, the FBI says.

"His engine compartment catches on fire, and at some point during the gunfight, [Ayman Mohamad] Ghazali suffers a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.”

“In the bed of the truck, we found large quantities of commercial grade fireworks and several jugs of flammable liquid we believe to be gasoline."

Posted by: beckster at March 13, 2026 07:38 PM (I7J98)

251 Is that the '94 "kirk cameron suicide?" Ted Frank? If so, I approve.

Posted by: Fritz Geiger at March 13, 2026 07:39 PM (38jsa)

252 Important update on Safe Act,

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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🚨 BREAKING: SAVE America Act sponsor Sen. Mike Lee reveals MAJOR PROGRESS has been made after pressure with Leader John Thune on getting it passed

Lee says a HYBRID form of the talking filibuster is set to be implemented. Then, Dems will be FORCED possibly for hours or DAYS to fight against 85% of the people!

Keep pushing!

"We've been working closely with Leader Thune and his staff, and they've been great to work with."

"What we're coming up with is something that I think is best described as a hybrid version of the talking filibuster."

"But look, let's not get mired down in nomenclature. What matters far more than what we call it is what we do with it. We're going to bring it to the floor."

"We're going to debate it for an extended period of time before filing cloture."

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:54 PM (E4rtv)

253 The response of the Dearborn neighbors and restaurant customers is chilling only in that they still don’t get it. Radical islamists are taught by their religious teachings to hide their true feelings from those they despise until the physical jihad event. OF COURSE he was the nicest guy. Until he wasn’t. Because he was a radical Islamist.

Posted by: epador at March 13, 2026 07:57 PM (UhiDE)

254 223 I move that Judge "swinging dicks" VanDyke be declared an honorary Moron.
Posted by: Second?
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Seconded!
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All in favor?

*Aye!*

Posted by: JQ at March 13, 2026 06:38 PM (rdVOm)

Got my vote.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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To make you more pleased, Van Dyke was on the short list in 2020 for the Ginsberg seat that ACB got. He has already been vetted and possibly selected to fill retirements of either Alito or Thomas if that comes to pass.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 07:59 PM (E4rtv)

255 If you made the spa for beautiful women, then could you exclude this joker?

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 13, 2026 07:59 PM (HRH9e)

256 4 This country needs a kerosene enema.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (P+WAR)
Don't forget the corncob.

Posted by: Eromero at March 13, 2026 08:28 PM (LHPAg)

257 Grenades are nice friendly apples until the pin is pulled.
That is what a Muslim in America is. Nice, until the pin is pulled.
Deport the pins.

Posted by: Elect me because i'm dyslexic and racist at March 13, 2026 10:38 PM (hjyS6)

White House Spokesman Steven Cheung Blasts Rancid Racist Stephen Colbert as a No-Talent Loser Who Brings Shame to His Racist Ancestors

I can't believe this racist launched a psyop to deny a nomination to the supremely-qualified Strong and Proud Black Woman Jasmine Ratchet.

I think we're all still grieving.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung launched a blistering attack Thursday on late-night host Stephen Colbert, unloading in a social media post that branded the comedian "a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being" while accusing him of driving one of television's most recognizable franchises into the ground.

Not really an accusation. That was the headline in the latest Nielsen book.

The remarks, posted to the platform X, came as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert heads toward its final run on CBS. Cheung mocked what he described as a media effort to frame Colbert's exit as a heartfelt farewell tour, dismissing the coverage and taking direct aim at the host himself. "He's a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being," Cheung wrote, adding that Colbert "killed the legacy of The Late Show."

So what is the little-watched TV clown, last seen propping up a mediocre white man so that he could steal a nomination from a Strong Black Woman, doing with his few remaining weeks?

Well, he's having on a series of guests who spend most of their time gassing Colbert up and assuring him that he's super-funny and super-needed in Current Year.

It's turned into such a solipsistic circle-jerk that even Solipsistic Circle-Jerk Daily, also known as Variety, is blasting Colbert for his cloying self-regard.

Quoted at Instapundit by Ed Driscoll:

Colbert's removal from the air, when it was announced last July, was legitimately seismic news, for the industry and for an audience who saw him as a crucial voice for the anti-Trump Resistance since the 2016 election. The timing of the news, though, meant that Colbert had an entire final season to play out with all parties, from writers and producers to host to guests, knowing that the end was in sight. (This differentiates it from the brief period when "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien's job was in limbo during the O'Brien-Jay Leno succession crisis -- then, the precariousness and uncertainty of the situation gave the show incredible tension and voltage.)
What has ended up making it to air has been an increasingly puffy tribute to the show's own host. The endless bouquets being tossed Colbert's way have started to make the studio smell a bit cloying.
Granted, these are Colbert's guests having an emotional response to a host they liked being removed from air, and in what seems to be an unfair way, to prove new Paramount CEO David Ellison's Trumpist bona fides amidst the Skydance-Paramount merger. It reminds one of how many other institutions are caving right now -- universities, law firms, to say nothing of corporations across the entertainment industry. But the show's focus on its own host's misfortune has become outsized and a bit dramatic, especially because so many other institutions are in crisis: With everything else going on in the world, we have to go through a monthslong celebration-of-life for a comedian whose job is coming to an end?

Stephen Colbert is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. He's kicking and screaming like a baby because he's an entitled prick who has lost touch with reality. The fact is that he will soon be forgotten because nobody likes a loser who killed the legacy of The Late Show. https://t.co/uRcFgodmqA
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) March 12, 2026

As we celebrate the firing of Colbert and Kimmel, we must always remember, it doesn't matter, because no one is watching anyway.

Late night's 11:35 p.m. ratings race delivered another split decision the week of March 1, with CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert topping the hour in total viewers, while ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! led among younger viewers.

This is misleading: Gutfeld topped them both by +50%.

But he's not specifically on at 11:35 -- a time they're insisting is the only real "late night show" starting time to fence out the competition that beats them every single night.

According to Nielsen Live+3 ratings data, The Late Show averaged 2.43 million total viewers for the week (+1 percent), enough to lead the broadcast field. Jimmy Kimmel Live! finished second with 2.28 million viewers (+5 percent) but led the hour among adults 18--49, drawing 263,000 viewers (+17 percent) to Colbert's 219,000 (+5 percent).

2.43 million in a nation of 350 million, huh?

And how about those in-the-demo numbers -- 219,000.

Wow.

NBC's Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon also saw growth last week, averaging 1.35 million total viewers (+10 percent) and 191,000 adults 18--49 (+29 percent) across four original episodes and one repeat.

And they're only seeing "growth," if you can call it that, because deranged lefties for whom network propaganda TV is their church and pulpit are tuning in to hear how terribly the Iran war is going.

On cable, Fox News' Gutfeld! again drew the largest overall audience among the shows we track, averaging 3.73 million total viewers (+10 percent) and 315,000 adults 18--49 (+38 percent) across four new episodes. The show was preempted Monday night by Fox News' Iran war coverage but benefited from the broader surge in cable news viewership tied to the conflict.

Weird that this outfit claims that Gutfeld benefited from the Iran war, but pretends the lefty propagandists did not.

Amidst all this #Winning, I have some sad news to add:

Buzzfeed is broke and there is "substantial doubt" it can remain in business.

Buzzfeed, the digital media company that took the mid-2010s by storm, said on Thursday it has "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a business.
In an earnings report released Thursday, Buzzfeed said it has engaged in "strategic conversations" about relieving its liquidity issues.
...
The company was $165 million in debt three years ago; that's been slashed by more than 65%, Buzzfeed said. But Matt Omer, Buzzfeed's chief financial officer, said the company is still burdened by legacy commitments. Alongside its namesake, Buzzfeed also owns news site Huffpost and online food network Tasty.

"Burdened" by HuffPo, huh?

...
In 2025, Buzzfeed had a net loss of $57.3 million, according to its earning report. The company noted it did not have enough resources to fund its cash obligations for the next year.

For those of you who are visual learners: If you imagine a pie graph, Buzzfeed lost $57.3 million of pie. Also, the pie was made of ratshit and hobo jizz.

BTW, that story is from CNN. Another company for which there is substantial doubt about its ability to remain in business. Also made of ratshit and hobo jizz.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:10 PM

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1 q3rd3r5q3c

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 05:11 PM (FveOp)

2
And willowed!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 05:12 PM (FveOp)

3 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:12 PM (YwEeS)

4 Oh no. What will we do without BuzzFeed?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 05:13 PM (YsPj+)

5 Oh no. What will we do without BuzzFeed?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 05:13 PM (YsPj+)

Buzzards will be happy.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 05:14 PM (gKDq2)

6 Dude, just go away. Now it is getting uncomfortable for everyone.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:14 PM (dK+Kv)

7 Still have to laugh and laugh that Disney gave the (still fat faced even with Ozempic) Jimmy Kimmel big bucks to keep losing money for them. We can make them destroy themselves out of spite.

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:14 PM (YwEeS)

8 LOL at the pie chart

Posted by: 496 at March 13, 2026 05:14 PM (GgaPN)

9 "the pie was made of ratshit and hobo jizz"

Pure poetry.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 05:15 PM (n9ltV)

10 Also, the pie was made of ratshit and hobo jizz.

Pooky just asked what we're doing for supper. Not that, I can assure you.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not the world's greatest cook at March 13, 2026 05:15 PM (Wt5PA)

11

BuzzFeed

Well, you wonder where the money went?

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (Y8DZL)

12 The only time I've seen kimmel or Colbert was when Gutfeld played clips mocking them...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (VE6XX)

13 "If you imagine a pie graph, Buzzfeed lost $57.3 million of pie. Also, the pie was made of ratshit and hobo jizz."

cruel math >> no math

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (ya/l7)

14 Colbert deserved better treatment from CBS -- Variety

With a rubber hose?

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (gKWVE)

15 How the hell does a website lose 50 million bucks? Sounds like they need to "let that sink in".

Posted by: spongeworthy at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (sLLbN)

16 For those of you who are visual learners: If you imagine a pie graph, Buzzfeed lost $57.3 million of pie. Also, the pie was made of ratshit and hobo jizz.
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Iconic. Add it to the hall of fame.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (ZOv7s)

17 *passes hat around for purchase of Buzzfeed*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (dK+Kv)

18 Well, anyways

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 05:17 PM (GbONR)

19 Ace, there are StormFronters polluting the latter part of the previous thread, and socking regulars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 05:18 PM (8zz6B)

20 Buzzfeed is broke and there is "substantial doubt" it can remain in business.

Hard times.

I mean I have not been this erect since Gawker was sued into oblivion.

I sure hope that Vice doesn't go under. Someone has to be the johns for all these future highway underpass hookers.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 13, 2026 05:18 PM (2+SeL)

21 Hmm watch Colbert OR shave my ear hair.

Posted by: MN HOUR moe moe moe at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (ehY6c)

22 Colbert is trying to mimic Johnny Carson's long goodbye, which was indeed a big deal and had huge big names appear on his show because he had been The King of Late Night for decades.

Not only that, he had promoted countless musicians and (especially) comedians to fame and fortune. Getting a spot on The Tonight Show *made* celebrities.

Who has Colbert *made*? What celebrity can thank him for massive boosts in visibility? I mean, other than the pedo-presenting fake Christian running in Texas.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

23 *sees ratshit and hobo jizz pie of Buzzfeed*

*withdraws hat*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (dK+Kv)

24 Colbert would show up looking to gorge on that pie with 2 forks and a lobster bib.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (ya/l7)

25
It reminds one of how many other institutions are caving right now -- universities, law firms, to say nothing of corporations across the entertainment industry.

Oh?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (Cqx++)

26 Little bit of ratshit isn't too bad. Might be good on kale.

Posted by: The Galloping Gourmet at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (oftw2)

27 The progressive echo chamber is getting smaller every day.
We can only hope that this madness continues into the midterms so the public and can how batshit crazy these nutballs really are.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (MNCvZ)

28 Off topic question for our smart military analyst Morons:

IF we know where Iran's nuclear material is located, AND it is located in a remote area, then I (non-expert) do NOT see a problem with U.S. boots on the ground to remove it.

With complete air supremacy, couldn't we bring in paratroopers and air-dropped tanks, or even land C-5s, and then advance to the nuclear facilities under the umbrella of continuous air coverage?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (HlyYF)

29 As lefttard media gets a small taste of their just desserts, I can only say, "I ain't noways tired of winning yet"

Posted by: RandomDave at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (aJQbY)

30 Ace, there are StormFronters polluting the latter part of the previous thread, and socking regulars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 05:18 PM (8zz6B)
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You spelled "closeted gay incels" wrong.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (ZOv7s)

31
So with Colbert, Stewart, Noah, and Kimmel down, who will be left? This Fallon fellow?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (y2OcL)

32 Colbert's comedic style is pretty much on par with ace.

Mostly just invective rants laced with profanity.

Neither Colbert, nor ace, possess anything above sewer level humor.

Posted by: Rick's at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (KKppW)

33 17 *passes hat around for purchase of Buzzfeed*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

I hope that wasn't your best hat.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 05:21 PM (gKWVE)

34 So what's for afters?

Rat tart, rat cake, rat sorbet...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 13, 2026 05:21 PM (/HDaX)

35 I'm hoping Colbert's final show is something akin to the final act at Jonestown. He and his clapping seals, enjoying one final jab elixir together.

I would tune into see that.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 13, 2026 05:21 PM (5yDGQ)

36 A guy I work with does a killer Jim Ignatowski impression. I am not sure it is intentional.

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 05:21 PM (GbONR)

37 well I figured out why the US version of the IT Crowd was so god awful:

- DEI goofy boss character, who was wooden and lame and completely not funny
- boring as FUCK Jen character! she was THE SHOW! she was amazing! ruined the show just with that casting sheesh. if you're bringing Richard in to play Moss why not bring in Jen?
- Joel was lost
- Irish accents are just funnier, Joel
- but mostly - why have Richard play Moss? it was just sad watching him re-do scenes from an actually funny show. if it HAD gotten picked up, it would have been sadder still. they should have made it a sequel set in the US, or not had him suffering on that set, recast him. Maybe with a Chinese lesbian, that should work!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (j+aD2)

38 Kimmel and Colbert, the right and left occupants of a ball bag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (snZF9)

39
Getting a spot on The Tonight Show *made* celebrities.

Who has Colbert *made*? What celebrity can thank him for massive boosts in visibility? I mean, other than the pedo-presenting fake Christian running in Texas.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

The celebrities made Colbert.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (Cqx++)

40 Posted by: Rick's at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (KKppW)

And yet, here you are.

Posted by: ... from reddit at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (gKWVE)

41 With complete air supremacy, couldn't we bring in paratroopers and air-dropped tanks, or even land C-5s, and then advance to the nuclear facilities under the umbrella of continuous air coverage?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (HlyYF)
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No. Absolutely not. They will herd women and children towards our positions and dare us to shoot at them while firing from within the crowd.

I have seen a suggestion that we are sending Marines to take Kharg Island and will just hold onto it. You know, keeping it safe from bad people. And also China. Mostly China.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (ZOv7s)

42 Jimmy Kimmel Live! finished second with 2.28 million viewers (+5 percent) but led the hour among adults 18--49, drawing 263,000 viewers (+17 percent) to Colbert's 219,000 (+5 percent).

These numbers make no sense at all. Adults 18 - 49 should be at least half of the viewing audience, not less than 12% of the audience...

Because this airs at 11:30 at night... when kids are supposed to be in bed (thus no youth audience)... so they are saying 88% of the audience is folks older than 50 years old? not buyin it at all.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (mP0Kj)

43 Correction: 'solipsistic circle jerk' is his MIDDLE name.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

44 Who?

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (vE0+H)

45 i banned a nazi impersonating Fenelon

are there more?

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (1wjle)

46 I know Steven Colbert is a "comedian" because he's usually described in print as Comedian Steven Colbert.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (8DR9B)

47 >>>For those of you who are visual learners: If you imagine a pie graph, Buzzfeed lost $57.3 million of pie.

lol

Pretty sure that's not how pie charts work.

Posted by: No Name Today at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (8mulE)

48 Ratshit and Hobo Jizz was a Depression era comedy duo. Didn't last long , nobody thought a Depression was funny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (YsPj+)

49 How's the cafe, Rick?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

50 Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (j+aD2)

Yeah Katherine Parkinson was super cute and very funny

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (vE0+H)

51 We should just pile up what they have and let it burn.

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (GbONR)

52 >>>boring as FUCK Jen character! she was THE SHOW!

I only tried watching the IT crowd because I thought Jen was hot. I saw her in a Sherlock, the Reichbach Fall one, where she played an amoral journalist.

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (1wjle)

53 Yeah Katherine Parkinson was super cute and very funny

she was, apparently, irreplaceable!

she's so funny

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (j+aD2)

54
I remember Huffpo. It died with DrudgeReport in that Balloon crash.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (IifOV)

55 So with Colbert, Stewart, Noah, and Kimmel down, who will be left? This Fallon fellow?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (y2OcL)

Get ready for Late Night With David French

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (vE0+H)

56 The first federal trial of antifags is over in Texas. All guilty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (0U5gm)

57 >>Pretty sure that's not how pie charts work.

I like Pie.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (erF49)

58 The celebrities made Colbert.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (Cqx++)
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The irony is that Colbert became famous for playing a goofy conservative parody, and when he acted as himself, he failed utterly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (ZOv7s)

59 I only tried watching the IT crowd because I thought Jen was hot. I saw her in a Sherlock, the Reichbach Fall one, where she played an amoral journalist.

the show is hilarious give it more time!

also possibly half a gummy before watching?

I almost asphyxiated laughing at the one with the game show

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (j+aD2)

60
Ratshit and Hobo Jizz was a Depression era comedy duo. Didn't last long , nobody thought a Depression was funny
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Rebo and Zooty were funnier.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (Cqx++)

61 56 The first federal trial of antifags is over in Texas. All guilty.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (0U5gm)

Don't mess with Texas

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (VE6XX)

62 know Steven Colbert is a "comedian" because he's usually described in print as Comedian Steven Colbert.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (8DR9B)

That's what we in the "industry" call a sick burn

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (vE0+H)

63 56 The first federal trial of antifags is over in Texas. All guilty.

yay!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (j+aD2)

64 No. Absolutely not. They will herd women and children towards our positions and dare us to shoot at them while firing from within the crowd.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM

If the facilities/stockpiles are in the middle of the desert, I was hoping we could get there the firstest with the mostest.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 13, 2026 05:26 PM (HlyYF)

65 Do we need to show our Bund membership card? Why is this harder than buying a gun?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:26 PM (zZu0s)

66 I like Pie.
Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (erF49)

Boy, do I have someone for you

Posted by: Girl With Muff at March 13, 2026 05:26 PM (vE0+H)

67 Rebo and Zooty were funnier.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 05:25 PM (Cqx++)
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They dominated the Minbari demographic. Huge ratings. Monster ratings.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (ZOv7s)

68 46 I know Steven Colbert is a "comedian" because he's usually described in print as Comedian Steven Colbert.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (8DR9B)

/Nods....

It's all good... he self IDENTIFIES as a Comedian...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (mP0Kj)

69 I had a very stressful/busy work week and am ready for drinking

very much so

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (j+aD2)

70 and he has funny ears

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (ZxPkt)

71 Late night talk shows haven't been the same since Selma Diamond and George Gobel left this mortal coil.

Posted by: Ol' Codger at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (oftw2)

72 >>>the show is hilarious give it more time!

no i am, i linked a good episode the other day, Italian for Beginners. I'm on season 2.

I was responding to someone saying the American remake failed because the Jen character wasn't good. I was saying I only started watching because I thought Katherine Parkinson was hot (in a mousy kind of way, which makes it hotter)

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (1wjle)

73
If the facilities/stockpiles are in the middle of the desert, I was hoping we could get there the firstest with the mostest.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 13, 2026 05:26 PM (HlyYF)

I'm thinking it will be necessary... it will be special ops with Israel I believe

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (VE6XX)

74 >>>For those of you who are visual learners: If you imagine a pie graph, Buzzfeed lost $57.3 million of pie.

lol

Pretty sure that's not how pie charts work.

Posted by: No Name Today at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (8mulE)

My youngest's grammar facilitator (We don't call them teachers, because in home schooling, we are the teachers.) tried to make a Venn Diagram to express the relationships between participles, infinitives, and gerunds.

It went about as well as Kamala making a Venn diagram might go.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (dK+Kv)

75 If the facilities/stockpiles are in the middle of the desert, I was hoping we could get there the firstest with the mostest.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 13, 2026 05:26 PM (HlyYF)
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Right, and then they herd women and children into busses and mix in weapons in other busses because they are evil assholes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (ZOv7s)

76 I was responding to someone saying the American remake failed because the Jen character wasn't good. I was saying I only started watching because I thought Katherine Parkinson was hot (in a mousy kind of way, which makes it hotter)

yeah that was me! I said that! and the boss being a "can't be wrong/not evil" black guy was also not a bright idea

and Moss just seemed sad and lost

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (j+aD2)

77 we are getting a stormfag infestation, socking regulars

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (GD0B3)

78 >>> I remember Huffpo. It died with DrudgeReport in that Balloon crash.
Posted by: Frank Barone at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (IifOV)

Huffpo was one of the businesses that Breitbart built but they yanked away from him.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (3uBP9)

79 Are there closeted gay incels? Gay guys can suck 15 dicks on the jaunt to the mailbox.

Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (uQzkA)

80 0z2bC is under suspicion of socking JROD. not seen the real 'ron say antisemitic stuff in here.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (gKWVE)

81 Texas antifags found guilty. Everytime news of the trial appeared on the news the wife would shout,off with their heads. Usually calm she is but that got her going. Women are a mystery. Never really know them.

Posted by: kingsman at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (ehY6c)

82 What has ended up making it to air has been an increasingly puffy tribute to the show's own host.

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Did this by chance include Ashley Judd's Scamper?

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (My0zW)

83 I am a girl but I also think Katherine in hot! she's very pretty - and yet relatable!

especially the lying / wearing shoes too small / laughing awkwardly thing

I do all those things!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (j+aD2)

84 "Late Night" is gone as a genre , they all need to go. It's hipness ended in the 90s.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (GD0B3)

85 Katherine Parkinson in Sherlock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhp8DZLLU7g

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

86 I was responding to someone saying the American remake failed because the Jen character wasn't good. I was saying I only started watching because I thought Katherine Parkinson was hot (in a mousy kind of way, which makes it hotter)
Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (1wjle)
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I saw Hot And Mousey open for Blondie in '82.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (ZOv7s)

87 80 0z2bC is under suspicion of socking JROD. not seen the real 'ron say antisemitic stuff in here.

great SockMobys

yuck

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (j+aD2)

88 - but mostly - why have Richard play Moss? it was just sad watching him re-do scenes from an actually funny show. if it HAD gotten picked up, it would have been sadder still. they should have made it a sequel set in the US, or not had him suffering on that set, recast him. Maybe with a Chinese lesbian, that should work!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (j+aD2)

Ok, I'm confused. So, The IT Crowd (2006-2013) is the British version. So what's the US one?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 13, 2026 05:30 PM (/HDaX)

89 0z2bC is under suspicion of socking JROD. not seen the real 'ron say antisemitic stuff in here.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (gKWVE)

Back to the hash in your nic days.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:30 PM (dK+Kv)

90 ‘He's a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being’

I like the fire, but Cheung needs to consult this blog’s style guide. ‘Sad and pathetic excuse for a human being’ is so … cliche. Needs more punch, more clever, more heat.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:30 PM (m/YDg)

91 I thought Katherine Parkinson was hot (in a mousy kind of way, which makes it hotter)
Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:27 PM (1wjle)

So youre the reason Judy Greer has a career? Right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

92 Wheeler and Woolsey were a Depression Era comedy duo. Made 21 films for RKO, many of them very funny. Woolsey passed on in 1937, ending the act.

Posted by: Too Many Cooks at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (oftw2)

93 gKWVE, thanks for mentioning that JROD comment . Struck me as really odd also.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (+nEug)

94 >>Are there closeted gay incels? Gay guys can suck 15 dicks on the jaunt to the mailbox.

The truth is that any man who is not balls deep in a woman is, at that moment, an Incel.

...or, gay.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (erF49)

95 great SockMobys

yuck

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (j+aD2)

Mom! We got SockMobys again! Get the RAID!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (dK+Kv)

96 Ok, I'm confused. So, The IT Crowd (2006-2013) is the British version. So what's the US one?

it didn't air but I found some video online

the pilot was too terrible

it was just also The IT Crowd, same deal? like so many shows that start out on British TV

but this was just totally failed

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (j+aD2)

97 I'm thinking it will be necessary... it will be special ops with Israel I believe
Posted by: It's me donna

It seems the Israelis are taking care of all the wet work.

Don't know about the enriched uranium but am pretty sure Hegseth has a plan.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (Y8DZL)

98 "Late Night" is gone as a genre , they all need to go. It's hipness ended in the 90s.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (GD0B3)
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This is true. It was an artifact of the FCC's broadcast standards that limited what could be shown during Family Hours. Late night allowed looser conversation, though Standards and Practices still got heartburn from time to time.

A huge part of the humor was the attempt to circumvent those rules. Just blurting obscenity is middle school humor, which is why the left loves it so much.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (ZOv7s)

99 These numbers make no sense at all. Adults 18 - 49 should be at least half of the viewing audience, not less than 12% of the audience...

Network television is much like this blog, pretty much no one under 50 views it because it just contains Goy-slop written by Jews.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (vP5VU)

100 The timing of the news, though, meant that Colbert had an entire final season to play out with all parties, from writers and producers to host to guests, knowing that the end was in sight. (This differentiates it from the brief period when "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien's job was in limbo during the O'Brien-Jay Leno succession crisis -- then, the precariousness and uncertainty of the situation gave the show incredible tension and voltage.)
****

Man, these guys take their 'profession' super seriously, don't they?

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 05:32 PM (lCppi)

101 85 Katherine Parkinson in Sherlock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhp8DZLLU7g

the voice is really helpful as far as her being sexy

a LOT of what makes someone sexy is in the voice

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:32 PM (j+aD2)

102 >>>So youre the reason Judy Greer has a career? Right.

probably!

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:32 PM (1wjle)

103 i banned a nazi impersonating Fenelon

are there more?
Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (1wjle)

Xkc2j at 163, regular old StormFront blather

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 05:33 PM (8zz6B)

104 I prefer my Mousy Brunettes a bit mousier and without the carbuncles.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 05:33 PM (erF49)

105 Are there closeted gay incels? Gay guys can suck 15 dicks on the jaunt to the mailbox.
Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 05:28 PM (uQzkA)
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Nick Fuentes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)

106 The NYS trooper was found guilty this afternoon of manslaughter. Will appeal. Should be interesting as he was found not guilty in an earlier trial of a murder charge. Bad situation. Father fled a traffic stop , child ended up killed in a pit maneuver

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 05:33 PM (YsPj+)

107 I had a quite enjoyable "war" (if you can even call it that, it was more like a flaying) with someone socking me a couple years back but no one could quite tell which one was me even though if you knew, trust me, you would have shit yourself laughing. I'm sure a few people must have been able to tell. My God it was funny.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:34 PM (vE0+H)

108 ‘He's a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being’

I like the fire, but Cheung needs to consult this blog’s style guide. ‘Sad and pathetic excuse for a human being’ is so … cliche. Needs more punch, more clever, more heat.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:30 PM (m/YDg)

yeah, like daddy's sperm missed egg and hit ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 05:34 PM (snZF9)

109 106 The NYS trooper was found guilty this afternoon of manslaughter. Will appeal. Should be interesting as he was found not guilty in an earlier trial of a murder charge. Bad situation. Father fled a traffic stop , child ended up killed in a pit maneuver

awful. I hope he wins appeal

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:34 PM (j+aD2)

110 just ..in ..case

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 13, 2026 05:35 PM (j+aD2)

111 I prefer my Mousy Brunettes a bit mousier and without the carbuncles.
Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 05:33 PM (erF49)

I prefer OG Sela Ward (pre House.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

112
awful. I hope he wins appeal
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:34 PM (j+aD2

It's NY... Not much chance

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:35 PM (VE6XX)

113 Would Alison Brie be considered mousy?

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:35 PM (3uBP9)

114 Or even just today Susanna Hoffs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

115 I prefer my Mousy Brunettes a bit mousier and without the carbuncles.
Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 05:33 PM (erF49)
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I was completely underwhelmed. Total butterface.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:36 PM (ZOv7s)

116 100 The timing of the news, though, meant that Colbert had an entire final season to play out with all parties, from writers and producers to host to guests, knowing that the end was in sight. (This differentiates it from the brief period when "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien's job was in limbo during the O'Brien-Jay Leno succession crisis -- then, the precariousness and uncertainty of the situation gave the show incredible tension and voltage.)
****

Man, these guys take their 'profession' super seriously, don't they?
Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 05:32 PM (lCppi)

something that runs tooo long???

During McCain's Funeral?

The Horror.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 05:36 PM (mP0Kj)

117 NGL, though. Mousy Brunette is pretty much my type.

I barely even see the other women.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 05:36 PM (erF49)

118 Posted by: Rick's at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (KKppW)

And yet, here you are.

Posted by: ... from reddit at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (gKWVE)

-----------

Epic self-pwn.

Some people just can't appreciate creative genius ... ask me how I know? (j/k)

As I've frequently said before: "Ace is a wordsmith for our time" (literally a meme-generating machine).

"Roll over George Orwell ...
Tell Bill Shakespeare the news."

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:36 PM (My0zW)

119 it didn't air but I found some video online

the pilot was too terrible

it was just also The IT Crowd, same deal? like so many shows that start out on British TV

but this was just totally failed
Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (j+aD2)

Ah, got it.

I do see a listing in Richard Ayoade's CV on IMDB.com for a 2006 TV movie version, which has a bunch of U.S. actors in it (Rocky Caroll, Joel McHale, etc.) that's not well rated with a 5.9/10 score.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 13, 2026 05:36 PM (/HDaX)

120 113 Would Alison Brie be considered mousy?

yeah I think so?

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (j+aD2)

121 ace, 0z2bC

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (GD0B3)

122 Would Alison Brie be considered mousy?
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026

No.

https://sl.bing.net/dM1Ib01AtZA

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (zZu0s)

123 my, the trolls are out in force today, aren't they?
wonder how much they get paid per comment....

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (MNCvZ)

124 I went to the Colbert Show many years ago with our daughter. He was very kind to her and they sang a duet together.

His guest that night was asshoe professor Henry Gates, whose 15 minutes of fame was during the Oblablah Regime when he was "arrested" breaking into his own house.

Celebrity is not the right word.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM (wBaIH)

125 I had a quite enjoyable "war" (if you can even call it that, it was more like a flaying) with someone socking me a couple years back but no one could quite tell which one was me even though if you knew, trust me, you would have shit yourself laughing. I'm sure a few people must have been able to tell. My God it was funny.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:34 PM (vE0+H)

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I remember that! Hilarious ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM (My0zW)

126 I think if a gal has a variety of cheese in her name that gives her at least a +2 stat for mousy.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM (3uBP9)

127 I raise my hand to the question of "who thought buzzfeed died years ago?"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM (n5tGW)

128 my, the trolls are out in force today, aren't they?
wonder how much they get paid per comment....
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (MNCvZ)

Sellers market. Failures to launch are not rare.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (zZu0s)

129 Stephen who?

Posted by: Most people at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (sRQHD)

130 Colbert is about as funny as nut cancer.

Posted by: Testiclees at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (Ksqrb)

131 banned 0z2bC

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (1wjle)

132 Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (vP5VU)

Looks like a sock of Dr. Claw at 99 in this thread, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (8zz6B)

133 Would Alison Brie be considered mousy?
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:35 PM (3uBP9)

Only with a box of white wine.

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (QyRN9)

134 I was completely underwhelmed. Total butterface.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Agree. Joe Mannix went through a phase like that, too. Kids growing up, I tell ya.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (Y8DZL)

135 Wait, buyers market.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (zZu0s)

136 my, the trolls are out in force today, aren't they?
wonder how much they get paid per comment....
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (MNCvZ)
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It's sad that people are reduced to that level. Probably multiple tabs open, doing multiple sites, imagining that they're making people upset or somehow moving the needle while knowing that Friday night for them is just the same old onanism and ramen. God help them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)

137 Would I be a bad person to laugh if all these late night limpdick cocksuckers had a ‘retirement’ party and a smelly tranny hobo with leprosy and AIDS crashed the party, puked on all of them, and then fucked them all on the ass?

That would be funny, right?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (m/YDg)

138 I'm thinking it will be necessary... it will be special ops with Israel I believe
Posted by: It's me donna

It seems the Israelis are taking care of all the wet work.

Don't know about the enriched uranium but am pretty sure Hegseth has a plan.
Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 05:31 PM (Y8DZL)

Their old enrichment site was pretty isolated from the maps I saw, but we kinda plugged the hole down into the works last year. I don't know where they have the part enriched U hanging out now.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (8avO+)

139 Even ass has been a bit weird the past few days. He's almost been approaching sentience.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

140 >>>Would Alison Brie be considered mousy?
Posted by: banana Dream a

in Community she was kinda played as half-mousy half-hot

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (1wjle)

141 Cheese Gromit!

Posted by: Wallace at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (eOFY+)

142 I had a quite enjoyable "war" (if you can even call it that, it was more like a flaying) with someone socking me a couple years back but no one could quite tell which one was me even though if you knew, trust me, you would have shit yourself laughing. I'm sure a few people must have been able to tell. My God it was funny.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:34 PM (vE0+H)

I'm still not sure who won.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (dK+Kv)

143 I get gawker and buzzfeed mixed up. When one died off I thought they both did.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (3uBP9)

144 Granted, these are Colbert's guests having an emotional response to a host they liked being removed from air ...

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Heh. An ambiguous phrase which I first read as their emotional response was due to Colbert being removed from the air -- which they liked!

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (My0zW)

145 I raise my hand to the question of "who thought buzzfeed died years ago?"
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM (n5tGW)
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Yeah, I thought they died with Gawker.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

146 I raise my hand to the question of "who thought buzzfeed died years ago?"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM

Wait..., I thought buzzion died some years back.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 13, 2026 05:41 PM (0N4FZ)

147 my favorite Jen line so far comes when Richard Ayode asks her why she lied about being an Italian translator:

"No one was paying attention to me."

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:42 PM (1wjle)

148 I get gawker and buzzfeed mixed up. When one died off I thought they both did.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (3uBP9)

Hawker is the elbowed from the top rope into the ground by Hulk Hogan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:42 PM (zZu0s)

149 Would I be a bad person to laugh if all these late night limpdick cocksuckers had a ‘retirement’ party and a smelly tranny hobo with leprosy and AIDS crashed the party, puked on all of them, and then fucked them all on the ass?

That would be funny, right?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (m/YDg)
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Are you really Quentin Tarantino?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:42 PM (ZOv7s)

150 I remember that! Hilarious ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM (My0zW)

Ah. I'm glad someone saw it.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:42 PM (vE0+H)

151 Gawker, phone. How is Hawker more of a word?

A salesperson?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

152 my, the trolls are out in force today, aren't they?
wonder how much they get paid per comment....
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (MNCvZ)
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It's amazing what some folks will do for an extra ration of ratshit and hobo jizz.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 05:43 PM (ESVrU)

153 I'm still not sure who won.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:40 PM (dK+Kv)

LOL

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:43 PM (vE0+H)

154 Man, these guys take their 'profession' super seriously, don't they?
Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 05:32 PM (lCppi)

Not seriously enough to make the show interesting or funny. Even Letterman ran out of steam on his Late show at a point.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:43 PM (8avO+)

155 Gawker, phone. How is Hawker more of a word?

A salesperson?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)
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Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Tempest, Hawker Typhoon, Hawker Hunter.

Classics.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)

156 Gutfield is not a traditional late night show , sit a desk do variety shtick and talk to some faded celebutant.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:44 PM (GD0B3)

157 Buzzfeed is broke and there is "substantial doubt" it can remain in business.

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David French's wife hardest hit.

Oh, wait, it's that other Somalian pool-boy bull in town named Buzzfeed? Oh, nevermind ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:45 PM (My0zW)

158 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Faded celebutants at March 13, 2026 05:45 PM (sRQHD)

159 A guy in Charlotte has a bakery which he shut down when ICE was in town. Because illegals like baked good, dunno the reasoning. Anyway, he's suing someone, everyone to recoup $60,000?? he lost while shut down. Nobody forced you. And you're retarded. No.

Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 05:45 PM (uQzkA)

160 Co-Bert is a Leftist Propaganda who makes fun of Conservatives

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)

161 my, the trolls are out in force today, aren't they?
wonder how much they get paid per comment....
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 05:37 PM (MNCvZ)
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It's amazing what some folks will do for an extra ration of ratshit and hobo jizz.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 05:43 PM (ESVrU)

China and Russia have to spend their money someplace.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 05:46 PM (lCppi)

162 160 Co-Bert is a Leftist Propaganda who makes fun of Conservatives
Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 05:46 PM (Ia/+0)

Pretty much sums it up

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:46 PM (VE6XX)

163 Not seriously enough to make the show interesting or funny. Even Letterman ran out of steam on his Late show at a point.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:43 PM (8avO+)
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Retirement is no longer a thing. Celebrities never retire. They can't just withdraw from the glare of publicity and chill out. Maybe show up for an event or something, but generally let younger folks do their thing, get their chance.

You want to leave when you're still hot, not sputter out to the point that no really cares because they've gotten bored of you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)

164 >>> Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Tempest, Hawker Typhoon, Hawker Hunter.

Classics.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)

Now defunct BAe bizjets

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:47 PM (3uBP9)

165 31
So with Colbert, Stewart, Noah, and Kimmel down, who will be left? This Fallon fellow?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 05:20 PM (y2OcL)

++++

I've never watched any of them but if they're banking on Fallon to keep the "Late Night Comedy" show afloat, I think he is a toss-pot. I think his drinking problem is so severe he's had to have interventions several times.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 13, 2026 05:47 PM (xuIiP)

166 my favorite Jen line so far comes when Richard Ayode asks her why she lied about being an Italian translator:

"No one was paying attention to me."
Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 05:42 PM (1wjle)

Wait. Is that all it takes to get some response around here?

Posted by: The Oft Ignored OrangeEnt at March 13, 2026 05:47 PM (cCAza)

167
Billionaires have sustained any number of otherwise doomed, money-hemorrhaging news and opinion sources.

And billionaire money has been seed money to justify larger amounts of taxpayer money.

Watching the ecosystem dry up and blow away, like a dried-up lake in the African savannah, with desperate animals fighting over the few remaining mud holes in the cracked lake bottom.

Where will the generational wealth come from now?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 05:48 PM (VWtfl)

168 heh. I remember when buzzion died 10 times that one week. LOL

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 05:48 PM (n5tGW)

169 "Late Night" is gone as a genre , they all need to go. It's hipness ended in the 90s.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:29 PM (GD0B3)

The purpose was to let actors/actresses personally interact with the viewers, and announce new projects. Entertainment magazines, then Social Media and its precursors cut the legs out from under it. And now the viewers themselves are leaving the scene.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:48 PM (8avO+)

170 Yeah, it's a shame we don't have anyone in the public eye that is good at taking milder-mannered shots at both sides ..laughing at ourselves is a good thing...Kohlburt was never that good...just a simple propagandist.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:48 PM (Wp3WS)

171 "for the industry and for an audience who saw him as a crucial voice for the anti-Trump Resistance since the 2016 election."

if crucial = "scripted and redundant" , then ok.

Posted by: cpt obv at March 13, 2026 05:49 PM (5LiC7)

172 I saw Bad Bunny open for Ratshit and Hobo Jizz at Magma Club in '17.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:49 PM (My0zW)

173 Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Tempest, Hawker Typhoon, Hawker Hunter.

Classics.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)

Midway hawker calling, "Try your lot with me." Merry-go-round wheezing same old melody.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:49 PM (dK+Kv)

174 Late Night is soooo pre-internet.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:49 PM (GD0B3)

175 I can't believe this racist launched a psyop to deny a nomination to the supremely-qualified Strong and Proud Black Woman Jasmine Ratchet.
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If forced to choose between only those two, I'd have preferred Ratchet to the fag. At least she has a measure of amusement value.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2026 05:50 PM (AlhUl)

176 Late Night is soooo pre-internet.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:49 PM (GD0B3)
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Worse, it's pre-cable. Cable - and the freedom to cuss during shows - started the decline. The internet finished the job.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)

177 I still miss RedEye, the last news adjacent show I ever watched. I've never watched The 5 or whatever his new show is called. But I liked the wild format of RedEye and I don't think it would be allowed these days. The new shows seem like RedEye light.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:50 PM (3uBP9)

178 Would I be a bad person to laugh if all these late night limpdick cocksuckers had a ‘retirement’ party and a smelly tranny hobo with leprosy and AIDS crashed the party, puked on all of them, and then fucked them all on the ass?

That would be funny, right?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (m/YDg)
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Are you really Quentin Tarantino?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:42 PM (ZOv7s)
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QT is a creepy bastard ….

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:51 PM (m/YDg)

179 @Polymarket
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 05:51 PM (ZxPkt)

180 Yeah, it's a shame we don't have anyone in the public eye that is good at taking milder-mannered shots at both sides ..laughing at ourselves is a good thing...Kohlburt was never that good...just a simple propagandist.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:48 PM (Wp3WS)

This would not fly for long. The left would cancel such a person and make them toe the line. You see that often enough with internet drama these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:52 PM (8avO+)

181 Remember when he announced Comey was fired? His genius IQ audience had to be instructed.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:52 PM (vE0+H)

182 Redeye was funny as hell. Gutfield now is canned laughter and wildly lame.

Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 05:52 PM (uQzkA)

183 179 @Polymarket
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 05:51 PM (ZxPkt)

Seize ? Oh no... Not that !

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:52 PM (VE6XX)

184 As sad as Colbert is, I think Tater would be a better Late Show host. At least we could always get a chuckle out of the shape of his melon.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 05:52 PM (M9gjJ)

185 if crucial = "scripted and redundant" , then ok.

Posted by: cpt obv at March 13, 2026 05:49 PM (5LiC7)

Scripted and redundant is comforting for your audience of NPCs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:52 PM (dK+Kv)

186 Not news. Polymarkets is full of shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (+nEug)

187 Would I be a bad person to laugh if all these late night limpdick cocksuckers had a ‘retirement’ party and a smelly tranny hobo with leprosy and AIDS crashed the party, puked on all of them, and then fucked them all on the ass?

That would be funny, right?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:39 PM (m/YDg)
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Yes it would be.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (xvV+O)

188 Should I be worried if I don’t know who this Colbutt guy is ? Just another shirt-lifter claiming to be somebody.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (XqFM2)

189 Apparently there is a Florida Man who is claiming he was kidnapped by dolphins. And not the football players.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (n5tGW)

190 USAID goes away and Buzzfeed goes bankrupt.
Huh.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (0MjtC)

191 Perhaps making a couple of egotistical, dumb, humorless comedians one of your “voices of resistance” wasn’t a bright idea, Democrats?

You know, just like how making nearly every mainstream journalist a resistance warrior didn’t help much either?

You’ve destroyed the credibility of every skinsuit institution you’ve long marched into and now nobody but your most dedicated, most naive, most brainwashed cult members believe any of it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (6ydKt)

192 BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 05:51 PM (ZxPkt)

Remember when Kamala was "projected" to beat Trump after Taylor Swift endorsed her?

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (vE0+H)

193 QT is a creepy bastard ….

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 05:51 PM (m/YDg)

That does not answer the question.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (dK+Kv)

194 BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.

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they ruined themselves when they did not predict the Iran operation

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (GD0B3)

195 Remember when Kamala was "projected" to beat Trump after Taylor Swift endorsed her?
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (vE0+H)
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This far out, prediction markets are just ops.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)

196 The walls are closing in.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (vE0+H)

197 @Polymarket
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.
Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 05:51 PM (ZxPkt)
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At this point it would not surprise me if they and their Antifa allies stormed the Capitol Building and held the Republicans hostage in both chambers of Congress in November.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (ESVrU)

198 If forced to choose between only those two, I'd have preferred Ratchet to the fag. At least she has a measure of amusement value.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2026 05:50 PM (AlhUl)

I have a feeling Talarico is going to give us lots of things to guffaw at.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (lCppi)

199 All these betting markets are just direct to market push polling. I'm surprised one of the campaign/marketing firms didn't think of it first. But it seems like there's a new one everyday.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (3uBP9)

200 BTW, that story is from CNN. Another company for which there is substantial doubt about its ability to remain in business. Also made of ratshit and hobo jizz.
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But, as Sex Machine Stelter will remind you, they are REAL ratshit and hobo jizz.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (AlhUl)

201 The new shows seem like RedEye light.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:50 PM (3uBP9)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

202 BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.

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they ruined themselves when they did not predict the Iran operation
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:53 PM (GD0B3)

Trying to stop the SAFE act I see. Giving cover for GOP waverers / traitors.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:55 PM (8avO+)

203 At this point it would not surprise me if they and their Antifa allies stormed the Capitol Building and held the Republicans hostage in both chambers of Congress in November.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (ESVrU)
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They made us do this!

Posted by: Antifa at March 13, 2026 05:55 PM (ZOv7s)

204 At this point it would not surprise me if they and their Antifa allies stormed the Capitol Building and held the Republicans hostage in both chambers of Congress in November.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (ESVrU)

Oh, no! That would be horrible!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 05:55 PM (zZu0s)

205 Almost 3:00 in Peoples Democrat Republic of Kalifornia.

BRB with a 20 oz RTIC SS screwdriver to start the weekend.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 13, 2026 05:55 PM (xvV+O)

206 All these betting markets are just direct to market push polling. I'm surprised one of the campaign/marketing firms didn't think of it first. But it seems like there's a new one everyday.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (3uBP9)

Polling has been push polling for decades now, if it ever was not push polling.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:56 PM (8avO+)

207 Get ready for Late Night With David French
Posted by: ... at

And his bull

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 13, 2026 05:56 PM (1biuY)

208 Republicans Steal Election Again

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at March 13, 2026 05:56 PM (vFG9F)

209 Trying to stop the SAFE act I see. Giving cover for GOP waverers / traitors.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:55 PM (8avO+)
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Yeah, well Slotkin voting to keep DHS closed AFTER the Jewish Center was attacked was so stupid even she realized she had to change her tune. Now she wants it re-opened. The base will hate her, but that's a significant break in Dem unity, because she's part of the Sedition 6.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

210 Republicans Steal Election Again

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at March 13, 2026 05:56 PM (vFG9F)

It's about time that they got off their asses.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:57 PM (dK+Kv)

211 Get ready for Late Night With David French
Posted by: ... at

And his bull
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 13, 2026 05:56 PM (1biuY)
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The Paolo, he is, how you say, tanned rested and ready.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 13, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

212 Just short or buy the betting question until you get the headline you need.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 05:57 PM (n5tGW)

213 No, Ace. CNN is made from hobo sh** and rat jizz.

Posted by: GWB at March 13, 2026 05:58 PM (RGxCT)

214 Yeah, it's a shame we don't have anyone in the public eye that is good at taking milder-mannered shots at both sides ..laughing at ourselves is a good thing...Kohlburt was never that good...just a simple propagandist.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:48 PM (Wp3WS)

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When he's in self-deprecation mode (similar to Ronald Reagan), Trump is funnier than all the late-night posers combined.

Remember Trump joking in 2024 about being convinced to wear an orange safety vest at a campaign event in Green Bay after arriving in a garbage truck (he'd planned on changing back into his jacket) -- but was told by staff that the vest "actually makes you look thinner."

I can't think of any other politician in my lifetime aside from Reagan who would tell that story ... and get roaring laughter and applause for his authenticity.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:58 PM (My0zW)

215 is there any reputable source for anything

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 05:58 PM (ZxPkt)

216
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.

Don't they have to pounce first?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 05:59 PM (Cqx++)

217 Pass the SAVE act and those odds go out the window.

Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 05:59 PM (lCppi)

218 No, Ace. CNN is made from hobo sh** and rat jizz.

Posted by: GWB at March 13, 2026 05:58 PM (RGxCT)

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Nice!

Wish I'd thought of that first ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:59 PM (My0zW)

219 @Polymarket
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.

Projected? Like hand shadows of a donkey on the wall?

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ICjqV)

220
According to Nielsen Live+3 ratings data, The Late Show averaged 2.43 million total viewers for the week (+1 percent), enough to lead the broadcast field. Jimmy Kimmel Live! finished second with 2.28 million viewers (+5 percent) but led the hour among adults 18--49, drawing 263,000 viewers (+17 percent) to Colbert's 219,000 (+5 percent).

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these numbers are staggering ...

roughly 3000 Counties in the US
2500000viewers/3000couties = 833 idiots/county

833 viewers per county seems like a lot...even for major metros.

these numbers have to be inflated by Big Hospice/Hospital/Retirement.

Posted by: cpt obv at March 13, 2026 06:00 PM (5LiC7)

221 219 @Polymarket
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.

Projected? Like hand shadows of a donkey on the wall?
Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ICjqV)

That would be more accurate

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 06:00 PM (VE6XX)

222 Remember Trump joking in 2024 about being convinced to wear an orange safety vest at a campaign event in Green Bay after arriving in a garbage truck (he'd planned on changing back into his jacket) -- but was told by staff that the vest "actually makes you look thinner."

I can't think of any other politician in my lifetime aside from Reagan who would tell that story ... and get roaring laughter and applause for his authenticity.
Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:58 PM (My0zW)
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They hate how genuinely funny he is. They can't stand it. Envy is a powerful sin.

Bill Mahar pointing it out drove them nuts because he broke through their comfy bubble. Trump is crude, stupid, not witty and charming. But he is the consummate showman.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 06:00 PM (ZOv7s)

223 Trying to stop the SAFE act I see. Giving cover for GOP waverers / traitors.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:55 PM (8avO+)
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Yeah, well Slotkin voting to keep DHS closed AFTER the Jewish Center was attacked was so stupid even she realized she had to change her tune. Now she wants it re-opened. The base will hate her, but that's a significant break in Dem unity, because she's part of the Sedition 6.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

Hadn't heard that, but it is pretty rare that Trump doesn't get what he wants, one way or another. The Dems had to destroy the illusion they were a alternative public spirited party at all, and now the fraud and corruption is obvious. And the Dems are waffling on what lunatic faction of theirs gets the benefits. From Texas, looks like its the gay flakes again.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:00 PM (8avO+)

224
Conan O'Brian is hosting the Oscars Sunday night, and he's usually a little less vocal about his communism.

I would watch Craig Ferguson if he came back to late night.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 06:01 PM (Y8DZL)

225 @Polymarket
BREAKING: Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.

Projected? Like hand shadows of a donkey on the wall?

Posted by: t-bird at March 13, 2026 05:59 PM (ICjqV)

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Like projecting massive local election fraud in blue shithole cities and counties.

* And, once again, Maricopa and Pima Counties in AZ have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:01 PM (My0zW)

226 833 viewers per county seems like a lot

That's maybe 300 homes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (n5tGW)

227 We need to pass the SAVE act

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (gKWVE)

228 Lot of time between now and November. The Dems could immolate themselves and even the Republicans could eff it up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (YsPj+)

229 224
Conan O'Brian is hosting the Oscars Sunday night, and he's usually a little less vocal about his communism.

Unfortunately I will be washing my hair that night and will miss it...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (VE6XX)

230 Don Black since the vote security is going down the hole your probably right. The vote fraud and Leftists states are gerrymandering Conservatives out 2026 could go to the Marxists.

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 06:03 PM (Ia/+0)

231 228 Lot of time between now and November. The Dems could immolate themselves and even the Republicans could eff it up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (YsPj+)

And doing this during the Iran "excursion" assures them of the result they want

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 06:03 PM (VE6XX)

232 Jasmine Crock for all her idiocy wouldn't have dared cite the Gospel of Thomas from a pulpit.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:03 PM (gKWVE)

233 Pfft Jasmine Crockett who's net worth rocketed into the double digit millionaire bracket during her short tenure as a congresswoman is suspect. Her whole Senate campaign schtick was a way for her to get outa Dodge before the devil knew she was gone . Yeppers!!! IMHO

Posted by: Yer Sistas Ass at March 13, 2026 06:04 PM (VPPG8)

234 Pass the SAVE act and those odds go out the window.
Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2026 05:59 PM (lCppi)

Even without passing it. Cutting off the money supply and keeping an eye on fraud really cuts deep into the current Dems chances. 2024 showed that even limited action to fight back punctured the Dems effort, and each election groups trickle out of the safe Dem orbit.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:04 PM (8avO+)

235 Lot of time between now and November. The Dems could immolate themselves and even the Republicans could eff it up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (YsPj+)

Dems are done when Trump achieves his objective in Iran and takes us home in victory well in time for the 250th.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:05 PM (vE0+H)

236 Pfft Jasmine Crockett who's net worth rocketed into the double digit millionaire bracket during her short tenure as a congresswoman is suspect. Her whole Senate campaign schtick was a way for her to get outa Dodge before the devil knew she was gone . Yeppers!!! IMHO
Posted by: Yer Sistas Ass at March 13, 2026 06:04 PM (VPPG

Nah, she could have de-carpetbagged out and done fine. She wanted another dip into the action but the party betrayed her.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:06 PM (8avO+)

237 At this point it would not surprise me if they and their Antifa allies stormed the Capitol Building and held the Republicans hostage in both chambers of Congress in November.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 13, 2026 05:54 PM (ESVrU)
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They made us do this!
Posted by: Antifa at March 13, 2026 05:55 PM (ZOv7s)

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"Not to worry, comrades -- a future Democrat-Communist POTUS will grant you all full pardons!"

/Puerto Rican Terrorist who shot-up the U.S. Capitol in '54 wounding five CongressCritters -- later pardoned by Bubba

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:06 PM (My0zW)

238 There's about 2 million less illegals to vote this time.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 06:06 PM (n5tGW)

239 Unfortunately I will be washing my hair that night and will miss it...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (VE6XX)

Me too

Posted by: Girl With Muff at March 13, 2026 06:06 PM (vE0+H)

240 Armed muslim man entered Texas elementary school armed, handgun but 2nd set security doors blocked him. Arrested. Angels are real.

Posted by: kingsman at March 13, 2026 06:07 PM (ehY6c)

241 I was just looking at the last thread, and the way Ace said that Cuba doesn't have a leg to stand on now.

you know who else doesn't have a leg to stand on?

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (/QdgR)

242 Like projecting massive local election fraud in blue shithole cities and counties.

* And, once again, Maricopa and Pima Counties in AZ have entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:01 PM (My0zW)

Re-electing blue in blue areas cuts no ice. To get a majority they need to win some in red areas.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (8avO+)

243 you know who else doesn't have a leg to stand on?
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (/QdgR)

Blackbeard!

hahahah!

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (GD0B3)

244 >>Conan O'Brian is hosting the Oscars Sunday night, and he's usually a little less vocal about his communism.

Didn't he kill Rob Reiner?

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (erF49)

245
Re-electing blue in blue areas cuts no ice. To get a majority they need to win some in red areas.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (8avO+)

They are counting on the Maine and NC Senate seats and of course gerrymandering for House seats

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (VE6XX)

246 241 I was just looking at the last thread, and the way Ace said that Cuba doesn't have a leg to stand on now.

you know who else doesn't have a leg to stand on?
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (/QdgR)

You BASTARD!!!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (dmDsy)

247 240 Armed muslim man entered Texas elementary school armed, handgun but 2nd set security doors blocked him. Arrested. Angels are real.
Posted by: kingsman

Probably just needed a refresher on the "i before e" rule

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (gKWVE)

248 Pfft Jasmine Crockett who's net worth rocketed into the double digit millionaire bracket during her short tenure as a congresswoman is suspect. Her whole Senate campaign schtick was a way for her to get outa Dodge before the devil knew she was gone . Yeppers!!! IMHO
Posted by: Yer Sistas Ass at March 13, 2026 06:04 PM (VPPG

Nah, she could have de-carpetbagged out and done fine. She wanted another dip into the action but the party betrayed her.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:06 PM (8avO+)
——

Or she betrayed the party? That creepy faggot was clearly the party choice, and he won so convincingly, that I wonder if the party told her on the down low that she should sit this one out. But she said ‘’fuck you’ to the party.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (m/YDg)

249 "....ratshit and hobo jizz."
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Like a Temu "Midnight Cowboy".

I watch old bits from Craig Ferguson and Conan on YouTube and they feel fresher than the stale clapter slop of today.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (kpS4V)

250 The Oscars broadcast is still set to move to YouTube in 2029.

This will not save it.

The only good thing about the Oscars these days is TCM doing “31 Days of Oscars” leading up to the event.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 06:11 PM (6ydKt)

251 Michelle Fields Loses Another Limb In Fit Of Rage

Posted by: Headlines we expect to see at March 13, 2026 06:11 PM (vFG9F)

252 They are counting on the Maine and NC Senate seats and of course gerrymandering for House seats
Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (VE6XX)

Blue states are already gerrymandered to the max. If they misread the overall D-R split this could lead to amusing results. It happened in NC when they decided to make minority majority districts in the 80s.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:11 PM (8avO+)

253 tragic for Colbert. His original Comedy Central show was quite good when his character was a Republican countering all the libs . had he kept that role...and developed the character, today he would probably be bigger than Tucker , and certainly Gutfeld.
he probably realizes what could have been...and projects all his agony at Trump.

Posted by: cpt obv at March 13, 2026 06:12 PM (5LiC7)

254 Conan O'Brian is hosting the Oscars Sunday night, and he's usually a little less vocal about his communism.

Unfortunately I will be washing my hair that night and will miss it...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 06:02 PM (VE6XX)

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I'll be getting my ass kicked again playing chess with The Wifey that night and will unfortunately miss it as well.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:13 PM (My0zW)

255 Or she betrayed the party? That creepy faggot was clearly the party choice, and he won so convincingly, that I wonder if the party told her on the down low that she should sit this one out. But she said ‘’fuck you’ to the party.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (m/YDg)

Possibly, but she was last election's Dem Savior. You can't just ask them to go away like that.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:13 PM (8avO+)

256 I'll miss it too, have to shave my ears.

Posted by: kingsman at March 13, 2026 06:13 PM (ehY6c)

257 Nood woke terrorists week

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 13, 2026 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

258 you know who else doesn't have a leg to stand on?
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (/QdgR)

You BASTARD!!!
Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (dmDsy)

I fucking love this place

Posted by: Girl With Muff at March 13, 2026 06:14 PM (vE0+H)

259
I fucking love this place
Posted by: Girl With Muff at March 13, 2026 06:14 PM (vE0+H)

Um me too

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (vE0+H)

260 Armed muslim man entered Texas elementary school armed, handgun but 2nd set security doors blocked him. Arrested. Angels are real.
Posted by: kingsman

Probably just needed a refresher on the "i before e" rule
Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 06:09 PM (gKWVE)

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Looking to kill any and all future Army ROTC candidates.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (My0zW)

261 With Talarico the Dems lost the African Americans. Not that he was going to win anyway, but that's a killer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (YsPj+)

262 Possibly, but she was last election's Dem Savior. You can't just ask them to go away like that.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 06:13 PM (8avO+)

I think they ran her to elevate that idiot's profile

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (vE0+H)

263 I fucking love this place
Posted by: Girl With Muff at March 13, 2026 06:14 PM (vE0+H)

Um me too
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (vE0+H)

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#MeToo

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:16 PM (My0zW)

264 With Talarico the Dems lost the African Americans. Not that he was going to win anyway, but that's a killer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 06:15 PM (YsPj+)

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One thing about Stronk Black Womens, they are not fans of white, gay, pedo, Anti-Christs.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 06:19 PM (My0zW)

265 Colbert's 219,000 adult 18-49 viewers equates to a 0.15 rating. In other words, 99.85% of adults 18-49 did not watch that shit.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 13, 2026 06:23 PM (0bjKf)

266 >>>you know who else doesn't have a leg to stand on?
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (/QdgR)

Blackbeard!

hahahah!

Posted by: runner

>Ayatollah Pegleg? Just had to throw that in.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 06:28 PM (M9gjJ)

267 I don't understand people slobbering all over Cobert - I've never actually found him to be funny. And frankly his ratings are in the absolute toilet right now, so who gives a fuck he is leaving?

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 13, 2026 07:58 PM (HRH9e)

268 CNN
Buzzfeed
Colbert
And nothing was lost.

Posted by: Elect me because i'm dyslexic and racist at March 13, 2026 08:15 PM (Drzka)

Socialist Cuba Has Finally Run Out of Other People's Money and Is Looking for a Deal with Trump

Cuba had been receiving free oil from Venezuela. Well, not free -- Cuba supplied Venezuela with top intelligence agents and torturers in exchange for the oil.

But then Trump, probably on Bibi Netanyahu's orders because, obviously, sent Delta Force in to shoot L.O.O.K.E.R. guns at Cuba's security forces and abduct Nicolas Maduro.

The oil shipments stopped.

Trump also began raiding and seizing the "dark fleet" of illegal oil tankers moving sanctioned Iranian and Russian oil to low-class shithole barbarian states.

Cuba is now out of oil and would like to speak with America's manager.

The Cuban "president," Miguel Díaz-Canel, made yet another rare appearance on state TV and confirmed that the regime is currently in talks with the United States. He said, "There are international factors that have facilitated these talks," and said the goal is "first and foremost, to identify the bilateral problems that need a solution."
After weeks of denying any sort of U.S. negotiations, this is the first time he's admitted they're happening. He called it a "very sensitive process that is being approached with responsibility and great sensitivity."

...
Díaz-Canel also admitted that the country has not received any oil in three months and is almost out of reserves.
What's interesting is that Raúl Castro's grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, aka El Cangrejo or "The Crab," was at Díaz-Canel's side during the announcement. He and Marco Rubio have allegedly been having backchannel talks in recent weeks, and Rubio's team even supposedly met with the young Castro when Rubio was in the Caribbean in late February.
Of course, Donald Trump has been floating the idea of a "friendly takeover" of Cuba for weeks and has said that Rubio is currently working on that.
However, right now, this unusual announcement feels more like appeasement than any sort of concession. The regime is backed into a corner, and it doesn't really have a leg to stand on at the moment. It's nervous, shaky, and sees the writing on the wall.
Either way, its days are numbered. These are the same types of actions made by all of the crumbling regimes of the past.

Cuba claims it will definitely not be making any concessions about letting the people actually vote for their leaders.

We'll see about that.

The Cuban regime would be wise to learn the lesson of the recent Witkoff-Aragchi negotiations. If you try and jerk President Trump around, rather than make serious proposals to accommodate American demands, you will wake up at 4am one morning to Delta Force at your door https://t.co/Wq1LjZugns
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) March 13, 2026

Trump doesn't even need to send in Delta Force. The coming Fuel Riots should provide Cuba's leaders with a certain amount of realism about their situation.

And when they start killing protester -- drones and missiles should help even the odds.

David Strom offers big praise for Trump's very firm, very steady, and very focused leadership of the world, whether it wants to be lead or not.

For decades, our elites have been obsessed with regime change by color revolution, trying to create a world where everybody owns nothing and is unhappy. Western governments have surrendered to soft communism and self-destruction.
Donald Trump is remaking the world, not through color revolutions, but bold leadership and the surgical application of force and maximum pressure on our adversaries.
During his first term, I strongly believed that Trump's foreign policy was his best achievement. He had yet to learn how to defang the Deep State, and despite listening too often to establishment figures, he did a great job with what he had.
Now, with the Rubio, Hegseth, and negotiating teams he has deployed, he is masterful.

He notes that Germany is having a long-overdue attitude adjustment as well. Germany's Merz and the Female Super-Villain Leader of the EU now admit that ending all nuclear power generation was a bit of an oopsie!, but Merz also says he won't do anything to reverse this mistake. I saw someone point out that he could undo it, but he's in partnership with leftwing groups to keep AfD out of power, and if he moved to save German's future, his government would collapse and AfD would (rightfully) take power.

Georg Pazderski
@Georg_Pazderski
Translated from German
MERZ sells citizens for stupid❗️
Because previous governments had decided on the nuclear phase-out, it could no longer be reversed.
When it came to the debt brake, he couldn't care less what the previous governments had decided.
PLAIN TALK: He's too cowardly to take on the fight with the SPD.

Wow it's weird how the Latin American left suddenly started losing elections when USAID was killed https://t.co/syKtIwFLcF
— Matt Forney (@mattforney) March 13, 2026

Via Ed Morrissey, quoting Politico 4 Kidz Axios, Trump informed the feckless cunts of the G7 that Iran is about to surrender and also you're welcome, faggots.

President Trump told G7 leaders in a virtual meeting Wednesday that Iran is "about to surrender," according to three officials from G7 countries briefed on the contents of the call.
24 hours later, Iran's new supreme leader issued his first public statement vowing to keep fighting. ...

That's egregious propaganda. There is no proof the "leader" issued a statement -- a written statement was read by someone else by a regime propagandist. There is no evidence the Supine Leader released anything besides pus, and Axios knows this. There are confirmed reports that he is in a coma. (And is "likely disfigured," added Pete Hegseth.)

But Axios pretends it knows better and uses its own authority to claim the Supine Leader "issued a statement."

Behind the scenes: Trump boasted about the results of Operation Epic Fury on the G7 call Wednesday morning, telling allies, "I got rid of a cancer that was threatening us all."
While claiming Iran was about to surrender, he also suggested there were no officials left alive in Tehran with the power to make that decision.

https://t.co/Elu8AJrpzw

🚨 DRONE STRIKE HITS BASIJ CHECKPOINT

Footage has emerged showing an explosive drone striking a Basij checkpoint, reportedly destroying the regime security post.

The Basij militia are widely used by the Iranian regime as street-level enforcers to� pic.twitter.com/CblIPcH6rd
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) March 13, 2026

WATCH 🔴

Israeli Air Force strikes over 250 Iranian drones, launch platforms, and sites in western Iran, killing key commanders and soldiers and preventing immediate drone attacks on Israel. pic.twitter.com/FEJUDGlRfg
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 12, 2026

Of course, as the Islamic Republic of Iran falls, the Islamic Republic of Britain rises to take its place.

The Conservative Woman:

IN A recent speech given in the House of Lords to the Cambridge University Conservative Association, Dr Gavin Ashenden, for ten years a chaplain to the Queen, spoke of a 'respected' imam with whom he had worked 'for quite a long time' while running inter-faith seminars at the university where he was employed.
At the conclusion of one of these events, Dr Ashenden relates, this man confided in him as follows: 'I've been doing this for an awfully long time, but my task is complete. I arrived in the 1970s with the aim of inaugurating an Islamic republic of Great Britain, and I've done it. This country is going to be an Islamic republic or, at least, a partitioned portion of it, in the time of my grandchildren.'
In fact, he continued, things were going so well that it could happen even within the lifetime of his children.
Dr Ashenden records this incident as occurring 'long before Angela Merkel opened the border to the millions' in 2015. Most of the under-16s who, according to the imam, comprised the majority of the Muslims in Britain a dozen or more years ago, have now gained access to the polling booths, allowing a combination of demography and a democratic system designed to cater for a non-sectarian population to 'achieve what agitation would take longer to do'.

I find it fascinating that supposed "American Firsters" like Tucker Carlson have completely stopped questioning our alliance with the Islamic states of Europe -- who we have explicitly promised to use nuclear weapons to defend, which of course makes us targets of a nuclear attack.

There's only one, ONE, actual ally they're fighting to break ties with and declare enemy. And it just so happens to be the one ally with the capability of, and desire to, fight the Islamic conquerors that are keeping Tucker Carlson in luxurious bowties.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:00 PM

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1 FIRST IN WITH THE BLADE AND HIS BLADE

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

2 Ace has the Rut on his mind?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (dK+Kv)

3 Rutting is great!!!!

Posted by: Some Dirty Pig at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (dmDsy)

4 @Gundisalvus
Cuba’s Communist Party immediately throws cold water on any expectations of a democratic opening being part of the discussions. It says the talks “absolutely do not concern internal Cuban affairs, our constitutional order or our socialist political, economic and social model.”

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That's weird. I was told that democrat socialism included democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (bZSny)

5 Machine Gun Kelly

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (00Q4/)

6 By the way, Tucker Carlson can go fuck himself.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson's Wife at March 13, 2026 04:02 PM (dmDsy)

7 It might not be a good idea for a free Cuba.

Competition and all.

Posted by: The Villages, Old and Loving It! at March 13, 2026 04:02 PM (Ksqrb)

8 Socialist Cuba Has Finally Rut Out of Other People's Money and Is Looking for a Deal with Trump
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They're overpopulated?

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 04:02 PM (vSvIl)

9 Rut on his mind?

Pon farr

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 13, 2026 04:03 PM (Kt19C)

10 "There are international factors that have facilitated these talks," and said the goal is "first and foremost, to identify the bilateral problems that need a solution."
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Umm, you being a hobo with nothing to eat is not a bilateral problem. Its your fucking problem Commie Asshole.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 13, 2026 04:03 PM (pZ64F)

11 Oh I hope that young man at the Basji checkpoint is OK.

What? Oh...

Never mind.

Posted by: Emily Litella at March 13, 2026 04:03 PM (skR0U)

12 > Raúl Castro's grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, aka El Cangrejo or "The Crab,"

What is it with these guys, anyway? The Kims in Korea are on their third generation now as well.

I had (far too much) Marxism crammed down my throat in college, but I apparently missed the part that involved hereditary monarchy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

13 That's weird. I was told that democrat socialism included democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (bZSny)

Guess that depends on what your definition of "included" is...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (dmDsy)

14 Looker (1981) ... underrated and highly influential movie, both in terms of subject matter and CGI effects (primitive, but still CGI). Directed by Michael Crichton.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

15 There's only one, ONE, actual ally they're fighting to break ties with and declare enemy. And it just so happens to be the one ally with the capability of, and desire to, fight the Islamic conquerors that are keeping Tucker Carlson in luxurious bowties.

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"We have no reason to oppose Iran, at all. Beirut was obviously done by Israeli double agents in Iranian garb. How can you even care about Beirut, though, when the USS Liberty incident is far more recent and important? Seriously, why can't you see that Russia is the pinnacle of Christianity in the world that really knows how to deal with Islam? By letting it in at higher rates than Western Europe?"
-Tucker Carlson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (bZSny)

16 The real holdup is that they need to get Marco Rubio to stand still long enough to be measured for his gaudy Commandante's suit with big lapels and whatnot to really pull the image together and give him the gravitas he needs to rule Cuba.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 04:05 PM (5aZAZ)

17 Maybe they should try fixing the oil leaks in all those old clunkers.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 04:05 PM (UjdFS)

18 Merz needs Ethel to whack him upside the head.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 13, 2026 04:05 PM (KAqW5)

19 Presidente Rubio?

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 04:06 PM (wa/yD)

20 Rut Roh Raggy!

Posted by: Scooby Doo at March 13, 2026 04:06 PM (3uBP9)

21 Cuba should just invest whatever funds they have left in windmills and solar panels.

The peasants will be so excited to know they are helping to save the planet.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 13, 2026 04:06 PM (5yDGQ)

22 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (bZSny)
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Eerily realistic.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 13, 2026 04:07 PM (KAqW5)

23 I had (far too much) Marxism crammed down my throat in college, but I apparently missed the part that involved hereditary monarchy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)
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Because if there's one thing the glorious equality of communism is wildly successful at, it's concentrating vast amounts of wealth into a tiny handful of people in the ruling class, which they use to make sure their kids and grandkids and so forth remain safely away from the masses of people that would kill them given the chance.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 04:07 PM (5aZAZ)

24 Oligachy!!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at March 13, 2026 04:07 PM (skR0U)

25 Raúl Castro's grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, aka El Cangrejo or "The Crab,"

What is it with these guys, anyway? The Kims in Korea are on their third generation now as well.

I had (far too much) Marxism crammed down my throat in college, but I apparently missed the part that involved hereditary monarchy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Stupid play: continue with communism
Smart play: take the money & run

What will Cuba do? Go long on the stupid play.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 04:07 PM (NcUvK)

26 Boss: hello

Basiji: um, morning boss. Say, I'm not feeling well *cough, cough*, bit of a tickle in my throat. I think I'd better stay at home, under the covers. You know, where the drones...I mean viruses...can't find me.

*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

27 26 Boss: hello

Basiji: um, morning boss. Say, I'm not feeling well *cough, cough*, bit of a tickle in my throat. I think I'd better stay at home, under the covers. You know, where the drones...I mean viruses...can't find me.

*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

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Boss: Are you coming in today?

Basiji: *melted into the crowds days ago and left phone behind*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:10 PM (bZSny)

28 Cuba’s Communist Party immediately throws cold water on any expectations of a democratic opening being part of the discussions. It says the talks “absolutely do not concern internal Cuban affairs, our constitutional order or our socialist political, economic and social model.”

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That's weird. I was told that democrat socialism included democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (bZSny)

The way things are going, i doubt the Commies hanging from lamp posts are going to have any say in the matter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 04:10 PM (8zz6B)

29 The deal that should be offered to Cuba: they put Rubio in charge and he makes the place respectable with help from Trump.

My understanding is that Cubans have no interest in being a state or territory, they just want to not be a communist shithole. And that's 100% fine with me. They can still get a few beisbol teams once they have a power grid again.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 04:10 PM (t5upi)

30 Drone attacks ...

"Hey, wait, these ain't the NPC downloads we're expecting!"

-- NPC Drones

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

31 The real holdup is that they need to get Marco Rubio to stand still long enough to be measured for his gaudy Commandante's suit with big lapels and whatnot to really pull the image together and give him the gravitas he needs to rule Cuba.

The mirrored sunglasses and epaulets really make the outfit.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:10 PM (Riz8t)

32 >>>2 Ace has the Rut on his mind?

I never used to do this, but now I am routinely combining one word with the next word I'm about to write. I do this six times a week at least.

Posted by: ace at March 13, 2026 04:11 PM (1wjle)

33 And when they start killing protester -- drones and missiles should help even the odds.

OMG! And he's already stationed US boots on the ground at Gitmo. He's totally betrayed MAGA! -- Expected comments in #two_weeks

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:11 PM (ExV1e)

34 trump clearly doesn't understand that autocrats need to support each other

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (CWTWj)

35 Through 3 generations of commies, is it possible that those yearning for freedom will step up and demand America's aid and form of government?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (aZm/F)

36 I never used to do this, but now I am routinely combining one word with the next word I'm about to write. I do this six times a week at least.

Posted by: ace

I do it all the time, but usually with numbers.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (NcUvK)

37
My understanding is that Cubans have no interest in being a state or territory, they just want to not be a communist shithole. And that's 100% fine with me. They can still get a few beisbol teams once they have a power grid again.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 04:10 PM (t5upi)
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Hell, sweeten the deal and tell them if they play ball (heh) with Trump and Marco, we'll get the Miami Marlins to move their franchise to Havana.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (5aZAZ)

38 I was told that there would be nood hot Cuban chicks.

I am disappoint.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

39 My understanding is that Cubans have no interest in being a state or territory, they just want to not be a communist shithole. And that's 100% fine with me. They can still get a few beisbol teams once they have a power grid again.

As with Puerto Rico, I really don't want Cuba to be a state. The advantages of diversity, including other languages and cultures, appear to have been somewhat oversold. And when I say somewhat, I mean completely.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

40 >>>2 Ace has the Rut on his mind?

Rut?

Posted by: Scooby Doo at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (Q+gd/)

41 Not The Ctab. The CRAW!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (Cqx++)

42 I saw someone point out that he could undo it, but he's in partnership with leftwing groups to keep AfD out of power, and if he moved to save German's future, his government would collapse and AfD would (rightfully) take power.

I can't believe that anyone would accuse a German leader of being willing to destroy their country in order to hold on to power.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:13 PM (ExV1e)

43 I never used to do this, but now I am routinely combining one word with the next word I'm about to write. I do this six times a week at least.

Posted by: ace
......

You're just like Gav.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 04:13 PM (UjdFS)

44 The "Rubio running 8 things at once" memes are some of the best on the internet.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 04:13 PM (aZm/F)

45 33 And when they start killing protester -- drones and missiles should help even the odds.

OMG! And he's already stationed US boots on the ground at Gitmo. He's totally betrayed MAGA! -- Expected comments in #two_weeks

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:11 PM (ExV1e)

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"Trump doing foreign policy at all is a betrayal of MAGA. When I listened to Joe Rogan, he said that Trump intended to make America a utopia on domestic matters, in ways that made everyone happy and never resist or complain. Since that hasn't happened, him spending one minute of his time even thinking about Cuba is a betrayal of MAGA. We don't even have a secure border. There are no deportations. There is no effort to clean up elections. All because Trump is spending all of his time making war with peace loving countries like Iran. I'm voting for Newsom because he has white kids."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:13 PM (bZSny)

46 44 The "Rubio running 8 things at once" memes are some of the best on the internet.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 04:13 PM (aZm/F)

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Since Vance doesn't have a real job, he spends all of his business hours with AI photo apps to make new ones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:14 PM (bZSny)

47 Iran says that we have to stop attacking them before they will agree to a ceasefire.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (4NO2D)

48 Let’s say the Islamic take over. Who are the first people that they will put against the wall?

Traitors like Carlson.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (u82oZ)

49 15 "We have no reason to oppose Iran, at all. Beirut was obviously done by Israeli double agents in Iranian garb. How can you even care about Beirut, though, when the USS Liberty incident is far more recent and important? Seriously, why can't you see that Russia is the pinnacle of Christianity in the world that really knows how to deal with Islam? By letting it in at higher rates than Western Europe?"
-Tucker Carlson
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (bZSny)

Ugh, I seriously cannot stand the "Putin is the last hope for White Humanity, and Russia is the Land of The Most Badass Whites on Earth" types.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (wa/yD)

50 I was told that there would be nood hot Cuban chicks.

I am disappoint.
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)
______________

https://tinyurl.com/4m7rvn7w

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (iFTx/)

51 >> then Trump, probably on Bibi Netanyahu's orders because,

Hey guys. Any Joos here?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Tucker Owens Kelly at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (kIFVO)

52 Diaz-Canel took a shitty deal. He could've made something of himself. He could've gone to Miami and married Lucy's daughter, or something.

Instead, he decided to be king of a dirt hill.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (BI5O2)

53 Rubio has to be in the running for most surprising (in a good way) person in Trump's cabinet.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (aZm/F)

54 What's the status of the Greenland thing?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

55 I saw someone point out that he could undo it, but he's in partnership with leftwing groups to keep AfD out of power, and if he moved to save German's future, his government would collapse and AfD would (rightfully) take power.

I can't believe that anyone would accuse a German leader of being willing to destroy their country in order to hold on to power.

And as we all know, the best way to deal with a boiling pot is to slap a lid on it and screw it down nice and hard.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (Riz8t)

56 In a few months time, Trump has taken down Venezuela, the mullahs in Iran and Cuba, a problem that America has dealt with since JFK.

What the hell were other presidents doing?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)

57 In a few months time, Trump has taken down Venezuela, the mullahs in Iran and Cuba, a problem that America has dealt with since JFK.

What the hell were other presidents doing?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)
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Banging trailer trash and sucking dick?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

58 Six years ago today, I was enjoying an anniversary dinner at a local steakhouse that unfortunately shares its moniker with a certain very evil component of the WEF. Anyway, in the middle of the meal, our worthless Republican governor announced "Lockdown!" Thus, it began...

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 13, 2026 04:16 PM (f0sNM)

59 do it all the time, but usually with numbers.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 04:12 PM (NcUvK)

Thank you, rickb227653

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 04:16 PM (00Q4/)

60 toby928(C)

Kill enough of them, and they will surrender.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (u82oZ)

61 >>> What's the status of the Greenland thing?
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

Very cold.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (3uBP9)

62 Compare and contrast. Islamic chicks vs Cuban Chicks.

Posted by: Tucker Owens Kelly at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (kIFVO)

63 Iran says that we have to stop attacking them before they will agree to a ceasefire.

I think there may be some confusion here about who gets to make demands.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

64 What is it with these guys, anyway? The Kims in Korea are on their third generation now as well.

I had (far too much) Marxism crammed down my throat in college, but I apparently missed the part that involved hereditary monarchy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

How many members of Congress have been replaced by spouses or children? It's human nature.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (ExV1e)

65 The thing with photography, you can make almost any Woman better looking with the proper outfit, makeup, composition, and lighting...

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Or grifting!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (ndZc7)

66 Had a stray thought...wouldn't it be a hoot if all this foreign stuff Trump's been fixing up was intended to isolate our domestic enemies?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (OUMaO)

67 Hemingway had nice things to say about Cuba.

Posted by: Eromero at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (rR03l)

68
What does Cuba have to negotiate with?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (FveOp)

69 cuba has to turn over to me enough property on the beach to have a casino

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (jrgJz)

70 https://tinyurl.com/4m7rvn7w
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
.......

The star marks the spot.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (UjdFS)

71 https://tinyurl.com/4m7rvn7w
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

You, Sir, are a great American. Thank you.

I'm glad I agreed with you about the subway-pushing thing and how you always need to have situational awareness no matter where you are.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

72 What the hell were other presidents doing?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)

Kicking the can down the road, feathering their nests, and impoverishing our future generations with crushing debt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (dK+Kv)

73 66 Had a stray thought...wouldn't it be a hoot if all this foreign stuff Trump's been fixing up was intended to isolate our domestic enemies?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (OUMaO)

======

Remember when Ted Kennedy went to the Soviet Union and asked them to help him fight Reagan?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (bZSny)

74 New German plan to deal with the AfD:

JUST IN: Up to 400,000 Palestinians could soon be heading to Germany. Merz ordered a secret cabinet prep for their reception, $563/month in benefits + 12 months of housing guaranteed.

Eastern Germany takes the hit.

Posted by: brak at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (jGJov)

75 What the hell were other presidents doing?

"That depends on the meaning of the word 'doing'" - Bill Clinton

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (t5upi)

76 then Trump, probably on Bibi Netanyahu's orders because,

Hey guys. Any Joos here?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Tucker Owens Kelly at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (kIFVO)
________

I coached a private Jewish high school in mock trial this week. Does that count?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

77 Compare and contrast. Islamic chicks vs Cuban Chicks.

Posted by: Tucker Owens Kelly

Make that Persian chicks and Cuban chicks and we all win.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (OUMaO)

78 I've been thinking how ironic it'll be when, sometime down the road the US and Iran will face off against the European Caliphate as the Islamist nutters do their thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 04:19 PM (jtM2q)

79 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM

Hoors.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 04:19 PM (4NO2D)

80 Past few years I've been repeating words, especially "the". I have hoped it's just some weird autocorrect thing but it happens so often on different systems that I'm sure it's just my broke brain.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 04:19 PM (3uBP9)

81 Stupid play: continue with communism
Smart play: take the money & run

What will Cuba do? Go long on the stupid play.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 04:07 PM (NcUvK)

I dunno. I can't help but imagine that the 'discussions' center around how much money they'll be permitted to keep and what country will allow them to relocate (I'm assuming the UK).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:19 PM (ExV1e)

82 JUST IN: Up to 400,000 Palestinians could soon be heading to Germany. Merz ordered a secret cabinet prep for their reception, $563/month in benefits + 12 months of housing guaranteed.

Eastern Germany takes the hit.

Eastern Germany is the most conservative part, so of course.

Also, wouldn't removing 400,000 Pallies be a massive gift to Israel, effectively?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 04:19 PM (t5upi)

83 I don't get it. My Betters have told me for years and years the future is renewable energy sources! Not oil. Why doesn't Commie China ship a zillion solar cell panels and half-a-zillion windmills to Commie Cuba tomorrow? Installation should be easy-peasy and take no time at all. By Monday, El Jefe could tell El Yanqui Naranja to pound sand. What am I missing?

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 04:20 PM (5rh/l)

84 Can’t wait for Cucker Tarlson to tell us why ending 70 years of communism in Cuba is bad and how only Jews benefit from it.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 04:20 PM (Y5yQx)

85 https://tinyurl.com/4m7rvn7w
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

You, Sir, are a great American. Thank you.

I'm glad I agreed with you about the subway-pushing thing and how you always need to have situational awareness no matter where you are.
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)
_______

The Blade, he aims to please. He is generous like that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:20 PM (iFTx/)

86 What is it with these guys, anyway? The Kims in Korea are on their third generation now as well.

I had (far too much) Marxism crammed down my throat in college, but I apparently missed the part that involved hereditary monarchy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

Marxists are must Monarchs, without the Divine Right to Rule.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

87 Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, aka El Cangrejo

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The Kangreroo?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (ndZc7)

88 The UK is instituting blasphemy laws, getting rid of trial by jury for some crimes (up to two years imprisonment by a magistrate with no automatic right to appeal, you have to ask for permission to appeal) and they're removing hereditary lords from the HoL.

The UK is cooked.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (0MjtC)

89 Where is tough-guy Tucker right now? Has he volunteered to defend his new homeland or is he cowering in a spider-hole like Saddam?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (M9gjJ)

90 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Cigars.

Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (UjdFS)

91
How many members of Congress have been replaced by spouses or children? It's human nature.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Andre Carson inherited his House seat from his grandma.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (Cqx++)

92 Maybe they can get ghe money from New York, California, or Minnesota they love sending tax money away

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (Ia/+0)

93 Cuba could be an up and running beach/gambling paradise in a couple of years if they wanted to do that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (n5tGW)

94 Also, wouldn't removing 400,000 Pallies be a massive gift to Israel, effectively?
Posted by: Ian S.

Isn't there a desert in Africa looking to be settled

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (/lPRQ)

95 I love the smell of burning Iranians in the morning. Smells like... Victory.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (wBaIH)

96 Just posted by Andy Ngo

FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas has convicted all nine members of a North Texas Antifa cell in the first federal Antifa terrorism trial in U.S. history.

This was from ambush July 4 last year in TX

Posted by: HAL9000 at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX)

97 Can’t wait for Cucker Tarlson to tell us why ending 70 years of communism in Cuba is bad and how only Jews benefit from it.
Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 04:20 PM

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Zombie Hyman Roth at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (4NO2D)

98 My understanding is that Cubans have no interest in being a state or territory, they just want to not be a communist shithole. And that's 100% fine with me. They can still get a few beisbol teams once they have a power grid again.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 04:10 PM (t5upi)

There is going to be a huge pressure by the Cubans who fled since the 1950's to be given back their seized lands and whatever assets to be had, and from corporations suing for nationalized assets and unpaid contracts.
Rubio, well Trump really, is going to have to walk that line. From Venezuela and from what Putin did to stop the looting in the Russian Federation, I suspect it is going to be a game something like "you expats can have it back if you pay for it to the US that puts the money into a state account in Qatar that can only be touched for infrastructure rehabs.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (rbvCR)

99 /AI sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (RIvkX)

100 "Wow it's weird how the Latin American left suddenly started losing elections when USAID was killed"

And there's this-

Sachin Jose
@Sachinettiyil
Pro-life, pro-family Catholic politician and father of nine, José Antonio Kast, has been sworn in as the President of Chile after defeating his communist rival in the election.

https://tinyurl.com/mrypfm4r

Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (NpAcC)

101 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM
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Insanely valuable land? Every hotel developer and casino has been salivating over Cuba for decades. It would be a major vacation destination. Like majorly major.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)

102 100 "Wow it's weird how the Latin American left suddenly started losing elections when USAID was killed"

And there's this-

Sachin Jose
@Sachinettiyil
Pro-life, pro-family Catholic politician and father of nine, José Antonio Kast, has been sworn in as the President of Chile after defeating his communist rival in the election.

https://tinyurl.com/mrypfm4r

Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (NpAcC)

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The massive crackdown on crime in South America is going to convince a number of legal and illegal immigrants that going home is the right thing to do for them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:23 PM (bZSny)

103 101 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM
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Insanely valuable land? Every hotel developer and casino has been salivating over Cuba for decades. It would be a major vacation destination. Like majorly major.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)

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Disney Land Cuba is gonna be great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:24 PM (bZSny)

104 The Blade, he aims to please. He is generous like that.

Has anyone seen The Blade and Zod in the same room together?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:24 PM (Riz8t)

105 Díaz-Canel also admitted that the country has not received any oil in three months and is almost out of reserves.
____

Ah, the country's leadership is finally suffering. Can't have that!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 04:24 PM (Dv3i1)

106 Cuba could be an up and running beach/gambling paradise in a couple of years if they wanted to do that.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM (n5tGW)

Real industry will take a little longer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 04:24 PM (8zz6B)

107 Why doesn't Cuba look for a deal with Newscum and Califzuela for money?

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:24 PM (My0zW)

108 Still not tired of winning.

And. You know what? We are winning. The progtards are having more and more difficulty justifying their positions even to their own followers. Some of the retards here at work were saying how vulnerable the US is right now. Especially with DHS not being funded.

I didn’t say a word.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 04:25 PM (A5RD0)

109 Had a stray thought...wouldn't it be a hoot if all this foreign stuff Trump's been fixing up was intended to isolate our domestic enemies?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (OUMaO)

That's exactly what he's doing. He's been peeling back layers of the leftard onion instead of coming at them directly. All their friends and funding sources. Who just happen to be our enemies.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 04:25 PM (vE0+H)

110 I Ran said the U.S. would have to stop the attacks and then they'll discuss a ceasefire. Hmmm NO. The boom boom is the Persian 4th of July. Enjoy the fireworks y'all.

Posted by: Think of England at March 13, 2026 04:25 PM (ehY6c)

111 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM
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Insanely valuable land? Every hotel developer and casino has been salivating over Cuba for decades. It would be a major vacation destination. Like majorly major.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)

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Disney Land Cuba is gonna be great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:24 PM (bZSny)
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Odds that Disney already has development and construction plans? 99%. If Cuba does open itself up, you're gonna see massive resorts go up overnight.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

112 Disney Land Cuba is gonna be great.

I'm really looking forward to the Bay of Pigs animatronics exhibition.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:26 PM (Riz8t)

113 >What does Cuba have to negotiate with?

Have you ever seen a Cuban girl dance?

Posted by: Sir Mix A Lot at March 13, 2026 04:26 PM (Q+gd/)

114 110 I Ran said the U.S. would have to stop the attacks and then they'll discuss a ceasefire. Hmmm NO. The boom boom is the Persian 4th of July. Enjoy the fireworks y'all.

Posted by: Think of England at March 13, 2026 04:25 PM (ehY6c)

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Their ability to terrorize the Strait of Hormuz (it's limited terrorizing, to be honest, a solid chunk of it happening hundreds of miles away in the Persian Gulf) is becoming less important every day.

As UAE and Oman crank up their existing pipelines to deal with increased traffic. The UAE pipeline has gone from 800,000 barrels a day to 7,000,000.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:27 PM (bZSny)

115 Odds of getting struck by lightning? 1 in 1.6 million each year. You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.

With that many people being struck by lightning in the NYC subway one would think it would be a bigger story.

Regardless... stay out of the NYC subway.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 04:27 PM (/lPRQ)

116 Wonder if the destruction of Iran will help us rid the USA of mosques? We better get to it and right soon.

Posted by: Think of England at March 13, 2026 04:27 PM (ehY6c)

117 111 Odds that Disney already has development and construction plans? 99%. If Cuba does open itself up, you're gonna see massive resorts go up overnight.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:26 PM (iFTx/)

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Universal is building a park in England.

They're building the infrastructure now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:27 PM (bZSny)

118 There is going to be a huge pressure by the Cubans who fled since the 1950's to be given back their seized lands and whatever assets to be had, and from corporations suing for nationalized assets and unpaid contracts.

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If I'm Rubio, I'm saying "ALL REQUESTS DENIED."

He'd have enough on his plate without being a probate judge arbitrating the partially completed last will and testament of a late and unloved regime.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 04:27 PM (BI5O2)

119 12 I had (far too much) Marxism crammed down my throat in college, but I apparently missed the part that involved hereditary monarchy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

That was just the scam patter of a confidence scheme. If a scruffy guy came up to you in a grocery store parking lot and started on a tale rhythmically told, you would probably know better than to listen and analyze the specific fallacies, and he'd probably only be looking to scam you out of the folding bills in your wallet.

They come at you standing at the front of a college classroom and you'll hear them out, even though it's a whole-of society grift to steal the whole country's entire accumulated wealth, and enslave the entire populace on top of it. And it all goes to whichever grifter clique is able to get and keep control of the apparatus of the State.

Listening to the scam patter is for suckers, once you've identified that's what it is.

Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 04:27 PM (Sy6m/)

120 Pro-life, pro-family Catholic politician and father of nine, José Antonio Kast, has been sworn in as the President of Chile after defeating his communist rival in the election.

https://tinyurl.com/mrypfm4r
Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (NpAcC)

You want to know how to permanently defeat your Commie rival?

Posted by: zombie Augusto Pinochet at March 13, 2026 04:28 PM (8zz6B)

121 The Blade, he aims to please. He is generous like that.

Has anyone seen The Blade and Zod in the same room together?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:24 PM (Riz8t)
______

Zod is always asking guys to kneel before him, and that's really gay, so The Blade avoids him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)

122 120 Pro-life, pro-family Catholic politician and father of nine, José Antonio Kast, has been sworn in as the President of Chile after defeating his communist rival in the election.

https://tinyurl.com/mrypfm4r
Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2026 04:22 PM (NpAcC)

You want to know how to permanently defeat your Commie rival?

Posted by: zombie Augusto Pinochet at March 13, 2026 04:28 PM (8zz6B)

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I saw Kast described as further to the right than Pinochet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:28 PM (bZSny)

123 Universal is building a park in England.

They're building the infrastructure now.

The first ride will be Kaaba Land. Well, more of a walk, really. A circular walk.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

124 121 Zod is always asking guys to kneel before him, and that's really gay, so The Blade avoids him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)

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That's just what someone with multiple personality disorder would say...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (bZSny)

125 Cuba is now out of oil and would like to speak with America's manager.

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US District Clown Judge Bozoberg?

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (My0zW)

126 I Ran said the U.S. would have to stop the attacks and then they'll discuss a ceasefire. Hmmm NO. The boom boom is the Persian 4th of July. Enjoy the fireworks y'all.

Posted by: Think of England at March 13, 2026 04:25 PM (ehY6c)

That's not the unconditional surrender we are looking for.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (dK+Kv)

127 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Cigars.
Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM
*******
And old cars.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (NpAcC)

128 OT-Just finished with a memorial service. a committall service at the Cemetery and a luncheon. It was a long day and we will all miss our dear retired organist , At the luncheon , I was sitting with two people I didn't know. Unfortunately, one person was suggesting to another man that Donald Trump is evil and the anti Christ, in part because he blew up a girls school in Iran Uggh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (fQqaC)

129 Just think how crazy it is now that El Salvador is now a vacation hotspot after they elected a right leader and cut down the crime. Cuba would be even more so.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (n5tGW)

130 Disney Land Cuba is gonna be great.

I'm really looking forward to the Bay of Pigs animatronics exhibition.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I can't wait to ride the Havana to Disneyland monorail.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (UjdFS)

131 In a few months time, Trump has taken down Venezuela, the mullahs in Iran and Cuba, a problem that America has dealt with since JFK.

What the hell were other presidents doing?
Posted by: JackStraw

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Offshoot of that, why had I never heard of USAID until DOGE? Surely one Republican would have seen how much money was going through that and had questions.

I remember reading articles about the rampant fraud with Social Security and 100+ year old people getting checks, but nobody ever looked under the hood.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (eIzlH)

132 54 What's the status of the Greenland thing?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

This is funny - I read an an article saying the Brits can't send the carrier HMS Prince of Wales to help protect British interests in the Middle East, because she may be needed to help protect Greenland from China and Russia! Hilarious! Six months ago all the Euroweenies said there was no threat to tghe territorial safety to Greenland except from Trump! Ha!

I think the Brits are too embarrassed to admit that they can't afford to hurry the readiness of the Prince of Wales to get it to the Med anytime soon. So they claim its may be needed sometime soon in the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, Macron has sent or is soon sending France's aircraft carrier and a bunch more naval ships to help protect Cyprus! The Royal Navy is now below joke status. Sad, but that's what a Leftist government gets you.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 04:30 PM (5rh/l)

133 123 The first ride will be Kaaba Land. Well, more of a walk, really. A circular walk.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

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The rumored lands (nothing official has been released) are to include Paddington, James Bond, and The Lord of the Rings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:30 PM (bZSny)

134 Peter Falk, El Presidente!

https://tinyurl.com/2p9re3ud

Posted by: The Twilight Zone at March 13, 2026 04:30 PM (Ksqrb)

135 Zod is always asking guys to kneel before him, and that's really gay, so The Blade avoids him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:28 PM (iFTx/)

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That's just what someone with multiple personality disorder would say...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (bZSny)
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Please ....

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (iFTx/)

136 Offshoot of that, why had I never heard of USAID until DOGE? Surely one Republican would have seen how much money was going through that and had questions.

I remember reading articles about the rampant fraud with Social Security and 100+ year old people getting checks, but nobody ever looked under the hood.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (eIzlH)

My question is, since the Government has been working off of continuing resolutions for a couple of decades.... how was this created, and how did it grow so large?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)

137 What is it with these guys, anyway? The Kims in Korea are on their third generation now as well.
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The Dingell family has held the same House seat in Michigan for over 80 years.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (f0sNM)

138 At the luncheon , I was sitting with two people I didn't know. Unfortunately, one person was suggesting to another man that Donald Trump is evil and the anti Christ, in part because he blew up a girls school in Iran Uggh.

To which the correct response is "If you can't even shut up about your politics during a funeral, you're the one who worries me."

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

139 Iran says that we have to stop attacking them before they will agree to a ceasefire.

I think there may be some confusion here about who gets to make demands.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

The Iranians have the upper hand here. They know that eventually the U.S. and Israel will get tired of pounding the living shit out of them and give them anything they want.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (8DR9B)

140 Cigars.
Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM
*******
And old cars.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM

The Chevy of Theseus, as it were.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 04:32 PM (4NO2D)

141 139
The Iranians have the upper hand here. They know that eventually the U.S. and Israel will get tired of pounding the living shit out of them and give them anything they want.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (8DR9B)

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Late 2000s GOP campaign consultants found new work, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:32 PM (bZSny)

142 Trump Inc. should corner the Cuban casino business and beach resorts. Fabulous.

Posted by: Midnight hour more more more at March 13, 2026 04:32 PM (ehY6c)

143 The first ride will be Kaaba Land. Well, more of a walk, really. A circular walk.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

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The rumored lands (nothing official has been released) are to include Paddington, James Bond, and The Lord of the Rings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:30 PM (bZSny)
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"What about Ukrainian Rentboy Assfuck Orgy"?

-- Keir Starmer

Posted by: Zod Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:32 PM (iFTx/)

144 Have you ever seen a Cuban girl dance?

Posted by: Sir Mix A Lot at March 13, 2026 04:26 PM (Q+gd/)

https://youtu.be/qfO_OfmGOl0?t=45

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:32 PM (ExV1e)

145 So, we get our Cuba stuff back, rite?

Posted by: Mafia Miklos at March 13, 2026 04:32 PM (Al4HM)

146 Typical of islamists, always want to continue talking when they are at a disadvantage. Fuck that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 04:33 PM (n5tGW)

147 Have you ever seen a Cuban girl dance?

But that was 30 years ago, when they used to have a show.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 04:34 PM (4NO2D)

148 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Cigars.
Posted by: Bubba Clintoon at March 13, 2026 04:21 PM

I'd like to try one of them red-headed Yolandas.

Posted by: Sen. Geary at March 13, 2026 04:34 PM (8DR9B)

149 Maybe the major cigar makers will come back and Make Cuban Cigars Great Again.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 13, 2026 04:34 PM (CwhoI)

150 Andre Carson inherited his House seat from his grandma.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

That horrible Dingle woman from Michigan. I think she might actually be retarded, so I don't call her retarded. That would be mean.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 13, 2026 04:34 PM (cxFcK)

151 To which the correct response is "If you can't even shut up about your politics during a funeral, you're the one who worries me."
Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

Or, "Look on the bright side. At least he spared them the the agony of having their clits sawn off."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 04:35 PM (8zz6B)

152 Cuba claims it will definitely not be making any concessions about letting the people actually vote for their leaders.

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Sounds just like our own Democrat-Communist Party here.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:35 PM (My0zW)

153 137 What is it with these guys, anyway? The Kims in Korea are on their third generation now as well.
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The Dingell family has held the same House seat in Michigan for over 80 years.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (f0sNM)

No Kings! Except Commie-Leftist Kings and hereditary political bozos, that is.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 04:35 PM (5rh/l)

154 I think the Brits are too embarrassed to admit that they can't afford to hurry the readiness of the Prince of Wales to get it to the Med anytime soon.
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Can't hurry with so many sailors having to stop and pray 5 times a day to their pagan bloodthirsty god.

(j/k - my guess is only tiny fraction of sailors that are followers of mohammedan)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)

155 Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

It was at the luncheon following the funeral, but still....

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 04:35 PM (fQqaC)

156 Just think how crazy it is now that El Salvador is now a vacation hotspot after they elected a right leader and cut down the crime. Cuba would be even more so.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
.......

I went to El Salvador in the late 80's when it was wild as f*ck. It was a fun trip. Riding in the back of a pickup taxi with army men, sound of gunshots lulling me to sleep in my hotel room, pierced through shoulder by a needle fish, and all the drugs you could imagine over the counter at the 'farmacia'.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 04:36 PM (UjdFS)

157 Iran has us over a barrel like Japan did back in 1945

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 04:36 PM (YwEeS)

158 Unfortunately, one person was suggesting to another man that Donald Trump is evil and the anti Christ, in part because he blew up a girls school in Iran Uggh.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 04:29 PM (fQqaC)

The only way to start fixing stupid is to remove all the existing media outlets (legally and peacefully, of course). Only then can the truth start to be heard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

159 It's not as if the blacks or Jews or Indians got their property back, though they were variously promised some of it. It's just not the way restitution works. If the debtor is dead or in prison, you aren't going to recoup the financial loss. Just take the kick in the teeth and get on with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 04:36 PM (BI5O2)

160 I can't wait to ride the Havana to Disneyland monorail.
Posted by: wth

The Disney Cuber Meal Plan leaves a LOT to desire.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 13, 2026 04:36 PM (cxFcK)

161 Oh man that baji with the flashlight "What's that?"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 04:37 PM (n5tGW)

162 So the commies in Cuba are going to learn what it's like to give back stolen land.

Oh this will be good. (Munches fist fulls of popcorn)

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 13, 2026 04:37 PM (wBaIH)

163 "fight the Islamic conquerors that are keeping Tucker Carlson in luxurious bowties."

Fight the Islamic conquerors?

Who do you think advocates for immigration and resettlement into America and Europe of all these Muslim refugees created by wars on behalf of Greater Israel?

Bomb them over there then bring them over here.

https: //jewishcenterforjustice.org/project/immigration/

https: //www.msn.com/en-us/ news/us/1-100-rabbis-sign-onto-letter- supporting-immigrant-rights-do-not-oppress-the-stranger/ ar-AA1Yqwz4

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27503587

"Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy, 1881-1965: A Historical Review"

But hey, if crazy Trump can open up the Straight of Hormuz, at least he won't destroy the world economy while giving Israel another scalp of its neighbors. It'd be cool to not have to live in a completely wrecked economy for the sake of Israel.

Posted by: Israel Is Always Right at March 13, 2026 04:37 PM (Xkc2j)

164 There is no evidence the Supine Leader released anything besides pus, and Axios knows this. There are confirmed reports that he is in a coma.
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To be fair, that's how things worked here, 2021-2025.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2026 04:37 PM (AlhUl)

165 Hey, those LOOKER guns were nothing to sneeze at.

Posted by: Pooklord at March 13, 2026 04:38 PM (asU3w)

166 Cuba was basically a St. Bart's level destination for wealthy vacationers before communism came and fucked all that up.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 04:38 PM (5aZAZ)

167 Greater Israel

Heh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 04:38 PM (4NO2D)

168 So, with all this going on with Cuba and Venezuela, have we heard anything from the foreign policy geniuses, Sean Penn and Michael Moore?

Okay, if I'm to be honest, I have to admit that it makes my heart sing to know that those to azzholes have to be just hating what Trump is doing with Venezuela and Cuba.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 13, 2026 04:39 PM (0Htd1)

169 MERZ sells citizens for stupid❗️

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"Are they mostly black?"

/Gov. Gruesom Newscum 2028 -- Make Stupidity Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:39 PM (My0zW)

170 Cuba was basically a St. Bart's level destination for wealthy vacationers before communism came and fucked all that up.

But Hyman Roth had big plans for it if he could just squeeze the Corleone family out of the picture.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 13, 2026 04:40 PM (8DR9B)

171 The Cuban girl I dated threw a ceramic vase at me.

Long story. But she missed.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:40 PM (i7wqn)

172 Wow it's weird how the Latin American left suddenly started losing elections when USAID was killed

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Future Color Revolutions hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:40 PM (My0zW)

173

The U.S. Marine Corps is sending more than 2,000 men currently stationed in Japan to the Middle East as the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury continues to intensify.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (Cqx++)

174 The Cuban girl I dated threw a ceramic vase at me.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:40 PM

Latin foreplay.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (4NO2D)

175 My question is, since the Government has been working off of continuing resolutions for a couple of decades.... how was this created, and how did it grow so large?
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 04:31 PM (mP0Kj)

The basic concept started under Eisenhower. In 1961, the "Foreign Assistance Act" was signed my Kennedy. He directed the SoS to create an agency for international development, which later became USAID.

In 1998, Congress established USAID as a functionally independent executive agency with the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act, which gave the president 60 days to abolish or reorganize USAID.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (ExV1e)

176 It's been a while since Ashendon cited the Muzzie boasting his work in Britain is done. But then, I've been following him for a while now.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (AlhUl)

177 Could Trudeau qualify for Cuban leadership?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (cxFcK)

178 Cuba was basically a St. Bart's level destination for wealthy vacationers before communism came and fucked all that up.

When a Sands hotel really was on the sand.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 04:42 PM (NcUvK)

179 If I was the US, I'd solicit a "retirement fund" from all the developers who stand to profit from a free Cuba, and tell the Cuban commies "plomo o plata".

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 13, 2026 04:42 PM (CwhoI)

180 2000 marines headed to middle east from Japan; Karq Island might be on the menu.

Posted by: Midnight hour more more more at March 13, 2026 04:42 PM (ehY6c)

181 101 What does Cuba have to negotiate with?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 04:18 PM
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Insanely valuable land? Every hotel developer and casino has been salivating over Cuba for decades. It would be a major vacation destination. Like majorly major.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah. I'll bet a lot of quatloos the owners of resorts conglomerates with properties in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and in every tiny independent island nation in the Caribbean, are looking for ways to bribe Trump into leaving Cuba a Commie shithole.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (5rh/l)

182 >> Latin foreplay.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (4NO2D)

After she missed, I told her that was hot. That really pissed her off and she started reaching for other things to throw.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (i7wqn)

183 Could Trudeau qualify for Cuban leadership?
Posted by: Blutarski

Cuba is already destroyed. Why hurt them more?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (NcUvK)

184 Could Trudeau qualify for Cuban leadership?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (cxFcK)

He'll have to fight me for it.

Posted by: Prince Harry, Royalty sans Portfolio at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (8DR9B)

185 47 years of attacks deserves a lot of payback

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

186 So the commies in Cuba are going to learn what it's like to give back stolen land.

Oh this will be good. (Munches fist fulls of popcorn)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

There's even a Law

The Helms-Burton Law

Posted by: Miklos channeling the spirit of Jesse Helms at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (Al4HM)

187 Could Trudeau qualify for Cuban leadership?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (cxFcK)

I think he's too chickenshit to risk fighting it out with all the other heirs apparent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (8zz6B)

188 Trump 2.0 has been glorious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 13, 2026 04:44 PM (xT8gx)

189 If I was the US, I'd solicit a "retirement fund" from all the developers who stand to profit from a free Cuba, and tell the Cuban commies "plomo o plata".
Posted by: Citizen Cake

Sucka de culo.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 04:44 PM (NcUvK)

190 There is no evidence the Supine Leader released anything besides pus, and Axios knows this. There are confirmed reports that he is in a coma. (And is "likely disfigured," added Pete Hegseth.)

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Weekend At Burny's.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:44 PM (My0zW)

191 >>>After she missed, I told her that was hot. That really pissed her off and she started reaching for other things to throw.

If this story doesn't end with soggy sheets and friction burns, I shall be very disappointed.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 13, 2026 04:45 PM (CwhoI)

192 she missed
_-_
Not a keeper...now if she didn't miss...'nuther matter altogether

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 04:45 PM (vd6bO)

193 >> If this story doesn't end with soggy sheets and friction burns, I shall be very disappointed.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at March 13, 2026 04:45 PM (CwhoI)

There’s a balcony and a tub involved. But we’ll leave it there.

Before Jesus took me back, I lived a rotten life.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:46 PM (i7wqn)

194 The Cuban girl I dated threw a ceramic vase at me.

Posted by: Marcus T

Fawn de Liebowitz-Gonzalez?

Posted by: Miklos guesses again at March 13, 2026 04:46 PM (Al4HM)

195 There are confirmed reports that he is in a coma. (And is "likely disfigured," added Pete Hegseth.)

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Weekend At Burny's.
Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:44 PM (My0zW)

Coma, coma, coma, khameineon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 04:46 PM (8zz6B)

196 Ohferpetessakes. The whole war is pragmatic. It's pragmatic for Israel, and for the US. When it comes to Iran, about three-quarters of that Venn Diagram is overlap.

Both countries have a vested interest in the destruction of Iran.

I can understand an argument against our alliance with Israel, but I'm checking out when I hear that Israel dictates American foreign policy in the Middle East. That assertion is clearly nonsense, and it has been for nearly 80 years.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 04:47 PM (BI5O2)

197 re my 181: I left out that I'll bet more quatloos that the politicians and gangsters in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and in every tiny independent island nation in the Caribbean, are also looking for ways to bribe Trump into leaving Cuba a Commie shithole.

Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 04:47 PM (5rh/l)

198 Interesting that this is the firs time in modern Israel history, they are fighting allied with someone, through all the other wars they had to fight, they were fighting by themselves. I mean actual coordination, not equipment, like the US and the UK were allied in WWII.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 04:47 PM (GD0B3)

199 The mooslems invaded over decades in a slow roll to the Caliphate and Ummah. Some admit it, like the guy above. They don't hide it. They are using democracy, legal protections, etc to batten down any islamophobia.

I kept this quote from somewhere:

A famous "moderate", Dr Zaki Badawi, the Egyptian director of the Muslim College in Ealing, has written: "Islam endeavours to expand in Britain . . . It hopes that one day the whole of mankind will be one Muslim community, the Umma."

In 1999, the Vatican hosted a conference of Muslim and Christian leaders, attended by the Titular Archbishop of Smyrna. He reports that a Muslim participant was disarmingly frank about the purpose of Islamic settlers in pluralistic Western societies. Addressing the Christian delegates from Europe, he allegedly said: "Because of our religion, we will invade you; because of your democracy, we will destroy you."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 13, 2026 04:49 PM (WONhk)

200 runner, Israel was allied with Britain and France against Nasser in 1956. "Suez Crisis".
For various reasons, Dulles and Eisenhower pulled the rug out and left the Britain/ France/ Israel alliance hanging.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

201 Yeah if Cuba opens up, you are going to see entire Caribbean economies go underwater.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:49 PM (i7wqn)

202
There is no proof the "leader" issued a statement -- a written statement was read by someone else by a regime propagandist.

Written on a cardboard box pulled from the recycle bin.

Posted by: Batman at March 13, 2026 04:50 PM (y9nCu)

203 I ran across another stupid idea the FNM is trying to promote called..."hotwifing"

So...first though is it some "look nice for your husband" trend cause that does not sound like the FNM...

No...you know what it is? Its watching your wife have sex with another man. But oh its not cuckolding because its empowering! Or some similar shit.

Why does the FNM keep trying to argue that cheating on your spouse is a good thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

204 ROFL .... Hilarious

I'm watching 'Terrifier 3' right now. Art the clown just took some guys Santa suit. The man is tied up begging for his life saying "I have a name, I have a name."

"My name is Charles Johnson."

And I burst out laughing right there. Back to the movie. Things don't look good for Chuck.

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 04:50 PM (Sco7b)

205 Nostra Aetate was one of the worst things to come out of the Second Vatican. It completely and thoroughly misjudges islam, and what their stated goal is.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:51 PM (i7wqn)

206 Israel was allied with Britain and France against Nasser in 1956. "Suez Crisis".
For various reasons, Dulles and Eisenhower pulled the rug out and left the Britain/ France/ Israel alliance hanging.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 04:49 PM (gKWVE)

I think Israel did the heavy lifting, and the French the UK instigated from the sides.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (GD0B3)

207
Oops.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (y9nCu)

208 Cuban story:

In the mid-70s, while on Spring Break in Daytona Beach, I and some buds were in the bar on the top floor of the Holiday Inn enjoying some brews and waiting for the live music to begin.

Soon enough, the band with this very attractive chick as lead singer took the stage. Good Latin music. It was only later that I learned that the band was what would soon become known as the Miami Sound Machine.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (Y1sOo)

209 It's illegal for Russia to sell oil to Cuba.

Subscribe to my newsletter for more free trade, capitalist takes.

Posted by: Retarded Jew Mouthpiece at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (P4kpN)

210 Why does the FNM keep trying to argue that cheating on your spouse is a good thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

Because they are all fucking each others and, in some instances, their children.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (dK+Kv)

211 There's only one, ONE, actual ally they're fighting to break ties with and declare enemy. And it just so happens to be the one ally with the capability of, and desire to, fight the Islamic conquerors that are keeping Tucker Carlson in luxurious bowties.

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Fuentes, Qatarlson, Candy-O, Me-Again, Bannon, et. al. were never MAGA or America First; they saw Trump as an easily-manipulable idiot -- and they chose poorly.

They're all GloboHomo WEF Deep State PsyOps Operative acolytes of Satanic madman ("Putin's Brain") Alexander Dugin and his dark vision for a "multi-polar" world controlled by China, Russia, and Islam (Iran in particular) instead of a "uni-polar" world controlled by the USA.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (My0zW)

212 186 So I looked hot the Helms Burton Act that was passed by Clinton while he was focused on which tween to mouth rape that afternoon.

Ooo is that truffle oil on the popcorn? Yum!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (wBaIH)

213 166 Cuba was basically a St. Bart's level destination for wealthy vacationers before communism came and fucked all that up.
Posted by: ballistic

You mean: "as a result, communism came and fucked all that up".
Next time, let's leave the Lanskys and Lucianos in New York.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (gKWVE)

214 So hotwifing is like hotswapping a camera battery, but with shlongs?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 04:52 PM (BI5O2)

215 Coma, coma, coma, khameineon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 04:46 PM (8zz6B)

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* snort *

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:53 PM (My0zW)

216 Bailen como juana la cubana,!!
El ritmo que se siente como
Jugo de manzana, Bailen como
Juana la cubana, un paso padelante

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 13, 2026 04:53 PM (S+j2h)

217 Its watching your wife have sex with another man. But oh its not cuckolding because its empowering! Or some similar shit.

Why does the FNM keep trying to argue that cheating on your spouse is a good thing.

Because all the Democrats do it?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 04:53 PM (Fp5al)

218 American foreign policy in the Middle East.
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See now that's where I keep losing the plot. I am hearing that "Zionists" control our foreign policy, not Israel per se...but I am not quite getting what a "Zionist" is in that context. They say there are Christian Zionists, Jewish Zionists, and atheist Zionists, and they consider Israelis, Jews, and Christians expendable. Any of that make sense to anybody here? Just trying to understand the factions in this whole affair.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 04:54 PM (vd6bO)

219 205 Nostra Aetate was one of the worst things to come out of the Second Vatican. It completely and thoroughly misjudges islam, and what their stated goal is.

13 centuries of wisdom learned from hard lessons with dealing with the fanatic followers of the pagan god of islam flushed down the memory hole.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)

220 Too bad Desi Arnaz isn’t around to see Cuba be rid of the Castro thugs. Babaloo!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 13, 2026 04:55 PM (xT8gx)

221 Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 04:50 PM (Sco7b)

You'd think the clown would offer CJ professional courtesy.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 04:55 PM (gKWVE)

222 You'd think the clown would offer CJ professional courtesy.

CJ can show the clown how to ride a seatless bicycle.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 04:56 PM (Fp5al)

223 >>13 centuries of wisdom learned from hard lessons with dealing with the fanatic followers of the pagan god of islam flushed down the memory hole.

Yeah but we’re pretty sure they’re monotheists or something.

It’s not even argument. It’s complete fallacy.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:56 PM (i7wqn)

224 Any of that make sense to anybody here? Just trying to understand the factions in this whole affair.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 04:54 PM (vd6bO)

Well, you relly can't expect the StormFronters to make any sense, what with them all being faggots.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 04:56 PM (8zz6B)

225
Too bad Desi Arnaz isn’t around to see Cuba be rid of the Castro thugs. Babaloo!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Don't count your chickens before they cluck.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 04:57 PM (Cqx++)

226 According to Dems and never Trumpers, DJT is an uncouth, reckless, ignoramus…. Yet he continues to run circles around the foreign policy establishment “intellectuals”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 13, 2026 04:57 PM (xT8gx)

227 Why does the FNM keep trying to argue that cheating on your spouse is a good thing.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

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All cults' first order of business is to eliminate all other authority figures -- and that begins with parents and the nuclear family.

It's no coincidence that 80% of black children and 50% of white children now are born to unmarried mothers -- encouraging both parties to become dependent upon the Federal Big Brother Tit.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:57 PM (My0zW)

228 I've never understood getting married and also banging everything not nailed down. Just don't get married.

Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 04:57 PM (uQzkA)

229 223 >>13 centuries of wisdom learned from hard lessons with dealing with the fanatic followers of the pagan god of islam flushed down the memory hole.

But Kumbaya

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 13, 2026 04:57 PM (DgMqy)

230 If I was an Iranian Mall cop I'd be taking a few weeks off.

Posted by: DaveA at March 13, 2026 04:58 PM (FhXTo)

231 I've been to Cuba - meh. Well, actually Guantanamo, So wasn't that great, really. Mostly the place was crawling with banana rats...

Posted by: Boswell at March 13, 2026 04:58 PM (j10i6)

232 So hotwifing is like hotswapping a camera battery, but with shlongs?

Yep. Except it isn't swapping, that's misogynist...its just the David French thing where you watch other men have sex with your wife and then wash their feet and other parts.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)

233 A dissent from 9th circuit case yesterday. Apologies if already posted.

"You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion. You're not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing."

https://tinyurl.com/y7hs9wj9

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 13, 2026 04:58 PM (XvL8K)

234 Too bad Desi Arnaz isn’t around to see Cuba be rid of the Castro thugs. Babaloo!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Don't count your chickens before they cluck.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 04:57 PM (Cqx++)

You’re right. It’s not a fait accompli… but it’s at least within the realm of possibility

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 13, 2026 04:58 PM (xT8gx)

235 >> I've never understood getting married and also banging everything not nailed down. Just don't get married.

Even during the wicked parts of my life I never did that. I never understood it, other than the actions of an insecure, weak and selfish person.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 04:59 PM (i7wqn)

236 No the Brits and French sent considerable forces in the Suez operation. One of Eisenhower's big flubs imo along with Cuba.

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS)

237 No...you know what it is? Its watching your wife have sex with another man. But oh its not cuckolding because its empowering! Or some similar shit.

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"BullRiding was HotWifing before it was cool."

/obligatory David French

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:00 PM (My0zW)

238 For people wondering when the next Iranian uprising will take place, their New Year starts on the Vernal Equinox. That's when they take to the streets. The Regime knows it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)

239 All cults' first order of business is to eliminate all other authority figures -- and that begins with parents and the nuclear family.

It's no coincidence that 80% of black children and 50% of white children now are born to unmarried mothers -- encouraging both parties to become dependent upon the Federal Big Brother Tit.
Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 04:57 PM (My0zW)

Part of the Soviet plan to undermine and degrade America was to deliberately undermine and degrade the family. They have been succeeding phenomenally in that regard, even from beyond the grave of history.

Posted by: Ain't no coincidence at March 13, 2026 05:00 PM (TbWk/)

240 Do you think David French hides in the closet while the bull is with his wife or is he out in a cuck chair?

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (YwEeS)

241 Dem Commie Cubanos got some 'splainin' to do.

And some bleedin'

Posted by: Miklos "Desi" Arnaz at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (Al4HM)

242 No the Brits and French sent considerable forces in the Suez operation. One of Eisenhower's big flubs imo along with Cuba.
Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS)
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No, it was their screwup, because they blindsided Eisenhower.

They acted all cute like they were still Great Powers and they weren't, and Ike told them to pick up their shineboxes and go home.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (ZOv7s)

243 No the Brits and French sent considerable forces in the Suez operation. One of Eisenhower's big flubs imo along with Cuba.
Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS)

They did it without our permission in 56. Big no no. Not a flub to smack them down. We can't have every mid power in Europe starting wars on their own.

Of course Biden and the Neocons let the Europeans lead us by the nose into Ukraine. Another mistake.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (8avO+)

244 *led (past tense of lead, and the second-most misspelled word)

Posted by: bradc at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (/cRy1)

245 63 Iran says that we have to stop attacking them before they will agree to a ceasefire

Why on Earth would we want a cease fire ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (VE6XX)

246 You’re right. It’s not a fait accompli… but it’s at least within the realm of possibility

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 13, 2026 04:58 PM (xT8gx)

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Make Cuba the 51st State?

/D.C., Puerto Rico, Alberta, and Greenland hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:02 PM (My0zW)

247 I think the Brits are too embarrassed to admit that they can't afford to hurry the readiness of the Prince of Wales to get it to the Med anytime soon. So they claim its may be needed sometime soon in the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, Macron has sent or is soon sending France's aircraft carrier and a bunch more naval ships to help protect Cyprus! The Royal Navy is now below joke status. Sad, but that's what a Leftist government gets you.
Posted by: Gref at March 13, 2026 04:30 PM (5rh/l)

I think that the state of the British Navy shows what stage their erstwhile empire is in, and Reform UK ought to be demanding an audit of their gold reserves, to make sure that no part of it has been replaced with fakes.

Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 05:02 PM (Sy6m/)

248 For people wondering when the next Iranian uprising will take place, their New Year starts on the Vernal Equinox. That's when they take to the streets. The Regime knows it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Ain't that right Vern?

Posted by: Ernest P. Worrell at March 13, 2026 05:03 PM (Al4HM)

249 Heh. Had to look up StormFronters. Wow.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:03 PM (vd6bO)

250 240 Do you think David French hides in the closet while the bull is with his wife or is he out in a cuck chair?
Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (YwEeS)

He's in his cuckshed, watching via Teams.

Posted by: His crying distracts them too much at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (TbWk/)

251 L.O.O.K.E.R. guns

I loved that movie as a kid.

I wonder how it holds up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (2+SeL)

252 They should have informed us but I think the operation would have saved a lot of trouble if we had let it be completed.

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (YwEeS)

253 >> The Regime knows it.

What’s left of it. I’ve seen some of the targeting and it includes platoon size groups of Basij and thugs. The minute the pop up a checkpoint, they get smoked. To the point there’s a good deal of them fleeing. Senior IRGC leadership has taken to messengers because they are assuming all comms are compromised. But they keep smoke checking them anyway. Cash is running down and there isn’t a lot of support mechanism for whatever is left of the armed forces.

I give them two weeks. Tops.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (i7wqn)

254 I have been watching Goldie Ghamari and the Iranian army is having to use Taxi's at check points because Israel and US are destroying the check points

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (FCrpy)

255 Iran says that we have to stop attacking them before they will agree to a ceasefire

Why on Earth would we want a cease fire ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (VE6XX)

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Like with Democrat-Communists here and worldwide: why on Earth would anyone believe anything the Psychopathic Inveterate Pathologically-Lying Iranian Mad Mullahs say?

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (My0zW)

256 Socking regular @ 248

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 05:05 PM (dK+Kv)

257 *led (past tense of lead, and the second-most misspelled word)
Posted by: bradc

Put that in the first sentence

Posted by: the Lede at March 13, 2026 05:05 PM (Al4HM)

258 So Basij are basically Tehran's antifa.

Posted by: Thugs is thugs at March 13, 2026 05:05 PM (TbWk/)

259 Totally OT.

Today is one of those few perfect days in Texas where the heater/ac is off, the windows are open & it's 74 degrees out with a light breeze.

We're lucky if we get 20 days a year like this. This is one of them.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 05:05 PM (NcUvK)

260 Gettin' hard to tell who is insulting whom in this world.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (vd6bO)

261 Not thinking I Ran will surrender without USA ground troops ' nudging ' them in the Orange Man Bad's third term.

But Cuber...... Cuba military will last about as long as it takes the Trumpster to offer them dollars and food ( genuine American protein) to lay down their weapons and fade away into the barrio. Or maybe a detachment of heavily armed IRS agents who land on Cuban shores will help convince them to take an indefinite siesta. Muy rapido.
Take your pick.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GtHKb)

262 Do you think David French hides in the closet while the bull is with his wife or is he out in a cuck chair?
Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:01 PM (YwEeS)

He's in his cuckshed, watching via Teams.
Posted by: His crying distracts them too much at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (TbWk/)

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lmao

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (My0zW)

263 That ain’t no Fen

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GbONR)

264 252 L.O.O.K.E.R. guns

I loved that movie as a kid.

I wonder how it holds up.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (2+SeL)

Way ahead of it's time, with AI and killing off models and Actors so they can use their image and likeness forever. I would love a Remake but Hollywood would F it up because of Body Positivity and Fat people are pretty

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (FCrpy)

265 American foreign policy in the Middle East.
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See now that's where I keep losing the plot. I am hearing that "Zionists" control our foreign policy, not Israel per se...but I am not quite getting what a "Zionist" is in that context. They say there are Christian Zionists, Jewish Zionists, and atheist Zionists, and they consider Israelis, Jews, and Christians expendable. Any of that make sense to anybody here? Just trying to understand the factions in this whole affair.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 04:54 PM (vd6bO)

Zionists were a fringe faction among the Jews who wanted to get up and reclaim the Jewish homeland in the levant. No real impetus, though they did get the Brits who owned the region after WWI to allow a driblet of them to go live in the area.

Then the Germans and all went Nuts, and the powers decided that the Europeans could no longer be trusted to not kill all the Jews, and the area was opened up for more emigration from Europe.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:07 PM (8avO+)

266 I had a good laugh earlier. Spotted a livestream on YouTube the title was something like " Netanyahu Dead, US and UK to start conscription soon"

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:07 PM (YwEeS)

267 XEzm8

Looks like some StormFag is socking Fenelon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 05:07 PM (8zz6B)

268 Mullahs will never surrender. Too much money and pride at stake.
Feet first or splattered on the wall, their choice.

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 05:08 PM (GbONR)

269 If everything goes according to plan, the Euro business sector will be on the first Airbus into Tehran looting the low hanging fruit their favorite and former theocratic fascist leaders left for the picking.

We need to nip that in the bud Shogun MacArthur Style.

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 05:08 PM (QyRN9)

270 socking Fenelon.
_-_
I thought that was pretty far out of character.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:09 PM (vd6bO)

271 Not thinking I Ran will surrender without USA ground troops ' nudging ' them in the Orange Man Bad's third term.

But Cuber...... Cuba military will last about as long as it takes the Trumpster to offer them dollars and food ( genuine American protein) to lay down their weapons and fade away into the barrio. Or maybe a detachment of heavily armed IRS agents who land on Cuban shores will help convince them to take an indefinite siesta. Muy rapido.
Take your pick.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GtHKb)

Think there may need to be some troops, don't have to be American or Israeli until the new government gets some police and troops raised to send air support requests to the big guns. Perhaps Saudi and other local forces.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:09 PM (8avO+)

272 The mullahs have nowhere left to go except maybe Moscow. The IRGC launching against the gulf states have pretty much eliminated these escape routes.

It’s over. The only question is when.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 05:09 PM (i7wqn)

273 I go away for a couple hours and you guys are all talking some strange new language: hotwifi, stoomer guns, FNM... what are you all talking about?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 13, 2026 05:09 PM (4PH1B)

274 If drones can continue to take out enough of those Basenji dogs and check points, the streets will eventually open up (fully or at least mostly) for the 80+ million Iranians who want the regime gone to overwhelm their oppressors -- especially if we can get them sufficient firearms and other weapons for self-defense and even offensive actions.

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (My0zW)

275
I don't think this administration has any interest in Cuba being anything other than a non-communist independent country.

We're already stuck with Puerto Rico.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (azNOR)

276 Way ahead of it's time, with AI and killing off models and Actors so they can use their image and likeness forever. I would love a Remake but Hollywood would F it up because of Body Positivity and Fat people are pretty

doesn't need a remake

LOOKER is perfect!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (j+aD2)

277 I guess, given his age, maybe Arnaz wasn't a damnable Communist. Especially since he was a Cuban. I just automatically think "Hollywood celebrity == Communist," so I never really thought about it before.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (BI5O2)

278 I saw someone point out that he could undo it, but he's in partnership with leftwing groups to keep AfD out of power, and if he moved to save German's future, his government would collapse and AfD would (rightfully) take power.

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That is exactly right, and the socialist left along with the socialist right would rather the country cease to exist than let power get into the hands of the majority.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (0U5gm)

279 Marcus T, defecting IRGC are going to Afghanistan.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (+nEug)

280 Faggot police, XEzm8 is on the loose again

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (gKWVE)

281 They should have informed us but I think the operation would have saved a lot of trouble if we had let it be completed.
Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (YwEeS)
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The problem was they played their old Imperialist games that was not going to fly in the Cold War. You cannot have the Free World also asserting that Egypt is permanently subject to the British Empire. Oh, and they could use their waning military might only because the US was covering their sorry asses.

So no. They screwed up, bigly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (ZOv7s)

282 But Cuber...... Cuba military will last about as long as it takes the Trumpster to offer them dollars and food ( genuine American protein) to lay down their weapons and fade away into the barrio. Or maybe a detachment of heavily armed IRS agents who land on Cuban shores will help convince them to take an indefinite siesta. Muy rapido.
Take your pick.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GtHKb)

Maybe we can make them mercs for us in Iran. Problems start solving each other.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:10 PM (8avO+)

283 nood

cheung

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 05:11 PM (3uBP9)

284
Desi's family was kicked out by Batista.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 05:11 PM (Y8DZL)

285
Cuba has valuable land, true. I was wondering what leverage these Castros have. All I can think of is a promise to go away and never bother us again in exchange for us getting them out of the hemisphere with a few million dollars walking-around-money.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 05:11 PM (FveOp)

286 But Cuber...... Cuba military will last about as long as it takes the Trumpster to offer them dollars and food ( genuine American protein) to lay down their weapons and fade away into the barrio. Or maybe a detachment of heavily armed IRS agents who land on Cuban shores will help convince them to take an indefinite siesta. Muy rapido.
Take your pick.
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 13, 2026 05:06 PM (GtHKb)

Cuba has commie thug enforcers at the neighborhood level, comparable to the basij in Iran. They will probably present more of a problem than the regular military.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2026 05:12 PM (8zz6B)

287
Trump: Mr Miguel Díaz-Canel, you can have my answer now if you like. My offer is this: nothing.

Posted by: Don Black at March 13, 2026 05:12 PM (ZxPkt)

288 We get about 4 months year with neither AC or heat. Turned the ac off mid August, turned the heat on Halloween.

Posted by: Accomac at March 13, 2026 05:12 PM (GbONR)

289 I give them two weeks. Tops.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (i7wqn)
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Perhaps, but the New Year celebration provided a nice fixed, synchronized rally point. It is traditionally celebrated with bonfires, and these have been the source of disobedience before.

That's why I think they are keeping a low profile. Plus, they get one more week of droning whacking cops.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

290 So Basij are basically Tehran's antifa.
Posted by: Thugs is thugs at March 13, 2026 05:05 PM (TbWk/)

I assume they are on the official government payroll rather than on the black ops payroll like Antifa was here.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:14 PM (8avO+)

291 Ben Had, they won’t be able to hide their. The Tali war with the Paki’s has eyes all over the place, just like the ISI did when we were there. It’s a hornets nest and the minute someone thinks the can cash in, they’re done.

They really screwed themselves by bombing gold states. There was somewhat of a gentlemen’s agreement we or Mossad wouldn’t touch them in certain places. Like the scumbag Palis who are sitting on the beaches earning 8% on stolen millions. But that’s apparently over.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 05:14 PM (i7wqn)

292 Or maybe a detachment of heavily armed IRS agents who land on Cuban shores will help convince them to take an indefinite siesta.

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Led by recently promoted Colonel Scott Bessent.

I can see him now, shirtless with a great tan, wearing the same Air Calvary Cowboy Hat, Sunglasses, and Bandana a la Robert Duvall's Col. Kilgore.

"I love the smell of Date Palm in the morning ... it smells like VICTORY!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:15 PM (My0zW)

293 56 In a few months time, Trump has taken down Venezuela, the mullahs in Iran and Cuba, a problem that America has dealt with since JFK.

What the hell were other presidents doing?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)

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This^^

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (aZm/F)

294 Desi's family was kicked out by Batista.

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 05:11 PM (Y8DZL)

There is a road in my subdivision growing up named for Castro. Yes, Fidel. It was done when he was a good rebel for kicking out Batista, not a bad one for being communist. They never got around to undoing it.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (8avO+)

295 n a few months time, Trump has taken down Venezuela, the mullahs in Iran and Cuba, a problem that America has dealt with since JFK.

What the hell were other presidents doing?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)

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This^^
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (aZm/F)

standing shoulder to shoulder with our European Allies.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:16 PM (8avO+)

296 >> That's why I think they are keeping a low profile. Plus, they get one more week of droning whacking cops.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 13, 2026 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

We have been telling people to keep off the streets especially at night. Then we have been smoking anyone we see. That and the regime threatening anyone has kept people inside. They tried to reverse it in a few areas because they thought they were smart and could hide in the population. But that just put more eyes on them. They are getting degraded every single moment of the day, and I would agree that in a few weeks things are going to be lit.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 13, 2026 05:17 PM (i7wqn)

297 Back in the 90s prosecuting the "war crime" of ethnic cleaning was all the rage among the Left.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 13, 2026 05:18 PM (Vh9CX)

298 What the hell were other presidents doing?
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Perhaps you misspelled "residents". Love him or have him, you have to admit the man has a solid work ethic.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:18 PM (vd6bO)

299 Cuba has commie thug enforcers at the neighborhood level, comparable to the basij in Iran. They will probably present more of a problem than the regular military. - AOP.

I wonder if the peasants will hang their neighborhood enforcers from lampposts. One can only hope.

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 05:18 PM (QyRN9)

300 Posted by: Fenelon Spoke at March 13, 2026 05:02 PM (XEzm

I did not write this post and do not appreciate someone socking me

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (ZCxQ+)

301 Like with Democrat-Communists here and worldwide: why on Earth would anyone believe anything the Psychopathic Inveterate Pathologically-Lying Iranian Mad Mullahs say?
Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:04 PM (My0zW)

Just cribbing from the EU/Ukraine Axis negotiation strategy.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (8avO+)

302 Just cribbing from the EU/Ukraine Axis negotiation strategy.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (8avO+)

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Heh.

BTW, if you're still here since we're Willowed -- I really admire your general political and foreign policy/war knowledge and would love to learn and know more about your background.

Cheers!

Posted by: ShainS at March 13, 2026 05:21 PM (My0zW)

303 Havecto say changing the Department of Defense to War Department has lived up to its name.

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 05:22 PM (Ia/+0)

304 XEzm8

Looks like some StormFag is socking Fenelon.

==

Indeed.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (GD0B3)

305 I did not write this post and do not appreciate someone socking me
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 13, 2026 05:19 PM (ZCxQ+)

We know.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:23 PM (GD0B3)

306 https://tinyurl.com/mvtd49zu
Sock it to me.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (vd6bO)

307 "If you can't even shut up about your politics during a funeral, you're the one who worries me."

Believe it or not, that's a quote from Jesse Jackson Junior.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (zdLoL)

308 That's weird. I was told that democrat socialism included democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (bZSny)

Guess that depends on what your definition of "included" is...
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 13, 2026 04:04 PM (dmDsy)

socialists love voting as long as all the parties are identical.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 05:24 PM (8avO+)

309 0z2bC)

get rid

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 05:26 PM (GD0B3)

310 Air Calvary Cowboy Hat --Shain S.

You're going to get crucified with just the wedgie holding you up.
Plunger handle, for eternity. Were you the one socking Fen?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 13, 2026 05:38 PM (zdLoL)

311 Keep precision bombing the muzzie enforcers and there will be no muzzie enforcers.... nor people wanting to become muzzie enforcers.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 13, 2026 05:45 PM (xvV+O)

312 Cuba has commie thug enforcers at the neighborhood level, comparable to the basij in Iran. They will probably present more of a problem than the regular military. - AOP.

I wonder if the peasants will hang their neighborhood enforcers from lampposts. One can only hope.

Posted by: 13times
===

I keep hoping that happens here but there would be so many feral cats then.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 13, 2026 05:47 PM (xvV+O)

313 The biggest problem the Cubans have is that there is no one left with enough wealth to bail them out.

No help from Venezuela, China is cut off, Russia has other issues, the Western countries like Canada have enough local problems to even consider supporting their economy.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at March 13, 2026 06:08 PM (w3u3d)

The Left -- and Me-Again Kelly -- Say That the Cultural Enricher Who Tried to Blow Up a Synagogue Filled with Jewish Children Was Justified Because "Family Members" Had Been Killed by Israel

Just one thing they omitted to mention:

The "family members" killed by Israel were Hezballah terrorists.

The Michigan shooter who attempted to murder toddlers at a Jewish preschool claimed he had lost �family members� in an Israeli strike in Lebanon.

Those �family members� were his brothers, who were members of Hezbollah, a U.S. Designated Terror Group. pic.twitter.com/ayOILKFWYU
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) March 13, 2026

Imagine if a man attacked a black church, specifically targeting black children, because a black man killed his daughter. Imagine if someone told you "that's not racism, that's blowback"

idk, that would seem like a weird take to me bc it's saying that the killer is not a someone� pic.twitter.com/ch7MQoZnFW
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) March 13, 2026

Nazi Crone and Granny Aryan Me-Again Kelly couldn't wait to get dem Groyper Clicks:

Megyn Kelly is now trying to justify the Hezbollah terrorist attack that occurred in Michigan today. Absolute filth pic.twitter.com/rJrBA9BA7t
— CyberBoy (@BenHanan_) March 13, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:45 PM

Comments

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1 F' M. Kelly

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (VE6XX)

2 STOP.
MAKING.
EXCUSES.
FOR.
ISLAM.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (3wOGw)

3 I read the content.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (dK+Kv)

4 Good to know that anyone who had a relative killed at the Nova music festival has a perfect right to blow up a mosque in the United States.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (n1OCj)

5 I need to stop doing that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (dK+Kv)

6 Damn, read the content...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (mP0Kj)

7 Even if you take it at the most sympathetic...

"I can kill Jewish children in America because my children in Lebanon died by Israeli military hands."

Is not really...It's not quite the Socratic method.

It's almost barbarian in thinking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (bZSny)

8 6 Damn, read the content...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (mP0Kj)

As did I

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (VE6XX)

9 I'm really disappointed there isn't video of the cadets beating and stabbing this filthy animal to death

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

10 and yet and yet

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (BMpk9)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

12 3 I read the content.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (dK+Kv)

5 I need to stop doing that.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (dK+Kv)

6 Damn, read the content...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM
(mP0Kj)

I must be a slow reader.... /smile

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (mP0Kj)

13 2 STOP.
MAKING.
EXCUSES.
FOR.
ISLAM.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (3wOGw)

=======

"It's what good Christians do against the evils of Jewish mind control coming from the local Chabad. We must be more like Russia."
-Tucker Carlson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (bZSny)

14 9 I'm really disappointed there isn't video of the cadets beating and stabbing this filthy animal to death
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

That I would love to see...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (VE6XX)

15 Sometimes. Unfortunately, children do pay for the sins of their parents.

OTOH, sometimes wrong place wrong time.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (1biuY)

16 Despicable!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (MIIRH)

17 So if a Black man kills a White man or family, then other White family members are excused if they attack and kill other Blacks?
Dear God, these people are insane!

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (MNCvZ)

18 Huh. So jews there equate to these, unrelated jews. Ok.

Serial Killer logic.

'My mom is a whore. I hate her. Therefore all women are whores and deserve to die.'

Serial killers and some of the MGTOW guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (zZu0s)

19 The Left -- and Me-Again Kelly -- Say That the Cultural Enricher Who Tried to Blow Up a Synagogue Filled with Jewish Children Was Justified Because "Family Members" Had Been Killed by Israel

This is gonna be fun. Since I had a fourth cousin, twice removed, killed by a terrorist, I get to kill goatfuckers carte blanche?

Ammoman, here I come!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (NcUvK)

20 I'm really disappointed there isn't video of the cadets beating and stabbing this filthy animal to death
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

That I would love to see...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (VE6XX)
________

Such a video would be so uplifting, almost spiritual!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

21 I guess anyone can try to square a circle. The fact that the mofo will never harm anybody ever again because he's fucking dead is the only takeaway I need.

Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (uQzkA)

22 islham claims they're retaliating for being attacked.

They weren't in existence till what, the 7th century? They started looting ships and stealing to advance their cause.

They have no claim to any land as 'holy' as they stole everything.

islham is shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

23 "9 I'm really disappointed there isn't video of the cadets beating and stabbing this filthy animal to death"

I'm sure that it will be shown in court at their trial.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (MIIRH)

24 Is it asking too much for an Oscar winner to say Allahu Ackbar on stage during the ceremony on Sunday?

And for Hollywood to applaud him?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (bZSny)

25 There is a non-zero probability that Dearborn will be placed under martial law before all this shakes out.

Pure fifth column.

I read years ago that many senior Hezbollah officials had had relatives immigrate to the United States, to establish a US presence for their facilities.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (n1OCj)

26 That I would love to see...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (VE6XX)

Note: so would Spanborger and the local Soros DA.

Better to imagine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (zZu0s)

27 Seems to me that the cowardly little shit could have easily jumped on a plane and flown back to fight for the glory of Islam and his family!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (2WIwB)

28 9 I'm really disappointed there isn't video of the cadets beating and stabbing this filthy animal to death
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

The cadets were too busy stomping to pull out their phones?

Posted by: davidt at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (Q+gd/)

29 asking too much for an Oscar winner to say Allahu Ackbar on stage during the ceremony on Sunday?

And for Hollywood to applaud him?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Sean Penn is nominated.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

30 So if a Black man kills a White man or family, then other White family members are excused if they attack and kill other Blacks?
Dear God, these people are insane!

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (MNCvZ)

This is vigilantism. They are pushing for it. They just won't like it when applied to their tribe's detriment. In fact, they always precondemn any possibility of such, no matter how remote the chance.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (dK+Kv)

31 "their facilities"

-er, "their families". Damn autocorrect.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (n1OCj)

32 I'm shocked they haven't taken the "survivor's guilt" route as he should've been back home with his brothers fighting for Hezbollah, but since he wasn't, he must blow up America.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

33 Kelly has lost her marbles and this guy Grim seems to be a douchebag. Do they think a muzzie takeover would spare them?;

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YsPj+)

34 27 Seems to me that the cowardly little shit could have easily jumped on a plane and flown back to fight for the glory of Islam and his family!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (2WIwB)

======

But Chabads run the world, and they are everywhere.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (bZSny)

35 29 asking too much for an Oscar winner to say Allahu Ackbar on stage during the ceremony on Sunday?

And for Hollywood to applaud him?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Sean Penn is nominated.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

=======

It's my understanding he's a frontrunner for Best Supporting Actor.

So he could do it!

I was kind of expecting like Best Documentary Short of something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (bZSny)

36 May all his virgins always painfully use their teeth....

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (Sco7b)

37 My dogs were put to sleep by a Vet, so by the Kelly Rule I am allowed to take random revenge on all vets.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (UdbGC)

38 33 Kelly has lost her marbles and this guy Grim seems to be a douchebag. Do they think a muzzie takeover would spare them?;

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YsPj+)

=======

Her income is derived from third world clicks at this point.

She's just playing to her audience.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (bZSny)

39 Is it asking too much for an Oscar winner to say Allahu Ackbar on stage during the ceremony on Sunday?

And for Hollywood to applaud him?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (bZSny)
_______

Odds there will be some shitfaggot on stage doing the "pointing finger" ISIS thing? 50% 75%? 99% 100%?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

40 This guy was allowed to immigrate to the United States because he married someone in the US.

I want to see the details of who he married.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (n1OCj)

41 asking too much for an Oscar winner to say Allahu Ackbar on stage during the ceremony on Sunday?

And for Hollywood to applaud him?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Sean Penn is nominated.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

***

Nice HOLLYWOOD

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 02:53 PM (2WIwB)

42 2 STOP.
MAKING.
EXCUSES.
FOR.
ISLAM.
Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (3wOGw)

SMEFI. Not the most wieldy of acronyms but I've seen worse.

Posted by: IYKWIMAITTYD at March 13, 2026 02:53 PM (TbWk/)

43 39 Odds there will be some shitfaggot on stage doing the "pointing finger" ISIS thing? 50% 75%? 99% 100%?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

=======

99%.

Voting ended March 5, most voting was weeks ahead of time.

Protest votes would probably have been more directed towards Hispanics rather than Muslims.

Still, woke idiots abound.

So, only 99%. Not 100%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:53 PM (bZSny)

44 Odd how the left can always, always find an excuse for attacks on people they don't like.

And to be clear a jihadi in America going after American Jews for something Israel did is even worse then Ace's example.

This would be like a white guy from America moving to Kenya...and killing a bunch of the locals because the police in *Nigeria* killed one of his relatives.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (sKqQm)

45 damn it.

asking too much for an Oscar winner to say Allahu Ackbar on stage during the ceremony on Sunday?

And for Hollywood to applaud him?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Sean Penn is nominated.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

Nice HOLLYWOOD sign ya got there California. Be a pity if something happened to it.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (2WIwB)

46 Islam is at war with the whole world. They tell us this over and over. Some people just refuse to believe.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (n5tGW)

47 islham claims they're retaliating for being attacked.
-
Islam attacked us on 9/11 (among other occasions), therefore by their logic, we are justified in exterminating islam from the face of the earth, right?

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (vSvIl)

48 The left:
Killing muslim terrorists only breeds more muslim terrorist.

Also the left:
We must prevent any backlash against muslims for muslim terrorism.

Neat, eh? The muslim retaliation is excused, while your justified retaliation is denied.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (HXT0k)

49 Sean Penn is nominated.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YZ0Fo)
============
Sean Penn was in a movie?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (UdbGC)

50 I read the content.

Breitbart warned everyone about reading the content back before Ace put a hit out on him for saying that.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (2ocoG)

51 Yet another reminder to go about your errands armed.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (+Evw/)

52 36 May all his virgins always painfully use their teeth....
Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (Sco7b)

Oof.

And goats have incredibly hard teeth, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (Ot/FD)

53 Following "Me Again" Kelly's logic, then we should be able to make the entire Middle East a Walmart parking lot for what the muzzies did to us on 9/11.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (N39Ws)

54 My dogs were put to sleep by a Vet, so by the Kelly Rule I am allowed to take random revenge on all vets.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (UdbGC)

Newspeople have painted targets on my people's backs and have animated loons to perpetrate violence upon them.

Take the next logical leap.

What a bunch of retards.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (dK+Kv)

55 I am betting ALL of these people are being bottled.

Muslim donors and Intel agencies are using the bots to astroturf their viewership and ad revenue

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (erF49)

56 Megyn and Tucker have lost their fucking minds.

How the hell does that happen???

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Just Don't Get It. at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (dmDsy)

57 This guy was allowed to immigrate to the United States because he married someone in the US.

I want to see the details of who he married.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 13, 2026 02:52 PM (n1OCj)
______

99% it was a sham marriage. It was so easy to arrange that kind of sham marriage a while back that there was literally a known going rate: $20,000. The feds just rubber-stamped the marriage and handed out a greencard.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

58 Nicolas Maduro should record a video greeting to the Oscars audience, his biggest supporters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (UdbGC)

59 Wanna chinaman pulling me in a rickshaw while I do drive by shootings with a Villar Perosa.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (Kt19C)

60 Oh Boy am I justified 8n doing all sorts of evil shit.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (Li9FJ)

61 I bet 80% of "engagement" for the likes of Kelly and cucker, comes from 3rd world. Musk did us some good, but X is a mess. There is no pure free speech, just like there is no pure free market capitalism. Someone somewhere is a crony and is messing it up.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (GD0B3)

62 52
And goats have incredibly hard teeth, too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (Ot/FD)

And horny.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (N39Ws)

63 What about parents whose children were murdered by tranny mass shooters? They get to go blasting away at LGBTQPDFILE parades?

Posted by: Put the Jimmy Choo on the other foot at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (TbWk/)

64 >There is a non-zero probability that Dearborn will be placed under martial law before all this shakes out.

Dearborn is a candidate for the Wilson Goode solution.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (rJ48h)

65 Have Hamas and Hezbollah ever considered NOT hiding behind innocent civilians?

Posted by: pookysgirl, thinking deep thoughts at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (Wt5PA)

66 So . Abortion docs and Planned Parenthood centers are back on the menu?

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (erF49)

67 It's almost like word has gone out to soft-peddle these acts as antisemitism instead of the harsher, more-accurate description being Islamic terrorism.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (Y1sOo)

68
61 I bet 80% of "engagement" for the likes of Kelly and cucker, comes from 3rd world. Musk did us some good, but X is a mess. There is no pure free speech, just like there is no pure free market capitalism. Someone somewhere is a crony and is messing it up.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (GD0B3)

=====

Solid chances of bot engagement, especially on the other platforms like Instagram.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (bZSny)

69 My dogs were put to sleep by a Vet, so by the Kelly Rule I am allowed to take random revenge on all vets.

Speaking of vets early on during COVID a "doctor" called a bunch of the news outlets to report their ERs were full of dying young people.

And they made this call to a bunch of outlets claiming to be a DR at one of the local hospitals in each area they called.

Someone found the person and she was a veterinarian somewhere in the midwest

That fact never made it to the FNM of course...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

70 Megyn and Tucker have lost their fucking minds.
How the hell does that happen???
Posted by: Denny Crane

Money, gamesmanship, personality disorders... Take yer pick.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (diia5)

71 Hezbollahophobia is not a pretty thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (ndZc7)

72 And goats have incredibly hard teeth, too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (Ot/FD)

And horny.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (N39Ws)

And sexy.

Posted by: Muhammad Muhammad at March 13, 2026 02:58 PM (dK+Kv)

73 33 Kelly has lost her marbles and this guy Grim seems to be a douchebag. Do they think a muzzie takeover would spare them?;
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Follow the money. On X, there is an entire ecosystem of nasty critters being exposed from top to bottom that espouse hatred for Israel, hatred of Jews, and those at the top being represented and aggregated by agents who sell those accounts' voice to creeps across the globe. Then you have the comment mills, robo comments, and Muzzies adding to the amplification of anti US and Israel and pro Muzzie shit.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 02:58 PM (E4rtv)

74 Money, gamesmanship, personality disorders... Take yer pick.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (diia5)

D: All of The Above

Posted by: Warai-otoko just spent the entire week doing OSHA training... at March 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Ot/FD)

75 53 Following "Me Again" Kelly's logic, then we should be able to make the entire Middle East a Walmart parking lot for what the muzzies did to us on 9/11.

Screw that, I'm still mad at them for enslaving so many Caucasians over the last millennium. Blood for blood, a***oles!

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Riz8t)

76 Sean Penn was in a movie?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (UdbGC)

I thought he drown in New Orleans after Katrina.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

77 Megyn and Tucker have lost their fucking minds.

How the hell does that happen???
Posted by: Denny Crane - I Just Don't Get It. at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (dmDsy)

It was all an act. They pretended for a tv audience and a paycheck.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 02:59 PM (gKDq2)

78 The endless progressive-Islamic apologetics from idiots behind locked doors. But run Rachel Corrie was over with a bulldozer? and all hell breaks loose.

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (6iKlf)

79 Sean Penn was in a movie?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (UdbGC)

I thought he drown in New Orleans after Katrina.

To this day, he carries a red Solo cup whenever he leaves the house.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (Riz8t)

80 Not trying to be a dick but when Megyn Kelly says these things why is there never a clip of her saying these things?

Posted by: Delurker at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (gtcuf)

81 65 Have Hamas and Hezbollah ever considered NOT hiding behind innocent civilians?
Posted by: pookysgirl, thinking deep thoughts at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (Wt5PA)

No. Because dead kids make for good propaganda. And if they don't have any dead kids handy they'll have a few lie real still in some rubble just long enough for the AP stringer to snap photos.

Posted by: Green Helmet Guy approved at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (TbWk/)

82 I bet a million dollars his 'family' wasn't killed in any attacks.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (cntUY)

83 Someone needs to explain why he was here, having left the family that he allegedly loved to much, in a war zone on the other side of the world for... how long? Do we know know how long he'd been here without trying to bring them here?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 13, 2026 03:01 PM (a+4eV)

84 Wait a second. So, "BACKLASH" is a rational behavior?

Posted by: Orson at March 13, 2026 03:01 PM (dIske)

85 She now got ben Shapiro under her skin, because he keeps successfully punking and ridiculing her and her patron Cucker, so now she is making fun of his height; she is an intellectual giant.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 03:02 PM (GD0B3)

86 77 Megyn and Tucker have lost their fucking minds.

How the hell does that happen???
Posted by: Denny Crane - I Just Don't Get It. at March 13, 2026 02:55 PM (dmDsy)

It was all an act. They pretended for a tv audience and a paycheck.
Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 02:59 PM (gKDq2)

You are probably right, and that just makes me hate them even more.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Fool Me Once, Fine. Fool Me Twice, Fuck You. at March 13, 2026 03:02 PM (dmDsy)

87 islham is shit.
Posted by: Sponge

Phuck Islam and their little "god" made of mud and straw.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 03:02 PM (7Cdr7)

88 FoxNews...

Mohamed Jallon

FBI: Probing VA shooting as am act of terrorism.

Surely, no-one named Moxxxxxxxxxx is capabke of evil..

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 03:03 PM (Sco7b)

89 My dogs were put to sleep by a Vet, so by the Kelly Rule I am allowed to take random revenge on all vets.

Speaking of vets early on during COVID a "doctor" called a bunch of the news outlets to report their ERs were full of dying young people.

And they made this call to a bunch of outlets claiming to be a DR at one of the local hospitals in each area they called.

Someone found the person and she was a veterinarian somewhere in the midwest

That fact never made it to the FNM of course...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (sKqQm)
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That cocksucker AllahPundit was at HotAir during Covid, and I was a commenter there before I came here. He posted a "news" report at least once a day about how the hospitals in NYC were so overflowing with covid patients and dead bodies they were sprawled out onto the street.

I thought that sounded like thick steaming bullshit, so I took a drive to the hospitals supposedly overrun. Guess what? Not only were they not overrun, they were practically empty. I reported this in the comments at HotAir. Did it stop AP from posting his dumb fake shit? No, it did not.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

90 82 I bet a million dollars his 'family' wasn't killed in any attacks.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (cntUY)

Muslims call all other Muslim Men "Brother", but they're probably still related, because Muslims are also mostly inbred.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 03:03 PM (wa/yD)

91 Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 02:56 PM (GD0B3)

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Solid chances of bot engagement, especially on the other platforms like Instagram.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Coming out that many of these influencer accounts are basically brokered and combined into packages by talent agencies that sell their bylines like fake journalists for grubby money.

That is apart from the comment mills in shitty parts of the world like Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. etc. and the robo commenters. And it is on every open major discussion forum, Disqus, Breitbart, Zerohedge, etc.

The only way to stop it is paid registration model which makes it uneconomical to apply en masse.

Some movements trying to get X to only allow those with verified and paid accounts to do a lot of things and allow the freebie accounts very little other than consume what it out there. Think the free tier may not be able to report posts is coming due to massive organized blocks by certain ethnic groups.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:03 PM (E4rtv)

92 89 I thought that sounded like thick steaming bullshit, so I took a drive to the hospitals supposedly overrun. Guess what? Not only were they not overrun, they were practically empty. I reported this in the comments at HotAir. Did it stop AP from posting his dumb fake shit? No, it did not.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

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I suspect Allahpundit had his own share of fans who would shout at you about it, as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:04 PM (bZSny)

93 5 I need to stop doing that.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM

Do you feel content reading the content?

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at March 13, 2026 03:04 PM (WsJuq)

94 80 Not trying to be a dick but when Megyn Kelly says these things why is there never a clip of her saying these things?
Posted by: Delurker at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (gtcuf)

Ya know, kind of a good question...

Anyone got any links?

Posted by: Denny Crane - Sausages Do NOT Count. at March 13, 2026 03:04 PM (dmDsy)

95 87 Phuck Islam and their little "god" made of mud and straw.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 03:02 PM (7Cdr7)

Isn't it a black rock from the moon?

That's what they're keeping in the Ka'aba and worshipping as Allah, just a piece of space debris.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 03:04 PM (wa/yD)

96 We're getting a taste of what's coming if we don't start sending the goat fuckers home. It will get worse. And if/when the left gets a taste of this too, it will be too late.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 03:05 PM (jtM2q)

97 I thought he drown in New Orleans after Katrina.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

Silly goose, only black people died during Katrina.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:05 PM (Y1sOo)

98 Solid chances of bot engagement, especially on the other platforms like Instagram.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (bZSny)

you think ??

"BREAKING: A new analysis by @JewishOnliner finds that much of the supposed “American backlash” to Operation Epic Fury on X is actually being driven by foreign accounts.

7 of the 10 accounts generating the most interactions about “Iran” were based outside the U.S., and every one of them was negative toward the operation. Among the 100 most viral posts, 60 came from foreign accounts and generated over 155M views—far more than U.S.-based posts.

Of those 100 viral posts, 90 were hostile to Epic Fury, while every pro-operation post came from an American account. In other words, much of the “consensus” online is being shaped by foreign amplification."

they are trying hard

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 03:05 PM (GD0B3)

99 85 She now got ben Shapiro under her skin, because he keeps successfully punking and ridiculing her and her patron Cucker, so now she is making fun of his height; she is an intellectual giant.
Posted by: runner
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Haven't been a fan of Shapiro in the past but he is owning Me Again and making her look the unprincipled pos that she is.

Guy has debate chops.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:05 PM (E4rtv)

100 That cocksucker AllahPundit was at HotAir during Covid, and I was a commenter there before I came here. He posted a "news" report at least once a day about how the hospitals in NYC were so overflowing with covid patients and dead bodies they were sprawled out onto the street.

I thought that sounded like thick steaming bullshit, so I took a drive to the hospitals supposedly overrun. Guess what? Not only were they not overrun, they were practically empty. I reported this in the comments at HotAir. Did it stop AP from posting his dumb fake shit? No, it did not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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I was saying early on, if Covid was as deadly as the media was saying, the streets would be overun with the stench of dead bodies from the homeless.

Prisons would just be wiped out of inmates.

None of these things happened.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (eIzlH)

101 Silly goose, only black people died during Katrina.
Posted by: one hour sober

And then the cannibalism started.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (YZ0Fo)

102 China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, etc. love them some Cucker

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (GD0B3)

103 Children from Temple Israel were sheltered and cared for by the staff at the Chaldean-owned country club across the street. They thought of it as caring for their neighbors.

The Chaldeans came to the US because of Muslim persecution. Under Me-Again's rules, they and their Jewish neighbors are justified in blowing up mosques, right?

Posted by: Outlasting the Statute of Limitations at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (fxCK2)

104 3, 2, 1...

Posted by: Abby Shapiro at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (Q+gd/)

105 Welp, I guess it's about time this all came to a head

Posted by: kactus at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (twS2i)

106 lol.

Ace's love-affair with Megyn Kelly has come to an end.

I remember when he used to fan-girl her every day like an obese perv buying Belle Delphine's bath water.

Posted by: Par for the Discourse at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (e2Inl)

107 I thought that sounded like thick steaming bullshit, so I took a drive to the hospitals supposedly overrun. Guess what? Not only were they not overrun, they were practically empty. I reported this in the comments at HotAir. Did it stop AP from posting his dumb fake shit? No, it did not.

For the record every time I had to rush to the ER for an anal fissure at 4 AM on a Saturday the ER was full of people.

Why yes the hospital was just down the street from my favorite gay bar why do you ask?

Posted by: AllahPundit at March 13, 2026 03:07 PM (sKqQm)

108 Haven't been a fan of Shapiro in the past but he is owning Me Again and making her look the unprincipled pos that she is.

Guy has debate chops.
Posted by: whig

Did you know that his sister has enormous breasts?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

109 Me-Again Kelly has lost a lot of weight and her man-chin is horribly unattractive.

Don't they have procedures to shave away the bone? I'm sure there's a tranny cosmetic surgeon out there somewhere who can help her with this.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 03:07 PM (M9gjJ)

110 @108, heh.

Posted by: Abby Shapiro at March 13, 2026 03:07 PM (Q+gd/)

111 I was saying early on, if Covid was as deadly as the media was saying, the streets would be overun with the stench of dead bodies from the homeless.

Prisons would just be wiped out of inmates.

None of these things happened.

There was significant deaths in nursing homes though, especially in blue states where the governors forced them to take COVID patients...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

112 Question - Who / how many would consider standing guard at a synagogue to help prevent other incidents?

How many synagogues would take up such an offer?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (N39Ws)

113 CPAC 2026 lineup, scooped by Jarvis -
tinyurl.com/5apn77ks

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (gKWVE)

114 I thought that sounded like thick steaming bullshit, so I took a drive to the hospitals supposedly overrun. Guess what? Not only were they not overrun, they were practically empty. I reported this in the comments at HotAir. Did it stop AP from posting his dumb fake shit? No, it did not.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

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I suspect Allahpundit had his own share of fans who would shout at you about it, as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:04 PM (bZSny)
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A few, but it was mostly his other co-bloggers that came to his defense. I forget the names, but they were NeverTrump backstabbers.

IIRC, at least one of these assholes lived in or near NYC. They could have taken an hour and did exactly what I did: go see for myself.

They were pimping stories of very dubious credibility without making any effort whatsoever to determine whether they were true or not.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (iFTx/)

115 On Wednesday, Hezbollah fired 200 rockets and at least 20 drones at northern Israel from their positions in Lebanon. They've been doing this shit for years. That's why Israel is firing back at Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The media knows this. It's not a secret. It's so common that homes in Israel have safe rooms because they live with constant threats of attacks. The media also know Iran funds Hezbollah. But rather than report the truth they find it better for their purposes to lie and blame Israel. Impossible to hate the media enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (viF8m)

116 There was significant deaths in nursing homes though, especially in blue states where the governors forced them to take COVID patients...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

Not to mention those who died of loneliness.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (N39Ws)

117 Did you know that his sister has enormous breasts?
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

you do know the woman all are referring to is not his sister, just someone with the same last name , right ?

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (GD0B3)

118 98 Of those 100 viral posts, 90 were hostile to Epic Fury, while every pro-operation post came from an American account. In other words, much of the “consensus” online is being shaped by foreign amplification."

they are trying hard

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 03:05 PM (GD0B3)

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Iran, Russia, and China all have known cyber apparati that are directed mostly at us.

All three really want the US to splinter internally and to fail in Iran specifically.

It's one of the reasons I wonder at the actual influence of someone like Tucker.

Again, he outright endorsed a guy in a TX House primary a few weeks back. I mean, it's a House primary. Shouldn't be that hard to drive a significant number of supporters to play spoiler, at the very least, if he's that influential.

The guy came in 6th. Not a distant 2nd. 6th.

I think the line of attack against these people is that they're not actually influential in America. That they can get third worlders riled up about the Joos, but nothing else, that they are non-factors in American politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:09 PM (bZSny)

119 I suspect Allahpundit had his own share of fans who would shout at you about it, as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:04 PM (bZSny)

For way over 10 years I've wondered why people weren't curious about the name "Allahpundit"...

Ah, fuck, it's probably because I am a typical American Bigot... so fucking sue me!

I dare you!

Posted by: Denny Crane - You Don't Want To Be Suing Me. at March 13, 2026 03:09 PM (dmDsy)

120 The Free Press
@TheFP
Republican lawmakers face no penalty for bigoted remarks against Muslims, so don’t be surprised when the hate spreads to other groups, writes River Page.

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The bastards went around telling the truth. What did they think was going to happen?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:09 PM (ndZc7)

121 114
They were pimping stories of very dubious credibility without making any effort whatsoever to determine whether they were true or not.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (iFTx/)

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They did as much as 99% of contemporary American reporters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (bZSny)

122 be kinda funny if it comes to light in not too distant future that bag of antlers' "perfect" husband is having an affair..because how could he not ?

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (GD0B3)

123 17 So if a Black man kills a White man or family, then other White family members are excused if they attack and kill other Blacks?
Dear God, these people are insane

Had a cousin down the line do this exact thing. His dad was murdered by a black man. He went and killed a couple of random black people who had nothing to do with it. He's in the pen now

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (HcoTw)

124 7 of the 10 accounts generating the most interactions about “Iran” were based outside the U.S., and every one of them was negative toward the operation. Among the 100 most viral posts, 60 came from foreign accounts and generated over 155M views—far more than U.S.-based posts.

Of those 100 viral posts, 90 were hostile to Epic Fury, while every pro-operation post came from an American account. In other words, much of the “consensus” online is being shaped by foreign amplification."

they are trying hard
Posted by: runner

Saw that today. Can verify anecdotally as many of the more minor X verified accounts are flipping over the rocks for the driveby shit posters and showing them as liars from foreign lands. Goes for Euros and Canucks pretending to be Americans as well on issues other than Israel/Iran/US. Domestic policy stuff.

Lots of mobyist, some that are deranged groypers that keep shrieking as they take hit after hit by sane people, mASSIE acolytes who are going batshit crazy with stupid memes trying to explain how mASSIE is muh conservative and muh true MAGA maxxed at the same time putting pictures of mASSIE and Trump together working for conservatives.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (E4rtv)

125 I remember when he used to fan-girl her every day

Gee, I wonder which one had a radical change.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (n5tGW)

126 They were just carrying on the family business!

Posted by: steevy at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (YwEeS)

127 109 Don't they have procedures to shave away the bone? I'm sure there's a tranny cosmetic surgeon out there somewhere who can help her with this.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 03:07 PM (M9gjJ)

John Walker Flynt (aka "Brianna Wu") has had bone removed from his chin 4 times now.

He now looks more like a Grey Alien in a wig than anything resembling a woman.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (wa/yD)

128 I thought that sounded like thick steaming bullshit, so I took a drive to the hospitals supposedly overrun. Guess what? Not only were they not overrun, they were practically empty. I reported this in the comments at HotAir. Did it stop AP from posting his dumb fake shit? No, it did not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Even if true, a morgoue only holds so many.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (Li9FJ)

129 118 For way over 10 years I've wondered why people weren't curious about the name "Allahpundit"...

Ah, fuck, it's probably because I am a typical American Bigot... so fucking sue me!

I dare you!

Posted by: Denny Crane - You Don't Want To Be Suing Me. at March 13, 2026 03:09 PM (dmDsy)

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If I remember correctly, Allahpundit was a New York liberal who went neo-conservative after 9/11 and took on Allahpundit as his moniker in order to insult Muslims.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (bZSny)

130 or way over 10 years I've wondered why people weren't curious about the name "Allahpundit"...
Posted by: Denny Crane

He's actually an atheist.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (77rzZ)

131 Do you feel content reading the content?

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at March 13, 2026 03:04 PM (WsJuq)

I feel like a rube when I get through it and see a big fat first waiting unclaimed.

Posted by: Muhammad Muhammad at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (dK+Kv)

132 The bastards went around telling the truth. What did they think was going to happen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Don't ever answer the question "does this make me look fat?"

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (YZ0Fo)

133 Bottom line is who gives a fuck about these pundits. Their opinion means less than nothing to me. Only time I find pundits useful is when they supply verified facts which I can evaluate the importance on my own.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (cntUY)

134 Remember Obama giving the "shihada," the Muslim one-finger salute, in front of his fellow Muslims at the African leadership conference in 2015?

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 13, 2026 03:12 PM (X+xvk)

135 They were pimping stories of very dubious credibility without making any effort whatsoever to determine whether they were true or not.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:08 PM (iFTx/)

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They did as much as 99% of contemporary American reporters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:10 PM (bZSny)
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Yea. And not only did they not do it themselves, they refused to stop pimping this bullshit even after I went and saw for myself. I took fucking pictures, too. They weren't gonna stop pimping these lies no matter what, because Trump.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

136
Back in the day, I bought $50,000 worth of Cabbage Patch Kids with my dad's credit card, right before they went out of style.

He whipped me with his belt for being a stupid wastrel, but I figured I beat him for $50k, so I made it a lifestyle.

Posted by: Megyn at March 13, 2026 03:12 PM (BI5O2)

137 So the Michigan guy loses his brothers last week in an Israeli strike and this week he has 500lb of explosive at his disposal?

Dang, you can get anything off of Amazon in two days.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2026 03:12 PM (i0Hi3)

138 133 Bottom line is who gives a fuck about these pundits. Their opinion means less than nothing to me. Only time I find pundits useful is when they supply verified facts which I can evaluate the importance on my own.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (cntUY)

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If they lead people to beliefs and behaviors, they are worthy of concern.

They seem influential considering their sizable online presences and audiences.

But, it's unclear if they have real world influence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:12 PM (bZSny)

139 Ace's love-affair with Megyn Kelly has come to an end.

I remember when he used to fan-girl her every day like an obese perv buying Belle Delphine's bath water.
Posted by: Par for the Discourse at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (e2Inl)

Wow, well, that "obese perv" comment sounds a bit bitter and personal... maybe ease off the gas there, garrett!

Posted by: Denny Crane - That's Libel, I Will Defend You Ace, Just Pay My Retainer. at March 13, 2026 03:13 PM (dmDsy)

140 i am boring

Posted by: Par for the Discourse at March 13, 2026 03:13 PM (e2Inl)

141 They were pimping stories of very dubious credibility without making any effort whatsoever to determine whether they were true or not./i]

When Haitians eating the wildlife was in the news in OH, Vance was interviewed by a media bimbo.

The bimbo asked that since the local authorities had denied the story was true why was Vance repeating a lie?

He responded that there were sworn statements by citizens saying they had scene it and photos and the bimbo just repeated her statement.

So Vance looked at her and said, "As a reporter it is your job to GO to the story. Talk with the people there. And as best you can present all the evidence you find fairly, not just repeat what some local town official told you over the phone"

And her response? The local authorities had denied the story was true so why are you repeating a lie?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

142
Given the elastic nature of truth among Arabs. Islam, and the political left, I'm not going to accept the story of the "adorable children killed by Israeli bombs" based on an assertion and a couple of photographs.

It wouldn't justify murdering Jews anyway. Israel goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties, Islamic Jew-killing organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah use civilians as shields.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 03:14 PM (VWtfl)

143 I think the line of attack against these people is that they're not actually influential in America. That they can get third worlders riled up about the Joos, but nothing else, that they are non-factors in American politics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:09 PM (bZSny)

they can get young and impressionable who were not taught in schools to think critically riled up, which is what is happening - too much time online, addictive algos

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 03:14 PM (GD0B3)

144 123 17 So if a Black man kills a White man or family, then other White family members are excused if they attack and kill other Blacks?
Dear God, these people are insane

Had a cousin down the line do this exact thing. His dad was murdered by a black man. He went and killed a couple of random black people who had nothing to do with it. He's in the pen now

I just googled it. It was in 2012. Tulsa

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:14 PM (HcoTw)

145 134 Remember Obama giving the "shihada," the Muslim one-finger salute, in front of his fellow Muslims at the African leadership conference in 2015?

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 13, 2026 03:12 PM (X+xvk)

That's not what the Shahada is.

The Shahada is a phrase someone has to say in Arabic when they convert to Pisslam.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 03:14 PM (wa/yD)

146 Ace's love-affair with Megyn Kelly has come to an end.

I hear he is going to write up his memoirs in a book. "Fur and Bones: A story of passion, the force, and what a bag of antlers actually feels like"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

147 Sick of whiny bitch goatfucker assholes.

You wanna conquer the world? Conquer the fucking world. Quit bitching and pissing and moaning when your gutless murders of women and children bring retribution back upon you. Fucking vermin.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (Ot/FD)

148 >>Me-Again Kelly has lost a lot of weight

Side note: has anyone seen the most recent picture of Demi Moore?

Awful.

Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (Y1sOo)

149 I think the line of attack against these people is that they're not actually influential in America. That they can get third worlders riled up about the Joos, but nothing else, that they are non-factors in American politics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes and no. Clear evidence that anti Jew and anti Israeli sentiment is being planted by repetition in young folks across the West.

And it is having an effect. This is representative and before the Iran attack. Yale Poll of a split young and old Americans and about 3k total respondents.

https://tinyurl.com/Yale-Poll-Dec-2025

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (E4rtv)

150 137 So the Michigan guy loses his brothers last week in an Israeli strike and this week he has 500lb of explosive at his disposal?

Dang, you can get anything off of Amazon in two days.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2026 03:12 PM (i0Hi3)

Not an expert in muslim theology, but wouldn't his brothers be considered martyrs? And that would be reason to rejoice because of their heralded reward of 72 virgins?

So why all the explosives and desire for revenge?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (N39Ws)

151 148 >>Me-Again Kelly has lost a lot of weight

Side note: has anyone seen the most recent picture of Demi Moore?

Awful.

Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?
Posted by: one hour sober
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Trend following.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

152 Had a cousin down the line do this exact thing. His dad was murdered by a black man. He went and killed a couple of random black people who had nothing to do with it. He's in the pen now

This is how pre-modern justice generally worked.

A member of another tribe killed someone close to you? Then you go kill members of their tribe. And then of course they were obligated to go after you for killing people close to them and so on.

This generally did not end well...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

153 I thought that sounded like thick steaming bullshit, so I took a drive to the hospitals supposedly overrun. Guess what? Not only were they not overrun, they were practically empty. I reported this in the comments at HotAir. Did it stop AP from posting his dumb fake shit? No, it did not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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I was saying early on, if Covid was as deadly as the media was saying, the streets would be overun with the stench of dead bodies from the homeless.

Prisons would just be wiped out of inmates.

None of these things happened.
Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 03:06 PM (eIzlH)
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Yea. I knew this was total bullshit as soon as the reports of the cruise ship and the Navy ship with the idiotic captain. If Covid was as deadly as they said, everyone on these ships would be dead. But they weren't, not even close, it was barely more than the flu.

I figured the cruise ship had slightly elevated infection rates, because it's more older people, and the Navy ship had lower rates, because it's mostly younger or at least physically fit people.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

154 Demi must have thinned up for the part in Landman is my guess.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (n5tGW)

155 If I remember correctly, Allahpundit was a New York liberal who went neo-conservative after 9/11 and took on Allahpundit as his moniker in order to insult Muslims.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (bZSny)

Well, alright then, you seem to have a better grasp of the history than I do.

My point is still valid.

I'm Denny Crane.

Posted by: Denny Crane - And Don't You Forget It! at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (dmDsy)

156 Islam is not compatible with Western Values.

We've built something beautiful, and we are giving it to third-world savages.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (aZm/F)

157
Awful.

Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?
Posted by: one hour sober
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Trend following.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

Its always the male gaze.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (i0Hi3)

158 155 If I remember correctly, Allahpundit was a New York liberal who went neo-conservative after 9/11 and took on Allahpundit as his moniker in order to insult Muslims.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (bZSny)

Well, alright then, you seem to have a better grasp of the history than I do.

My point is still valid.

I'm Denny Crane.

Posted by: Denny Crane - And Don't You Forget It! at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (dmDsy)

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It's something I think I heard once, and it's just stuck in my brain. Haven't thought about it in years.

Could be wrong, though.

I'm often wrong, though I'm rarely in doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (bZSny)

159 A member of another tribe killed someone close to you? Then you go kill members of their tribe. And then of course they were obligated to go after you for killing people close to them and so on.

This generally did not end well.

He is an Indian.... so

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (HcoTw)

160 Why didn’t mohamad say ‘Each time you see a dog purge his bowels in the path you must move it from the path.’ Now that would be cool.

Posted by: Eromero at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (rR03l)

161 Dear Sec. Rubio,

Please say "See, this is how we lost Vietnam", when asked a traitorous question by a media simp.
Thanks

Or when referencing Sen. Chris Murphy.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (cS1cw)

162 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (Ia/+0)

163 The leading cause of antisemitic violence continues to be the state of Israel. The nutjobs in tel aviv must be exctatics. Exactly what they hoped for.

I'm sure The New York Crimes and BBC will cover this side of the story. /s PBS Newsnight had this horrible former state department Zionist ghoul outright blaming “Radical Islam” on the attack. Outright lies like it’s 2003. All speculation about the perpetrator, no facts. Unbelievably irresponsible “journalism”

This direct blowback from this war that ISRAEL & THE US started for zero reason. And it is directly attributed to Israel's purposeful conflation of Judism & Zionism. There is no greater fuel for antisemitism than Israel's proclivity for murdering thousands of people. They are actively making the entire globe dangerous for all people.

We will probably be long dead and gone and terror attacks that are downstream from the past year will still be happening.

The Iranian sleeper cells are going to assemble flying lawn mowers from within the USA. The alphabet boys and girls will be watching them the entire time and goading them on.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (ycI94)

164 Side note: has anyone seen the most recent picture of Demi Moore?

Awful.

Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?
Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (Y1sOo)

Oh, I hate you for bringing her up- because she was SO hot when I banged her in my private bathroom.

Posted by: Denny Crane - Thanks For Ruining a Great Memory. at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (dmDsy)

165 67 It's almost like word has gone out to soft-peddle these acts as antisemitism instead of the harsher, more-accurate description being Islamic terrorism.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (Y1sOo)

Yes, and then pivot to "far-right" anti-semites like Democrat podcaster Nick Fuentes. Shh, don't ask for it to make sense...

Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 03:19 PM (Sy6m/)

166 133 Bottom line is who gives a fuck about these pundits. Their opinion means less than nothing to me. Only time I find pundits useful is when they supply verified facts which I can evaluate the importance on my own.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:11 PM (cntUY)

Funny thing? I'd never hear about ANY of their 'opinions' unless I see them here.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 03:19 PM (mP0Kj)

167 Its always the male gaze.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (i0Hi3)

A burqa will stop that.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 03:19 PM (gKDq2)

168 163 This direct blowback from this war that ISRAEL & THE US started for zero reason. And it is directly attributed to Israel's purposeful conflation of Judism & Zionism. There is no greater fuel for antisemitism than Israel's proclivity for murdering thousands of people. They are actively making the entire globe dangerous for all people.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (ycI94)

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Zero reason, huh?

So, if I provide one reason like, say, the murder of hundreds of Marines in Beirut?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:19 PM (bZSny)

169 That's not what the Shahada is.

The Shahada is a phrase someone has to say in Arabic when they convert to Pisslam.
Posted by: XTC

I stand corrected.

So, do you remember Obama giving the one-finger Muslim salute at the African leadership conference in 2015? Because the Muslim leaders in attendance sure seemed to recognize that gesture. It looks remarkably similar to the gestures given by our recent terrorist attackers here in America.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 13, 2026 03:19 PM (X+xvk)

170 167 Its always the male gaze.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (i0Hi3)

A burqa will stop that.

Those ankles tho

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:20 PM (HcoTw)

171 Does this flow both ways? Do native Americans get to blow up mosques? No of course not. You'd go to jail for even dropping a piece of ham out of a sandwich withing 3 miles of a muzzie satan temple.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 13, 2026 03:20 PM (xvV+O)

172 Islam attacked us on 9/11 (among other occasions), therefore by their logic, we are justified in exterminating islam from the face of the earth, right?

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (vSvIl)

I always thought so.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 03:20 PM (snZF9)

173 Its always the male gaze.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

That is what some of them blame but in reality, it is all about hypergamy and not being left behind for far too many women. Guys have their own dysfunctions like too many dudes trying to screw everything that moves.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:20 PM (E4rtv)

174 Me-Again Kelly has lost a lot of weight

Side note: has anyone seen the most recent picture of Demi Moore?

Awful.

Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?
Posted by: one hour sober
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Trend following.
Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)
_______

Yea, plus the trend gets applauded in their circles. Look up any media reporting on Demi Moore -- or any of them -- and it'll be fawning how great they look.

Oddly, DM made a movie recently -- The Substance -- about just how desperate and narcissitic aging celebrities can be.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

175 >>The Iranian sleeper cells are going to assemble flying lawn mowers from within the USA.

Who allowed Iranian sleeper cells into the US?

Why should Americans have to worry about what Iranian sleeper cells do in our own country?

Leftists are universally the dimmest bulbs on planet earth.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (viF8m)

176 Kelly is another Fox personality like Hannity or Carlson or whomever.

They're all retarded people the network keeps in a Crossfit kennel so they look right when they sit in the folding chair and the second-rate makeup girl blasts them with 1080p-grade sludge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (BI5O2)

177 It's pretty much a "hang tuff" moment. Cuba is releasing 51 political prisoners and there are high-level discussions going on between the US Administration and Cuba's leadership. Venezuela is cooperating. India and China seem to have worked out deals with Iran to move friendly oil tankers through the Gulf of Hormuz.

Russia's oil prices are going up despite sanctions. The longer the war lasts, Russia gets richer, so they'll do a lot of little things to help Iran stay in the fight until they figure it's time to steal away into the night.

Posted by: mrp at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (rj6Yv)

178 164 Side note: has anyone seen the most recent picture of Demi Moore?

Awful.

Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?
Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (Y1sOo)

Oh, I hate you for bringing her up- because she was SO hot when I banged her in my private bathroom.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Thanks For Ruining a Great Memory. at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (dmDsy)

I'd still hit it...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (mP0Kj)

179 This generally did not end well...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

After the Civil War during Reconstruction in east Texas, some ex-confederate asshole just went around shooting black people. His testimony on the stand was "to thin out Ns a little".
It's been said that the most fervent defenders of their race tend to be the worst exemplars thereof. Probably in the "Preacher" comic.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (gKWVE)

180 The Iranian sleeper cells are going to assemble flying lawn mowers from within the USA. The alphabet boys and girls will be watching them the entire time and goading them on.

The left: It is racist to assume Muslims are more likely to engage in terrorism

Also the left: Of course if you engage in a negative way with any majority Islamic country there will be terror attacks at home

Also, also the left: Any claim that our Nat Sec people might be aware of domestic terrorists and spinning them up to act out is insane

Also, Also, Also the left: Of course any Islamic terrorism in the US is actually the fault of our Nat Sec people

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

181 The Shahada is a phrase someone has to say in Arabic when they convert to Pisslam"

The Sha Na Nah is used to invoke fake 50s stuff...

Posted by: man at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (XuXeR)

182 172 Islam attacked us on 9/11 (among other occasions), therefore by their logic, we are justified in exterminating islam from the face of the earth, right?

Posted by: Methos at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (vSvIl)

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Have you not heard?

It's proven that Israel did 9/11 because in 1995 Bibi Netanyahu referenced the idea that someday Islamic radicals might attack the World Trade Center.

How else could he know that 9/11 would come?

It's not like Islamic terrorists attack the WTC in 1993 and swore to take down the twin towers when their attack failed to take the towers down, or anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (bZSny)

183 Through the Strait of Hormuz (sigh).

Posted by: mrp at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM (rj6Yv)

184 A member of another tribe killed someone close to you? Then you go kill members of their tribe. And then of course they were obligated to go after you for killing people close to them and so on.

-
Hatfields and McCoys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7)

185
If I remember correctly, Allahpundit was a New York liberal who went neo-conservative after 9/11 and took on Allahpundit as his moniker in order to insult Muslims.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

==

Very obvious to me he was like a Bill Kristol type that only pretended to be conservative to gain influence over the opposition.

Just seemed every post was something about how the Right needed to surrender.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM (eIzlH)

186 I did not recognize Demi in Landman.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM (+nEug)

187 I'm often wrong, though I'm rarely in doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (bZSny)

I can vouch for this.

Allahpundit is now at The Dispatch....I think.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM (n9ltV)

188 Posted by: Denny Crane - And Don't You Forget It! at March 13, 2026 03:16 PM (dmDsy)

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It's something I think I heard once, and it's just stuck in my brain. Haven't thought about it in years.

Could be wrong, though.

I'm often wrong, though I'm rarely in doubt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (bZSny)

I like that line. Reminds me of a line in a song from the band I had back before law school...

My singer wrote: "I know it cause I said it's true."

Great line

Posted by: Denny Crane - Yup, I Rock and Roll And Defend The Innocent. at March 13, 2026 03:23 PM (dmDsy)

189 Ozempic is messing up the takers systems. The weight does not stop being lost. Sharon and Kelly Osbourne for example.

Skinny twat Megan wanted to lose the last 3 pounds, and ozempic kept going.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 13, 2026 03:23 PM (cS1cw)

190 OrangeMan bad !!!!

Posted by: NPC_11111001, a subsidary of Infosh*t, minions of Big Penguin at March 13, 2026 03:23 PM (0sNs1)

191 Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?

Beauty becomes a curse when time rears its ugly head. The doors that it once opened begin to close and in futility they try to keep them propped open.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 13, 2026 03:23 PM (OO5c2)

192 Funny thing? I'd never hear about ANY of their 'opinions' unless I see them here.
Posted by: Romeo13
========
Go to Breitbart and their discussion boards, Disqus on Insty, Zerohedge for frothing and ignorant posts galore with few worth reading, and X. Similar effects on Youtube comments, Instagram, etc.

Probably half are fake, either bots or paid, but a lot of really disturbed people worldwide that it is foolish to think they don't exist. And those are the English language sites, Arabic, Chinese, etc. are far worse if you run a translator program on those comments.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:24 PM (E4rtv)

193 I did not recognize Demi in Landman."

Ali Larter, tho...

Posted by: man at March 13, 2026 03:24 PM (XuXeR)

194 Hatfields and McCoys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7)

But without moonshine!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:24 PM (n9ltV)

195 191 Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?

Beauty becomes a curse when time rears its ugly head. The doors that it once opened begin to close and in futility they try to keep them propped open.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 13, 2026 03:23 PM (OO5c2)

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And Demi Moore just stared in The Substance, a movie about an aging female actress who drives herself to insanity and grotesqueries in a vain attempt to retain her youth.

It's ironic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:24 PM (bZSny)

196 not recognize Demi in Landman."

Ali Larter, tho...
Posted by: man at March

And Michelle Randolph.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 03:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

197 And Demi Moore just stared in The Substance, a movie about an aging female actress who drives herself to insanity and grotesqueries in a vain attempt to retain her youth.

It's ironic.

It's like raiiiin on your wedding day

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:25 PM (HcoTw)

198 Mz Kelly needs to move to Dearbornistan or Somalia

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:25 PM (GX21I)

199 The doors that it once opened begin to close and in futility they try to keep them propped open."

/zombie Jim Morrison goes "woah..."

Posted by: man at March 13, 2026 03:25 PM (XuXeR)

200 197 It's like raiiiin on your wedding day

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:25 PM (HcoTw)

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Aren't like 75% of the lines in that song not irony?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:25 PM (bZSny)

201 I'm often wrong, though I'm rarely in doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (bZSny)

===

I can vouch for this.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM

You're vouching for TMJ often being wrong? This has implications.

Could The Horde's esteem for Prometheus be ... wrong?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 03:26 PM (0sNs1)

202 70 Megyn and Tucker have lost their fucking minds.
How the hell does that happen???
Posted by: Denny Crane

Money, gamesmanship, personality disorders... Take yer pick.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (diia5)

Chemical abuse, demonic oppression, Milo Yiannopolis, conforming to a false perception of consensus from an artificial echo chamber they can't perceive, getting comfortable with their audience and dropping their masks...

Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 03:26 PM (Sy6m/)

203 Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?
Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (Y1sOo)

Hi!

Posted by: Wayne Newton at March 13, 2026 03:26 PM (zZu0s)

204 195 191 Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?

Beauty becomes a curse when time rears its ugly head. The doors that it once opened begin to close and in futility they try to keep them propped open.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 13, 2026 03:23 PM (OO5c2)

What are you even talking about???

Posted by: Rene Zegwiller at March 13, 2026 03:26 PM (dmDsy)

205 "The Substance" was disturbing. Stylish and disturbing.

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 13, 2026 03:27 PM (cS1cw)

206 3 Muslim attacks in last couple weeks, its not going to stop.

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)

207 Duncanthrax, he's TJM. TMJ is like when Willie Brown has to kick Kamala out of his office

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:27 PM (gKWVE)

208 Side note: has anyone seen the most recent picture of Demi Moore?

Awful.

Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?
Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:15 PM (Y1sOo)

Oh, I hate you for bringing her up- because she was SO hot when I banged her in my private bathroom.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Thanks For Ruining a Great Memory. at March 13, 2026 03:18 PM (dmDsy)

I'd still hit it...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 03:21 PM (mP0Kj)
_______

I haven't seen any recent pics, but in the Substance the main character was supposed to be an over-the-hill celebrity who lost her looks and was desperate to do anything to regain her youth.

But the movie didn't have the balls to cast an actual old woman. They cast Demi Moore to prance around naked. She's no spring chicken, but she's still in excellent shape and I dare say most girls half her age wished they had her body.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

209 I'm really disappointed there isn't video of the cadets beating and stabbing this filthy animal to death
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

Wrong goat-fvkcing savage. The one that got stabbed by the ROTC cadets was in Virginia. This one got himself shot by security in Michigan.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 13, 2026 03:27 PM (ksbjf)

210 Cmon, we all would have been happy to have Megyn strap on and ride us for the best 30 seconds of her life back in the day.

WE were younger too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s)

211 Duncanthrax, he's TJM. TMJ is like when Willie Brown has to kick Kamala out of his office
Posted by: gKWVE

I miss JT calling him "James Monroe."

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

212 Kelly, Tucker, and Owen walk into a bar...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (GX21I)

213 What are you even talking about???
Posted by: Rene Zegwiller"

The Doors, man!
/zombie Aldous Huxley

Posted by: man at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (XuXeR)

214 That Ironic song is pretty morbid if you think about it.

Also there were 3 or 4 really hot chicks in Landman.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (n5tGW)

215 File under what a shame.

BREAKING: BuzzFeed reports loss of $57 million in 2025, has “substantial doubts” the business can survive.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

216 The Iranian sleeper cells are going to assemble flying lawn mowers from within the USA. The alphabet boys and girls will be watching them the entire time and goading them on.

-
Dude, should've stayed away from the brown acid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (ndZc7)

217 211 Duncanthrax, he's TJM. TMJ is like when Willie Brown has to kick Kamala out of his office
Posted by: gKWVE

I miss JT calling him "James Monroe."

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

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Whatever happened to him?

I hope it wasn't another...passing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (bZSny)

218 201 I'm often wrong, though I'm rarely in doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:17 PM (bZSny)

===

I can vouch for this.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM

You're vouching for TMJ often being wrong? This has implications.

Could The Horde's esteem for Prometheus be ... wrong?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 03:26 PM (0sNs1)

LOL

Posted by: Denny Crane - Family Fights are Fun! at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (dmDsy)

219 Afternoon, Horde.

Sitting in an airport bar. Entertain me!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (guc+i)

220 215 File under what a shame.

BREAKING: BuzzFeed reports loss of $57 million in 2025, has “substantial doubts” the business can survive.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

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They just need the right listicle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (bZSny)

221 Why do women -- it's mostly women, I think -- do this to themselves?

Beauty becomes a curse when time rears its ugly head. The doors that it once opened begin to close and in futility they try to keep them propped open.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 13, 2026 03:23 PM (OO5c2)

What are you even talking about???
Posted by: Rene Zegwiller at March 13, 2026 03:26 PM (dmDsy)

I don't know.

Posted by: Susanna Hoffs at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

222 I did not recognize Demi in Landman."

Ali Larter, tho...
Posted by: man

Didn't recognize Ali Larter. Did recognize those tits.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (NcUvK)

223 Sefton and I talked on our podcast about the reality that Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (n9ltV)

224 Kelly, Tucker, and Owen walk into a bar..."

You'd think one of them would've seen it...

Posted by: man at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (XuXeR)

225 The Substance?

I give you Death Becomes Her.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (GX21I)

226 Demi Moore:

https://tinyurl.com/2r4m2bnc

Honestly can't understand how any normal male would find that attractive.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (Y1sOo)

227 206 3 Muslim attacks in last couple weeks, its not going to stop.
Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 03:27 PM
‘There is iron in the words of Skip for all men to see.’
- Ten Bears

Posted by: Eromero at March 13, 2026 03:30 PM (rR03l)

228 Didn't recognize Ali Larter. Did recognize those tits.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (NcUvK)

The lawyer is cute too!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:30 PM (n9ltV)

229 Whatever happened to him?

I hope it wasn't another...passing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

He had some medical issue. He came back briefly for a single "Hiya" post, then disappeared again.

I hope he's still with us, too.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

230 229
He had some medical issue. He came back briefly for a single "Hiya" post, then disappeared again.

I hope he's still with us, too.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

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Hope you're recovering and doing well, JT!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (bZSny)

231 >>> Demi Moore:

https://tinyurl.com/2r4m2bnc

Honestly can't understand how any normal male would find that attractive.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (Y1sOo)

She's a house elf.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (3uBP9)

232 Sefton and I talked on our podcast about the reality that Islam is not compatible with ~~Western~~ civilization.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

FIFY.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (BnDlA)

233 226 Demi Moore:

https://tinyurl.com/2r4m2bnc

Honestly can't understand how any normal male would find that attractive

Yikes! Until next time skeletor

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (HcoTw)

234 What about Nicole Kidman?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (GX21I)

235 Bailed out of work early.

Snowstorm!

I got on the boat and all the guys were heckling a bunch of us passengers for blowing off work to play in the snow on the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (QDZBH)

236 how any normal male "

You talking about us?

Posted by: man at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM (XuXeR)

237 Kelly has lost her marbles and this guy Grim seems to be a douchebag. Do they think a muzzie takeover would spare them?;
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 02:51 PM (YsPj+)

It's come as a complete surprise to me, but there's apparently some big money to be made by "just asking questions" about the "Jewish problem."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM (ksbjf)

238 Alan Tudyk will be involved with whatever they're planning for bringing firefly back. Not sure how they'll do that. Magic?

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM (3uBP9)

239 234 What about Nicole Kidman?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (GX21I)

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Still surprisingly good looking.

Her plastic surgeon is top notch.

Recently single, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM (bZSny)

240 The lawyer is cute too!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Yes she is.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM (NcUvK)

241 Ariana Grande looks like hell. Poor girl. I liked her in 'Victorious.'

Okay, finally. I bought 'Terrifier 3' and am finally heading up to watch it.

Unfortunately, I watched that sub-human bitch Whitmer on Detroit tv earlier giving her press conference so the movie may be a let down after looking at that thing. And 1 and 2 were pretty brutal.

For the record, publicly Whitmer was against the attacks.

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM (Sco7b)

242 238 Alan Tudyk will be involved with whatever they're planning for bringing firefly back. Not sure how they'll do that. Magic?

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM (3uBP9)

======

"Somehow...Wash returned."
-Poe Dameron

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (bZSny)

243 With all the weight losss, now kind of a semi Demi Moore?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (skR0U)

244 Bailed out of work early.

Snowstorm!

I got on the boat and all the guys were heckling a bunch of us passengers for blowing off work to play in the snow on the beach.
Posted by: nurse ratched

March snow in Seattle? Bring your wet suit.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (BnDlA)

245 Vaxx linked to another condition at top of Insty.

Posted by: Susanna Hoffs at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (zZu0s)

246 226 Demi Moore:

https://tinyurl.com/2r4m2bnc

Honestly can't understand how any normal male would find that attractive.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (Y1sOo)

Holy shit, after seeing that, I assure you, I am NOT sober!!!!!

Posted by: Denny Crane - That Hideous Thing? Never Met Her. at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (dmDsy)

247 Demi Moore:

https://tinyurl.com/2r4m2bnc

Honestly can't understand how any normal male would find that attractive.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (Y1sOo)
______

My best guess? Ozempic. She probably used it to drop 10 pounds -- a big no-no -- and then couldn't kick the drug or stop the weight from coming off. That's a real risk.

There are two people in my fam-and-friends circle who were very overweight, and used Ozempic. It took the weight off. But once the target weight was reached, it was hard to get off the drug, and the weight kept coming off.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

248 Ariana Grande is now an uncanny valley silicone sex doll.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (GX21I)

249
Using the term "blowback" is intended to justify attacks on people who didn't commit the acts in question, in order to motivate the general population to turn on the government out of fear for their personal safety. In other words, the term is intended to justify terrorism.

If people are instead motivated to remove the actual source of the danger once and for all, it isn't terrorism, it's common sense.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (azNOR)

250 233 226 Demi Moore:

https://tinyurl.com/2r4m2bnc

Honestly can't understand how any normal male would find that attractive

Yikes! Until next time skeletor
Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:31 PM (HcoTw)

See her in Landman? The thing with photography, you can make almost any Woman better looking with the proper outfit, makeup, composition, and lighting...

You can also make someone look bad, or ridiculous, as the Lame Stream Media does by choosing Lame pictures of most Conservatives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (mP0Kj)

251 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (up9iW)

252
The Left -- and Me-Again Kelly -- Say That the Cultural Enricher Who Tried to Blow Up a Synagogue Filled with Jewish Children Was Justified Because "Family Members" Had Been Killed by Israel

Hey, Me-Again! I have relatives that were killed by rag headed shites. I'm mad as fuck, but you don't (and won't) see me murdering rando ragheads because "Family Members" were killed by ragheads.

Until you do see that. Then it's going to be too late to stop as open season on ragheads was declared...by themselves.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (eV8c/)

253
Unfortunately, I watched that sub-human bitch Whitmer on Detroit tv earlier giving her press conference so the movie may be a let down after looking at that thing. And 1 and 2 were pretty brutal.

For the record, publicly Whitmer was against the attacks.

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 03:32 PM

Gretchen Whitmer is the Jussie Smollet of governors

Posted by: AltonJackson | Contractual Obligation Comment at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (tljrc)

254 See her in Landman? The thing with photography, you can make almost any Woman better looking with the proper outfit, makeup, composition, and lighting...

You can also make someone look bad, or ridiculous, as the Lame Stream Media does by choosing Lame pictures of most Conservatives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (mP0Kj)

=======

Hollywood has been using DeepFake tech to de-age female actresses for years.

Chances of them doing it with Demi on Landman?

Like, 98.73%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM (bZSny)

255 I think they should leave Firefly alone for a lot of reasons. But without Book it loses a lot as well. The Wash death is minor retcon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

256 Didn't recognize Ali Larter. Did recognize those tits.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:29 PM (NcUvK)

The lawyer is cute too!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:30 PM (n9ltV)
____

Yes, The Blade knows he is. But he is straight, like super-straight, bro!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

257 A member of another tribe killed someone close to you? Then you go kill members of their tribe. And then of course they were obligated to go after you for killing people close to them and so on.

-
Hatfields and McCoys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:22 PM (ndZc7)

Thats why you do it right and wipe out the entire tribe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (snZF9)

258 Shame Megyn Kelly has lost her marbles, maybe she can find them again

Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (Ia/+0)

259 255 I think they should leave Firefly alone for a lot of reasons. But without Book it loses a lot as well. The Wash death is minor retcon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM (zZu0s)

=======

Firefly the show as...okay. At best.

Serenity was its best episode, and it wasn't even that close.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (bZSny)

260 Kelly Osborne is unrecognizable. From a cute chubby girl to a frightening scarecrow.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (cntUY)

261 CBD, in all seriousness, have you considered debating Tovia Singer?

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (gKWVE)

262 A warning from Crazy Maizie.

Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (ndZc7)

263 Sitting in an airport bar. Entertain me!

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (Kt19C)

264 262 A warning from Crazy Maizie.

Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (ndZc7)

======

The SAVE Act requires a federal background check to vote?

I already wanted it passed. You didn't have to convince me more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:37 PM (bZSny)

265 Exciting afternoon in Toronto.

The past hour we had 5 marked and 2 unmarked cop cars on our street ( court with 12 houses ). About 12 armed cops walking around. All the marked cars have left and my wife has just been told to go inside as they are about to arrest someone.

Maybe we'll make the news tonight.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at March 13, 2026 03:37 PM (kvcnI)

266 251 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (up9iW)

I don't know why, but that shit just makes me laugh...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 13, 2026 03:37 PM (dmDsy)

267 See her in Landman? The thing with photography, you can make almost any Woman better looking with the proper outfit, makeup, composition, and lighting...

You can also make someone look bad, or ridiculous, as the Lame Stream Media does by choosing Lame pictures of most Conservatives.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 03:34 PM (mP0Kj)

=======

Hollywood has been using DeepFake tech to de-age female actresses for years.

Chances of them doing it with Demi on Landman?

Like, 98.73%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM (bZSny)
_____

Even just professionally-applied makeup, good soft lighting, and minor touch-ups in post will drastically improve the looks of anyone. A lot of the models that guys gush over don't really look like that in person.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

268 122 be kinda funny if it comes to light in not too distant future that bag of antlers' "perfect" husband is having an affair..because how could he not ?
____

*quietly replaces Ann Coulter with Megan Kelly for the illustration for "bag of antlers" in the style guide*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (Dv3i1)

269
How come so many of these Islamic heroes are overweight?

Lean fighting trim isn't what it used to be.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (azNOR)

270 Imagine a Firefly reboot done by Bad Robot.

Yeah, let's not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (GX21I)

271 Big Gretch is a Big Whiff when compared to America's Bossy Big Sis, Karoline Leavitt.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (BnDlA)

272 Chances of them doing it with Demi on Landman?

Like, 98.73%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM (bZSny)

And she still looks awful.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (n9ltV)

273 Disagree with TJM re Firefly. I thought Serenity lacked the humor of the series and tried to do too much at once (for obvious reasons).

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (guc+i)

274 It's amazing how often all these scaly "conservative firebrands" turn around and destroy us. Meanwhile the "liberal" business guy from NYC who saw a gap in the market to represent Americans has certainly made mistakes but has never turned us.

And they have likely offered him the world and more to do it. To this very day. Incredible.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (00Q4/)

275 Farscape needed 2 or 3 more seasons but they did a good job wrapping up the main storyline in the movie.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (cntUY)

276 Jeanine Pirro may make a reporter cry today. I need popcorn.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (w/O5Q)

277 262 A warning from Crazy Maizie.

Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM
As it should be.

Posted by: Eromero at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (rR03l)

278 People have been ripping in the Hatfields and McCoys since the time of the Montagues & Capulets.

Just because it's old doesn't change the fact that vendetta is the basis of all healthy societies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (BI5O2)

279 Alan Tudyk will be involved with whatever they're planning for bringing firefly back. Not sure how they'll do that. Magic?
Posted by: banana Dream

Nothing is coming back in 2026 and I seriously doubt 2027. Look up all the principles on IMDb. They are all into other stuff except Summer Glau.

Not Firefly - Sarah Michelle Gellar - Buffy - listed as pre-production.
David Boreanaz - Rockford Files - "In development"

Nathan Fillion - The Rookie. Lanterns post production.

Morena Baccarin - Sheriff Country, Masters of the Universe post production, Tropico - filming, Beast Production unknown.

Nothing says they are involved with anything to do with Firefly or Serenity.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (NcUvK)

280
Alan Tudyk will be involved with whatever they're planning for bringing firefly back. Not sure how they'll do that. Magic?
Posted by: banana Dream

He's really an alien and is hanging out in Washington state.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (eV8c/)

281 Firefly the show as...okay. At best.

Serenity was its best episode, and it wasn't even that close.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (bZSny)

For a first season, it was wxceptional. Out of Gas is great. The season ender is great. Most are good. A few fair. None i can think are terrible.

That is a lot better than most shows.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (zZu0s)

282 I don't know why, but that shit just makes me laugh...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 13, 2026 03:37 PM (dmDsy)

That is courtesy of Maetenloch!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (n9ltV)

283 Sitting in an airport bar. Entertain me!
-----

$20. Same as in town.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM (Kt19C)

It's not $20 at the airport. Airports jack up all prices.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (gKDq2)

284 Maizie Hirono wants to bomb the US like her uncle did at Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (GX21I)

285 Huh, I really enjoyed Serenity. I thought it was a good wrap-up for a show that ended too soon.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (aZm/F)

286
I think they should leave Firefly alone for a lot of reasons. But without Book it loses a lot as well. The Wash death is minor retcon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM

my fear is that they'll have a CGI / AI Shepard Book that disney will tout as a feature not a bug

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 13, 2026 03:40 PM (tljrc)

287 Firefly had a run of eps after the pilot - which was actually a failure that they couldn't run first. 7-10. Jaynestown, Out of Gas (the backstory), Ariel, War Stories. All four were gripping.
The others were hit-or-miss. Two hits were 3, the horrific Bushwhacked; and 14, Objects in Space, which IIRC they didn't air on TV at all.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:40 PM (gKWVE)

288 >>>Kelly, Tucker, and Owen walk into a bar...

Posted by: Anna Puma

>And the bartender says, "The bagel shoppe is next door."

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 03:40 PM (M9gjJ)

289 If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

No id to buy guns! Mail them to your home!
Free concealed carry permits!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:40 PM (NcUvK)

290 Hollywood has been using DeepFake tech to de-age female actresses for years.

Chances of them doing it with Demi on Landman?

Like, 98.73%.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:35 PM (bZSny)

They should have done it for Elizabeth Shue in The Boys... I hated seeing her that old...

Not because it made me feel old, but just because fuck you.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 13, 2026 03:40 PM (dmDsy)

291 What do you think it's worth to the Left to watch Trump stick the knife in us. They would go for it in a heartbeat as they have with many others, including the Bushes. All of whom earn a "strange new respect".

Whatever it is - love, adulation, awards, no more harassing his family - they have dangled it in front of him a hundred fold. And from the beginning to now he has told them to stick it up their ass.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:41 PM (00Q4/)

292 March snow in Seattle? Bring your wet suit.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

It’s hilarious because the weathercasters totally missed it! All of them! No panic! At the Disco. No schools closed. Buses aren’t all chained up. No one is freaking out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 03:41 PM (VrUCR)

293 Speaking of Denny Crane -

William Shatner, 94, faces shoulder surgery after falling off horse
Star Trek actor, who turns 95 later this month, acknowledged that he’s not ‘a young stuntman anymore’

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 03:41 PM (Dv3i1)

294 Maizie Hirono wants to bomb the US like her uncle did at Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Maizie Hirono?

Of the Honolulu Whorehouse Hirono's?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:42 PM (NcUvK)

295 Obviously, the problem is we don't have enough gun laws.

>>@BillMelugin_
·
5m
>>BREAKING: DOJ has charged a Virginia man with illegally selling the gun used by ODU terrorist Mohamed Jalloh. According to the federal complaint, Kenya Chapman sold a .22 caliber Glock 44 pistol to Jalloh for $100 this week. He admitted he first stole it from a vehicle in Newport News, VA a year ago

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 03:42 PM (viF8m)

296 293 Speaking of Denny Crane -

William Shatner, 94, faces shoulder surgery after falling off horse
Star Trek actor, who turns 95 later this month, acknowledged that he’s not ‘a young stuntman anymore

You're dead Jim

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:42 PM (HcoTw)

297 Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 03:36 PM

It shouldn't be easier to vote than it is to buy a gun.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 13, 2026 03:43 PM (0sNs1)

298 BREAKING: DOJ has charged a Virginia man with illegally selling the gun used by ODU terrorist Mohamed Jalloh. According to the federal complaint, Kenya Chapman sold a .22 caliber Glock 44 pistol to Jalloh for $100 this week. He admitted he first stole it from a vehicle in Newport News, VA a year ago
Posted by: JackStraw

How the F did they find him? Shit like that doesn't usually leave a paper trail.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:44 PM (NcUvK)

299 Re the Firefly discussion, I would again mention Joss Whedon was a college classmate of my ne and a complete stoner doofus.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at March 13, 2026 03:44 PM (guc+i)

300 Morena Baccarin - Sheriff Country, Masters of the Universe post production, Tropico - filming, Beast Production unknown.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (NcUvK)

Nice tits.

Posted by: Denny Crane - And I Know My Way Around Tits! at March 13, 2026 03:44 PM (dmDsy)

301 Kelly, Tucker, and Owen walk into a bar...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 13, 2026 03:28 PM (GX21I)

Bartender says, "Sorry we don't serve your kind in here."

Megyn says, "You mean women?"
Tucker says, "You mean fags?"
Candace says, "You mean blacks?"

Bartender says, "No. Clowns."

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:44 PM (00Q4/)

302 I haven't seen any recent pics, but in the Substance the main character was supposed to be an over-the-hill celebrity who lost her looks and was desperate to do anything to regain her youth.

But the movie didn't have the balls to cast an actual old woman. They cast Demi Moore to prance around naked. She's no spring chicken, but she's still in excellent shape and I dare say most girls half her age wished they had her body.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

Even in June of 1996, when Striptease was released and Demi Moore was 33, they were making $6M/Bionic Woman jokes: "She looks like a million bucks -- so she got her money's worth." That was three decades of "work done" ago. She's not just "senior discount" old; she's "early Social Security" old, if she ever paid into it. Without having seen the movie, the casting seems perfect.

Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 03:44 PM (Sy6m/)

303 >>How the F did they find him? Shit like that doesn't usually leave a paper trail.

In one day.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 03:45 PM (viF8m)

304 Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.

What sink in? What will be so difficult about registering to vote?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 13, 2026 03:45 PM (cntUY)

305 Ghost ballots > ghost guns - Miss Maizie

Posted by: Rex B at March 13, 2026 03:45 PM (DqQS/)

306 And we have a volunteer just as she's leaving the podium. Pirro is a handful. I hope she haunts Boasberg in his nightmares.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 13, 2026 03:46 PM (w/O5Q)

307 Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but all these people suddenly going 1000% all out against Israel just smell bought and paid for (under the table) by Saudis or some other rich muslim group.

Posted by: Shenanigans at March 13, 2026 03:46 PM (qmxL/)

308 282 I don't know why, but that shit just makes me laugh...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 13, 2026 03:37 PM (dmDsy)

That is courtesy of Maetenloch!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2026 03:39 PM (n9ltV)

Holy hell, I remember him! He's not listed in the Absent Friends sidebar, so what happened?

Posted by: Denny Crane - And I Know My Way Around Tits! at March 13, 2026 03:47 PM (dmDsy)

309 How come so many of these Islamic heroes are overweight?
Lean fighting trim isn't what it used to be.

They are lazy and their training is shit. Still dangerous but they only thing they really excel at is killing unarmed woman and children.

Posted by: The Hebrew Hammer at March 13, 2026 03:47 PM (Ksqrb)

310 If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.

Yes. Because removing your DL from your wallet is infinitely more complex that filling out a multpage 4473 form

Posted by: Halfhand at March 13, 2026 03:47 PM (OO5c2)

311 And from the beginning to now he has told them to stick it up their ass.
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:41 PM (00Q4/)
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Compared to the 47 term, I think he tried to play nicey-nice with the Uniparty in the 45 term and for his troubles they had him arrested, sued him for millions, and tried to kill him.

I think he got the message.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 03:47 PM (5aZAZ)

312 I mean really... what lawman will come when some Montague tries banging your daughter? None, that's who. You're gonna have to kill that boy yourself, or she'll probably drink some gay Shakespearean poison before you have the chance to kill his dad when he gets all gay and tries to kill you for killing his gay son.

It's the cycle of life. If we didn't have vendetta, gays would rule the earth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 03:48 PM (BI5O2)

313 Obviously, the problem is we don't have enough gun laws.

>>@BillMelugin_
·
5m
>>BREAKING: DOJ has charged a Virginia man with illegally selling the gun used by ODU terrorist Mohamed Jalloh. According to the federal complaint, Kenya Chapman sold a .22 caliber Glock 44 pistol to Jalloh for $100 this week. He admitted he first stole it from a vehicle in Newport News, VA a year ago
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 03:42 PM (viF8m)
______

How did they track this guy down so fast? Impressive. Jalloh is dead. He ain't talking.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)

314 Even just professionally-applied makeup, good soft lighting, and minor touch-ups in post will drastically improve the looks of anyone.

-
Not Whoopi, of course, but we're not even sure of her species.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 13, 2026 03:48 PM (ndZc7)

315

"Kenya Chapman"

So he's a White Supremacist.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at March 13, 2026 03:49 PM (et1vG)

316 296 293 Speaking of Denny Crane -

William Shatner, 94, faces shoulder surgery after falling off horse
Star Trek actor, who turns 95 later this month, acknowledged that he’s not ‘a young stuntman anymore

You're dead Jim
Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:42 PM (HcoTw)

Reports of my demise are well you know the rest

Posted by: Denny Crane - Death? I Knew Death, And YOU Sir, Are NOT Death. at March 13, 2026 03:49 PM (dmDsy)

317 We will probably be long dead and gone and terror attacks that are downstream from the past year will still be happening.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

One of Reddit's blind squirrels found a nut.

Considering the Mohammadans are still blaming us for the Crusades, yeah, anything we do will be "justification" for terrorism for the next thousand years.

Posted by: mikeski at March 13, 2026 03:50 PM (pAmaa)

318 273 Disagree with TJM re Firefly. I thought Serenity lacked the humor of the series and tried to do too much at once (for obvious reasons).

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at March 13, 2026 03:38 PM (guc+i)

=======

I felt like the episodes didn't really do much of anything most of the time.

Typical 25 episode per season mentality, which generally bores me when there's an attempt at a story arch over the whole thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:50 PM (bZSny)

319 Compared to the 47 term, I think he tried to play nicey-nice with the Uniparty in the 45 term and for his troubles they had him arrested, sued him for millions, and tried to kill him.

I think he got the message.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 03:47 PM (5aZAZ)

He had Pence and others screwing him from within and also he needed to be reelected. So I don't think he was playing nice or sucking up so much as hamstrung and screwed over. This is what Trump was always capable of which is why they needed an "insurance plan" and Russia and plants like Pence and Barr. No doubt the problem was likely deeper and closer than he likely foresaw.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:50 PM (00Q4/)

320 >>>it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.

In some states, buying a long gun from a private owner does not involve anything other than an exchange of case, so in that sense, she isn't wrong.

I bought an AR from some dude in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Brighton, Michigan. Completely legal.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:50 PM (Y1sOo)

321 Saudis might not love Israel but they can't tolerate the Palestinians, on account the Saudis aren't idiots. Kuwait might hate them more though.
It's the Emirates and Qataris who have more money than brains and occasionally want to give their own (mostly paki) underclass something else to point their fingers at.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:50 PM (gKWVE)

322 Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.
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Mazie Hirono has the IQ of a rutabaga, and that's giving root vegetables a bad name.

Pretty sure last time I checked I had to go to a Federally-licensed firearms retailer, give them my State issued ID confirming I'm a resident of the state in which that gun store operates, fill out ATF Form 4473, then stand around holding my dick until the NICS check came back, then give them money so I could leave with my new gun.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 03:51 PM (5aZAZ)

323 303 >>How the F did they find him? Shit like that doesn't usually leave a paper trail.

In one day.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 13, 2026 03:45 PM (viF8m)

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They don't seem to be able to do a lot of things...when they don't want to.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:51 PM (aZm/F)

324 After a certain age, you're too old for horses.

Posted by: Catherine II at March 13, 2026 03:52 PM (gKWVE)

325 Many of us predicted a wave of Islamic terrorism here when *biden threw open the gates and let several thousand Middle Eastern men into the country with no documentation and no vetting.

They've mostly avoided suspicion by laying low.

That's no longer the case. And it will get worse.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 13, 2026 03:52 PM (jtM2q)

326 Kenya Chapman sound like a woman's name

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

327 How did they track this guy down so fast? Impressive. Jalloh is dead. He ain't talking.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)
______________________

They let him out of prison in 2024 (early). My guess is that the FBI kept tabs on him, and whom he associated with (LOL...probably illegally).

Posted by: Orson at March 13, 2026 03:52 PM (dIske)

328 40
This guy was allowed to immigrate to the United States because he married someone in the US.

I want to see the details of who he married.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
........

90 Day Fiance

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 03:52 PM (UjdFS)

329 WTF is going on when I click on the header, I get some bullshit ad I can't get out of.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:52 PM (aZm/F)

330 ^cash, not case

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 03:53 PM (Y1sOo)

331 He had Pence and others screwing him from within and also he needed to be reelected.
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:50 PM (00Q4/)
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I'd make the case that naming that fucking weasel Pence as his running mate is playing nicey nice with the Uniparty.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 03:53 PM (5aZAZ)

332 The ODU shooter was packing .22 LR from a 10 round magazine. For fucks sake, don't storm a classroom of soldiers with a fucking .22. Jeebus, the stupid, it hurts.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (pZ64F)

333 Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.
Let that sink in.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

* shit-eating grin *

Posted by: Elon Musk, holding a sink at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (pAmaa)

334 I hope that Canadian dork Shatner gets better. He's a cool dude. He likes motorcycles and spaceships, just like me, but really old.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (BI5O2)

335 There are two people in my fam-and-friends circle who were very overweight, and used Ozempic. It took the weight off. But once the target weight was reached, it was hard to get off the drug, and the weight kept coming off.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

What are the consequences for trying to stop?

Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Sy6m/)

336 maybe Kenya is short for Kenyatta? That was a last name for a man.
A poor excuse for a man for the jerkoff who stole a gun and resold it, in this case.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (gKWVE)

337 >>@maziehirono
If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.

That Mandatory waiting period is really gonna hurt some poeple.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 03:55 PM (erF49)

338 Reading that Pence wants to run for President gives me great joy. The laughter doesn't stop.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:55 PM (aZm/F)

339 d make the case that naming that fucking weasel Pence as his running mate is playing nicey nice with the Uniparty.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 03:53 PM (5aZAZ)

I can't disagree. I thought from jump Pence was "suggested" to him on a short list. I don't know how it works at that level. Like how much say he really had in that list. Or who he trusted to give it to him.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:55 PM (00Q4/)

340 >> I hope that Canadian dork Shatner gets better. He's a cool dude. He likes motorcycles and spaceships, just like me, but really old.

The fuck was he doing on a horse?

Those things are always dangerous... until they are rendered into glue.

Posted by: garrett at March 13, 2026 03:56 PM (erF49)

341 In some states, buying a long gun from a private owner does not involve anything other than an exchange of case, so in that sense, she isn't wrong.

I bought an AR from some dude in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Brighton, Michigan. Completely legal.

Posted by: one hour sober

And if he didn't, at the very least, get your name and DL # and write you a bill of sale, he's a complete fuck up.

If that gun is used in a crime and traces back to him, the authorities aren't going to buy, "I sold it to some guy".

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 03:56 PM (NcUvK)

342 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (BI5O2)

You a motorcycle rider?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 03:56 PM (77rzZ)

343 For fucks sake, don't storm a classroom of soldiers with a fucking .22.

Run whatcha brung.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 13, 2026 03:56 PM (Kt19C)

344 There are two people in my fam-and-friends circle who were very overweight, and used Ozempic. It took the weight off. But once the target weight was reached, it was hard to get off the drug, and the weight kept coming off.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

What are the consequences for trying to stop?
Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Sy6m/)
______

Ozempic is addicting, at least for some people. (They claim it's not addicting, but that's bullshit.) It's hard to stop. So you keep taking it, and the weight keeps coming off.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

345 9th circuit panel decision

Cervantes-Torres v. US
"Can overwhelming evidence that someone is an illegal alien felon justify a conviction for being a felon in possession without proving *actual* knowledge? Yes, says Judge Nelson joined by Judge Miller (Trump*2). No need to reach out for aggressive Latin theories to reverse."

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:57 PM (E4rtv)

346 I'd make the case that naming that fucking weasel Pence as his running mate is playing nicey nice with the Uniparty.
Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 03:53 PM (5aZAZ)
_______________________

I can even tell you the selling point on how they did it. Pence (the modern day Quaker) was sold as someone to soften Trump's historical image. And, back then Trump was listenting to questionable advisors with a focus on image.

Thankfully, it became apparent to him eventually that no matter what steps he took, they would always attack him relentlessly. Hence the difference between his first term and second term. He owns the image this time without giving a flying eff. So, less compromise.

Posted by: Orson at March 13, 2026 03:57 PM (dIske)

347 338 Reading that Pence wants to run for President gives me great joy. The laughter doesn't stop.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:55 PM (aZm/F)

What?? Oh, that's just great....

Posted by: Asa Hutchinson Presidential Campaign, who doesn't need the competition at March 13, 2026 03:57 PM (skR0U)

348 What are the consequences for trying to stop?
Posted by: SciVo at March 13, 2026 03:54 PM (Sy6m/)

You get fatter, faster. I think you have to slooooowly titrate it, or you just go right back to fat, maybe even fatter than before.

I haven't taken it, but that's my understanding from people who have.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 03:57 PM (BI5O2)

349 The Shat's horse probably saw a blade of grass out of place, AAAAGHHH SCARY - MUST RUN - THE END IS NEIGHHH

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 03:58 PM (3uBP9)

350 Reading that Pence wants to run for President gives me great joy. The laughter doesn't stop.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:55 PM (aZm/F)

Please clap!

Posted by: Jeb!, Inbred Retard at March 13, 2026 03:58 PM (Ksqrb)

351 Multiple sources now. USS Tripoli ordered to the Gulf.

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The Pentagon is moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, according to two officials who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved a request from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) for an Expeditionary Unit, typically consisting of up to 2,500 Marines, to be deployed near Iran, with the Marines believed to be coming from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) in Twentynine Palms, California.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 03:58 PM (E4rtv)

352
Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 03:53 PM (5aZAZ)

I can't disagree. I thought from jump Pence was "suggested" to him on a short list. I don't know how it works at that level. Like how much say he really had in that list. Or who he trusted to give it to him.
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 03:55 PM (00Q4/)

Trump is a great businessman, but was quite a rube when it came to actual national politics back then... so I believe he believed people that seemed legit but were not; he learned his lessons and came back better than ever for this term.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 13, 2026 03:59 PM (dmDsy)

353 William Shatner, 94, faces shoulder surgery after falling off horse
Star Trek actor, who turns 95 later this month, acknowledged that he’s not ‘a young stuntman anymore

Hope the surgeon is not that drunk fuck Bones.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at March 13, 2026 03:59 PM (UjdFS)

354 350 Reading that Pence wants to run for President gives me great joy. The laughter doesn't stop.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 03:55 PM (aZm/F)

Please clap!

Posted by: Jeb!, Inbred Retard at March 13, 2026 03:58 PM (Ksqrb)

======

A few years ago, I would have predicted that Pence would raise 9 figures in the hope that he could re-establish the establishment control over the GOP.

I'll be surprised if he hits 8 figures today.

The intraparty map has shifted...a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:59 PM (bZSny)

355 I loathe Pence. He's a hypocrite's hypocrite.

An absolute politician. And that's a pretty horrendous cut.

I'd go to one of his "rallies" just to boo him.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (aZm/F)

356 Nude hot Cuban babes

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

357 Nood.

Posted by: Asa Hutchinson Presidential Campaign, who doesn't need the competition at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (skR0U)

358 >>>I bought an AR from some dude in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Brighton, Michigan. Completely legal.

Posted by: one hour sober

>I know dudes who bought AK-47s in the parking lot at work before the ban for $300. And this was LA.

Yet, you hear about no crime from these guys. Strange.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (M9gjJ)

359 You get fatter, faster. I think you have to slooooowly titrate it, or you just go right back to fat, maybe even fatter than before.
I haven't taken it, but that's my understanding from people who have.

The Mass Tort Law Firms are licking their chops. They will be making bank off of Ozempic for fatting up fat people.

Posted by: John Morgan, Fat Monied Lawyer at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (Ksqrb)

360 Tulsa

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:14 PM (HcoTw)

Tell me something bad about Tulsa

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (00Q4/)

361 No. I'm afraid of motorcycles, just like spaceships. But I like them, and I admire Shatner.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (BI5O2)

362 Tirzepatide (Zepbound/Mounjaro) is better in pretty much every imaginable way than Ozempic. In a lot of ways Ozempic is obsolete in its class.

Posted by: ballistic at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (5aZAZ)

363 What are the consequences for trying to stop?
Posted by: SciVo
======
Weight comes back on is the primary one that is noted. Both GLP drugs slow the metabolism and whether that bounces back for everyone is not clear right now.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (E4rtv)

364 Pence / Thune 2028
Personality Plus!

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (UjdFS)

365 I also purchased a handgun from some dude in Michigan without going through any background check at an FFL. Completely legal as Michigan law at the time said a licensed CCWer was lawful in purchasing a handgun from a private owner without going through all that other stuff. Just had to fill out a simple form and either mail it or drop it off at the local PD.

Not sure if that is still the law up there.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 04:01 PM (Y1sOo)

366 I would bang demi moore if she gave me a 1969 Lamborgini Muira S

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 13, 2026 04:16 PM (jrgJz)

367 Have Hamas and Hezbollah ever considered NOT hiding behind innocent civilians?
Posted by: pookysgirl, thinking deep thoughts at March 13, 2026 02:57 PM (Wt5PA)

that's DANGEROUS

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 04:39 PM (8avO+)

368 I loathe Pence. He's a hypocrite's hypocrite.

An absolute politician. And that's a pretty horrendous cut.

I'd go to one of his "rallies" just to boo him.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (aZm/F)

I'm no Indiana insider, but seems like Pence has no powerbase once he stabbed Trump in the back. I don't even hear the MSM trying to use him against Trump.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 04:41 PM (8avO+)

369 I'd say this is Megyn Kelly's final chance to ever be revelant again.

I was doubtful, after her tirades against Trump. I now and then saw snippets and remained doubtful but hopeful she'd turned the page.

Now I see through a clear lens.

Owens did not surprise me as she always seemed a bit off.

I admit that Tucker Tittle Carlson did surprise me although I always hated his giggles. I never much listened to him, either, since 2012 and my blackout for tv news after Benghazi.

I also don't pay a lot of attention to talking heads anywhere.

To crash with bomb stuff and guns into a preschool is demonic. How could any mother (which Kelly claims to be) think this is ok? How? Unless blind hatred towards Jews, is my answer. The mask is off.

I have not one molecule of pity for Iranian Revolutionary Guards dying, not Isis, nor the cowards who died killing unarmed people yesterday...but I do feels sorry for innocent children who can't help it when the bombs land and kill them, too.

This is empathy, Megyn, something not found in a hair follicle of your flat and stringy hairdo. Eat some protein and maybe your brain will function again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (WONhk)

370 So, it's cool to murder someone's entire family as long as the U.S. government, which is totally not influenced at all by Jewish/Israeli interests, designates them a terrorist group.

And the U.S./Israel, hereinafter called USreal, has assassinated the new Supreme Leader's entire family, except for him, and killed 165 schoolgirls, all under pretext of negotiation. But that's not terrorism. We're justified in murdering all of them, because reasons.

Glad we cleared that up.

Posted by: Israel Is Always Right at March 13, 2026 04:43 PM (Xkc2j)

371 "It's what good Christians do against the evils of Jewish mind control coming from the local Chabad. We must be more like Russia."
-Tucker Carlson
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (bZSny)

"The Good Christians want to do is get an unconditional surrender in order to mass rape and kill women and children. This always happens, except for the Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Roman Social War...in fact, I don't know of a single time it meant that."

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 04:45 PM (8avO+)

372 Glad we cleared that up.

---------------------

Israel didn't even exist when we killed huge numbers of German, Italian, and French civilians by bombing shelling and fighting through Western Europe to wipe out the Nazis. Looks like we missed a few.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 04:48 PM (8avO+)

373 Tulsa

Posted by: Oh Noes! at March 13, 2026 03:14 PM (HcoTw)

Tell me something bad about Tulsa
Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 04:00 PM (00Q4/)

Lots of tornados I hear.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 04:49 PM (8avO+)

374 A few years ago, I would have predicted that Pence would raise 9 figures in the hope that he could re-establish the establishment control over the GOP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 03:59 PM (bZSny)

I never would have predicted that. VPs are considered "a bucket of warm spit" by tradition. Pence if he was as loyal as they come was primarily a guard to make sure he wasn't too liberal on religion and abortion. Can't say I ever heard P say a word on it, Trump was the pro life man all on his own.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 04:53 PM (8avO+)

375 Saudis might not love Israel but they can't tolerate the Palestinians, on account the Saudis aren't idiots. Kuwait might hate them more though.
It's the Emirates and Qataris who have more money than brains and occasionally want to give their own (mostly paki) underclass something else to point their fingers at.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 13, 2026 03:50 PM (gKWVE)

Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon have first dibs on hatred of Palestinians.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 13, 2026 04:56 PM (8avO+)

An Illegal Alien With a Criminal Record As Long as David French's Bull Roster Has Been Deported Four Times, But Is Still Allowed to Walk Around NYC Pushing Strangers In Front of Oncoming Subway Trains

Via John Sexton.

This is sick.

Mamdani signed an Executive Order banning police from cooperating with DHS or ICE.

And this Terror Simp also refuses to force them into homeless shelters during extreme cold. So instead they take refuge in the subway stations and victimize people trying to get to work.

The homeless are filling the subway stations because of Mamdani, and psychopathically violent foreign killers are allowed to roam the streets because of Mamdani.

Mamdani continues insisting he will not deport illegals nor turn them over to ICE even after this illegal alien maniac claims another two victims.

Well done, New York City Democrats. Give yourselves all a raise.

Chilling cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved him and an 83-year-old man calmly walk away after the unprovoked violence.
Video obtained by The Post shows Honduran national Bairon Hernandez, 34, strolling along the platform after allegedly pushing an 83-year-old man and a second younger man onto the tracks at a station on the Upper East Side around noon Sunday.
Hernandez was arrested at about 5 a.m. Tuesday at a Brooklyn homeless shelter and charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault and reckless endangerment.
Grandfather and Air Force veteran Richard Williams, the older of the two victims, is still fighting for his life at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.

"My father, Richard, is on a respirator in the ICU in the hospital. That's all we are going to say," one of Williams' daughters told The Post on Tuesday.
Hernandez reportedly didn't say a word throughout and hadn't interacted with his victims before the incident.
The younger victim helped Williams off the tracks and fellow straphangers got the pair back onto the platform before a train came.
...
It comes after the NYPD revealed transit crime spiked nearly 20% in February as cold weather policies prevented cops from booting rule-breaking passengers from the subway.

He was last deported in 2020 -- under Trump. He reentered the country at an unknown date, but I'm gonna guess it was under Biden.

Per CBS: The result of free-range homeless and sanctuary murder policies is having exactly the effect that you predicted it would have, and which Democrats and the media vowed it would not have:

So far in 2026, there have been nine subway push incidents according to the NYPD. By way of comparison, there were 19 in all of 2025 and 26 in all of 2024.

Cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved him and an 83-year-old man calmly walk away after the unprovoked violence. https://t.co/dsNkmUXYNm pic.twitter.com/KWCqWSQFuc
— New York Post (@nypost) March 11, 2026

Meet Bairon Posada-Herandez, an illegal alien with a LONG criminal history who has been deported 4 TIMES.

He has just been arrested after he reportedly shoved an 83-year-old Veteran and another individual onto the NYC subway tracks.

THIS is who Democrats protect in their� pic.twitter.com/IshpWDIBhq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 13, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM

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1 There it is.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:30 PM (00Q4/)

2 It is a good think NYC has proven they are not racist or phobes. 🙄

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 01:31 PM (p4NUW)

3 How is Mamdani different than any other modern Democrat?

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:31 PM (00Q4/)

4 Thing. Not think. I swear the smart features changing words to what it believes I meant to write make me wonder about the AI fear.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 01:32 PM (p4NUW)

5 How is Mamdani different than any other modern Democrat?

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:31 PM (00Q4/)

Swarthy?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 01:32 PM (dK+Kv)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

7 White supremacy, mamdani explained.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 13, 2026 01:32 PM (i0Hi3)

8 Mandami wants the NY Metro to go balls-up like the SF BART, ridership will then leave, downtown NY will become a ghost town, and then he'll either:

1) try to declare city bankrupt and require a bailout by Feds
2) blame trump
3) profit

or all 3.

Posted by: Scott_T at March 13, 2026 01:33 PM (2waQ7)

9 Snowing HARD in downtown Seattle.

Whoohoo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 01:33 PM (i75mC)

10 Lum has been NOOD'ed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

11 But let a white person look slightly sideways at a hijab and it's a national outrage.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:33 PM (00Q4/)

12 Horrifying

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at March 13, 2026 01:34 PM (/wIOP)

13 Swarthy?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 01:32 PM (dK+Kv)

I note you did not go with "beard"

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:34 PM (00Q4/)

14 Mamdani signed an Executive Order banning police from cooperating with DHS or ICE.

And this Terror Simp also refuses to force them into homeless shelters during extreme cold. So instead they take refuge in the subway stations and victimize people trying to get to work.

The homeless are filling the subway stations because of Mamdani, and psychopathically violent foreign killers are allowed to roam the streets because of Mamdani.

Mamdani continues insisting he will not deport illegals nor turn them over to ICE even after this illegal alien maniac claims another two victims.

Well done, New York City Democrats. Give yourselves all a raise.

Reap it, electorate.

You asked for this. You begged for this. You WANTED this.

Enjoy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

15 And this Terror Simp also refuses to force them into homeless shelters during extreme cold. So instead they take refuge in the subway stations and victimize people trying to get to work.

====

Deport!

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:34 PM (GD0B3)

16 The left: You proles don't need a car, the subway will take you everywhere you need to go

Also the left: Of course there is crime on the subway, that's just one of those things that happens

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

17 biden wants you to know that he doesn't know where he is.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 13, 2026 01:35 PM (CWTWj)

18
Reap it, electorate.

You asked for this. You begged for this. You WANTED this.

Enjoy.

Though if I had to guess I would assume the 83 year old vet probably didn't vote for Mamdami...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:36 PM (sKqQm)

19 Build your own subway

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:36 PM (00Q4/)

20 biden wants you to know that he doesn't know where he is.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 13, 2026 01:35 PM (CWTWj)

Not breaking news.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 01:36 PM (gKDq2)

21 Cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved him and an 83-year-old man calmly walk away after the unprovoked violence. https://t.co/dsNkmUXYNm pic.twitter.com/KWCqWSQFuc

— New York Post (@nypost) March 11, 2026

The fact the dude wasn't beaten to a pulp shows just how far society has fallen.

Life under democrat rule, everybody.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

22 4 Thing. Not think. I swear the smart features changing words to what it believes I meant to write make me wonder about the AI fear.
Posted by: Piper

Next up-Barre Studio becomes Barrel Studio.

Posted by: AI Overlord at March 13, 2026 01:37 PM (oftw2)

23 Snowing HARD in downtown Seattle.
Whoohoo!

Climbmutt chains!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 13, 2026 01:37 PM (Kt19C)

24 Its almost as if elections have consequences.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 01:37 PM (Y5yQx)

25 16 The left: You proles don't need a car, the subway will take you everywhere you need to go

Also the left: Of course there is crime on the subway, that's just one of those things that happens
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

"If you own your own car, Bailon Hernandez can't kill you, and that's not fair to Bailon Hernandez!"

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 01:37 PM (1YL6+)

26
Though if I had to guess I would assume the 83 year old vet probably didn't vote for Mamdami...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:36 PM (sKqQm)

But most of his neighbors did. They want this for him. It's punishment for voting incorrectly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

27 Snowing HARD in downtown Seattle.

Whoohoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 01:33 PM (i75mC)

I love the YouTube videos showing drivers on hills in Seattle during a snow storm. Buses are the best.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (Y5yQx)

28 Technically, the politicians aren't pushing innocent people onto the subway tracks, they are just making the Rube Goldberg systems to do it.

Posted by: Cray Cray at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (CkjpE)

29 I just came from Lowes. Im sure my cashier stared in the 50s B movie Skank Hags From Mars

Posted by: Yer Sistas Ass at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (8xbzy)

30
I've seen video of these subway shoves in other cities -- I think there have been some in London, too. I want to know: what is with these insane third-worlders who do this? In a perverse way, I "get" the r@pe of young western women and girls, but why shove old guys onto train tracks? Do they do this in their home countries?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (FveOp)

31 They want to inflict terror to herd them to a point of domination without question.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen at March 13, 2026 01:39 PM (qZdIZ)

32 What possibly can be done though? NYC will never stop virtue voting for their suicide. They all know what very obvious steps will end all this, and they all knew death and destruction would be the direct consequence of their voting.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 01:39 PM (3uBP9)

33 Butt to the wall, man. Butt to the wall.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

34 Infinite enriching through infinite diversity.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 13, 2026 01:39 PM (0MjtC)

35 Part of the fun of the World's Fair is the subway special that takes you there!

Posted by: #7 To Flushing at March 13, 2026 01:39 PM (oftw2)

36
Reap it, electorate.

You asked for this. You begged for this. You WANTED this.

Enjoy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at

I want to be like this, too, but it doesn’t stay contained there. The people they allow to stay can go anywhere, to include where we live. And people are going to flee, they are fleeing. They come to places like here because it’s pretty and quaint. But they don’t leave their voting behind and somehow don’t fully connect the dots. Of course they also complain about us being slow, speaking funny, get offended when the second question asked is “where do you go to Church”. I mean goodness, y’all, you moved to the Bible Belt. It’s mandatory that we first ask what you (or your husband) does, and secondly where you go to church. It’s the rule.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (p4NUW)

37 I've seen video of these subway shoves in other cities -- I think there have been some in London, too. I want to know: what is with these insane third-worlders who do this? In a perverse way, I "get" the r@pe of young western women and girls, but why shove old guys onto train tracks? Do they do this in their home countries?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (FveOp)

They do it because they can. It’s a power move.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (Y5yQx)

38 but why shove old guys onto train tracks? /i]

The people paying those third worlders to come also tell them all the world's problems are caused by old white people and "Will no one rid us of these turbulent white devils?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

39 Snowing HARD in downtown Seattle.

Whoohoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 01:33 PM (i75mC)

Looks like it will skirt us to the north. Good thing, as we are heading south to Utah in a couple hours. Hope the mountains get dumped on. We've had very little snow this year.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (PSEDc)

40 On Wednesday, we had 80 degree weather.
Yesterday, it snowed.
Today, sun is out again and trying to hit 70.

Virginia weather has more mood swings than menopausal Hillary Clinton

Posted by: Blanco at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (q83gU)

41 In before the "in before the 'nothing will happen' guy" guy.

Posted by: mikeski at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (pAmaa)

42 They made a big deal that John Olerud used to ride the subway to work when he was on the Mets. Somehow I doubt he would now. Although it's always been a hell hole except for those few years in the 90's and 00's where it was less of a hell hole.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:41 PM (00Q4/)

43 >>> I've seen video of these subway shoves in other cities -- I think there have been some in London, too. I want to know: what is with these insane third-worlders who do this? In a perverse way, I "get" the r@pe of young western women and girls, but why shove old guys onto train tracks? Do they do this in their home countries?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (FveOp)

They are killing off those outside of the tribe. Take out the weak first, like any dumb predator. Very simple motivation. And they are incentivized to do it by the leftist governments.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 01:41 PM (3uBP9)

44 biden wants you to know that he doesn't know where he is.
Posted by: gnats local 678
......

My bet is stuck in a hedge again.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 01:41 PM (UjdFS)

45 But they don’t leave their voting behind and somehow don’t fully connect the dots.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (p4NUW)

There are stickers and some billboards around Texas with one simple message:

Don't California My Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

46 32 What possibly can be done though? NYC will never stop virtue voting for their suicide. They all know what very obvious steps will end all this, and they all knew death and destruction would be the direct consequence of their voting.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 01:39 PM (3uBP9)

They all think that they will be exempted, and they're just voting to punish the great unwashed, the little people, the morlocks.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (1YL6+)

47 NYC descent step by step under Mamdani. At least 19 homeless frozen to death. Guys throw defective IEDs. Subway getting even worse. Next up :pogroms? Jihadist driving car through crowd? Place your bets

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (YsPj+)

48 In before the "in before the 'nothing will happen' guy" guy.

Posted by: mikeski at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (pAmaa)

ISISWYDTT

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (00Q4/)

49 What possibly can be done though? NYC will never stop virtue voting for their suicide. They all know what very obvious steps will end all this, and they all knew death and destruction would be the direct consequence of their voting.

In the 90s they got tired of it and voted for Guilani.

But the problem here is the Dems have already significantly replaced the electorate from then - remember the numbers showed Mamdami losing if only heritage Americans were able to vote...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

50 The exact wrong response

@txsalth2o 1h
Junior ROTC Cadets are no longer allowed to wear uniforms because those uniforms make them targets for Islamic terrorists.

Text from my daughter this morning.
x.com/txsalth2o/status/2032483984303600033

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (diia5)

51
Is there any rail service in the world running in the black these days?

("Black" being the white supremacist word for "profitable" in this case)

Posted by: Auspex at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (Y8DZL)

52 I'm coming around to the idea ICE just ignore deep blue cities and concentrate on Red and Purple states where they can make the biggest difference.

There's no saving NYC or Minneapolis, these hav just been captured by the illegals and the AWFL's that live there seems to like it that way.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (eIzlH)

53 Reap it, electorate.

You asked for this. You begged for this. You WANTED this.

Enjoy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

We don't have voter IDs , Sponge, so we really can't tell who voted, can we.. But you keep messing with that chicken, "FIRST!!!!"..

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (GD0B3)

54 deBlasio, Adams, Mamdani...

I don't see NY voting habits changing anytime soon.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (OO5c2)

55 Virginia weather has more mood swings than menopausal Hillary Clinton
Posted by: Blanco at March 13, 2026 01:40 PM (q83gU)

CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!! It's INCONVENIENT!!!!!

Posted by: Al Gore at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

56 NYC is now sorry, probably, for being so woke as to put this moslem in charge. Soon competing with Deerborn, MI.

Robert De Dumbarse Nero is whining that the mayor won't meet with him! This is an insult! He helped elect him and Mondingo is raising taxes! Idiot!

I want deportations at huge scales, so rapid, violent, in every large city that the Dims will be screaming in circles. Then deport to their countries, El Salvador, Bermuda Triangle. I don't care. They don't need due process as they came here illegally. DEPORT THEM ALL!

If they have visas...ok, I don't even care about that. There is nothing peaceful about their religion. Put them in internment camps.

GET OUT!

All are grenades with their pins not pulled in my opinion today. If you are "moderate" then find someone to have the courage to stand up to them and say the word, "reform." You will probably be killed, but prove to us that you want to become part of this country and century.

Thanks Obungo and Biden. Your legacy keeps exploding your hatred for the USA.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (WONhk)

57 We need to deport Mamdani.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (77rzZ)

58 If (a big if) Republicans want to win, they will Willie Horton the Dems now through election day with new daily examples of Dems policies of releasing alien criminals that resulted in the deaths of our fellow citizens and close with Trump's SOTU where he asked the congressional chamber to stand with the notion that Americans come first and the Dems sitting with thumbs up their butts.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 01:43 PM (Dv3i1)

59 30
I've seen video of these subway shoves in other cities -- I think there have been some in London, too. I want to know: what is with these insane third-worlders who do this? In a perverse way, I "get" the r@pe of young western women and girls, but why shove old guys onto train tracks? Do they do this in their home countries?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (FveOp)

Conquest. It's about displaying that you have conquered your host country.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 01:43 PM (1YL6+)

60 I'm coming around to the idea ICE just ignore deep blue cities and concentrate on Red and Purple states where they can make the biggest difference.

The census "counts" illegals to give blue states votes.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

61
We don't have voter IDs , Sponge, so we really can't tell who voted, can we.. But you keep messing with that chicken, "FIRST!!!!"..
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (GD0B3)

And who's preventing the voter ID? The elected representatives...........Who's messing with the chicken now?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

62 Again:
The law does not protect the public from the criminal, it protects the criminal from the public.

The left is busy tearing down the law and protecting the criminal.
Smug in their belief the consequences will never touch them.

Trump needs to pull all federal law enforcement--including ICE--out of New York City.
And put out the word he will not deport anyone who flees to NYC.
It's the media center of the leftist universe and I want it crushed under the weight of 10 million illegals.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 13, 2026 01:44 PM (HXT0k)

63 And who's preventing the voter ID? The elected representatives...........Who's messing with the chicken now?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Wyy did you vote for Biden in 2020?

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:44 PM (GD0B3)

64
As an interesting take on this - a majority believe the 2020 election was stolen.

Sure they voted for Trump in 2024 but...that's all they, and we, were willing to do.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)

65 NYC of the 90s that voted for Rudy was a different animal than today. It was still a predominantly American population. Leftist, sure but seven they have a level of filth and crime at which they say OK we need something new.

Today NYC is what 30% American? They ain’t voting in another Rudy ever again. Filth and crime is all they know.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 01:45 PM (Y5yQx)

66
Wyy did you vote for Biden in 2020?
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:44 PM (GD0B3)

I didn't. And Texas has had voter ID for years. Biden didn't win Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

67 I've seen video of these subway shoves in other cities -- I think there have been some in London, too. I want to know: what is with these insane third-worlders who do this? In a perverse way, I "get" the r@pe of young western women and girls, but why shove old guys onto train tracks? Do they do this in their home countries?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

In India, two people per hour are hit and killed by a train. They're just evening the odds.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (M0V4/)

68 I'm coming around to the idea ICE just ignore deep blue cities and concentrate on Red and Purple states where they can make the biggest difference.

There's no saving NYC or Minneapolis, these hav just been captured by the illegals and the AWFL's that live there seems to like it that way.
Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (eIzlH)

No.

Illegals can travel easily to other parts of the Country where people didn't vote for this shit.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (gKDq2)

69 When things are settled down in the mid-east he will focus more attention on local pustules.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (BENy5)

70 I have to go food shopping today.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (UjdFS)

71 The fact the dude wasn't beaten to a pulp shows just how far society has fallen.

Life under democrat rule, everybody.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

I think it shows just how resigned people have become to Democrat rule.

The last guy that tried to protect people on a subway got charged with murder.

I know I'm not intervening anymore. Not for strangers. I hate that about myself, but I've got two young kids to think about.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (G1ktt)

72
In India, two people per hour are hit and killed by a train. They're just evening the odds.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (M0V4/)

Well, that's to be expected because they ride in, on and around the train.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

73 Who hates America more?

[ ] Muslims
[ ] Democrats
[ ] Yes

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 13, 2026 01:47 PM (CHHv1)

74 Conquest. It's about displaying that you have conquered your host country.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 01:43 PM (1YL6+)

To us perhaps but to them it's just prejudice and hate. The Democrat bread and butter.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:47 PM (00Q4/)

75 And who's preventing the voter ID? The elected representatives...........Who's messing with the chicken now?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

In case you have not noticed, but poll after poll of average American show 70-80% percent support for voter ID.

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:47 PM (GD0B3)

76
The last guy that tried to protect people on a subway got charged with murder.

I know I'm not intervening anymore. Not for strangers. I hate that about myself, but I've got two young kids to think about.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (G1ktt)

Valid. Incredibly, sadly valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

77 "So far in 2026, there have been nine subway push incidents according to the NYPD. By way of comparison, there were 19 in all of 2025 and 26 in all of 2024."

So we're on track for 30 this year? Up from 26 last year? There are 1.2 billion (with a "b") subway rides in NYC in a year. That makes the odds of getting pushed on any given subway ride in a year are 1 in 40 million (30 in 1.2 billion).

Assuming you ride the subway 10x a week, that means you can ride for 77,000 years before you'd statistically be pushed.

Odds of getting struck by lightning? 1 in 1.6 million each year. You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

78 >>> Mamdani signed an Executive Order banning police from cooperating with DHS or ICE.

Thinking outside the box...

DHS / ICE needs to work from the outside in with street sweeping with city hall at the center. When illegals start taking refuge there then it would become clear that Mamdani is literally harboring fugatives. Then arrest him and charge him with as many counties as there are aliens hunkered down under his desk.

Concurrently funnel a bunch to his home block. Or even start there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM (/lPRQ)

79 He should have been deported when it was clear he didn't have the funds to sustain himself. We were paying for his meals and bed in a homeless shelter. We shouldn't allow anyone into this country that doesn't have the money to support themselves.

Majority of immigrants immigrate bc they don’t have money looking for a better life. By only allowing people who can support themselves would make only rich immigrants and that has to be like some type of classism (bring the rich get rid of the poor)

Next you might even come up with a idea to sell gold cards and expedite permanent residency for about a million dollars what could go wrong

ICE, this one’s a slam dunk! Go get ‘em. These are your targets not citizen folks like Pretti or Good. Excellent fodder for the public relations team too.

It’s very dishonest to assume people protesting ICE are doing so on behalf of the worst of the worst instead of the normal immigrants that just do a good days work and pay their bills like everyone else and have been here for years without issue

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM (ycI94)

80
In case you have not noticed, but poll after poll of average American show 70-80% percent support for voter ID.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:47 PM (GD0B3)

I am aware. It's why we can't get the f*cking bill passed. Because it WORKS.

That being said, all the blue shitholes have been issuing Driver's Licenses to illegals for years now, so it likely won't help much in those areas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

81 I'm coming around to the idea ICE just ignore deep blue cities and concentrate on Red and Purple states where they can make the biggest difference.
—

Same. Come to my town round up all illegals, and ice will be treated conquering heroes. I’m actually kinda pissed that they haven’t done that. All that effort to rid Minneapolis of a few thousand illegals? They could have removed 50k in that time in red states that didn’t fight them every step of the way.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (Y5yQx)

82
Let New York eat the fruits of their labor.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (IifOV)

83 Well, that's to be expected because they ride in, on and around the train.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

They also stand on the tracks to take selfies.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (M0V4/)

84 Gooder and harderer.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (BMpk9)

85 The last guy that tried to protect people on a subway got charged with murder.

I know I'm not intervening anymore. Not for strangers. I hate that about myself, but I've got two young kids to think about.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 01:46 PM (G1ktt)

Valid. Incredibly, sadly valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

I'd like to think that about myself - that'd I'd just turn a blind eye. I just don't know what I'd do in the moment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (dK+Kv)

86 Odds of getting struck by lightning? 1 in 1.6 million each year. You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Well, since you put it THAT way. Push away!!!

Odds are it won't be me.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

87 So we're on track for 30 this year? Up from 26 last year?

Elric
--------

I was told there would be no math on this blog.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (00Q4/)

88 I didn't. And Texas has had voter ID for years. Biden didn't win Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

yes your Senator cannot commit to the SAVE act, so other States can enjoy clean elections

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (GD0B3)

89
Butt to the wall, man. Butt to the wall.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

'zactly.

I don't want to hear another fucking word about New Yawkers being smarter than southern rednecks. First, rednecks would beat these assailants into paste if the bums tried throwing them onto the tracks. Second, rednecks are smart enough to stand away from the tracks, unlike these Gotham retards.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 13, 2026 01:50 PM (y9nCu)

90 The census "counts" illegals to give blue states votes.
Posted by: 18-1

==

Fair enough, I obviously want them all gone, but with finite resources, I want the focus where they get LE cooperation and best results.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 01:50 PM (eIzlH)

91 Donald Trump at military academy with parents
Fred & Mary.

https://tinyurl.com/4sf36c3x

It's a keeper

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 01:50 PM (BENy5)

92 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2026 01:50 PM (Wnv9h)

93 I just don't know what I'd do in the moment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (dK+Kv)

Anyone who is not an abject coward doesn't.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:50 PM (00Q4/)

94 India trains.......

https://is.gd/4fMT6s

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

95 Is the Cuba News huge, or a nothing burger? Does Rubio need to go rule it now?

A headline I saw: "Cuba learns from Madura's mistake and bows to trump"
My husband: The no kings people will go nuts!!

@BowTiedMara
The historic moment when Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel announced on national television that they had yielded to pressure and were officially in negotiations with the United States.
The Cuban regime completely surrendered, on the verge of collapse.

Posted by: LizLem at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (MPRWC)

96 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 13, 2026 01:50 PM (Wnv9h)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

97 @txsalth2o 1h
Junior ROTC Cadets are no longer allowed to wear uniforms because those uniforms make them targets for Islamic terrorists.

Text from my daughter this morning.
x.com/txsalth2o/status/2032483984303600033

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (diia5)

University President Nearsider would alter the rules after this attack, too.

"All ROTC cadets who have successfully completed basic weapons fam will be required to carry their weapons while on university property."

Like those flour sacks girls had to carry for Home Ec.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (G1ktt)

98

NYC’s minimum wage could hit $30 — highest in the US — under new proposed law

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (Cqx++)

99 >>> In case you have not noticed, but poll after poll of average American show 70-80% percent support for voter ID.
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:47 PM (GD0B3)

I bet there's 95% - 99.9999% opposition against voter ID with our "elected representatives". Their entire livelihood is built on the scam.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (3uBP9)

100 This Aztec needs an altitude adjustment.

Posted by: Hernan Cortez at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (TezPK)

101 You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM

Unless you are the one that gets pushed. Then it's 1:1.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (BMpk9)

102 Why din't Iranians vote for someone other than the Kahmenei?? they deserve the government they got ! idiotic logic

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (GD0B3)

103
I am aware. It's why we can't get the f*cking bill passed. Because it WORKS.

That being said, all the blue shitholes have been issuing Driver's Licenses to illegals for years now, so it likely won't help much in those areas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at

My understanding is there is an initial sweep of the roles to ensure people who are on them are legit, and going forward, you just have to show ID. You have to prove citizenship to register to vote. So I agree it won’t be 100% effective, but it will cut down on the issue dramatically. I think there will also be a bit of a deterrent factor that prevents some who felt emboldened to vote, not to risk it and get deported.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (p4NUW)

104 NYC descent step by step under Mamdani. At least 19 homeless frozen to death. Guys throw defective IEDs. Subway getting even worse. Next up :pogroms? Jihadist driving car through crowd? Place your bets
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 01:42 PM (YsPj+)

Don't you mean an "SUV" driving through a crowd?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (g8Ew8)

105 In regards to voterID I believe the left has still yet to find anyone actually stopped from voting by an of the areas that have implemented voterID...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (sKqQm)

106 Fair enough, I obviously want them all gone, but with finite resources, I want the focus where they get LE cooperation and best results.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 01:50 PM (eIzlH)

Pretti Good being gone wasn't a "best result"?

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (gKDq2)

107 Odds of getting struck by lightning? 1 in 1.6 million each year. You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

Well, since you put it THAT way. Push away!!!

Odds are it won't be me.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
__________

It wouldn't be anyone if everyone practiced basic awareness, such as not standing right at the edge of the platform. But people do. That's making yourself a target. Never make yourself a target. Not anywhere.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

108
Reap it, electorate.

You asked for this. You begged for this. You WANTED this.

Enjoy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm so wet you could drown a toddler in my panties right now!

Posted by: Upper West Side AWFL at March 13, 2026 01:53 PM (TbWk/)

109 CNN forced to issue yet another humiliating clarification.

https://is.gd/YzjlE4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 01:53 PM (ndZc7)

110
yes your Senator cannot commit to the SAVE act, so other States can enjoy clean elections
Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (GD0B3)

And we should be voting him out in May. This is hopefully the straw that broke the camel's back for that asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)

111 Butt to the wall, man. Butt to the wall.
Posted by: Sponge

I volunteer for the role of "Wall!"

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at March 13, 2026 01:53 PM (ycI94)

112 Some mental patient comes into my building and starts trying to tear shit up, chances are high they will be dojng it to libs who would see me in jail or dead for my skin color and no other reason.

But I'm still not gonna be busy politically calculating, because I have friends and colleagues around who think like me, know what time it is, have children, etc, and I am going to act. I know this from when shit has started to go down in the past and I surprised myself. I'm an idiot. Call it... born this way.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 01:53 PM (00Q4/)

113 That being said, all the blue shitholes have been issuing Driver's Licenses to illegals for years now, so it likely won't help much in those areas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

How will they prove that they are a citizen

Posted by: MAC V SOG at March 13, 2026 01:53 PM (P4Pk9)

114 italians?

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 01:54 PM (3uBP9)

115 Ooh, looks like I'm gonna eat well today.
-- The Barrel

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 01:54 PM (77rzZ)

116

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 01:54 PM (gKDq2)

117 Man- Mr Plissken, we called you here for a sensitive mission

Snake- And the mission is?

Man- Infiltrate into what was recently NYC and ...shoot fucking everybody.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 01:54 PM (snZF9)

118 @BowTiedMara
The historic moment when Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel announced on national television that they had yielded to pressure and were officially in negotiations with the United States.
The Cuban regime completely surrendered, on the verge of collapse.

Posted by: LizLem at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (MPRWC)

If you speak Spanish, go listen to his speech. It’s like every leftist here, a bazillion flowery words to say “friends and neighbors, we are in talks with the US for help”.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 01:54 PM (p4NUW)

119 RickZ to the barrel.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 01:55 PM (1YL6+)

120 Paging Bernard Goetz. White courtesy phone for Mr. Goetz.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 01:55 PM (7Cdr7)

121 Ooh, looks like I'm gonna eat well today.
-- The Barrel
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 01:54 PM (77rzZ)

Let it. Maybe it will get cancer, too.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 01:55 PM (gKDq2)

122 India trains.......

https://is.gd/4fMT6s
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
.......

Next stop: bathroom break at the river.

Posted by: wth at March 13, 2026 01:55 PM (UjdFS)

123 I'm a native NYer from The Bronx, where I now live. I'm tired of you all saying that we in NYC "deserve" this.

I posted this right after the election ... Two reasons for Zohran:

First, a large and growing Muslim population that turnout and vote as a block. It's not my Da's NYC anymore.

The second factor is Woke hipsters who move here from elsewhere. The rest of the country should be thanking us for taking in their wretched refuse yearning to be free.

Together they have outsized voting power because so many who work in NYC -- and thus have an interest in NYC -- live and vote elsewhere. This leads to weird politics from low turnout with fringe candidates winning.

Soros was an early backer of Zohran. He got a high ROI, no?

Zohran will be the American poster child for all that's wrong with the unholy alliance of Woke and Islam. They're both ersatz religions. Like Scientology and Joel Osteen: Follow their program and you'll be rewarded in this life (and 77 virgins in the next!) It's a global phenomenon. Witness Londonstan.

Peace, out

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 13, 2026 01:55 PM (dtajH)

124 Also, RIP to the Air Force plane refuelers that crashed in Iraq. May their families feel the loving arms of god wrap around them to comfort them.

A friend of mine is currently a plane refueler in the Air Force, and he is on the same kind of plane that crashed. We are waiting to hear back from his wife if he was on that plane, but they live overseas and the time difference means they should be asleep. Praying hard he's safe, we'll see.

Posted by: LizLem at March 13, 2026 01:55 PM (MPRWC)

125 I bet there's 95% - 99.9999% opposition against voter ID with our "elected representatives". Their entire livelihood is built on the scam.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 01:51 PM (3uBP9)

yes, they those representatives ar trying to scam something, but that has nothing to do with average people who keep voting and voting, and then left in shock when either Hussein or Mumdani end up in charge. this concept is very hard for some to absorb, and then they claim some kind of moral superiority that they did not exactly earn

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (GD0B3)

126 How many people are struck by lightning while waiting in the subway for their train?

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (6iKlf)

127 It wouldn't be anyone if everyone practiced basic awareness, such as not standing right at the edge of the platform. But people do. That's making yourself a target. Never make yourself a target. Not anywhere.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

I mean, I'd go for the deportation of illegals and imprisonment of criminals, but I guess I'm just crazy.

Sad to yearn for the 'good ole' days' when platform pushings weren't a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

128 Well, since you put it THAT way. Push away!!!

Odds are it won't be me.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
__________

It wouldn't be anyone if everyone practiced basic awareness, such as not standing right at the edge of the platform. But people do. That's making yourself a target. Never make yourself a target. Not anywhere.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM

This seems like such a stereotypical urbanite viewpoint. Here in small town America, we don't go out expecting to be attacked.

To quote Sting; You don't have to live like a refugee.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (BMpk9)

129 @109 CNN should just put out a disclaimer "look, we have no idea what we're doing and are largely brain damaged. Our job is to make ridiculous claims about Republicans and especially Trump. Act accordingly"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (YsPj+)

130 To quote Sting; You don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (BMpk9)

Tom Petty, bro.

Posted by: You can if you want, but it's not mandatory at March 13, 2026 01:57 PM (TbWk/)

131 I hate to do it, but I see no other alternative but to build a BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL around my hometown of NEW YORK CITY in order to keep Mayor Mamdani's DISASTROUS policies from spreading. And I will make John Carpenter pay for it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: President DJT at March 13, 2026 01:57 PM (M0V4/)

132
You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM

Perhaps. But even dumb rednecks know that only a retard would stand next to the only tree in a field during a thunderstorm. New Yawkers apparently haven't learned that it's really difficult for that bum to shove you under the incoming train if you're standing 30 feet away from the tracks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 13, 2026 01:57 PM (y9nCu)

133
How will they prove that they are a citizen

Posted by: MAC V SOG at March 13, 2026 01:53 PM (P4Pk9)

That's only if the SAVE Act is actually passed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

134 To quote Sting; You don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (BMpk9)

Uh, no on the Sting part.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (gKDq2)

135 You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:48 PM

Unless you are the one that gets pushed. Then it's 1:1.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM (BMpk9)
_____

There are crazy and bad people everywhere, in every city in every neighborhood in every community. There will always be victims of crime no matter how low or unlikely. Pick any city or area anywhere in the country -- even in this blog's favorite red areas -- and I'll find crimes with higher victimhood ratios than 1 in 40 million a year.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (iFTx/)

136 128 To quote Sting; You don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (BMpk9)

No, Sting asked if the Russians loved their children, too.

Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (1YL6+)

137 To quote Sting; You don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Tom Petty.

Posted by: Hernan Cortez at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (TezPK)

138 India trains.......

https://is.gd/4fMT6s
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

10% off if you ride on top. 15% if it raining.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (ndZc7)

139 Heh.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (BMpk9)

140 Didn't expect the 'blame the victim' argument on this, but here we are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

141 Odds of getting struck by lightning? 1 in 1.6 million each year. You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

See? Everything's fine! Come visit our city and experience cultural enrichment up close and personal!

Posted by: Mamdami at March 13, 2026 01:59 PM (Dv3i1)

142
No, Sting asked if the Russians loved their children, too.
Posted by: XTC at March 13, 2026 01:58 PM (1YL6+)

Sting advised it's a humiliating kick in the crotch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

143 Don't California My Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

I used to have one that read "Welcome to Texas. Now go home." These days that will probably get my car keyed.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 13, 2026 01:59 PM (k9OZB)

144 "The census "counts" illegals to give blue states votes."

as I understand it, they give illegals IDs that can't identify them as illegals, so they can vote without detection.

BUT even if they don't vote, they give the districts full of illegals representatives based on the total population (including the illegals). So for example, an area of Chicago with 400k legals and 400k illegals will get one rep, while a district with 800k legals will also get one rep.

(somewhere close to 800k/district) This basically means the illegals have at least 20 of their own reps in congress.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 13, 2026 01:59 PM (vbXSk)

145 Well, since you put it THAT way. Push away!!!

Odds are it won't be me.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
__________

It wouldn't be anyone if everyone practiced basic awareness, such as not standing right at the edge of the platform. But people do. That's making yourself a target. Never make yourself a target. Not anywhere.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 01:52 PM

This seems like such a stereotypical urbanite viewpoint. Here in small town America, we don't go out expecting to be attacked.

To quote Sting; You don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (BMpk9)
_____

Oh please. You don't lock your doors at night? You don't take any precautions at all to protect yourself from criminals or crazy people?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

146 Ignoramus

I hate that you are experiencing that, it's not that I think you as an individual deserve it. But the main goal trying to keep other places from becoming that.

At the end of the day, NYC has always been ultra liberal and it always will be. The voters are the real issue, democracy is a real bitch. The WH and federal law enforcement can only do so much.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (eIzlH)

147 anything can happen, California , Nevada, were red , once

Posted by: runner at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (GD0B3)

148 India trains.......

https://is.gd/4fMT6s
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

10% off if you ride on top. 15% if it raining.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

Watch your step on that roof. Get's kinda slippery after lunch.

Posted by: Gunga Din Du It at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (TezPK)

149 To quote Sting; You don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Da'fuq?

Posted by: Zombie Tom Petty at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (M0V4/)

150 This seems like such a stereotypical urbanite viewpoint. Here in small town America, we don't go out expecting to be attacked.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 01:56 PM (BMpk9)

Because it IS an urbanite viewpoint. It's smart and reasonable to adjust your threat matrix based on your location.

Living in NYC - by definition - brings with it increased and different threats than living in Farmville, VA. You should be aware of the common threats in your area, and you should do your best to mitigate those threats. Always. Every time.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 02:01 PM (G1ktt)

151 >>> NYC is now sorry, probably, for being so woke as to put this moslem in charge. Soon competing with Deerborn, MI.

NGL, it was surreal to realize the other day that just 25 years after the towers fell on 9-11 we have the Muslim mayor of NYC photographed sitting on prayer rugs, breaking his fast for Ramadan with a bunch of other Muslim people.

Posted by: LizLem at March 13, 2026 02:01 PM (MPRWC)

152 Some of us got it the first time around, toby

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 02:01 PM (6iKlf)

153 India trains.......

https://is.gd/4fMT6s
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

10% off if you ride on top. 15% if it raining.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

Watch your step on that roof. Get's kinda slippery after lunch.
Posted by: Gunga Din Du It at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (TezPK)
_____

Even more fun in India are the motorbikes (not even motorcyles) and tiny cars with like 15 people on them

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

154 Action Alert! We've just received word Sec War Pete Kegsbreath is escalating the severity of his illegal war with more War Crimes! Reports indicate he will use US satellites to beam "The Bride!" to all screens in Iran, 24/7, destroying their sanity and offending their sacred religious beliefs!!!!

Posted by: Code Pink at March 13, 2026 02:02 PM (ycI94)

155 Oh please. You don't lock your doors at night? You don't take any precautions at all to protect yourself from criminals or crazy people?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM

I don't not expect to be the victim of crime, no. Crime is not the normal and expected thing here.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:02 PM (BMpk9)

156 Sad to yearn for the 'good ole' days' when platform pushings weren't a thing.
_____

Sure, go back to the 'good ole days'. You must be some sort of racist, misogynist, islamophobe.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:02 PM (Dv3i1)

157 Wow, NYC seems like a great place to live.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:02 PM (zZu0s)

158 Hi I'm A rEtArD aNd I sTiLl VoTe DeMoCrAt!

Posted by: DiPsHiT mCgEe at March 13, 2026 02:03 PM (qUkBO)

159
Oh please. You don't lock your doors at night? You don't take any precautions at all to protect yourself from criminals or crazy people?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

I really can't believe this is the argument you're making........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

160 "It's the media center of the leftist universe and I want it crushed under the weight of 10 million illegals."

How do you feel about the lamentations of their women?

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 13, 2026 02:03 PM (cS1cw)

161 I literally go about my day expecting to be surrounded by the sane and law abiding.

Odd, I know.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:03 PM (BMpk9)

162 The last census said there were 331M people.

We know there were around ~40M illegals.

So that means ultimately 1/8 of congress was decided by illegals even if not a single illegal voted since this leads to "rotten boroughs" were a small number of leftists surrounded by illegals get a rep just like 800k actual Americans in a red district get one rep.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

163 I don't not expect to be the victim of crime, no.

Even I can't make sense of this sentence.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:04 PM (BMpk9)

164 It’s very dishonest to assume people protesting ICE are doing so on behalf of the worst of the worst instead of the normal immigrants that just do a good days work and pay their bills like everyone else and have been here for years without issue

———
Shouldn’t “normal immigrants” be legal immigrants and not an issue for ICE, therefore no protest needed? Just a thought to toss out there.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 02:04 PM (GMx4K)

165 Oh please. You don't lock your doors at night? You don't take any precautions at all to protect yourself from criminals or crazy people?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM

I don't not expect to be the victim of crime, no. Crime is not the normal and expected thing here.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:02 PM (BMpk9)
___________

So do you look your doors at night? I'm sure you do. You'd be a fool not to. There is no such thing as a community with no crime at all. Give me any zip code anywhere in the country, and I'll find crime. Guaranteed. I don't expect to be a victim either, and I have never been.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

166 So he does expect to be the victim of crime. Check.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:05 PM (zZu0s)

167
Even I can't make sense of this sentence.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:04 PM (BMpk9)

Proud graduate of your local Learing Center.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

168 Are we in the phase of asking what the 83 year old veteran was wearing?

Maybe he was asking for it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

169 i saw that greta thumperbumper has a video denouncing what is happening to cuba. she looks like she got her hair clipped by stevie wonder with hedge clippers

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (CWTWj)

170

But what about the rise in White Supremacy.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (et1vG)

171 124 Also, RIP to the Air Force plane refuelers that crashed in Iraq. May their families feel the loving arms of god wrap around them to comfort them.

A friend of mine is currently a plane refueler in the Air Force, and he is on the same kind of plane that crashed. We are waiting to hear back from his wife if he was on that plane, but they live overseas and the time difference means they should be asleep. Praying hard he's safe, we'll see.
Posted by: LizLem

Amen. Spokane's Fairchild AFB is home to the 97th squadron. SIL is a retired kc135 captain. Talked with him this morning. He's wondering if he knew any of the airmen. He said combat refueling most often involves multiple tankers. He said it can get very intense. Sounded like a midair collision.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (7Cdr7)

172 I really can't believe this is the argument you're making........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:03 PM

Yeah, on this point, it's like arguing with Seattle Slough. The provincialism is strong.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (BMpk9)

173 159
Oh please. You don't lock your doors at night? You don't take any precautions at all to protect yourself from criminals or crazy people?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

We didn't use to.. We do now.... I've lived here most of my life.. When I went out I knew people.... Not anymore... Being a sanctuary State, County, City hasn't helped...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (VE6XX)

174
Maybe he was asking for it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

He was. He was standing there, next to the tracks, waiting for the train. What a dumbass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

175 164 It’s very dishonest to assume people protesting ICE are doing so on behalf of the worst of the worst instead of the normal immigrants that just do a good days work and pay their bills like everyone else and have been here for years without issue
____

That's why Democrats fight so hard to keep the worst of the worst here.

Posted by: Me Democrat. Me smart. at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (qUkBO)

176 what, expect the local gummint to act against a valuable footsoldier in the ongoing War Against Normies?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (MIIRH)

177 Oh please. You don't lock your doors at night? You don't take any precautions at all to protect yourself from criminals or crazy people?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

I really can't believe this is the argument you're making........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
_______

It's very basic common sense. Everyone takes precautions to protect themselves, no matter where you live. There is crime everywhere, in every zip code in the country. The idea that only NYers have to take precautions is silly.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

178 171 124 Also, RIP to the Air Force plane refuelers that crashed in Iraq. May their families feel the loving arms of god wrap around them to comfort them

Yes... I feel terrible about that RIP

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (VE6XX)

179 [Senator Chris] Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

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Yeah, boy! The jihadis are having it all their way!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (ndZc7)

180
Yeah, on this point, it's like arguing with Seattle Slough. The provincialism is strong.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (BMpk9)

True.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

181 It’s very dishonest to assume people protesting ICE are doing so on behalf of the worst of the worst instead of the normal immigrants that just do a good days work and pay their bills like everyone else and have been here for years without issue

Odd, I remember Maryland Man became a caus celeb even after he was charged with human trafficking...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (sKqQm)

182 He was. He was standing there, next to the tracks, waiting for the train. What a dumbass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

I mean, it is NYC- a dystopia wasteland inhabited by evil assholes. He should have expected the vicious attempted murder.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:08 PM (zZu0s)

183 [Senator Chris] Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

You're referring back to Biden and the Afghanistan withdraw, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

184 I mean, it is NYC- a dystopia wasteland inhabited by evil assholes. He should have expected the vicious attempted murder.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:08 PM (zZu0s)

So I'm told........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

185 Oh please. You don't lock your doors at night? You don't take any precautions at all to protect yourself from criminals or crazy people?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

We don’t always lock the doors. And my dog is worthless, beyond being the mascot here and adorable as heck. I think you have lived where you live a long time and that affects your view, understandably. I live in a small town where everyone knows everyone somehow, someway. It’s kind of funny, honestly. As close as we are to Mobile, it rarely spills over. I don’t want to pretend we don’t have crime, but it’s not like what you see.

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 02:09 PM (GMx4K)

186 179 [Senator Chris] Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

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Yeah, boy! The jihadis are having it all their way!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (ndZc7

Horribly ? He should have to answer for saying that

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:09 PM (VE6XX)

187 For anyone interested, especially some of the Ettes, Vance is on FoxNews now.

Posted by: Stateless at March 13, 2026 02:10 PM (Sco7b)

188 Elric, you are being intentionally retarded: the point is not reasonable- you should not expect to be murdered while standing and waiting for your idiotic version of a bus.

You shouldn't HAVE to be. That makes this insta ce UNreasonable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:10 PM (zZu0s)

189 Also, RIP to the Air Force plane refuelers that crashed in Iraq. May their families feel the loving arms of god wrap around them to comfort them

Asked my Marine buddy about that. He flew to the ME a few times during his service. Said the refueling was CRAZY. After the planes connect, they basically shut the engines off and go freefall. Said it usually happened in the middle of the night when most were sleeping.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

190 Wow, NYC seems like a great place to live.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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The Battery's up, the Bowery's down...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

191 Oh my gosh Elric, I have the perfect example for you and locked doors! Not so very long ago, a few trucks were driven right off the lot at a dealership in town. Why? They didn’t lock the doors, someone took the key fobs in the middle of the night and left. I am not even kidding. We aren’t Mayberry, but sometimes you might wonder!

Posted by: Piper at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (GMx4K)

192 I'm not a fan of big cities, but Elric is correct. You always have to have situational awareness. Not only regarding crime, but any physical danger such as wild animals, extreme weather, etc.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

193
OT: just had some fly-by-night Chinese delivery service try to get me to take a neighbor's package at the shop. Didn't speak a word of English, and borderline rude about it. Tried to get me to read his questions off of Google Translate on his phone.

He understood me shaking my head, "I'm not reading your fucking phone" and throwing his ass out though.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (y9nCu)

194 FWP: Apparently my OTADVR has not been recording my wife's stories. For over two weeks. I adjusted the antenna in the attic so it should be good going forward but, not I have to find downloads for 12+ episodes of both The Young and the Restless AND The Bold and the Beautiful.

My life is a catastrophe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (BMpk9)

195 It is time to criminalize being a Democrat, voting for Democrats, associating with Democrats, or in any way giving aid or succor to Democrats.

Posted by: tintex at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (QvHlB)

196 [Senator Chris] Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
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Interpretation: The US must not win. China is paying Murphy handsomely to try to save their ally. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:12 PM (Dv3i1)

197 this all reminds me of a story from a while ago, a guy who lives in los angeles complains on line that his car was broken into and a celeb (don't want to name the wrong idiot) responds that his car has been broken into several times but it's the price you pay to live in such as wonderful city

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (CWTWj)

198 It was a tanker on tanker midair collision.

Posted by: 13times at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (6iKlf)

199 Elric, you are being intentionally retarded: the point is not reasonable- you should not expect to be murdered while standing and waiting for your idiotic version of a bus.

You shouldn't HAVE to be. That makes this insta ce UNreasonable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:10 PM (zZu0s)
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Oh fuck off. I already pointed out the chances of getting pushed are 1 in 40 million. Yea, a real big worry and threat. You obviously are very insecure about where you live and NYC lives rent-free in your head. You're like that asshole who gets dumped by his girlfriend, claims he is so much better off without her, but ... he can't stop talking about her, ever.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

200 The Subway Pusher shouldn't have been in the country. How's that my fault as a NYCer.

I was at Trump's highly successful Bronx rally in March 2024. Tried to get into MSG, but the turnout was too large.

NYC crime - especially murders - is far lower than any other major city.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (dtajH)

201
It's very basic common sense. Everyone takes precautions to protect themselves, no matter where you live. There is crime everywhere, in every zip code in the country. The idea that only NYers have to take precautions is silly.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

You literally blamed the victim for standing on the platform waiting for the train. It's his fault for being the unlucky winner in the 1 in 40 million shove lottery.

You're underwater on this one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

202 It's very basic common sense. Everyone takes precautions to protect themselves, no matter where you live. There is crime everywhere, in every zip code in the country. The idea that only NYers have to take precautions is silly.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

The better areas take precautions, in NYC you need a fucking deathstar.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (snZF9)

203 It’s very dishonest to assume people protesting ICE are doing so on behalf of the worst of the worst instead of the normal immigrants

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What about the FFF (Feminists and Fags for Fascism)?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (ndZc7)

204 It is time to criminalize being a Democrat, voting for Democrats, associating with Democrats, or in any way giving aid or succor to Democrats.
Posted by: tintex at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (QvHlB)

The Dems have gone full-blown commie. They are now domestic terrorists.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 02:14 PM (gKDq2)

205 In Science! news the NYT tells me the Trump administration is closing down a Science! lab in Wyoming and transferring it's physical assets to other locations. Because they hate Science!

In reality it is a weather and climate lab, responsible for much the global warming propaganda and alarmism in the country.

What will we do without their climate panic reports and know if every extreme and not so extreme weather is a result of climate change?

Posted by: Ripley at March 13, 2026 02:15 PM (PTDkx)

206 I lived on LI, NY in the late 50's, early 60's. There isn't enough money anyone could offer to get me to visit there again.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 13, 2026 02:15 PM (qZdIZ)

207 196 [Senator Chris] Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
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Sound like he's signaling the Military to start a Coup..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:15 PM (VE6XX)

208 But the problem here is the Dems have already significantly replaced the electorate from then - remember the numbers showed Mamdami losing if only heritage Americans were able to vote...

They also have greatly improved their "fortifications" for "democracy" since then.

Remember: no US election result outside of the state of Florida is legit, regardless of if it goes how you want (or how you want it to so you can virtue signal about how those people deserve it).

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:15 PM (2ocoG)

209 Mamdani continues insisting he will not deport illegals nor turn them over to ICE

18 USC 1324 Aiding and Abetting Illegals makes this very statement a felony.

If an illegal is aided by this policy, and then kills someone, this can actually lead to the DEATH PENALTY.

The laws needed to stop this shit are already on the books, we just can't, or won't, enforce it.

You can also add in Federal Conspiracy charges, ewww.... just found... 18 USC 73, part 1502... Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists, or opposes an extradition agent of the United States in the execution of his duties, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 02:16 PM (mP0Kj)

210 Personally, seeing that subway pushing is a NYC pastime, there is no way I would stand near the edge. Thats just making yourself a target. I said that years ago when I heard of it for the first time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 02:17 PM (snZF9)

211 During the Iraq war the left was cheering h for America to lose but they didn’t say it publicly at least not senators. Now they’re full on I hope Iran wins.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 02:17 PM (Y5yQx)

212 In reality it is a weather and climate lab, responsible for much the global warming propaganda and alarmism in the country.
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If Science! works the way I think it does now, you could probably just pay these guys a little more and they'll deliver Science! that agrees that global warming is a hoax.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:18 PM (Dv3i1)

213 207 196 [Senator Chris] Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
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Sound like he's signaling the Military to start a Coup..
Posted by: It's me donna at March 13, 2026 02:15 PM (VE6XX)

Yeah.... uh... Chris... can I call you Chris... you do know Biden is no longer the President?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 13, 2026 02:18 PM (mP0Kj)

214 In reality it is a weather and climate lab, responsible for much the global warming propaganda and alarmism in the country.

It's been 17 years since noted science expert Al Gore said in 5 years the Arctic will be ice-free.

Current status: still fucking cold.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:18 PM (2ocoG)

215 Everyone takes precautions to protect themselves

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I, for example, wear Kevlar underwear.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 02:19 PM (ndZc7)

216 Personally, seeing that subway pushing is a NYC pastime, there is no way I would stand near the edge. Thats just making yourself a target. I said that years ago when I heard of it for the first time.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 13, 2026 02:17 PM (snZF9)

I learned to stand against the wall, 10 or more feet from the edge, a long time ago. The train doesn't come any faster with you leaning over the edge of the platform looking for it.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 02:19 PM (gKDq2)

217 Yeah.... uh... Chris... can I call you Chris... you do know Biden is no longer the President?

The Democrats accuse Trump of everything we correctly observed about Biden. It happens so often and so thoroughly that it has to be a deliberate strategy.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:19 PM (2ocoG)

218 It's very basic common sense. Everyone takes precautions to protect themselves, no matter where you live. There is crime everywhere, in every zip code in the country. The idea that only NYers have to take precautions is silly.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

You literally blamed the victim for standing on the platform waiting for the train. It's his fault for being the unlucky winner in the 1 in 40 million shove lottery.

You're underwater on this one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)
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Nah, if you stand at the edge of the platform you are a fool. You can reduce the 1 in 40 million to 1 in 40 billion merely by the most simple common sense.

Just like if you don't lock your doors at night, leave the car unlocked with valuables in it, you are making yourself more likely to be a victim -- no matter where you live.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

219 "195 It is time to criminalize being a Democrat, voting for Democrats, associating with Democrats, or in any way giving aid or succor to Democrats.

Posted by: tintex at March 13, 2026 02:11 PM (QvHlB) "

This! 100% !
time to declare them a terrorist organization and invoke the full wrath of the patriot act.
if they don't like it, then the insurrection act as well.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:20 PM (MIIRH)

220 I, for example, wear Kevlar underwear.
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We thought everybody did.

Posted by: The Mormons at March 13, 2026 02:20 PM (sRQHD)

221 learned to stand against the wall, 10 or more feet from the edge, a long time ago. The train doesn't come any faster with you leaning over the edge of the platform looking for it.
Posted by: RickZ at

Of course it does!
-Guy who presses elevator button a million times.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 13, 2026 02:20 PM (YZ0Fo)

222 The Democrats accuse Trump of everything we correctly observed about Biden. It happens so often and so thoroughly that it has to be a deliberate strategy.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:19 PM (2ocoG)

Strategy? No. Just projection.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 02:21 PM (gKDq2)

223 I thought we were all packing heat 24/7. Why we doing that if we all live in Mayberry?

Posted by: NCKate at March 13, 2026 02:21 PM (uQzkA)

224 I was born in Brooklyn, lived in NYC area until age 33. My odds of being pushed in front of a subway train is ZERO because I will never be in NY, NJ, MD, DE, and now VA, ever again. Will not go anywhere I can't be armed.

Posted by: Not A Victim at March 13, 2026 02:21 PM (oftw2)

225 I grew up in eastern North Dakota. Our front door was never locked, even if we were out of town for a couple of days. Zero crime. We all knew our neighbors for 4-5 blocks around.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at March 13, 2026 02:21 PM (iNp3L)

226 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Chris Murphy, now: Our soldiers are being led by a senile old man who is losing his mind.

Chris Murphy, Feb 2024: Joe Biden is incredibly competent and incredibly effective. I've seen it up close and personal.

https://tinyurl.com/mn674mz8

Posted by: redridinghood at March 13, 2026 02:22 PM (NpAcC)

227 So sad that NYC voted for this shit. Democrat enablers terrorizing citizens and then whitewashing it with civil rights and racism and bigotry. I know where I need to go without a passport if I want to take sanctuary in a third world shithole.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 02:22 PM (M9gjJ)

228

"The Democrats accuse Trump of everything we correctly observed about Biden."

Did the same with Bush and Obama, before we knew Bush really was a piece of shit.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at March 13, 2026 02:22 PM (et1vG)

229 Sources: F1 set to cancel Bahrain, Saudi Arabia races amid Iran war

Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2026 02:22 PM (7N3EA)

230 Well, it seems I miscalculated. Today is Friday the 13th. Lotsa bad things happen on Friday the 13th.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

231
I, for example, wear Kevlar underwear.

I rarely shower, and fight crime while wearing a rubber suit. Really seals in the flavor. *grins*

Posted by: Batman at March 13, 2026 02:23 PM (y9nCu)

232 Strategy? No. Just projection.

No, this is far beyond projection. Projection is throwing a couple of random facts to the wrong person. This is so systematic that Trump, according to Democrats, is married to his son Hunter's babysitter, has body doubles, showered with his 13 year old daughter, and wants Obama to bring him a coffee.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:23 PM (2ocoG)

233 🚨#BREAKING: #FBI Boston's Violent Crimes Task Force has arrested 10 Indian nationals across MA, KY, MO, & OH for allegedly participating in staged armed robberies for the purpose of allowing store clerks to claim they were "victims" of violent crime so they could apply for immigration benefits. An 11th Indian nat'l who was deported to India has also been charged.

Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2026 02:23 PM (7N3EA)

234 Oh fuck off. I already pointed out the chances of getting pushed are 1 in 40 million. Yea, a real big worry and threat. You obviously are very insecure about where you live and NYC lives rent-free in your head. You're like that asshole who gets dumped by his girlfriend, claims he is so much better off without her, but ... he can't stop talking about her, ever.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

Lol. Jeez dude. I'm not the one touchy about where I live.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

235 Speaking of traitors . . .

Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin — who voted to shut down DHS, and knows ICE is already funded — admits Democrats need to reopen DHS at a time when terrorists want to attack our country.

SLOTKIN: “Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security.”

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Stop me before I commit treason again!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 13, 2026 02:24 PM (ndZc7)

236 NYC requires extra sensitive alert behaviors. Obviously, venturing on to the subway is one thing (pro-tip: stand back to the wall and wait for the train to enter the station) but also walking down the sidewalks. Be careful someone doesn't reach out and punch you (or any less aware people walking with you). All such things happen.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 13, 2026 02:25 PM (e+E3X)

237 I like how the Secretary of War refers to enemy leaders as "rats."

This is a distinct improvement over the prior 75 years of pusillanimity.

Hegseth is Trump's standout appointment, in both administrations.

People talk about Rubio or Vance. They're both GOP pussies. I want Hegseth for POTUS.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 02:25 PM (BI5O2)

238 ... all packing heat 24/7 ...

to be honest, mostly when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom I leave the 1911 on the bedside table.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:25 PM (MIIRH)

239 Old and busted 80/20

New hotness 99/1

Posted by: Max Power at March 13, 2026 02:26 PM (q177U)

240 for the purpose of allowing store clerks to claim they were "victims" of violent crime so they could apply for immigration benefits

Wait a minute. You can get legal immigrant status faster if crime happens to you in the US? Isn't that the opposite of a refugee?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:26 PM (2ocoG)

241 The real problem is legal immigration. Most of the "changing" of America is 100% legal immigrants like Mamdani.

Illegals are just sort of a sideshow.

GOP needs to back some sort of moratorium on all new immigration. It would be insanely popular.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 02:26 PM (eIzlH)

242 So, even if you don't NEED to lock your door, what's the upside of leaving it unlocked?

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

243 233, LOL, there really is no end to the looting of the American people.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:28 PM (MIIRH)

244 for the purpose of allowing store clerks to claim they were "victims" of violent crime so they could apply for immigration benefits

Wait a minute. You can get legal immigrant status faster if crime happens to you in the US? Isn't that the opposite of a refugee?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:26 PM (2ocoG)
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Yea. It's supposed to be for only certain crimes, and for helping law enforcement bring down crime rings (like sex-trafficking rings), but like anything else it's been expanded and watered-down.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

245 I thought we were all packing heat 24/7. Why we doing that if we all live in Mayberry?
Posted by: NCKate

Guns are merely a tool. Self defense is 80% software, 20% hardware.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 13, 2026 02:29 PM (7Cdr7)

246 236 NYC requires extra sensitive alert behaviors. Obviously, venturing on to the subway is one thing (pro-tip: stand back to the wall and wait for the train to enter the station) but also walking down the sidewalks. Be careful someone doesn't reach out and punch you (or any less aware people walking with you). All such things happen.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

When I was last in NY about 10yrs ago, I prepared for pickpockets, sidewalk scammers and aggressive beggers. Next time I go, I'll add in preparation for subway station pushers and random punchers. Anything else?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:30 PM (Dv3i1)

247 there is iron in YD's words at 237.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:30 PM (MIIRH)

248 So, even if you don't NEED to lock your door, what's the upside of leaving it unlocked?
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
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There is no downside. And truth be told, in addition to living in Manhattan, I also have a house in the NJ suburbs. I don't often lock that door during the day. There is very little crime there. But it exists. I do lock the door at night.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

249 229 Sources: F1 set to cancel Bahrain, Saudi Arabia races amid Iran war
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2026 02:22 PM (7N3EA)

But... but... how can I win the race then???

Posted by: Sonny Hayes at March 13, 2026 02:30 PM (mP0Kj)

250 The judge thing is a joke right?

Posted by: connected and litigious at March 13, 2026 02:31 PM (cS1cw)

251 >>> So, even if you don't NEED to lock your door, what's the upside of leaving it unlocked?
Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

Just one less thing to screw with, worry about.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 02:31 PM (3uBP9)

252 230 Well, it seems I miscalculated. Today is Friday the 13th. Lotsa bad things happen on Friday the 13th.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

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And then there was Part VI: Jason Lives which is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:31 PM (bZSny)

253 The real problem is legal immigration. Most of the "changing" of America is 100% legal immigrants like Mamdani.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is behind in the polls to Covid Karen Amy Acton. Probably because R voter enthusiasm is down due to his hyper H1-B Indian immigration to repopulate Ohio plan.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:33 PM (Dv3i1)

254 Ignoramus, I pray for the friends and family I love living in NYC to stay safe. I can add you to the prayers.

My sib lives in the Bronx and travels to Manhattan on the subway for work everyday. They refuse to ride the subway at at night now, ever. Only take Uber or Lyft.

Whereas when they moves there like ten years ago it was safe tk be in the subway at night, no problem.

NYC's own Museum of the City of New York lies about why NYC got better under Giuliani, after the crime of the 70s. If the leaders refuse to know the actual history of the city, they will never run it well.

Posted by: LizLem at March 13, 2026 02:33 PM (3N2FH)

255 Sources: F1 set to cancel Bahrain, Saudi Arabia races amid Iran war
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That's racist!
- Lewis Hamilton

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:34 PM (Dv3i1)

256 Just one less thing to screw with, worry about.
Posted by: banana Dream

Okaaaaay...

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

257 Sources: F1 set to cancel Bahrain, Saudi Arabia races amid Iran war
Posted by: SMOD at March 13, 2026 02:22 PM (7N3EA)

Good. Thousands of girls won’t be trafficked for the weekend.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 02:34 PM (Y5yQx)

258 Kirk Cousins to: Raiders, Bengals, Steelers, Packers or Browns? Any guesses?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 13, 2026 02:35 PM (pZ64F)

259 If I buy creatine do I really have to buy it from a company called Jacked Factory? That has a high rating but honestly it sounds like a gay porn studio.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 13, 2026 02:35 PM (3uBP9)

260 Eradicate all scammers and pirates!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 13, 2026 02:35 PM (wVcYX)

261 There is no downside. And truth be told, in addition to living in Manhattan, I also have a house in the NJ suburbs. I don't often lock that door during the day. There is very little crime there. But it exists. I do lock the door at night.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

We keep our front door locked and deadbolted all the time, even when we're both home.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 02:35 PM (77rzZ)

262 *peeks in*

*backs out quietly*

Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2026 02:35 PM (zcJ6r)

263 241 The real problem is legal immigration. Most of the "changing" of America is 100% legal immigrants like Mamdani.

Posted by: Leupold at March 13, 2026 02:26 PM (eIzlH)

Don't forget a dash of Multi-Culturalism.

Posted by: WisRich at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (G0vdT)

264 223 I thought we were all packing heat 24/7. Why we doing that if we all live in Mayberry?
Posted by: NCKate
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A) animal protection primarily wild and maltreated dogs
B) rural and suburban crime does exist and police are minutes to hours away
C) discourages lefty city folks from moving into your locale and spoiling it.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (E4rtv)

265 Browns

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (00Q4/)

266 253 The real problem is legal immigration. Most of the "changing" of America is 100% legal immigrants like Mamdani.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is behind in the polls to Covid Karen Amy Acton. Probably because R voter enthusiasm is down due to his hyper H1-B Indian immigration to repopulate Ohio plan.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:33 PM (Dv3i1)

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Governors races are those kinds of races that can go against PVI and elect off-party candidates.

They're a bit less driven by pure partisanship and can be influenced by local/statewide issues.

No polling of the GOP primary for months, and the last couple were YouGov (laughs), but this could be another Mark Robinson (NC in 2024) where the candidate is just so bad but wins the primary anyway.

The only things that could save Vivek if he wins the primary are the very slanted nature of PVI in Ohio and the fact that Acton is terrible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (bZSny)

267 >>So, even if you don't NEED to lock your door, what's the upside of leaving it unlocked?

There isn't one.

It's like driving without wearing a seatbelt. It probably isn't going to matter as you will never get into a serious accident, but you'll be happy you were wearing one in the 1-in-40 million chance that you do.

Same with locking your doors and windows, not just at night, but all the time. Home invasions happen during daylight hours, too.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (Y1sOo)

268 Well, it seems I miscalculated. Today is Friday the 13th. Lotsa bad things happen on Friday the 13th.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

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And then there was Part VI: Jason Lives which is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:31 PM (bZSny)
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The first of the Super-Jasons?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

269 253 The real problem is legal immigration. Most of the "changing" of America is 100% legal immigrants like Mamdani.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is behind in the polls to Covid Karen Amy Acton. Probably because R voter enthusiasm is down due to his hyper H1-B Indian immigration to repopulate Ohio plan.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:33 PM (Dv3i1)

Is he the certain R nominee?

Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (tOcjL)

270 My personal rule is that the only time an exterior door in my home is unlocked is when I'm walking through it.

Posted by: PabloD at March 13, 2026 02:37 PM (qojY3)

271 262, probably a wise choice ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:37 PM (MIIRH)

272 67 I've seen video of these subway shoves in other cities -- I think there have been some in London, too. I want to know: what is with these insane third-worlders who do this? In a perverse way, I "get" the r@pe of young western women and girls, but why shove old guys onto train tracks? Do they do this in their home countries?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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I've had trouble finding the rationalization as well. I'm going to suggest a staple of today's society. "Immediate gratification" and "Envy" itied together in a neat little bow of "self-loathing."

These illegals are sold a bill of goods that coming to the US guarantees wealth. When it becomes apparent that they need to work for it, they go for the immediate gratification associated with crime. When that doesn't work out they start to envy those established citizens like a old white guy (likely carrying groceries or something)...which trips the envy button...as they compare that old white guy to their own failures...and that brings forth the frustration and self-loathing. Hence, a push onto the tracks. Of course, these lawless jackasses likely don't need much of a reason. They're angry.

Posted by: Orson at March 13, 2026 02:37 PM (dIske)

273 The real problem is legal immigration. Most of the "changing" of America is 100% legal immigrants like Mamdani.
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Vivek Ramaswamy is behind in the polls to Covid Karen Amy Acton. Probably because R voter enthusiasm is down due to his hyper H1-B Indian immigration to repopulate Ohio plan.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:33 PM (Dv3i1)

Is he the certain R nominee?
Posted by: Nova Local at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (tOcjL)
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Vivek stepped on his dick with the H1B stupidity, but there's always been a stench of grifting opportunist about him too. Voters smell it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

274 268 And then there was Part VI: Jason Lives which is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:31 PM (bZSny)
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The first of the Super-Jasons?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

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The one that combines actual cinematic craft with a knowing sense of humor.

A couple of the others have the knowing sense of humor (IV, in particular) but just aren't that well made.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:38 PM (bZSny)

275 "Odds of getting struck by lightning? 1 in 1.6 million each year. You are 25x more likely to get struck by lighting than pushed in the NYC subway."

Lightning strikes aren't guided by a human intelligence, unlike humans being pushed in front of trains by other humans.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 13, 2026 02:38 PM (AjG6+)

276 @258 Browns, you can never have enough because over the hill, injured, or just flat out crappy qbs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 13, 2026 02:39 PM (YsPj+)

277 Yeah I never they the no door locking thing. It’s like ok there is very little crime where you live. But crime exists everywhere. There could be some out of town let passing through who decides he needs to steal a car or whatever.

Locking a door takes literally a second. Why not do it? There’s no downside whatsoever and no cost.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 02:39 PM (Y5yQx)

278 I hate to break it to those in NYC, but Thai food at 3 a.m. isn't worth this.

Posted by: pookysgirl now needs to make curry tonight at March 13, 2026 02:40 PM (Wt5PA)

279 Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

I've been to your city on a couple occasions.

It sucks shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 02:40 PM (BI5O2)

280 270, *fistbump*

same here
(with occasional exceptions if I remain in sight of the door and surroundings)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:40 PM (MIIRH)

281 https://is.gd/aNyf8K

The Eleven-Day Pivot That Rewrote Saudi Arabia’s Energy Map

"DHAHRAN — On March 10, Saudi Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser made a disclosure that would have been unthinkable six months ago. The Kingdom’s 1,200-kilometre East-West crude oil pipeline, a Cold War-era contingency built in 1981 and rarely operated at capacity, would hit its emergency maximum of seven million barrels per day “in the next couple of days.” Yanbu, a modest Red Sea port that processed fewer than 800,000 barrels daily in February, had tripled its throughput in barely a week."

Yeah...the strait just isn't that important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:40 PM (bZSny)

282 Vivek vs Casey Putsch and Heather Hill. Name recognition and state GOPe endorsement make it very likely Vivek will win the primary.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:40 PM (Dv3i1)

283
Personally, seeing that subway pushing is a NYC pastime

Alvin York's buddy worked on the Bronx Express. His nickname was PUSHER!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (Cqx++)

284 Locking a door takes literally a second. Why not do it? There’s no downside whatsoever and no cost.
Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 02:39 PM (Y5yQx)

Because I have the freedom to choose to do whatever the I want with my locks. Smart or stupid -- that's what freedom is all about.

Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (zcJ6r)

285 So it's a movie thread?

Posted by: Just got here at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (sRQHD)

286 284 Because I have the freedom to choose to do whatever the I want with my locks. Smart or stupid -- that's what freedom is all about.

Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (zcJ6r)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (bZSny)

287 Locking a door takes literally a second. Why not do it? There’s no downside whatsoever and no cost.
Posted by: Heroq

What society would you prefer to live in? One in which everyone feels the need to lock every door all the time? Or one in which only a few feel that need?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (diia5)

288 Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

I've been to your city on a couple occasions.

It sucks shit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 02:40 PM (BI5O2)
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You're another guy with a head that NYC lives rent-free in. It's sad, really.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

289 Same with locking your doors and windows, not just at night, but all the time. Home invasions happen during daylight hours, too.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 02:36 PM (Y1sOo)

Normally.

Home invasions normally happen during the day. You know, when homeowners are at work.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 02:42 PM (G1ktt)

290 Vivek. Another skunk you weren't allowed to say was a skunk.

Posted by: ... at March 13, 2026 02:42 PM (00Q4/)

291 Yeah I never they the no door locking thing. It’s like ok there is very little crime where you live. But crime exists everywhere. There could be some out of town let passing through who decides he needs to steal a car or whatever.

Locking a door takes literally a second. Why not do it? There’s no downside whatsoever and no cost.
Posted by: Heroq

Yeah, I don't get the love for unlocked doors.

Posted by: Bulg at March 13, 2026 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

292 It's not sad. Your city sucks. Like all the others.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 02:42 PM (BI5O2)

293 Mine has nothing to do with fear (re: locking doors) but is OCD. I'm just lucky I don't have to lock and relocate them several times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 13, 2026 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

294 Don't forget a dash of Multi-Culturalism.

This is arguably the most causative part. Back when legal immigrants were expected to assimilate things were fine. Now Americans are racist if they don't assimilate to the immigrants' cultures.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:43 PM (2ocoG)

295 Vivek Ramaswamy is behind in the polls to Covid Karen Amy Acton. Probably because R voter enthusiasm is down due to his hyper H1-B Indian immigration to repopulate Ohio plan.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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He is someone that got wealthy off a pump and dump financial maneuver in pharma stocks and as a result, probably lacks the ability to actually empathize with Ohio voters.

His periodic and idiotic hot takes smacks of blaming the victims and Heritage Americans for their own economic distress. About as popular as Kevin Williamson of NR would be running for office.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 02:43 PM (E4rtv)

296 Because I have the freedom to choose to do whatever the I want with my locks. Smart or stupid -- that's what freedom is all about.
Posted by: Doof at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (zcJ6r)

No need to get so defensive. I was asking a question, not trying to take away your freedom. Sheesh.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 02:43 PM (Y5yQx)

297 276 @258 Browns, you can never have enough because over the hill, injured, or just flat out crappy qbs
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The Browns have a really nasty defense. Offensively, they are sort of retarded. Cousins at the Browns would give the team a chance to build an offense around him and maybe teach the offense how play action is done. Cousins would be the starter on day 1. Whether he can survive behind the Brownies offensive line is another question.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 13, 2026 02:43 PM (pZ64F)

298 Home invasions normally happen during the day. You know, when homeowners are at work.

Isn't a "home invasion" legally a break-in with one or more of the legal residents present?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

299
You're another guy with a head that NYC lives rent-free in. It's sad, really.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

I would actually venture a guess that the the only time NYC enters anyone's head that doesn't live there is only when stories such as this pop up.

I mean, I never think of NYC, unless Ace or a cob writes about it.

I'm sure it's not living in a vast majority of people's heads, free or otherwise.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

300 Home invasions normally happen during the day. You know, when homeowners are at work.
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I read where home invasions in England happen when the homeowners are present. Besides the fact that homeowners can't defend themselves, it would be illegal if they tried, there's probably another reason. I assume it's because they know where the valuables are hidden, making it convenient for the theives.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 13, 2026 02:44 PM (Dv3i1)

301 27 Snowing HARD in downtown Seattle.

Whoohoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 13, 2026 01:33 PM (i75mC)

I love the YouTube videos showing drivers on hills in Seattle during a snow storm. Buses are the best.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 01:38 PM (Y5yQx)

Videos of Queen Anne hill roads after conditions get icy are hilarious and scary.

Posted by: farquad at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (CFMhl)

302 Locking a door takes literally a second. Why not do it? There’s no downside whatsoever and no cost.
Posted by: Heroq

Yeah, I don't get the love for unlocked doors.
Posted by: Bulg
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Was a habit long ago but then again, we aren't living in that world anymore. Even in rural areas, far too many employers want to hire illegals because they work cheap.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (E4rtv)

303 >>Home invasions normally happen during the day. You know, when homeowners are at work.

What is this 'work' thing of which you speak?

Posted by: one hour sober at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (Y1sOo)

304 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
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I do my best to keep as little as possible in my head.

Posted by: Weasel at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (UUNra)

305 It's not sad. Your city sucks. Like all the others.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 02:42 PM (BI5O2)
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You live wherever you want to live. Let others live where they want to live. So much judging and whining and moaning on what is supposed to be a rightwing site about what other people choose to do, to do it with, where to live, etc.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

306 Hey there Posada-Herandez. Why don't you come out to my little town? We don't have subways but there is commuter rail and some plain old-fashioned busses. Come on, you limp dick muths-fu*ka. Lets just see how brave you are here!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (2WIwB)

307 Unlocked doors are a statement about freedom, a sense of adventure with security. Like going commando.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (wVcYX)

308 I do my best to keep as little as possible in my head.

Posted by: Weasel at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (UUNra)

PREACH!!!

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

309 I stayed at someone’s house out in the sticks. They locked the front door but kept the side and back doors open at night.

Never figured that one out.

Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (Y5yQx)

310 nood - more bombs and Me Again!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (4PH1B)

311 Singing in the rain! (kick, kick) I'm singing in the rain!!

Posted by: Alex at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (Q+gd/)

312 I thought we were all packing heat 24/7. Why we doing that if we all live in Mayberry?
Posted by: NCKate

Because Barney is the only one on duty and he's 45 minutes away on the other side of the county.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (NcUvK)

313 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
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*brohug!*

Posted by: Weasel at March 13, 2026 02:46 PM (UUNra)

314 nood

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (dK+Kv)

315 I don't understand the "living rent free in so and so's head" thing.

If anyone says somebody else's sucky thing sucks, then it apparently "lives free in [guy's] head," or he's trying to "censor it" or "cancel it."

No. I spend little thought on your shitty thing, except to drive by and shoot it down, because it sucks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (BI5O2)

316 I do my best to keep as little as possible in my head.

Posted by: Weasel at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (UUNra)

***
As an Army Intelligence officer, I kept myself in a constant state of confusion so that if ever interrogated by the enemy, I'd be of no use!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (2WIwB)

317 What society would you prefer to live in? One in which everyone feels the need to lock every door all the time? Or one in which only a few feel that need?

prefer doesn't really enter into this decision; what society do I actually live in?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 13, 2026 02:47 PM (MIIRH)

318 Isn't a "home invasion" legally a break-in with one or more of the legal residents present?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 13, 2026 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

Maybe - I'm not sure on the legal definitions.

We'll say 'break-ins' then. Most break-ins occur during the day when homeowners are at work.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 02:48 PM (G1ktt)

319 I stayed at someone’s house out in the sticks. They locked the front door but kept the side and back doors open at night.

Never figured that one out.
Posted by: Heroq at March 13, 2026 02:45 PM (Y5yQx)

Strangers have to use the front doors. Family and trusted neighbors may use the back doors, This is the way.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (wVcYX)

320 Alvin York's buddy worked on the Bronx Express. His nickname was PUSHER!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 13, 2026 02:41 PM (Cqx++)

There was a Pusher character in 'Sergeant York'; he had a job as a subway pusher, pushing people into the trains. He was a city friend to country Alvin. Pusher was killed in the movie.

Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (gKDq2)

321 I assume it's because they know where the valuables are hidden, making it convenient for the theives.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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It has long been demonstrated that leftists beliefs on crime and its perpetrators are full of shit. Criminals respond to incentives and no worries about being punished by homeowners means more home invasions. To them, crime is what they do because they don't care to work for a living and jail/prison is simply like when they get laid off for a time. Out, they will start back to what they were doing that got them into trouble in the first place. It is a way of life to them, not economic or social primarily, but culture.

In jurisdictions where they may get ventilated, there are less home invasions and burglars tend to stick to unoccupied dwellings. Only the hard cases go after targets where they might get killed.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (E4rtv)

322 Strangers have to use the front doors. Family and trusted neighbors may use the back doors, This is the way.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 13, 2026 02:49 PM (wVcYX)

Other way around, dummy.

- Pete Bootyjudge

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 13, 2026 02:50 PM (G1ktt)

323 318 Isn't a "home invasion" legally a break-in with one or more of the legal residents present?

Posted by: Ian S.

Some quibbles about how different jurisdictions code this and I think you can find a DoJ publication explaining that. But it generally means purposefully going into a residence despite it being occupied and entering in a tumultuous fashion.

Defining it gets complicated when sometimes it is a whacked out acquaintance or family member of some sort usually on drugs or drunk or in domestic violence cases. They may have a quasi legal reason for entry but refuse to leave when asked.

Posted by: whig at March 13, 2026 02:53 PM (E4rtv)

324 >>> 1 in 1.6 million each year.

1.6 million what?
Lightning strikes?
People that try to get struck but miss ( lotto )?

Not getting the analogy.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 13, 2026 02:54 PM (Li9FJ)

325 I amost shot the neighbors drunk brother one night. Just walked in the house. Stood there confused while I drew on him. I recognized he wasn't a threat and pushed his ass out the door and off the porch. He starts yelling about me being in his sisters house so I chased him down to her house when I figured out this was the dude she was always bitching about. Sad more than anything. She really loved him and he died a few month later.

Doors always locked since. That whole incident brought on security cameras and being armed always on the property.

Posted by: Reforger at March 13, 2026 02:58 PM (rpbjO)

326 F1 has become lame-o. Put 20 driverless Teslas on the grid and let them run wild. Major excel-decel plus fenderbending like NASCAR for the win. Big-time gambling venue.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 02:59 PM (M9gjJ)

327 >>> 1 in 1.6 million each year.

1.6 million what?
Lightning strikes?
People that try to get struck but miss ( lotto )?

Not getting the analogy.

You are infinitely more likely to be shoved onto railroad tracks in NYC than Podunkt. Not because Podunkt has less tracks but because in NY people shove others onto yhe tracks.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 13, 2026 03:00 PM (Li9FJ)

328 Give each F1 team one drone strike. That's what I'm talking about!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 13, 2026 03:01 PM (M9gjJ)

329 Show them the way to go home
They're louts who need a knock in the head
Show them the way to go home
They're louts who need a knock in the head

Let's save out souls
Piss on the proles and
Send the louts back home

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 13, 2026 06:04 PM (BENy5)

330 @NYC, drop dead, take the rats with you.
I did not think the mayor from hell would destroy it so quickly.
Destruction is faster than construction.

Posted by: Elect me because i'm dyslexic and racist at March 13, 2026 11:01 PM (hjyS6)

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