1 YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? IT'S BLADING TIME!

2 i'm stuck where I was on Tuesday night, "On the Doorstep." I tried to read in the theater for the 40 minutes before the show but it was too loud man.

3 Nooded.

4 YAY HOBBITSES

5 oh I also got distracted reading Robert E. Howard's "Skull-Face." Which it turns out is a little like The Shadow novel. Though it's mostly a "patch," as they say, on Doctor Fu-Manchu.

6 Willowed:

May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM

You realize this elevated Ace to Chuck Norris status, as the only two men to tell a woman to calm down, with successful results?

7 Read the Hobbit and am 3/4 the way through The Fellowship of the Ring.. I had forgotten what a good read these books are...

8 i recall lotr was popular when i was in hi school in the early '70s. found a copy online recently, read the first 2 paragraphs and decided it was meant for 12 year olds

9 I told pete to fuck off until Tuesday. He ignored me. He is now gone and permanently banned.

Today is not the day for shit-stirring, trolls.
Posted by: ace

Dear Mr. Ace,

I have some additional staff termination notifications to make...would you be interested in making a little money on the side doing them for me? I like your style.

Trump 47

10 (although I've never read any Fu-Manchu-- maybe The Shadow borrowed the element of the mystery man recruiting relatively normal people to act as their agents from Fu-Manchu.)

11 My progress on LOTR is zero. I am a one trick pony, I am afraid. As soon as the noon class ends, I am going to go do my own workout. Or maybe I will go run. If I run, y’all can expect the usual results- me coming here wondering why I ran because I hate it. One. Trick. Pony.

12 He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.

13 FIRST!!!!!

14 Ah, that fresh no beatin' peet smell.

15 >>>8 Read the Hobbit and am 3/4 the way through The Fellowship of the Ring.. I had forgotten what a good read these books are...

wow that's some progress. I need to finish this Children's Book today. It's getting embarassing!

16 Ace I want to genuinely wish you a Happy Easter and hope it's a truly Good day for you. I personally feel the weight of today differently every year, as I change and my understanding of Jesus and maybe even God changes.

Today has been particularly heavy in it. I appreciate you giving us this little timeless (and I do mean timeless) safe haven of internet where the values of your readers and commenters are generally respected and not insulted like 99.99% of the "conservative" sites end up doing. The site has had its moments but your humor and overall sense of fairness has been the engine that drives it and keeps it going despite politics generally being a very sucky thing to talk about. I really thank God we still have this fun little place.

17 I'm going to disagree with ace a bit on Hobbit vs. Lord of the Rings.

Although The Hobbit is certainly enjoyable and much more whimsical than LOTR, it suffers a bit from a lack of meaningful interaction between characters.

Much of the story is given as exposition, rather than shown through dialogue. For that reason, I skimmed a fair amount of The Hobbit as I wanted more characters DOING things, than having the narrator explain that the characters did some things.

I also found the pacing in LOTR far faster than I remembered. Yes, there are several chapters spent on characters standing around talking to each other, but the chapters where action is happening move FAST because Tolkien lets the reader fill in the gaps in their imagination.

Battle of the Pelennor Fields takes up less than ten pages and most of that is Theoden dying and Eowyn killing the Lord of the Nazgul.

18 >>>For those joining me on a trip to Middle Earth, how is it going?

It's baseball season. Ain't nobody got time for that.

19 I also love the Hobbit. And LOTR, though they are very different reading experiences.

The Hobbit CAN be read faster than the shitty movie versions can be watched.

20 LOTRs was a real slog when I was a teenager.

21 I sometimes wonder if I’m just a big sucker going to work everyday and paying my bills. Maybe I should open a learing center and start collecting grift for doing nothing myself…. When so many others are doing that I do feel like a sucker doing the right thing….
We are a society of perverse incentives

22 The elft touts a bunch a bunch of studies that note people feel more secure and happier if they are getting UBI.

Well...duh. If you hand people a monthly stipend for nothing what do you expect?

Also the studies show people on UBI are spend more time not working and are pickier about the jobs they take.

Again...duh.

So if the goal is to get people to work less and feel better about it UBI works.

Oh but then there is the other part. Since you are giving money away it has to come from someone with a job. So that guy, we will call him "me" here has to work more hours and more years so that some AWFL can spend her time not working. But that's "fair" right?

23 Honestly, If I were Trump, I would have select MIB show up at Robert's home and have a long discussion with him about this Birth Right Citizenship thing. Make a deal he can't refuse. Safely of course.

24 it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI [Universal Basic Income] is already here.



My stupid cracker ass doesn't get shit.

25 And I'm reading LeCarre's 'Little Drummer Girl', so I can compare it to the Park Chan-Wook remake, and it's very good. Not nearly as 'the West sucks' as most of his other work. It helps that we have competent Mossad agents as protagonists. And, frankly, it's halfway to being a love story. You know...for the chicks.

26 >>>21 LOTRs was a real slog when I was a teenager.

it was for me when I read it as a kid. It still is, but it's easier to read as an adult.

He sure does like his archaic words, though.

One interesting one he uses. He says something like "The Black Rider's eyes burned like hellcoals."

Hellcoals?

I looked it up -- apparently it means the glowing yellow-red coals in a cooking pit.

27 Eric Swalwell is the Nicolas Maduro of Gray Davises

28 Can we use some of the defense budget to bomb Pramila Jayapal?

29 Commit to a 1200 page book? How's reading the entire thing out loud to my kids sit on the commitment scale? Throw in The Hobbit while you're at it.

30 Speaking of Obama ...

... he stole 2012, didn't he?

31
My stupid cracker ass doesn't get shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:28 PM (K3Fc+)


Because 'white = Satan' sir.

You are the problem. They're importing the illegals to kill you first and foremost.

32 In LotR the travelers are facing a lot of, let's say, hindrance on the road to Rivendell, after which they give Frodo time to recover from his injuries and hold the Council of Elrond. In The Hobbit, it's really just the trolls who interfere with the journey, and they leave very quickly.

33 So it's a book thread?

34
Battle of the Pelennor Fields takes up less than ten pages and most of that is Theoden dying and Eowyn killing the Lord of the Nazgul.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026

You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.

35 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen

36 I'm just now tackling The Count of Monte Cristo, another behemoth. One might think a book of that length (1200+) would have to have some fluff, some distractions and red herrings. Instead, every chapter that begins to look like it's heading in the direction of filler winds back into the intrigue.

I was also daunted by the prospect of reading chapter after chapter of dismal prison travails, but that episode is disposed with fairly quickly and is packed with the instruments of Daunte's revenge. Much recommend!

37 Honestly, If I were Trump, I would have select MIB show up at Robert's home and have a long discussion with him about this Birth Right Citizenship thing. Make a deal he can't refuse. Safely of course.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI)

Drop busload after busload of illegals outside his doorstep until the decision drops. Non-stop, 24-7.

This fucker thinks he's insulated from endless waves of illegal immigration incentivized by birthright citizenship? Disabuse him of that notion.

38 IMO tje Cultural Marxist Seminaries wete the ones who keep ig going, Barky was a student of it thats why he is a messenger of Marxism. The Auto-Pen administration was run buy Cultural Marxist Seminaries students, Biden was in it gor himself as a lifetime goal and cared less about anything else that happened.

39 You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)
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Right back atcha! ;-)

40 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)


And if you steal the wallet of someone in Japan, you have their ID, which makes you beholden to Japan.

41 BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

-
The more things change . . .

https://is.gd/VsZNAE

42 You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)
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Right back atcha! ;-)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (ESVrU)


Me, hardest hit.

43 Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (Ia/+0)

Is it ironic that I never want to "skip" your comments?

44 You know if the Dunedain practiced Islam, Aragorn wouldn't have to pick between an elf lady and a horse lady...

45 >>> it's really just the trolls who interfere with the journey, and they leave very quickly.

I think they're there for more than a week.

46 Fewer and fewer people doing more and more while the rest do less? It's been told before.

""The Marching Morons" is a science fiction story by American writer Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April 1951."

47 One of my favorite parts of LOTR is Merry and Pippin’s meeting the Ent Treebeard and their attendance at the Entmoot…. Not sure why I like it because the pace of the book is slow at that point but Tolkien’s imagination in creating the Ents was wonderful…. And I just loved it when they tore up Isengard…

48 Drop busload after busload of illegals outside his doorstep until the decision drops. Non-stop, 24-7.

Remember when governor meatball sent 50...just 50!...illegals to Martha's Vineyard Island the Gov of MA literally called out the national guard to round them up and send them to a concentration camp on the mainland

49
He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)




Be careful getting to second base with Entboobs, you might get a splinter in your finger.

50 two weeks, which is what I wanted to say, but I thought maybe he said they spent two weeks at Laketown and maybe I was getting it confused:

Bilbo Baggins stayed at Rivendell for
a fortnight (14 days) during his journey to the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit. The party arrived at Elrond's home in late spring/early summer, having rested, repaired, and received crucial information regarding their map and the journey ahead before continuing east.

51 Chinese immigrants are still tied to the Chinese Communist party.
They are not letting millions leave just to make a better life for themselves. They report to the Chinese Communist police departments here

52 23 Honestly, If I were Trump, I would have select MIB show up at Robert's home and have a long discussion with him about this Birth Right Citizenship thing. Make a deal he can't refuse. Safely of course.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI)


I think the home of Mary McCord should be their next stop...

53 He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)


Hey Treebeard are you happy to see me or is that the same wood you are always sporting?

54 20 LOTRs was a real slog when I was a teenager.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Exactly. When I was that age I'd chew through a Clavell novel in 3 days, now I'd have ADD by page three.

55
Hey Treebeard are you happy to see me or is that the same wood you are always sporting?
Posted by: Some Entwife at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)


GROOT!

56 I literally think the fraud is so enormous that even people like Trump are afraid to really address it because it’s almost a form of stimulus for the economy. What happens when you stop hundreds of billions flowing?

It was like DOGE uncovered all of these troubling things than Musk was suddenly run out of town and we never again heard about 130 year olds collecting SS.

57 >>>Theoden dying and Eowyn killing the Lord of the Nazgul.

Geez, can we get a spoiler alert?

58 He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)

Be careful getting to second base with Entboobs, you might get a splinter in your finger.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2026 01:33 PM (y9nCu)

I'll never look at a knot-hole the same way again.

59 Exactly. When I was that age I'd chew through a Clavell novel in 3 days, now I'd have ADD by page three

NO YELLOW!

60 Exactly. When I was that age I'd chew through a Clavell novel in 3 days, now I'd have ADD by page three.
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Clavell is a genius at epics. Total page turner.

61 >>Going from memory because haven't read it in a while, but yes, thinking it was more than a week in Rivendell for Bilbo et Cie - which was probably a very strained time for the dwarves - but in LotR it was closer to 2 months.

62 Maybe I should open a learing center and start collecting grift for doing nothing myself….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Where? A blue metro area? You don't have the proper oppression-point mix, so you'll get prosecuted. Or, you'd already need a lot of money to "donate" to the right political candidates and activities to be "overlooked".

63 On the opposite end of the spectrum from LOTR in literature are the Hardy Boys mysteries… they’re hardly literature but I loved them as a teen. I read all of ‘em and there were more than 100 (small) books…. Franklin W Dixon was no Tolkien that’s for sure…

64 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?

65 Interesting non political news story. (Many questions remain.)

https://is.gd/ik3eG8

66 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)


And if you steal the wallet of someone in Japan, you have their ID, which makes you beholden to Japan.
Posted by: Sponge


So if I get caught stealing Ketanji Brown's hubcaps from her driveway, her house belongs to me.

67 Biden doubled the budget to just under $8T.

All of that expansion was fraud.

On top of the base level of fraud which is at least 50%.

Now imagine you stop all that graft and throw everyone getting it in prison...

68 Robert E Howard is a favorite author of mine. He would write for any magazine so he played with a lot of genres.
I liked the Solomon Kane stories better than the Conan stories, but I think that had to do with deCamp writing the follow up ones, and as a young reader that was all that was available in the library.

69 Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?
Posted by: ...


He was the sacrificial lamb.

70 I didn't find the movies bloated, but I was frustrated by how much extra crap Jackson packed into them and stuff they left out. I don't mean Tom Bombadil, that was momentum-killing nonsense. But leaving out the Scouring of the Shire ruins the entire third movie, especially when you see Peter Jackson extending a few paragraphs into a hour hour of endings.

71 Willowed:

Reality is that the single most popular part of the Democratic platform is peace. It gets them elected, and then once elected they advance their communist agenda.

Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (DMmvN)

No.

The single most popular part of the Democratic platform is abortion. Then it's punishing those who have jobs.

That's it. Killing babies and class envy. Peace doesn't permit the revolution. They actively oppose peace. They want us dead.

72 >>> 67 Biden doubled the budget to just under $8T.

All of that expansion was fraud.

On top of the base level of fraud which is at least 50%.

Now imagine you stop all that graft and throw everyone getting it in prison...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

...

...

... 'prison'?

73 >>50 - and you've already answered. *respectful nod*

74 I'll never look at a knot-hole the same way again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

Whew!

75 > Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal immigrants for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement.

That's nice.

I want Pramila Jayapal's citizenship revoked and her skanky ass deported.

Now that we've had that frank exchange of views...

Seriously, why do these people continue to live in a country they despise?

76 63 On the opposite end of the spectrum from LOTR in literature are the Hardy Boys mysteries… they’re hardly literature but I loved them as a teen. I read all of ‘em and there were more than 100 (small) books…. Franklin W Dixon was no Tolkien that’s for sure…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (xT8gx)


*quiet sob*

77 Going from memory because haven't read it in a while, but yes, thinking it was more than a week in Rivendell for Bilbo et Cie - which was probably a very strained time for the dwarves - but in LotR it was closer to 2 months.

Imagine the first time Legolas tried to get Gimli to drink a Zima.

78 >>> On the opposite end of the spectrum from LOTR in literature are the Hardy Boys mysteries… they’re hardly literature but I loved them as a teen

i never read those. they seemed old fashioned.

What I did read were knock-off books published, supposedly, under the directorship of Alfred Hitchcock -- "The Three Investigators."

See, there's three not two, so it's different.

I remember one was called Jupiter Jones (the smart one) and there was an athlete one called, I think, "Pete."

79 So that guy, we will call him "me" here has to work more hours and more years so that some AWFL can spend her time not working. But that's "fair" right?
Posted by: 18-1 at April

AWFLs perpetuate this nonsense because they seem to think their income stream won’t be tapped to fund the lazy amongst us. What is more interesting to me is the lefty females crying the blues about having to work unfulfilling jobs while looking down their noses at tradwives. Let me let them in on a little secret. 😉

80 The word Jayapal sounds gay.

81
Good afternoon, everyone. Happy Good Friday.

*observes shit covered stirring stick*

*leaves shit covered stirring stick alone*

Busy day, y'all be nice to one another.

82
Seriously, why do these people continue to live in a country they despise?

Because they are stealing from you. Its like asking a medieval noble why if he hated the peasants so he didn't leave.

83 >>>It's baseball season. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Remember when a baseball game was perfect for reading? All that down time plus the commercials? Now the games clip along so fast that you can't finish a page before the next inning begins.

84 The Hobbit CAN be read faster than the shitty movie versions can be watched.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (xcxpd)

Mr. Ballentine in 1st grade did a story time, and read The Hobbit for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students

85 74 I'll never look at a knot-hole the same way again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

Whew!
Posted by: Innocent Knot-holes Everywhere at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (mWRBW)


Wait, just come closer, I want to tell you something... And maybe show you something...

86 Maybe call it Pigford 3.0?

Or more like 3.0 - 12.0?

87 loyal to the man giving them free money,"

Obama money! Right, Peggy?

88 Anyone who paid attention in the previous decades in the UK as NHS and other social services devoured the budget, it was inevitable the fall of England's military.

Even as they funneled munitions and such to Ukraine they never ramped production to replace what was sent.

And now the First Sea Lord has admitted to a Swedish media outlet, the Royal Navy is on the binnacle list.

This could be the US.

89 I would say roughly, 3 trillion of the annual Fed Budget is straight fraud and corruption and at a bare minimum, 30 pct of every local and state budget is fraud and corruption.

We are 34T in debt with nothing to show for it...

Well, check that, someone has something to show for it, certainly ain't you and me.

90 But leaving out the Scouring of the Shire ruins the entire third movie, especially when you see Peter Jackson extending a few paragraphs into a hour hour of endings.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (El6/E)
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A few paragraphs?

Each of those endings in the movies was basically a chapter unto itself within the books.

Jackson did pad both Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields, though. Each of those chapters was only a few pages within the books.

91 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (mWRBW)
______

Romney was a simping queef. But I think he still won that election. Obama, his policies, the economy, and indeed the entire government were very unpopular in 2012.

92 It was like DOGE uncovered all of these troubling things than Musk was suddenly run out of town and we never again heard about 130 year olds collecting SS.

Posted by: Maroon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (VjIox)

Musk wasn't run out of town.

His billet was time-limited due to his status as a non-Government employee.

93 Can you see the Left ever announcing...

"Global Warming is solved! We are done!"

or

"The reparations worked! Stealing from white people is over!"

94 >>Imagine the first time Legolas tried to get Gimli to drink a Zima.

Ok, LOL.

95 Remember when a baseball game was perfect for reading? All that down time plus the commercials? Now the games clip along so fast that you can't finish a page before the next inning begins.
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Yep. When I was a Met fan I would read until the 7th inning and then watch them win the game. Like clockwork.

96 The frustrating thing for me is that in the entire argument over the 14th amendment one major part is almost totally overlooked. Here's the pertinent text:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Now, everyone is focused on the first clause which is debatable but its the second clause that is the nail in the coffin of birthright citizenship. See that final word?

RESIDE. Where they RESIDE. Illegal immigrants do not RESIDE here, they are invaders, they are squatters. Tourists do not RESIDE here. A Chinese woman who flies to US territory to drop a kid DOES NOT RESIDE THERE.

That one single, simple word blows the entire argument to tatters and for some reason its being totally ignored.

97 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

It could well be argued that the mother was a slave.

98 56 I literally think the fraud is so enormous that even people like Trump are afraid to really address it because it’s almost a form of stimulus for the economy. What happens when you stop hundreds of billions flowing?
____

You'd have to figure that a lot of US taxpayer money is leaving the country and is going to foreign warlords to make war on each other and occasionally screw around with US interests. And I expect a lot goes to immigrants, legal and otherwise, to send back in remittances which helps placate what otherwise would be popular uprisings in certain 3rd world countries. But yes, I assume some of that money is used to keep a certain pct of regular US citizens from stealing from their neighbors to feed their addictions, preventing the need for bailouts for beverage distributors, drug dealers and gambling sites.

Now, get back to work! That money has to come from somewhere.

99 Pigford was a preschool version of the fraud that we see today

100 [i9]What is more interesting to me is the lefty females crying the blues about having to work unfulfilling jobs while looking down their noses at tradwives. Let me let them in on a little secret.

Even within the corporate world AWFLs have this odd idea that everyone else loves their job and it is just them that would rather do something else if money wasn't a concern.

And overall the left has this really odd failure to understand the economy. They want goods and services made by other people. But...they think it is unfair to demand they to provide goods and services to their fellow man in return...

101 Yeah, Pramila can go, and take her sister with her.

We don’t owe gatecrashers anything. Be happy we’re flying you home.

102 What I did read were knock-off books published, supposedly, under the directorship of Alfred Hitchcock -- "The Three Investigators."

See, there's three not two, so it's different.

I remember one was called Jupiter Jones (the smart one) and there was an athlete one called, I think, "Pete."

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (1wjle)
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I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys. I liked the Three Investigators better because they were a Power Trio where each character had strengths and weaknesses. Frank and Joe Hardy were basically clones.

103 Two choppers flanking a big plane in Iran on Goldies Rumble.

104 More nervous than a dwarf in Rivendell?

105 >>Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (sLLbN)

And yet the games still run 3 FUCKING HOURS!

106 So if I get caught stealing Ketanji Brown's hubcaps from her driveway, her house belongs to me.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (K3Fc+)

No, but she is obliged to pay your auto insurance

107 >80 The word Jayapal sounds gay.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (n17eQ)



Jawa Pal.

108
I'm going to reread the Hobbit and LOTR at some point this year. I might even redip my toe into Tolkien's Cookbook, "The Simarillion", which is a pretty boring load of recipes for stories but not so much stories themselves.

Currently, I just finished reading two books out of Iain M Banks' Culture series. "The Player of Games", which is very good. And "The Use of Weapons, which should be better but is just okay.

Banks Culture series owes a lot to Michael Moorcock's "Dancers at the End of Time". Both of which postulate "end stage" societies where anything is possible and everything is provided by machines.

I also think that Banks wanted to introduce a Greek/Roman mythological style interaction between "men' and gods. In this case, the gods are huge AI minds which control everything and manipulate the organic and machine life forms for often obscure goals and reason.

Both Moorcock's and Banks' takes on end-time-ish, post- scarcity societies are interesting and generally fun reads.

If it sounds like that will interest you, it will.

109 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

It could well be argued that the mother was a slave.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:42 PM (rbvCR)

I suppose that there might have been some volunteers but I don't see how you could consider her to be anything else.

110 42 You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)
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Right back atcha! ;-)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (ESVrU)


Me, hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Get real. You know I love you. Mainly because I think your wife is awesome.

111 Absolutely Japanese women prisoners in WWII were slaves

112 This could be the US."

It will be. From Rome on, this is how "it" works out. Aleric didn't have to invade...

113 It is now being reported that Iran, who sat on the UN HRC, has put a bounty on capturing American pilots.

114 Two choppers flanking a big plane in Iran on Goldies Rumble.

==

It's after 9pm in Iran. That footage is from way earlier.

115 Hey guys!

Just got back from my whale watching tour (aka walk down the beach).

Anything interesting happen?

116 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.

117 How can you tell the elf gals from the elf boys? The former don't get a bulge in their dresses when they see a particularly pretty tree.

118 I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys. I liked the Three Investigators better because they were a Power Trio where each character had strengths and weaknesses. Frank and Joe Hardy were basically clones.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
===
Yep.

Frank and Joe had the classic old brother, junior brother going on. Nancy Drew did not rely on a sidekick although she had friends. I seem to remember that the father in both the Hardy Boys books and Nancy Drew also played a much bigger part than the parents in the Three Investigators.

119 115 Hey guys!

Just got back from my whale watching tour (aka walk down the beach).

Anything interesting happen?
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The gits are back talking about LOTR - so nothing has happened.

120 > RESIDE. Where they RESIDE. Illegal immigrants do not RESIDE here, they are invaders, they are squatters.

Yes. It's like calling these mooks "undocumented immigrants" rather than "illegal aliens".

Always push back when someone calls them "immigrants". They aren't any kind of "immigrant". They are, as you say, invaders.

See also: "gender". Human beings do not have "'genders"". They have sexes, of which there are exactly two.

121 The posterior side of an Entwife is where you'll find the not-hole.

122 the best part of the Hobbit is how Bilbo is always hungry and wants breakfast

well it's the most relatable part for me, anyway

123 . Both of which postulate "end stage" societies where anything is possible and everything is provided by machines"

"The Machine Stops"
E. M. Forster nailed it nearly 120 years ago...

124 As has been noted recently, the Democrats and MSM tell us a foreigner who’s been here 15 minutes is owed citizenship, while heritage Americans are occupying “stolen land.”

125 The frustrating thing for me is that in the entire argument over the 14th amendment one major part is almost totally overlooked. Here's the pertinent text:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


That's the most important part. Don't believe me?

Try and draft a wetback.
Or force them to sign up for Selective Service.

You'll find out just how quick you don't have jurisdiction over them.

126 116 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.
Posted by: pudinhead
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Heinlein's adult books were hit or miss but his juveniles or even the semi juvenile Podkayne of Mars were universally entertaining.

127 There is another form of fraud besides the bogus hospice/childcare/learing center types. I call this soft fraud and it is baked into the Obamacare cake.

Doctors, clinics and hospitals are incentivized to milk $$$ out of Obamacare via such actions as up-coding office visits and defaulting things such as follow-up visit frequency and testing to the point of unnecessary visits and tests that then become the "standard of care".

I can cite examples from personal experience

128 Jackson did pad both Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields, though. Each of those chapters was only a few pages within the books.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Jackson had to deal with the Army of the Dead, which in the book was only referred to in a conversation with Gimli and Legolas. But unfortunately Jackson just had them roll over the battlefield because it looked cool on screen (I didn't think so) and greatly diminished the sacrifice made by the men (and one woman) on the field of battle. Jackson kept adding things as the 3 movies went on such that only his first movie was actually any good, to this faithful book reader anyway.

129 @96

>>That one single, simple word blows the entire argument to tatters and for some reason its being totally ignored.

We keep fiddle f**king over this crap, the express purpose of the 14th amendment was to deal with the status of freed slaves.

There is no world in which the framers of the 14th amendment were talking about children born of illegal aliens.

If a person is in this country illegally, any child born during the improper act cannot be a citizen.

It's f**king absurd that we have to spend any brain cells on this bullsh*t.

A person robs a bank and gives the money to his kids, do the kids get to keep the money?

130
Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?
Posted by: ...


He was the sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (K3Fc+)


Romney intended to win (he'd basically been running for President for 20 years before actually getting on the ballot). Problem was, that since he was born with a silver spoon shoved up his ass, he expected to coast to victory, ascending on a staircase covered in rose petals, with the choir angelic sweetly singing "God Bless The USA" over the background music of Handel and rainbows arcing over him.

131 There is a phenomenon now called "second screen" or "background" viewing, in which people have something on while they are doing something on another screen. You may be doing it right now, I am. I have a Youtube podcast playing while I comment on here a little and work on rewriting a Champions scenario.

Younger people do this a lot, they are on their phone while they have the TV on or a tablet running a show or movie. Now, while some respond to this phenomenon by writing their TV shows for people who are not really paying attention, so they repeat themselves a lot and explain what just happened one or more times.

But here's the thing: baseball is the perfect background viewing content. You don't have to watch every second. A good commentator will give you what you need to know. Baseball, the old school, before all the crappy changes recently, is ironically perfect for the modern era of entertainment.

132 Musk wasn't run out of town.

His billet was time-limited due to his status as a non-Government employee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (FmapG)

If Musk had hired on as a cabinet member he would have been forced to divest all his stocks that were government related, which is in fact most of them, and that would have tanked the markets since there was so much of it.
The only upside would have been that he would not have been required to pay capital gains on it, which is still not a good compensation for the loss.

133 i remember election day 2012. i conked out early and got up around 11 pm just in time to see romney give the most beautiful heartfelt concession speech, like he was just so darn grateful that he was given the opportunity to run for president. i fully expected !jeb to do the same thing in 2016 but that mean old trump went and stole the nomination and the election and made it real hard for the repub establishment to fundraise

also i have to start reading 'ulysses' again this year

134 124 As has been noted recently, the Democrats and MSM tell us a foreigner who’s been here 15 minutes is owed citizenship, while heritage Americans are occupying “stolen land.”

Posted by: Lizzy

Setting the stage for South Africa's end in the US. They want us dead so they can replace us. I decline to take that deal.

135 I'm reading ....the directions on the back of a Ramen container. I've read this story before. Many times. It always ends the same. Very satisfying.

136 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

IIRC he beat Obama badly in the first debate and then got Crowleyed.

I think that stuff matters bigly - but it also matters that the only reason Hillary ended up day drinking with broken lamps *outside* the White House is because they simply underestimated the need for cheating in a few key states where Trump belted her hide.

So anything is possible.

137 How can you tell the elf gals from the elf boys?"

The redhead in the later flix?
Yes, please.

138 > Problem was, that since he was born with a silver spoon shoved up his ass, he expected to coast to victory

"Mitt Romney: Because It's His Turn".

To my everlasting shame, I did vote for McCain.

Romney was a bridge too far, though. At least I don't have him on my conscience.

139 I almost am to the point Jackson just rewrote LotR to his own story

140 The Bolsheviks became the vanguard of the proletariat so gradually that we scarcely noticed until Trump thwarted them. And then they lost their minds publicly.

141 And overall the left has this really odd failure to understand the economy. They want goods and services made by other people. But...they think it is unfair to demand they to provide goods and services to their fellow man in return...
Posted by: 18-1 at April

Is this a euphemism?

142 The frustrating thing for me is that in the entire argument over the 14th amendment one major part is almost totally overlooked. Here's the pertinent text:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Now, everyone is focused on the first clause which is debatable but its the second clause that is the nail in the coffin of birthright citizenship. See that final word?

RESIDE. Where they RESIDE. Illegal immigrants do not RESIDE here, they are invaders, they are squatters. Tourists do not RESIDE here. A Chinese woman who flies to US territory to drop a kid DOES NOT RESIDE THERE.

That one single, simple word blows the entire argument to tatters and for some reason its being totally ignored.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (El6/E)

Yeah, even M-W forgot to update their definitions for leftist purposes:

"The meaning of RESIDE is to dwell permanently or continuously : occupy a place as one's legal domicile."

It's circular, but it speaks to intent of the clause.

143 I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys.

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I remember reading the Three Investigators and even started my own group as inspiration where we pretended to investigate crimes

I also read a slightly more modern series of Frank and Joe Hardy where Joe was more the brawn and Frank the intellect, it kicked off with Joe's girlfriend being killed in a car explosion so it was a much darker read, still cool though

I miss those days, life was simple, no social media, tons of mystery books to read, Reagan was my grandpa

then i turned 29

144 We keep fiddle f**king over this crap, the express purpose of the 14th amendment was to deal with the status of freed slaves.

There is no world in which the framers of the 14th amendment were talking about children born of illegal aliens.

If a person is in this country illegally, any child born during the improper act cannot be a citizen.

It's f**king absurd that we have to spend any brain cells on this bullsh*t.

A person robs a bank and gives the money to his kids, do the kids get to keep the money?
Posted by: Thomas Bender



Fruit of the poisoned tree.

That's my line.

145 Jackson had to deal with the Army of the Dead, which in the book was only referred to in a conversation with Gimli and Legolas. But unfortunately Jackson just had them roll over the battlefield because it looked cool on screen (I didn't think so) and greatly diminished the sacrifice made by the men (and one woman) on the field of battle. Jackson kept adding things as the 3 movies went on such that only his first movie was actually any good, to this faithful book reader anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)
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In the books, the Army of the Dead doesn't even do any real fighting. It simply exudes a fear aura that causes Gondor's enemies to surrender or flee in terror. Aragorn actually leads an army of living warriors he's gathered on his trek across Gondor, who take over the ships of the Corsairs of Umbar to perform a sneak attack when they arrive at the Pelennor fields.

146 This could explain why the last few decades have been about getting rid of manual labor and trade schools, so that those really earning an income don't see how everybody else is getting their money.

147 >>Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (qgHp7)

Know examples in the family. Once the for-profit organisations took over medicine, and the ACA promoted this, it was inevitable.

148 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits.

149 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they "sucked", he said, inhaling swiftly...

Heh

150 He was the sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (K3Fc+)


Romney intended to win (he'd basically been running for President for 20 years before actually getting on the ballot). Problem was, that since he was born with a silver spoon shoved up his ass, he expected to coast to victory, ascending on a staircase covered in rose petals, with the choir angelic sweetly singing "God Bless The USA" over the background music of Handel and rainbows arcing over him.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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I think the Big Cheat by Dems was in operation in 2012 after being worked upon and perfected from 2010-2012. Chocolate Jesus and his evil sidekick Eric Holder, Brennan, and other thoroughly disgusting human beings like Pelosi and Reid cheat and lie as they breathe.

151 The only upside would have been that he would not have been required to pay capital gains on it, which is still not a good compensation for the loss.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:48 PM (rbvCR)

On the contrary (if that is true), it is an absolutely spectacular deal!

152 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits.

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😂😂

153 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.

Yeah I was very not impressed. Part of it is presentism: the tech he talks about was probably really cool at the time but is extremely simple and old now so it lacks any real interest.

154 One personal quirk I have with reading Tolkien and other works of a similar sort is when there is prose in verse my mind keeps searches for a tune, rhythm and melody, but comes up short. I wish he wrote little scores for it all, that would help. But it results in me just scanning through the poetry parts. That's my problem with poetry generally, I need it put to music. I need a soundtrack and then I'd be fine.

155 re 129 etc: so how long before the supreme court lets us down again?

156 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?

157 A person robs a bank and gives the money to his kids, do the kids get to keep the money?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (XV/Pl)

No but if they rob the Treasury, they and the kids all do.

158 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits.
Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (qgHp7)
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Lotho Sackville-Baggins hardest hit.

159 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits."

Just throw them down a well...

160 Both Moorcock's and Banks' takes on end-time-ish, post- scarcity societies are interesting and generally fun reads.

If it sounds like that will interest you, it will.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

Banks' books get darker, since they start to look less at the silliness of post scarcity, and into the actions and motivations of the Minds, the ship-identities, and what they do when the organics are not around.
Against a Dark Background is a non-Culture stand alone, and a very fun book. To carry your idea further, it is the ultimate Jerry Cornelius style action-adventure wrapped around a deadly mystery

161 sad news:

Diff’rent Strokes star Todd Bridges is divorcing his wife after three years of marriage, TMZ reports.

162 Those Iraqi militias are crossing the border in little Toyota pickups.

163 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.

Yeah I was very not impressed. Part of it is presentism: the tech he talks about was probably really cool at the time but is extremely simple and old now so it lacks any real interest.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM

In A.E. vanVoght sci-fi they have tractor and plasma beams and interplanetary travel, but the scientists still use sliderulers.

164 Lotho Sackville-Baggins hardest hit."

Lobelia's back after the spoons.

165
I remember reading the Three Investigators and even started my own group as inspiration where we pretended to investigate crimes


Plenty of people sort of do this for real now with various forums that look into cold cases.

Obviously most of the time it comes to not, but every now and then some civvie finds something to solve one of them...

166 @162

>>Those Iraqi militias are crossing the border in little Toyota pickups.

Pickups you cannot get in The US.

Lucky bastards.

167 The founders created a constitution that was designed for moral people. While a noble sentiment, that was a mistake.

Perhaps they couldn't see a time when the US would not be a country full of moral people yet here we are. People who hate this country will take any phrase in the Constitution that is not explicitly worded and seek to change the meaning to whatever they want it to be.

168 Would be good A-10 gun practice

169 I've started my pretty hardback copy of the Hobbit and am up to Rivendell. My pretty hardback LOTR will be harder since its bound in one volume. I got them a long time ago.

170 @144

>>That's my line.

Well, if you're going to steal, steal from the best.

171 "How's reading the entire thing out loud to my kids sit on the commitment scale? "

I read "Ben-Hur" and other books to my wife.

Piker.

172 it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI [Universal Basic Income] is already here.

basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc
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They have plans. Here they are. The first half of the article may seem irrelevant, but stay with it:
https://shorturl.at/xL9fo

Exerpt: " In a best-case scenario, World ID could be a privacy-preserving way to fortify the Internet against an AI-driven deluge of fake or deceptive content. It could also enable the distribution of universal basic income (UBI)—a policy that Altman has previously touted—as AI automation transforms the global economy. "

173 In A.E. vanVoght sci-fi they have tractor and plasma beams and interplanetary travel, but the scientists still use sliderulers.

Predicting the future is hard.

Not much SF for example would have predicted just how powerful modern computers are and how they are connected through the internet, but most seemed to think we've have space bases and robots doing most of the physical work...

174 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:49 PM (IG3/x)

Stopping Obama was a worthy exercise. But those two turds, my God. At least you can say you voted for Palin.

175 > Diff’rent Strokes star Todd Bridges is divorcing his wife after three years of marriage, TMZ reports.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (CWTWj)

He's still alive? I guess that means he's the last main cast member standing?

The story I heard is that Michael Landon wouldn't let the Little House kids play with the Diff’rent Strokes kids.

176 A line of little Toyota pickup trucks?

Where is an A10 wort hog when you need one?

177 I told pete to fuck off until Tuesday. He ignored me. He is now gone and permanently banned.

He posted again from a VPN on that thread after this thread started, by the way.

Having that right at hand backs up my feeling that he's being paid for this, and may not even be the same Pete we remember.

178 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (w/O5Q)

She and her staff are idiots, that's all. Allegiance has nothing to do about if a foreign government can slap you in the slammer for breaking laws there.

179 Dana Plato certainly was a train wreck

180 I had my eyes dilatated for an eye exam. It's been two hours and things are still blurry. So my spelling might be crappier than my default crappy level.

I'm giving multifocal contacts a try again. My first time I hated them but I think a lot of it was coming to grips with turning 29 and getting presbyopia as people do on their 29th birthday. I just generally was very grumpy and pissed about it all back then but I'm going to try now with a more open mind about expectations.

181 Exerpt: " In a best-case scenario, World ID could be a privacy-preserving way to fortify the Internet against an AI-driven deluge of fake or deceptive content.

I've got a better way to deal with this. Start executing hackers, spammers, and scammers nightly and broadcast it.

Remember when COVID came and India closed their call centers most of that stuff went away over night so honestly it wouldn't be very hard to do if the powers that be wanted to...

182 Plenty of people sort of do this for real now with various forums that look into cold cases.

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4Chan I think has the best record, there's nothing quite like a power group of people with aspergers getting together to solve even the most perplexing of crimes

My personal favorite was when they tormented Shiba LeBeouf with his retarded unity "flag" when Trump started his first term, by constantly figuring out where he was despite his best efforts to evade them

183 Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)

You can't create a Constitution for an immoral people. A paradox.

So they solved it by saying "hey btw every now and again you're gonna need to reset this shit, see: #2"

184 If you haven't read the Hobbit yet, let me recommend it vigorously.

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No. I shall not let you.

You may only recommend it languidly.

185 Re: The Big Cheat being implemented in 2012 - recall that Obama hired one of the Facebook founders to run his online outreach in 2012. The guy built a fabulous interface with facebook that allowed people to organize, fundraiser, GOTF using existing followers, etc. very effective. Also used it to datamine the heck out of all these activities.

Four years later Trump used another tech company for similar activities and it was considered fraudulent and bad.

They know how you’ll vote based on the algorithms that also know what books on Amazon you’ll like, etc. Obama seemed to be the first to use that tech to pinpoint which counties could swing a swing state his way. In 2012 he won all of them. No need for massive fraud when you can simply select the few key spots.

186 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (w/O5Q)

The way I heard tell is that when some Senator (author?) was contemporarily asked what was the meaning of "jurisdiction" he framed the meaning in terms of allegiance to the country in question, where some foreigner, who did not owe allegiance to a country, such as a diplomat, as one example, was not subject to the jurisdiction.

The way I read "born," is that it applied to the problematic population then in question, slaves, here, already born, whereas naturalization was a necessary inclusion in the clause, because it dealt with those here thereafter (passage of the Amendment), who sought to become citizens through legal process (e.g., pledging allegiance).

187 In A.E. vanVoght sci-fi they have tractor and plasma beams and interplanetary travel, but the scientists still use sliderulers.

People are often the least speculative about things they personally know the best. You see it all the time in science fiction. It's why Gay Star Trek has a full-on Starbucks on the ship when replicators are a well established thing.

188 >>> Dana Plato certainly was a train wreck
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (Ia/+0)

Poor girl. She had a shockingly beautiful smile.

189 Don't blame Obama for all the hospice and day care fraudsters who stole and are stealing billions. Blame those idiots who voted for him. All greedy bastards who wanted something free from uncle sam. A house, gas for the car, free health care, all from Obama's stash.

190 Having that right at hand backs up my feeling that he's being paid for this, and may not even be the same Pete we remember.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM

*strokes chinwhiskers thoughtfully*

That would be pretty insidious if true.

I'm lucky to such a confused mash of inconsistent opinions and a tedious writing style that no one can imitate my fist.

191 Hobbit?
No Tolkien negros?

192 People who hate this country will take any phrase in the Constitution that is not explicitly worded and seek to change the meaning to whatever they want it to be.

The ironic thing? The left is pretending that the wording is "obvious" and that it is originalist and conservative to believe this forces birthright citizenship. They are acting like it is conservatives who believe in the "living constitution" now. It is infuriating, and they simply disregard anyone who points out otherwise.

193 You may only recommend it languidly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (hAotW)

That is prudent.

194 That Ent needs to do a bit of landscaping. That's an impressive bush.

195 On the contrary (if that is true), it is an absolutely spectacular deal!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (n9ltV)

It is if you are the CEO of a major bank or hedge fund and can cash out, not if you have to dump 8 billion in a month and lose up to half the value in a fire sale, or like the companies and want to remain in charge of them.

Congress set up those rules (I am told) so the richest would not be excluded financially from being chosen for cabinet positions, and it is one of the reasons such positions are such a plum.

196 Having that right at hand backs up my feeling that he's being paid for this, and may not even be the same Pete we remember.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

He is 100% certifiably the same Pete. Without a shred of doubt. Doesn't mean someone can't come back NOW and shit stir with that name but the ones from the last two weeks is the same dude back to gloat because things *finally* look bad for Trump again. Pathetic.

197 178 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (w/O5Q)

She and her staff are idiots, that's all. Allegiance has nothing to do about if a foreign government can slap you in the slammer for breaking laws there.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (8avO+)

Thanks for confirmation. Often when I'm completely certain someone is just a dumbass, I have to circle back and check if I'm the dumbass. Like I must be missing something.

198 No Tolkien negros?"

On it!

/amazon

199 Gandalf fell into the abyss; Gimli & frodo looking at the stars in Durin's pool.

200 yay no mo Pete

I am happy

btw saw a clip of Sotomayor being an idiot

she looks AWFUL

I was so dubious about people saying she is not well but now ... that lady is not well. damn. what happened to her?

201

Do ya'll remember the site that showed the names of people who donated to ActBlue, I think?

Hubby and I still pissed that his name is on the site saying he donated many times to the Demoncrats.

We have never given those assholes money.

202 Shia Lebouef is one messed up guy - but he was a child actor so he probably had a bunch of directors/producers have their way with him.

He was in a music video a few years ago by someone named Sia

In the video he and a preteen girl are dressed in flesh colored body suits in a cage and they wrestle.

The FNM tells me it was meant to show how girls wrestle with their fears, because I'm sure the average 12 year old girl thinks of her fears as a naked adult man or something.

203 200 btw saw a clip of Sotomayor being an idiot

she looks AWFUL

I was so dubious about people saying she is not well but now ... that lady is not well. damn. what happened to her?

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (j+aD2)

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I thought that lady was on death's door in 2017 at Trump's inauguration.

Whatever counter-donut regimen she's on seems to work.

204 >>You can't create a Constitution for an immoral people. A paradox.

You can. You need to be a lot more definitive in your writing.

The Court spent a huge portion of the oral arguments on the question of what does "and subject to the jurisdiction of" actually mean. I don't they ever considered the question would be left in the hands of a sub-retard who thinks having her purse stolen in Tokyo means she's really turning Japanese.

205 201

Do ya'll remember the site that showed the names of people who donated to ActBlue, I think?

Hubby and I still pissed that his name is on the site saying he donated many times to the Demoncrats.

We have never given those assholes money.

Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (3ek7K)

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Probably Open Secrets.

206 No Tolkien negros?

Ahem.

207 btw saw a clip of Sotomayor being an idiot

she looks AWFUL

The left is crowing about how she OWNED president Trump so badly he had to sneak out of the session in shame.

208
Predicting the future is hard.

Not much SF for example would have predicted just how powerful modern computers are and how they are connected through the internet, but most seemed to think we've have space bases and robots doing most of the physical work...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

In Poul Anderson's "Brain Wave" Earth leaves a zone of space that inhibits mental function and all life on earth has an immediate spike in brain function. At one point a crew, having solved the simple issues of building an interstellar craft test it out and fly through a lobe of the 'dumb zone' and being reduced to normal intelligence can't operate their ship since their control systems rely on every crewman being able to do insane mathematical calculations in their head. Lucky for them they manage to exit the area on momentum after a bit.

A story called "A Logic Named Joe" the world has a PC like internet and one of the PCs gains sentience. This might be fine but he decides to go in the advice business out of boredom and starts giving completely amoral advice like how to kill a redhead wife tracelessly.

209 I would suggest following "Open Source Intel" on X (Osint613). Osint Defender not as reliable because he has TDS and it colors his coverage.

210 Doesn't mean someone can't come back NOW and shit stir with that name but the ones from the last two weeks is the same dude back to gloat because things *finally* look bad for Trump again. Pathetic.

Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.

211 210 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

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Ass will drop his droppings and leave on almost any thread.

But threads about Indians?

He'll stick around and engage.

212 The FNM tells me it was meant to show how girls wrestle with their fears, because I'm sure the average 12 year old girl thinks of her fears as a naked adult man or something.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

A naked Shia LeBoof scares me and I'm not a 12 year old girl.

213 Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

"Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood."

-Karl Popper

214 In Poul Anderson's "Brain Wave" Earth leaves a zone of space that inhibits mental function and all life on earth has an immediate spike in brain function.

A great story.

215 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.


agree

he was a paid troll/moby/shit stirrer whatever

meanwhile - PDJT left when he did bc he was there to watch our guys argue before the court. not that ACLU hack woman bloviate.

216 I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys. I liked the Three Investigators better because they were a Power Trio where each character had strengths and weaknesses. Frank and Joe Hardy were basically clones.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Yep.

Frank and Joe had the classic old brother, junior brother going on. Nancy Drew did not rely on a sidekick although she had friends. I seem to remember that the father in both the Hardy Boys books and Nancy Drew also played a much bigger part than the parents in the Three Investigators.
Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

In a lot of the books "world renowned detective Fenton Hardy (aka Dad)" would pop up and help save the day at the end... although in a few books, the boys saved their father. I think Dixon (a penname IIRC) recycled the same few plots over and over again, but I didn't notice as a kid

217 >>Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (3uBP9)

Wore eyeglasses for enough years to put my 29-ness in doubt. Switched to contacts and had no problems. For about 15 years. Optometrist offered 1) multifocal versus ii) one-close-one far versus C) far & reading glasses. Took option 3 - decades of having lenses perched on my face made it no problem. YMMY.

218 The Court spent a huge portion of the oral arguments on the question of what does "and subject to the jurisdiction of" actually mean. I don't they ever considered the question would be left in the hands of a sub-retard who thinks having her purse stolen in Tokyo means she's really turning Japanese.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

Her analogy was her stealing someone's wallet, not her wallet being stolen.

219 No Tolkien negros?

More has come out about the upcoming DEI Harry Potter with black Snape: the kids in Slytherin are all dot-Indians. That's... a choice I guess.

220 TJM! you're back!

woo hoo!

221 Right now there are people on social media wishing for the downed pilots to be captured.

If you didn’t already believe liberals are at war with the rest of the country, you should now. The rubicon hasn’t just been crossed, it’s been drained.

Right now most polls show Democrats not just taking the House but the senate. They haven’t promised an agenda. They’ve promised an active subversion of the country using the government and our corrupt court system as their punishment machine.

You should be very worried, enough that not only will you walk over broken glass to vote, but you’ll drag two people with you.

That’s not hyperbole. Look around you.

222 Hubby and I still pissed that his name is on the site saying he donated many times to the Demoncrats.
We have never given those assholes money.
Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (3ek7K)

File an amended tax return claiming those donations as a write off. The IRS may come after you, but the IRS will have to prove that YOU did not donate the contributions.

223 Her analogy was her stealing someone's wallet, not her wallet being stolen.


which is frankly hilarious

224 " I've only read through LOTR completely twice. (And the first time I did a lot of skimming.)"

I started reading it in highschool, but I wasn't interested, it was way to heavy in the prose, and I just didn't have time for that when all I wanted to do was scope some boob, though I had already read The Hobbit in grade school. I would comment about "The Hobbit" "it's only like 120 pages if you remove the smoking of pipes and singing of songs that you just don't get anyway."

As for TLotR, I read it for the first time, I know exactly when it was October of 1997, while I was in the brig, and I read it twice while in the brigg. It took being imprisoned for me to get over my initial judgment and read one of "the great western novels" or whatever.

I liked it, Not the brigg, the books, and if it weren't for the brigg I would have bothered getting around to reading the books, so make of that whatever you will for divine intervention.

225 Both Moorcock's and Banks' takes on end-time-ish, post- scarcity societies are interesting and generally fun reads.

If it sounds like that will interest you, it will.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

Banks' books get darker, since they start to look less at the silliness of post scarcity, and into the actions and motivations of the Minds, the ship-identities, and what they do when the organics are not around.
Against a Dark Background is a non-Culture stand alone, and a very fun book. To carry your idea further, it is the ultimate Jerry Cornelius style action-adventure wrapped around a deadly mystery
Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (rbvCR)

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll give AaDB a read.

226 One thing I think hasn't been well explored in fiction is that if we ever do develop AI its thinking would likely be alien to our own - not the green/blue eyed buddy Jesus type that solves all our problems through pure logic nor the red eyed Skynet/Allied Mastercomputer

And I suspect its actions wouldn't make a ton of sense to us.

227 One interesting topic related to Tolkien is the modern trend, I only started noticing this in the past 10 years, is for opposing sides in East Europe, Russian wars to call the other orks. It is quite common online. And I don't remember ork ever being a taunt or slur in the past.

228 my absolutely non-donating MIL was on that act blue list, a zillion times, it was funny

we told her and she was PROUD to be used in such a way

so charming, liberals! full of integrity

229 6 Willowed:

May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂
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Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (0sNs1)

The Power of Positive Thinking

230 And I suspect its actions wouldn't make a ton of sense to us.


which is covered in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons pretty well

231 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

Excellent. At least I have something to go to. The word salad that fell out of her pie hole was not enlightening.

232 Kindletot politcal donations are not deductible, otherwise that would be a good plan.

233 And I suspect its actions wouldn't make a ton of sense to us.

That is one of my favorite parts of Dark Star (Carpenter's first major film). The alien makes no sense, its actions are just random and inscrutable.

234 > I think Dixon (a penname IIRC) recycled the same few plots over and over again, but I didn't notice as a kid
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (xT8gx)

A "house name", used by many different writers. Same with Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, Bobbsey Twins...

The publisher owned the name and the series, and would hire whoever worked cheap.

235 More has come out about the upcoming DEI Harry Potter with black Snape: the kids in Slytherin are all dot-Indians. That's... a choice I guess.

Harry Potter is nominally set in our modern world or one like it so having non-Euro characters doesn't bother me much though blackwashing Snape is ridiculous.

But LotR? Gondor and most of the main map are set in medieval Europe so yes everyone should be white.

236 >>Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (3uBP9)

Wore eyeglasses for enough years to put my 29-ness in doubt. Switched to contacts and had no problems. For about 15 years. Optometrist offered 1) multifocal versus ii) one-close-one far versus C) far & reading glasses. Took option 3 - decades of having lenses perched on my face made it no problem. YMMY.
Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (NcvvS)

My latest contacts are set to be perfect for computer monitor distance and I had reading glasses and distance glasses. I got enough cheap ones to have one at most all places in the house I sit or lie down. The most current set is good enough so distance glasses aren't needed.

237 I take it The Hound of the Baskervilles has been finished.

238 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

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Ass will drop his droppings and leave on almost any thread.

But threads about Indians?

He'll stick around and engage.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (hAotW)
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[Perks up]

-- General Custer

239 Long read its a scam the Democrats used getting dark money then pin it on real people

240 What is amazing to me as a RN case manager of 10yrs...how did this go on for so long?

As a case manager, responsible for many things, but discharge was one, we had a list of real rehabs, nursing homes, home health care, and hospice facilities. Patients or families were given these lists to choose from. We then contacted a rep to come see the patient before discharge.

Of course these were not on lists, so that makes sense. But to have an entire building, in a country of capitialism, of nothing but these fake businesses is mind boggling.

I suppose no one noticed and/or reported it because they were skimming $ from the top as well.

241

The crossword I do every morning had a clue which the answer is KALE!!!

Has Piper influenced every site, LOL?

242 Surfed the remote past "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard" last night. Had to resist the urge to rewind/replay a dozen times.

243 >>>237 I take it The Hound of the Baskervilles has been finished.

one of these days, at least.

244 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.
-------

Pete quietly disappeared after being outrageously self-assuredly bugfuck wrong about the 2016 election - and I mean so quietly that I was one of the few who noticed - then came back briefly to gloat sometime after Trump "lost" in 2020 because he was finally proven "right". Coming in now as him in a manner completely consistent with the personality, and acting just like he did in 2016 and briefly after 2020, would be a level of commitment and weirdness that even our trolls don't possess.

The fact that the behavior didn't persist across threads could be testimony that it wasn't "just" a random person trying to sully his good quietly disappearing name.

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THE MORNING RANT: My Gripe Against Hollywood – the Unintelligible, Artistic Mumble

Hollywood is not my normal beat. I once wrote a piece about David Zaslav’s looting of Warner Bros Discovery after he ran the company into the ground while extracting generational wealth for himself. But in general, I am happy to keep up with the business of Hollywood by following Christian Toto (Hollywood in Toto), George MF Washington’s Hollywood-insider substack (The Continental Congress) and by reading Ace’s accounts of Disney’s self-immolation.

So, with Ace and them fighting the political fight involving Hollywood, I’d like to weigh in on another subject related to the industry - I can’t understand half the dialogue in the shows I stream.

Dear Hollywood: Enough with the artistic mumble.

Watching streaming series is a relatively new thing for my wife and me. Both of us fell out of the habit of watching TV series several decades ago, and it was only in the past five years or so that we’ve picked up the habit again here in the streaming era. On weekend nights when we’re not out, we enjoy watching a couple episodes of whatever show we’re following, but I sometimes feel like giving up on it since half of the dialogue nowadays is barely intelligible.

The problem is not a hearing issue. At my office, I’m sometimes involved in whispered conversations about semi-confidential matters. There are also women who talk in vocal fry. In office meeting there is overlapping chatter. In all these circumstances, everyone is still understandable. The problem is not my ears.

I’m not sure if Hollywood is full of actors who no longer know how to articulate, or if it’s sound engineers who make the actors’ speech inaudible, or some combination of the two.

The speaking affectation in modern shows seems to be equal parts mumble, whisper, and vocal fry. I cannot turn my TV up loud enough for some conversations to be greater than a whisper, or understandable. I might think it was my TV, but we replaced a TV recently, and nothing changed. Even more telling, the speech in news and sports broadcasts is still loud, crisp, and easily understood, as are old sitcoms and TV series.

At times I wonder if there is a “mumble filter” through which Hollywood sound engineers are now subjecting audio. My wife and I were very late to the series “Justified.” We watched the original series just about the time the 2023 reboot, “City Primeval,” came along. We never had any problem understanding what was being said in the original Justified, but the reboot was almost completely unintelligible. Almost all speaking was a barely audible mumble, and even Timothy Oliphant now sounded like he was whispering through a mouth full of marbles, unlike in the original series. Was a conscious decision made to have spoken words be mostly inaudible?

People do not talk like this in real life. This Hollywood speaking affectation is just as fake as the Mid-Atlantic accent of Hollywood’s golden era – but at least we could understand what was being said in those old movies.

It’s also noteworthy that despite the prevalence of the “artistic mumble,” there are still actors who will not be mumbled. Billy Bob Thornton speaks slowly and clearly, and I never have any trouble understanding him. Jamie Lee Curtis has been in several shows we’ve watched recently. She still projects her voice and speaks with authority. There is far more art in their performances than from those actors who are mumbling lines without breathing or moving their lips.

Please, Hollywood, I’m willing to consume your product. Can you have your actors and sound engineers retire the artistic mumble before I give up on Hollywood again?

*****

Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”

Something sweet and heartwarming happened on Twitter/X this past weekend – a mutual-admiration love affair broke out between conservative Americans who respect Japan and its culture, and conservative Japanese who admire our culture, all of whom seek to preserve their own cultures against hostile immigration.

There was a lot of good-natured ribbing and affectionate cultural appropriation flying around between Japan and the U.S., including Japanese cowgirls, celebrations of beef and sushi, and some cross-pollinated music.

In that spirit, here is a Japanese band performing the bluegrass classic “Fox on the Run.”

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]