1 Lol

2 Thank you MisHum!

3 Hooray, MisHum!

4 Happy-ish Monday Evening.

5 Thou'rt early tonight, M'lord MisHum!

Love your painting. You almost expect the Grinch and his dog to come sledding into the view with a sleigh full of stolen toys!

6 Oh boy

7 Yikes! What time is it anyway?!
Yay MisHum....always lovely yo see you dear❣

8 Well, I’ll be durned.

9 Yay, early ONT!

10 That last photo, definitely not babelicious

11 Great painting, MisHum! I see you gave your fan brush a good work-out, LOL.

12 Are those happy trees? - Zombie Bob Ross.

13 How damn stupid does one have to be to put on a bear costume and think it's believable...I bet meth was involved😜...or some stupid drug...
Good grief...

14 The FBI investigated Michelle Obama and the op was called Operation Sasquatch?

15 This Wayne's World remake looks terrible

Party on, Wayne!

Party on..... barf.

16 That's an amazing landscape painting!!!!

My girls did a bachelorette party with one of their friends where they attempted a Bob Ross video,..results varied, but they were very happy just sitting around and TRYING (and maybe a few glasses of wine).

-SLV

17 Corn whiskey 100 proof. Smooth.

18 Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, Ruben Tamrazian, 26, and Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud

A fourth suspect, Ararat Chirkinian

Traditional American names.

Is the only "Bob Smith" left in the United States the one who has to monitor us for the NSA?

19
Meet the Mets!

20 TP!


How’s the butt stuff going?

21
*runs white-gloved finger over table*

There's dust on this ONT!

22 Meet the Mets!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

====

A considerably less funny sequel to Chico Escuela's "Bad Things 'Bout De Mets"

23
Alfiya Zuckerman, 39

___________

Read that as "Alfalfa".

24 Per things that can't be unseen...
How lovely to see our make-believe military (?!!) trannies hangin' with the regular folk🤢...

25 The Wayne's World remake is... something else.

26 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️. ONT is early tonight 🤠

27 Those idiots in the bear suit, luckily no one had a gun or their head would be gracing some fireplace mantle.

28 Mikeski and Martini Farmer

It is as if Kathleen Kennedy and Alex Kurtzman were in charge of the remake.

29 Evening, all.

30
*dissonant organ chord*
*sepulchral voice*

Teresa...

31 Thanks MisHum!


Wayne's World!
Wayne's World!

Party time!
Excell...

...aw, fug it...

32 How much?

33 Feel good story

Newsweek reports there are 4 million fewer people on SNAP after Trump's rule changes.

34 Top pic/painting is soothing, pleasing to view. Would hang.

Nice work, MisHum!

35 We need to cherish and honor the veterans of World War Eleven.

36
Nice work, MisHum!

Posted by: JQ at April 27, 2026 10:02 PM (rdVOm)

__________

Entitled "Wisconsin in June".

37 OMG - what is that thing standing next to Mr. Levine?

38 Why the FBI Secretly Investigated Bigfoot

Why the secrecy? Was there a sasquatch inside the bureau who would have tipped off his friends?

39 Alex Kurtzman actually has done some decent movies/shows. He did The Island, Ender's Game, Catherine Zeta Jones's Zorro, and Watchmen.

40
It's really "World War Eye Eye".

41 Entitled "Wisconsin in June".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Not enough snow and too many mountains.

42 Why the secrecy? Was there a sasquatch inside the bureau who would have tipped off his friends?

The honest answer? The government is obsessed with secrecy.

It means no one is ever on the hook, for example deciding if spending government funds on BigFoot is a good expenditure of money

43 30
*dissonant organ chord*
*sepulchral voice*

Teresa...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 27, 2026 09:59 PM (k6bR3)

Yes?

44 Dyam. Started early

45 So much for World War Aye Aye Aye!

46 {{{JQ}}}

47 Peter Jackson did well with Fellowship of the Ring and They Shall Never Grow Old but the rest? A real dog's breakfast.

48 Arriving just on time, just like the COBs.

We were just watching How Ballet Dancers Stand On Their Toes | Physics of Pointe (Ballet Science)
https://youtu.be/sd3j0pHpKsE

Complete Bridge Construction Timelapse is pretty cool
https://youtu.be/OKl1QYZjOuQ

Also, in case nobody's mentioned it yet, the mystery click doesn't work.

49 Good evening morons e grazie mh

50 Howdy, COMM!

51 Sorry I'm late, but I did the responsible thing and took a taxi home. Now my wife is upset that I parked it on the front lawn.

52 We need to cherish and honor the veterans of World War Eleven.
Posted by: Ilhan "Omar" Nur!
+++
Sometimes I think we might not be sending our best and brightest to Washington.

53 /Italo-American sock off

54 Woot! MisHum ONT!

(pops top on can of Blacksmith Alberta Black Ale)

55 Nice painting .

Thanks for the ONT.

56 6 Oh boy
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at April 27, 2026 09:43 PM (CkDaS)

Oh, Girl.

Superstar DJ's

Here we go!

(I highly doubt anybody on this forum will get the reference.)

57 >>How Ballet Dancers Stand On Their Toes
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Ouch. I'm too prone to ingrown toenails to even *think about* en pointe

58 I like the painting, MisHum.

59 Now that I've shaved and sent a blistering feedback note to the property manager of this Best Western (hey -- they asked for it!), I do believe I'll take my melatonin and get ready for sleep.

Oh, and the alarm clock seems to have no way to set the time, and it's reading two and a half hours late. Probably setting the alarm won't work either. They'll need another feedback note about that one.

60 Because thinking outside of the box never occurred to this box.

A little cruelty in the ONT!

She's a pure bureaucrat. Someone made a decision without getting the form stamped 5 times, and that's the end of the freakin' world.

61 heaping help o' fugly there at the end

62 Youtube link on pic not working here.

63 Thanks for the Monday Overnight Thread, Mis Hum!

The painting up top is lovely. You, sir, have a distinctive style of painting!

That Wayne's World remake tweet is too funny. I (shudder) know who the blonde is, but who's the other pyrsyn?

64 Arriving just on time, just like the COBs.

We were just watching How Ballet Dancers Stand On Their Toes | Physics of Pointe (Ballet Science)
https://youtu.be/sd3j0pHpKsE

Why didn’t you just ask? Also, this is why dancers can’t be foot models.

65 Another reason to do away with electronic voting:

From Veritasium - "How a single cosmic particle added 4,096 votes to an election result."

66
The bear broke your kayak, dumbass, because it's an ursinehole.

All viewers of that video eventually wish,
"Bear! Bear! Why won't you rip out her throat?"

67 The hidden link is munged. Got something called "blob" in front of it. Removing that doesn't fix it.

68 The real motives of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

https://tinyurl.com/Irans-real-motives

Yep.

69 If that first bear took that kyack woman out I would completely understand

70 Nice painting up top, MisHum. Thanks for the ONT.

71 Mikeski

Carol Quillen watches the movie Brazil for inspiration.

72
"Other world wars could only go to ten. We took ours to eleven! That's one more war than ten, you see."

73 Posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian

Good to see you MisHum!

Thanks for the ONT

74 Pretty cool seeing the Atlas rocket go by tonight. We don't get to see launches very often around here.

75 How damn stupid does one have to be to put on a bear costume and think it's believable...I bet meth was involved😜...or some stupid drug...
Good grief...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 27, 2026 09:50 PM (UDzNJ)

Having been on oilfield jobs in bear country just like that pictured above, the safety hands keep up a constant refrain of "beware of bears", so people are psyched up to bears under every tarp. And if it's an oilfield in Canada, nobody can keep a firearm in camp, except the one Indian whose sole job is to shoot problem bears, when and if they do become a problem.

76 mh another lovely painting can feel my hr slow.

77 Doing The Mets dirty with that last pic.

As terrible as they are, they don’t deserve that, no team deserves that.

Well maybe the Tigers.

78 Wow, Tyrus

79 MisHum are you near Minocqua? Have you ever been to the Minocqua Brewing Company?

80 Well, the kayak girl's video was a huge disappointment. I kept waiting for the happy ending where Mr. Bear stopped her high pitched squealing by ripping her throat out.

81 I love the painting!

82 Also, in case nobody's mentioned it yet, the mystery click doesn't work.
Posted by: mindful webworker

Here's a temporary mystery click, then:

https://youtu.be/WDZ41LPgPCE

83 I love the painting!
Posted by: LASue at April 27, 2026 10:22 PM (mFhj

You can almost feel your nose hair freezing. Well, not you, you live in the fallen eden of California.

84 Go Wild, crush the Dallas Stars tomorrow!!

Playoff hockey and spring, what a combo

85 Very nice pic up top, a Mis Hum original. My favorite subject, I love when the mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

86 Well, I wouldn't hang MisHum, but I would hang that painting!

87 10 That last photo, definitely not babelicious
Posted by: Anna Puma

They might be men.

88 75 AOP

Ok. I see. But, who gets to wear the bear suit...

89 Thank you, Disney Inc. for creating generations of retards who actually think wild animals understand humans. Bring back Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom so perhaps they learn a healthy fear. Or just beat their parents senseless....

Anyway, the second bear video is a riot. Thanks, Mis Hum!

90 My Pittsburgh Penguins are doing a pretty good impression of this:

youtu.be/uBxMPqxJGqI

91 Are we sure the World War Eleven speech wasn't an AI deep fake???

92 That last pic. . .

They could have been on the Kiss Cam Jumbotron.

Narrow escape!

93 Evening Horde, thx MisHum
I've seen the bear - kayak vid before. All I could think was the bear was thinking "come and defend your kayak girly. Come just a little closer"

94 >>> Building it lawfully requires the approval of Congress, which the administration could seek at any time.” National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Carol Quillen


Ummm, I am 99% certain that is a willfully false statement.

95
Minocqua Brewing Company?

Slowly I turn...

96 Newsweek reports there are 4 million fewer people on SNAP after Trump's rule changes.
Posted by: Anna Puma

But what are the stats on how many of those 4 million people have starved to death, now that we aren't giving them food stamps for Fritos and coca cola?

97 Happy trees

98 They might be men.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2026 10:24 PM (0Htd1)

Is that Rosa deLauro with the fat ugly tranny?

99 That last photo, definitely not babelicious
Posted by: Anna Puma

They might be men.
Posted by: nerdygirl

FIFY.

100 Bring back Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom so perhaps they learn a healthy fear. Or just beat their parents senseless....

Anyway, the second bear video is a riot. Thanks, Mis Hum!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 27, 2026

***
"In our first segment, Jim will wrestle George the hungry alligator, while I make martinis in the tent. But first a word from our sponsor, Mutual of Omaha."

101 Okaaay, so, I grabbed Suno by the throat and said, give me a mashup of I Wear My Sunglasses at Night with Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

It spat out
Shades After Midnight
https://bit.ly/shades-after-midnight

Meh. Very AI. It was a fun first effort, though.

102 35 We need to cherish and honor the veterans of World War Eleven.
Posted by: Ilhan "Omar" Nur!

Which reminds me, we were promised that with Trump in office we would have WWIII. He's been in office twice now, so, what's the hold up?

103
They might be men.

They are DEVO

104
But what are the stats on how many of those 4 million people have starved to death, now that we aren't giving them food stamps for Fritos and coca cola?
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2026

***
From what I see at Walmart, those same people are bearing up under the loss. The floor of the store is also bearing up under their excessive weight.

105 AI bot says:

1. The Public Buildings Act of 1959
40 U.S.C. §§ 3301–3316

This is the closest thing to a “specific statute.”
It requires congressional approval for major alterations to federal buildings above a certain cost threshold. A new White House ballroom is unquestionably a “major alteration.”

Courts have repeatedly held that the White House is not exempt from this Act.



make of that what you will

> above a certain cost threshold.

but what if the project is privately funded? no skin of Congress' pig-like snout, one would think..

106 52 We need to cherish and honor the veterans of World War Eleven.
Posted by: Ilhan "Omar" Nur!
+++
Sometimes I think we might not be sending our best and brightest to Washington.
Posted by: Florida Peasant

In fairness, we didn't send her to Washington, Somali did.

107 Mystery Click is still bad. Does MH just post and then go to bed?

Here's a temporary mystery click, then:
https://youtu.be/WDZ41LPgPCE
Posted by: mikeski

Tolerable.

Certainly better than the mystery click.

Easier on the ears than Shades After Midnight!

108 Happy Monday, folks.

109 They might be men.

They are DEVO
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 27, 2026 10:31 PM (Cqx++)

Neither should be left alone with children.

110 91 Are we sure the World War Eleven speech wasn't an AI deep fake???
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at April 27, 2026 10:26 PM (VCgbV)

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Was it over when the Germans bombed Prell harbor?

111 Didin't Obama have the whole place under construction for 2 or 3 years?

112 They might be men.

They are DEVO
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Bite my shiny plastic hat.

113 94 Building it lawfully requires the approval of Congress, which the administration could seek at any time.” National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Carol Quillen

Why, oh why, are these people always AWFLs.?!
Good grief lefty women! Pull your undies out of your ass!
You'll feel much better🙀!

114 103
They might be men.

They are DEVO
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Well, that's just cruel. What did DEVO ever do to you?

115 From what I see at Walmart, those same people are bearing up under the loss. The floor of the store is also bearing up under their excessive weight.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

The United States is such a glorious country that even the poor people are fat.

116 "In our first segment, Jim will wrestle George the hungry alligator, while I make martinis in the tent. But first a word from our sponsor, Mutual of Omaha."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 27, 2026 10:30 PM (TLAG7)

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Ha! So true... he was like the OG management consultant

117 Hey! I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy.

118 111 Didin't Obama have the whole place under construction for 2 or 3 years?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

I thought that was for a basketball court, because, ya know, priorities.

119 Building it lawfully requires the approval of Congress, which the administration could seek at any time.” National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Carol Quill

Sounds like a Federal homeowners association

120 The White House Press Room used to be the pool.

I think Gaylord replaced the bowling alley with the court.

121 I thought that was for a basketball court, because, ya know, priorities.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

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A fitting prelude to the concrete boner he's inflicting on Chicago.

122 If that thing is a boner, it needs treatment stat.

123 119 Building it lawfully requires the approval of Congress, which the administration could seek at any time.” National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Carol Quill

Sounds like a Federal homeowners association
Posted by: Javems

And Carol Quill's real name is Karen.

124 But what are the stats on how many of those 4 million people have starved to death, now that we aren't giving them food stamps for Fritos and coca cola?
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2026

I did read that 7-11 is closing a lot of stores because EBTs aren't applicable to junk food anymore. Hard to believe it was that big a part of their income!!

Why does Trump hate 7-11?

125 That last photo, definitely not babelicious
Posted by: Anna Puma

They might be men.
Posted by: nerdygirl

FIFY.
Posted by: mikeski at April 27, 2026 10:30 PM (VHUov)

I say that Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley did it better in their music video, "Where's The Dress?"

The original video cain't be found on YT, but here is a live performance w/out the costuming -
https://youtu.be/Vf-VHcphD28

126 A fitting prelude to the concrete boner he's inflicting on Chicago.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

That thing is such a monstrosity that I think he might be going blind. That thing is ugly even by commie standards.

127 From the Cafe:

>>> 215 I've played a few first-person shooters that do a "reset" about 2/3 of the way through the game, taking away all your fun toys and leaving you barely armed, if at all. I hate those because it feels like all your previous efforts in becoming death incarnate was for nothing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

>> I assume that means "we had 2/3 of a good game, then got bored and made 1/3 of the sequel, and then we thought....."
Posted by: mikeski at April 27, 2026 09:29 PM (VHUov)

I take it as a sign that they couldn't balance the power scaling, and instead of either tweaking the mechanics or lowering the ramp rate, they just wiped the progress to keep it in the balanced range. Even with a good in-game narrative reason -- like getting kidnapped or arrested and having everything confiscated -- the meta would keep from fully forgiving them.

128 Nerdy Girl

I hope the architect was DEI and the building engineers were DEI. And then the inspectors were paid off so it was built super cheap.

129 At this point if someone did a thing to a thing, I would laugh my fucking head off. I'm supposed to be better than this but I fear I am not. But I should be.

130 And now, for something completely different:

22 Buddhist monks arrested at Sri Lanka airport for allegedly hiding 242 pounds of marijuana in luggage

https://tinyurl.com/4rtz9ek5

131 @126 I sincerely want that monstrosity to collapse in a heap at the opening ceremony. The look on Barky's face would be priceless.

132 I did read that 7-11 is closing a lot of stores because EBTs aren't applicable to junk food anymore. Hard to believe it was that big a part of their income!!

Why does Trump hate 7-11?
Posted by: mindful webworker - mmm roller dogs

Oh, I believe it. I've lived in the same neighborhood with welfare people. A lot of them are poor because of dumb decision making. That's the problem. No matter what the government does, no matter what programs there are, their lives will still be a mess.

133 Its Not Your Truck Anymore




"Ford filed patents to read your lips, scan your pupils, monitor your heart rate, and run your face through a criminal database. In your own truck. Without telling you.

And disable your truck.

"This isn't about safety. It's never been about safety. Ford Pro Telematics is already live — fleet managers can pull a real-time video feed of your face right now, from their phone, while you're driving. And Ford's own marketing materials explicitly connect that data to insurance outcomes." [and the cops] _H/T, Beverley

youtube.com/watch?v=ZWT1dzpQWqw

134 Sleepytime, all. I've been up since six am, on the road, killing a fly, and yawning, so it's time. I wonder when I'll wake up without the clock alarm?

The hotel serves up a breakfast buffet -- probably eggs, maybe sausage, the do-it-yourself waffles, cereal and milk, juice, and coffee. Given how the room has worked out for me, I wonder also how the food will be.

Well, "free" covers a lot of sins. Or at least papers over them.

135 Ford, "Let's put HAL 9000 in the driver's seat!"

136 The FBI believes Bigfoot exists, but Antifa doesn't.

Just fire every one of these "ham and eggers" and start over.

137 >>>No matter what the government does, no matter what programs there are, their lives will still be a mess.
Posted by: nerdygirl
---

But we won't be paying for it.

138 Brutalism. It's not just for commie landmarks anymore.

139 I hope the architect was DEI and the building engineers were DEI. And then the inspectors were paid off so it was built super cheap.
Posted by: Anna Puma

So, we will be able to entertain ourselves by watching youtubes of that thing collapsing?

140 Mis hums painting would make a great jigsaw puzzle

141 And now, for something completely different:

22 Buddhist monks arrested at Sri Lanka airport for allegedly hiding 242 pounds of marijuana in luggage

https://tinyurl.com/4rtz9ek5
Posted by: Don Black

I think that makes them Buddist monks.

142 22 Buddhist monks arrested at Sri Lanka airport for allegedly hiding 242 pounds of marijuana in luggage

https://tinyurl.com/4rtz9ek5
Posted by: Don Black at April 27, 2026 10:49 PM (ZxPkt)

Putting the "baked" into "Omm-baked cookies".

143 135 Ford, "Let's put HAL 9000 in the driver's seat!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 27, 2026 10:51 PM (2GVsD)

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How's that AE-35 unit looking, HAL?

144 joke from X

Q: Who won the 1st Tour de France?

A: 5th Panzer Division

145 So, we will be able to entertain ourselves by watching youtubes of that thing collapsing?

If we are really lucky, during the ribbon cutting for the opening. That way no one is in it and there will be massive media coverage.

A modern-day Ozymandias

146 Brevity is the soul of wit.

147 107 Mystery Click is still bad. Does MH just post and then go to bed?

Yeah, that's pretty much the belief. MH kinda calls it in on some Mondays. But, he's still fun😜! Even so, I have to wonder why does he even bother. I bet CBD has got something on him, and it ain't pretty😳

148 I've encountered AI narrators that pronounce "World War II" as "world war eye eye." Omar seems to be making a similar mistake with "WW11." Calls into question whether she's real or artificial ignorance.

149 134 Sleepytime, all. I've been up since six am, on the road, killing a fly, and yawning, so it's time. I wonder when I'll wake up without the clock alarm?

The hotel serves up a breakfast buffet -- probably eggs, maybe sausage, the do-it-yourself waffles, cereal and milk, juice, and coffee. Given how the room has worked out for me, I wonder also how the food will be.

Well, "free" covers a lot of sins. Or at least papers over them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

Use your phone as the alarm, way more reliable based on what is going on there at the hotel.

150 Buying your food at 7/11, a lifetime of bad decisions.

151 Q: Who won the 1st Tour de France?

A: 5th Panzer Division
Posted by: Don Black at April 27, 2026 10:53 PM (ZxPkt)

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You do know you have to take Belgium first, right?

152 That building is big, wide, black, and ugly. Whatever in Barack's life could have inspired that?

153 You do know you have to take Belgium first, right?

"Those are fighting words," embarrassed people of Krikkit.

154 The new and improved AE-35 limited drivetrain.

155 His Majesty The Shahinshah put off a badly needed Oval Office Upgrade forever because reasons. It wasn’t complete until well into Trump 1.0.

156 148 I've encountered AI narrators that pronounce "World War II" as "world war eye eye." Omar seems to be making a similar mistake with "WW11." Calls into question whether she's real or artificial ignorance.
Posted by: mindful webworker - whirled wore elevens at April 27, 2026 10:54 PM (y3Pql)

Had she said World War Eye Eye Inwound still be laughing.

As it is, I was reminded of that time back in the 1980s I saw an NBC two part miniseries called World War XII.

157 Philip K. Dick had World War Terminus.

158 Braenyard, one of my sisters worked at a gas station that sold a lot of food items. There were people who would come in near closing specifically to buy those hot dogs that had been on that hot dog roller for half a day. I guess some people like their food dry and leathery.

159 There were people who would come in near closing specifically to buy those hot dogs that had been on that hot dog roller for half a day. I guess some people like their food dry and leathery.

*Gargles brain bleach at thought that popped to mind.*

160 Hahaha. The "blob." prefix has been removed from the mystery click URL, but the video number part is something too long for YouTube, more like an X link.

Sherlock brings out his big magnifying glass.

161 128 Nerdy Girl

I hope the architect was DEI and the building engineers were DEI. And then the inspectors were paid off so it was built super cheap.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 27, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

Honey, it's Chicago. Of course the inspectors were paid off. It's a normal operating expense on any project in that particular set of zip codes.

I hope the architect is sued for malpractice. Nothing that ugly should ever come from anyone who actually want to design school.

And the architect should sue the school he went to.

162 There was a time I lived on fifty-cent roller dogs from the WaWa on Chestnut Street.

163
I did read that 7-11 is closing a lot of stores because EBTs aren't applicable to junk food anymore. Hard to believe it was that big a part of their income!!

Why does Trump hate 7-11?
Posted by: mindful webworker - mmm roller dogs at April 27, 2026 10:44 PM

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A lot of food stamps get, or got, converted to cash by buying cases of soda and reselling, typically for 50 cents on the dollar. Crooked convenience store owners, many of them foreign, do the whole fraud cycle in the store.

164 162 There was a time I lived on fifty-cent roller dogs from the WaWa on Chestnut Street.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

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Box spaghetti was my salvation as I worked my way through college. I'm amazed the Lady Cicero stuck it out with me.

165 Didin't Obama have the whole place under construction for 2 or 3 years?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 27, 2026 10:35 PM (Puq9y)

And nobody said shit. Trump needs to start invoking the "obama did it, so my turn and kiss my ass" rule.

166 Omar seems to be making a similar mistake with "WW11." Calls into question whether she's real or artificial ignorance.
Posted by: mindful webworker - whirled wore elevens at April 27, 2026 10:54 PM (y3Pql)

If, in fact, she has any, then her intelligence is certainly artificial.

167 Sherlock brings out his big magnifying glass.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Mystery Date? at April 27, 2026 11:02 PM (y3Pql)

Yeah...I tried to fix it, but damned if I know where to start!

168 In fairness, we didn't send her to Washington, Somali did.

Nope - white liberals did.

Somalis are only a small fraction of Ilhan's district.

169 It was a fun afternoon at the ball game with a couple guys and their favorite girls.

170 A lot of food stamps get, or got, converted to cash by buying cases of soda and reselling, typically for 50 cents on the dollar. Crooked convenience store owners, many of them foreign, do the whole fraud cycle in the store.

A popular activity among junkies in Portland is to buy bottled water with EBT, pour the water out, and then return the bottles for the deposit.

171 Box spaghetti was my salvation as I worked my way through college. I'm amazed the Lady Cicero stuck it out with me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 27, 2026 11:04 PM (+HNx/)
====

Heh yes Fiance F. came to live with me as I was finishing my graduate degree and all the mac and cheese I fed her gave her second thoughts.

172 AI bot says:

1. The Public Buildings Act of 1959
40 U.S.C. §§ 3301–3316

This is the closest thing to a “specific statute.”
It requires congressional approval for major alterations to federal buildings above a certain cost threshold. A new White House ballroom is unquestionably a “major alteration.”

Courts have repeatedly held that the White House is not exempt from this Act.



make of that what you will
> above a certain cost threshold.
but what if the project is privately funded? no skin of Congress' pig-like snout, one would think..
Posted by: Don Black

Yes, That presumes federal funding. Below that cost threshold they can do major repairs with 'maintenance' money at the agencies discretion (the money is given lump sum by Congress w/o regard to specific projects). I had one project where the building "maintenance" money was used to strip it to bare structural steel.
How?
If funded by Congress the threshold is relative to all new construction cost.

If funded by Congress....

173 Obama ordered a $370–$376 million White House renovation in 2008
lights, pipes and electrical wiring —
the large multi-year project focused on aging, failing infrastructure underground and inside the Executive Mansion — replacing or upgrading electrical systems, plumbing and similar building-wide systems —
tennis court into basket ball, Solar Panels for prezzies living quarters.
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Remeber the whole thing fenced off because digging and movement of heavy equipment.

174 Was it over when the Germans bombed Prell harbor?
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 27, 2026 10:35 PM (EjgNj)

The country was in a lather over it, IIRC..

175 Ok. Good night.

176 170 A lot of food stamps get, or got, converted to cash by buying cases of soda and reselling, typically for 50 cents on the dollar. Crooked convenience store owners, many of them foreign, do the whole fraud cycle in the store.
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It's a way of life where they come from.
They should be sent back home.
Fraud has no home here.

177 We defeated Thanos in World War Sixteen.

178 The downtown 7-11 closed three years ago due to hobos using it as their grab-n-go personal pantry.

179 177 We defeated Thanos in World War Sixteen.
Posted by: Ilhan Omar at April 27, 2026 11:14 PM (0e5Te)

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We owe Kevin Feige our undying gratitude.

180 Nice art

181 Was it over when the Germans bombed Prell harbor?
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

The country was in a lather over it, IIRC..
Posted by: Joe Kidd

Now the country's conditioned to accept failure.

182 162 There was a time I lived on fifty-cent roller dogs from the WaWa on Chestnut Street.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

At my most dire, peanut butter sandwiches.
Above that, tubes of hamburger with sliced bread for buns.

I remember the glory days of the mid-90s when McDonalds and Burger King were feuding for market share. Burger King at $1 Whoppers back then. It was glorious.

183 Box spaghetti was my salvation as I worked my way through college. I'm amazed the Lady Cicero stuck it out with me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 27, 2026 11:04 PM (+HNx/)

My italian side, mom's side, says not a damn thing wrong with box spaghetti. My other side, also italian, dad's side, says make-a da fresh you medigon. lol

184 pops top on can of Blacksmith Alberta Black Ale)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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What's a "Black Ale", and what distinguishes it from a Stout or Porter?

185 Evenin’, All.

186 I've been trying to figure out who might take Tia Carrera's role in that Waynes World remake.

George Conway might be suitable. Quasimodo is another candidate.

187 I remember the glory days of the mid-90s when McDonalds and Burger King were feuding for market share. Burger King at $1 Whoppers back then. It was glorious.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 27, 2026 11:22 PM (xcxpd)

Arby's. 5 Roast Beef/Beef n' Cheddars for $5.

T'was a golden time.

188 I remember the glory days of the mid-90s when McDonalds and Burger King were feuding for market share. Burger King at $1 Whoppers back then. It was glorious.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 27, 2026 11:22 PM (xcxpd)

Hell yeah.

189 There was a time I lived on fifty-cent roller dogs from the WaWa on Chestnut Street.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2026 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

At my most dire, peanut butter sandwiches.
Above that, tubes of hamburger with sliced bread for buns.

I remember the glory days of the mid-90s when McDonalds and Burger King were feuding for market share. Burger King at $1 Whoppers back then. It was glorious.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo


I've lived for years with PB&J for lunch, bring in cheap loaf of bread, generic PB and J. This was an office job. Coworkers going out to lunch every day thought I was stuck up or some shit.
Then I moved up to big ass pots of chili. Freeze individual portions. Eat with saltines. Chili for months on end.
Then switch over to bean soup w/ ham or kielbasa...

190 Back when you could spend $10 of food at Taco Bell and feed a smallish army.

.59/.79/.99 (whomever remembers that Garth Brooks bit is old.) *raises hand*

191 What if your hotel bellboy is a stout black porter?

192 180 Nice art
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 27, 2026 11:19 PM (xcxpd)

What is something that is almost never said in the Art Thread?

193 Seen online.

I yelled "COW!" at a woman on a bike and she gave me the finger. Then she plowed her bike straight into the cow.

I tried.

194 What's a "Black Ale", and what distinguishes it from a Stout or Porter?
Posted by: buddhaha at April 27, 2026 11:25 PM (3tF5Z)

Seems a little hoppier than stout or porter.

195 Now that I've shaved and sent a blistering feedback note to the property manager of this Best Western
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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cc Corporate. That gets them off their ass.
If you're a Rewards member, add on your number.

196 Bricks of ramen & off-brand unsweetened kool-aid: each were only 5 cents a package at "salvage" food store. Had to be sure the wrapping was intact and that the kool-aid powder hadn't solidified, LOL.
"Add your own sugar" means I got accustomed to using only half a cup, instead of full cup, in 2-quarts.

I don't eat ramen or cup o' noodles at all now. Grape kool-aid is *right out!*

197 Back when you could spend $10 of food at Taco Bell and feed a smallish army.

.59/.79/.99 (whomever remembers that Garth Brooks bit is old.) *raises hand*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 27, 2026 11:28 PM (bss/y)

I remember 25 cent white castle burgers.

198 What is something that is almost never said in the Art Thread?

Posted by: HQ Jeopardy at April 27, 2026 11:28 PM (E8YyD)


I'll bid a million for that.

199 I remember 25 cent white castle burgers.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 27, 2026 11:31 PM (snZF9)

Preach it, brother. When you could get 6 cheese burgers and a drink for $5.

200 “It is so hard to live ethically in an unethical society.” That lament heard this week from New York Times opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman could well be the Democratic Party’s epitaph.
_Jonathan Turley

The article motivated by a podcast with [Turley,] radical Hasan Piker, the New York Times Opinion Culture Editor Nadja Spiegelman, and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino captured the moral relativism that has taken hold of the left in American society.

https://tinyurl.com/49uyvm8c

201 pops top on can of Blacksmith Alberta Black Ale)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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What's a "Black Ale", and what distinguishes it from a Stout or Porter?
Posted by: buddhaha
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Made from black water.
- Uncle Buck

202 My italian side, mom's side, says not a damn thing wrong with box spaghetti. My other side, also italian, dad's side, says make-a da fresh you medigon. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 27, 2026 11:25 PM (snZF9)

My mom's aunts were horrified to learn that she was serving prepackaged ravioli to her newlywed husband:

"We didn't raise you that way!"

203 What's a "Black Ale", and what distinguishes it from a Stout or Porter?
Posted by: buddhaha
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Made from black water.
- Uncle Buck
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 27, 2026 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)

Best drunk while listening to the Doobie Brothers.

204 Ilhan Omar the kafir heretic who owns a winery.

205 This years PGA Professional Championship (not the touring guys) is being played in Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon. That's a dream golf vacation for me. Stunningly beautiful scenery and that's just on TV. Watching the replays of the first 2 rounds now.

206 I don't eat ramen or cup o' noodles at all now. Grape kool-aid is *right out!*

Posted by: JQ at April 27, 2026 11:31 PM (rdVOm)

I don't know why, but I actually liked that ramen shit. Either in the cup or those plastic bag brick things. They had chicken or beef flavor. It has way too much sodium though, so I don't eat them anymore.

207 I’ve always hated White Castle. What a freaking waste of time those microburgers are.

208 Dump says the antichrist can't be killed as satan protects him with his guardian hells angels!

209 I remember the glory days of the mid-90s when McDonalds and Burger King were feuding for market share. Burger King at $1 Whoppers back then. It was glorious.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

More convenience than preference, never had a whopper until then.

First Impression - It's a Salad Burger !

Move to Hawaii while that deal was still going on... there whopper had the same bun and meat, but a little piece of brown lettuce, sliver of onion, and a mushed half slice of tomato... the veggies in Hawaii coat almost as much as meat because it had to be shipped in 'fresh' vs. frozen.

210 Moral relativism. Secular humanism. Democrat Socialism. Whatever. They will use whatever words they need to, say whatever lies they need to say.

It's all just Marxism to me.

211 "It is so hard to live ethically in an unethical society."

You mean because of the evil ghouls slaughtering a million unborn children each year? That's the "unethical" they're talking about, right?

212 The Hell's Angels track record on providing security is somewhat tarnished.

213 Dump says the antichrist can't be killed as satan protects him with his guardian hells angels!
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Smoking all the crack again

214 Bers, I liked the cheapo ramen stuff too... for the first 3 or 4 months, anyway.

215 When my BP started going up the first thing was to cut out salt. Did not make one bit of difference. Learned later that it's a genetic thing - similar to some people like cilantro others think it tastes like soap - If you have the trigger gene salt will affect your BP if you don't it won't make any difference.

216 My mom's aunts were horrified to learn that she was serving prepackaged ravioli to her newlywed husband:

"We didn't raise you that way!"

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 27, 2026 11:34 PM (nbLIj)

Here in jersey we can get these ravioli from a company called Pastosa. I think they may have originated in Brooklyn, but you see them in some of the italian stores around here. They come in a box packed in corn meal. My grandmother was the italian cook from hell and thats what she used if she didn't make her own. They are the shit. As my grandmothers both got older they stopped making the fresh pasta altogether. They still made their sauce, but no more pasta drying all over the house. lol

217 Diet of baked chicken and Virginia peanuts, yeah, I'll pass on that today.

218 Moral relativism. Secular humanism. Democrat Socialism. Whatever. They will use whatever words they need to, say whatever lies they need to say.

It's all just Marxism to me.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2026 11:37 PM (RIvkX)


Been fighting commies all my adult life. Not stopping now, especially since they have upped their game. Three attempts.
I have no doubt there will be more. They see the midterms as existential and don't care who gets hurt. They will ramp the the rhetoric more and more until they get their result.
It's going to be an interesting summer.

219 I love salt. Dr. says too much can cause kidney stones (which I have), so I cut way back. *sniffle sniffle*

220 @215 try beet roots.

221 I’ve always hated White Castle. What a freaking waste of time those microburgers are.

Posted by: Bulg at April 27, 2026 11:37 PM (77rzZ)


Who gives a fuck. They're bite size. At 3am when you're tanked up there's nothing wrong with finger food. lol

222 211 "It is so hard to live ethically in an unethical society."

You mean because of the evil ghouls slaughtering a million unborn children each year? That's the "unethical" they're talking about, right?
Posted by: Wally
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That's good for your 'Hello, starter pack'.

223 The Antichrist, rather the Beast and his false Prophet *won't* be killed (it seems an attempt on the first will seem to succeed though be overcome by some means that impresses the masses). They're both going to be thrown directly into the lake of fire, having never died.

224 12"x 12" acrylic Mis. Hum.
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Sniper in snow camo uniform under the distant evergreens.

225 Monte Coleman died.

226 @218 I have been fighting you fascists rethugliKKKan nazis all my life.

227 221 Then load up on a huge Taco Bell burrito instead of sissy food.

228 I love salt. Dr. says too much can cause kidney stones (which I have), so I cut way back. *sniffle sniffle*

Posted by: JQ at April 27, 2026 11:45 PM (rdVOm)
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Tru dat but hydrate anyway, salt or no salt. At a minimum, drink a pint of water when waking up and one before each of 3 meals a day.

229 Ho-hum... troll calls us names.

*wanking motion*

Get a job, rainmandodo.

230 "Black patent malt, also known as black malt, is a highly roasted barley malt used primarily for adding color and a distinct roasted flavor to dark beers like stouts and porters."

I suppose saying black patent malt confuses consumers so brewers KISS.

I see a few articles describing the differences, but why complicate the nectar of the gods?

231 Somewhere, a village is missing its idiot.

232 @218 I have been fighting you fascists rethugliKKKan nazis all my life.
Posted by: raimondo at April 27, 2026 11:50 PM (9ljAi)

Man, you're going to be a terror, once you're weaned.

233 White Castle is racist. Our castles and other redoubts need to reflect America's diversity.

234 Chef Boyardee (I think it was them) had a Pizza kit in a box. Flour crust, just add water, and some sauce in a can, and a packet of dried cheese-like substance. Pretty gnarly. Woof.

I did like a particular brand of baked beans, had a lumberjack on the can. 2 cans actually, a can of beans, and another small can with onions and spicy sauce taped to the top.

235 When my BP started going up the first thing was to cut out salt. Did not make one bit of difference. Learned later that it's a genetic thing - similar to some people like cilantro others think it tastes like soap - If you have the trigger gene salt will affect your BP if you don't it won't make any difference.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others


I think I must have that gene.
Like to make my own pizza.
pepperoni, ham, sausage, anchovy, green olives, and if I feel like making it healthy I'll throw on some onions...

It does seem to have some effect on BP.

236 It's the oxalates that cause kidney stones. Stay away from awful tasting leafy vegetables.

237 They still made their sauce, but no more pasta drying all over the house. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


They ever consider just using a clothesline?

238 I think I must have that gene.
Like to make my own pizza.
pepperoni, ham, sausage, anchovy, green olives, and if I feel like making it healthy I'll throw on some onions...

It does seem to have some effect on BP.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 27, 2026 11:54 PM (/lPRQ)


Get rid of those anchovies and you'll be fine.
Follow the ONT for other health and dietary tips.
Health is our passion.

239 Yes, That presumes federal funding. Below that cost threshold they can do major repairs with 'maintenance' money at the agencies discretion (the money is given lump sum by Congress w/o regard to specific projects). I had one project where the building "maintenance" money was used to strip it to bare structural steel.
How?
If funded by Congress the threshold is relative to all new construction cost.

If funded by Congress....
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 27, 2026 11:11 PM (/lPRQ)

This is why we spend so much on military housing on base. Redoing old, useless 1950's concrete barracks into "apartments," which are always awful, and cost more than going into town and buying each soldier a 2-bedroom house. It is all "maintenance" money. If we tore the whole thing down and started new, it would be cheaper, but the funding would take 6 years through Congress and might not happen at all, so we spend all the maintenance money making something that's about half-assed.

240 Did we all remember to commemorate the past 9 world wars properly. I suppose we should have some Romulan ale or something.

241 Health is our passion.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2026 11:57 PM (2WIwB)

Wait, I thought drinking and boobs were our passions.

242 You're right, Biden's Dog. I sip on water throughout the day but don't always drink enough.

I get bottled water because it's easier to keep track and tastes much better than what comes out of the tap here. (I tried filtering, but it's a hassle.)

243 236 It's the oxalates that cause kidney stones. Stay away from awful tasting leafy vegetables.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2026 11:55 PM (ugkak)

Three different kinds of kidney stones, but the lack of water due to over-salting just puts them all on overdrive.

244 I used to doubt a lot of things. But, I’ve since had second thoughts about these matters, and now have my redoubts.

245 225 Monte Coleman died.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 27, 2026 11:48 PM (ugkak)

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I loved it when he escaped from Chateau D'if.

246 White Castle is racist. Our castles and other redoubts need to reflect America's diversity.
Posted by: morbidly obese blue-haired harridan

Krystal

Get yourself a sackful of Krystals!

247 >>>I thought that was for a basketball court, because, ya know, priorities.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2026 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

>In the JEF's defense, even though he could shoot the ball for shit, I never saw him once flop on the court like these NBA superstars. The LeBron flop is next level.

248 Linebacker for the Redskins for about 17 years.

249 231 Somewhere, a village is missing its idiot.
Posted by: Bulg at April 27, 2026 11:53 PM (77rzZ)

I don't think they miss him at all. In fact, they probably celebrated the day he moved out of mom's basement into the downtown YMCA.

250 Brita (activated charcoal) works well for cleaning up off tastes in otherwise potable water.

What “activates” charcoal, anyway? What’s wrong with the stuff in the fireplace?

251 Health is our passion.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 27, 2026 11:57 PM (2WIwB)

Wait, I thought drinking and boobs were our passions.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 27, 2026 11:58 PM (DwqWV)


Passions...hobbies...potato...pototo...

252 Monte Coleman died.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Over the weekend.
I remember coming home from trick-or-treating as a kid to the news that Harold McClinton had died. For those who were in the area, you know what I'm referring to.

253 Somewhere, a village is missing its idiot.
Posted by: Bulg

We're really not.

254 >In the JEF's defense, even though he could shoot the ball for shit, I never saw him once flop on the court like these NBA superstars. The LeBron flop is next level.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 28, 2026 12:00 AM (Fbc0I)

Perhaps LeBron should swap his sneakers for flip-flops, to make his flops floppier.

255 The Vegas Golden Knights in 2023 proved you can win the Cup with average goaltending, if the rest of your team is really good.
Vegas in 2026 is proving you can't win the Cup with below average goaltending, no matter how good the rest of your team is.

256 244 I used to doubt a lot of things. But, I’ve since had second thoughts about these matters, and now have my redoubts.
Posted by: Bulg at April 27, 2026 11:59 PM (77rzZ)

https://www.alaska.org/detail/mount-redoubt-volcano

We have an exploding mountain of those.

257 Keyboard commie is fighting us.

LoL!! Sure sport.

258 I got mine from beets.

259 Building it lawfully requires the approval of Congress, which the administration could seek at any time.” National Trust for Historic Preservation President and CEO Carol Quillen
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Ummm, I am 99% certain that is a willfully false statement.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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I think that the suit is going nowhere, too, but I'm not at 99%.
Three words: Judge James Boasberg
Who knows how some TDS afflicted judge is going to rule, and there's no shortage of them in DC.

Congress' sole power here is the power of the purse, but Trump has negated that by getting private donations. There's no special historic value to the east wing, and legally, that's moot, anyway. Under the Unitary executive power he can issue any executive order that is not otherwise illegal to direct the actions of people and property use under the executive purview. The White House is definitely under executive control.

260 I think I must have that gene.
Like to make my own pizza.
pepperoni, ham, sausage, anchovy, green olives, and if I feel like making it healthy I'll throw on some onions...

It does seem to have some effect on BP.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 27, 2026 11:54 PM (/lPRQ)

I started making my own pizza not that long ago. I can't wait to see my next blood work.

261 Wait, I thought drinking and boobs were our passions.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 27, 2026 11:58 PM (DwqWV)

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Drinking, boobs and health.

Wait. Drinking, boobs, fish puns and health.

Wait. Drinking, boobs, fish puns, boobs and health.

262 What “activates” charcoal, anyway? What’s wrong with the stuff in the fireplace?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 28, 2026 12:00 AM (kGQLW)

Strong heating in the absence of oxygen, I think.

263 I lived in “B Quad” at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii one of the oldest buildings on base. I think it was actually bombed in World War One. Consisting of open bays, the floors were converted into individual 2 or 4 man rooms sometime in the 1960s. During remodels decades later all kinds of contraband was found behind the walls, knives, numbchuks, bags of weed, etc.

264 BOOBS!!

265 Congress' sole power here is the power of the purse, but Trump has negated that by getting private donations. There's no special historic value to the east wing, and legally, that's moot, anyway. Under the Unitary executive power he can issue any executive order that is not otherwise illegal to direct the actions of people and property use under the executive purview. The White House is definitely under executive control.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 28, 2026 12:04 AM (3tF5Z)

I expect it is on the Historic Register or some such foolishness, which would mean it was administered by the Parks Service. If that were so, then perhaps there would be paperwork to file, but I rather doubt the Parks Service can over-rule the POTUS.

Then again, the East Wing is probably NOT on the Register, because it was a piece of crap. But, you never know.

266 Drinking, boobs and health.

Wait. Drinking, boobs, fish puns and health.

Wait. Drinking, boobs, fish puns, boobs and health.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 28, 2026 12:05 AM (+HNx/)

Don't forget guns, tree puns, and funny animals.

267 Buns are the lowest form of pastry.

268 263 I lived in “B Quad” at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii one of the oldest buildings on base. I think it was actually bombed in World War One. Consisting of open bays, the floors were converted into individual 2 or 4 man rooms sometime in the 1960s. During remodels decades later all kinds of contraband was found behind the walls, knives, numbchuks, bags of weed, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 28, 2026 12:05 AM (kGQLW)

Sdhofield is definitely on the Register, but they get around that because it is considered militarily necessary. Also means things like they don't need elevators for the HCP access, etc.

I've found all sorts of odd items when remodeling old barracks on bases. So far no body parts, but some of these guys would squirrel away.... well. Nuff said.

269 Are you pining for the bass, or did you stick around for the halibut?

270 Wait. Drinking, boobs, fish puns, boobs and health.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 28, 2026 12:05 AM (+HNx/)

Don't forget guns, tree puns, and funny animals.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 28, 2026 12:08 AM (S/Y4j)

Who knew we were so passionate?

271 Was it Subway bread that is so sweet they can't call it bread in Ireland?

272 I started making my own pizza not that long ago. I can't wait to see my next blood work.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Damn.
I forgot the bacon. Don't forget bacon.

Best thing about making your own is you can focus on the stuff/quality/quantity that matters to you. Sometimes I keep it simple, but most of the time I go total carnivore.

273 I hope the architect was DEI and the building engineers were DEI. And then the inspectors were paid off so it was built super cheap.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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So,you're wishing for CCP contractors.
It would be fitting.

274 Is there cheap pepperoni anywhere? I was thinking of heating it with mozzarella.

275 If something tastes good, they don't think it's food in Ireland.

276 Subway.. another once great, now garbage sandwich shop.

Bacon? What bacon? Oh, you mean that anemic looking strip of near-transparent stuff?

277 Obama ordered a $370–$376 million White House renovation in 2008
lights, pipes and electrical wiring —
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I wonder who made out on that deal. Guarantee that shit didn't cost 370 million. Probably helped fund the next iteration of ACORN.

278 I've found all sorts of odd items when remodeling old barracks on bases. So far no body parts, but some of these guys would squirrel away.... well. Nuff said.
Posted by: tcn in AK


In the short time between vacating an old 'dorm' and demo'ing it at MacDill AFB some hookers moved in and set up a trick pad.

279 AI says that water purified by reverse osmosis has filtered out all of the residual drugs and chemicals flushed into the water system.

280 Yeah...I tried to fix it, but damned if I know where to start!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

At least you tried, Dr. Dildo. I tried converting the numeric portion to an X entry. No good.

MisHum's mystery click remains a mystery for the ages.

281 Seen on X

* burns down house *

* checks spring cleaning off list *

282 269 I’m just trouting out the regular stuff. Hope you pike it.

283 That thing is ugly even by commie standards.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2026 10:46 PM (0Htd1)

I was gonna say there's no such thing but, my God I just looked... pretty obvious they're trying to make it as ugly as possible, and somehow they succeeded...? I thought demons only helped destroy but I guess they're good at conjuring eyesores.

284 >>>If something tastes good, they don't think it's food in Ireland.

Posted by: Wally

>I think the best meal that ever came out of Ireland is a Guinness stout.

285 I think it was James Beard’s “Beard on Bread” recipe book, that guy must have liked Salt. 2 tablespoons or something crazy like that. Hey, it was the 70s, and Bread does not taste nearly as good without Salt.

Salt is also necessary to counteract some of the rise of yeast, actually. And modern recipes of all kinds, not just Bread, have gone to the other extreme, you can tell because they barely deign to include it, with some ridiculous “1/64th teaspoon”.

“Salt to taste”; won’t see that any longer either.

286 Very nice ONT, MisHum, thank you, I love the painting too!

LOL on the White Castle, Bers, we didn't have any of those around here but there was Eddie's Diner open all night.

287 Is there cheap pepperoni anywhere? I was thinking of heating it with mozzarella.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Super low-carb 'crustless pizza'. One of the chains has it.
To make it at home just use an aluminum pie pan or other tin, spritz it with some oil, and load up all the usual shit.
Works great in toaster ovens.

There is some 'cheap' pepperoni. Any store probably has at least three brands. I used to always go for Bridgeford in stick and cut it myself... and it used to be the cheapest and the best, but labor intensive.
but something happened to the formula recently (or local distro) and it turned to shit, almost rancid.

288 I started making my own pizza not that long ago. I can't wait to see my next blood work.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Damn.
I forgot the bacon. Don't forget bacon.

Best thing about making your own is you can focus on the stuff/quality/quantity that matters to you. Sometimes I keep it simple, but most of the time I go total carnivore.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 28, 2026 12:12 AM (/lPRQ)

Very first pizza I made had bacon, I made sure of it.

289 Old Boars are tough, and Gamey flavored, so they make Pepperoni with it. For home Pizza finely chopped Ham is a pretty good substitute or at least more likely to be on hand.

290 I lived in “B Quad” at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii one of the oldest buildings on base.
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Heh. I lived here, in this barracks
https://shorturl.at/pYUzN

Built ~1906, I think.

291 My store has two brands of cheap pepperoni and they aren't worth the money.


Anybody remember Ireland's Bar-B-Q in a can?

292
It's going to be an interesting summer.
Posted by: Diogenes

The Summer of Anti Love

293 In the short time between vacating an old 'dorm' and demo'ing it at MacDill AFB some hookers moved in and set up a trick pad.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher


I was stationed at MacDill from 93-97. Which old dorms are you referring to? And if those hookers were from that neighborhood outside of the base, wear a HAZMAT suit before, uh, business commences.

294 Use Bread Flour (high protein) and age it for a day. A poolish is one way. You’ll know it’s coming along because it has this tangy great aroma. When baking in the oven it is out of this world. AP flour is good, don’t misunderstand , but it just smells kind of fake, like a Wonder Bread bakery instead of that exotic french bakery thing.

295 That brown sausage Sam's Club used on 3 meat pizza was good.

296 I was stationed at MacDill from 93-97. Which old dorms are you referring to? And if those hookers were from that neighborhood outside of the base, wear a HAZMAT suit before, uh, business commences.
Posted by: Puddleglum

A block south of SOCOM, south side of Administrator Ave.
The new dorms are quite visible in on-line maps.
I think this was 2008-2012

297 LOL on the White Castle, Bers, we didn't have any of those around here but there was Eddie's Diner open all night.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 28, 2026 12:20 AM (0nHVk)

Back in the very early 80's the 24 hour thing was just catching on. There was one 24 hour McDonalds, but there were 2 white castles about 10 miles apart. Originally that McDonalds wasn't 24 hour, but it was smack dab in between one of the white castles and a jack in the box which were both 24 hour. They finally got a clue and went 24 hour. The problem was they were a little far from all the area metal clubs and bars. There was a 3rd white castle that was somewhat close to the bulk of the clubs that were on this section of Rt35 heading towards the shore, so in reality that white castle was the safe bet and there was nothing else that was 24 hour. Eventually a shit ton of places went 24 hour, but in the bad old days white castle was salvation.

298 My store has two brands of cheap pepperoni and they aren't worth the money.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 28, 2026 12:27 AM (Puq9y)

Hormel, thats the shit.

299 Ace should name this village idiots posts as their almost as many village idiots here as their are closet queens projecting their homosexuality on to others.

300 Use Bread Flour (high protein) and age it for a day. A poolish is one way. You’ll know it’s coming along because it has this tangy great aroma. When baking in the oven it is out of this world. AP flour is good, don’t misunderstand , but it just smells kind of fake, like a Wonder Bread bakery instead of that exotic french bakery thing.
Posted by: Common Tater

The secret is a cold ferment and a small amount of diastatic malt in the dough.

301 You can always tell the butthurt regulars who were banned or otherwise shunned.

302 MiladyJo has ground and set up the coffee, so I have to hit the time-travel pillow so I can enjoy it in the a.m. So, wrapping it up…

ICYMI, my five-second meme creation yesterday:
https://bit.ly/lame-shooter-boy

As I said #101, my test of Suno was "mashup I Wear My Sunglasses at Night with Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" and it came up with "Shades After Midnight." After which, MiladyJo and I listened to/read a "Sunglasses" lyric video (because we couldn't make out half the words), and then "Future's" (which is still fun upbeat silliness). In order of quality of lyrics, worst to best, I'd say Sunglasses, Shades After Midnight, and Future's.

Shades After Midnight
https://bit.ly/shades-after-midnight

Lord's Prayer, National Anthem, Indian-head test pattern

G'nite, y'all.

303 Ace should name this village idiots posts as their almost as many village idiots here as their are closet queens projecting their homosexuality on to others.
Posted by: raimondo at April 28, 2026 12:41 AM (9ljAi)

Well you're posting here, so that's at least 1.

304 The secret is a cold ferment and a small amount of diastatic malt in the dough.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 28, 2026 12:42 AM (diia5)

Second both of these recommendations - cold ferment was the source of my very first "great" pizza dough. Back before I was really any kind of baker.

I will say however that Jim Lahey's 16 hour room temp dough is pretty fool proof and I have made some absolutely amazing pizzas with it.

305
I realize this is home bake pizza heresy, but I do not like how 100% bread flour bakes up on a stone or steel. I always use some or more than some AP flour in mine.

306 My store has two brands of cheap pepperoni and they aren't worth the money.
Posted by: Braenyard

I see packs of pre-sliced (super thin!) Armour pepperoni for cheap. Yeah, junk, and especially since the brand is now owned by chynah-Smithfield.

307 Of the many good things that have gone away over the decades, one of the most daily annoying is good, cheap fast food. Now its made of who knows what, costs a mint, and doesn't taste good and then messes up your system. 30 years ago all I had in my fridge was frozen pizza (usually 5 for $10) and Coke. It was cheaper to buy fast food than groceries practically

308 >>>Ace should name this village idiots posts as their almost as many village idiots here as their are closet queens projecting their homosexuality on to others.

Posted by: raimondo

>If you're looking to suck some flavor of cock, the gloryhole is in the barrel.

309 Hiya DDS!

310 The secret is a cold ferment and a small amount of diastatic malt in the dough.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 28, 2026 12:42 AM (diia5)

Second both of these recommendations - cold ferment was the source of my very first "great" pizza dough. Back before I was really any kind of baker.

I will say however that Jim Lahey's 16 hour room temp dough is pretty fool proof and I have made some absolutely amazing pizzas with it.

Posted by: ... at April 28, 2026 12:45 AM (vE0+H)

I'm guessing the cold ferment is where you stick it in the fridge for a day to let it rise, and the room temp is where you just let it rise at room temp until it gets to be the size of a snow tire?

311 Does it make me old that I had Traffic on 8-track?

312 Of the many good things that have gone away over the decades, one of the most daily annoying is good, cheap fast food. Now its made of who knows what, costs a mint, and doesn't taste good and then messes up your system. 30 years ago all I had in my fridge was frozen pizza (usually 5 for $10) and Coke. It was cheaper to buy fast food than groceries practically
Posted by: Azjaeger

True!
Heck, even some groceries are made of crap now.

My brother left some Kraft mac n cheese (boxed) behind last summer. I felt nostalgic one day and decided to cook some. The "macaroni" looked weird, but whatever... bleccch! So gross.

The cheesy stuff seemed ok, so I tried again with *real* macaroni-- Good! Jackasses just had to cheap out even more, on an already dirt-cheap component.

YANG POON macaroni!!!

313 296: Heh! I think I lived in one of them from 93-97! Did not know they got rid of them. I was in the first building, right across the street from the mess hall, which is also probably gone.

I just looked online. Yea, that whole area was redone. Looks different.

314 Jeepers, all this talk of pepperoni and sausage just reminded me of two neighbors at the same time. One neighbor has a gay married brother who is also a reverend of dubious credentials, anyway, every time he arrives for a visit to his sister my other neighbor always texts me and asks if I am attending Sausage Fest this year. He would be a great moron and his wife would be a fabulous 'ette indeed. I am very blessed to have people like this in my life. My other neighbor is a widow like me, we saw each other through our husband's demise, I love her like sister, which I never had, but I cannot and will not discuss much of a political discussion because she supports so many of her brother's delusions. I am blessed to have her in my life too.

315 True!
Heck, even some groceries are made of crap now.

My brother left some Kraft mac n cheese (boxed) behind last summer. I felt nostalgic one day and decided to cook some. The "macaroni" looked weird, but whatever... bleccch! So gross.

The cheesy stuff seemed ok, so I tried again with *real* macaroni-- Good! Jackasses just had to cheap out even more, on an already dirt-cheap component.

YANG POON macaroni!!!

Posted by: JQ at April 28, 2026 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

I made mac and cheese a few months ago. Its been years since I made it. The macaroni did seem a little weird. Its seemed very small.

316 Does it make me old that I had Traffic on 8-track?
Posted by: Unclezip at April 28, 2026 12:53 AM (OVY0w)

Did you get it from Columbia House?

317 Hi, Debby! Glad you have good neighbors; it's a real blessing.

318 The macaroni did seem a little weird. Its seemed very small.
Posted by: Berserker

Did it actually *look like* macaroni to you? I mean, I bought what is called "small elbow" for the re-do because it seemed like the original style for Kraft m&c.

The stuff my brother got, the "macaroni" didn't look like any pasta I've ever seen sold separately: nearly straight tubes, very pale. He purchased the boxes at Costco in 18-ct case.

319 I will say however that Jim Lahey's 16 hour room temp dough is pretty fool proof and I have made some absolutely amazing pizzas with it.
Posted by: ... at April 28, 2026 12:45 AM (vE0+H)

That is about the same as my bread recipe in the AoSHQ Cookbook. Probably comes out very nicely. Super simple to do.

320 Heh! I think I lived in one of them from 93-97! Did not know they got rid of them. I was in the first building, right across the street from the mess hall, which is also probably gone.

I just looked online. Yea, that whole area was redone. Looks different.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come


Scroll around.
Other than a few buildings almost the whole base has been torn down and rebuilt.

The historic hangers and a few others are about it... maybe the commissary too. Even roads are moving.
But Dale Mabry still sucks.

321 -----
So,you're wishing for CCP contractors.
It would be fitting.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 28, 2026 12:13 AM (3tF5Z)

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Do you watch "The China Show" on YT? Two non-Asian guys report on crazy, corrupt practices in China. "Tofu dreg" is the name they give to terribly shoddy building practices.

322 What “activates” charcoal, anyway? What’s wrong with the stuff in the fireplace?
Posted by: Common Tater at April 28, 2026 12:00 AM (kGQLW)

Strong heating in the absence of oxygen, I think.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The difference between "activated" charcoal and the regular stuff is mechanical, and I have no idea how they do.it.
Regular charcoal, like the briquettes in your grill are compacted and dense. The activated stuff is almost sponge-like, with English muffin style nooks and crannies.
High heat in the absence of oxygen is how you make charcoal out of wood, and how coke is created out of coal.
I took a tour of US Steel's Edgar Thompson plant in Braddock (yes, the home of The Lump) where they did the coke conversion on a massive scale. And it may have been here on AOS (or someplace on the web) where there was a "mystery pic" of small beehive-shaped brick structures that were charcoal ovens.

323 Did it actually *look like* macaroni to you? I mean, I bought what is called "small elbow" for the re-do because it seemed like the original style for Kraft m&c.

The stuff my brother got, the "macaroni" didn't look like any pasta I've ever seen sold separately: nearly straight tubes, very pale. He purchased the boxes at Costco in 18-ct case.
Posted by: JQ at April 28, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

KD was always straight-tube macaroni noodles, Well, a slight arc to it, but not "elbow" macaroni. The store-brand stuff is elbow mac, and is actually better-tasting than KD.

324 Back in my days as a smoker, i recall that Parliament cigarettes used to advertise their "activated charcoal filter".I'm sure that made them totally safe. /s
.

325 Did it actually *look like* macaroni to you? I mean, I bought what is called "small elbow" for the re-do because it seemed like the original style for Kraft m&c.

The stuff my brother got, the "macaroni" didn't look like any pasta I've ever seen sold separately: nearly straight tubes, very pale. He purchased the boxes at Costco in 18-ct case.

Posted by: JQ at April 28, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah it looked like macaroni, just seemed smaller than I remembered. It looked like a small elbow. It tasted ok.

326 I took a tour of US Steel's Edgar Thompson plant in Braddock (yes, the home of The Lump) where they did the coke conversion on a massive scale. And it may have been here on AOS (or someplace on the web) where there was a "mystery pic" of small beehive-shaped brick structures that were charcoal ovens.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 28, 2026 01:18 AM (3tF5Z)

These charcoal ovens are near the Gila River east of Florence, AZ. They cut mesquite wood along the river bottom, and burned it in these ovens to make charcoal for smelting copper. Active as late as WWII era. I have been there on several occasions.


https://tinyurl.com/3kwka5xr

327 Hmm. I'd swear that Kraft used actual small-elbow mac back in the day (70s) but memory ain't what it used to be LOL.

Hubby has always *hated* mac & cheese, so I hadn't prepared any kind of it for (counts fingers, toes, couple of pencils...) 24 years at least.

328 what, costs a mint, and doesn't taste good and then messes up your system. 30 years ago all I had in my fridge was frozen pizza (usually 5 for $10) and Coke. It was cheaper to buy fast food than groceries practically
Posted by: Azjaeger at April 28, 2026 12:47 AM

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Our go-to stop for a late night bite to eat (early '70s), was the Gossage Grill: two eggs, toast, butter, jelly and coffee 57 cents

329 Hmm. I'd swear that Kraft used actual small-elbow mac back in the day (70s) but memory ain't what it used to be LOL.

Hubby has always *hated* mac & cheese, so I hadn't prepared any kind of it for (counts fingers, toes, couple of pencils...) 24 years at least.

Posted by: JQ at April 28, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

I always remembered kraft being a small elbow.

330 I've been convinced for a long while that the pasta in a certain boxed mac and cheese is fabricated from recycled cardboard. Home made mac and cheese can be sublime, particularly on a stormy night, it truly is comfort food. I'll make one to bring to a neighbor's but to make one just for myself seems pointless in a way.

Hey, JQ, we've no rain yet, but I am still not doing any yard work right now. How are you this evening?

Hi tcn, how his Mr. Adorable??

331 307 Of the many good things that have gone away over the decades, one of the most daily annoying is good, cheap fast food. Now its made of who knows what, costs a mint, and doesn't taste good and then messes up your system. 30 years ago all I had in my fridge was frozen pizza (usually 5 for $10) and Coke. It was cheaper to buy fast food than groceries practically
Posted by: Azjaeger
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Last week or so read that McDonald's is going to bring back value meals. Drove through the other day. Not on the menu. Past the menu and order stand was a small too small to read placard with a $3 menu. They have to up their game DQ too. The other two franchises have a reasonable teaser.

332 I'd post a side-by-side picture of the boxed crap & small elbows, if I hadn't thrown the rest of it out!

Made macaroni salad out of the remaining elbows. Yummy.

333 Our go-to stop for a late night bite to eat (early '70s), was the Gossage Grill: two eggs, toast, butter, jelly and coffee 57 cents

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 28, 2026 01:28 AM (tzPU3)

57 cents? Which early 70's, the 1870s? lol

334 I always remembered kraft being a small elbow.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2026 01:29 AM (snZF9)

Maybe it depended on the market where the stuff was sold. As far back as I can remember in Canada, it was the straight tube style. They likely made/packed it in more than one plant.

335 👍 Traffic. RIP Dave Mason 😔

Thanks, MusHum.

336 They cut mesquite wood along the river bottom, and burned it in these ovens to make charcoal for smelting copper. Active as late as WWII era. I have been there on several occasions.


https://tinyurl.com/3kwka5xr
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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What is it they say in the desert, dig for wood, look up to the rocks for water?...something like that

337 I've been convinced for a long while that the pasta in a certain boxed mac and cheese is fabricated from recycled cardboard. Home made mac and cheese can be sublime, particularly on a stormy night, it truly is comfort food. I'll make one to bring to a neighbor's but to make one just for myself seems pointless in a way.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 28, 2026 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

Well from what I understand most of your good box pasta is semolina flour made from durum wheat. If I remember right its semolina and water, no egg. Some of the fresh pasta recipes might use AP flour and egg, or a blend of 00 and semolina, or regular AP flour and egg. God knows what they do with the mac and cheese pasta. If you're making mac and cheese with a good box pasta you probably got a waaay better shot at it being really good.

338 Maybe it depended on the market where the stuff was sold. As far back as I can remember in Canada, it was the straight tube style. They likely made/packed it in more than one plant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 28, 2026 01:32 AM (utfVc)

That would not surprise me in the least.

339 LOL, Debby "fabricated from recycled cardboard" no kidding. Wallpaper paste, fed thru a play-doh machine...

I'm doing ok. Not as stiff today as I figured-- the Icy-Hot rub worked wonders overnight! It was too windy & chilly for yard work anyhow, so I took the day off. Should be back into 70s/80s next few days. Can't wait!

340 56. Oh, Girl.

Superstar DJ's

Here we go!

(I highly doubt anybody on this forum will get the reference.)
Posted by: tankdemon

Chemical Brothers

341 What “activates” charcoal, anyway? What’s wrong with the stuff in the fireplace?
****

Further processing of charcoal by high-pressure steam or chemical solution.

342 @GiorgiaMeloni - Apr 26

I would like to express my full sympathy and sincere sympathy to President Trump, First Lady Melania, Vice President Vance and everyone present for what happened at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

No political hatred can find a place in our democracies. We will not allow fanaticism to poison the places of free debate and information. The defense of the civilization of confrontation must remain the impassable barrier against any intolerant drift, protecting the values that found our Nations
_X translation

Has Thune said anything yet?

343 335. Mea culpa, MisHum.

344 JQ, I love pasta salad so long as it has an oil based dressing and not mayonnaise.I just don't like mayo unless it is very thinly applied, I really like a lemony, herbal oily dressing on a pasta salad and it has to sit overnight in the fridge and out on the counter for an hour or so before you eat it.

345 They likely made/packed it in more than one plant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Makes sense.

Also-- Costco, being Costco, purchased truckloads of the cheapest of the cheap for distribution.

346 320:But Dale Mabry still sucks.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher


Ah yes, Death Maybe Hwy. I 'memba.

347 I'm guessing the cold ferment is where you stick it in the fridge for a day to let it rise, and the room temp is where you just let it rise at room temp until it gets to be the size of a snow tire?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2026 12:53 AM (snZF9)

The room temp one uses a very small amount of yeast intentionally so it doesn't rise like you'd think.

348 Sanae Takaichi@takaichi_sanae 41m

Today, we received a report from Minister Onoda on the progress of the "Comprehensive Response Measures for the Reception and Orderly Coexistence of Foreigners," which was newly compiled in January, and confirmed that efforts are steadily progressing.

Below is an example []several], [at link]

In addition to addressing the concerns and feelings of injustice felt by the people, the government is also implementing a wide range of initiatives based on "comprehensive response measures" to ensure that the foreign policy is "orderly" and that both the people and foreigners can live safe and secure lives.

For the benefit of the majority of foreigners who stay and reside here in accordance with the rules, we will strive to achieve an "orderly and symbiotic society with foreigners" by responding firmly to problematic behavior.

That's the closing of the proclamation/statement

https://tinyurl.com/37x3petd

349 Debby, I use bottled Italian dressing and mayo.

Cook the pasta, drain and stir in a little mayo/mustard mix. Chop up whatever-- green bell pepper, black olives, green olives, pimentos, green onion &&&&-- and stir in lots of Italian dressing. Then combine all.

Definitely let it sit, preferably overnight. If too dry, stir in more dressing! (But my palate is uncultured redneck, so... might not be to others' liking)

350 That is about the same as my bread recipe in the AoSHQ Cookbook. Probably comes out very nicely. Super simple to do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 28, 2026 01:09 AM (DwqWV)

Neat!!

351 I may not have much to contribute to the conversation here, but I enjoy reading all the commenters. Except the sad, annoying trolls. I figure it's not easy to just ignore them, but I think they get their jollies seeing good folks provoked. Starve 'em.

352 Do you watch "The China Show" on YT? Two non-Asian guys report on crazy, corrupt practices in China. "Tofu dreg" is the name they give to terribly shoddy building practices.
Posted by: JM
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My wife loves it. An American and a South African (white) who lived in China for years and speak fluent Mandarin. I believe that both their wives are Chinese. They do a lot of silly shit to be entertaining, but I guess that's the way to viewership. If you can put in an hour and a half for 30-40 minutes of hard info, it's great.

353 The best boxed pastas are bronze die extruded. Best one I ever had was a brand called Latini which is sadly long gone now. Truly amazing stuff.

I only found one that comes close to that but it's hard but not impossible to find - Michele Portoghese. Got the motherlode one time cheap at HomeGoods but that must be 10 years ago.

For supermarket boxed pasta DeCecco or Delverde is a pretty good go-to.

354 Sanae Takaichi@takaichi_sanae . 19h

From this perspective, the revision of these three documents at a time of global upheaval and Japan facing many difficult challenges is an important initiative that will determine the fate of the nation.

She's talking about amending their constitution, building more military, and assisting neighbors in the same. She's telling Chairman Xi, Japan is ready to - Get Some.

355 Why the FBI Secretly Investigated Bigfoot—and the Brutal Truth They Found
- - - - - -

FBI: Hey, we were pranked with a typo from our X-Files section! We were originally meant to investigate BigOTS!

356 The best boxed pastas are bronze die extruded. Best one I ever had was a brand called Latini which is sadly long gone now. Truly amazing stuff.

I only found one that comes close to that but it's hard but not impossible to find - Michele Portoghese. Got the motherlode one time cheap at HomeGoods but that must be 10 years ago.

For supermarket boxed pasta DeCecco or Delverde is a pretty good go-to.

Posted by: ... at April 28, 2026 02:00 AM (vE0+H)

Absolutely, bronze cut rules. DeCecco is great. Barilla makes a bronze cut made in italy pasta in the red box or package. I tried their red package bronze cut thick spaghetti recently and it was stellar. Kroger has a brand called private selection which is bronze cut. I tried it once, that was pretty good too.

357 My wife loves it. An American and a South African (white) who lived in China for years and speak fluent Mandarin. I believe that both their wives are Chinese. They do a lot of silly shit to be entertaining, but I guess that's the way to viewership. If you can put in an hour and a half for 30-40 minutes of hard info, it's great.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 28, 2026 01:59 AM (3tF5Z

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Yes! Recent episode showed huge steel columns, each attached to concrete by four huge bolts. Except two or three of the four bolts were phony, just placed on top of the steel, CONNECTED TO NOTHING!

358 352 Do you watch "The China Show" on YT? Two non-Asian guys report on crazy, corrupt practices in China. "Tofu dreg" is the name they give to terribly shoddy building practices.
Posted by: JM
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See where the fellow that designed their stealth jet - tested it against their best selling radar and said radar could detect F-18 and F35.
After the US made lawn art out of the Chinese Radar in Iran the designer went missing, subsequently found, you guessed it, dead.

359 A Cursor AI coding agent deleted a startup's entire production database in 9 seconds. The agent, powered by Claude, was working on a staging task, found a broadly scoped API token, and executed a volume delete without confirmation. It later confessed in detail, admitting it guessed and violated safety rules.

PocketOS, which powers car rental businesses, lost months of bookings data.

In short, the AI agent rouge

360 Do you watch "The China Show" on YT? Two non-Asian guys report on crazy, corrupt practices in China. "Tofu dreg" is the name they give to terribly shoddy building practices.
Posted by: JM

In harley world its called YANG POON.

361 Cat is curled up and snoozing in a planter by the patio door. It's one of his favorite spots!

I should either plant some flowers in it, or put weed-block fabric in it, so he doesn't continue to track potting soil into the house. *smh*

362 subsequently found, you guessed it, dead.
****

Someone can get away with cheap/shoddy until failure of such causes an important person to lose face. Then, losing face is the least of someone's worries.

363 Cat is curled up and snoozing in a planter by the patio door. It's one of his favorite spots!
****
He probably likes the sunshine. Get some astroturf and cut a circle to fit the planter.

364 JQ, your pasta salad sounds yummy, I would eat that by the gallon. Sweet dreams I'll see you tomorrow. I really do need to stretch out.

365 G'night, Debby! Sleep well!

366 He probably likes the sunshine. Get some astroturf and cut a circle to fit the planter.

Posted by: clarence
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He does enjoy some sun there! Hmm, yes, astroturf... or something that won't remain *wet* for long after it rains. He likes to roll & stretch out on the coco-fiber doormats too.

367 Entirely different:

My Kohler engine lawn tractor has always lost/burned oil. Until I bashed the hood. No hood no duct work to focus airflow into the fan. I now am cutting with no hood. I have cut three times with no loss of oil.

368 Well, 12:30 here. The rack is calling me. Night, Horde.

369 My Kohler engine lawn tractor has always lost/burned oil. Until I bashed the hood. No hood no duct work to focus airflow into the fan. I now am cutting with no hood. I have cut three times with no loss of oil.
Posted by: Braenyard

Whoa... Interesting!

370 'Night, AOP

371 Was hoping to catch AOP and some master tinker wisdom.

372 It's not 12:30 here but I'm going to break house rules and have another. Are the poppy's sold on Amazon any good?

373 349 Debby, I use bottled Italian dressing and mayo.

Cook the pasta, drain and stir in a little mayo/mustard mix. Chop up whatever-- green bell pepper, black olives, green olives, pimentos, green onion &&&&-- and stir in lots of Italian dressing. Then combine all.

Definitely let it sit, preferably overnight. If too dry, stir in more dressing! (But my palate is uncultured redneck, so... might not be to others' liking)
Posted by: JQ at April 28, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

Try sour cream instead of mustard/mayo, and use a little lemon juice. Gives it a nice kick. And it's good for those who can't have eggs, like DH.

374 Poppy's from Amz? Do you mean plants?

Also, having trouble computing how bashing lawn tractor hood and an air intake would correct an oil leak/burn... too bad you missed AOP with that one, LOL. (Sure you didn't "bash" the oil filter down onto its threads too?)

375 Hi tcn, how his Mr. Adorable??
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 28, 2026 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

Grandboy is gainin'. Last time he was here, he was busting out of his newborn clothes. Not sure that 6 mo sizes count as big boy clothes, but I bought a bunch of them at Freddies today on sale. Every kid needs sleepers with kangaroos on them, don't they?

376 Try sour cream instead of mustard/mayo, and use a little lemon juice. Gives it a nice kick. And it's good for those who can't have eggs, like DH.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Great idea! Thank you!

377 My Kohler engine lawn tractor has always lost/burned oil. Until I bashed the hood. No hood no duct work to focus airflow into the fan. I now am cutting with no hood. I have cut three times with no loss of oil.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 28, 2026 02:31 AM (Puq9y)

Fan? Is it water cooled, or air cooled?

378 These charcoal ovens are near the Gila River east of Florence, AZ. They cut mesquite wood along the river bottom, and burned it in these ovens to make charcoal for smelting copper. Active as late as WWII era. I have been there on several occasions.

https://tinyurl.com/3kwka5xr
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I recognized them immediately because I had been past a bunch of them in CO.

https://95rockfm.com/colorado-redstone-coke-ovens/

379 @amuse - 18h

OBSTRUCTION: Thune's Senate is blocking 100+ Trump nominees, refused to fund the Secret Service for 72 days despite a 3rd assassination attempt, and killed the Save America Act that 85% of Americans support.

America is at war. Senate Republicans have the power to fix every one of these failures & are choosing not to. That is not a conference.
That is an obstruction operation

380 Thune needs to be tossed out on his fucking ass.

381 It's air cooled but (it's a vertical shaft) the top has an air intake fan to cool the engine. I think all small air cooled engines have a fan to maximize air flow.
It's not like a bike with plenty of wind.

382 It's air cooled but (it's a vertical shaft) the top has an air intake fan to cool the engine. I think all small air cooled engines have a fan to maximize air flow.
It's not like a bike with plenty of wind.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 28, 2026 03:08 AM (Puq9y)

Its possible that without the hood it may be running cooler and not cooking the oil.

383 Thinking that's good for the engine - not running so hot. It doesn't appear to suffer any ill affects of running cooler -but the back of my mind says they like to run hotter than water cooled or is it that they are more heat tolerant?

384 Dating advice from James O'Keefe:

https://tinyurl.com/4n4r3vvw

Stay tuned!

385 Thinking that's good for the engine - not running so hot. It doesn't appear to suffer any ill affects of running cooler -but the back of my mind says they like to run hotter than water cooled or is it that they are more heat tolerant?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 28, 2026 03:18 AM (Puq9y)

No engine "likes" to run hot. By nature the air cooled might run a little hotter than water cooled, but I wouldn't say they are designed to run that way. My harleys with the evo engine has an oil temperature of about 180 degrees, which is pretty much what you get with water cooled. In traffic it will run hotter because no air flow, but because they have cooling fins they would run cooler just sitting there than a water cooled motor with a stuck closed thermostat or screwed water pump. There is no ill effects from running cooler, if anything its better. Less piston expansion, and the oil don't thin out as it does when it gets hot, and when it thins out it will burn it faster. The fan you have is probably a possible solution to the problem created by having a hood, but still might not be as good as not having a hood in the first place.

386 I don't know anything about engines, so instead I will add that one thing that blew my mind about the venerable .30-06 Springfield, "the cartridge that one two world wars," is that its many platforms included a couple *water-cooled* machine guns. Looking it up, there were the M1917 Browning Machine Gun (not to be confused with the air-cooled M1919 BMG), and the Colt 1928 Model 37. That seems wildly impractical from a weight perspective, but Brave AI says that it took through the late '70s to phase out water-cooled systems.

387 Yeah, If you're a 5 and the girl's a 10 something is up.

388 Yeah, If you're a 5 and the girl's a 10 something is up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 28, 2026 03:32 AM (Puq9y)
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It's a good thing you're here. It's been a long time since I would know.

389 The M1917 Browning machine gun, a water-cooled heavy machine gun, was phased out of regular U.S. military service in the late 1960s, being replaced by the lighter M60 machine gun. However, some units, like those in South Vietnam and on training courses, continued to use it into the 1970s
_DDG

Guess if one was at a stationary position, why not? feed it cartridges and keep the tank full and old timer would run all day.

390 Speaking of 5's and 10's, here's our minus 1000000 blue-haired congress woman witch losing her cool because someone knew how to answer her diatribe:

https://tinyurl.com/5xwdmnay

Worth the watch.

391 Youtube video producers using AI have hijacked Richard Feynman's genius. Well, they've hijacked everything under the sun, but using Feynman as a vehicle to fool people and monetize it is infuriating.

I simply searched his name one time, and Youtube-Google's AI is force feeding me AI garbage in a endless loop. Deleting browser history/cookies helped a little bit.

392 Rosanne Barr shoots and scores!

https://tinyurl.com/523dap32

Oh, and up yours, Mompants!

393 Consequently, Browning used a second gun that not only duplicated the original trial, but it also fired continuously for 48 minutes and 12 seconds (over 21,000 rounds

394 Speaking of guns:

https://tinyurl.com/ynaf2n4u

Grok can't identify when or where this event occurred, so assumes it's relatively recent. Chilling!

395 First Bitch of California gets smacked down real hard:

https://tinyurl.com/39bph6ac

396 Had a traveling dream, I was in Kansas, never been to Kansas except ovrr air

397 Had a traveling dream, I was in Kansas...

Posted by: Skip at April 28, 2026 04:22 AM (Ia/+0)
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Toto, too?

398 396 Had a traveling dream, I was in Kansas, never been to Kansas except ovrr air
Posted by: Skip


You entered Wolfus's subconscious? Very Dreamscape!

399 394 Speaking of guns:

https://tinyurl.com/ynaf2n4u

Grok can't identify when or where this event occurred, so assumes it's relatively recent. Chilling!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 28, 2026 03:59 AM (1o8D5)

Using XCancel to view the thread, @TextrahedronIX did a reverse image google search and found this article in The Sun:

‘HE CHARGED ME’ Terrifying moment man wielding two ‘ninja’ knives is shot dead after charging at cop

https://tinyurl.com/3kfc6z9p

The article is from Aug. 7, 2020, regarding a July 2 incident in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in which Officer Brian Pray shot and killed Kevan Ruffin Jr. "Ruffin’s mother had warned police 24 hours earlier that her son was in the midst of a breakdown after a recent change to his medication." He was armed with two martial arts weapons, three-pronged metal batons (incorrectly described as knives).

The article is worth reading in full.

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402 ha!

403 Pixy's up!

404 NOT FOUND

405 Hah!

406 ; )

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From @lukerosiak: Biden's SBA hid that it was giving $90 million in loans to Planned Parenthood by referring to Planned Parenthood as "Benghazi" in emails.

It was ruled that Planned Parenthood was ineligible for SBA loans -- so Biden officials granted those loans anyway, claiming the loans went to... "Benghazi"?

Luke Rosiak says Biden "may have broken the law."

I'm more confident it's a crime.

Biden administration officials may have broken the law by concealing small business loans to Planned Parenthood, a senator said Monday.

Small Business Administration officials disbursed and forgave loans to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates even after the agency determined that the group is not a small business that would be eligible. Top officials, including Biden SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman, concealed their maneuvering on the topic by substituting the words Planned Parenthood with "Benghazi" in emails, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who chairs the committee that oversees the agency, revealed Monday.

"We now know that after the SBA Biden officials met, planned and strategized (over 'Benghazi'), keeping the White House involved, approximately $90 million in Planned Parenthood SBA PPP loans and interest on the loans were forgiven by the Biden administration," she said.

Ernst asked the Department of Justice to investigate the officials under a statute that says anyone who attempts to conceal a federal record can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire.

America's Sweetheart, reading from a cue card, shows her firm command of American history when she says that the Insurrection Act was last invoked to deport Germans, Japanese, and Italians during, and I do quote, "World War Eleven."

See they wrote "World War II" and this totally-real US citizen didn't recognize that and thought America had been involved in eleven world wars.

Melania Trump has called for ABC to fire flabby assassination prep clown Jimmy Kimmel.

Melania posted on X Monday, "Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America." That is exactly what we see across the political left in America now, a sickness that has pervaded not only their politics, but their minds and their morals as well.
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Then, Melania continued by challenging the networks that platform such incredibly dangerous rhetoric. "People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him," she said. "Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community."

I like her spirit, but the Disney Goomer Network is all about stirring murderous hate against normies and transing children.

The Foreign Fraud Obama missed the perfect opportunity to shut his cocksucker for once.

"Although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it's incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy," Obama wrote on X. "It's also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I'm grateful to them -- and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay."

There's just one huge problem with Obama's statement. We already knew the shooter's motive at this point. Obama posted his statement at 5:15 p.m. EDT on Sunday, and the shooter's manifesto and its contents were first published late Sunday morning.

I just mentioned this tactic of deception last week -- liberals claim "we don't know the details" as a way to pretend they don't know the basics. If you challenge them later, and prove, as it is proven here, they knew most of the motive, they will say "Well I said I didn't know all of the details. What, you're criticizing me for not jumping the gun?"

Since then, we learned all of the details.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

🚨 FULL MANIFESTO: Trump White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooter Cole Allen details his motives and targets:

"Hello everybody!

So I may have given a lot of people a surprise today. Let me start off by apologizing to everyone whose trust I abused.

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for "Most Wanted."

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

I apologize to all of the people I traveled next to, all the workers who handled my luggage, and all the other non-targeted people at the hotel who I put in danger simply by being near.

I apologize to everyone who was abused and/or murdered before this, to all those who suffered before I was able to attempt this, to all who may still suffer after, regardless of my success or failure.

I don't expect forgiveness, but if I could have seen any other way to get this close, I would have taken it. Again, my sincere apologies.

On to why I did any of this:

I am a citizen of the United States of America.

What my representatives do reflects on me.

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

(Well, to be completely honest, I was no longer willing a long time ago, but this is the first real opportunity I've had to do something about it.)

While I'm discussing this, I'll also go over my expected rules of engagement (probably in a terrible format, but I'm not military so too bad.)

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest

Secret Service: they are targets only if necessary, and to be incapacitated non-lethally if possible (aka, I hope they're wearing body armor because center mass with shotguns messes up people who *aren't*

Hotel Security: not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me)

Capitol Police: same as Hotel Security

National Guard: same as Hotel Security

Hotel Employees: not targets at all

Guests: not targets at all

In order to minimize casualties I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls)

I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn't come to that.

Rebuttals to objections:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I'm not the person raped in a detention camp. I'm not the fisherman executed without trial. I'm not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor's crimes.

Objection 2: This is not a convenient time for you to do this.

Rebuttal: I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple minutes and realize that the world isn't about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should walk on by because it would be "inconvenient" for people who aren't the victim?

This was the best timing and chance of success I could come up with.

Objection 3: You didn't get them all.

Rebuttal: Gotta start somewhere.

Objection 4: As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn't be the one doing this.

Rebuttal: I don't see anyone else picking up the slack

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar's.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is *astoundingly* incompetent.)

Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.

Thank you to my friends, for your companionship over many years.

Thank you to my colleagues over many jobs, for your positivity and professionalism.

Thank you to my students for your enthusiasm and love of learning.

Thank you to the many acquaintances I've met, in person and online, for short interactions and long-term relationships, for your perspectives and inspiration.

Thank you all for everything.

Sincerely,

Cole "coldForce" "Friendly Federal Assassin" Allen

PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they're pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it's corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.

Like, if I was an Iranian agent, instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a damn Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed shit.

Actually insane.

Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it's awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.

Can't really recommend it! Stay in school, kids."

But Obama hasn't updated his statement.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox

Bill Maher drags his woke guest out of his liberal bubble and tells him to his face he's why Kamala Harris lost.

It all started when David Cross revealed his 9-year-old daughter has "trans friends."

"Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?" Maher asked.

Cross replied: "Yep," as if it's completely normal and something society should embrace.

That's when Maher dropped the hammer and told him straight up that no, somebody's doing something to that little girl.

Cross immediately got defensive, but Maher refused to back down.

He told Cross that believing a 9-year-old girl is deciding to be trans on her own is exactly the kind of liberal insanity that lost Kamala Harris the election in 2024.

And if Democrats keep it up, JD Vance is going to win in 2028.

By the end of this exchange, Cross is left sitting there looking like a deer in headlights, like he's never been challenged on "trans kids" in his life.

This is a moment worth watching, but if you're somewhere you can't play it, the transcript is below:

MAHER: "You need to be checked. People need to be checked... including your little girl."

CROSS: "Fck that btch. (joking) Fck that little btch with her black friends and trans friends and not even understanding."

MAHER: "Trans?! Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?"

CROSS: "Yep."

MAHER: "They know they're trans in third grade?"

CROSS: "Just the coolest kid."

MAHER: "[Is kid transitioning from] girl to boy?"

CROSS: "Girl to boy. And she has another very close friend who's not in the school, but who's boy to girl at three years old."

MAHER: "A woman said [to me] 'I was what they called a tomboy. If I was alive now and acted the way I did then, that's what they would have done to me.'"

CROSS: "Well, nobody's doing this to her."

MAHER: "Well, I don't know."

CROSS: "Literally nobody is doing this to her."

MAHER: "How old?"

CROSS: "She is -- or HE is -- either eight or I think nine."

MAHER: "Okay, then somebody is doing something because eight or nine-year-olds can't do anything on their own."

CROSS: "No, they're buying them boys' clothes."

MAHER: "Well then, they're doing something."

CROSS: "Sure. Yes, you're right. They're buying them boys' clothes."

MAHER: "And telling them you're a boy now."

CROSS: "No, no, they're not telling them. They're just agreeing with [them]."

MAHER: "Agreeing with an 8-year-old. Because when has their judgment ever been off at 8?"

CROSS: "You know you knew you weren't gay, right?"

MAHER: "Yeah, that's different."

CROSS: "It's not different."

MAHER: "It is different. Good luck with President Vance. Because, as I always say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You're just why she lost and this is a case of that."

CROSS: "Wait, what?"

MAHER: "We voted for the same person..."

CROSS: "Right."

MAHER: "You're just why she lost. Because America hears this, and they're going to go, 'Bill's right. Eight-year-olds can't really make decisions on their own like this.' That's what most people are going to say."

Bill Maher drags his woke guest out of his liberal bubble and tells him to his face he’s why Kamala Harris lost.

It all started when David Cross revealed his 9-year-old daughter has “trans friends.”

“Wait, she has trans friends in third grade?” Maher asked.

Cross replied:… pic.twitter.com/fAFKVZiW9D

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) April 27, 2026

And this one https://t.co/qYAvrU5ZAp

— MaryLouWestin (@LouWestin) April 27, 2026

Marjorie and Massie are as much responsible for filling the assassin's head with "Trump is Pedo Rapist" fantasies as any Democrat.

Well, okay, that's overstated -- the latest Democrat Assassin retweeted the assassination prep tweets of almost every Democrat politician on X.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life

🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'"

🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration."

🔵 "Senator Alex Padilla said people are DYING because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration."

🔵 "Senator Elizabeth Warren: President Trump is making the country look like a 'FASCIST STATE'"

🔵 "Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook"

Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarism on STEROIDS"

🔵 "Governor JB Pritzker: 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a MOMENT of peace.'"

🔵 "Rep. Pressley saying we'll see you in the streets."

🔵 Monica M McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will "not take this sh*t from Donald Trump. He thinks he's a DICTATOR. We are at WAR!"

"These are Democrat elected officials calling for WAR against the president of the United States and his supporters."

HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life

🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'"

🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro… pic.twitter.com/hy0vXB3t8K

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 27, 2026

And speaking of traitors:

This person should be found and put in prison.

Leaking the fact that we are about to take military action to a podcaster with questionable foreign ties puts American real lives at-risk. https://t.co/1QN2snNVQB

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 26, 2026