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A Ship against the Mewstone, at the Entrance to Plymouth Sound
Joseph Mallord William Turner

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 If at first you do succeed, nood, nood again

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (9E5Ho)

3 Turbulent.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (98kQX)

4 You can't park there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

5 A Ship against the Mewstone

Aka, the rocks.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:31 AM (9E5Ho)

6 The sea was very, very angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 09:31 AM (ESVrU)

7 A touch grainy, but otherwise I love everything about it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 09:31 AM (DgMqy)

8 I'd like a scotch on the mewstone.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM (9E5Ho)

9 I like all the blue. Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM (4NO2D)

10 Should have used a catamaran.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM (w9Wax)

11 Doesn't look like a Plymouth to me. More like a DeSoto.

Posted by: Groucho Marx, You Bet Your Life at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM (oftw2)

12 And thus the Prudential Insurance Company logo was born...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM (ESVrU)

13 This looks like certain disaster. I love Turner.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM (98kQX)

14 The sea was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at March 31, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

15 Is, "Mewstone," a catnip thing?

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2026 09:33 AM (Q+gd/)

16 The cabin boys will need much comforting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2026 09:33 AM (giTxN)

17 Not what I was expecting on Trans Invisibility Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

18 A ship trying to dodge Plymouth Sound.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (tykPv)

19 Nice. Yesterday was on the shore, today is on the water.

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (lJ0H4)

20 Fantastic.... Especially since it's a watercolor.....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (kamC8)

21 Apparently, the artist was a cad, a lunatic, and British.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ExV1e)

22 Was Turner a proto-Impressionist? He's too early to be a regular one.

Anyway, as usual with his stuff, I approve.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (AlhUl)

23 I like this, would hang

ships and stormy seas is a genre I like

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ZxPkt)

24 A view to make landlubbers toss their cookies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (2GVsD)

25 What sound does a plymouth make?

Maybe change the channel?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (Suwql)

26 You rarely see the word Mewstone in a limerick.

Posted by: Limerick lover at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

27 Nice. Yesterday was on the shore, today is on the water.
Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM

It all smells like fish.

Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (4NO2D)

28 It's convenient when the sky and sea are same color. Dark blues and grays were on sale at Hobby Lobby.

Posted by: Poor artist at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

29 Pucker Factor 11 for those on that boat.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (pDt9x)

30 You can't park there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM

F*ck off!

Posted by: The guy who parked there at March 31, 2026 09:35 AM (kgE5c)

31 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

32 AI sez: Mewstone is an unpopulated island, composed of muscovite granite, located close to the south coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Plymouth, Tasmania? Confused, I am.

Posted by: Delurker at March 31, 2026 09:35 AM (gtcuf)

33 Any art that makes me hold my head on an angle to view it is dead to me. Maybe hang it in the Guggenheim?

Posted by: Vinnie Vertigo at March 31, 2026 09:35 AM (oftw2)

34 I think I'm gonna be sick........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

35 The title and the artist's name have way too many words in them.

Posted by: Brevity in art at March 31, 2026 09:35 AM (TbWk/)

36 the Mewstone"

Don't see any cats there....

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (XuXeR)

37 That ship looks like it's heading straight for the big rock.

Posted by: dantesed at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

38 Hard not to imagine what it's like to be aboard that ship.
Yikes!

I like it.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Suwql)

39 From the National Gallery of Ireland.

The painting is only 15.6 by 23.7 cm. That's pretty tiny.

In 1811, the engraver and publisher William Cooke approached Turner with a proposal to publish a print series entitled Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England. This watercolour, in which the waves are so accurately depicted, their frothy white crests being blown away by the strong wind, appeared in part six of the series published in 1815.

The rigging of the ship labouring in the heavy swell, the clouds highlighted by a bright shaft of sunlight, even the gannets with their characteristic black wing tips are recorded in great detail. The ship, probably a Royal Naval vessel, is dwarfed by the dreaded Mewstone.

This dramatic natural feature, which lies at the eastern end of Plymouth Sound off Wembury Bay, notoriously claimed many lives over the centuries. During the summer of 1813 Turner spent time travelling along the coast, filling sketchbooks with his observations."

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Sco7b)

40 'Mewstone' … ? Whaaaaaa … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (ayRl+)

41 Apparently, the artist was a cad, a lunatic, and British.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM (ExV1e)

Well, he was British, and an odd egg, but he wasn't much of a cad, and he certainly wasn't a lunatic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (n9ltV)

42 Mewstone......It's shaped like a cat?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

43 And thus the Prudential Insurance Company logo was born...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM

Wait, whut?!

Posted by: The Rock of Gibraltar at March 31, 2026 09:37 AM (kgE5c)

44 What's this guy done to be worthy of four names?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 31, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

45 Any art that makes me hold my head on an angle to view it is dead to me."

So, not much into Kenneth Branagh flicks?

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:37 AM (XuXeR)

46 That ship looks like it's heading straight for the big rock.
Posted by: dantesed at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

The title suggests that it was previously heading straight for the big rock whereas it is currently being fornicated by the big rock.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e)

47 the Mewstone"

Don't see any cats there....
Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM

Of course not...they only use it to sharpen their claws.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2026 09:38 AM (kgE5c)

48 Mewstone?
Is this in Catmandu?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 31, 2026 09:38 AM (ZLHME)

49 Well, he was British, and an odd egg, but he wasn't much of a cad, and he certainly wasn't a lunatic.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (n9ltV)

Believed to have father two children out of wedlock with his housekeeper. That seems fairly caddish for the time.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

50 I've owned a piece of the rock for years!

Posted by: Man Fill of Schist at March 31, 2026 09:39 AM (oftw2)

51 I think that is the kind of painting that "commercial" artists aspire to, and can't quite hit. Not knocking them, someone has to make art for business offices and waiting rooms -- and it has to be at a competitive price point, so there is likely to be a discernable difference between that and fine art, even if you can't put it into words. Something to do with the amount of time it must have taken, the care and thought involved.

Posted by: SciVo at March 31, 2026 09:40 AM (Sy6m/)

52 You rarely see the word Mewstone in a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick lover at March 31, 2026 09:34 AM

* smiles tight-lipped *

Posted by: Boston at March 31, 2026 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

53 It's a good thing my Ghillie suit is waterproof!

Posted by: The sniper at March 31, 2026 09:41 AM (eOFY+)

54 The seas were heaving.

So was the crew.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 09:41 AM (AkEZC)

55
I'd hazard a guess that there was a great deal of mewling and puking aboard that vessel on that day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:41 AM (xG4kz)

56 38 Hard not to imagine what it's like to be aboard that ship.
Yikes!

I like it.
Posted by: Lizzy

Agreed. Riding "The Galleon" at our local amusement park was just like what those sailors experienced, and everyone seemed to have a great time.

https://tinyurl.com/en2a9kpy

Posted by: Confused Moron at March 31, 2026 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

57 If there are any bushes aboard, they likely aren't happy.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at March 31, 2026 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

58 57 If there are any bushes aboard, they likely aren't happy.
Posted by: zombie Bob Ross

They are windblown.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 09:43 AM (Dv3i1)

59 Couldn't he have painted a delightful Ferry Cross the Mersey?

Posted by: Gerry And The Pacemakers at March 31, 2026 09:43 AM (oftw2)

60 In looking at the Mewstone on Google Maps, I see that Plymouth has something called The Box and a Hoe Park.

I have questions, but I'm not sure I want answers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2026 09:43 AM (kgE5c)

61 I think I read that British ships in the day had cats on the crew.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 09:43 AM (DgMqy)

62 If there are any bushes aboard, they likely aren't happy.

Sea going tumbleweeds.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:44 AM (2GVsD)

63 I think I read that British ships in the day had cats on the crew.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 09:43 AM (DgMqy)

Since rats were an issue, that would make sense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:44 AM (ExV1e)

64 Well, he was British, and an odd egg, but he wasn't much of a cad, and he certainly wasn't a lunatic.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM

So the Cad didn't bury the eggs?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2026 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

65
A nudist by the name of Johnstone
Sunbathed out on the Mewstone
When asked, "Why?",
He replied, "I
Entangled my Johnson in my trombone."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:45 AM (xG4kz)

66 61 I think I read that British ships in the day had cats on the crew.
Posted by: Bad Andrew

Most ships had a cat or two to keep the rat population in check.
Don't think they got a grog ration though

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 31, 2026 09:45 AM (WeQvm)

67 My favorite Turner painting is Norham Castle, Sunrise.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2026 09:45 AM (eOFY+)

68 Hoe Park."

Hoo. As in Sutton Hoo. Not Hoe, as in C. Owens...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:45 AM (XuXeR)

69 I wish I hadn't downed as much rum, boys

Posted by: the sailor at March 31, 2026 09:46 AM (tL5sl)

70 Hoo. As in Sutton Hoo. Not Hoe, as in C. Owens...
Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:45 AM

I feel slightly better about that, but with English place names, you never can tell.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2026 09:47 AM (kgE5c)

71 British ships in the day had cats on the crew."

Beats being the cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:47 AM (XuXeR)

72 Give-a-hoo Park?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:48 AM (2GVsD)

73
It merely had to "rhyme".

"Make sense" was not in the specs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:48 AM (xG4kz)

74 The Woofstone was back at the wharfside tavern sleeping by the fireplace, dreaming of biscuits.

Posted by: Captain Haddock at March 31, 2026 09:48 AM (kLUcw)

75 As the river dissolves in sea,
So Neptune has claimed another soul.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 09:48 AM (RIvkX)

76 Give-a-hoo Park?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:48 AM

Of the Seoul Parks?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (kgE5c)

77 Beats being the cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon...

Siamese Express?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (DgMqy)

78
The Honorable Thing - a limerick

The livestock merchant Josiah Heep
Was tossed about out on the deep
As they crashed into the rock
He cried, "Oh no, what? The flock?
Heaven help me, I must go down with the sheep!"

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (qgHp7)

79 I guess that is the real Plymouth Rock, not the crappy one in Massachusetts.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (0nHVk)

80 I feel slightly better about that, but with English place names, you never can tell.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2026 09:47 AM (kgE5c)

How about Welsh names?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych wyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Space added to avoid incurring CBD's wrath although the name is only one word.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (ExV1e)

81 It’s not the Edmund Fitzgerald, but still

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (pDt9x)

82
The cap'n wouldn't have been a distant relation to Joseph Hazelwood, would he?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:50 AM (xG4kz)

83 A ship trying to dodge Plymouth Sound."

*groans*

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:50 AM (XuXeR)

84 It’s not the Edmund Fitzgerald, but still
Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (pDt9x)

Point of order... no name is given for the ship so we don't know this statement to be true.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:51 AM (ExV1e)

85 I guess that is the real Plymouth Rock, not the crappy one in Massachusetts.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM

My goddaughter was not the least bit whelmed by our Plymouth Rock.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2026 09:51 AM (kgE5c)

86 82
The cap'n wouldn't have been a distant relation to Joseph Hazelwood, would he?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:50 AM (xG4kz)

It’s Bligh Captain William Bligh.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 09:51 AM (pDt9x)

87 Tonight the storm.

Tomorrow, back to worrying about scurvy.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 09:51 AM (Sco7b)

88 How about Welsh names?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych wyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Space added to avoid incurring CBD's wrath although the name is only one word.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM

Valid point. I lack sufficient phlegm to pronounce anything in Welsh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2026 09:52 AM (kgE5c)

89 87 Tonight the storm.

Tomorrow, back to worrying about scurvy.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 09:51 AM (Sco7b)

The cabin boys will need comforting, Cap’n Ned!!

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 09:52 AM (pDt9x)

90 just yesterday they were complaining of doldrums.

Posted by: cmeat at March 31, 2026 09:53 AM (R11M+)

91 It’s not the Edmund Fitzgerald, but still
Posted by: tubal

Point of order... no name is given for the ship so we don't know this statement to be true.
Posted by: I used to have a different

Possibly the Ella Fitzgerald.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:55 AM (9E5Ho)

92 I like it. Man art.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 31, 2026 09:56 AM (bss/y)

93
Ogden Nash would have found a way to work the name "Mewstone" into his version of "Cats", had he written one, but such was not the case for that high browed snob, T. S. Eliot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:57 AM (xG4kz)

94 In this painting, Turner is documenting the lethal effects of Climate Change.

Posted by: Your Kid's Art Teacher at March 31, 2026 09:57 AM (eOFY+)

95 rations, smith and cross -> pusser's

Posted by: cmeat at March 31, 2026 09:57 AM (R11M+)

96 20 bucks, same as in Hoe Park.

Posted by: Delurker at March 31, 2026 09:58 AM (gtcuf)

97
That Mewstone bears a resemblance to Labradorite, a particular mineral whose optical effects I especially admire.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:58 AM (xG4kz)

98 i can hear the creaking.

Posted by: cmeat at March 31, 2026 09:59 AM (R11M+)

99 37 That ship looks like it's heading straight for the big rock.
Posted by: dantesed at March 31, 2026 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

For those of you who have never been on a sailing vessel... a lot of time is spent "heading straight for the big rock" only to tack away at the last minute.

Since you can't go directly into the wind, you have to zig-zag or "tack" into the wind at an angle, which means that to get somewhere specific, you have to go in a different direction. Which usually means you're pointing the bow towards something that you'd rather not hit.

If you get as close as physically possible before tacking its called "banging the corner". Racers have a saying that banging the corner is like doing your cousin - no matter how good it looks, its still just wrong.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 31, 2026 10:00 AM (WYStd)

100
Many's the time I've been forced to consume scurvy dog and I was grateful to have even that, you pansies!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 10:00 AM (xG4kz)

101 >The livestock merchant Josiah Heep
+++++

That's my brother!

Posted by: Uriah at March 31, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

102 Plymouth Rock is a scam anyway.

It's provinance is entirely down to one elderly and probably senile geezer. The late, great Tony Horwitz did a terrific chapter on the Plymouth Crock in his book "A Voyage Long and Strange."

Posted by: Delurker at March 31, 2026 10:01 AM (gtcuf)

103 crow's nest utilizing fall protection.

Posted by: cmeat at March 31, 2026 10:02 AM (R11M+)

104 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych wyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:49 AM (ExV1e)

The Welsh ARE lunatics!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2026 10:02 AM (n9ltV)

105 @26/Limerick lover: "You rarely see the word Mewstone in a limerick."

Paging Muldoon...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 10:02 AM (O7YUW)

106 tom pong park is near archer and wentworth. no one calls it that.

Posted by: cmeat at March 31, 2026 10:03 AM (R11M+)

107 Gimme that old time religion!

United Methodist Church group comes out in favor of sex-change surgeries for kids. In 2026.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 31, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)

108 She'd have made Whitefish Bay if she'd put 15 more miles behind her.

Posted by: The searchers at March 31, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

109 Mewstone, we have a problem.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 31, 2026 10:04 AM (PSEDc)

110 Posted by: Defenestratus at March 31, 2026 10:00 AM (WYStd)

Thank you. That was interesting.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 10:04 AM (Sco7b)

111 You rarely see the word Mewstone in a limerick.
Posted by: Limerick lover

**********

Own a Piece of the Rock - a bespoke limerick

A sorority freshman named Prudhomme
Wanted a fraternity true clone
She slept with twenty three
To earn her M.R.S. degree
Til she finally got a Kappa Sigma Mu stone

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2026 10:04 AM (qgHp7)

112 "The livestock merchant Josiah Heep
+++++

That's my brother!"

Heavy, dude, heavy...

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 31, 2026 10:05 AM (cO6oP)

113 Bravo!!

Posted by: Limerick lover at March 31, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1)

114 edgar n. cleaver

Posted by: cmeat at March 31, 2026 10:05 AM (R11M+)

115 Mewstone, we have a problem.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

*********

Well played!

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2026 10:06 AM (qgHp7)

116 The Great White North.

Alberta just collected enough signatures to vote on SECEDING FROM CANADA this fall 👀

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 31, 2026 10:06 AM (ndZc7)

117 Will Alberta succeed in seceding?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 31, 2026 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)

118
The great mystery of 'Limith Rock was how it had "1620" carved on it already when the Pilgrims landed.

Were there a series of rocks there, each one carved with a date from the series "1600" to "1639" and the tricksy Pilgrims broke up the other thirty-nine when Squanto taught them to plant corn by placing a small dead fish and a fragment of rock with each seed?

-- excerpt from, "When History Books Lie"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 10:07 AM (xG4kz)

119 That'll teach him!

Chicago Bulls Waive Jaden Ivey for Pro-Christian Livestream That Condemned "Pride Month"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 31, 2026 10:08 AM (ndZc7)

The Morning Report — 3/31/26

Good morning kids. While it was easy to laugh at the infantile mass lunacy of the No Kings "be-ins" over the weekend, this happened:

Brian Stewart, the Chair of the Hernando County Democrat Party, was charged with simple battery following the incident in Spring Hill. He was booked Saturday afternoon and released two hours later after posting a $1,000 bond, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office. . . A statement from the Hernando County Conservatives organization claims Stewart shoved a “permanently disabled” military veteran who “served our country with honor and distinction” and then struck him in the head with a megaphone.

OF course that is but one example but that it was not just some random braindead AWFL or Soros rent-a-thug but a local Dem bigwig. Of course, what we witnessed over the weekend and indeed starting with the anti-war protests and civil rights riots of 60years ago right up until the present day has is roots in the classrooms and lecture halls of academia.

Members of America’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association (NEA), were back in training in February, this time for a confidential webinar entitled “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Educators.” The leaked slide deck, posted by the watchdog group Defending Education, reveals that the NEA is less focused on American students’ stagnant test scores than on training its members to become activists, while using misinterpretations of the First Amendment as a shield.
The February session complements the union’s December 2025 in-person training on “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice.” That event counseled attendees to “develop a toolset of tactics for dismantling systems of privilege and oppression.”

Students in New Mexico will learn more about the January 6 Capitol riot and climate change than the moon landing. New Mexico high school history guidelines contain over a dozen references to the January 6 riot while only mentioning the moon landing once. The guidelines, part of the New Mexico Instructional Scope for History, are largely focused on racial and gender grievances and encourage teachers to promote Democratic politicians and lament how the richest men in the United States today are “mostly white.”. . . “These state level documents expose a troubling pattern by education activists of pushing leftwing political and social biases into K-12 classrooms as established ‘facts,'” Staley told The Daily Wire. “Students and families deserve an education that values a politically neutral approach to weighing different sides of issues, not political indoctrination.”

Of course The Land of Dis-Enchantment will not be teaching so much as brainwashing their children about the events of that day. No mentioning of Ashlii Babbitt or Roseanne Boyland and how they were murdered in cold blood by Nancy Pelosi's, Christopher Wray's and John Brennan's goons with badges and disguises.

No Kings, but Red Guards disguised as Democrats abound. Unless and until Academia from pre-school through post-graduate is utterly seized and restored to some semblance of sanity. Meh, that requires the restoration of morality, ethics, sanity and american/western cultural values across our entire society. Did the Long March through the institutions bring us to our knees, and if so, is there a road back?

Have a great day!

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AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

President Trump shared video footage Monday of a massive explosion in Iran from an airstrike on Isfahan – where the majority of Tehran’s 60% enriched uranium is located.
Trump posts clip of massive blast after 2,000-lb bunker buster bombs rip through an Iranian ammunition depot
Operation Epic Fury (Day 31): Israeli Air Force hits Iranian regime and military targets in sweeping strikes.
IDF Eliminates Senior Commander of Hezbollah’s 1800 Terror Unit in Beirut Strike
Trump made the declaration in a message on his website, Truth Social. What remains of the Iranian government after the elimination of “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeatedly denied Trump’s claims that it is in conversation with the American government, while also stating that it has responded to American proposals, which would be impossible without a conversation.
Trump: ‘New’ Iran Regime in Place and Talking, but U.S. Will Blow up Its Power Infrastructure if No Deal
The speaker apparently became the de facto top operative after Israel eliminated Ali Larijan, chief of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
Trump Reveals U.S. is Speaking to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
“So again, you do the math on how much longer the Pentagon needs to fully achieve the objectives of Operation Epic Fury, which I will reiterate: destroy the Iranian Navy, destroy their ballistic missiles, dismantle their missile and drone production infrastructure, significantly weaken their proxies throughout the course of this operation, and then, of course, preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Leavitt added.
White House: Original 4-6 Week Operation Epic Fury Timeline Remains in Place
David Harsanyi: The U.S. and the Iranian regime aren't negotiating on equal footing.
Trump’s Iran Deal Must Be Nothing Like Obama’s
“Ensuring the safe passage of ships could serve as an important confidence-building measure in this regard.”
Pakistan hosts emergency talks with Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to reopen Strait of Hormuz
The decision underscores Spain’s opposition to the war and limits U.S. military options in the region.
This European NATO Member is Denying the U.S. Access to Its Airspace for Iran Operations.
Tehran's missiles and drones are forging an unlikely alliance. (temporary at best - jjs)
Iran Drives Gulf Toward Israel
Larry Elder: Outrage hypocrisy.
America’s Accidental Tragedy vs. Iran’s Deliberate Atrocities

* * * * *
Victor Davis Hanson: Military victories are decided on the battlefield—but in modern America, they are too often lost in the politics that follow.
The Two Wars for Iran: The War in a Historical Context
Similar dangers, same isolationist excuses.
Nazi Germany and the Iranian Mullahs

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Brian Stewart, the Chair of the Hernando County Democrat Party, was charged with simple battery following the incident in Spring Hill. He was booked Saturday afternoon and released two hours later after posting a $1,000 bond, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
Video: Dem County Chair Arrested in Florida After Allegedly Attacking Disabled Vet During ‘No Kings’ Event
What does it say about a so-called "movement" that appears to attract mostly middle-aged white people?
#ProtestsSoWhite: Media Ignore Lack Of Diversity In ‘No Kings’ Protests
Have you noticed that peaceful protest these days has become very much of a girl thing?
What is the Meaning of 'No Kings?'
They speak in a vernacular of protest out of habit and as a cultural identity, but they have no idea what they’re protesting. They’re very angry about the, you know, stuff.
The Latest ‘No Kings’ Protest Is The Sound Of A Tired Old Thing Trying To Not Die
Communist flags. Iranian regime banners. Weirdos in frog suits. It got weird.
All the 'No Kings' Crazies the Media Didn't Show You
The forfeiture ruling, issued last week, is in addition to the $106,000 restitution payment ordered when Cannon-Grant was sentenced this past January to probation, home detention, and community service, with no prison time.
BLM Organizer Ordered to Forfeit Over $224,000 for COVID Fraud Scheme, But Avoids ANY Jail Time.
“The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence,” Smiley said in a statement.
Providence mayor calls mural of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska ‘divisive’ after train stabbing death
“Newsom’s wife is exactly who would be cast if they were looking for a parody of a rich California liberal politician’s wife.”
Newsom’s Wife Brought Children to Red States to See Racism, Sexism, and Bullying Firsthand
The filing claims that the bullet that killed Kirk last September doesn’t match the rifle that Robinson used.
Courtroom Bombshell: ATF Can’t Link Bullet That Killed Charlie Kirk to Suspect's Rifle
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“Because of the Biden junta's disastrous CBP One app, this illegal alien was allowed to come into the country and commit these murders,” DHS’s Lauren Bis said in a statement:
Biden-Released Illegal Alien Charged with Two Murders in North Carolina Sanctuary County
This demonstrates how the big Democrat jurisdictions in our nation have been heavily reliant on the mostly illegal alien train from Third World countries to keep their struggling populations looking healthier.
New Census data reveals how much Dems depend on illegal aliens for political power and government cash
The move reallocates resources to focus on national security and public safety vetting for higher-risk cases.
Trump Admin Resumes Asylum Processing After 5-Month Pause.
Aims to prevent illegal migrants from using financial institutions to remain in the U.S.
GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Debank Illegal Migrants.
Prioritizing illegal immigrants over the American people.
Democrats’ ICE Derangement Syndrome
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Nicholas Kristof has pulled out the hoariest of boomer liberal tropes, asking what the money spent on war could buy if redirected to welfare.
Liberals Won’t Confront Fraud Because They Still Believe Government Is The Solution
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Last week, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order directing the Secretary of Homeland Security, along with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to utilize funds with a “reasonable logical nexus” to TSA operations to pay the over 60,000 TSA employees, including approximately 50,000 transportation security officers.
TSA Agents Receive Back Pay After Trump Intervenes.
The Treasury Department issued an advisory to banks pushing them to monitor accounts more closely for suspicious activity, saying, “They’re the frontline in identifying financial fraud when nonprofits, whether its daycare centers, hospice care, start wiring big round numbers out, that’s a problem. There are large multi-national criminal organizations that are doing healthcare fraud, so we are all hands on deck.”
Uncle Sam Wants You To Snitch. You’ll Even Get Paid Big For It.
Automotive News reports that the FTC has intensified its oversight of automotive dealership advertising practices, specifically targeting the promotion of vehicles that are no longer in stock or do not exist. This enforcement action carries significant financial consequences, with violations potentially exposing dealerships to fines exceeding $50,000 per offense plus customer restitution, according to attorney Patricia Covington who spoke with Automotive News.
Bait & Switch: FTC Cracks Down on Car Dealerships Advertising Vehicles They Don’t Have for Sale
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The terrorist watched footage of an Iranian fatwa for "total jihad against the U.S. military" shortly before carrying out his attack.
Michigan Synagogue Terrorist Attack Was Directed By Hezbollah, DOJ Says
The more money the UN sends, the more hostages the terrorists take.
UN Sends Billions to Islamic Terrorists Who Kidnap its Staff
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
His straight-arrow reputation didn't survive the special counsel investigation.
Robert Mueller’s Dishonor Came Before his Death
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The resolution to the case in favor of those the government had censored represents a dramatic turnaround of potentially outsize impact.
With Missouri V. Biden Settled, It’s Time For Censorship Reparations
How media framing on obituaries doesn’t stop at politics—it extends to Hollywood.
Chuck Norris Dies 'Politically.' Rob Reiner Doesn’t

* * * * *
Albany is sabotaging innovation, with national and geopolitical consequences.
New York Is Holding Back American AI
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
So, which is it -- doom and gloom, or the approach of a glorious summer?
Is Pessimism About the Economy Justified?
. . . trillion-dollar asset management fund Apollo Global Management says it will open a secondary headquarters in Florida or Texas. "Apollo expects most of its future hiring to be in the second hub rather than Manhattan," according to the New York Post, surprising literally no one.
This Trillion-Dollar Firm Wants Out of Mamdani's NYC
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The “Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force” launched on March 28, 2025. Since then, more than 3,500 personnel — including 800 Federal Law Enforcement officers and 1,800 National Guard Troops — hit the streets of Washington to address crime, the Caller learned. (RELATED: Majority Of Voters Say Trump’s DC Crime Crackdown Was ‘Justified,’ Feel ‘Unsafe')
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s DC Crackdown Wipes Out Homeless Encampments
New York’s public safety is being reshaped by officials who see policing as the problem, raising serious questions about whether ideology is overtaking effective governance.
Mayor Mamdani’s Latest Appointment to His Staff Is an Absolute Slap in the Face of All Police Officers
Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media?. . .Here’s a list of the latest crime across America.
American Crime Blotter: 3/30/26
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
In response to the intensifying European energy crisis, the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation.
Europe Doubles Down on Eco-Transformation
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The National Education Association’s recent webinar cloaked partisanship and ideology in the mantle of free speech.
America’s Largest Teachers’ Union Prizes Activism Over Education
Typo-laden educational standards encourage educators to grievance politics.
Students In Blue State Spend More Time Learning About January 6 Than The Moon Landing
The Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program, which was soliciting applications as recently as March 15, provides financial aid to Native Hawaiian medical students who agree to practice medicine in Hawaii after graduation. Awardees receive tuition, a monthly stipend, and additional funds to cover books and supplies.
HHS Sued For Race-Based Program Reserved For ‘Native Hawaiian’ Students
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The Warren County Republican Committee (WCRC) has been embroiled in controversy since its February 12 mass meeting, which featured a fraudulent election rife with bylaw violations, known Democrats being inexplicably given ballots, and actual conservatives being turned away at the door for alleged “fire code” violations.
WATCH: Local Virginia GOP Chairman Shuts Down Questions on Democrat Election Fraud Scandal as RINO Supporters Cheer
“I think the republic will survive this as well"
Dems Struggle With Concept of ‘Election Day’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Swalwell ought to be answering questions to a grand jury about this.
Is there more to the Eric Swalwell 'Fang Fang' history?
The Republic of Somaliland called on Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar to be extradited Saturday after Vice President J.D. Vance said she committed immigration fraud.
African Country Calls On Bro-Fo Omar To Be Extradited After JD Vance Said She Committed Fraud
POLITICS
What was meant as political sabotage has, by a mix of unintended consequences and momentum, strengthened Trump’s hand and reshaped the balance of power.
Trump Unleashed: The First 14 Months of Our 47th President
Victory in 2026 will come from consolidating and mobilizing the voters most likely to show up, as well as those most likely to support the party. That means building an unapologetic coalition of MAGA voters and senior citizens.
MAGA + Seniors = GOP Midterm Victory
I’ve only recently become aware of Hasan Piker, the hipster dweeb left-wing influencer who somehow manages to be more insufferable than David Hogg and Maxwell Frost. (I know, that doesn’t seem possible.) Piker is the twerp who took to Cuba to live it up in luxury hotels while claiming that Cubans are totally cool with abject poverty under Communism:
Hasan Piker’s Endorsement Is All the Proof Georgia Needs to Dump Jon Ossoff (Meh, TOssoff himself! - jjs)
At a moment when the opposition seems pretty energized, it’s hard to ignore that Republicans don’t seem to match the urgency.
The Only Midterms Strategy Lamer Than ‘No Kings’ Is GOP Plan To Do Literally Nothing
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“We’ve always encouraged people to have a break with KITKAT — but it seems thieves have taken the message too literally and made a break with more than 12 tonnes of our chocolate.”
Over 12 Tons of KitKat Bars Stolen En Route From Italy to Poland
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“The ballroom essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under [by] the military.”
Trump Reveals Plan for ‘Massive’ Military Complex Beneath White House Ballroom
This is not about rejecting flexibility outright. It is about recognizing that some guardrails are there for a reason.
Keep American ports American run—don't abandon the Jones Act
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
. . . there is a difference between fair profit and exploitation. And nowhere is that distinction clearer today than in the price of insulin.
Soaring Insulin Prices Show How Big Pharma Lost Its Way
Writesman discussed how the FDA put many Chinese companies that produce GLP-1 drugs on a “Green List,” which means they are “not being detained at the border.” She contended that the government-created loophole to flood the market with obesity drugs creates an environment where Americans have access to drugs that may have been created under lax safety standards or lack transparency around ingredients.
Exclusive – RX Border Defense’s Patsy Writesman on CCP’s Stranglehold on Skinny: FDA’s ‘Green List’ Surrendered GLP-1 Supply Chain to China (Chunks in the armor - jjs)
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
A ten-day mission will test NASA’s Orion spacecraft and send astronauts farther from Earth than ever before.
America Is About To Send Astronauts Farther From Earth Than Ever Before
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The investigation raises concerns about the promotion of anti-aging products to children, potentially fueling unhealthy skincare obsessions and causing harm.
Sephora Investigated for Promoting Anti-Aging Products to Kids as Young as 10 on Social Media.
Christian Toto: Roy Price slams movies for pushing 'The Message,' not fun and escapism
Ex-Amazon Studios Head Slams Woke Hollywood
End of the Road shows trucking as a bellwether of broader American decline, where policy, capital, and technology converge to erode work, wages, and independence.
‘End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers’ (Gord Magill)
HITHER & YON
Reagan’s behavior after the shooting was nothing short of extraordinary.
45 Years Since Reagan’s Assassination Attempt

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1 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 07:15 AM (YE+xR)

2 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:16 AM (OPGS/)

3
ESPONJA!!1!!11!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 31, 2026 07:17 AM (tljrc)

4 Didn't expect a first but know the drill.
BTW gas here in se Pa is $4.10 -.20

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 07:18 AM (YE+xR)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 07:19 AM (ExV1e)

6 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 07:19 AM (/+uur)

7 The NEA is responsible for idiocracy today.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 31, 2026 07:21 AM (Q/FnY)

8 Newsom’s Wife Brought Children to Red States to See Racism, Sexism, and Bullying Firsthand

All they had to do was wander the larger cities of CA. Oh that's right, racism, sexism and bullying against Whites doesn't count.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:22 AM (OPGS/)

9 Homeschool.

Posted by: If you're able at March 31, 2026 07:23 AM (2Ez/1)

10 Get off me! Get off me!

Posted by: Chinese wives from the future at March 31, 2026 07:24 AM (eOFY+)

11 Mornin’ Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 31, 2026 07:25 AM (ewuvP)

12 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 07:25 AM (AkEZC)

13 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

The best St. Crispan's Day speech:
https://youtu.be/bvFHRNGYfuo

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

14 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:28 AM (RIvkX)

15 We landed men on the moon and returned them safely? When da fuq was this?

Posted by: Future NM High School Graduates at March 31, 2026 07:29 AM (wVcYX)

16 In other news

-head of Unrwa is out Bye, Felicia!
-former head of SF Human Rights Commission arrested for theft and fraud

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

17 What are you people going on about now?

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

18 I recently found a picture of my grandfather and my grandmother and my mom in 1933. He is 24, she is 20, my mom is five months old. Polio, tuberculosis, typhus, and whooping cough were all real threats. Not to mention tetanus and about 1 million other diseases. Plus they are in the middle of The Great Depression where there was no money and people were literally starving. When I get frustrated with the current state of affairs I look at this picture and remind myself that we actually have it pretty good.

We’re blessed.

Let’s all say a quick prayer for DJT and his hot wife.

Posted by: SnakePlizzken at March 31, 2026 07:31 AM (G0Od/)

19 Meanwhile, Twitter is still ablaze with Japanese people reading American tweets and vice versa. The cultural exchange has been a lot of fun to watch.

Before I left for work today, one Japanese user asked "What do you Americans think about communism?"

The first response was "They deserve to be buried in mass graves" and the follow ups were just as good.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:31 AM (OPGS/)

20 Israel and the gulf states are the mop-up and clean-up crew. Let them and the UN and NATO and the EU handle their shit.

We have no obligation or responsibility to enable world commerce but we're all in this together. How much blood and treasure are we willing to commit?

Pull back, regroup, resupply and let it play out. We'll see who steps up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 31, 2026 07:31 AM (Fbc0I)

21 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at March 31, 2026 07:32 AM (RiKhU)

22 We landed men on the moon and returned them safely? When da fuq was this?"

Whitey on the Moon.

Now feel guilty, ok?

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:32 AM (XuXeR)

23 New Mexico high school history guidelines contain over a dozen references to the January 6 riot while only mentioning the moon landing once.

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#OrangeMoonBad!

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 07:32 AM (QHOVG)

24 "Newsom’s Wife Brought Children to Red States to See Racism, Sexism, and Bullying Firsthand"

I gotta share something here.

During the recent County Council primary we were speaking with a local businesswoman who transplanted from the downtown Baltimore area many years ago.

She was supporting one of the Republican candidates who exudes the wafting scent of a Progressive wearing Republican clothing. And she told us that she is ready to leave the State due to the hidden racism that is embedded here.

And then yesterday at the Post Office, I had a total stranger who moved here from NYC three years ago explain to me how he is uncomfortable with the deeply hidden racism in the State, that isn't visible unless one is trained on where to see it.

'Hidden Racism' seems to be the intended progressive weapon in the upcoming mid-term.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 07:33 AM (iMotb)

25 Iran is choosing poorly. They are the Hamas of the Middle East. Of course, this is known.

We can bomb Iran into more of a desert, and then call it peace. Or just maintain a robust strike Expeditionary Force, and continue to bomb IRCG leaders.

I do see the Gulf States want the current government of Iran ended. They may even pay us.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

26 Also not reported in China over the weekend about a dozen killed at a farmer's market in Shenzen iirc by a man driving a frontloader.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

27 This happened in my neck of the woods last week

https://tinyurl.com/y4hrbn9s

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at March 31, 2026 07:35 AM (DDJSl)

28 Hidden Racism' seems to be the intended progressive weapon in the upcoming mid-term.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 07:33 AM (iMotb)

You gotta get those X-Ray Glasses from the old time comic books to see Hidden Racism.

Which is why those glasses are banned today.

Posted by: Race Card Joe at March 31, 2026 07:36 AM (/1l9x)

29 and then call it peace"

"Peace" isn't a goal. Or even involved. It's simple - punch the a**hole in the face. Really, really hard.
Then leave him w/soiled pants and face in the dirt.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:36 AM (XuXeR)

30 What are you people going on about now?

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

---------------

"What do you mean 'YOU PEOPLE'?, H8R! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 07:36 AM (QHOVG)

31 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Did you tell him "Well, in that case you should move back to NY."? Stupid is strong with him.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

32 she told us that she is ready to leave the State due to the hidden racism that is embedded here."

So, back to dog whistles...

She's a dog.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:37 AM (XuXeR)

33 Come see the racism hidden in the system!

Posted by: Monty Python at March 31, 2026 07:37 AM (2Ez/1)

34 Boston-based Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist Monica Cannon-Grant has been ordered to forfeit $224,063 by a federal judge to cover taxpayer dollars she stole through diverting donations from her nonprofit, collecting fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, and pocketing rental assistance.

Who did not know BL (really dont)M was 100% grift and grab and corruption?
The minute the big name companies started writing checks for them to go away you knew it was just a grift.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 07:38 AM (/+uur)

35 Whitey on the Moon.

Now feel guilty, ok?
Posted by: man

"And the white man spoiled the pristine lunar landscape and brought disease to the noble natives that lived their for centuries."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:39 AM (OPGS/)

36 It's time for common sense front loader control laws.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at March 31, 2026 07:39 AM (2Ez/1)

37 And then yesterday at the Post Office, I had a total stranger who moved here from NYC three years ago explain to me how he is uncomfortable with the deeply hidden racism in the State, that isn't visible unless one is trained on where to see it.

'Hidden Racism' seems to be the intended progressive weapon in the upcoming mid-term.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 07:33 AM (iMotb)

I dont think my PO has 1 single white person.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 07:40 AM (/+uur)

38 *lived there

Posted by: Picker of nits at March 31, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

39 "Did you tell him "Well, in that case you should move back to NY."? Stupid is strong with him."

I did tell him that I had a dream of I-95 southbound ending at the Woodrow Wilson bridge.

And that I didn't really consider folks moving here with the idea of making my home resemble what they left as 'Friend' material.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 07:40 AM (iMotb)

40 "Hidden racism." Because darn it, we want to march and protest like they did in the 60s but people just won't be openly racist!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:41 AM (OPGS/)

41 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Good answer. That person is a disease vector, and should be treated accordingly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

42 Come see the racism hidden in the system!"

Heh. The Dims have dialed up the "its rayciss" bit the past decade as the hispanic/latin/whateveryoucallit vote hasn't been the 99.99% reliable bloc.
And the rhetoric will be even more strident, not less, as there are percieved losses in Dim voter blocs.
Gotta keep'em down on the plantation...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:42 AM (XuXeR)

43 wait

if the racism is deeply hidden, how did she know where to find it

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

44 I dont think my PO has 1 single white person.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 07:40 AM (/+uur)

Mine also plus zero heterosexuals. Just lip lickers, scissor girls, bull dykes, HeShes and a few Bearded Ladys.

Posted by: Bull Dykes R US at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (/1l9x)

45 "These shifts were largely due to lower levels of net international migration (NIM), which declined nationwide. Nine out of 10 U.S. counties experienced lower NIM levels between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025, compared to the year prior.

20 million illegals is about 26 or 27 house seats.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (/+uur)

46 Hidden Racism in Baltimore

I wandered into a Jewish deli once and the place was packed. I was the only white guy eating or working in the place.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

47 wait

if the racism is deeply hidden, how did she know where to find it
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

Elementary, my dear Don Black. It's on a buddy adventure with the hidden heat from the deep ocean.

Posted by: Woke Sherlock Holmes at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (wVcYX)

48 A meme in my collection:

"It's horrible just how open minded the racist community is. They don't even care who you hate just as long as you're being racist."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (OPGS/)

49 "And the white man spoiled the pristine lunar landscape and brought disease to the noble natives that lived their for centuries."

It was worse than that. I had teachers repeating the BS line about "spending all that money when it could feed/dress/edjumicate/medicate millions!"

Yeah. Celebrations are not allowed...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (XuXeR)

50 43 wait

if the racism is deeply hidden, how did she know where to find it
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

Rowdy Roddy Piper sunglasses, yo!

Posted by: IYKYK at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (eOFY+)

51 43 wait

if the racism is deeply hidden, how did she know where to find it
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

Dude
You need 13 years of edumacation and 5 to 7 years of kolladge to SEE.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 07:45 AM (/+uur)

52 They tried to kill me with a forklift!

Posted by: Ken at March 31, 2026 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

53 Just lip lickers, scissor girls, bull dykes, HeShes and a few Bearded Ladys."

What, no Methodists?

/ok, not a movie thread

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:46 AM (XuXeR)

54 Iran chose poorly when it indiscriminately launched ballistic missiles and drones at about every other country in the Gulf region. Qatar, UAE, Oman and the Saudi's took the brunt of it. Kuwait took a few hits too, as did some infrastructure in Iraq.

Pissing off literally every neighbor in your hood was probably a bad idea.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 07:46 AM (AkEZC)

55 Will the diverse astronauts be bringing smallpox blankets for the Moon Men?

Posted by: Better Living Through Chemistry at March 31, 2026 07:46 AM (oftw2)

56 Students in New Mexico will learn more about the January 6 Capitol riot and climate change than the moon landing.

*******

As a junior high student in Albuquerque from '69 to '71 I learned a lot about the 1969 moon landing and absolutely nothing about the Jan. 6 events in D.C. or global warming.

How our education system has fallen.

Oh, wait a second...

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2026 07:46 AM (qgHp7)

57 muldoon

Tip o ta hat to you and your lovely bride.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

58 Pissing off literally every neighbor in your hood was probably a bad idea.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 07:46 AM (AkEZC)

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: IRGC General Muhammad Costanza Muhammad at March 31, 2026 07:48 AM (eOFY+)

59 Dems are the biggest racists around.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2026 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

60 'Hidden Racism' seems to be the intended progressive weapon in the upcoming mid-term.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 07:33 AM (iMotb)

-------------

"Hidden Racism" is a social construct tool of the White Cisheteropatriarchal MicroAggression Oppressor!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 07:49 AM (QHOVG)

61 How our education system has fallen.

Oh, wait a second..."

And they didn't tell y'all that you weren't Mexicans...

/let's put a reminder on the license plates!

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:49 AM (XuXeR)

62 Will the diverse astronauts be bringing smallpox blankets for the Moon Men?
Posted by: Better Living Through Chemistry at March 31, 2026 07:46 AM (oftw2)

And stylish but modest coveralls for the Cat-Women On The Moon?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 07:49 AM (wVcYX)

63 ShainS

The future of desired employees is home schooled and religious schooled kids.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

64 Incidentally, a UK member of Parliament flat-out said that they need to ban X/Twitter because people can share unapproved opinions about illegals on it. Same reason the EU and the Democrats hate it, I imagine.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2026 07:51 AM (sabhw)

65 M O O N. That spells Hidden Racism!

Posted by: Tom Cullen at March 31, 2026 07:51 AM (eOFY+)

66 Democrats seen as taking back the House after Republicans quit in numbers not seen since the Great Depression
A record number of House Republicans are not seeking re-election...As of Monday, a record 36 Republicans have announced they would not run...

Always the same cycle.....
1. Republicans get us into a war.
2. Economy implodes.
3. Democrat is elected and the economy starts to recover and the country heals.
4. Republicans get re-elected.

I really miss the days where I'd go into election day hoping my preferred slate of candidates would win, but not dreading what would happen if they lose. Like McCain vs Obama in 08, I vastly preferred Obama winning, but didn't fear the end of the Republic if McCain won.

Trump is doing everything possible to centralize everything in the oval office so the other branches of government won’t be necessary.

There will be no sanity until the right wing propaganda/disinformation media ecosystem is addressed. we're going to need to take care of the billionaire problem

it will be harder for democrats to run against "fresh face" republicons than "retiring" republicons responsible for all this bullshit.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 31, 2026 07:51 AM (ycI94)

67 This happened in my neck of the woods last week

https://tinyurl.com/y4hrbn9s

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at March 31, 2026 07:35 AM (DDJSl)

Looks like the dump truck was pulled over as far as it could. The bus driver is clearly at fault.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

68
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Posted by: IRGC General Muhammad Costanza Muhammad at March 31, 2026 07:48 AM

LOL

Posted by: Love a good Seinfeld reference at March 31, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

69 You wanted Cat-Women On The Moon
You'd settle for Moon Men
You get a Space Food Stick

Posted by: Disappointed is not the word at March 31, 2026 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

70 she told us that she is ready to leave the State due to the hidden racism that is embedded here.

Is her name Felicia?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

71 >>>if the racism is deeply hidden, how did she know where to find it

The magic uterus of a Karen McAWFL is a thing to behold. It is capable of many, many things.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 31, 2026 07:53 AM (Y1sOo)

72 "Humiliated" "Defeated" "Reproached" "Collapse" "Stumbling"

These are just a few of the immature elementary schoolgirl taunts peppered throughout their headlines about Trump this morning from press like AP, Reuters, CNN, etc.

Its so pervasive now among news headline writers that there is no coming back from it. It's really the ugly, buffoonish end of the commercial press happening right before your eyes. Good riddance.

Posted by: Boswell at March 31, 2026 07:53 AM (V7158)

73 Whitey's on the moon.

https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4

Posted by: Gil Heron at March 31, 2026 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)

74 people can share unapproved opinions about illegals on it."

Bbbbut we're citizens now, not subjects!

/Brits "subject" to Crown and Parliment.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:53 AM (XuXeR)

75 Dems are the biggest racists around.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2026 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

--------------

Everyone knows it was their hero, MLK Jr., who said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by content of their character but by the color of their skin."

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 07:54 AM (QHOVG)

76 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 31, 2026 07:54 AM (53oGX)

77 Looks like the dump truck was pulled over as far as it could. The bus driver is clearly at fault.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 07:51 AM (ExV1e)
=====

Bus driver clearly crossed the double-yellow. On the phone? LOC?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

78 > 'Hidden Racism' seems to be the intended progressive weapon in the upcoming mid-term.
--------
It occurs to me that every issue the left has with us is something they've made up out of thin air. Or is something they're actively doing, know it's wrong or it's been exposed... so they claim we're doing it.

I'd have to ask one of them; "if it's racism but hidden, how do you know what it is?"

It's all horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 07:55 AM (AkEZC)

79 You get a Space Food Stick"

Tang.

/that is all

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:55 AM (XuXeR)

80 You gotta get those X-Ray Glasses from the old time comic books...

***********

I've always wondered why those glasses could see through the pretty woman's dress, but not through her undergarments...?

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2026 07:56 AM (qgHp7)

81 "We didn't used to have these big storms and hurricanes until they started fooling around on the moon!"

- - misremembered quote from A Man On The Street Interview during the moon shots era.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 07:56 AM (wVcYX)

82 - - misremembered quote from A Man On The Street Interview during the moon shots era."

Had a grandmother who opined that. When the Galveston Hurricane was mentioned, she said there was sekret rokets then, too...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR)

83 Intrepid AoS Liaison

Per usual, cause and effect are reversed.

Within a group, constant aggression and lies can lead to a Hutu and Tutsi situation. That bloodbath occurred within similar ethnic backgrounds.

Dems want to go right to to the line and say "Who, me?"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

84 You get a Space Food Stick
Posted by: Disappointed is not the word at March 31, 2026 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

Space Food Stick is peepo

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 07:58 AM (/+uur)

85 I had teachers repeating the BS line about "spending all that money when it could feed/dress/edjumicate/medicate millions!"

And when you point out that we spend even more money on those things and the problems still persist, you get met with screeching.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:58 AM (OPGS/)

86 80 You gotta get those X-Ray Glasses from the old time comic books...

***********

AHEM

Posted by: Sea Monkeys at March 31, 2026 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)

87
I happened across a video of that crone, Joni Mitchell, croaking out incoherent drivel at Canada's Juno Awards the other night. Demented, she was. Loves Canada to death, but lives here in the U.S. Solidly grounded values, she has.

At first, with the bad lighting up on the stage, I thought that I was looking at an outtake clip of the alien creature from the new "Hail Mary" film. Your Groovy Hippie Chick from Laurel Canyon glory days are over, girl.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 07:58 AM (xG4kz)

88 Is anyone surprised that these 7th Century Islamist Persians still hate Arabs and Jews?

Posted by: SnakePlizzken at March 31, 2026 07:58 AM (G0Od/)

89 Within a group, constant aggression and lies can lead to a Hutu and Tutsi situation. That bloodbath occurred within similar ethnic backgrounds."

I had a few idiots tell me that it was due to rayciss/colonialism/whitey anyway.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 07:59 AM (XuXeR)

90 I'd have to ask one of them; "if it's racism but hidden, how do you know what it is?"

Same reason it's fun when they claim something is a "racist dog-whistle" to note that if they can detect it, that means they're a racist dog.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2026 08:00 AM (sabhw)

91 There was a delightful clip of the No Kings! nearly-dead leaving their assisted living with their printed signs to rail at the sky. A couple with walkers, one in a Hoveround, all moving at a glacial pace. Can't imagine they could travel more than a couple hundred feet.

Posted by: Joan Lunden, A Place For Mom at March 31, 2026 08:01 AM (oftw2)

92 For less than three weeks of war, or $35 billion, we could run a nationwide pre-K program for 3- and 4-year-olds,” and “For $75 million, about an hour’s worth of war, we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line.”

They would just eat the books.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:01 AM (/+uur)

93 There was a delightful clip of the No Kings! nearly-dead leaving their assisted living with their printed signs to rail at the sky. A couple with walkers, one in a Hoveround, all moving at a glacial pace. Can't imagine they could travel more than a couple hundred feet.
Posted by: Joan Lunden, A Place For Mom at March 31, 2026 08:01 AM (oftw2)

That's why you gotta push through them to exit the building when there is a fire.

Posted by: George Costanza at March 31, 2026 08:02 AM (wVcYX)

94 >>This happened in my neck of the woods last week

For the record, that was not me driving that bus.

Posted by: Tiger Woods at March 31, 2026 08:03 AM (Y1sOo)

95 we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line.”

I already bought them laptops. And tablets.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR)

96 86 80 You gotta get those X-Ray Glasses from the old time comic books...

***********

AHEM
Posted by: Sea Monkeys

What about me?

Posted by: Cardboard Submarine. at March 31, 2026 08:03 AM (oftw2)

97 It can be argued that NASA was a jobs program that greatly benefited white men and women who were engineers, technicians, etc.

In the '60s, the Dems loved it. After '68, when the commies took over the party, they hated it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 31, 2026 08:04 AM (qFwJc)

98 86 80 You gotta get those X-Ray Glasses from the old time comic books...

***********

AHEM
Posted by: Sea Monkeys

What about me?
Posted by: Cardboard Submarine. at March 31, 2026 08:03 AM (oftw2)

And me?

Posted by: Remote Controlled Ghost at March 31, 2026 08:04 AM (wVcYX)

99 95 we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line.”

Unfortunately they can't read thanks to the Teachers Union...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 08:04 AM (kamC8)

100 Whitey's on the moon.

------------

Am I the only one who read that to The Doors' tune "Riders On The Storm?"

Whitey's on the moon
Whitey's on the moon
Into this hate we're thrown
Onto this world we've flown
Like a dog without a scone
An actor whose a clone
Whitey's on the moon

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 08:04 AM (QHOVG)

101 Pentagon press briefing starting.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

102 The one thing I can certainly fall back on after the last ten years of abuse: I have zero fucks to give to a communist or their islamo-communist masters.

You even come close to me with a whistle or mega-phone, or simply get in my space, you are going down. Period.

Don't even get in my way on your prayer rug facing Mecca. Just don't.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 31, 2026 08:05 AM (HR77u)

103 ShainS
Golfclap.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

104 I tried to get out to protest that bastard Trump, but kept setting off The Wanderguard. Secret Service chased me down.

Posted by: Scranton Joe With Squirts at March 31, 2026 08:06 AM (oftw2)

105 It can be argued that NASA was a jobs program that greatly benefited white men and women who were engineers, technicians, etc."

It was. And it actually accomplished something...

Buying stuff for other people tends to do not so much.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:06 AM (XuXeR)

106 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:07 AM (9E5Ho)

107 It can be argued that NASA was a jobs program that greatly benefited white men and women who were engineers, technicians, etc.

In the '60s, the Dems loved it. After '68, when the commies took over the party, they hated it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 31, 2026 08:04 AM (qFwJc)

------------

Next you'll be telling me that The DogEater decreed that NASA's primary mission during his Reign of Error would be "Muslim Outreach."

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 08:07 AM (QHOVG)

108 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

109 Post Office staff in cities have looked like a collection of mental patients and circus freaks for more than a half-century.

Posted by: Schlitzie the Pinhead at March 31, 2026 08:08 AM (oftw2)

110 OF course that is but one example but that it was not just some random braindead AWFL or Soros rent-a-thug but a local Dem bigwig.

When is someone going to follow the money and bury the f*ckers funding this bullshit?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

111 For less than three weeks of war, or $35 billion, we could run a nationwide pre-K program for 3- and 4-year-olds,” and “For $75 million, about an hour’s worth of war, we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line.”

They would just eat the books.
Posted by: r hennigantx

So after the next terrorist attack we send in the kindergartners, since we spent the defense money on them?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:09 AM (9E5Ho)

112 108 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)
=====

Whatever happened to "truth in advertising?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

113 Uh Oh, It's Cesar Chavez Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

114 And then yesterday at the Post Office, I had a total stranger who moved here from NYC three years ago explain to me how he is uncomfortable with the deeply hidden racism in the State, that isn't visible unless one is trained on where to see it.

--

So much for all those "conservative" transplants to SC, whose license plates from deep blue states make me very uneasy.

I know you're in SC, VIA, and know how the last 5-10 years has seen enormous numbers of transplants from people in deep blue state hellholes. I keep trying to reassure myself they're actually conservative-leaning people leaving those places, but I also intuit that's not true in many cases.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

115 ShainS

The guy who invented that wicked game Diplomacy, did not do more. He just wanted to be a mailman. Never understood that.

WierdDave hosted a Diplomacy game of the Horde members that signed up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

116 You even come close to me with a whistle or mega-phone, or simply get in my space, you are going down. Period.

Posted by: Danimal28

This attitude needs to be normalized.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (OPGS/)

117 The art of reading books was ruint by oppressors mandating pants in order to participate.

Posted by: Wild Women of Wongo at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (oftw2)

118 ***Keep American ports American run—don't abandon the Jones Act
--

MBAs would sell their mothers if it would improve the balance sheet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (ZwdAr)

119
Whatever happened to "truth in advertising?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

When has that ever been the case? I mean, last time I had Red Bull, I jumped off a roof and didn't fly.......Wings my ass.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

120 Uh Oh, It's Cesar Chavez Day."

So, beware the idiots of March?

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:12 AM (XuXeR)

121 Uh Oh, It's Cesar Chavez Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

So I can grab em by the pussy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

122 I know you're in SC, VIA, and know how the last 5-10 years has seen enormous numbers of transplants from people in deep blue state hellholes. I keep trying to reassure myself they're actually conservative-leaning people leaving those places, but I also intuit that's not true in many cases.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

We just saw one of the largest mass migrations in US history (that nobody will publicly acknowledge), and the only urban-to-rural one since Manifest Destiny and the closure of the frontier.

If anyone thinks those were all or even mostly conservatives, I have some bad news.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2026 08:13 AM (BI5O2)

123
This attitude needs to be normalized.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (OPGS/)

The pan to the pAntifa face requires adult verification now.

I miss that video.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

124 116 You even come close to me with a whistle or mega-phone, or simply get in my space, you are going down. Period.
---

It appears the only places they attempt this form of bullying are areas previously pacified.
(they don't go into unclaimed territory)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (ZwdAr)

125 Why should March get 31 days and February only 28! Discrimination against Black History Mumf is why!

Posted by: Equity Now! at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (oftw2)

126 Whatever happened to "truth in advertising?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

When has that ever been the case? I mean, last time I had Red Bull, I jumped off a roof and didn't fly.......Wings my ass.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (wVcYX)

127 I think I saw where a claim was made that we had bombed an Iranian heavy water facility.

With a pundit then remarking that it was wrong of the US to make Iranian children go without clean water....to drink.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (iMotb)

128 When has that ever been the case? I mean, last time I had Red Bull, I jumped off a roof and didn't fly.......Wings my ass.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)
=====

I've been using Calgon in my bath for years, yet I'm still here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

129 The art of reading books was ruint by oppressors mandating pants in order to participate.
Posted by: Wild Women of Wongo at March 31, 2026 08:11 AM (oftw2)
---
Huggy Squirrel doesn't *force* anyone to wear pants on the Sunday Morning Book Thread.

By strange coincidence, though, those who choose not to will experience a mysterious run of bad luck.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2026 08:15 AM (ESVrU)

130 Since March 28, 2024, homicide has dropped 61%, motor vehicle theft decreased by 53% and robbery fell by 45%, according to the data shared with the Caller.

In August, Trump federalized the D.C. police and deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., to help with crime in the city.

Once again I think that high crime is the Progressive plan to create a new National Police that THEY control.
See TSA for example.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)

131 MAGA + Seniors = GOP Midterm Victory
_________
Frankly, that sounds like wishful BS.

Remember, "senior" and "senate" come from the same root. Can't trust either one.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 31, 2026 08:16 AM (AlhUl)

132 And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (wVcYX)

I too was disappointed when I visited Twin Peaks.

Posted by: That one person who thought it was a mountain climbing theme at March 31, 2026 08:16 AM (eOFY+)

133 This midterm is the last gasp of the poisonous, racist gasbag Obama.

Every nasty, false, vile, racist, hateful smear of America and Americans that he fed and fed off of will be dialed up to the max.

He is a racial arsonist backed by a cadre of affluent, entitled communist who are with consumed with anger, envy and greed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2026 08:16 AM (HXT0k)

134 Whatever happened to "truth in advertising?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

When has that ever been the case? I mean, last time I had Red Bull, I jumped off a roof and didn't fly.......Wings my ass.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Happy endings aren't happy if you get arrested.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:17 AM (9E5Ho)

135 See TSA for example.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)

Traveling
Sexual
Assault

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

136 did you guys see Joetato and Fishnets got TWO new puppies?!?!

ew. just ew.

those poor dogs.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 31, 2026 08:17 AM (j+aD2)

137
Happy endings aren't happy if you get arrested.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:17 AM (9E5Ho)

This is about me, isn't it........

Posted by: Robert Kraft at March 31, 2026 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

138 OT: If you're in VA, please vote No by Apr 21.

While the "No" vote is being outspent and outraised 54-1 last I checked, apparently, money may not be able to buy this election...especially if you go vote.

3 weeks left...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2026 08:18 AM (tOcjL)

139 WATCH: Local Virginia GOP Chairman Shuts Down Questions on Democrat Election Fraud Scandal as RINO Supporters Cheer
________
The Republicans are really doing their damnedest to get us to sit this election out.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 31, 2026 08:18 AM (AlhUl)

140 did you guys see Joetato and Fishnets got TWO new puppies?!?!

ew. just ew.

those poor dogs.
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 31, 2026 08:17 AM (j+aD2)

They'll be breeding age, soon.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at March 31, 2026 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

141 "but I also intuit that's not true in many cases."

My intuit is sitting right there next to your intuit.

And I see that this go-around, the Democratic party is intending to have a candidate in EVERY State house race.

No uncontested races in the mid-term.

Something that nationally, the right seems to be unable to grasp.

You might lose if you run.

You Can't win if you don't.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 08:19 AM (iMotb)

142 The supply of Iranian "senior commanders" seems inexhaustible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2026 08:19 AM (fZiTB)

143 And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda.
Posted by: Count de Monet
---

Thought Panda Express a Mexican restaurant until (here) I read that it is Japanese.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:19 AM (ZwdAr)

144
Thought Panda Express a Mexican restaurant until (here) I read that it is Japanese.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:19 AM (ZwdAr)

Chinese
Japanese
Dirty knees
Look at these!

( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Hunter Biden at March 31, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

145 The supply of Iranian "senior commanders" seems inexhaustible."

"Private Achmed, front and center!"

Congratulations on your new ra.... *boom*

"Private Ahmed, front and center!"

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:20 AM (XuXeR)

146 133 This midterm is the last gasp of the poisonous, racist gasbag Obama.

from your keyboard to God's ears!!!

btw to the "how are people doing?" question us personally really well. lots of business and I mean we own the house here so not affected by high interest rates on loans. the kids are a mix - one living in town here has low rent and they're thinking of moving to a new place with lower rent! rents in Philly are going down in a lot of places, and there's more availability. take from that what you will.

up north things are still pretty rough, it's so expensive to rent in these not-so-nice places, I don't get it. and hard to keep up with cost of living, even in upstate NY! it is wild. so I dunno. we have problems in PA but NE has more problems than we do seems like. not great for young people up there. they do want to stay after graduation but I'm like ... why?

skiing is nice but come on guys

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 31, 2026 08:20 AM (j+aD2)

147 Yankees in SC?

They are carpetbaggers that come for good jobs and social peace, but refuse to assimilate.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (qFwJc)

148 But, no yellow.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

149 "And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda."

It's on the 'secret' menu.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (iMotb)

150 And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda.
Posted by: Count de Monet
---

Thought Panda Express a Mexican restaurant until (here) I read that it is Japanese.
Posted by: Braenyard

Jose Ichiwa - head cook

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (9E5Ho)

151 Reading Trumps recent comments, and watching how the Euro’s are responding to this war, I’m reasonably sure that NATO is dead for good this time. The US has no more need or use for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (ZPDpH)

152 Village Idiot's Apprentice

GOPe is going full UK conservative. A Trump policy based party would wipe them out with the voters.

Hard to think what is passing for electoral tactics with the GOPe. Except failure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

153 Something that nationally, the right seems to be unable to grasp.

You might lose if you run.

You Can't win if you don't.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
--

Put Trump's daughter in law back in charge, that will straighten them up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (ZwdAr)

154 The US has no more need or use for it."

NOOOOO!!!!

/State

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (XuXeR)

155 151 Reading Trumps recent comments, and watching how the Euro’s are responding to this war, I’m reasonably sure that NATO is dead for good this time. The US has no more need or use for it.

an excellent result and a very long time coming!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 31, 2026 08:22 AM (j+aD2)

156 Can someone please put Tiger Woods in a rehab facility before he kills someone?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

157 "Humiliated" "Defeated" "Reproached" "Collapse" "Stumbling"

These are just a few of the immature elementary schoolgirl taunts peppered throughout their headlines about Trump this morning from press like AP, Reuters, CNN, etc.

Its so pervasive now among news headline writers that there is no coming back from it. It's really the ugly, buffoonish end of the commercial press happening right before your eyes. Good riddance.
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Yeah, that's the real enjoyment of reading my hate feed:
They're trying so hard to stuff as much juvenile name-calling and insults into the headline.
It's so ridiculous, over-the-top how they are so consumed with hate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2026 08:23 AM (HXT0k)

158 Who will crap up the house more, Joe or the new puppies?

Posted by: Place Yer Bets at March 31, 2026 08:23 AM (oftw2)

159 "For less than three weeks of war, or $35 billion, we could run a nationwide pre-K program for 3- and 4-year-olds,” and “For $75 million, about an hour’s worth of war, we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line.”

Imagine what could be done with the money saved once all illegals are removed.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 08:24 AM (Sco7b)

160 It's also, National Tater Day. 🥔

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

161 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 31, 2026 08:24 AM (VV48T)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 31, 2026 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

162 the assholes here in the peoples republic of jacksonville florida have used the supposed "iran conflict" to jack up the price per gallon from an average of 2.82 a gallon 3 weeks ago to 4.30 a gallon even though their spot price at which they filled the tanks at each filling station was not anywhere near 4.30 a gallon

Posted by: paulnjax at March 31, 2026 08:25 AM (PPnyU)

163 It's so ridiculous, over-the-top how they are so consumed with hate"

Be of good cheer, y'all.

Name calling is all they have left. Time to point at them and laugh.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:25 AM (XuXeR)

164 "For less than three weeks of war, or $35 billion, we could run a nationwide pre-K program for 3- and 4-year-olds,” and “For $75 million, about an hour’s worth of war, we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line.”

Imagine what could be done with the money saved once all illegals are removed.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 08:24 AM (Sco7b)

It always amazes me when the libtards decide to be budget hawks........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

165 I've read a couple of stories about the bicycle terrorists who were trying to take over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Because none of them mention the motivation, you know damned good and well the motivation:
Some radical, far-left, loony bullshit.
Most likely the climate change fraud.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2026 08:26 AM (HXT0k)

166 160 It's also, National Tater Day. 🥔

What's taters, precious?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 08:26 AM (DgMqy)

167 >Whatever happened to "truth in advertising?"
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that went out with the padded bra

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 08:26 AM (ZxPkt)

168 I know you're in SC, VIA, and know how the last 5-10 years has seen enormous numbers of transplants from people in deep blue state hellholes. I keep trying to reassure myself they're actually conservative-leaning people leaving those places, but I also intuit that's not true in many cases.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

Most Yankees, if not flaming lib loons, are moderates who hate guns, think abortion is a medical issue, guilt ridden over any race card played and think Mitt Romney is a rock ribbed conservative and love government programs of any kind. There is a reason the places they come from are democrat run shitholes.

Posted by: Zombie Buford Pusser at March 31, 2026 08:26 AM (/1l9x)

169 165 I've read a couple of stories about the bicycle terrorists who were trying to take over the Golden Gate Bridge.

that was a crazy story

I mean bikers are asshats but this was pretty extreme even for those guys

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 31, 2026 08:26 AM (j+aD2)

170 Aliassmithsmith, pour some hydrogen peroxide in your ear, it might help.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:26 AM (ZwdAr)

171 This happened in my neck of the woods last week

https://tinyurl.com/y4hrbn9s

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at March 31, 2026 07:35 AM (DDJSl)

OMG!! A parent's worse nightmare. It appears, for the dashcam footage, that the bus veered directly into the path of the dump truck. Prayers for all who were injured and the parents who lost their children. So very sad.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 31, 2026 08:27 AM (5xuJ/)

172 "the assholes here in the peoples republic of jacksonville florida have used the supposed "iran conflict" to jack up the price per gallon"

I'm sure that your Progressive Mayor will jump right on that.

BTW, who is her ex sleeping with now?

They were both fun to watch on the news, back in the day.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 08:27 AM (iMotb)

173 Whatever happened to "truth in advertising?"
-----

that went out with the padded bra
Posted by: Don Black

Close it down. We have a winner!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:27 AM (9E5Ho)

174 156 Can someone please put Tiger Woods in a rehab facility before he kills someone?
Posted by: Sponge

Chip and Joanna flip houses, Tiger flips cars.

Posted by: Find Your Niche at March 31, 2026 08:28 AM (oftw2)

175 if not flaming lib loons, are moderates who hate guns, think abortion is a medical issue, guilt ridden over any race card played"

Don't forget trucks. They hate trucks. It's amazing...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

176 It's also, National Tater Day. 🥔
Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

I get my own day? Cool.

Posted by: Ron White at March 31, 2026 08:28 AM (wVcYX)

177 Aliassmithsmith, pour some hydrogen peroxide in your ear, it might help.
Posted by: Braenyard

Naptha. Then light it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:29 AM (9E5Ho)

178
Chip and Joanna flip houses, Tiger flips cars.
Posted by: Find Your Niche at March 31, 2026 08:28 AM (oftw2)

Your point is valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

179 167 that went out with the padded bra
Posted by: Don Black

Does anyone know where to purchase the Dagmar-style pointed ones that were popular in the 50's?

...asking for a friend

Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 08:30 AM (Y8DZL)

180 ASS got nuked pretty quick. Spicoli was quick on the draw.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

181 I hadn't seen reports about the Golden Gate Bridge

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

182 Yeah, that's the real enjoyment of reading my hate feed:
They're trying so hard to stuff as much juvenile name-calling and insults into the headline.
It's so ridiculous, over-the-top how they are so consumed with hate.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2026 08:23 AM (HXT0k)

Since I'm on a horror movie kick, I also watch MS Now. Insults include unprepared, wavering, volatile, changes his mind based on his mood, doesn't read, juvenile.

Basicallly all the crap they always say about conservatives turned up to 11. Screaming 'WOLF!' every five minutes must be tiring.

Don't CNN's 700,000 and MS Now's 1.6 million viewers deserve better? They're letting 0.007% of America's viewing public down.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 08:31 AM (Sco7b)

183 Mrs. F. says it was the Bay Bridge

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)

184 Does anyone know where to purchase the Dagmar-style pointed ones that were popular in the 50's?

...asking for a friend
Posted by: Auspex

Look like a taillight on a '52 Cadillac.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:31 AM (9E5Ho)

185
Does anyone know where to purchase the Dagmar-style pointed ones that were popular in the 50's?

...asking for a friend
Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 08:30 AM (Y8DZL)

I could see where a comeback might be in the works.......

https://is.gd/Olo8AI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

186 167 that went out with the padded bra
Posted by: Don Black

Does anyone know where to purchase the Dagmar-style pointed ones that were popular in the 50's?

...asking for a friend
Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 08:30 AM (Y8DZL)

In 28 O-cups?

Posted by: Summer Robert at March 31, 2026 08:32 AM (wVcYX)

187 Can someone please put Tiger Woods in a rehab facility before he kills someone?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
He should probably lose his drivers license for awhile.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

188 I sometimes scroll up to read what Alias has spewed, but he's always been nuked before I have a chance

just as well

Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 08:32 AM (ZxPkt)

189 And of course only conservative WHITE MEN are racists.
They call us names, but we are the racists. Just how does that work? Because we think for ourselves and don't tow their political lines? Because we don't and never will bow down to their bully tactics? Because we are the ones who know they are full of shit? Well I don't care what they say or think, I'm my own person not a robot stooge buying their bullshit. My vote is not for sale and I won't be shamed into voting for a Commie asshole.

Posted by: Case at March 31, 2026 08:32 AM (pvf3X)

190 *****
He should probably lose his drivers license for awhile.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

He's worth half a billion dollars. Why is he driving at all? ESPECIALLY after he's been popping pills all day.

The dude has a serious problem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

191 I could see where a comeback might be in the works.......
https://is.gd/Olo8AI"

You sir, are a great American. More coffeve!

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

192 I could see where a comeback might be in the works.......

https://is.gd/Olo8AI
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Posted by: Modern Women at March 31, 2026 08:34 AM (wVcYX)

193 And It's TRANSGENDER INVISIBILITY DAY.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

194 Don't forget trucks. They hate trucks. It's amazing...
Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXe

And leaf burning. And hunting. And fireworks

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2026 08:35 AM (fZiTB)

195 if the racism is deeply hidden, how did she know where to find it
Posted by: Don Black at March 31, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

She has that special compass from "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

196 And leaf burning. And hunting. And fireworks
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2026 08:35 AM (fZiTB)

And beer.....and BBQ.....and boobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

197 The dude has a serious problem."

Indeed. Seems that having dad around limited worse impulses, but over the last 15 years or so...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

198 I read that Woods continues to drive because he doesn't want a driver to rat out where he goes or who he sees. Driving and pills might only be a small chunk of his dysfunction.

Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at March 31, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)

199 And leaf burning. And hunting. And fireworks
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2026 08:35 AM (fZiTB)

And beer.....and BBQ.....and boobs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

and drive-in movies.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 08:36 AM (wVcYX)

200 Found it!!

https://instapundit.com/786507/

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 08:37 AM (iMotb)

201 > And It's TRANSGENDER INVISIBILITY DAY.
---------
The last thing in the world is that they want to be invisible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 08:38 AM (AkEZC)

202 I read that Woods continues to drive because he doesn't want a driver to rat out where he goes or who he sees. Driving and pills might only be a small chunk of his dysfunction.
Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at March 31, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)

One would think that after he was found to have banged over 120 women around the world, all while professing his 'love' to his wife at the time, and his desire for Ambien and champaign, he would know we all know just what kind of f*cked off human he is.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Huh...Pentagon Leaders hold briefing on Iran War.

Only on MS Now....

Huh...?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 08:38 AM (Sco7b)

204 For less than three weeks of war, or $35 billion, we could run a nationwide pre-K program for 3- and 4-year-olds,” and “For $75 million, about an hour’s worth of war, we could provide three books free to every child in America who is living under the poverty line.”
---
Any child anywhere in the US, regardless of income, age or race, can get a free Bible anytime they want.
That's more than 60 free books that they can have.

Oh?

So it's not really a free book you want the poor children to have, is it?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (HXT0k)

205 Thought Panda Express a Mexican restaurant until (here) I read that it is Japanese.
Posted by: Braenyard

There used to be a Chinese-Mexican buffet type restaurant hear in town. It was kind of strange. Didn’t last.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (ZPDpH)

206 And beer.....and BBQ.....and boobs."

Other night the kidlet and a couple of his friends were over... sitting on the back deck, cleaning their guns. Couple of neighbors stopped by, much admiration for said firearms.

Mrs chuckled and said "you'd never see that back in Fairfax "...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

207 **Xaviel and Rosalee Lugo, their eighth-grader, Xelani,
***'

What kind of fucked up names are those?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (ZwdAr)

208 Bus driver clearly crossed the double-yellow. On the phone? LOC?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

Could be a blown tire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (ExV1e)

209 I read that Woods continues to drive because he doesn't want a driver to rat out where he goes or who he sees. Driving and pills might only be a small chunk of his dysfunction.
Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at March 31, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)
=====
He shouldn't be trusted with a golf cart either.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

210 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at March 31, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)

211 For the record, that was not me driving that bus.
Posted by: Tiger Woods at March 31, 2026 08:03 AM (Y1sOo)

It was still upright so this checks out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 08:41 AM (ExV1e)

212 One would think that after he was found to have banged over 120 women around the world, all while professing his 'love' to his wife at the time, and his desire for Ambien and champaign, he would know we all know just what kind of f*cked off human he is.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Ah, a role model to inner city kids across the country.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 08:41 AM (ZPDpH)

213 Huh...Pentagon Leaders hold briefing on Iran War.

Only on MS Now....

Huh...?
Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 08:38 AM (Sco7b)
*****
I watched it on FNC.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

214 Yet, in a 'what were you thinking' moment, Woods has a Congressional Medal of Freedom from Trump.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

215 202 I read that Woods continues to drive because he doesn't want a driver to rat out where he goes or who he sees. Driving and pills might only be a small chunk of his dysfunction.
Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at March 31, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)

Maybe Trump can take back that fancy medal he gave him a few years ago. Some example to youth he turned out to be.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2026 08:43 AM (fZiTB)

216 198 I read that Woods continues to drive because he doesn't want a driver to rat out where he goes or who he sees. Driving and pills might only be a small chunk of his dysfunction.
Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at March 31, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)

He does like to cheat on his partners...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2026 08:43 AM (tOcjL)

217 And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (wVcYX)

They just label it as chicken. No one can tell the difference.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

218 214 Yet, in a 'what were you thinking' moment, Woods has a Congressional Medal of Freedom from Trump.
Posted by: Sponge

Wasn't Elvis an honorary DEA agent of some such?

Posted by: Hunka Burnin' Love at March 31, 2026 08:43 AM (oftw2)

219 Those that actually earned the CMF should be pissed off royally at the fact that the once prestigious honor has been granted to:

Joe Biden
Megan Rapinoe
Tiger Woods

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

220 Sock it to me!

Posted by: Nixon's the One! at March 31, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

221 > Yet, in a 'what were you thinking' moment, Woods has a Congressional Medal of Freedom from Trump.
---------
TBH... there are a lot of people who've received the Congressional Medal of Freedom who probably shouldn't have.

I think it's more of a popularity contest. Sometimes a stick in the eye to the opposition. But increasingly meaningless.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 08:45 AM (AkEZC)

222 >I read that Woods continues to drive because he doesn't want a driver to rat out where he goes or who he sees.

Does he have a Maserati?
Does it go 185?

Posted by: Joe Walsh at March 31, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

223 WATCH: Local Virginia GOP Chairman Shuts Down Questions on Democrat Election Fraud Scandal as RINO Supporters Cheer
---
A significant portion of Republican voters only vote Republican for lower taxes.
On all other issues, they prefer the Democrat policy.
And will vote for the Democrat.

Remember: That Republican Party that has been trying to stop Trump since 2015 does have a base of support.
Driving them out of the Party is as much a project as driving their representatives out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2026 08:45 AM (HXT0k)

224 Some asshat on Morning Joe just called Hegseth the Secretary of Defence. CBC does that too.

Denial of reality is such an art...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 08:45 AM (Sco7b)

225 203 Huh...Pentagon Leaders hold briefing on Iran War.

Only on MS Now....

Huh...?
Posted by: Stateless

Original content costs money and they ain't making any.

Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 08:46 AM (Y8DZL)

226 What kind of fucked up names are those?"

You were not supposed to notice. Also said kids were enroute to electric car race...

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

227 Hopefully the last Boom-Boom in my pants this month!

Posted by: Joe@Rehoboth Beach at March 31, 2026 08:46 AM (oftw2)

228
You were not supposed to notice. Also said kids were enroute to electric car race...
Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

At least they were going to race a car they built from the ground up.

That being said, FormulaE is some of the dumbest shit out there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

229 I watched it on FNC.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:41 AM (NpAcC

Maybe they cut away when I turned. It lasted only another 2 minutes or so. Thanks for letting me know.

That was weird.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 08:47 AM (Sco7b)

230 217 And the menu at Panda Express is totally bereft of Panda.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 31, 2026 08:14 AM (wVcYX)

They just label it as chicken. No one can tell the difference.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 08:43 AM
++++

Tastes like collie.

Posted by: B.O. at March 31, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

231 In many ways, President Trump reminds me of President Reagan. Both exemplify unwavering patriotism, true leadership, and courage in life-threatening circumstances. Both of them inherited disastrous leftist policies, nihilism, and cultural decay, and both vowed to make America great again. Both earned the gratitude of nations and individuals by making the world freer, more peaceful, and secure. And both were spared for a reason.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:47 AM (/+uur)

232
They just label it as chicken. No one can tell the difference.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 08:43 AM

You asked for it.........

https://youtu.be/rRFmjZfGj5U

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

233 Somewhere I read that USSS has prohibited Woods from driving Vanessa's kids around. Sounds like that could be true.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 31, 2026 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)

234 The last thing in the world is that they want to be invisible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 08:38 AM (AkEZC)
*****
The next Democrat president will make sure that they aren't.
You know they will be replacing the American flags that Trump installed at the WH with the trans flag on this day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

235 Posted by: Joe@Rehoboth Beach at March 31, 2026 08:46 AM (oftw2)

====

TFG amirite?
Commits ten times the crimes I did, and nothing.
*makes jerkoff gesture*

Posted by: Nixon's the One! at March 31, 2026 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

236 "Thought Panda Express a Mexican restaurant"

I don't think it matters what nationality they claim when the food is as bad as theirs. Once was enough. 30 dollars for food for two and most of it went into the trash.

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 31, 2026 08:49 AM (cO6oP)

237 Posted by: Will Robinson at March 31, 2026 08:49 AM (cO6oP)

DANGER! DANGER!!

Posted by: Robot at March 31, 2026 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

238 I still have remnants of poison ivy and it's really starting to piss me off........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

239 GOPe is going full UK conservative. A Trump policy based party would wipe them out with the voters.

Hard to think what is passing for electoral tactics with the GOPe. Except failure.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

The effect is on display here in Texas - you would think Cornyn would be in the fight of his life, but he isn’t even campaigning, he expects to be enthroned in his runoff and doesn’t think he needs to bother talking to anyone in the State he pretends to represent.

Paxton is going to wipe the floor with him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 08:52 AM (ZPDpH)

240 Then again, given the recent incident, maybe USSS should prohibit agents from possessing guns around Trump's grandchildren.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 31, 2026 08:53 AM (Y1sOo)

241 DANGER! DANGER!!
Posted by: Robot at March 31, 2026 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)
======

QUIET you babbling bucket of bolts!
/sashay

Posted by: Dr. Smith at March 31, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

242 A mural of Iryna is divisive?

I can see the problem, its you dude. Have you labeled Picasso's Guernica as divisive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 08:54 AM (2GVsD)

243
Paxton is going to wipe the floor with him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 08:52 AM (ZPDpH)

There was an article I saw not long ago that Trump was close to endorsing Paxton. Has that officially happened yet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

244 The effect is on display here in Texas - you would think Cornyn would be in the fight of his life, but he isn’t even campaigning, he expects to be enthroned in his runoff and doesn’t think he needs to bother talking to anyone in the State he pretends to represent.

Paxton is going to wipe the floor with him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 08:52 AM (ZPDpH)
*****
In my area Cornyn is running nonstop negative ads.
I haven't seen any ads from Paxton.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

245 238 I still have remnants of poison ivy and it's really starting to piss me off........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yeah, having it on the penis is no laughing matter.

Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (Y8DZL)

246 There's a Panda Express brand of Teriyaki sauce that's not terrible. Grandkids like it. It's passable on chicken if one is in a hurry to feed them.

I've used it as a dipping sauce a couple times.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (AkEZC)

247 Who was the jerkoff USSS that shot himself in the buttox?

No name or pics?

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)

248 Panda Express has some good items but only
Beef and Broccoli
Mushroom Chicken
Fried Rice and Noodles are ok but high calorie

Odds are not good on anything else

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

249 Panda Express OK. It's not more expensive than anywhere else, either.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 08:56 AM (DgMqy)

250
Yeah, having it on the penis is no laughing matter.
Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (Y8DZL)

Thankfully, this is NOT the case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

251 I still have remnants of poison ivy and it's really starting to piss me off........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yeah, having it on the penis is no laughing matter.
Posted by: Auspex

Flashback to high school. Camping at the lake. Some yahoo burned logs with it on them.

Yes. You can get it from burning it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:57 AM (9E5Ho)

252 The effect is on display here in Texas - you would think Cornyn would be in the fight of his life, but he isn’t even campaigning, he expects to be enthroned in his runoff and doesn’t think he needs to bother talking to anyone in the State he pretends to represent.

Paxton is going to wipe the floor with him.
Posted by: Tom Servo
---

DC is spending a $Million Dollars a day promoting Cornyn, Don't count your chickens.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:57 AM (ZwdAr)

253
Yes. You can get it from burning it.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 08:57 AM (9E5Ho)

Yeah, you can........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

254 Paxton is going to wipe the floor with him.

I’ve seen concern that if Paxton wins, there won’t be anything stopping the governor from implementing de facto sharia law in Texas. But we’ll see.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2026 08:57 AM (QZThv)

255 I’ve seen concern that if Paxton wins, there won’t be anything stopping the governor from implementing de facto sharia law in Texas. But we’ll see.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2026 08:57 AM (QZThv)

This is why I like what Chip Roy has been saying. He's taking the islhamic invasion seriously, it seems.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

256 238 I still have remnants of poison ivy and it's really starting to piss me off........
Posted by: Sponge

Urushiol is evil! Ever wonder why cashews are never sold in the shell? It's because leaves and nutshells of cashews contain urushiol, it's in the nuts, too, but roasting or boiling them neutralizes the poison.

Posted by: Itchin' To Share at March 31, 2026 08:58 AM (oftw2)

257 Kirk killer bullet:
It doesn't mean the bullet "did NOT match" the rifle like the headline says.The defense wants to use "inconclusive" as exculpatory evidence — but the prosecution wants to run chemical or molecular analysis comparing the jacket alloy to ammunition recovered with the gun.

Unlike tool mark analysis, it doesn't require an intact bullet.

The defense is trying to block that testing from happening.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:58 AM (/+uur)

258 They have Poisonwood trees down in the Keys. Around a hundred times more potent than poison ivy. Same toxic sap. Trees were pointed out on the trails. Stay FAR FAR away !!!

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 08:59 AM (pDt9x)

259
Unlike tool mark analysis, it doesn't require an intact bullet.

The defense is trying to block that testing from happening.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:58 AM (/+uur)

"Did you see what he was wearing? He was ASKING for it!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

260 So it's not really a free book you want the poor children to have, is it?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (HXT0k)

It's not about the children at all, it's about having the taxpayer fork over a fuckton of money to a carefully selected publisher to pass on some of the money to carefully selected authors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

261 There was an article I saw not long ago that Trump was close to endorsing Paxton. Has that officially happened yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

There was a plot by Thune to try to get Trump to endorse Cornyn; Trump made a couple unfortunate posts about the idea, but quickly got the message from his Texas supporters that everybody here just wanted him to stay out of it - which fortunately he did. Runoff is on May 26.

Most recent statewide polls show Wesley Hunt voters mostly switching to Paxton, and Cornyn still stuck at the same 41% he got the first time. (Only those who voted in the first round are allowed to vote in the second)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:00 AM (ZPDpH)

262 Courtroom Bombshell: ATF Can’t Link Bullet That Killed Charlie Kirk to Suspect's Rifle
___

Headline is oversold. Initial test was inconclusive since the bullet fragmented. Defense is trying to prevent other tests that may be more definitive on a fragmented bullet. Candace Owens hardest hit.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 09:00 AM (Dv3i1)

263 The trial of Kirk's killer will be a bit of a zoo.

"Can you identify my client when he isn't in a fur suit?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:01 AM (2GVsD)

264 What kind of fucked up names are those?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (ZwdAr)

Basque, apparently.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

265
I’ve seen concern that if Paxton wins, there won’t be anything stopping the governor from implementing de facto sharia law in Texas. But we’ll see.
Posted by: Ian S.
----

One has nothing to do with the other. Either way, after the election Paxton will not be Attorney General.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 09:02 AM (ZwdAr)

266 264 What kind of fucked up names are those?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 08:39 AM (ZwdAr)

Basque, apparently.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:01 AM (ExV1e)

Looked more Incan

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:02 AM (kamC8)

267 My personal opinion is that Sec. of War doesn't sound good. Sec Def does.

Posted by: Jaimo at March 31, 2026 09:02 AM (BCuCF)

268 Candy Ovens is still claiming Macron's wife is a guy, so yes she will run with the 'bullet does not match' narrative.

So will Qatari Carlson.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:02 AM (2GVsD)

269 249 Panda Express OK. It's not more expensive than anywhere else, either.
----------------
Meh. Its a lot of batter on very little protein. The sauces are what sells it.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 09:03 AM (n17eQ)

270 Candace Owens hardest hit.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
---

You mean, like with a 2x4?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 09:03 AM (ZwdAr)

271 247 Who was the jerkoff USSS that shot himself in the buttox?

No name or pics?
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM
------

Gump. Forrest Gump.

Posted by: DIrectly in the buttocks at March 31, 2026 09:04 AM (2Ez/1)

272 Some asshat on Morning Joe just called Hegseth the Secretary of Defence. CBC does that too.

Technically, he is the Secretary of Defense. They didn't change the name of the DoD, they just added War as an officially accepted alternative.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:04 AM (ExV1e)

273 We're saved!

NEW: Don Lemon says he might run for president, but complains that the rules are different for him because he’s black.

“I could be President. The rules are different for women and black people. White men get away with it.”

He just says anything

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 31, 2026 09:04 AM (ndZc7)

274 They have Poisonwood trees down in the Keys. Around a hundred times more potent than poison ivy. Same toxic sap. Trees were pointed out on the trails. Stay FAR FAR away !!!
Posted by: tubal

Dateline: St. Louis November 1973 Snow covered ground.

Guess who gets taken to the doctor wrapped in a bedsheet because they caught it at a Boy Scout campout?

This guy.
☝🏻☝🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:05 AM (9E5Ho)

275 > Candy Ovens is still claiming Macron's wife is a guy, so yes she will run with the 'bullet does not match' narrative.
-------
Was she ever sued over those claims against Marcon's wife? I thought the threats of legal action caused her to cool her jets on that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 09:05 AM (AkEZC)

276 Don Le'Mon, how goes the court case against you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:05 AM (2GVsD)

277 9am

MSNow - Hegseth - Trump doing heavy lifting for free world.
CNN....Hegseth - Regime change has occured in Iran

FoxNews - General Caine - 11,000 targets in Iran in 30 days. Trump - get your own oil. Good for him. Australia 'Mad Max' I hope it's televised.

CBC - Secretary of War - impressive for the CBC - demands more countries help in Strait.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 09:05 AM (Sco7b)

278 258 They have Poisonwood trees down in the Keys. Around a hundred times more potent than poison ivy. Same toxic sap. Trees were pointed out on the trails. Stay FAR FAR away !!!
Posted by: tubal

Another reason to stay away from the Keys. Add everyone driving drunk and the collection of fruits and nuts.

Posted by: Henry Flagler at March 31, 2026 09:05 AM (oftw2)

279 NEW: Don Lemon says he might run for president, but complains that the rules are different for him because he’s black.

“I could be President. The rules are different for women and black people. White men get away with it.”

He just says anything
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 31, 2026 09:04 AM (ndZc7)

Ni**a please.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

280 So, quick quiz: what country was this in?

"attackers were:
Muhammed Koc
Omar Alshmari
Abraham Choudhry
Emirhan Arslan
Ali Alkhaleel
Adeel Piracha"

Iraq? Iran? Egypt? Syria? Germany? France?

Pittsburgh. Steel City.

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:06 AM (XuXeR)

281 So the new story of the woman that claims PDT sexually abused her when she was 13 is that the story is 100% backed up by the FBI.
The small details left out is that the person is

Jimmy Atkins.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 09:06 AM (/+uur)

282 I’ve seen concern that if Paxton wins, there won’t be anything stopping the governor from implementing de facto sharia law in Texas. But we’ll see.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2026 08:57 AM (QZThv)

Sir, that’s just retarded.

Btw, Chip Roy was big in favor of Paxton’s impeachment, which was a Bush Machine farce just like Trump’s impeachment trials. So I don’t trust Chip Roy on anything, he’s a machine politician playing the part of a conservative, but only so long as it’s convenient.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:07 AM (ZPDpH)

283 20 years ago, Panda Express was great. They had a "green bean chicken" with a lot of garlic that was sublime.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 31, 2026 09:07 AM (qFwJc)

284 They have Poisonwood trees down in the Keys. Around a hundred times more potent than poison ivy. Same toxic sap. Trees were pointed out on the trails. Stay FAR FAR away !!!
Posted by: tubal

Another reason to stay away from the Keys. Add everyone driving drunk and the collection of fruits and nuts.
Posted by: Henry Flagler

Let's not be too hasty.

Posted by: Tiger Woods at March 31, 2026 09:07 AM (9E5Ho)

285 281 So the new story of the woman that claims PDT sexually abused her when she was 13 is that the story is 100% backed up by the FBI.
The small details left out is that the person is

Are they actually still pushing that ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:07 AM (kamC8)

286 This is why I like what Chip Roy has been saying. He's taking the islhamic invasion seriously, it seems.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

So is Tuberville. And Rep. Fine from Florida.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (fZiTB)

287 Btw, Chip Roy was big in favor of Paxton’s impeachment, which was a Bush Machine farce just like Trump’s impeachment trials. So I don’t trust Chip Roy on anything, he’s a machine politician playing the part of a conservative, but only so long as it’s convenient.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:07 AM (ZPDpH)

Yeah, I'm aware.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

288 281 So the new story of the woman that claims PDT sexually abused her when she was 13 is that the story is 100% backed up by the FBI.
The small details left out is that the person is

Jimmy Atkins.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Jimmy Atkins? The kid who played Howdy Doody?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

289 > “I could be President. The rules are different for women and black people. White men get away with it.”
----------
There's a shit ton of "stuff" women and blacks "get away with" Don. You're equal parts both. Quit bitching.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (AkEZC)

290 The Macrons did initiate a defamation lawsuit against Candy Ovens last year.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (2GVsD)

291 Has Don Lemon found the plane yet?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

292 Are they actually still pushing that ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:07 AM (kamC

Politco and The Deadly Beast

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 09:09 AM (/+uur)

293 ... contain urushiol, it's in the nuts, too, but roasting or boiling them neutralizes the poison.

***********

That's probably why cashews! make me sneeze...

Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2026 09:09 AM (qgHp7)

294 Has Don Lemon found the plane yet?
Posted by: I gotta ask at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

You didn't hear about the black hole he found?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

295 We went to Panda Express over on the Naval Weapons Station last week.

Two bowls (Smallest size available) with small drinks.

Over $23.00.

That's the last visit for a while.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 09:09 AM (iMotb)

296 Apparently, keeping the Strait open was not an original objective. "Fight for yourself" is classic Trump.

I cannot spare the man. He fights.

Spain can fuck off.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 31, 2026 09:09 AM (qFwJc)

297 293 ... contain urushiol, it's in the nuts, too, but roasting or boiling them neutralizes the poison.

***********

That's probably why cashews! make me sneeze...
Posted by: muldoon at March 31, 2026 09:09 AM (qgHp7)

Pretty sly, there, muldoon.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2026 09:10 AM (pDt9x)

298 This is why I like what Chip Roy has been saying. He's taking the islhamic invasion seriously, it seems.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
---

Chip Roy is for Chip Roy. Chip Roy is a pos.

• Calls for Paxton resignation • 2020 election aftermath: Roy resisted fraud claims,
• warned against a “conspiracy frenzy,” and
• opposed efforts (including some GOP lawsuits) to overturn results. He later
• said Trump engaged in “clearly impeachable conduct” over Jan. 6,
• Backed DeSantis in 2024: Roy supported Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican primary instead of Trump, increasing tensions.
• Opposition to Trump-backed legislation: Roy [created all kinds of issues on spending bills, etc. Posing for the cameras if you will.]
• voted against a Trump-endorsed spending/debt-ceiling bill and publicly criticized GOP leadership; Trump publicly attacked Roy on social platforms and urged a primary challenge.
• Public floor rebukes of GOP leadership:
• Roy’s high-profile floor speeches and refusals to back Trump priorities (citing fiscal and constitutional concerns) drew Trump’s ire and led Trump to label him a “RINO” and call him disloyal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 09:10 AM (ZwdAr)

299 Are they actually still pushing that ?"

That's all they've got.
Well, that and exclaiming "Trump is a poopyhead"

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

300 • Roy’s high-profile floor speeches and refusals to back Trump priorities (citing fiscal and constitutional concerns) drew Trump’s ire and led Trump to label him a “RINO” and call him disloyal.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 09:10 AM (ZwdAr)

Fine. I'm convinced.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

301 "You didn't hear about the black hole he found?"

Was the hidden racism in it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 09:11 AM (iMotb)

302 Most recent statewide polls show Wesley Hunt voters mostly switching to Paxton, and Cornyn still stuck at the same 41% he got the first time. (Only those who voted in the first round are allowed to vote in the second)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:00 AM (ZPDpH)

That is incorrect. You can vote in the Republican runoff if you did not vote in the Democrat primary. You don't have to have voted in the Republican primary.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

303 The NEA needs to be burned down to the water line.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 09:11 AM (snZF9)

304 against Candy Ovens "

She's half baked?

Posted by: man at March 31, 2026 09:12 AM (XuXeR)

305 Spain put a woman in charge of its defense.

Posted by: What country does that? at March 31, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

306 Looked more Incan
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:02 AM (kamC

It did but search said that it's a semi-common modern version of Xavier.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:12 AM (ExV1e)

307 Take It (Out) for what its worth, but this is what AI says about Panada Express-

Bottom line

Panda Express is cheaper than most fast‑casual chains (Chipotle, Pei Wei)
Comparable or slightly more expensive than local Chinese takeout, but faster and more standardized
Best value if you prioritize speed, predictable pricing, and big portions

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 31, 2026 09:13 AM (DgMqy)

308 305 Spain put a woman in charge of its defense.
Posted by: What country does that? at March 31, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

Don't make her mad....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:13 AM (kamC8)

309 KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
What a misleading headline from The Daily Mail.

The ATF ran a tool mark analysis on a bullet jacket fragment recovered from Charlie's autopsy.

The result was "inconclusive" — not "no match."

The jacket was too fragmented to compare, which also partially explains the lack of an exit wound.

The bullet shattered on impact.

"Inconclusive" means insufficient evidence to draw any conclusion.

It doesn't mean the bullet "did NOT match" the rifle like the headline says.

The defense wants to use "inconclusive" as exculpatory evidence — but the prosecution wants to run chemical or molecular analysis comparing the jacket alloy to ammunition recovered with the gun.

Unlike tool mark analysis, it doesn't require an intact bullet.

The defense is trying to block that testing from happening.

That's the nuance of the real story.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

310 Btw, Chip Roy was big in favor of Paxton’s impeachment, which was a Bush Machine farce just like Trump’s impeachment trials. So I don’t trust Chip Roy on anything, he’s a machine politician playing the part of a conservative, but only so long as it’s convenient.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:07 AM (ZPDpH)

Yeah, I'm aware.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
******
The problem with Chip is his been an ideologue and a thorn in Trump's side.
I like what he says sometimes, but I am not sure if I trust him.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

311 Good morning!

Had an idea after reading that one of the MN Somalis fraudsters got a sentence of 1 year and 1 day sentence after stealing $250 million: Chain Deportation.

If one person can be a "chain" to bring in all of then their family, then it can work in the reverse. By all means, prosecute and incarcerate the criminal immigrant. However, all relatives must go home. Yeah, even the kids, don't care where they were born.

Who's with me!?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2026 09:14 AM (Suwql)

312 308 305 Spain put a woman in charge of its defense.
Posted by: What country does that? at March 31, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

Don't make her mad....
--------------
So how is the Spanish Armada these days?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 09:14 AM (n17eQ)

313 305 Spain put a woman in charge of its defense.
Posted by: What country does that?

Sounds good to us!

Posted by: All Scandihoovians at March 31, 2026 09:14 AM (oftw2)

314 Unlike tool mark analysis, it doesn't require an intact bullet.

The defense is trying to block that testing from happening.

That's the nuance of the real story.
Posted by: SMOD

Sounds like the defense is running scared.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:15 AM (9E5Ho)

315 Who was the jerkoff USSS that shot himself in the buttox?

No name or pics?
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)
*****
He took a bullet for Joe!
*sniff*

Posted by: Dr. Jill at March 31, 2026 09:16 AM (KtOUo)

316 Tiger Woods was hammered.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 31, 2026 09:16 AM (Kt19C)

317
Sounds like the defense is running scared.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:15 AM (9E5Ho)

They should... It's Utah not New York...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:16 AM (kamC8)

318 >>I cannot spare the man. He fights.

Spain can fuck off.

This

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2026 09:17 AM (Suwql)

319 So the new story of the woman that claims PDT sexually abused her when she was 13 is that the story is 100% backed up by the FBI.

We saw, in diverse occasions, see Goody Trump cavorting with Satan by moonlight. -- the Left

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

320 Had an idea after reading that one of the MN Somalis fraudsters got a sentence of 1 year and 1 day sentence after stealing $250 million: Chain Deportation.

If one person can be a "chain" to bring in all of then their family, then it can work in the reverse. By all means, prosecute and incarcerate the criminal immigrant. However, all relatives must go home. Yeah, even the kids, don't care where they were born.

Who's with me!?
Posted by: Lizzy

Me.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:17 AM (9E5Ho)

321 Freedom of the Prez: Democrat Activist ‘Journo’ Don LeMon Isn’t Ruling Out a White House Run

... the BS is strong in this one

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

322 315 Who was the jerkoff USSS that shot himself in the buttox?

No name or pics?
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (/+uur)
*****
He took a bullet for Joe!
*sniff*
Posted by: Dr. Jill

His butt's been wiped!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Amtrak Senior Discount at March 31, 2026 09:17 AM (Dv3i1)

323 319 So the new story of the woman that claims PDT sexually abused her when she was 13 is that the story is 100% backed up by the FBI.

And it was not used the 3 times Trump ran for President ? ..... I don't think so....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:18 AM (kamC8)

324 Can it be an anchor chain and Lake Michigan?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:18 AM (2GVsD)

325
The defense wants to use "inconclusive" as exculpatory evidence — but the prosecution wants to run chemical or molecular analysis comparing the jacket alloy to ammunition recovered with the gun.

Unlike tool mark analysis, it doesn't require an intact bullet.

The defense is trying to block that testing from happening.

That's the nuance of the real story.
Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:13 AM (RHGPo)
*****
TGP and The Liberty Daily took the bait and ran with it to energize the likes of Candace Owens and her followers and to taint the future jury.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

326
AI is so smart -- it just told me there once was a famous woman singer who died by the name of "Jani Shoplin".

Never heard of her...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:18 AM (xG4kz)

327 279 NEW: Don Lemon says he might run for president, but complains that the rules are different for him because he’s black.

Don's a fighter. The rules of biological reproduction are against him as well but he carries on.

America needs more men like....
Well, maybe it doesn't

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 09:19 AM (Sco7b)

328 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

Minneapolis City Councilor Pearll Warren goes on an insanely UNHINGED rant complaining about being black and a victim of racism:

“I wake up every day black. That’s something I have to deal with… I have to fight institutionalized racism on a day-to-day basis.”

“Empty your pockets and strip your clothes off for the cotton my ancestors picked”

“ICE is disgusting. But I’ve been ICE’ed my whole life.”

“Thank you for being woke!”

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

329 The problem with Chip is his been an ideologue and a thorn in Trump's side.
I like what he says sometimes, but I am not sure if I trust him.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

It's also important to consider the office. I recall Cornyn being a decent AG. It was only after he became a Senator that he started deciding that "his duty to the communists of America" took precedence over his duty to Texas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

330 For the record - I was not a big Oaxton supporter originally, I voted for his opponent in the original primary. I was willing to listen to the claims that impeachment was justified, and Dade Phelan’s promise that all of the Hard Evidence of Corruption would be shown to the public. So I watched that story closely.

And when it came time for the “hard evidence”, every bit of it was “my girlfriends cousin told me that Paxton said all kinds of stuff to her, but no she doesn’t want to talk about it herself” and “my brother knows a contractor who said Paxton asked a buddy of his for a kickback to get the job, but no they don’t want to talk about it themselves.”

It was the most disgusting farce of school kid fake stories I’ve ever listened to. That made me understand what a threat Paxton is to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:21 AM (ZPDpH)

331 Don Lemon: “I could be President."

[Community Note: Don Lemon cannot be President.]

Posted by: Delurker at March 31, 2026 09:22 AM (gtcuf)

332 “I wake up every day black. That’s something I have to deal with… I have to fight institutionalized racism on a day-to-day basis.”

Nobody knows the trouble I seen,
Nobody knows my sorrow....

Posted by: Pearll Warren at March 31, 2026 09:23 AM (oftw2)

333 Sounds like the defense is running scared.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2026 09:15 AM (9E5Ho)

No doubt they're all pretty sure he's guilty.

Maybe they're trying to get him off, maybe they're just trying to limit the opportunities for appeal. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, or lawyers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

334 >>And then yesterday at the Post Office, I had a total stranger who moved here from NYC three years ago explain to me how he is uncomfortable with the deeply hidden racism in the State, that isn't visible unless one is trained on where to see it.

Heh, OK, buddy.
I remember first experiencing real New Yorkers in college, and they were so very sure "the City" was the best place on earth and could not hold back on constantly telling you why. A lot of times it was paired with some sneer about where I came from.

My policy was to agree with them enthusiastically. Yes! The City sounds truly superior in every way, and you should get back there at your earliest opportunity!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2026 09:23 AM (Suwql)

335 332 “I wake up every day black. That’s something I have to deal with… I have to fight institutionalized racism on a day-to-day basis.”

Nobody knows the trouble I seen,
Nobody knows my sorrow....
--------------
A man of constant sorrows.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 09:23 AM (n17eQ)

336 @280
.....
Emirhan Arslan
Ali Alkhaleel
Adeel Piracha"

Iraq? Iran? Egypt? Syria? Germany? France?

Pittsburgh. Steel City.
Posted by: man

Another example of right-wing violence!
-ADL

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2026 09:23 AM (Dv3i1)

337 I am astonished by how consistently accurate our and Israel's strikes have been. As far as I know, we have not had a significant miss on any of these 10K+ strikes. Even now that we are using bombs with guidance packages rather than missiles. By their nature, bombs have to be thrown long and steered down to their target. Losing laser lock or a guidance failure used to be, if not common, frequent.

Our quality control must be fantastic.

Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 31, 2026 09:23 AM (4NO2D)

338 Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, multiple sources briefed on the discussions told CBS News.

Senior military commanders have submitted specific requests aimed at preparing for such an option as President Trump weighs moves in the U.S.-Israel-led conflict with Iran, the sources said.

.. this feels like a Gulf War battleship 'feint'

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

339
It was the most disgusting farce of school kid fake stories I’ve ever listened to. That made me understand what a threat Paxton is to them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:21 AM (ZPDpH)

The impeachment trial was a joke. He was banned from saying ANYTHING to the media all while Karl f*cking Rove was able to pen op ed after op ed against him.

Then, when they started the trial and the FBI was asked over and over if they had any evidence and they continually answered 'no,' you KNEW it was a farce.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 31, 2026 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

340 “Empty your pockets and strip your clothes off for the cotton my ancestors picked”

Retardation Level: R-10

Posted by: Delurker at March 31, 2026 09:24 AM (gtcuf)

341 NEW: Don Lemon says he might run for president, but complains that the rules are different for him because he’s black.

Jussie Smollet would be a authentic V.P. on the ticket.

Where can I embezzle some gubmnt money to get this started?

Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 09:24 AM (Y8DZL)

342 Pearl Warren...

That person is more cracked than Humpty Dumpty after his great fall.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:25 AM (2GVsD)

343
It's also important to consider the office. I recall Cornyn being a decent AG. It was only after he became a Senator that he started deciding that "his duty to the communists of America" took precedence over his duty to Texas.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)
******
I haven't made up my mind yet for the runoff
I voted for Mayes Middleton in the first primary.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 31, 2026 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

344 A man of constant sorrows.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 31, 2026 09:23 AM (n17eQ)

Hot DAMN! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!

Posted by: Young Southern Gentleman #3 at March 31, 2026 09:26 AM (TbWk/)

345 One would think that after he was found to have banged over 120 women around the world, all while professing his 'love' to his wife at the time, and his desire for Ambien and champaign, he would know we all know just what kind of f*cked off human he is.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That's like people who don't understand how millionaires keep pursing more money. "If I had 10 million, I'd be happy and retire!" That's one of the reasons many people aren't millionaires...they aren't driven towards it.

Tiger (and Magic Johnson) rack up extreme body counts because it's an internal drive normal people can't understand.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 31, 2026 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

346 >>>Spain can fuck off.

And now Italy, too, apparently.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 31, 2026 09:26 AM (Y1sOo)

347 340 “Empty your pockets and strip your clothes off for the cotton my ancestors picked”

I'm a victim of circumstance!

Posted by: Curly Howard at March 31, 2026 09:27 AM (oftw2)

348 Is the Muslim Supporting Media still trying to track and correlate pizza orders to the Five-Sided Puzzle Palace?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:27 AM (2GVsD)

349 340 “Empty your pockets and strip your clothes off for the cotton my ancestors picked”

Retardation Level: R-10

Posted by: Delurker at March 31, 2026 09:24 AM (gtcuf

Every white guy who wants to be mercilessly spanked is going to be messaging this chick.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 31, 2026 09:27 AM (Sco7b)

350 347 340 “Empty your pockets and strip your clothes off for the cotton my ancestors picked”

Your ancestors in China ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:27 AM (kamC8)

351 It's also important to consider the office. I recall Cornyn being a decent AG. It was only after he became a Senator that he started deciding that "his duty to the communists of America" took precedence over his duty to Texas.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
---

He was only AG for two years. Didn't have much time to show himself.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 09:27 AM (ZwdAr)

352 Tiger (and Magic Johnson) rack up extreme body counts because ~~it's an internal drive normal people can't understand~~ women let them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

353 My policy was to agree with them enthusiastically. Yes! The City sounds truly superior in every way, and you should get back there at your earliest opportunity!
Posted by: Lizzy

"You've seen one crowded polluted stinking town..."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 09:28 AM (OPGS/)

354 346 >>>Spain can fuck off.

And now Italy, too, apparently.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 31, 2026 09:26 AM (Y1sOo)

Vaffanculo!

Posted by: Making the accompanying hand under chin gesture at March 31, 2026 09:28 AM (TbWk/)

355 Saw the video of Trump's proposed Presidential Library. Heh, it's Trumpian.

Posted by: WisRich at March 31, 2026 09:29 AM (G0vdT)

356 That is incorrect. You can vote in the Republican runoff if you did not vote in the Democrat primary. You don't have to have voted in the Republican primary.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

Thanks, I missed that wrinkle. But past results show that those who didn’t vote in the first round are very unlikely to vote in the second; and since the Democrat primary was hotly contested with a heavy (for them) turnout, there won’t be crossover voting.

It’s a fun example to watch. Cornyn has a lot of institutional support, but zero grass roots support. Paxton is hated by all the institutions, but the grass roots voters are devoted to him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (ZPDpH)

357 Nood

Nood!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

358 355 Saw the video of Trump's proposed Presidential Library. Heh, it's Trumpian.

Posted by: WisRich at March 31 ?2026 09:29 AM (G0vdT)

, Didn't look like Obama's grey prison

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (kamC8)

359 >> NEW: Don Lemon says he might run for president, but complains that the rules are different for him because he’s black.

Maybe he should check in with Obama?

That shtick won't fly after Obama was elected twice.
Seriously, dude, it's 2026.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2026 09:30 AM (Suwql)

360
You might think a Lemon Smollett sounds like a delightful dessert but it would probably be burnt and taste like shit.

Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2026 09:31 AM (Y8DZL)

361 Noodalation.

Posted by: Noodster at March 31, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

362 Gaylord's architect for that building is a brutalist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2026 09:32 AM (2GVsD)

363 Tiger (and Magic Johnson) rack up extreme body counts because ~~it's an internal drive normal people can't understand~~ women let them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2026 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

Exactly. Plenty of women out there who will line up around the block to bang a guy who's rich and famous. It's not like they were forcibly ravaging village maidens like Genghis Khan.

Posted by: Hypergamy is real and not spectacular at March 31, 2026 09:33 AM (TbWk/)

364 Tiger (and Magic Johnson) rack up extreme body counts because it's an internal drive normal people can't understand.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 31, 2026 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

I can say with certainty that if I was rich and famous and good looking women were throwing themselves at me, I most certainly would resist the temptation.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 09:33 AM (ZPDpH)

365
And It's TRANSGENDER INVISIBILITY DAY.
Posted by: redridinghood

Hey, what is this horseshit?

I thought that we had genocided them out of existence!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 09:39 AM (xG4kz)

366 Judge Reassigns Elon Musk Cases After Accusations Of Bias

Attorneys representing Musk recently filed a motion for recusal or reassignment, pointing to how McCormick on LinkedIn had clicked that she supported a post that celebrated a 2026 ruling against Musk in California. The post, from a jury consultant, said “sorry, Elon,” and congratulated the legal firms that represented the plaintiff in the case as “standing up for the little guy against the richest man in the world.”

The judge denied she is biased, but blamed the media attention the allegations have drawn for prompting her to reassign the cases...

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:43 AM (RHGPo)

367 Is there a small silver lining watching the just stop oil people understanding what happens if you do indeed just stop oil.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:44 AM (RHGPo)

368 Not only will Iranians die of thirst because of the destruction of the heavy water plant, they will die of hunger from the destruction of yellowcake

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:47 AM (RHGPo)

369 CNN alumnus Chris Cillizza said former Vice President Kamala Harris is likely mounting another White House run, and he explained how that would be ‘very bad’ news for Democrats.

“I think this is a bad thing for the Democratic Party that she appears to be moving closer to running,” he proclaimed. “I think that she, based on the polling, would start the race as the front-runner.”

He added, “Notice I focused on ‘start the race as the front-runner.’”

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

370 Ice core records from Antarctica document continuous variations in atmospheric greenhouse gases over the past 800,000 years, delineating the glacial–interglacial cycles that characterize the late Pleistocene epoch. Studies of blue ice areas have extended these records back to 2 million years (Myr). The evolution of atmospheric greenhouse gases before this time thus remains uncertain. Here we use discontinuous ice core snapshots spanning 3.1–0.5 Myr ago (Ma) to show no marked change in mean methane (CH4) and a small decline of about 20 ppm in carbon dioxide (CO2) between 2.9 Ma and 1.2 Ma, followed by stable concentrations (±10 ppm) across the mid-Pleistocene Transition. Our findings are based on the shallow ice cores drilled in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area (BIA), Antarctica. The records are complicated by postdepositional processes and probably represent averages over glacial cycles weighted by climate-dependent differences in accumulation rates (which we assume to be constant). Samples aged 2.8–3.1 Myr, affected by respiration and corrected using stable carbon isotopes in CO2 (δ13C), yield mean atmospheric CO2 levels indistinguishable from the early Pleistocene (250 ± 1

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2026 10:04 AM (RHGPo)

Daily Tech News 31 March 2026

Top Story

Bluesky announced a new AI tool named Attie to help inmates create their own social feeds. It did not go well. (Tech Crunch)

In three days Attie has accumulated 1500 followers - and been blocked by 125,000 users, which is to say all of them.

That's more blocks than even the ICE account, suggesting that while the inmates are clinically insane they are not entirely stupid.

Tech News

Life with AI is frying human brains. (France24)

It's like managing a hundred toddlers that never sleep.
Restoring old photos with AI is a fundamentally broken concept. (Petapixel)

It works for movies, because movies have massive amounts of redundant information - most of each frame is identical to the previous, with just some elements shifted.

With photos all you have is the photo.
Or not even that: Sony has shut down almost its entire memory card business. (Petapixel)

Only a few models survived the mass cancellations which hit capacities from a lowly 64GB to a hefty 2TB. AI taketh away, and AI taketh away some more.
The latest Windows 11 update isn't. (Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft has pulled the update entirely because it didn't work. At all.
AMD's Zen 6 server CPUs have shown up in test results. (Tom's Hardware)

These are engineering samples and probably not running even close to full speed, but they are already competitive with Zen 5.

Interesting point: The high-end models have 24 or 32 cores per chip (and up to 8 chips on the CPU). That's expected for server Zen 6c models (AMD's efficiency cores), but if they're not efficiency cores that's a big surprise.
You can get a 2TB Crucial P310 for $215 on Amazon. (WCCFTech)

Yay.

I ordered two of these on sale for around $150 each on New Year's Eve.

Amazon lost them.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No beans.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 Poit!

G'morning Pixy, and Horde. Thunder, lightning, and a lot of rain to start my day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:01 AM (O7YUW)

2 Morning Techsters. Hello Pixy.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 31, 2026 04:02 AM (xAJnx)

3 "Amazon lost them."

More likely, Amazon oversold them and lied to you about them being lost. I assume they refunded you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:04 AM (O7YUW)

4 Amazon lost them.
-----
You left out the scare quotes around "lost".

Posted by: buddhaha at March 31, 2026 04:14 AM (rJ+qD)

5 Mornin'

Got my MacBook Sky yesterday. It will take a bit to get used to it. I like it but MacOS isn't Linux Mint or Windows. It's different. The laptop itself is very nice. Lightweight, pretty fast, fairly easy to set up though I'm still doing that, and runs quiet. Safari is different. I'll figure it out. I went to The Masters website and tried to save one of the pictures there. One of the holes. It saved the whole page and I just want the image. Should be a way in Safari to just save the image. I've done it in other browsers (Edge, Google, Brave, etc).

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 04:17 AM (sAmhv)

6 w00t

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 04:17 AM (fNISR)

7 The speakers on this laptop are not bad. Listening to Tom Petty that Pixy kindly embedded above.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 04:19 AM (sAmhv)

8 "You can get a 2TB Crucial P310 for $215 on Amazon. "

Apparently not that good. I'm seeing $231.95 USD on amazon.com, after I entered a U.S. zip code, but I'm still browsing from Canada, so who knows what their price algorithm is doing to that.

Checking amazon.ca: Supposedly 5 featured offers starting at $467.22, but it's also saying "no featured offers available" meaning they don't really have any.

The 4 TB option is $695.00 CAD.

Oh HELL no.

Also: Bite me, Micron.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:20 AM (O7YUW)

9 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 04:25 AM (iMotb)

10 3 "Amazon lost them."

More likely, Amazon oversold them and lied to you about them being lost. I assume they refunded you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I did get a refund, no questions asked.

And I actually managed to pick up a couple of Team-brand drives to replace them, at a lower cost per gigabyte and TLC rather than the QLC used in this model, so I'm not too put out by it.

Those drives have doubled in price in the last month, so not a minute too soon either.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 31, 2026 04:27 AM (BLOW1)

11 @10/Pixy Misa:

I suspect we'll find out the AI demand for memory isn't nearly what is claimed, and that the big three were colluding on price increases. Again.

Something, something, cartel, RICO...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

12 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

13 Mornin' Skip.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:32 AM (O7YUW)

14 I always liked that video

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

15 at the France24 site:

(because I rejected cookies and stuff)

Because of your choice:
• Articles will no longer be able to display external content such as YouTube videos, posts from X (Twitter) and Instagram pictures.
• Cookies not linked to your personal data will be created to allow the website to run.
• Lower quality ads may be displayed.

ok ...

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 04:42 AM (fNISR)

16 Restoring old photos with AI is a fundamentally broken concept. (Petapixel)

Thanks. Good read.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 04:59 AM (fNISR)

17 So yesterday morning I had mentioned my dissatisfaction with our new Kwikset smart door lock.

Yesterday afternoon Kwikset reached out to me, and we spent about 20 minutes on the phone discussing the ongoing issues with the lock.
Very nice young lady, intelligent and knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the lock, both mechanically and smart feature sides.

After going over all the what-nots and stuff, she unasked told me that first they were sending me a complete new unit.

Upon receipt and install, if the issues persist, the whole thing jumps to the next level of tech support to see if there are additional factors causing the problem.

So.....things are happening.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:04 AM (iMotb)

18 17 So yesterday morning I had mentioned my dissatisfaction with our new Kwikset smart door lock.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:04 AM (iMotb)

And in the meantime, you've been ... lockless?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:11 AM (fNISR)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 31, 2026 05:12 AM (tljrc)

20 Bluesky announced a new AI tool named Attie to help inmates create their own social feeds. It did not go well. (Tech Crunch)

from the article:

Bluesky ... userbase — now sitting at 43 million accounts

Q: How many bots?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:14 AM (fNISR)

21 "Should be a way in Safari to just save the image."

Or just install a different browser; almost all of them can be installed on a Mac.

Safari, IMO, isn't worth the effort to work around. I run Chrome on my work Mac.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 31, 2026 05:16 AM (HJSO3)

22 "And in the meantime, you've been ... lockless?"

No, no.

Basic issue is unusually short battery life.
But the unit has full physical key operability as well.
And all our key fobs have a physical key on them as well.

So we are never without an operable lock.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:18 AM (iMotb)

23 the TechCrunch article:

"Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J. D. Vance"

The author of the article appears to be hyperventilating throughout.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:19 AM (fNISR)

24 22 "And in the meantime, you've been ... lockless?"

No, no.

Basic issue is unusually short battery life.
But the unit has full physical key operability as well.
And all our key fobs have a physical key on them as well.

So we are never without an operable lock.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:18 AM (iMotb)

yay

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:19 AM (fNISR)

25 "I like it but MacOS isn't Linux Mint or Windows."

The MacOS weasels haven't quite figured out how to display windows across multiple monitors in a sane fashion. If you don't have multiple monitors, you won't care about this.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 31, 2026 05:22 AM (HJSO3)

26 21: Firefox is what I use with Linux. Might try that on the Mac. Good to know Chrome is an option

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 05:24 AM (sAmhv)

27 @5

>>Got my MacBook Sky yesterday.

Command + space bar is your friend and should become the main way you open apps or try to find things.

Command + tab will bring up all open apps and let you cycle through them. Command + q closes them.

Install home brew, it's a Mac terminal package manager that will allow you to install software via the terminal.

Install kitty or ghosty, these are terminals and are superior to the built in Mac terminal.

Install Chrome or Brave web browsers, install vim extension in either of them. This will allow you to navigate the web browser with keyboard commands.

I would recommend installing aerospace.

At the end of the day, you should be able to drive your Mac via the keyboard and using the mouse as little as possible.

This will make using your computer so much more productively .

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2026 05:28 AM (XV/Pl)

28 25 "I like it but MacOS isn't Linux Mint or Windows."

The MacOS weasels haven't quite figured out how to display windows across multiple monitors in a sane fashion. If you don't have multiple monitors, you won't care about this.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 31, 2026 05:22 AM (HJSO3)

weasels?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2026 05:29 AM (fNISR)

29 In other tech annoyances, GoComics has (apparently sometime between yesterday and today) implemented a new security layer to protect themselves from attacks. They've outsourced this to some outfit called 'bunny.net' that requires the running of WebAssembly in my browser.

Thing is, I'd long ago turned off WebAssembly in my browser (FireFox) in order to protect myself from buffer overflow attacks that could break out of WebAssembly's sandbox.

End result: I'm not reading three comics at GoComics anymore as of this morning. Oh well.

I did dash off a note to them explaining things, and that I didn't expect them to revert their changes just due to me, but I at least wanted to let them know that not everyone out there is willing to let WebAssembly run, and why.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:33 AM (O7YUW)

30 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 31, 2026 05:35 AM (2Ez/1)

31 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (bQ4nt)

32 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (iMotb)

33 27: Thanks! I saved it and will mess with it later. I'll add either Brave or Firefox later also. Maybe Chrome.

Going to bed soon. Even on my days off, I stay up all night.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

34 Ohhh, touch button lock

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 05:36 AM (Ia/+0)

35 Good morning, everyone! I have survived Monday and feel able to face the week.

Went to the gym yesterday. I attempted half an hour on the exercise bike only to have my body get to the ten minute mark and say "We're done."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:39 AM (OPGS/)

36 End result: I'm not reading three comics at GoComics anymore as of this morning. Oh well.

G&R, I saw that myself this morning and it was only for one comic. Once I hit refresh, the problem went away but I'll keep an eye on things.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:41 AM (OPGS/)

37 @28/m: weasels?

Beware the Stoat Army and its Weas-4 mafia.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

38 34: it is useful.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 05:43 AM (sAmhv)

39 @36/NR Pax: "G&R, I saw that myself this morning and it was only for one comic. Once I hit refresh, the problem went away but I'll keep an eye on things."

It's not going away for me on refresh, but I completely neutered WebAssembly in FireFox's about:config screen.

Now if Firefox had a per-site whitelist where I would allow web-assembly to run, then maybe I'd change my stance. Maybe.

I still don't like the idea of running binary blob's of executable code handed to me by a website. Seems like a good way to get Ransomware attacked at some point by the forces of darkness.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

40 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 31, 2026 05:45 AM (AN2gy)

41 I still don't like the idea of running binary blob's of executable code handed to me by a website. Seems like a good way to get Ransomware attacked at some point by the forces of darkness.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Good point. I'll have to see if I can find that in Brave's settings.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:46 AM (OPGS/)

42 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ reporting stations across the system and beyond! It's Tiu's Day on Earth once again. Ho-hum.

Got all my chores done yesterday, including a virtual meeting with a home loan lender in Kansas. I am pre-approved for more money than I would ever borrow. Tires for the Buick are slated for Wed. And in a second hard look at my state tax forms, I realized I was not deducting my SS and some other things. I'll sit down with the project today. Maybe I owe a lot less than I thought.

Rain is forecast off and on this week, so I need to go work out this morning. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 05:48 AM (wzUl9)

43 Rain is forecast off and on this week, so I need to go work out this morning. How about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, I finally heard from my tax dude and I'm waiting for the parts that need my signature. Not very happy with waiting this long for things to be finished since I submitted my paperwork late February.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 05:53 AM (OPGS/)

44 @42/Wolfus:

G'morning! Here's hoping you don't take a massive hit on the taxes when the calculations are revisited.

We're getting tons of rain today, it'll be a wet wet drive in the school bus. Thankfully I remembered to put up ALL the windows at the end of the drive yesterday when it was so sunny and beautiful outside. (Doesn't mean I won't find leaks happening into the driver's section, they don't build these things well in terms of waterproofing, apparently.)

Now, what news of the furry thugs?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

45 G'morning! Here's hoping you don't take a massive hit on the taxes when the calculations are revisited.

We're getting tons of rain today, it'll be a wet wet drive in the school bus. Thankfully I remembered to put up ALL the windows at the end of the drive yesterday when it was so sunny and beautiful outside. (Doesn't mean I won't find leaks happening into the driver's section, they don't build these things well in terms of waterproofing, apparently.)

Now, what news of the furry thugs?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026

***
Morning to you, G & R,

I've never driven a school bus except in my imagination. In a mystery novel I plan to self-publish, the narrator, a 27-year-old woman who knows how to drive a stick, is forced to drive a school bus in the snow along a twisting mountain road as darkness falls, to save her boss's life. I just tried to imagine the noise and vibration, the feel of the bus's long body, etc. My pre-readers have told me it was exciting, which was what I was hoping for!

Furballs are well -- and hungry! Dagny is right here with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

46 As for the taxes, I looked back at the last three years of state returns. I claimed my SS deduction then. The deduction used to be right there on the main form, like on the Fed 1040. Now, like that one, you have a "Schedule E" where you enter it and any others. I almost missed it and was thinking I had a *big* payment to make -- enough so that I should have sent estimated payments to the state last year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

47 I have actually driven a school bus. No kids, just a variety of military folks as I was at a Joint Command. Drove a bus a few times when i was deployed or had some special event and was told I'm driving the bus. I was a comms guy. A low ranking enlisted guy at a top heavy unit. No big deal. I didn't wreck and no complaints.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 06:06 AM (sAmhv)

48 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 06:08 AM (Ia/+0)

49 Good morning morons

Watching the Bill O'Reilly documentary on San Francisco. Right now Willie Brown is explaining how "generous" San Francisco is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:08 AM (RIvkX)

50 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: No musical fruit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2026 06:13 AM (DwICI)

51 @45/Wolfus:

Glad the furry thugs are well, and of course they're hungry! ;-)

As to the School Bus driving: One of the biggest problems when driving a bus is the fact that when making a left turn, you have to turn WIDE so you don't impinge on the opposite lane for the pair of lanes you're turning into (ie, don't go over the other guy's stop line.) And yet, that's a lot easier than making a right.

Right turns are a pain in the ass in a school bus, mostly because the bus hangs out an additional distance behind the back wheels, and those wheels are the pivot point in a turn.

You must drive straight out into the intersection until the edge of the curb is just past the middle of your service door, and then begin your turn. If you do it right, and while watching your lower mirror on the right, your back right wheels will JUST miss the curb and not go up over it.

You're also trying to balance your front left of the bus not touching the car at his stop line in front of you to the left, as well as making sure your back left of your bus doesn't swing out and hit a car as you turn.

Oh, and did I mention making sure bicyclists aren't coming up on your right side while turning right?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:15 AM (O7YUW)

52 sigh Really, Crunchyroll?! ANOTHER data breach? What kind of smooth brained, DEI hired, maliciously ignorant, second rate Indian tech school graduates do you have running things?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:16 AM (OPGS/)

53 SF chocolate company recalls products for being spiked with Viagra ingredients
By Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times
March 30, 2026

The San Francisco Bay Area's Gear Isle recalled the products after they were found to contain undeclared prescription drug ingredients used to treat erectile dysfunction, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week. The products, sold online across the U.S., were found to have sildenafil and tadalafil. The ingredients could cause a "life-threatening" drop in blood pressure when mixed with nitrates found in prescription drugs, according to the FDA.

The two recalled products are Gold Lion Aphrodisiac Chocolate Male Enhancement Sachet and ilum Sex Chocolate Male Sexual Enhancement Booster. The FDA initially issued a warning in February advising consumers not to purchase the second item after confirming the product contained tadalafil.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:16 AM (RIvkX)

54 (continued from 51)

So yeah, you're trying to keep track of all of that in about three seconds. If that helps your future writings if it involves a school bus, fantastic. That's why I wrote all of that to you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

55 @52/NR Pax: "sigh Really, Crunchyroll?! ANOTHER data breach? What kind of smooth brained, DEI hired, maliciously ignorant, second rate Indian tech school graduates do you have running things?"

We are coding here beside ourselves! {/awful Indian accent}

Posted by: "Bob" in tech support at March 31, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)

56 We are coding here beside ourselves! {/awful Indian accent}
Posted by: "Bob" in tech support

ugh. Did I mention the AI support that reaches out to you with support issues? Between all that and the fact they allow the captions to be modified so "modern audiences" don't get their feelings hurt, I'm struggling to understand why we keep supporting them.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:23 AM (OPGS/)

57 Daniel Greenfield saw my comment yesterday...

SF DEI Boss Appointed To Redistribute Wealth to Black Community, Redistributed Wealth to Her Boyfriend
Led SF's response to the drug overdose death of George Floyd
March 31, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:23 AM (RIvkX)

58 @52/NR Pax (again): And to this day, every time I read the phrase, "Please do the needfully", my eye starts twitching. I was forced to correspond with Indian coders and support staff at one point in my career. It was terrible. Their culture has a baked-in attempt to shift responsibility to ANYONE else other than the person you're speaking with or writing back and forth with. That, and I swear they're not permitted to show any initiative themselves, lest responsibility somehow fall upon their shoulders.

Maddening. Absolutely maddening.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

59 >>> The two recalled products are Gold Lion Aphrodisiac Chocolate Male Enhancement Sachet and ilum Sex Chocolate Male Sexual Enhancement Booster.

For some reason viagra works as an off schedule drug for lowering blood pressure, yet its function is to cause a spike in blood pressure (of a sort).

Rebound reaction?

Posted by: fluffy at March 31, 2026 06:25 AM (AN2gy)

60 So yeah, you're trying to keep track of all of that in about three seconds. If that helps your future writings if it involves a school bus, fantastic. That's why I wrote all of that to you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026

***
My heroine/narrator does make two left turns, so I might look at that scene and see if I need to mention something about turning wide. Thanks!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

61 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

62 @60/Wolfus: You're welcome. Left, you just head out into the intersection so you're well past the left edge of the stop line for the driver on your left, and then you go hard-left on your steering wheel, and correct once you're into the lane.

Oh, and in a double-left turn lane, the bus and other large/long vehicles ALWAYS take the right-most of the left-turn lanes. (Otherwise the swing of the back end would hit a vehicle in that right-most left-hand turn lane during the turn and we don't want that.) Little vehicles take the inner/left-most turn lane.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

63 G'morning NaCly Dog! I'm just packing up to go drive.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:34 AM (O7YUW)

64 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Good description. Mirrors are your friend. Head is moving back and forth. Once you have physical reference points for sound turns, you are less stressed. Each bus turns a bit different.

Any school bus driver is only as good as their next turn. Too much focus is bad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:40 AM (u82oZ)

65 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Safe travels and happy kids.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:42 AM (u82oZ)

66 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:16 AM (RIvkX)

I have said before, I think Chinese buyers of rhino horn and similar should all switch en masse to fake rhino with real erectile dysfunction drugs. Their culture has shown a complete absence of compunction against fraud, and that would save both the rhinos and the erections. As long as none of their customers tested for rhino DNA (and why would they), it would be a win/win!

Posted by: SciVo at March 31, 2026 06:46 AM (Sy6m/)

67 SciVo

I like this plan. Think of all the valuable wild-life saved.
Elderly men with viagra do not constitute wild-life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 31, 2026 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

68 I have said before, I think Chinese buyers of rhino horn and similar should all switch en masse to fake rhino with real erectile dysfunction drugs.

A few years ago, a friend sent me an article about a man who had actually created fake rhino horn and wanted to flood the market with it. An animal rights activist complained about it because it was wrong to encourage the trade.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:53 AM (OPGS/)

69 You youngsters may remember they used to sell a chocolate laxative product called Ayds. Good times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

70 @64/NaCly Dog: "Too much focus is bad."

Spot on. Information overload is an absolute bitch. I experienced that many times during my first few weeks/months of driving.

"Safe travels and happy kids."

Thank you, and from your mouth to God's ear. Driving in rain today. *looks at clock* Time to skedaddle.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

71 69 You youngsters may remember they used to sell a chocolate laxative product called Ayds.

Oh yes. The AYDS Diet Plan. At least both helped with weight loss.

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 06:57 AM (OPGS/)

72 Good morning. I wish we'd get some of that rain Wolfus and Skip wrote about. It's been very dry here and not much relief in the forecast. Be well all.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 31, 2026 06:59 AM (S+2Xo)

73 Either the activist doesn't understand economics, or undercutting the poachers and driving them out of business would threaten his own income raising awareness of the issue. Safe, healthy rhinos probably don't open wallets the same way.

Posted by: SciVo at March 31, 2026 06:59 AM (Sy6m/)

74 Either the activist doesn't understand economics, or undercutting the poachers and driving them out of business would threaten his own income

I think it's the same mindset when women are encouraged to learn how to shoot for self defense and some woman replies "TEACH BOYS TO NOT RAPE!" as if that was the better solution.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:03 AM (OPGS/)

75 Or buy authentic RINO horn. Triple win

Posted by: Dark L at March 31, 2026 07:05 AM (KAi1n)

76 *peeks in*
Reads about horny rhinos driving school buses with AIDS.
*quietly closes door*

Posted by: Maybe later at March 31, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)

77 Or buy authentic RINO horn. Triple win
Posted by: Dark L at March 31, 2026 07:05 AM (KAi1n)
----
What about human horn?

Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Persei VIII at March 31, 2026 07:07 AM (ESVrU)

78 Ambassador Mike Waltz

@USAmbUN
Good riddance!

The fact that he doesn’t mention — much less show any contrition for — UNRWA‘s involvement in October 7, nor their infiltration by Hamas, is a perfect example of how UN officials dodge accountability through moral grandstanding.
Quote

Philippe Lazzarini
@UNLazzarini

Mar 22
In my final op-ed as I end my tenure as Commissioner-General, I warn about relentless efforts to destroy UNRWA, amid growing disregard for international law.
4:20 AM · Mar 30, 2026
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So long to a real piece of sh*t.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2026 07:08 AM (RIvkX)

79

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 31, 2026 07:09 AM (DDJSl)

80 amid growing disregard for international law

Maybe you should call the international police. Oh wait...that's the United States.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 31, 2026 07:10 AM (OPGS/)

81 Willie Brown once vetoed an SF ordinance saying he had constitutional concerns about it (that's how far left it was). Veto overridden. I got it declared unconstitutional. :->

Posted by: Dark L at March 31, 2026 07:11 AM (KAi1n)

82 Where is this "international law" written down?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 31, 2026 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

83 JJ IS UP WITH THE NEWS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 07:16 AM (YE+xR)

84 Wolfus: You're welcome. Left, you just head out into the intersection so you're well past the left edge of the stop line for the driver on your left, and then you go hard-left on your steering wheel, and correct once you're into the lane.

Oh, and in a double-left turn lane, the bus and other large/long vehicles ALWAYS take the right-most of the left-turn lanes. (Otherwise the swing of the back end would hit a vehicle in that right-most left-hand turn lane during the turn and we don't want that.) Little vehicles take the inner/left-most turn lane.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026

***
Since she is not driving in traffic, or at least turning in it, your rules may not apply to the scene. She does make a turn from a county highway onto a US route that fortunately does not have much traffic, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

85 You have election four hour. You go now!

Posted by: Chinese wives from the future at March 31, 2026 07:21 AM (eOFY+)

86 That's more blocks than even the ICE account, suggesting that while the inmates are clinically insane they are not entirely stupid.

Marxists *hate* AI. Like, rabidly, at The Verge levels of crazy.

They think it will eliminate all of the jobs where they're currently creating ugly fat women for video games and the like. And they aren't wrong.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 31, 2026 07:44 AM (sabhw)

87 The latest Windows 11 update isn't. (Tom's Hardware)
Microsoft has pulled the update entirely because it didn't work. At all.

Anyone else remember the days when you could buy software - like an OS - and you installed it... then you forgot about it unless you had to reinstall (like a new computer)? There were no updates for security they failed to build in? When they actually tested stuff before it went out the door? When you owned the software?

Posted by: GWB at March 31, 2026 08:55 AM (AtYqS)

88 @87/GWB: I remember those days, though they weren't as great as you remember. Software companies (including those who made operating systems) would simply not talk about the major vulnerabilities in public, and there wasn't the absolute pantsing you could give a company on the Internet that there is now if you did discover one. You could also call a company (even a large one) and talk to an actual person who would be willing to take in your bug report. (It was a bit of a black hole after that, but you hoped your bug report got to an actual development team.)

Not always though, smaller companies behind single products could be very communicative with regards to bugs, and that was an absolute joy to deal with.

Anyway, back to the large OS's: When the next version came out, it was assumed enough people would buy it and some would upgrade, that vulnerabilities that were addressed quietly between the versions would be enough.

Viruses tended to spread on boot sectors of diskettes at that time as well, which meant the speed of the infection was a LOT slower and not necessarily successful for the virus. Sure, some spread on BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems) but that was rare.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 10:00 AM (O7YUW)

89 Right, time to catch up with new posts.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 10:00 AM (O7YUW)

Monday Over Night Open Thread (3/30/26)

["Cold Water" 24"x 12" acrylic. Mis. Hum. 12/25]

*****

The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
"We believe our policies are consistent with the law and reflect our commitment to fairness, opportunity, and building the strongest possible teams," NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller

I normally don't comment on the Quotes of The Day. Between this Miller guy and his gutless, spineless, testicle free boss Roger Goodell I can't stand the NFL and it can't go broke fast enough. I grew up close to Green Bay and have always been a Packers fan.

But since 2020 I've given up on the league. The kneelers, the "Hands up" bullshit, politics entered the game. So I now spend my Sunday afternoons doing anything but watching football.

Quote II
“Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran,” Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles

With allies like this who needs friends? What our open borders types never want to discuss out loud is: What happens when Europe becomes a Caliphate and possesses nuclear weapons. Looking at another gutless, spineless, testicle free boi named ~~Keir~~ Karen Starmer.

Quote III
‘I was so small, I was just a walking boob throughout the whole of school. I definitely looked super awkward because I had nothing on me apart from boobs.’ Summer Robert

*****

I probably should consult with The Fabulous before I blurt out some figure that hasn't been agreed to. Because this wouldn't be cheap.

*****

So what else is Uncle Sam up to besides blowing the bejeebers out of the Iranians? Lunar Gateway dead as NASA announces major changes to its future space station, lunar, and Mars plans

apitalism in space As part of the reshaping of NASA being pushed by NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, the agency today announced major changes to its future programs in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, and in exploring Mars. Video of these changes can be viewed here and here.
The Moon
NASA will now focus all work in its lunar program on getting to the surface of the Moon. Lunar Gateway is “paused,” though the language of NASA’s press release suggests more strongly that it is dead, with the agency already trying to figure out ways to “repurpose” its already built components. NASA will instead ask for proposals from private industry and its international Artemis partners to ramp up as soon as possible a phased program to establish the infrastructure on the Moon needed for the lunar base. This new focus begins with “up to 30 robotic landings in three years, starting in 2027,” and at least two manned landings per year beginning in 2028.
The graph below, presented during today’s announcement, shows the basic plan for the next few Artemis missions, which will act as the manned foundation for this entire surface-focused program. The overall program will build out the lunar base in three phases, first to test some basic infrastructure using these smaller lunar landers, second to begin establishing the base’s foundational components with intermittent manned missions, and third to begin long-term human occupancy.

*****

No Kings! = No MILFS!

*****

It seems like this poor girl can't get an even break from the scolds and cuck bois.

In a town where most celebrities can’t be bothered to acknowledge the military unless it’s a Veterans Day photo op with a sepia filter, one Hollywood star just did something that shouldn’t be remarkable — but absolutely is.
Sydney Sweeney, the actress best known for stealing scenes in Euphoria and The White Lotus, took to her Instagram Stories to share a photo of her brother and deliver a message so simple it apparently short-circuited half the internet.
“Receiving calls from my bro always make me happy when he’s deployed,” Sweeney wrote.
And then she committed the unforgivable sin of being publicly grateful to the United States Armed Forces.
“Thinking of all our boys and girls overseas and sending my love! Thank you for your service ”

*****

The "political party" that spouts, "Trust the science" is beyond redemption.

*****

Did you wonder what the TSA folks did while off duty? It really is amazing what 2 artificial knees can do!

*****

The ONT Musical Interlude & RIP John Dee Graham Emporium

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Hmmm....... I wonder how much booze and/or meth was involved? Genius Award Winners!

2 hospitalized after altercation involving ax, gun, state police say

*****

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Crime Prevention.

Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. Crafted with peace, love and understanding. Or so says Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, S.C. in their yearly invoice. Care and apathy are extra.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

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1 Anyone?

Posted by: Rex B at March 30, 2026 10:00 PM (DqQS/)

2 First

Posted by: Rex B at March 30, 2026 10:01 PM (DqQS/)

3 Hi

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at March 30, 2026 10:01 PM (n7rxJ)

4 Not first and proud of it!

Hiya, folks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - temporarily permanent at March 30, 2026 10:02 PM (jrd4M)

5 Very nice Mis Hum. Love the colors.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 30, 2026 10:02 PM (y171U)

6 Good evening morons y gracias mh

Love your painting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 10:02 PM (RIvkX)

7 Nice painting, MisHum. How many bodies did you bury in it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

8 I'm a fan of space exploration, but NASA is borked.

50/50 on whether the "moon shot" ends up with 4 dead astronauts.

70/40 it never launches.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 10:03 PM (AkEZC)

9 Ola amigo noches

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:04 PM (48JDT)

10 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 30, 2026 10:04 PM (+9wcF)

11 Sowell vs AOC?.. as others have stated: She's the most famous waitress who brings nothing to the table.

Posted by: Rex B at March 30, 2026 10:04 PM (DqQS/)

12 Sydney Sweeny is a sweety.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:06 PM (2GVsD)

13 A MisHum painting! Yay!

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

14 The winter was cold that year.

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 10:06 PM (LHPAg)

15 "What happens when Europe becomes a Caliphate and possesses nuclear weapons."

This is the real reason the Islamists are colonizing Europe.

Posted by: davidt at March 30, 2026 10:06 PM (Q+gd/)

16 ***NASA will now focus all work in its lunar program on getting to the surface of the Moon.
--

Better set up stakes before Musk does. He's going to own it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:07 PM (48JDT)

17 Doll Eyes Alex vs Thomas Sowell?

That is like taking a Karl Gutav to a BB gun fight.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:07 PM (2GVsD)

18 I passed around a different meme this weekend comparing quotes from AOC and Thomas Sowell.

His voice is like a soothing balm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

19 Greetings Everyone!

Have to excuse myself....need to go get take-out Mex food and then watch Gutfeld!...third in line behind Varney and Kudlow in the esteem hierarchy.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 10:08 PM (QGaXH)

20 What happens when Europe becomes a Caliphate and possesses nuclear weapons."

Nothing. These systems require a good deal of maintenance, and they aren't doing that

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 10:08 PM (XuXeR)

21 Earlier this week, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows directed a Texas legislative committee to study the possibility of adding “one or more contiguous counties of New Mexico” to the state of Texas. The committee has been instructed to study the constitutional, legal, fiscal, and economic feasibility of such a move and outline what steps would be required at both the state and federal levels.

Burrows framed the idea as a conversation about representation and economic alignment, particularly in the oil- and gas-producing Permian Basin region that stretches across southeastern New Mexico and West Texas.

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 10:08 PM (O7XEN)

22 Bob Ross looking at painting, "are those happy trees?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:08 PM (2GVsD)

23 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Crime Prevention.

Wipes hands together: That won't go anywhere!

Thanks for the ONT, Mis Hum!

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 30, 2026 10:09 PM (7D3Aa)

24 Volume knob on No Kings! = No MILFS! is a trickster.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:10 PM (48JDT)

25 “Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran,” Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles
==
Apparently they really want us out of NATO, too.

Posted by: Methos at March 30, 2026 10:10 PM (vSvIl)

26 Thanks for the compliments everyone. If I have to tell you where the bodies are. You will find yourself there.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 30, 2026 10:10 PM (CkDaS)

27 I definitely looked super awkward because I had nothing on me apart from boobs.’ Summer Robert

Have we found a girl with boobs too big for Bulg?

While I feel sorry for her for her condition, she's monetized the heck out of it.

And when they're each 3x the size of your head, that's too big to be attractive. Didn't SDB (RIP) have a rule that 1x was the theoretical max for hotness?

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

28 ["Cold Water" 24"x 12" acrylic. Mis. Hum. 12/25]

Nicely painted, sir.

And since nobody's said it:

"Deep, Too."

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

29 22 Bob Ross looking at painting, "are those happy trees?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:08 PM (2GVsD)

My trees are usually ambivalent

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at March 30, 2026 10:11 PM (CkDaS)

30 Thanks for the John Dee Graham tunes, Mis Hum.. I avoid going into Austin as much as I can. But I recall some good music from there back in the day.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 10:12 PM (syAfa)

31 Burrows framed the idea as a conversation about representation and economic alignment, particularly in the oil- and gas-producing Permian Basin region that stretches across southeastern New Mexico and West Texas"

Nah. He just wants exits numbering in the 1,000s...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 10:13 PM (XuXeR)

32 >>>I was so small, I was just a walking boob throughout the whole of school. I definitely looked super awkward because I had nothing on me apart from boobs.

And a hat tip to the Metro UK, who understands that with no pics, it didn't happen.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 30, 2026 10:13 PM (syz1S)

33 Been saying we need to get our nukes out of England for a long time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:13 PM (48JDT)

34 Happy-ish Monday Evening, Hordians ...

Posted by: Adriane the Type, Think Twice, Hit Refresh Button Critic . . . at March 30, 2026 10:13 PM (3ZUWJ)

35
Very nice Mis Hum. Love the colors.
Posted by: Joemarine
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Nice painting, MisHum. How many bodies did you bury in it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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A MisHum painting! Yay!
Posted by: Piper

Agreed, very nice painting. I bet he's been dreaming of trout fishing that spot so much he had to paint it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 30, 2026 10:13 PM (QVmho)

36 And since nobody's said it:

"Deep, Too."

"Rocky"

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 10:13 PM (XuXeR)

37 What happens when Europe becomes a Caliphate and possesses nuclear weapons."

Nothing. These systems require a good deal of maintenance, and they aren't doing that
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 10:08 PM (XuXeR)

That will be one of the tasks of their European slaves.

Posted by: Methos at March 30, 2026 10:14 PM (vSvIl)

38 That blue water looks tasty.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:14 PM (48JDT)

39 Is that heavy blue water?

Asking for thirsty Iranians.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:15 PM (2GVsD)

40 How much money would you pay to see those two debate?

Nothing. It would be like like watching anybody debate Biden on anything. The 'tard would smugly walk away convinced he kicked your ass and half the people would agree.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)

41 25 “Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran,” Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles
==
Apparently they really want us out of NATO, too.
Posted by: Methos at March 30, 2026 10:10 PM (vSvIl)

Buh-bye, baaabeeee.

We need Spain like we need a hole in the head.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 10:15 PM (DwqWV)

42 From earlier:
And that upper four sring tuning of DGCF means you can use the same shapes played on the bajo on those strings, play them in the lower (in pitch) strings on the guitar and get similarly-voiced chords on a six string acoustic tuned EAGBDE.

Sorry to geeking-out on that, Bers, but it is fun.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 10:15 PM (UajcV)

43 I'm watching Once upon a time in the West on TCM. Henry Fonda released three films in 1968: OUATITW, The Boston Strangler, and Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball. Those are three VERY different films. He took some chances.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 30, 2026 10:15 PM (cxFcK)

44
I'm a fan of space exploration, but NASA is borked.
50/50 on whether the "moon shot" ends up with 4 dead astronauts.
70/40 it never launches.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I'm 80/20 it never launches, and 100/0 it kills the crew if it does.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 30, 2026 10:16 PM (QVmho)

45 How much money would you pay to see these two debate economics?

Gee, how much would you pay to see Arnold Schwarzenegger fight Pee Wee Herman?

Sure, it would be entertaining, but could you ever really get your money's worth?

Posted by: mindful webworker - fright promoter at March 30, 2026 10:16 PM (jrd4M)

46 Thanks for another dandy Monday Night ONT, Mis Hum!

Great artwork up top. You have a definite style, my friend.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 30, 2026 10:16 PM (vrNzf)

47 You all need to find some clips from this weekdn’s convention of the socialist Canadian party the New Democrat Party that have gone viral. . It’s woke on steroids. If the Babylon bee had done this as a skit, people would have said come on guys it’s too much.

Everyone has to say their pronouns before speaking, they have pink cards for women and blacks to speak ahead of white men, then the blacks complain that white men got ahead of them. They are still eating masks. It’s a freak show.

This is an actual major party in Canada and they win seats. It’s both scary and hilarious simultaneously.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 10:16 PM (uDDWT)

48 Hawt marching MILFs
No Queens!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

49 >>> 2 hospitalized after altercation involving ax, gun, state police say

The "split the bullet" trick.
Very dangerous.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 10:17 PM (/lPRQ)

50 WOULD HANG!

Posted by: pookysgirl thinks this is the Art Thread at March 30, 2026 10:17 PM (Wt5PA)

51 Well might be back later, need to get back to working on the HKM Boston Mk III.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)

52 Buh-bye, baaabeeee.

We need Spain like we need a hole in the head.
Posted by: tcn in AK
---

Trump should buzz the Palace with AF-1.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:17 PM (48JDT)

53 You don't hate the media enough.

The headline.

A new investigation has reportedly backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13.

The story.

Certain corroboration was found about her allegations regarding a different incident involving a different guy not involving Trump at all.

https://is.gd/cR7oy3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:18 PM (ndZc7)

54 Lovely painting MisHum!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 30, 2026 10:18 PM (QI5FY)

55 Very relaxing scene, MisHum. Love it! Even though I can't find any of the snipers. Lol.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 10:19 PM (rdVOm)

56 Sure, it would be entertaining, but could you ever really get your money's worth?
Posted by: mindful webworker - fright promoter at March 30, 2026 10:16 PM (jrd4M)

I don't know, I got a kick outta Bambi vs. Godzilla back in the day.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 10:19 PM (DwqWV)

57 Damn, we left behind the most valuable painting of all!

Posted by: The Italian Job Gang at March 30, 2026 10:19 PM (DsA2n)

58 What happens when Europe becomes a Caliphate and possesses nuclear weapons.

What happens when Pakistan possesses nuclear weapons?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:19 PM (ExV1e)

59 50 WOULD HANG!
Posted by: pookysgirl thinks this is the Art Thread at March 30, 2026 10:17 PM (Wt5PA)

Is this about the painting, or are you speaking of the Bidens?

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 10:20 PM (DwqWV)

60
Is that heavy blue water?

Asking for thirsty Iranians.

Hamm's Beer

https://t.ly/mFk4s

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 10:21 PM (Cqx++)

61 How much money would you pay to see these two debate economics?

Tree-fiddy.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 10:21 PM (UajcV)

62 Is this about the painting, or are you speaking of the Bidens?
****

Embrace the power of AND.

Posted by: clarence at March 30, 2026 10:22 PM (bbCED)

63 I don't know, I got a kick outta Bambi vs. Godzilla back in the day"

Marv Newland FTW!

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 10:22 PM (XuXeR)

64 Nice Mis Hum original art and a nice Mis Hum original ONT. Thumbs up all 'round.

Posted by: Up With People at March 30, 2026 10:22 PM (oftw2)

65 I'm a fan of space exploration, but NASA is borked.
50/50 on whether the "moon shot" ends up with 4 dead astronauts.
70/40 it never launches.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I'm 80/20 it never launches, and 100/0 it kills the crew if it does.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Sacrifices must be made for the advancement of science.

Or whatever they say after major fvckups that everybody else saw coming.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 10:24 PM (/lPRQ)

66 See the clip where the French are taking pet pigs with them to the beach for protection.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:24 PM (48JDT)

67 Or whatever they say after major fvckups that everybody else saw coming.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 10:24 PM (/lPRQ)
=====

The suspect was known to law enforcement.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

68
A new investigation has reportedly backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13.

The story.

Certain corroboration was found about her allegations regarding a different incident involving a different guy not involving Trump at all.

https://is.gd/cR7oy3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

Be more credible if it included beach friends and having to install a second front door.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 10:26 PM (/lPRQ)

69 I’ve been binge reading about the Unpleasantness in October, 1962 and the Soviet nuclear ICBMs installed in Cuba. One thing that struck me, was the Brits (Macmillan) had the attitude they had to live under the threat of nuclear missiles already and “life goes on”; what’s the big deal.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 10:27 PM (WXiAd)

70 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 10:27 PM (sAmhv)

71 Giorgia Meloni
@GiorgiaMeloni
Mar 29
The Security Decree works.

The preventive detention ordered for 91 individuals from the anarchist movement, deemed dangerous and who arrived in Rome for a demonstration unauthorized by the Police Headquarters in memory of the two anarchists who died on March 19 in the explosion of a bomb they were making, confirms the necessity of this provision.

It does not serve to limit the freedom to demonstrate, as certain leftists claimed.
It serves, on the contrary, to ensure that demonstrations take place in a peaceful and non-violent manner, as provided for in the Constitution, and to protect those who want to exercise that right in a civilized manner, without violence and without devastation.

It is in this direction that the Government will continue to move: more tools to ensure safety for all and more protections for those who want to demonstrate peacefully.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:28 PM (48JDT)

72 AOC is in the process of hitting the wall. It’s happening in real time.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 10:30 PM (uDDWT)

73 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 30, 2026 10:30 PM (SRRAx)

74 That's what we should do here. ICE the other night came out of the gate and pulled in...maybe four.
That's a badge for them. Roust them all into uncomfortable lodgings.
That's step #1.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:30 PM (48JDT)

75 A Mis. Hum. ONT!?
Thank you.

"So I now spend my Sunday afternoons doing anything but watching football."

I used to be a Lions fan. So even when I was watching their games, I wasn't watching football. On the plus side, they were usually out of contention by week 8 so I could stop.

There was a GREAT Green Bay Packers fan site I went to. I was friendly, polite, send them Detroit links when the teams would play. Damn, those were great people.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:32 PM (Sco7b)

76 I definitely looked super awkward because I had nothing on me apart from boobs.’ Summer Robert

Have we found a girl with boobs too big for Bulg?

While I feel sorry for her for her condition, she's monetized the heck out of it.

And when they're each 3x the size of your head, that's too big to be attractive. Didn't SDB (RIP) have a rule that 1x was the theoretical max for hotness?
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

That suspiciously sounds like a confluence of geometry, physics, and math.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 10:32 PM (wVcYX)

77 the good:

"German Chancellor Merz intends to return 80% of Syrian refugees to their homeland

According to him, within three years, 80% of the roughly 1 million Syrian refugees in Germany should return to their homeland.

The situation in Syria has significantly improved a year after the end of the civil war, so the need for protection for Syrian refugees must be reassessed, the German chancellor said"

the not so good : "However, he promised that Syrians who have successfully integrated into German society will be allowed to remain in Germany"

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 10:32 PM (GD0B3)

78 Beautiful painting, MisHumangelo

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 30, 2026 10:33 PM (LmPA0)

79 It would be like like watching anybody debate Biden on anything. The 'tard would smugly walk away convinced he kicked your ass and half the people would agree.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I was actually thinking something like this, but couldn't figure out exactly how to articulate it. As they say, ^this.

Posted by: mindful webworker - don't bring a howitzer to a pillow fight at March 30, 2026 10:34 PM (jrd4M)

80 the not so good : "However, he promised that Syrians who have successfully integrated into German society will be allowed to remain in Germany"
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 10:32 PM (GD0B3)

The sales of lederhosen and dirndls will take off! Prosit!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 10:35 PM (wVcYX)

81 2 hospitalized after altercation involving ax, gun, state police say

That sounds like a more dangerous version of the Rock Paper Scissors game.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

82 We are doomed

Polymarket
@Polymarket
2h
JUST IN: Jim Cramer claims oil prices have climaxed.
Mar 30, 2026 · 11:35 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 10:35 PM (rbvCR)

83 I like Alejandro Escovedo. Nice vid, MisHum.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 10:36 PM (sAmhv)

84 Mmm.. MiladyJo just served up some just-made carrot soup.

"Delicious," I say. "How do you do it? What's your secret?"

She replies, "Find a recipe and then don't follow it."

Posted by: mindful webworker - It's mm-mm good at March 30, 2026 10:37 PM (jrd4M)

85 Evenin'

Whatever

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 10:37 PM (sAmhv)

86 nice art, MisHum
Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 10:37 PM (nz1sK)

87
I don't think the UK is going to provide Islamic nuclear bombs.The US provides the UK with their bombs, for quite some time now, and has ways to take possession of them if necessary. The UK basically is leasing them. Correct me if I'm wrong.

France, I don't know. They're French. Sort of.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 10:37 PM (azNOR)

88 Reading about Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles she has, and I know this is a shock...no connection to the military whatsoever.

Also she was a Branch Covidian that killed a bunch of people in elderly housing.

So...appropriate for a socialist Euro-apparatchik I suppose

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 10:39 PM (sKqQm)

89

MisHum,

Thanks for stepping up!! I love your ONTs.

Posted by: four seasons at March 30, 2026 10:39 PM (3ek7K)

90 has the Kirk bullet been discussed on Ace comments yet?

"@DailyMail 3h
Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims"

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2026 10:40 PM (vbXSk)

91 I saw at one of the No Kangz marches they were holding a sign that said "Democracy Must Win"

Well...we had an election and the guy you don't like won it.

So either you are marching to support the orderly transition to Trump, or I guess arguing the 2024 election was stolen.

Any other reason would make their sign flat out stupid.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 10:42 PM (sKqQm)

92 I got a kick outta Bambi vs. Godzilla back in the day.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Ah, true. (And a classic film!)

And the fight would last about as long.

Posted by: mindful webworker - It's mm-mm good at March 30, 2026 10:43 PM (jrd4M)

93 >JUST IN: Jim Cramer claims oil prices have climaxed.
----

it's a gusher

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 10:43 PM (ZxPkt)

94 And when they're each 3x the size of your head, that's too big to be attractive. Didn't SDB (RIP) have a rule that 1x was the theoretical max for hotness?
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

Berserker rule- when a chick's boobs looks like Rosie's fat ass they have gone over the line.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 10:44 PM (snZF9)

95

Jennifer Seidel Newsom calls herself California’s “first partner.”

In 2023, the Newsoms took their four kids on a little trip. They didn’t visit a theme park, a national park, or a beach. No, the “first partner” took the kids on a trip to “red states” so that they could see how backward and racist conservatives are.

https://t.ly/IXOr5

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 10:44 PM (Cqx++)

96 Hi TecumsehTea. Hope all is well

Everyone have a good night.
Puppy, age 14, needs out.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:44 PM (Sco7b)

97 Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson
_-_
And Anna Nicole married for love...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 10:44 PM (UajcV)

98 the not so good : "However, he promised that Syrians who have successfully integrated into German society will be allowed to remain in Germany"
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 10:32 PM (GD0B3)

So if you kill Jews you’re integrated into German society and get to stay?

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 10:45 PM (uDDWT)

99 Buzz Aldrin's space selfie

https://tinyurl.com/mv5byfzr

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 10:46 PM (ZxPkt)

100 I can't speak for everyone, but the Genius Award was not in the South! You don't know how relieved I am when I see that now and then!

Local news, which some in my family collect or email to me, was that one tragedy was over a pork chop. Apparently the last one on earth. Another tragic murder over ice after a hurricane.

I love that guy messing with the No Kangs nitwits. That should be a sign: No Kangs! No Kongs!
UP YOURS!

So retarded I can't deal with it all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 10:46 PM (WONhk)

101 In 2023, the Newsoms took their four kids on a little trip. They didn’t visit a theme park, a national park, or a beach. No, the “first partner” took the kids on a trip to “red states” so that they could see how backward and racist conservatives are.

https://t.ly/IXOr5
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 10:44 PM (Cqx++)
=====

They needed material for college entrance essays.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

102 Many thanks, as always, for the ONT Mr. Hum. You dotes on us

Posted by: 496 at March 30, 2026 10:46 PM (/2KcO)

103 Very nice painting MisHum. Ditching the NFL has obviously been a plus in your life. 👍

Posted by: Trying to Fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 10:51 PM (NFX2v)

104 took the kids on a trip to “red states” so that they could see how backward and racist conservatives are.
_-_
Bring 'em on over. We'll teach 'em to shoot.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 10:51 PM (UajcV)

105 The Hollywood Reporter published a piece titled "Project Hail Mary: 4 Lessons Hollywood Won't Learn From Its Success," pointing to smart storytelling, sincerity, patience, and practical effects as the pillars behind the film's blockbuster performance. That's a solid four. But, it predictably missed the fifth, and arguably most important point: Don't go woke.

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 10:51 PM (O7XEN)

106 BOING!

Rude awakening.

Oh well.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 10:52 PM (1o8D5)

107 "Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson ...
And Anna Nicole married for love..."

Yeah, I haven't kept up with the story. I saw they matched the killer's DNA on the towel around the gun, but supposedly no mention of prints or DNA on the gun itself. Not sure what other theories are being floated. But sounds like more fuel for Candace Owens and her ilk.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2026 10:52 PM (vbXSk)

108 96>>>Hi TecumsehTea. Hope all is well

Thanks for asking, Stateless. I was hoping to catch you on the Cafe to see how you are doing. Hoping that you are seeing some improvement.

MrTea has a phone interview tomorrow morning.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 10:52 PM (nz1sK)

109 NFL? I watch a few games a year -- as much to get together with the guys as it is to see the game.

The NFL may be wealthy, but it's not important.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 10:52 PM (JmS0k)

110 "However, he promised that Syrians who have successfully integrated into German society will be allowed to remain in Germany"

And how do they show that they've integrated into German society? I picture them getting rid of their dresses and head towels, and being made to wear lederhosen, and eat pork bratwurst. They should also have to eat sauerkraut.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2026 10:53 PM (0Htd1)

111 M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV

It is based on the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2

BUT

Engine: Duramax I4 engine turbocharged diesel
170 cubic inches)
275 horsepower (205 kW)
Payload capacity 3,200 pounds (1,500 kg)
Transmission 6L50 Six-speed automatic
------------

Not you buddy, Mr. Private Citizen, you get piece of crap wobbly gas juggler. No diesel blowjob for you

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:53 PM (48JDT)

112

It is kinda slow here tonight.

From my reading of many years I think when Spring arrives a lot of people are planting.

Posted by: four seasons at March 30, 2026 10:53 PM (3ek7K)

113 And how do they show that they've integrated into German society?

----------

They could invade Belgium.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 10:55 PM (+HNx/)

114 "@DailyMail 3h
Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims"
Posted by: illiniwek

Finding says the pristine bullet was from a Mannlicher-Carcano.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mylar hats beat aluminum at March 30, 2026 10:56 PM (jrd4M)

115 And how do they show that they've integrated into German society? ...
Posted by: nerdygirl
---

Converted to Christianity,
for the Germans.
Not for here. For here
they all go back home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:56 PM (48JDT)

116 Polymarket
@Polymarket
2h
JUST IN: Jim Cramer claims oil prices have climaxed.
Mar 30, 2026 · 11:35 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 10:35 PM (rbvCR)

Shit. Better fill up.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 10:56 PM (7WnOb)

117 107 "Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson ...
And Anna Nicole married for love..."
*********
Renort I heard was that the lab couldn't say if it matched or not. Bullet may have been too mangled to make a comparison.

Posted by: Cosda at March 30, 2026 10:57 PM (IH6tF)

118 So I now spend my Sunday afternoons doing anything but watching football.

My parents were Hawkeyes fans (we went to basketball games because the the team sucked and therefore it was cheap entertainment for four kids). But Sunday was supposed to be a day of rest, so my parents would nap in the afternoons after church. What did we do? Knock-down, drag-out, no-holds-barred board and card games.

Posted by: pookysgirl will murder you in Skip-Bo at March 30, 2026 10:57 PM (Wt5PA)

119 MrTea has a phone interview tomorrow morning.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 10:52 PM (nz1sK

A prayer and good thoughts sent.
Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 12 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:57 PM (Sco7b)

120 when Spring arrives a lot of people are planting.
_-_
Planted spinach, lettuce, cilantro, and Swiss chard. Carrots tomorrow. Harvesting a little bit of asparagus.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 10:57 PM (UajcV)

121 I love that guy messing with the No Kangs nitwits. That should be a sign: No Kangs! No Kongs!
UP YOURS!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Isn't a "kong" a snowman-shaped dog toy? So "kong, up yours" is a possibility. And a likelyhood among no-kings protesters.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 10:58 PM (VHUov)

122 M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV)
notice that it's built by GM - was there an open bid?
Were other companies offering?

Humvee (the original)
Who built it? GM

GM
Government Motors

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:00 PM (48JDT)

123 "But Sunday was supposed to be a day of rest, so my parents would nap in the afternoons"
-------
A good nap is money

Posted by: 496 at March 30, 2026 11:00 PM (Gei+t)

124
82 We are doomed

Polymarket
@Polymarket
2h
JUST IN: Jim Cramer claims oil prices have climaxed.
Mar 30, 2026 · 11:35 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 10:35 PM

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I missed part of it. The glare off the top of Kramer's head was blinding me.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 11:01 PM (azNOR)

125 Extreme explodey-ness in Iran tonight

https://tinyurl.com/7bwyw9hh

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 11:02 PM (ZxPkt)

126 And how do they show that they've integrated into German society? I picture them getting rid of their dresses and head towels, and being made to wear lederhosen, and eat pork bratwurst. They should also have to eat sauerkraut.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Perhaps a halfway point is needed. A cross between a dirndl and a burka.

They could call it a "durka."

Posted by: mikeski is on team America at March 30, 2026 11:02 PM (VHUov)

127 There's a Canadian astronaut participating in the Moon mission. I say we require him to do a Land Acknowledgment as the lunar module circumnavigates the moon. After all, the US was the first to get there. So, it's ours. Thems da rules these days.

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 11:02 PM (dIske)

128 Genius Award Winners, certainly no surprise it happened in Monroe County, PA. (If not Delaware County)

Not to make light of horrific circumstances but Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the 2022 University of Idaho murders, is from Monroe County.

Posted by: Trying to Fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 11:02 PM (NFX2v)

129 well, fourscore years ago the Syrians did the Germans a big favor by letting in a lot of Jew killers. It seems only sporting that the Germans should pay them back

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 11:02 PM (gKWVE)

130
Finding says the pristine bullet was from a Mannlicher-Carcano.
Posted by: mindful webworker - mylar hats beat aluminum
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Found it laying on his gurney beside him.

Yeah, that aluminum foil actually enhances some of those rays.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:03 PM (48JDT)

131
They could invade Belgium.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 10:55 PM (+HNx/)
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And Belgium would lie down and let them. Tiny men. I took a survey on a train once from Munich to Bruges.

Granted it was a commuter train, end of the work day, and four blonde Americans got on to their dismay with one carry on suitcase.They were yapping in Finnish, which none of us speak. I was tired. Made my way to a seating of 4 lads sharing a beer over a table. One tiny man was hogging two seats and I asked politely to sit and he moved over (seeing as I was taller, lovely but with a mean crazy look in my eyes). The rest of my family were strap hangers, but not me.

They chattered away as I looked at scenic windmills and commented how pretty, etc. Knowing they hated my American guts and ignoring that fact because I did not care.

When two got off the third one actually made eye contact and was nice to me. As it bloody well should have been from the start since they were not speaking German thanks to us.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 11:03 PM (WONhk)

132 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at March 30, 2026 11:04 PM (2Ez/1)

133 Good point. Americans are Indigenous First Peoples of the Moon!

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 11:05 PM (QPjUO)

134 A good nap is money

Posted by: 496 at March 30, 2026 11:00 PM (Gei+t)

Two of the four of us had ADHD, so on cold days, they had to burn off that energy somehow.

Monopoly line that makes me giggle to this day: "I've just channeled the ghost of great-grandpa and he said 'SELLLLLL THE HOTELLLLLS!'"

Posted by: pookysgirl will murder you in Skip-Bo at March 30, 2026 11:05 PM (Wt5PA)

135 Mistake above. Train was from Brussels to Bruges. Train before that from Paris to Munich, which I did not like...the Germans.

No desire to go there or, now, Spain. Ninnyhammers.

I would like to see Poland and, depending on my future, Italy. Otherwise am done. Pity about the UK as I have seen all of it and my Celtic roots are deep.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 11:06 PM (WONhk)

136 In 2023, the Newsoms took their four kids on a little trip. They didn’t visit a theme park, a national park, or a beach. No, the “first partner” took the kids on a trip to “red states” so that they could see how backward and racist conservatives are.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 10:44 PM (Cqx++)

It is important the children travel to see the world they are to denigrate. It used to be called the "grand sneer"

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 11:06 PM (rbvCR)

137 "Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson ..."

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

Should I assume they meant that the bullet was not the same caliber? Affirmatively not the same caliber, or inconclusive.
If that were the case then they could have been more clear.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 11:07 PM (/lPRQ)

138 glare off the top of Kramer's head
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Yeah, I hate it when he comments on something I own...'course, he comes from the industry that takes the news headlines of the day, pairs them up with individual or sector stock or commodity performance, attributes one to the other and calls it a day.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:07 PM (UajcV)

139 Who puts a woman in charge of the defense of an entire country

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 30, 2026 11:07 PM (2Ez/1)

140 The “bullet on the stretcher” was placed there by a secret service agent, I can’t remember where he actually found it, but he had been carrying it around in his pocket for a couple hours and got scared and wanted to get rid of it. This only was revealed in the last few years.

Sure caused an awful lot of speculation confusion a d misdirection over the decades.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 11:08 PM (QPjUO)

141
Artemis II planned launch time is Apr. 1, 6:24 PM EDT. The countdown clock started sometime this afternoon.

I'm betting on a scrub as well first time, but I think they will launch this week. They've got 6 days this cycle, Apr 1 - 6, each window about 2 hours.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

142 Stresses her body and brings the wrong kind of attention. Naturally, the NHS won't help. Idiots.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 11:10 PM (w0ruu)

143
The lunar gateway thing was just stupid. Isaacman had the sense to kill it. I'm sure he (and Trump admin in general) wanted to kill the boondoggle that is the SLS, but it's fears of the Chicoms getting back before we do that made stick with the SLS for now. If we cancelled it, that would put us behind, and the Chicoms might seize the opportunity.

SLS is basically sunk cost fallacy at this point.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 11:12 PM (w6EFb)

144 Who puts a woman in charge of the defense of an entire country
Posted by: I gotta ask

1) Me, if the woman is Margaret Thatcher. Or one of the feistier 'Ettes.

B) Some real nitwit, if it's what's going on in Spain.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 11:12 PM (VHUov)

145 no idea what that is supposed to mean
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Clarity is not their thing. Neither the fed.gov nor the MSM.fakenews.

I think that is why leftist politicians have this quirk of always saying, "...and I've been very clear on this..." as though they are talking to disobedient children.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:13 PM (UajcV)

146 "Americans are Indigenous First Peoples of the Moon!"

Not just first, but still the ONLY. (unless some Soviet crash landed there, and they covered it up ... back in cold war dayz.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2026 11:13 PM (vbXSk)

147 Anyone who has owned a .30-06 knows Charlie wasn’t shot with a .30-06. Watch (listen) to the video recording.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 11:15 PM (QPjUO)

148 From my reading of many years I think when Spring arrives a lot of people are planting.

Posted by: four seasons at March 30, 2026 10:53 PM (3ek7K)

I put in potatoes and green onions last week, and this week if I can make sure the fence is keeping out the neighbors' chickens, I will plant peas.

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 11:15 PM (rbvCR)

149 Who puts a woman in charge of the defense of an entire country
Posted by: I gotta ask

1) Me, if the woman is Margaret Thatcher. Or one of the feistier 'Ettes.

B) Some real nitwit, if it's what's going on in Spain.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 11:12 PM (VHUov)

My problem wouldn't be declaring war when necessary, my problem would be getting exactly the right kind of underling that knows when to bring me things.

Posted by: pookysgirl will murder you if you're a terry at March 30, 2026 11:16 PM (Wt5PA)

150 Charlie Kirk was shot from the mainmast of the USS Liberty by a dancing Israeli

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 11:17 PM (gKWVE)

151 make sure the fence is keeping out the neighbors' chicken
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We have hardware cloth under the whole garden, and an enclosure of hardware cloth around and above the whole thing...otherwise the moles, voles, deer, rabbits, etc. come and take it. All of it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:18 PM (UajcV)

152 My problem wouldn't be declaring war when necessary, my problem would be getting exactly the right kind of underling that knows when to bring me things.
Posted by: pookysgirl

These are henchmen! I need minions!!!

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 11:18 PM (VHUov)

153 Anyone who has owned a .30-06 knows Charlie wasn’t shot with a .30-06. Watch (listen) to the video recording.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 11:15 PM (QPjUO)

His head would have popped off his body.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 11:19 PM (snZF9)

154
Charlie Kirk was killed by a time travelling Erika Kirk from the future.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 11:19 PM (w6EFb)

155 Watchdog groups allege that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) improperly used nearly $19,000 in 2025 campaign funds to pay for personal psychiatrist services.

Fascinating in more than one way. Reportedly, members of Congress are required to obtain healthcare coverage through the DC Health Link small business exchange.

Obamacare doesn't work? Are they limited to the D.C. Heath Link and/or can they obtain healthcare through the state that they allegedly represent?

Posted by: Trying to Fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 11:19 PM (NFX2v)

156 Another gorgeous painting from Mis Hum. Those mountains are almost photographic and the cascading stream has just the right color and sense of movement. The only thing missing is my campsite and me casting to trout in the riffles by the rocks.

Posted by: JTB at March 30, 2026 11:19 PM (yTvNw)

157 Dang
CO Avalanche buried the Calgary Flames 9-2

I only watched the 1st period, where CO scored 5 goals

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 11:20 PM (ZxPkt)

158 We're whalers on the Moon,
we carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
so we tell tall tales
and sing a whaling tune.

Posted by: pookysgirl thinks Muldoon would be proud at March 30, 2026 11:20 PM (Wt5PA)

159 Soviets never got close as far as manned missions.

They had a big rocket go ‘splodey and killed a bunch of scientists and technicians, over 100. Horrible. Details were covered up for decades.

Apparently a routine re-set of a launch clock timer somehow caused the second stage to ignite, directing flames into the first stage. Roasted a bunch of people outright, many got mired in an asphalt roadway that had melted.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 11:20 PM (QPjUO)

160 Been saying we need to get our nukes out of England for a long time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 10:13 PM (48JDT)

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The interwebs tell me that five NATO countries "host" nukes as part of nuclear sharing agreements: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Turkey(!)

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 11:22 PM (Rl5v5)

161 I suspect that Artemis 2 will count down to 1 minute, and the launch computers will fail, filling the screen with "April Fools!"

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 30, 2026 11:23 PM (S/Y4j)

162 Just the report of the rifle. No way is that .30-06, a large cartridge that makes a large sound. Very distinctive.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 11:25 PM (QPjUO)

163 His head would have popped off his body.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 11:19 PM (snZF9)

It depends on a lot of things, including the bullet, the charge, the age of the ammo, the condition of the rifle chamber and barrel, and how it was modified from 8mm Mauser to 30-06.

I hit a blacktail deer with a glaser type hunting round from a .303 Enfield at 50 feet and it did not penetrate . A friend hit a buck with a .30 carbine full jacket round and it zipped through and hit the doe behind it too.

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 11:25 PM (rbvCR)

164 " I suspect that Artemis 2 will count down to 1 minute, and the launch computers will fail, filling the screen with "April Fools!"

Some (DEI?) woman is in charge I think. All is Well.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2026 11:25 PM (vbXSk)

165 Charlie Kirk was killed by a time travelling Erika Kirk from the future.
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Wait a minute...we're from the future, now....so what is the most accurate version of events we can conjure here? Pretty sure CO is batshit crazy, but she might get parts of it right. Don't know, stopped listening to her at all after the crazy was abundantly in evidence. Lots of weirdness circling around there....can't stop the signal, but you can certainly turn up the noise...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:27 PM (UajcV)

166 CO Avalanche buried the Calgary Flames 9-2

I only watched the 1st period, where CO scored 5 goals
Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 11:20 PM (ZxPkt)

Dang!

Too bad the NHL is so dumb about airing games. I ain't got cable (or satellite) and I ain't gonna.

But I am a big fan of the Avalanche. As is my son.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 11:28 PM (0aYVJ)

167 zipped through and hit the doe behind it too
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Honest, Mr Game Warden, sir....I mean ma'am. That's just how it happened.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:29 PM (UajcV)

168 Completely agree with the comment after quote number 1. The start of the NFL season was like the real start of the new year. Similar for MLB opening day. That excitement is long dead due to the politics from the players and the leagues. The only sport I watch anymore is the Masters because the grounds are so beautiful and the British Open because the terrain is so different from American courses and interesting.

Posted by: JTB at March 30, 2026 11:32 PM (yTvNw)

169
We're whalers on the Moon,
we carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales
so we tell tall tales
and sing a whaling tune.
Posted by: pookysgirl thinks Muldoon would be proud

From back in the time when "Futurerama" was entertaining. Then they did a reboot and suddenly it was not.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 11:34 PM (xG4kz)

170 Damn you ace! You knew I could not not look at the Giant Boob story.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 11:35 PM (ZPDpH)

171 When I'm feeling down, I think that John Roberts isstuck in a conference room with KBJ for a hour or two, and it perks me right up.

"I don't understand." Say it again, KBJ.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 11:36 PM (Rl5v5)

172 Getting used to new toy, an Apple MacBook Sky. Safari is different. So far, it works very well. Just have to get used to Apple OS.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 11:36 PM (sAmhv)

173 Just have to get used to Apple OS.
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Do they provide a unix command shell?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:38 PM (UajcV)

174
Damn you ace! You knew I could not not look at the Giant Boob story.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It stands to reason that Britain's NHS will not perform breast reduction surgery on that young woman because her BMI exceeds the Service's limits for such surgery. "Free" healrh care ain't so free, it seems.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 11:38 PM (xG4kz)

175 “Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran,” Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles

Time to close the base and move everything we put there out.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 30, 2026 11:39 PM (C0Nlv)

176 >> .so what is the most accurate version of events we can conjure here?

Israel built the time machine to get Mossad agent Erika from the future back in time to kill Charlie, of course. You can supply the plot details. Maybe Charlie became president and severed US ties with Israel, so they had to go back in time to prevent that....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 11:40 PM (w6EFb)

177
I suspect that Artemis 2 will count down to 1 minute, and the launch computers will fail, filling the screen with "April Fools!"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Just kidding!

https://youtu.be/LJBZmuv7FtQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 11:41 PM (Cqx++)

178 Polymarket
@Polymarket
2h
JUST IN: Jim Cramer claims oil prices have climaxed.
Mar 30, 2026 · 11:35 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 10:35 PM (rbvCR)“

Jim Cramer climaxes every time someone at Polymarket talks about him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 11:41 PM (ZPDpH)

179
"Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran,” Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles

Enjoy the Mooslim Reconquista, Sugar Britches.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 11:42 PM (xG4kz)

180 139 Who puts a woman in charge of the defense of an entire country
Posted by: I gotta ask
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Keep her away from the scissors.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:44 PM (48JDT)

181 173: I'm not sure. I'm still looking around. Copy/paste is confounding me but I'll figure it out. I'll get around to looking for the CLI.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 11:46 PM (sAmhv)

182 Getting used to new toy, an Apple MacBook Sky. Safari is different. So far, it works very well. Just have to get used to Apple OS.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 11:36 PM (sAmhv)

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Me too. Had one briefly years back, this time for good. Screw Windows 11

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 11:46 PM (Rl5v5)

183 Apparently a routine re-set of a launch clock timer somehow caused the second stage to ignite, directing flames into the first stage. Roasted a bunch of people outright, many got mired in an asphalt roadway that had melted.

IIRC the story, the engineers were running behind so the appartchek running the program planned a party on the launch pad as they were supposed to finish.

This led to the engineers and techs working round the clock and someone left a valve open letting a toxic/flammable chemical to seep out

It caught fire and then exploded killing a good deal of the USSR's best scientists, engineers, and technicians all in one go...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:46 PM (sKqQm)

184 You can supply the plot details
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These days the one thing there is the most noise about is the one thing you can mostly rule out.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:47 PM (UajcV)

185 They had a big rocket go ‘splodey and killed a bunch of scientists and technicians, over 100. Horrible. Details were covered up for decades

I find it unhorrible.

Posted by: Kill a Commie for Christ at March 30, 2026 11:47 PM (iZy2L)

186
"I don't understand." Say it again, KBJ.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

I am reminded of the line in "Margin Call"...

"Explain the problem to me as though I was a young child, or a Golden Retriever. It wasn't brains that got me into this position, I can assure you of that."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 11:48 PM (xG4kz)

187 172 Getting used to new toy, an Apple MacBook Sky. Safari is different. So far, it works very well. Just have to get used to Apple OS.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst
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It's slick, it does well, especially if you functionally memorize the manual 'cause it ain't windoz.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:48 PM (48JDT)

188 187: Yeah, MacOS isn't Windows. It will take some time to figure out the nuances. Or I could read the directions. There on this laptop, somewhere. Probably under 'Help'. I'll wait till I'm good and frustrated before clicking 'Help' though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 11:50 PM (sAmhv)

189
Artemis II is sort of like Apollo 8, but it's not going to go into lunar orbit, just a free-return fly-by. It will go "higher" beyond the Moon than any other Apollo mission and set a record for that, but it won't go into orbit.

Why? Because the stupid SLS and Orion don't have the fuel/delta-v budget to insert into lunar orbit and get out. Orion/SLS is no Apollo/Saturn V.

Ain't that just stupid?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 11:50 PM (w6EFb)

190 does well, especially if you functionally memorize the manual
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I owned an Apple machine back in the 90's... wasn't great then, but everything else was at least a little worse. If it has a command line interface, it just might be more tolerable than renting from Bill Gates.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:52 PM (UajcV)

191 I'll wait till I'm good and frustrated before clicking 'Help' though.
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A good interface has a good user manual. A great one doesn't need it much.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 11:54 PM (UajcV)

192 Sweet dreams Horde, can't keep my eyes open tonight.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 30, 2026 11:54 PM (0nHVk)

193 Musk would put a tanker up there then he would send shipments of fuel to fill it. Oh, wait. They only have one engine per year and no recycling rockets.
Never mind.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:55 PM (48JDT)

194 I’m camped in an area with 80,000 acres dedicated to this unit. Someone has setup within a stone’s throw next to me. WTF is wrong with people?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 11:56 PM (cUYXS)

195 It's not that it's a bad interface it's just that the interface is absolutely not windows. It's as if they went out of their way to make it Not Windows.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:57 PM (48JDT)

196 Nice painting, Mis Hum!

Posted by: tankascribe at March 30, 2026 11:57 PM (NtoJk)

197 Israel built the time machine to get Mossad agent Erika from the future back in time to kill Charlie, of course. You can supply the plot details. Maybe Charlie became president and severed US ties with Israel, so they had to go back in time to prevent that....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 11:40 PM (w6EFb)
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/revs up the delorean

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 11:58 PM (1o8D5)

198 I have not seen it mentioned, so I'll just post that Terry Cox, drummer of Pentangle, passed away about a week ago at 89.
Bassist Danny Thompson died last year, so this leaves Jacqui McShee as the last member of the group.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 30, 2026 11:58 PM (zdLoL)

199 Ok, I found the terminal. I'll mess with it later. Still poking around at other stuff.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 11:58 PM (sAmhv)

200 194 I’m camped in an area with 80,000 acres dedicated to this unit. Someone has setup within a stone’s throw next to me. WTF is wrong with people?
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Scared to go off by themselves? Yeah, I hate it when that happens. Not going camping to commune with people.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 31, 2026 12:00 AM (UajcV)

201
Oh, they're going to use Elon's tankers. Big Time. This is what a boondoggle the SLS/Orion approach is. The lunar lander is going to be a modifed Starship, dubbed Starship HLS. It has to get the Moon and insert itself into orbit on it's own. Multiple refueling and tanker launched into LEO will be required to fuel an HLS version for its trip to the Moon.

Orion carries the crew. The dock in an EPO/CoLA orbit (that stands for Elliptical Polar with Co-plane Line of Apsides -- I roll my eyes at their acronyms).

Crew transfers to HLS to land. HLS then brings them back to Orion. At this point, you scream, if Starship is going to do all that, then why doesn't it just carry the astronauts itself to begin with?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 31, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)

202 IOS has a terminal? Linux has a terminal? Didn't know my IOS has a terminal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 12:00 AM (48JDT)

203 195: Yea, I get that impression. MacOS is different. Not bad, I don't hate it, just different. I'm familiar with Linux Mint and Windows.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 12:01 AM (sAmhv)

204 194 I’m camped in an area with 80,000 acres dedicated to this unit. Someone has setup within a stone’s throw next to me. WTF is wrong with people?
Posted by: Common Tater

That kind of crap makes me nuts. I want to be the worst neighbor ever. Ffs. There’s two dozen people on the boat. Why are you sitting less then three feet away?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2026 12:01 AM (A5RD0)

205 .
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So ... Summer Roberts who lives in Great(?) Britain canNOT qualify for breast reduction surgery because her ONE-HUNDRED TEN pound pair of hoot-i-nannies push her BMI into the morbidly obese range.
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P.S. They are NOT inflatoTitties.
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P.P.S. Queen Charles is to blame.

Posted by: Marooned at March 31, 2026 12:01 AM (kt8QE)

206 found the terminal
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Uh, say, how much'd that cost? Is much'd a proper contraction?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 31, 2026 12:02 AM (UajcV)

207 I suspect that Artemis 2 will count down to 1 minute, and the launch computers will fail, filling the screen with "April Fools!"
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

It always stops at one on the show.
https://youtu.be/P8v49pvkA3I?t=61s

Posted by: mindful webworker - Questarian at March 31, 2026 12:03 AM (jrd4M)

208 I have no idea what a MacOS Terminal commands are like. Linux/Unix commands? Again, I'm still looking around and figuring out the nuances of the GUI. The CLI will have to wait.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 12:03 AM (sAmhv)

209 ...if Starship is going to do all that, then why doesn't it just carry the astronauts itself to begin with?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley.
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I think that will happen. Musk is letting is play out.
(die a natural death ie. Trump will kill it.)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 12:03 AM (48JDT)

210 206: a brand new MacBook Sky and I added slightly bigger storage (1TB). It wasn't cheap.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 12:05 AM (sAmhv)

211 Why are you sitting less then three feet away?
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Your cute?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 12:05 AM (48JDT)

212 You made my day.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2026 12:07 AM (A5RD0)

213 I have no idea what a MacOS Terminal commands are like. Linux/Unix command
_-_
Looks like they use Zsh by default, but you can switch to a (slightly out-of-date) bash shell pretty easily. So, yeah, unix commands.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 31, 2026 12:08 AM (UajcV)

214
185 They had a big rocket go ‘splodey and killed a bunch of scientists and technicians, over 100. Horrible. Details were covered up for decades

I find it unhorrible.
Posted by: Kill a Commie for Christ at March 30, 2026 11:47 PM (iZy2L)

The communist countries never saw the need to follow safety protocols - for example, onboard destruct systems if a rocket goes out of control. I remember seeing a cell phone video sent out of China after a failed rocket launch from the countries interior. (Don’t know if it was a satellite or military or whatever) Big rocket goes up, looks good, then it loses control and pitches down and there’s no self destruct - it flies at full power straight down into a populated area where all that rocket fuel made a real Big Bada Boom.

The Chinese never reported it. When asked they said there was no crash because there was no launch. What about the video? There was no video, and if we find person who took video that does not exist, he get long stay in re-education camp.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2026 12:09 AM (ZPDpH)

215 I'm still hung up on that blown 4 banger Duramax diesel available in other countries but not here.

Trump should do something about that. And get rid of that additive that must be used. (Regulators)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 12:09 AM (48JDT)

216 Fascinating interview with Israeli general, today, on the progress of the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVqynlmP5sg

Posted by: Beverly at March 31, 2026 12:14 AM (reMys)

217 So ... Summer Roberts who lives in Great(?) Britain canNOT qualify for breast reduction surgery because her ONE-HUNDRED TEN pound pair of hoot-i-nannies push her BMI into the morbidly obese range.
Posted by: Marooned

Also from the article, about her OnlyFans account:

and last month alone she made £70,000. Alarmingly three of her former teachers have subscribed to her account.

If you're making $92,000 a month, you can afford to travel to a sane country, like the USA, to get a breast reduction.

Or you can continue to make $92,000 a month using your life-threatening calcium cannons.

Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2026 12:15 AM (VHUov)

218 @Faytuks
6h
BREAKING: The UAE is pushing hard for Trump to order a US ground invasion of Iran, a Gulf diplomat tells AP, with Kuwait and Bahrain also supporting such an operation

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 12:16 AM (48JDT)

219
BREAKING: The UAE is pushing hard for Trump to order a US ground invasion of Iran, a Gulf diplomat tells AP, with Kuwait and Bahrain also supporting such an operation
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

Supporting with what? Good wishes and a hearty handshake?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2026 12:19 AM (Cqx++)

220 218 @Faytuks
6h
BREAKING: The UAE is pushing hard for Trump to order a US ground invasion of Iran, a Gulf diplomat tells AP, with Kuwait and Bahrain also supporting such an operation
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 12:16 AM (48JDT)

Got it. Divert the arms going to Ukraine, and those three countries can invade.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 31, 2026 12:19 AM (S/Y4j)

221 Alarmingly three of her former teachers have subscribed to her account.
_-_
Or how 'bout, "Alarmingly, she has an OnlyFans account."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 31, 2026 12:21 AM (UajcV)

222 The UAE is pushing hard for Trump to order a US ground invasion of Iran

As Wimpy famously said, "Let's you and him fight!"

Think I'll clock out here. 🕦 Keep commenting folks. An ONT with fewer than 400 comments is a failure, you know.

Incense and percussion
https://youtu.be/mIZ1YcxHcuw

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - who knew? at March 31, 2026 12:23 AM (jrd4M)

223 Beautiful painting, MisHum. You truly have talent.

I am back in the Demented Dominion, Victoria, BC, to be precise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 12:26 AM (2JFBE)

224 I fell asleep in the chair last night. coming over me again

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 31, 2026 12:27 AM (Rl5v5)

225

AOP,

Thank you for letting us know where you are.

You are loved here and that's why I am nosy about where you are!!

Posted by: four seasons at March 31, 2026 12:28 AM (3ek7K)

226 I'm still hung up on that blown 4 banger Duramax diesel available in other countries but not here.

Trump should do something about that. And get rid of that additive that must be used. (Regulators)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 31, 2026 12:09 AM (48JDT)

That is up to Lee Zeldin and Sean Duffy, and they seem to be working their way through that all.
The fines for CAFE were zeroed out in the OBBB, mooting the regulations, but I think there is a need to get rid of them all

Three days ago EPA put out "Trump Administration Announces Latest Action to Address Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) System Complaints, Saves American Farmers and Truckers Over $13 Billion Annually"

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 31, 2026 12:34 AM (rbvCR)

227 Should I assume they meant that the bullet was not the same caliber? Affirmatively not the same caliber, or inconclusive.
If that were the case then they could have been more clear.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 11:07 PM (/lPRQ)

Seems to me they could do mass spectrometry analysis of the lead alloy and copper alloy of the bullet jacket from the fatal bullet and of an unfired one from the rifle's magazine. Should be the same. Not necessarily dispositive if they are the same, but if they differed beyond the range of experimental error, it could be reason to do more examinations.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 12:42 AM (2JFBE)

228 110 "However, he promised that Syrians who have successfully integrated into German society will be allowed to remain in Germany"

And how do they show that they've integrated into German society? (...) They should also have to eat sauerkraut.
- - - - - -
The resulting flatulance will create massive firestorms when ignited...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at March 31, 2026 12:43 AM (IdeXD)

229 Okay, I'll try again. Are they just trying to stir up controversy, or do they really think we might have the wrong guy? Or multiple people involved but not yet identified?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 31, 2026 01:02 AM (UajcV)

230 It's not that it's a bad interface it's just that the interface is absolutely not windows. It's as if they went out of their way to make it Not Windows.

MacOS is the older GUI. To the extent that Windows looks at all, or acts at all, like MacOS, it’s because Bill Gates wanted it to be more like a Mac.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 31, 2026 01:05 AM (ZVgZ4)

231
Supporting with what? Good wishes and a hearty handshake?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

==============

"Best luck to your 19-year-olds. If they do well, we'll be able to buy our 19-year-olds new cars and condos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at March 31, 2026 01:05 AM (n7rxJ)

232 Just peeking in

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2026 01:05 AM (Ia/+0)

233 229: Yes. They're narcissists. They get off on the attention. Controversy is money. Its demonic.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 31, 2026 01:08 AM (sAmhv)

234 MacOS is the older GUI. To the extent that Windows looks at all, or acts at all, like MacOS, it’s because Bill Gates wanted it to be more like a Mac.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 31, 2026 01:05 AM (ZVgZ4)

And this Linux Mint gui looks a lot like Windows, but doesn't try nearly so hard to piss you off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 01:09 AM (2JFBE)

235 doesn't try nearly so hard to piss you off.
_-_
Great way to put it. It feels like that is a Microsoft goal sometimes.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 31, 2026 01:10 AM (UajcV)

236 It depends on a lot of things, including the bullet, the charge, the age of the ammo, the condition of the rifle chamber and barrel, and how it was modified from 8mm Mauser to 30-06.

I hit a blacktail deer with a glaser type hunting round from a .303 Enfield at 50 feet and it did not penetrate . A friend hit a buck with a .30 carbine full jacket round and it zipped through and hit the doe behind it too.

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 11:25 PM (rbvCR)

I go back to the day a friend mag dumped an AR15 into a large car battery. I think a 27 series, and all it did was poke holes in it and knock one of the caps off. I hit it with an M1 garand with one shot and the battery vanished, like removed from this earth. We found one small chunk of corner and maybe a few small shard of the plates. That was it, gone, scattered to the wind. That was probably 1960's surplus ammo. I could not believe the frigging power that round had. With that kind of energy I would figure a neck shot would pop his head from his body, unless there just wasn't enough area to generate the hydrostatic shock. I still can't believe that battery. Its etched in my mind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 01:12 AM (snZF9)

237 235 doesn't try nearly so hard to piss you off.
_-_
Great way to put it. It feels like that is a Microsoft goal sometimes.
****

It's not a goal. Their customers being pissed off (and pissed on) is just not a concern since they achieved "fuck you" levels of market share.

Posted by: clarence at March 31, 2026 01:16 AM (bbCED)

238 Great way to put it. It feels like that is a Microsoft goal sometimes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

One of the better memes I've seen in the last couple weeks:

Does Microsoft Understand Consent?
[_] Yes
[X] Ask me again in 3 days

Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2026 01:17 AM (VHUov)

239 235 doesn't try nearly so hard to piss you off.
_-_
Great way to put it. It feels like that is a Microsoft goal sometimes.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 31, 2026 01:10 AM (UajcV)

I think that managers always feel like they need to put their mark on the department, so they have something to point to in their bid for their next position. So, IT managers for an established product are always pissing off customers by messing with their "cognitive capital" of knowing how things work. It's a real cost, and I think that for very large projects like Windows, it could be worth it to bring in a cross-functional manager near the end whose bragline would be something like "saved us from pissing us all our valued customers, by cutting 1213 wholly unnecessary changes from the new version."

Posted by: SciVo at March 31, 2026 01:21 AM (Sy6m/)

240 Branyard, the M1301 sounds like an Aussie Toyota HiLux with a seating upgrade. 2.8L turbo diesel, manual,with a sweet service body option. And skookum as frig, being a HiLux after all. And it kills me those funny talking convicts get them and I can't. The "Chicken Tax" is stupid, I live in 'Murica and I can't get the truck I please? Unacceptable.

Posted by: I still can't think of anytung at March 31, 2026 01:21 AM (IMe9Z)

241 And holy smokes! One M13101 costs$350k! For that you could give each fire team on a whole platoon a HiLux.

Posted by: I still can't think of anytung at March 31, 2026 01:30 AM (IMe9Z)

242 I read the M1301 is based on the chevy colorado. Wtf were they thinking?? I have a colorado pickup as a kind of spare vehicle for hitting home depot, or taking shit to the dumps. The only thing I would do with that thing in war time is pack it full of C-4 and roll it into the enemy as a diversion.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 01:36 AM (snZF9)

243 Well, it is late, and I was up at Zero dark thirty this morning. Staying at my niece's place in Victoria, in a really nice freshly renovated basement suite. My nephew is finishing off a reno in the former garage, which will become a den/office adjoining this suite, so I will probably spend tomorrow helping him (or getting in his way, LOL). About 3 blocks from the waterfront, too.

So, I am off to the rack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 01:37 AM (2JFBE)

244 189
Artemis II is sort of like Apollo 8, but it's not going to go into lunar orbit, just a free-return fly-by. It will go "higher" beyond the Moon than any other Apollo mission and set a record for that, but it won't go into orbit.

Why? Because the stupid SLS and Orion don't have the fuel/delta-v budget to insert into lunar orbit and get out. Orion/SLS is no Apollo/Saturn V.

Ain't that just stupid?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 11:50 PM (w6EFb)

Back in the early 80's, I had a great talk with my Grandpa... he had literally been born in horse and buggy days, and grew up on a Farm in Nebraska plowing behind Horses... yet lived to see Men walk on the Moon.

Strange that HE saw Men on the Moon, but my 35 year old Son? has not.

We lost some Mojo somewhere.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 01:41 AM (mP0Kj)

245 I read the M1301 is based on the chevy colorado. Wtf were they thinking?? I have a colorado pickup as a kind of spare vehicle for hitting home depot, or taking shit to the dumps. The only thing I would do with that thing in war time is pack it full of C-4 and roll it into the enemy as a diversion.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 01:36 AM (snZF9)

The original Chevy Colorado was a weird beast that look like a Tahoe, with the rear roof cut off, and an end gate fitted to the back of the cab. Just like the Honda Fridgeline (so named, because it is an appliance). But I thought the Colorado name was now used on a "mid-size" pickup; a little bigger than the old S10, but smaller than a base Silverado?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2026 01:42 AM (2JFBE)

246 The Colorado is the mid sized P/U. The Avalanche is/was the full sized SUV thing.

Posted by: Reforger at March 31, 2026 01:50 AM (7WnOb)

247 And the military should go back to the Jeep. Solid axle, leaf spring, stick shift, easy to remove 4 banger Cummins diesel.

Posted by: Reforger at March 31, 2026 01:54 AM (7WnOb)

248 National General Strike on May day! On strike shut it down! Fascists your bound to lose!

Posted by: raimondo at March 31, 2026 02:16 AM (+Fr7y)

249 AOC would win the debate as uncle tom soals would be busy being necklaced by black men that his polices of solving social problems with police service revolvers at the pay of rich white republicans would not be able to protect him.

Posted by: raimondo at March 31, 2026 02:24 AM (+Fr7y)

250 Back in the early 80's, I had a great talk with my Grandpa... he had literally been born in horse and buggy days, and grew up on a Farm in Nebraska plowing behind Horses... yet lived to see Men walk on the Moon.

Strange that HE saw Men on the Moon, but my 35 year old Son? has not.

We lost some Mojo somewhere.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 01:41 AM (mP0Kj)

The free shit army didn't help.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2026 02:40 AM (snZF9)

251 Posted by: raimondo at March 31, 2026 02:16 AM (+

If you win, will you take some lessons in comprehensible written English? Stupid bot.

Posted by: Not a communist at March 31, 2026 03:01 AM (lQ+/f)

252 Strange that HE saw Men on the Moon, but my 35 year old Son? has not.

We lost some Mojo somewhere.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2026 01:41 AM (mP0Kj)

Is it truly all that strange?

It was an amazing achievement. It was incredibly expensive. It served very little practical purpose.

The current moon base plans don't make any sense either. We're nowhere near the capability of setting up any kind of useful resource extraction, it's just another gimmick project that is destined to be canceled.

Posted by: Sjg at March 31, 2026 03:01 AM (aqZN1)

253
The current moon base plans don't make any sense either. We're nowhere near the capability of setting up any kind of useful resource extraction, it's just another gimmick project that is destined to be canceled.
Posted by: Sjg

What movie was it starring Tom Cruise in which aliens had come to Earth to strip mine it and the Moon for resources? Every time the Moon was shown in the sky, it resembled a Death Star from Star Wars being put together when in fact it was the Moon being taken apart by the unfriendly
visitors.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2026 03:10 AM (xG4kz)

254 251 Posted by: raimondo at March 31, 2026 02:16 AM (+

If you win, will you take some lessons in comprehensible written English? Stupid bot.
Posted by: Not a communist at March 31, 2026 03:01 AM (lQ+/f)

***

Don't feed the troll!

****
Greetings hordlings, from your man in Singapore. How goes all? I am thinking that the Artemis Program, although a bit of a boondoggle, is necessary for us to keep up some semblance of space program (and I also don't want to hear the nonsense that will ensue if China somehow manages to send a manned mission there before we do (again). We waste enough money on useless shit, fraud and graft, I think we can find some space (pardon the pun) in the gigantic deficit spend for this.

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 31, 2026 03:25 AM (/aZwr)

255 Oh - also I would pay good coin to see Sowell beat up AOC, metaphorically speaking of course.

. . .

Come to think of it, I would pay good coin to see him beat her up physically as well, perhaps even more $ than a debate beatdown; which would be, to quote the kids today, "savage."

Posted by: Publius Redux at March 31, 2026 03:28 AM (/aZwr)

256 DailyMail 3h
Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims"
Posted by: illiniwek
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They have a pretty much intact bullet where the marks on it doesn't match the rifleing(what they are impkying) ?
OR
They have a mashed up.hunk of copper and lead that they can barely identify as a bullet?

Posted by: buddhaha at March 31, 2026 03:40 AM (rJ+qD)

257 National General Strike on May day! On strike shut it down! Fascists your bound to lose!
Posted by: raimondo
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This is not a response to the idiot raimondo (don't feed the trolls), but a comment on a General.Strike.
I go out on 5/1 and run.into business that is closed or running slowly because workers didn't show up? I tell the owner that if he doesn't fire the jackasses, I'll never do business with them again.
I'll look for picket lines to walk through. I'll take pictures and post them as anti-American Commie agitators.
But, I live out in the boonies outside a small.AZ town. I won't see any of that big city nonsense.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 31, 2026 03:51 AM (rJ+qD)

258 .
NOOD

Pixy is here with Tuesday's Tech News

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 31, 2026 04:01 AM (O7YUW)

Spring Cafe

From !@xnaturedaily

It's officially spring.

Beaver suffers an existential crisis: "What am I doing? Does this bring me joy? Does anything I do even matter?"

Red panda takes a treat.

Armadillos play with balls differently.

Gimme ten.

Baby tigers suck on fingers to sooth themselves just like babies.

Freestyle ax throwing.

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

A metaphor for the law-abiding American citizen.

K-9 dog having fun during a break.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/FY5A12VsdA
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) March 30, 2026

Imagine walking up a random staircase in France and realizing you�re stepping through what looks like a massive, ornate iron gate.

An optical illusion by visual artist Gonzalo Borondopic.twitter.com/zHQKYRqpOG
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 29, 2026

7 Stars in Kyushupic.twitter.com/zZZ4lLIgQ8
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 30, 2026

Dancing with a beluga whale.pic.twitter.com/HegmqmdW1Z
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

Comments

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Good evening good people. I even read the content!~

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2026 07:33 PM (cYBz/)

3 I could spend all day in that picture.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 30, 2026 07:33 PM (zYpTz)

4 Good evening, everyone.

May your bliss be near.

Cafe to relax.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:34 PM (u82oZ)

5 I’ve danced with a lot of bulugas.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 30, 2026 07:34 PM (CLHTv)

6 Dash my lace wigs!

No chiggers, right?

Need a shorter canoe to avoid the snags.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

7 Planted a shit load of lavender today.

The deer are running out of plants to eat at my place.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2026 07:36 PM (cYBz/)

8 That seven star train looks spendy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:36 PM (u82oZ)

9 Beaver suffers an existential crisis: "What am I doing? Does this bring me joy? Does anything I do even matter?"

-
Dust in the wind. All you are is dust in the wind.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 07:36 PM (ndZc7)

10
Finally home again. That was a long 2,000 mile round trip.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 30, 2026 07:36 PM (QVmho)

11 It's still a train.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 07:36 PM (Cqx++)

12 I missed the preceding thread, but Marie Harf has packed on quite a few pounds since her days as liar in chief for Obama's State Dept. She used to be sort of pretty.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 07:37 PM (Riz8t)

13
Dust in the wind. All you are is dust in the wind.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Sawdust

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 07:37 PM (Cqx++)

14 sniffybigtoe

Show some pride, man. Leave the unnatural hair colors and nose rings alone. Or to soy boys.

Although I once went into a bar advertising 300 pounds of dancing flesh. Alas. One woman.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:37 PM (u82oZ)

15 Dust in the wind. All you are is dust in the wind.

Or its pollen season.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:38 PM (2GVsD)

16 It's officially spring.

And not a mephitic Spheniscidae residue in sight!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)

17 Willowed:

If one want to order some heavy water, where could one do so? Could one find it on Amazon?
Posted by: Ali Abdula Mohamed at March 30, 2026 06:55 PM (vFG9F)

Give it a shot Ali. If Amazon can't fill your order, the nice men in suits and sunglasses who come knocking will help you.
Posted by: Diogenes

Only heavy water Amazon has is some kind of "thick" water. Has the consistency of honey.

Great. I've always wanted to chew my water.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (Kksvc)

18 Beaver suffers an existential crisis: "What am I doing? Does this bring me joy? Does anything I do even matter?"

Millions of Buc-ees fans appreciate Beavers. Even if they aren't into beaver.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (syAfa)

19 Beaver suffers an existential crisis: "What am I doing? Does this bring me joy? Does anything I do even matter?"

-
Dust in the wind. All you are is dust in the wind.

What is the sound of one tail slapping?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (Riz8t)

20 Although I once went into a bar advertising 300 pounds of dancing flesh. Alas. One woman.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:37 PM

What was your CPA?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)

21 I saw that diver and thought Hey, JackStraw is showing vacation pictures!

Posted by: Case at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (pvf3X)

22 🤣🤣

American people (most) are wise!

"Harvard Harris Poll: Key Takeaways on Iran & the War:

•76% say the U.S. is currently winning the war against Iran

•64% say Iran violated its nuclear deal

•62% view Iran as a direct U.S. national security threat

•67% say Iran is a leading source of instability, terrorism, and war

•68% believe the Iranian people do not support the regime

•73% support Israel over Hamas.."

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:40 PM (GD0B3)

23 Ali Abdula Mohamed

Contact Norway. They can set you up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:40 PM (u82oZ)

24 Don’t drink heavy water. If you drink a lot of it you can get sick and even die.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 30, 2026 07:40 PM (CLHTv)

25 Although I once went into a bar advertising 300 pounds of dancing flesh. Alas. One woman.

I'll bet the flesh kept dancing for a while even after she sat down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 07:40 PM (guGkK)

26
First wildfire of the season yesterday here in SW Wyoming.

A rancher''s tractor threw out sparks and 400 acres burned.

It's going to be a bad summer.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 07:41 PM (3ek7K)

27 I took a 24 hour trip on Amtrak and it was nothing like that 7 star train. Banzai!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 07:41 PM (RIvkX)

28 ok, this one is sad...

51% support U.S. Israel strikes on Iran, 54% say the campaign is justified

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:41 PM (GD0B3)

29 My water is protected by a healthy shot of Balvenie.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 07:41 PM (+nEug)

30 Duncanthrax

Free and clear on her starboard beam. No closer than 4 twiggy models end to end.

Doing what I can to avoid the metric system.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:42 PM (u82oZ)

31 It will change into a more positive direction in a month...

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:42 PM (GD0B3)

32 The City of Brotherly Love held a rally where the organizers exhorted the attendees to cheer for every US soldier who returns in a casket.

Where was a cluster bomb when we needed one?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:42 PM (2GVsD)

33 51% support U.S. Israel strikes on Iran, 54% say the campaign is justified

I have a few questions for the 3 percent.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 07:42 PM (guGkK)

34 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

"Tolkien Reading Day" is officially over (for me).

Finished Return of the King this morning. Still hits me hard at the end. Great stuff.

Now back to Repairman Jack, where his sister Kate is slowly being integrated into a viral hivemind associated with the Otherness that hates humanity...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 07:43 PM (ESVrU)

35 May your bliss be near.
_-_
Heh. Pretty sure it's a virus. Last one in the family to get it. Now they get to wait on me ..

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 07:43 PM (UajcV)

36 Only heavy water Amazon has is some kind of "thick" water. Has the consistency of honey.

Great. I've always wanted to chew my water.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (Kksvc)
====
Some people with swallowing disorders can't drink thin liquids safely so they use "thickener."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 07:43 PM (RIvkX)

37 don't drink heavy water, you'll glow in the dark !

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:43 PM (GD0B3)

38 No chiggers, right?

Really? Hard "R" and everything?

Posted by: Nat'l Association for Advancement of Chiggers at March 30, 2026 07:44 PM (TbWk/)

39 Heavy Water: Enriched with extra neutrons!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 07:44 PM (guGkK)

40 I have a few questions for the 3 percent.
Posted by: Cicero

Can't somebody ELSE do it?!

Posted by: Homer Simpson, future Senate candidate at March 30, 2026 07:44 PM (gKWVE)

41 Great. I've always wanted to chew my water.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (Kksvc)

The Platte river. Too thick to drink, too thin to plow.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 07:45 PM (0aYVJ)

42 First wildfire of the season yesterday here in SW Wyoming.

A rancher''s tractor threw out sparks and 400 acres burned.

It's going to be a bad summer.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 07:41 PM (3ek7K)

That is scary stuff, fourseasons. People don't understand that a tractor hitting a rock, or a welder working on fence, or even some guy with a chain dragging from his pickup can start wildfires. I don't even mention the douchebag what throws his cigarette butt out the window.

God Bless you. Stay safe.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 07:45 PM (syAfa)

43 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

🥃

You demonstrate the proper way to keep internal parasites away. Divorces keep external parasites away.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:45 PM (u82oZ)

44 salty Dawg

I think Telemark has been out of the business for over 80 years.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:45 PM (2GVsD)

45 The neutrinos are revolting.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 07:45 PM (+nEug)

46 May your bliss be near.

No dadframingbladdangit! I said the bassist is a

*BONGGGGGG*

Posted by: Gabby Johnson at March 30, 2026 07:46 PM (TbWk/)

47
Heavy water fun facts. Freezing point is 38.9F and boiling point is 214.6F. It's about 10% denser than normal water. Heavy water ice would sink in regular water.

These large difference in these basic properties are due to the 2x mass difference between D and H. You can also play around with oxygen isotopes, say O-18 or -17 instead of O-16. This doesn't make much difference, because the relative mass difference isn't that much.

This is the toxicity mechanism. All the biochemical reactions that power us are in water as a solvent. That big difference in properties due to the large relative messes up those reactions.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 07:46 PM (w6EFb)

48 Too thick to drink, too thin to plow.
_-_
Ha! Haven't heard that expression since my dad passed. He was a king of the one-liners.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 07:46 PM (UajcV)

49 dancing beluga has to be AI!

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:47 PM (GD0B3)

50 Free and clear on her starboard beam. No closer than 4 twiggy models end to end.

Doing what I can to avoid the metric system.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:42 PM

If by 'end to end' you mean 'butt to butt', given they're twiggies, that's a pretty close aboard approach. An unrep, eh?

Well, whatever floats your boat. ;-D

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 07:47 PM (0sNs1)

51 The Platte river. Too thick to drink, too thin to plow.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 07:45 PM (0aYVJ)
---
Heh. Sounds like a perfect description of the River Ankh in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU)

52 First wildfire of the season yesterday here in SW Wyoming.

Posted by: fourseasons

We are already at an elevated risk for wildfires so an outdoor burning ban is in effect. Earliest in the year that folks around here can remember.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2026 07:48 PM (cYBz/)

53 No dadframingbladdangit! I said the bassist is a

*BONGGGGGG*
_-_
I'm glad the children were here to hear that authentic frontier gibberish.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 07:48 PM (UajcV)

54 Dancing beluga or 300lb dancer?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:49 PM (2GVsD)

55 It would be neat to see that gate illusion in person

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 07:49 PM (Ia/+0)

56 "Need a shorter canoe to avoid the snags.
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

A kayak.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Yaks at March 30, 2026 07:50 PM (vFG9F)

57 Anna Puma

Let's rebuild and get the band together. Let Iran waste money.

--Norwegian Special Forces--
"We know just where to sink the railcar."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:50 PM (u82oZ)

58 >>I saw that diver and thought Hey, JackStraw is showing vacation pictures!

Only seen Belugas from the surface but I bet it would be fun to dive with them. Friendly, playful and smart.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 07:51 PM (viF8m)

59 Ben Had

Has to be a neutron, otherwise it would chime "I'm positive" for every proton.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:52 PM (u82oZ)

60 >>>Is this JAPANESE train the World’s ONLY 7 star train?

Until some train owner comes along and gives their own train 8 stars.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 30, 2026 07:52 PM (syz1S)

61
Mary, thanks.

We're packing go bags tomorrow.

Documents, dog paraphernalia, water and nonperishable food.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 07:52 PM (3ek7K)

62 I used to watch beluga whales at the mouth of the Kenai river. Pretty, and love them some salmon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 07:53 PM (0aYVJ)

63 --Norwegian Special Forces--
"We know just where to sink the railcar."
_-_
The music had a back beat, tricky and hard to follow

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 07:53 PM (UajcV)

64 Guy who relates everything to Yaks

My metacentric hight is too high. That leads to an inverted kayak. The Kaw River still laughs at my attempt to kayak down it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:54 PM (u82oZ)

65 I actually feel sorry for the players on the team known only as the A’s.

Posted by: Accomack at March 30, 2026 07:55 PM (GbONR)

66 Duncanthrax

In this phase of life, I am younger than the four widows I walk with. Life is good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:55 PM (u82oZ)

67 Update: Secret Service agent who shot himself in butt was trying to use gun light to find phone

-
You know, like dropping a match in your gas tank to see if you're out of gas.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

He misplaced his phone in his butt?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 07:56 PM (/lPRQ)

68 "The Kaw River still laughs at my attempt to kayak down it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

Those cataryaks are tricky.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Yaks at March 30, 2026 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

69 JackStraw

Has Spring arrived in RI?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:56 PM (u82oZ)

70 Is this JAPANESE train the World’s ONLY 7 star train?

Until the CAHSR (California High-Speed Railway) gets underway, yes.

Posted by: California High-Speed Rail Authority at March 30, 2026 07:56 PM (0sNs1)

71
Tonypete,

We have strict water rationing in force.

No gardens, landscaping etc.

Our neighbor who is a PITA is all about his flowers and yard.

He'll be sneaking out at night. He doesn't know I'm up most of the night, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 07:56 PM (3ek7K)

72 Mary, thanks.

We're packing go bags tomorrow.

Documents, dog paraphernalia, water and nonperishable food.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 07:52 PM (3ek7K)

We have had wildfires close to home. I took off one day with our cats. The smoke was so close. It is terrifying. I'm glad you have a plan.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 07:57 PM (syAfa)

73 The deer are running out of plants to eat at my place.
Posted by: Tonypete

Plant skunk cabbage. Deer won't touch it. Bears might.

Posted by: skunk Cabbage Growers alliance at March 30, 2026 07:57 PM (oftw2)

74 Damn kid shot me in the ASS.

Posted by: the waco kid at March 30, 2026 07:57 PM (gKWVE)

75 Kaw River still laughs at my attempt to kayak down it
_-_
There's a song about that sort of thing:

https://tinyurl.com/4b89vjmb

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 07:58 PM (UajcV)

76 That optical illusion was amazing.
Thank you.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 07:58 PM (Sco7b)

77 For those wishing to avoid the metric system, the smoot is a perfectly-fine unit of length.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 07:59 PM (0sNs1)

78 "He misplaced his phone in his butt?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher"

I wonder what his ringtone is.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

79 >>>Is this JAPANESE train the World’s ONLY 7 star train?

Until some train owner comes along and gives their own train 8 stars.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 30, 2026 07:52 PM (syz1S)

*mulls this over*

Posted by: Sir Topham Hatt at March 30, 2026 07:59 PM (wVcYX)

80 Duncanthrax, I'll stick with cubits

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:00 PM (+nEug)

81 Sure has Salty. We'll still have the occasional cold day and April showers but Spring has arrived.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 08:00 PM (viF8m)

82
My water is protected by a healthy shot of Balvenie.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 07:41 PM (+nEug)

I used to make water potable by adding it to bourbon, but now that I'm not drinking alcohol anymore, I'm constantly flirting with dehydration.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 08:01 PM (y9nCu)

83 Ringtone?

Something by Sir Mix-a-lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 08:01 PM (2GVsD)

84 deer are running out of plants to eat
_-_
Told my neighbor that just makes 'em taste better when you harvest them since they been eating flowers. That very nice lady scowled at me.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:01 PM (UajcV)

85 Now back to Repairman Jack, where his sister Kate is slowly being integrated into a viral hivemind associated with the Otherness that hates humanity...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 07:43 PM (ESVrU)

Yeah, Democrat family members are a bitch.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 08:02 PM (Sco7b)

86 Documents, dog paraphernalia, water and nonperishable food.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 07:52 PM (3ek7K)

We have had wildfires close to home. I took off one day with our cats. The smoke was so close. It is terrifying. I'm glad you have a plan.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 07:57 PM (syAfa)

A few years ago, when we lived in Fort Collins, we had some scary wildfires in the hills to the west. Sky was black and we had ash and cinders landing on our roof, deck and vehicles. Some were still warm. And we live on the east side of the city. Pretty damn scary.

Stay safe.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 08:02 PM (0aYVJ)

87 What am I doing? Does this bring me joy? Does anything I do even matter?"

Does anyone realy know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 08:02 PM (XuXeR)

88 IllTempered Cur, miss you.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:02 PM (+nEug)

89 "Something by Sir Mix-a-lot.
Posted by: Anna Puma"

I was thinking more 1812 Overture.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 08:03 PM (vFG9F)

90 Now back to Repairman Jack, where his sister Kate is slowly being integrated into a viral hivemind associated with the Otherness that hates humanity...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 07:43 PM (ESVrU)

Yeah, Democrat family members are a bitch.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 08:02 PM (Sco7b)
---
There are some interesting COVID parallels in this story...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 08:03 PM (ESVrU)

91

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is among the lawmakers being ridiculed for taking a personal trip amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, after TMZ published photos of Graham walking around Disney World with a bubble wand toy, dinning at Chef Mickey’s and standing in line for Space Mountain.

The South Carolina senator appeared to be wearing business attire while holding a pink bubble wand toy while walking around the “Tangled” area of Magic Kingdom Friday, the tabloid news outlet reported.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 08:03 PM (Cqx++)

92 Don in SoCo

Thanks. Never heard this before.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:04 PM (u82oZ)

93
Oldest son runs the US Forest Service here.

He said it's bad and he'll not be home much.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 08:04 PM (3ek7K)

94 Here's an online conversion tool when you need to convert cubits to smoots easily:

https://www.convertunits.com/from/cubit/to/smoot

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 08:04 PM (0sNs1)

95
IllTempered Cur, miss you.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:02 PM (+nEug)

Mwah!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 08:05 PM (y9nCu)

96 Only you, Duncanthrax, only you.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:06 PM (+nEug)

97 Armadillo with a cat like 4 legged pounce.Was not expecting that.

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 08:06 PM (YwEeS)

98 Never heard this before
_-_
Guy from western slope if I recall correctly. Very popular back in the CB radio days.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:06 PM (xoq3t)

99 "TMZ published photos of Graham walking around Disney World with a bubble wand toy, dinning at Chef Mickey’s and standing in line for Space Mountain."

That's the best they can come up with? You know there is much much more juicer stuff than that out there.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F)

100 Ringtone?

Something by Sir Mix-a-lot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 08:01 PM

Here's one for the Morons:

https://tinyurl.com/eck82z99

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 08:07 PM (syAfa)

101 Only you, Duncanthrax, only you.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:06 PM

What am I, chopped gagh?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 30, 2026 08:07 PM (AGSC8)

102
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is among the lawmakers being ridiculed for taking a personal trip amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, after TMZ published photos of Graham walking around Disney World with a bubble wand toy, dinning at Chef Mickey’s and standing in line for Space Mountain.

The South Carolina senator appeared to be wearing business attire while holding a pink bubble wand toy while walking around the “Tangled” area of Magic Kingdom Friday, the tabloid news outlet reported.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 08:03 PM (Cqx++)

Confusion abounds. Gay Days at Disney World isn't for another couple of months.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 08:08 PM (y9nCu)

103

The Chicago Bulls NBA team announced on Monday that it has waived guard Jaden Ivey "due to conduct detrimental to the team." This comes after Ivey posted a series of videos to social media in which he called the league’s celebration of Pride Month "unrighteous," and said "I’m born again," and "I’ve been saved by Jesus Christ."

"They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA. They show it to the world. They say, 'Come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.' They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards, they proclaim it in the streets, unrighteousness."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 08:09 PM (Cqx++)

104 62 I used to watch beluga whales at the mouth of the Kenai river. Pretty, and love them some salmon.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 07:53 PM (0aYVJ)

Near the end of summer they just park in front of the mouth of Bird Creek and let the salmon swim into their mouths. They are fun to watch.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 08:11 PM (DwqWV)

105 What the heck, y'all need to hear this one, too:
https://tinyurl.com/5c6wwm6w

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:11 PM (UajcV)

106 there will be no swimming in the heavy water or singing in the acid rain

none

Posted by: Desinex at March 30, 2026 08:13 PM (jrgJz)

107 32. Where was a cluster bomb when we needed one?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yeah.

And ICE should have a permanent command at the Philly International Airport.

Posted by: Trying to Fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 08:13 PM (NFX2v)

108 29 My water is protected by a healthy shot of Balvenie.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 07:41 PM (+nEug)

Doof would insist you use Bourbon ...

But you and I know better

{{{ben had}}}

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 30, 2026 08:13 PM (3sXRv)

109
there will be no swimming in the heavy water or singing in the acid rain

Red Alert Red Alert

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 08:15 PM (Cqx++)

110 106 there will be no swimming in the heavy water or singing in the acid rain

none
_-_
Oh, you're no fun anymore.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:15 PM (UajcV)

111 I bet they wouldn't cut a muslim for saying thst.

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 08:16 PM (YwEeS)

112 Well I've never been an NBA fan but I think I'm a Jaden Ivey fan.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 08:17 PM (vFG9F)

113 there will be no swimming in the heavy water or singing in the acid rain

none

————————

When Did we get all these rules?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 08:18 PM (u73oe)

114 The Chicago Bulls NBA team announced on Monday that it has waived guard Jaden Ivey "due to conduct detrimental to the team." This comes after Ivey posted a series of videos to social media in which he called the league’s celebration of Pride Month "unrighteous," and said "I’m born again," and "I’ve been saved by Jesus Christ."

"They proclaim Pride Month in the NBA. They show it to the world. They say, 'Come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.' They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards, they proclaim it in the streets, unrighteousness."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 08:09 PM

500 quatloos that he'll be blacklisted by the NBA.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1)

115 browndog, forgive me for being lax in our communications. Big hug.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:18 PM (+nEug)

116 "When Did we get all these rules?
Posted by: Duke Lowell"

It started with the Saturday Morning thread.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 08:19 PM (vFG9F)

117 heh

>>@washingtonpost
·
1h
>>Breaking news: Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell demanded in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the bureau refrain from releasing decade-old investigative files involving the congressman’s purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)

118 When Did we get all these rules?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 08:18 PM

Have you never been on the Saturday Morning Coffee and Prayer Revival Thread, or the Book Thread? Or the Art Thread?

Heck, even the Gun Thread has rules.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 08:20 PM (0sNs1)

119 500 quatloos that he'll be blacklisted by the NBA.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 08:18 PM (0sNs1)

I was unaware that the NBA was a hive of faggotry.

I wonder if their rabid black fans know about that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 08:21 PM (DwqWV)

120 Beautiful pictures up top, Ace. Thanks.

Posted by: Trying to Fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 08:21 PM (NFX2v)

121 It started with the Saturday Morning thread.
_-_
Knew I shouldna slept in.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:21 PM (UajcV)

122 Breaking news: Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell demanded in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the bureau refrain from releasing decade-old investigative files involving the congressman’s purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)

Demand all you want, Skippy, those files do not belong to you.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 08:22 PM (DwqWV)

123 I was unaware that the NBA was a hive of faggotry.

I wonder if their rabid black fans know about that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 08:21 PM

They may be more concerned about their daughter league.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 08:23 PM (0sNs1)

124 That's the best they can come up with? You know there is much much more juicer stuff than that out there.
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F)
---
As long as his rent boys are over 18, they've got nothing. They can't call him a queen because their base will tear them to shreds.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:23 PM (ZOv7s)

125 their base will tear them to shred
_-_
Circuses

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:24 PM (UajcV)

126 Still 70 degrees in the formerly frozen tundra. A cloudburst created that wonderful green smell of plants and growth.

It's still March, still Michigan and I dare not hope we won't get just a little snow before things really warm up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:25 PM (ZOv7s)

127 JaxkStraw

My advice to Rep. Eric Swalwell is to fall on his sword. He is a traitor, and rules have changed.

OBTW, all information he gave to China was disinformation. That's why he does not have a new handler.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:26 PM (u82oZ)

128 They may be more concerned about their daughter league.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 08:23 PM (0sNs1)

I can't imagine the NBA gives one big fat rat's ass about a bunch of black lesbian ballers.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 08:26 PM (DwqWV)

129 Mindthoughts. Everybody just spills because of the immediacy of social media. I just laugh because people, including me, are foolish and say foolish things. I just don't post them, unless I'm here. heh. Ace, you rule!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 08:26 PM (Fbc0I)

130 My advice to Rep. Eric Swalwell is to fall on his sword. He is a traitor, and rules have changed.

OBTW, all information he gave to China was disinformation. That's why he does not have a new handler.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:26 PM (u82oZ)

But, but, but, I'm really really important! And smart. I'm smart, too.

Posted by: Sir TVFarter at March 30, 2026 08:27 PM (DwqWV)

131 created that wonderful green smell of plants and growth.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:25 PM

Call us. We can help.

Posted by: Big Penguin at March 30, 2026 08:27 PM (d+FtT)

132 Style Guide update?

War loving, Gay Icon and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:27 PM (u82oZ)

133 There are some interesting COVID parallels in this story...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 08:03 PM (ESVrU)

I'm watching a Chinese zombie movie "The Sadness" with COVID parallels too. Then things get real.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 08:28 PM (Sco7b)

134 Breaking news: Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell demanded in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the bureau refrain from releasing decade-old investigative files involving the congressman’s purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)
---
I know a lot of people think Trump & co. badly botched the Epstein files, but I think they knew what they were doing. They teased them out, and went from being all for it to totally against it, *knowing* the Dems would reflexively demand their release.

So it got dumped, and the damage fell entirely on the left, and now - very important here - a precedent has been set. Even if no charges were brought, the FBI can, as a public service - dump a bunch of adverse info about you.

Yes, it's bad, but this is where we are. Sometimes people need to understand that turnabout is fair play.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:28 PM (ZOv7s)

135 Marie Harf

She couldn't care less if girls on what are supposed to be GIRLS sports are pummeled and have head injuries and have awards taken away from them.
Cuz Marie Harf is a feminist or whatever. She isn't under any threat from some mentally ill man pretending to be a woman.

I hate how the left conflates things -- coed sports does not equal men allowed to dress as women and play against women

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 08:28 PM (nz1sK)

136 132 Style Guide update?

War loving, Gay Icon and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:27 PM (u82oZ)

Hey, dude now has the magic wand. Let's just see how that changes the situation before we judge.

Posted by: Sir TVFarter at March 30, 2026 08:28 PM (DwqWV)

137 wonderful green smell of plants and growth

Always liked the smell of rain in the Texas panhandle...not much rain, but springtime rains make the air smell sweet, as the song goes.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:28 PM (UajcV)

138 Oops. Nasty sock, begone.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 08:28 PM (DwqWV)

139 Call us. We can help.
Posted by: Big Penguin at March 30, 2026 08:27 PM (d+FtT)
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Do big penguins go down like bowling pins, or just explode? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:29 PM (ZOv7s)

140 Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell demanded in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the bureau refrain from releasing decade-old investigative files involving the congressman’s purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.

And I demand that Sophie Marceau get nekkid in my living room.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 08:30 PM (Riz8t)

141 Kudos to Jaden Ivey. Not an easy thing to do, but it seems he's a true Christian. Prayers, brother.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 08:31 PM (0aYVJ)

142 But, but, but, I'm really really important! And smart. I'm smart, too.

Narrator: He is, in fact, not smart at all.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 08:31 PM (Riz8t)

143 Its Cultural Marxism turning sexes, protecting illegals and releasing criminals

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 08:32 PM (Ia/+0)

144 Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic

Anti-trust and anti DEI investigation of NBA? I wish.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:32 PM (u82oZ)

145 Marie Harf

She couldn't care less if girls on what are supposed to be GIRLS sports are pummeled and have head injuries and have awards taken away from them.
Cuz Marie Harf is a feminist or whatever. She isn't under any threat from some mentally ill man pretending to be a woman.

I hate how the left conflates things -- coed sports does not equal men allowed to dress as women and play against women
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 08:28 PM (nz1sK)
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She hates "jock girls." She identifies as a nerd, hence the glasses. She is not a nerd. She is too stupid to be a nerd. In the 80s she would make fun of nerds along with the rest of the theater kids, but no one would care what she said. Somehow theater kids got status, which was a disaster. Now the jocks are reasserting authority and using weaponized nerd planning to destroy their enemies.

The joint goal of this unprecedented alliance? Make girls f*ckable again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)

146 Skip

Cultural Marxism is the Bud Light of philosophy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:33 PM (u82oZ)

147 Sophie Marceau
_-_
Very French chin, that one...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:33 PM (UajcV)

148 "Do big penguins go down like bowling pins, or just explode? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd"

A description of penguin egg gathering:

"Fancy what work, to stand amid hundreds of the birds, all screaming round you, so as almost to deafen you, tumbling them here and there, and picking up their eggs as fast as you can gather them! It is really amusing sport. I must remind you the kicking them over with our soft moccasins does not hurt them in the least, and the next day they will have just as many eggs."

Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 30, 2026 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

149 Archimedes, you can have Sophie if I can have Adam Croasdell in mine

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:35 PM (+nEug)

150 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Dem AWFLS and Karens are being removed from the gene pool by their own decisions.

More babies, please, you conservative thought leaders. Field trip to the PI?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:36 PM (u82oZ)

151 weaponized nerd planning...huh...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 08:36 PM (UajcV)

152 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 08:36 PM (Ia/+0)

153 Can we just cut off Spain completely like they are Cuba. What do they provide to us besides wine and olives?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:37 PM (V4IXI)

154 Don in SoCo

Think 4 Chan finding the flag of LeBoof.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:37 PM (u82oZ)

155 MrTea has a phone interview tomorrow morning.
Sounds like a good job, with a 45 minute commute.

Had a call today for a job that sounded promising until they got to the part about 12 hour days. 6pm-6am
65.00/hr

Hard pass.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 08:38 PM (nz1sK)

156 "Fancy what work, to stand amid hundreds of the birds, all screaming round you, so as almost to deafen you, tumbling them here and there, and picking up their eggs as fast as you can gather them! It is really amusing sport. I must remind you the kicking them over with our soft moccasins does not hurt them in the least, and the next day they will have just as many eggs."
Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 30, 2026 08:33 PM (vFG9F)
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What's the best way to prepare them? Poached? Scrambled? Fried?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 08:38 PM (ESVrU)

157 Cultural Marxism is the Bud Light of philosophy.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:33 PM (u82oZ)
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Who came up with it? That retard James Lindsay?

It's demonic. It is evil. Marxism is class-based. Homosexuality and gender bending is decadent and depraved according to Marx.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:38 PM (ZOv7s)

158 And I demand that Sophie Marceau get nekkid in my living room.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 08:30 PM

Are you of English or French descent?

Posted by: Nicolette, Princess Isabelle's attendant at March 30, 2026 08:39 PM (0sNs1)

159 Archimedes, you can have Sophie if I can have Adam Croasdell in mine

Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 08:39 PM (Riz8t)

160 Kudos to Jaden Ivey. Not an easy thing to do, but it seems he's a true Christian. Prayers, brother.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 08:31 PM (0aYVJ)

Sorry to rain on the parade but he's very anti-Catholic apparently. Called it a false religion.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:40 PM (V4IXI)

161 Harry Vandenburg

One expression of Faith, and he is out? Sad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:41 PM (u82oZ)

162 Harry Vandenburg

One expression of Faith, and he is out? Sad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:41 PM (u82oZ)

163 Confusion abounds. Gay Days at Disney World isn't for another couple of months.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 08:08 PM (y9nCu)

Understandably you may not be aware of the unpublished Disney gay days.
They abound.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 30, 2026 08:42 PM (DLDXz)

164

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The U.S. Army has opened a formal investigation into the activities of two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters that conducted low-altitude maneuvers near the suburban Nashville home of musician Kid Rock on Saturday, the same day anti-Trump "No Kings" protests took place across the country, according to multiple media outlets.

https://t.ly/saxzs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 08:42 PM (Cqx++)

165 What's the best way to prepare them? Poached? Scrambled? Fried?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 08:38 PM

If you hard-boil them, the 'white' part is translucent. Chicken eggs contain ovalbumin, while penguin eggs contain penalbumin.

The taste of penguin eggs is often described as fishy and unappealing without seasoning.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (0sNs1)

166 flag of LeBoof
_-_
"Decided" Funny.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, the Guy Who Laughs Last at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (UajcV)

167 How did I double post? The hamsters are told to stop that.

Maybe I'll take a break.

Have a great night, everyone.

Make sure those close to you are searched carefully for weapons and clothing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (u82oZ)

168 Fourseasons,
I'm in Bozeman, and in the middle of an unpredicted snowstorm. Now they're saying four more days of snow. Hopefully it will be true for you, too.

But if you have to flee, I have plenty of room and a freezer full of food. You're welcome.

Posted by: Wenda at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (yU1fv)

169 127>>>My advice to Rep. Eric Swalwell is to fall on his sword. He is a traitor, and rules have changed.

NaCly, Swalwell would have to have some sort of ethical code, or sense of honor, or even plain old shame would work.
But he doesn't have any of those things.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (nz1sK)

170 Those graveyard 12's were great to work. No management to fuck with you.

Of course, that was 20 sum years ago

The time off was great, though.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (O0YTm)

171 Harry Vandenburg

One expression of Faith, and he is out? Sad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:41 PM (u82oZ)

No the problem for me is the NBA had a problem only when he went against the Homos. They didn't have a problem with his rants against the Catholics earlier.

I'm not Catholic if that makes a difference.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:44 PM (V4IXI)

172 Ding-dang ottokorrekt..."Devided".

Posted by: Don in SoCo, the Guy Who Laughs Last at March 30, 2026 08:45 PM (UajcV)

173
Full moon, light clouds playing about in front of it, small breeze, 70 degrees, sitting on the back porch with a pint of neighbors home brew.

But hail and severe winds are four hours away, so I'm told.

Posted by: Auspex at March 30, 2026 08:47 PM (Y8DZL)

174 The problem with The Epstein Files(tm) is that they don't prove what the Left and the nonMAGA Right want them to prove, which is that Trump diddled kids.
He didn't.
But as long as they don't prove it, and don't disprove it, they'll still keep it in the air. Like the "dancing Israelis" on 9/11, or WTC7. Like the USS Liberty.
The point - for the Candace Owens / Ron Unz crew - never was to exonerate Trump; it was to Keep Asking Questions. The uncertainty feeds their audience. They'll never be satisfied.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 08:49 PM (gKWVE)

175 Make sure those close to you are searched carefully for weapons and clothing.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (u82oZ)
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Those closest to me are well-attired with thick fur coats and are well-equipped with a hidden arsenal of blades...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 08:50 PM (ESVrU)

176 Swallowswell, fighting the release just attracts more Streisand attention.

Time to retire to spend time with family in a foreign country with no extradition treaty with the US.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 08:50 PM (2GVsD)

177 Freezing rain tonight, six inches of snow Thursday.

This is 4th or 5th winter now, I've lost count.

Posted by: davidt at March 30, 2026 08:51 PM (Q+gd/)

178 NaCly, Swalwell would have to have some sort of ethical code, or sense of honor, or even plain old shame would work.
But he doesn't have any of those things.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 08:43 PM (nz1sK)
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The modern left has valorized cowardice. At the same time, they push assisted suicide. How do we square this circle?

It's actually quite simple. The key is selfishness. No matter what you do or who you hurt, you have no remorse or regret. You are all that matters.

This is why assisted suicide is okay. If you are in a bad way, don't think of those you leave behind, the anguish you will cause, the heartbreak that will last a lifetime, because you are all that matters.

This is not Marxism. It is not collectivist. It is pure evil.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:52 PM (ZOv7s)

179 I'm not Catholic if that makes a difference.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:44 PM (V4IXI)
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Should the left regain power, it won't.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:54 PM (ZOv7s)

180 Can we just cut off Spain completely like they are Cuba. What do they provide to us besides wine and olives?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:37 PM (V4IXI)

Really nice classical guitars, and.....hmm..yeah, really nice classical guitars.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 08:54 PM (snZF9)

181 Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 08:49 PM (gKWVE)

And all it did was caught up innocent people who were named for whatever reason in those files.

Exactly what Trump said would happen. And IMO the files did exonerate Trump as they confirmed the info we already knew.

Epstein didn't like Trump. Trump kicked him out of Mar Largo, Trump offered to testify against Epstein, etc.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:54 PM (V4IXI)

182 Can we just cut off Spain completely like they are Cuba. What do they provide to us besides wine and olives?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

The ladies are insane there, and they know how to use it.

Posted by: davidt at March 30, 2026 08:55 PM (Q+gd/)

183 Freezing rain tonight, six inches of snow Thursday.

This is 4th or 5th winter now, I've lost count.
Posted by: davidt at March 30, 2026 08:51 PM (Q+gd/)
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I was reliably informed by SCIENCE (that we all, like Ace, love sexually) that snowfalls were a thing of past.

That was before it was decreed that any kind of deviation from a global mean temperature of "average" was the result of CLIMATE CHANGE because extreme weather events were unknown prior to [checks notes] 1989.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)

184 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 08:54 PM (snZF9)

Can you play a 12 string?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:55 PM (V4IXI)

185 Trump claims donor-funded White House ballroom includes hidden build below with security focus
Trump says the roughly $400M project is already ahead of schedule and under budget, replacing the old East Wing demolished in October

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 08:55 PM (O7XEN)

186 For all the bitchin, kevetchin, pissin and moanin, reading one member of the Horde offering a home in case of emergency is the thing that makes the greatest site there is.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 08:57 PM (+nEug)

187 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 08:54 PM (snZF9)

Can you play a 12 string?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:55 PM (V4IXI)

Yeah, I have 2 of them, but its extremely rare for me to play them. Its never anything I really need to do.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 08:59 PM (snZF9)

188 Can we just cut off Spain completely like they are Cuba. What do they provide to us besides wine and olives?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 08:37 PM (V4IXI)

Spain has always been at odds with NATO, during Franco they were excluded, after Franco everyone was suspicious, and only in the last 30 years did they get involved. Even then they were at times certain they were getting suckered into something.

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 08:59 PM (rbvCR)

189 Is it time for the ONT yet?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:01 PM (QGaXH)

190 Fake gate video very cool...

/Lightbulb goes off above head...

Posted by: Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius at March 30, 2026 09:02 PM (mP0Kj)

191 We import nothing of value from Spain.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 09:02 PM (GD0B3)

192 190 Fake gate video very cool...

/Lightbulb goes off above head...
Posted by: Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius at March 30, 2026 09:02 PM (mP0Kj)

Haha!

I kept seeing John Wick rolling, rolling, rolling down endless stairs.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 30, 2026 09:03 PM (zYpTz)

193 185 Trump claims donor-funded White House ballroom includes hidden build below with security focus
Trump says the roughly $400M project is already ahead of schedule and under budget, replacing the old East Wing demolished in October
Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 08:55 PM (O7XEN)

/slams down Gavel

Has to be illegal! A Government project AHEAD OF SCHEDULE????

Posted by: Judge Leftowitz at March 30, 2026 09:04 PM (mP0Kj)

194 The sardines I eat daily come from Morocco. As does the mackerel I eat as backup. Spain can just...do whatever Spain does. I'll eat canned tuna in a crisis.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:04 PM (syAfa)

195 Yeah, I have 2 of them, but its extremely rare for me to play them. Its never anything I really need to do.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 08:59 PM (snZF9)

I assumed you could.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 09:05 PM (V4IXI)

196 Is it time for the ONT yet?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:01 PM (QGaXH)

55 minutes or so, dear sir.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:05 PM (syAfa)

197 Paddle to the right of that stream, don't get caught under that fallen tree.

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:06 PM (LHPAg)

198 Is it time for the ONT yet?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Not yet, but... shhhh... I've got keys to the liquor cabinet and cooler. Want a beer?

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 09:06 PM (rdVOm)

199 191 We import nothing of value from Spain.
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 09:02 PM
Did we talk about the ham?

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:07 PM (LHPAg)

200 JQ, you got any Spicy Margaritas under the bat? I won't tell....

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:08 PM (syAfa)

201 Spanish ham!

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:08 PM (LHPAg)

202 Bar not bat. Dammit.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:08 PM (syAfa)

203 182 Can we just cut off Spain completely like they are Cuba. What do they provide to us besides wine and olives?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

The ladies are insane there, and they know how to use it.
Posted by: davidt at March 30, 2026 08:55 PM (Q+gd/)

Back in 81, last time I was there? Very pretty womenz.

But then... American Women were not as large back then either... so who knows now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 09:08 PM (mP0Kj)

204 You got it, BSM! Always got the fixin's for those.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 09:09 PM (rdVOm)

205 Is it time for the ONT yet?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Not yet, but... shhhh... I've got keys to the liquor cabinet and cooler. Want a beer?
Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 09:06 PM (rdVOm)

I'm off duty tonight. Can you sneak me a drink too?

Posted by: Doof at March 30, 2026 09:09 PM (QMAsf)

206 Barely ScaryMary, we will have a spicy margarita waiting for you at the MoMe this year.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 09:09 PM (+nEug)

207 12-string
_-_
Picked-up a bajo sexto a while back. Whole other sound they do with those...still learning. We have a friend we play events for occasionally whose favorite song is "Hey, Baby, Que Paso", so I thought it would be fun to try do use it on that one. We usually just play the bajo-like chords on a standard six-string acoustic and mimic the accordion with a fiddle. Fun!

Posted by: Don in SoCo, the Guy Who Laughs Last at March 30, 2026 09:09 PM (f87tJ)

208 I'm off duty tonight. Can you sneak me a drink too?
Posted by: Doof
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Uh-oh. I'm busted...

Sure, boss! :sheepish grin:

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 09:11 PM (rdVOm)

209 I wonder how many people get their fingers chomped after watching that cat video? Probably a whole lot.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 30, 2026 09:12 PM (3uBP9)

210 Barely ScaryMary, we will have a spicy margarita waiting for you at the MoMe this year.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 09:09 PM (+nEug)

*feels humbled*

We have a room reserved in Mexia!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:12 PM (syAfa)

211 Spain has always been at odds with NATO, during Franco they were excluded, after Franco everyone was suspicious, and only in the last 30 years did they get involved. Even then they were at times certain they were getting suckered into something.
Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 08:59 PM (rbvCR)
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Point of Order! Spain was excluded from NATO because a bunch of Communist sympathizers hated Franco. Because of that, Spain entered a bi-lateral treaty with the US.

Later on, the pinkos were discredited and Spain was permitted full membership. When France decided to screw us in 1986 and made our F-111s fly around France to hit Khaddafi, Spain was not part of that. This is a new thing.

The current government is horribly unpopular and it is abusing its power to make as many illegals voters as possible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 09:12 PM (ZOv7s)

212 Doof, a debt of gratitude to you for today. A bottle of your choice.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 09:12 PM (+nEug)

213 Barely ScaryMary, you are going to have plenty of company. I am sending people there.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 09:14 PM (+nEug)

214 >>> Spanish ham!
Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:08 PM (LHPAg)

Rum ham!

Posted by: Frank at March 30, 2026 09:14 PM (3uBP9)

215 Spanish peanuts?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 09:15 PM (wVcYX)

216 I would say paella but Pete Bog does it better right here.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 09:16 PM (+nEug)

217 Only heavy water Amazon has is some kind of "thick" water. Has the consistency of honey.

Great. I've always wanted to chew my water.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (Kksvc
For those who've had throat cancer and their epiglottis is shot all to hell. Thickened water is easier to keep out of one's lungs.

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:16 PM (LHPAg)

218 People of a certain age will remember that we accidentally bombed the French embassy in that strike against Libya, and Sam Kinison did a routine that maybe if our pilots got more sleep, they would have been more accurate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 09:16 PM (ZOv7s)

219 Beaver suffers an existential crisis: "What am I doing? Does this bring me joy? Does anything I do even matter?"

To beave, or not to beave. That is the question.

Posted by: Gnawspeare at March 30, 2026 09:16 PM (VHUov)

220 Ben Had,
I meant every word. I hope fourseasons sees it if he needs it.

Posted by: Wenda at March 30, 2026 09:17 PM (yU1fv)

221 Ben Had, the Comfort Inn in Mexia was quite nice. We stayed there last year for the one day we could attend MOME. It was clean and nice. We will stay again this year. There is a Pizza Hut next door that is good .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:19 PM (syAfa)

222 People of a certain age will remember that we accidentally bombed the French embassy in that strike against Libya,

==

IT WAS CLEARLY MARKED! JUST LIKE USS LIBERTY!1!

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 09:19 PM (GD0B3)

223 To beave, or not to beave. That is the question.
Posted by: Gnawspeare at March 30, 2026 09:16 PM (VHUov)

Every Saturday night!

Posted by: Ward Cleaver at March 30, 2026 09:20 PM (wVcYX)

224 Reagan bombed Libya on my 15th birthday.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:22 PM (syAfa)

225
To beave, or not to beave. That is the question.
Posted by: Gnawspeare

Pipe down, squirt!

Posted by: Eddie Haskell at March 30, 2026 09:22 PM (Cqx++)

226 >>>Fourseasons,
I'm in Bozeman, and in the middle of an unpredicted snowstorm. Now they're saying four more days of snow. Hopefully it will be true for you, too.

But if you have to flee, I have plenty of room and a freezer full of food. You're welcome.

Posted by: Wenda

>No snow near Helena. I need to travel. Snow in Bozeman sucks.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 09:22 PM (Fbc0I)

227 How did I double post? The hamsters are told to stop that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

I assume it's a race condition. In the "marathon" sense, not the "Malcolm X" sense.

The first post isn't yet in the database to be compared to when the second one is accepted.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 09:23 PM (VHUov)

228 Spanish Harlem.

Posted by: davidt at March 30, 2026 09:25 PM (Q+gd/)

229 Picked-up a bajo sexto a while back. Whole other sound they do with those...still learning. We have a friend we play events for occasionally whose favorite song is "Hey, Baby, Que Paso", so I thought it would be fun to try do use it on that one. We usually just play the bajo-like chords on a standard six-string acoustic and mimic the accordion with a fiddle. Fun!

Posted by: Don in SoCo, the Guy Who Laughs Last at March 30, 2026 09:09 PM (f87tJ)

There are 2 ways to tune those things. Those things are crazy. One tuning is exactly like a 12 string acoustic, but an octave down, and the other tuning is different in the last 2 pairs, where a guitar is tuned E-A-D-G-B-E, the sexto is E-A-D-G-C-F. Weird animal that thing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 09:30 PM (snZF9)

230 BEAVERS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 09:30 PM (A5RD0)

231 Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

youtube.com/watch?v=vd5VVELfWC8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 09:30 PM (48JDT)

232 The Spanish had been awfully tight with the Germans during and after Franco, even if Spain was excluded from NATO. Even under Juan Carlos II there was a feeling in Spain that NATO was a problem. It comes out at times in the Spanish films and TV.
The Spanish Left does not like the Americans for the usual Euro reasons

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 09:30 PM (rbvCR)

233 BEAVERS!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 09:30 PM (A5RD0)
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Uh, go Oregon State?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 09:32 PM (ZOv7s)

234 OPSEC, what is that?

Michigan ANG A-10Cs landed at RAF Lakenheath about six hours ago.

Naturally all the plane spotters were lined up at the fence to watch them land.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 09:33 PM (2GVsD)

235 OPSEC, what is that?

Michigan ANG A-10Cs landed at RAF Lakenheath about six hours ago.

Naturally all the plane spotters were lined up at the fence to watch them land.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 09:33 PM (2GVsD)
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If OPSEC is crap, there is a reason for that.

See also: "Telegraphing a punch."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)

236 I've always kinda respected all the people who spend their off hours at the airfields taking photos and jotting down information. Used to be some of the info would be posted in magazines like Air Forces Monthly, now it gets posted in real time.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 09:38 PM (2GVsD)

237 The bajo sexto at its best:
https://tinyurl.com/2sbh6yy5

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 30, 2026 09:39 PM (UajcV)

238 Dangit! We won the Spanish-American War!

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:39 PM (LHPAg)

239 I've always kinda respected all the people who spend their off hours at the airfields taking photos and jotting down information. Used to be some of the info would be posted in magazines like Air Forces Monthly, now it gets posted in real time.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 09:38 PM (2GVsD)
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Jotting down tail numbers is an obsession for some folks. I learned early on that we had to separate the benign from the malign.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 09:43 PM (ZOv7s)

240 196 Is it time for the ONT yet?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:01 PM (QGaXH)

55 minutes or so, dear sir.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:05 PM (syAfa)

Thank you BSM. If you and JQ knew me in real life you'd know I was just being me and my weird sense of humor.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:43 PM (QGaXH)

241 I got in a fight in Naples in the late 60's, the command said they had a commie mayor and disliked Americans. Now in Spain I never got in trouble. Mostly.

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:44 PM (LHPAg)

242 Yahoo “News” tells me due to Trump’s recklessness oil prices will stay high.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 09:45 PM (uDDWT)

243 242 Yahoo “News” tells me due to Trump’s recklessness oil prices will stay high.
Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 09:45 PM (uDDWT)

Yahoo 'News' is......suboptimal.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:49 PM (QGaXH)

244 Wait...a knife/axe throwing vid and no Ed Ames?

I am dissapoint...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:50 PM (XuXeR)

245 Okay, so here's my current take.

No, we are not putting boots on the ground. However, it is very useful to make people think we are. Here's why.

1. Iran will have to concentrate its ground forces to effectively resist it. That means pulling troops out of bunkers and putting them on roads where they are sitting ducks. Even midnight convoys won't work. Not now. They will use only the most loyal troops for this, and I'm sure we see the problem for Iran here.

2. It further exposes the grifters. Honest people can honestly disagree, express fear, but the grifters are being exposed. Trump's first term was pretty much defined by betrayals. He wants those people rooted out, not just for him, but forever. The traitors must be found and excised from the body politic. He's done a great job so far, but this is a decisive test that separates those with flawed judgement or apprehension from the bad actors.

How do I know? Because if Trump wanted to invade Iran from the get-go, the signs would have been obvious. Note that he is activating units in reverse order: the door-kickers should have been in position first. Now they arrive as an afterthought. This is pure genius.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 09:50 PM (ZOv7s)

246 ARiK, you are wanting to travel in retirement, i recall. Have you tried the TX MoMe? It is an interesting experience.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:50 PM (syAfa)

247 (con't) It feeds the notion that Trump and Hegseth are noobs and incompetent. This is a great belief to cultivate because it causes the enemy to be complacent and even after suffering massive losses, they still think they are ahead of the game.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 09:51 PM (ZOv7s)

248 242 Yahoo “News” tells me due to Trump’s recklessness oil prices will stay high.
Posted by: Heroq
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To the moon I tell ya, to the moon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 09:52 PM (48JDT)

249 245,
Can't disagree with that...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:53 PM (XuXeR)

250 244 Wait...a knife/axe throwing vid and no Ed Ames?

I am dissapoint...
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:50 PM (XuXeR)
And I expected him to sing Primrose Lane or Cab Drive, Once More Round The block.

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2026 09:54 PM (LHPAg)

251 246 ARiK, you are wanting to travel in retirement, i recall. Have you tried the TX MoMe? It is an interesting experience.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:50 PM (syAfa)

We haven't done as much travel as I'd hoped. No particular reason - laziness maybe.

Not sure if I can work up my nerve to attend a MoMe....LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:55 PM (QGaXH)

252 And I expected him to sing Primrose Lane or Cab Drive, Once More Round The block."

As Mingo...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:56 PM (XuXeR)

253 Not sure if I can work up my nerve to attend a MoMe....LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:55 PM (QGaXH)
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We know you're holding out for tickets to Varney.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 09:58 PM (RIvkX)

254 Not sure if I can work up my nerve to attend a MoMe....LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:55 PM (QGaXH)

I am...introverted. If I can show face at a MOMe, so can anyone!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:58 PM (syAfa)

255 253 Not sure if I can work up my nerve to attend a MoMe....LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:55 PM (QGaXH)
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We know you're holding out for tickets to Varney.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 09:58 PM (RIvkX)

Made me LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 09:58 PM (QGaXH)

256 Yahoo “News” tells me due to Trump’s recklessness oil prices will stay high.
Posted by: Heroq

Gas is still lower around here than when the husk was president and the planet was giving us the ass fucking. We're in the $3.70 area give or take, depending on where you go, and thats with trump ass fucking the planet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 09:59 PM (snZF9)

257 I am...introverted. If I can show face at a MOMe, so can anyone!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 30, 2026 09:58 PM (syAfa)

And you did so well too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 10:00 PM (snZF9)

258 Ont nood

Posted by: Rex B at March 30, 2026 10:02 PM (DqQS/)

259 benign from the malign."

"Benign the malign"?

Hmmm

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 10:03 PM (XuXeR)

260 But since 2020 I've given up on the league. The kneelers, the "Hands up" bullshit, politics entered the game. So I now spend my Sunday afternoons doing anything but watching football.

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I didn't understand why they didn't just paint the endzones with "KILL WHITEY!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 31, 2026 01:05 AM (QHOVG)

Quick Hits

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Democrats are now FUMING that Trump is paying TSA agents and are desperate to stop it, claiming it's "illegal"
Play this clip on a loop in every airport in America until the elections

Video here.

Of course: The Biden White House edited reports about the covid "vaccines'" risks of causing strokes to downplay those risks, contrary to the precious science.

White House officials edited messaging on the finding that there was a higher-than-expected number of strokes following COVID-19 vaccination, according to newly released documents.
In January 2023, during the Biden administration, the White House changed wording on post-vaccination ischemic stroke from "moderately elevated" to "slightly elevated," the records show.
Officials also made other changes, including removing the words "potential risk."

More examples of the political edits to the precious science here. More in these two posts.

Hunter Eagleman�
@Hunter_Eagleman
WOW: 🚨CA Democrats under @GavinNewsom
just introduced the "MELT ICE Act" AB 1627.
It would PERMANENTLY ban anyone who worked for ICE during President Trump's term from ever becoming a cop or a teacher in the state.
This is political revenge dressed up as "protecting trust" at its best!

"No Kings," huh?

DRIVE-BY MEDIA: The New York Times hired a new infographic team to criticize everything. The latest example is the new White House ballroom. I like John�s satirical critique of a US carrier. 🤣

h/t @johnkonrad pic.twitter.com/wdTwkse77A
— @amuse (@amuse) March 30, 2026

MUST WATCH: Marie Harf: �Wait, why are we so scared of tr*ns people?�

Kayleigh McEnany: �We�re scared of biological men competing against women. Pummeling young women.� ⁰⁰�Do you want a biological man wrestling a woman? Do you want a biological man spiking a ball at a woman?�� pic.twitter.com/SpAaFQarRy
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) March 30, 2026

Blue Checkmark: The US hit Iran's heavy water production facility in order to kill Iranian citizens with thirst.

Not only will Iranians die of thirst because of the destruction of the heavy water plant, they will die of hunger from the destruction of yellowcake https://t.co/ZVg585iCyE
— Kamel Amin Thaabet (@K_AminThaabet) March 30, 2026

"Heavy water" is water in which the hydrogen atoms have neutrons. Most hydrogen is just a single proton. Heavy water is needed for nuclear reactors. It moderates the kinetic energy of the neutrons released during fission, to keep the nuclear reaction from getting out of hand and melting down the reactor.

In Iran's case, it is used in reactors to produce weapons-grade uranium. No one drinks it. I guess you could drink it but heavy water is extremely expensive. I'd guess, tens of thousands of dollars per ounce.

Saad Nizamani
@nizamanisaad1
Translated from Urdu
I write not with words, but with feelings.
I learn from nature, I reach the hearts.
Hyderabad, Pakistan

I was informed by All the Best People (TM) that this would never, ever happen.

cc: @AceofSpadesHQ
first choice - die.
before offering paid medication.
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give pain medication to a suffering woman.
You relieve paid today.

Euthanize her and you relieve her pain forever. https://t.co/11giSgIycq
— Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) March 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

2 nd

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

3 rd! Hat trick?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

4 Nooded

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

5
Are you lonely?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 06:34 PM (3ek7K)

6 I'm never this early for a thread.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at March 30, 2026 06:35 PM (pk0sF)

7 I could have been first but I was buffing my yak.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

8

The Harfster is back in action.

She looks like she's a bit loose in the morals department.

And brains, not much.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at March 30, 2026 06:35 PM (et1vG)

9 The Biden White House edited reports about the covid "vaccines'" risks of causing strokes to downplay those risks, contrary to the precious science.

You know what else they 'downplayed'?

The risk of putting COVID patients in old folks homes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (/lPRQ)

10 I'm not a fan of creating chaos in airports, but we really need to revisit disbanding/privatizing TSA and Dept of Homeland Security.

Getting the government into airport security was a Bush Boondoggle that did more harm than good.

Posted by: Leupold at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (eIzlH)

11 Canada is now run by sociopaths who are finally realizing their fantasy of killing a great many people.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)

12 Harf is still just as big a joke as she ever was.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (+nEug)

13 Spain executed the girl who was raped by a man they released to the streets. She was depressed by her life so after being raped by a scumbag illegal they let on the streets again they killed her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (El6/E)

14 That Jessica bitch on "The Five" argued that President Trump looks bad because he could have paid TSA all along.

I'm so grateful my late mother never met the Canadian death people. Although there were about 2 years where I had to argue with the docs about doing everything to revive her. Whoa they fought back.

That stopped. I'm guessing doctors were feeling threatened.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (Sco7b)

15 "A Canadian woman claims she went to the hospital for help with a sudden illness — and was shocked when a doctor offered to help her die instead."
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Out: Free health care!

In : Free death care!

Posted by: mrp at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (rj6Yv)

16

The Harfer is from Ohio, explains a lot.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at March 30, 2026 06:37 PM (et1vG)

17 I think the Covid shots brought on my Dad's Parkinson's. I have no proof but since when does that make a difference?

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:37 PM (vFG9F)

18 >>> The New York Times takes an architectural look at the coming White House ballroom and finds there is a lot of ornamental stairs to no where and faux windows with bathroom stalls behind them

I do not think The New York Times is a licensed architect, or even knows one.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:37 PM (/lPRQ)

19 More people have been "assisted" to death in Canada so far this year than gun deaths in the USA.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:38 PM (El6/E)

20 Pulled a lat doing pulldowns? Have you considered killing yourself instead of burdening our socialized medicine system?

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 06:38 PM (oqH4h)

21 I do not think The New York Times is a licensed architect, or even knows one.

They got an architect girl to help with the article. No word if she was a world-famous prestigious architect like the guy who designed the ballroom.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:39 PM (El6/E)

22 Are we sure Marie Harf isn't a man? She could probably compete with a tranny or two.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 06:39 PM (Fbc0I)

23 Harf is still just as big a joke as she ever was.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (+nEug)
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What's great is that she thinks a killer argument is that she doesn't care if girls get faces smashed in by men spiking volleyballs at them. Total self-own.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:40 PM (ZOv7s)

24 It looks like it was designed by those Greek homos.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at March 30, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

25 The New York Times takes an architectural look at the coming White House ballroom and finds there is a lot of ornamental stairs to no where and faux windows with bathroom stalls behind them
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Bathrooms with cool views are a thing I love. Nothing like a cityscape while you drain the lizard.

There's a really cool one in Hiroshima. 4th floor overlooking downtown and the peace park. Just a urinal in front of a window.

The US Capitol actually has a pretty great one too. Men's room/urinal with a window that overlooks the East Front.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (oqH4h)

26 >>> MUST WATCH: Marie Harf: “Wait, why are we so scared of tr*ns people?”

Because of the extreme disproportionate rates of mass murder?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (/lPRQ)

27 Marxists have been fighting to stop ICe

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (Ia/+0)

28 It really is hard to believe that any modern society would promote euthanasia. It's barbaric.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (viF8m)

29 More people have been "assisted" to death in Canada so far this year than gun deaths in the USA.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:38 PM (El6/E)
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Canucks are almost three times more likely to be put down by a doctor than Americans are to be shot with a gun.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)

30 Texas need a bill banning anyone who graduated from a university in California from ever working in a state job.

Come on TX you can do it.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:42 PM (uDDWT)

31 Are we sure Marie Harf isn't a man? She could probably compete with a tranny or two.

Careful with that kind of talk, a decade ago or so a lot of the guys here were lusting after her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:42 PM (El6/E)

32 Not only will Iranians die of thirst because of the destruction of the heavy water plant, they will die of hunger from the destruction of yellowcake

-
Release the Twinkies Bombers!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 06:42 PM (ndZc7)

33 Staircases that lead nowhere and faux windows and whatnot are common elements of Classical architecture.

But these brutalist, function before anything, beauty is for the elites idiots wouldn't know that.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (0MjtC)

34 Once again, Ace deftly brings together disparate topic to create a unified theme.

Harf acting as if her indifference to suffering is virtuous perfectly anticipates the final form of homicidal empathy where the state can't wait to kill you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

35 "why are we so scared of tr*ns people?”

Because they are crazy. Some are actually scary looking. Especially drag queens. Scarier than clowns even.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (vFG9F)

36 first choice - die.
before offering paid medication.

Soylent Green was not a how to guide.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (/lPRQ)

37 How long before assisted suicide isnt voluntary anymore? I give it 10 years .

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (uDDWT)

38 That California law cannot be constitutional

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (YwEeS)

39 Marie Harf: “Wait, why are we so scared of tr*ns people?”

Oh, we're back to "It isn't happening" again, are we?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 30, 2026 06:44 PM (a+4eV)

40 "why are we so scared of tr*ns people?”

—

Well cuz they like to mass shoot schools for starters .

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:44 PM (uDDWT)

41 A decade ago or so a lot of the guys here were lusting after her mouth.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:45 PM (vFG9F)

42 That California law cannot be constitutional
Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (YwEeS)

It sure as fuck is, H8er.
- CA Supreme Court

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:45 PM (uDDWT)

43 Spain executed the girl who was raped by a man they released to the streets. She was depressed by her life so after being raped by a scumbag illegal they let on the streets again they killed her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

What I saw - she was so depressed she tried to suicide herself after the rape, but failed, and left herself severely crippled, and still wanting to die.

So, yes, Spain did kill her in a most cruel way.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:45 PM (/lPRQ)

44 I could have been first but I was buffing my yak.
Posted by: fd

That sounds even more difficult than polishing turds.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 06:46 PM (VHUov)

45 The New York Times hired a new infographic team to criticize everything. The latest example is the new White House ballroom.

---------------

Where are all the Safe Spaces?

Why did they leave out Hitler's Bunker?

WHY IS IT ALL WHITE!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 06:46 PM (dcjTK)

46 Sandy Duncan recommends whole wheat tritium to go with your heavy water.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 30, 2026 06:46 PM (47/pr)

47 "why are we so scared of tr*ns people?”

MS Nownasked that too.

By the way, when you add 'y' to tranny and trannies you get tyranny and tyrannies.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 06:47 PM (Sco7b)

48 I could have been first but I was buffing my yak.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

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Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 06:47 PM (dcjTK)

49 I gotta say I’m not too crazy about the ballroom. I think it is too big for the location. But fuck it, if my enemies hate it then I fucking love it.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:47 PM (uDDWT)

50 "Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Posted by: ShainS"

Calling what?

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:48 PM (vFG9F)

51 That California law cannot be constitutional
Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (YwEeS)
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They are doing this performative outrage thing and don't understand that yes, actually threats can be illegal. Just like arresting federal officers is also a crime.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)

52 Speaking of Canada, these clips of the NDP (New Democrat Party) are pretty enlightening.

https://is.gd/bi4IyC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 06:48 PM (ndZc7)

53 Since Covid I haven't taken any vaccines. Flu, tetanus(which I'm due for), Shingles, Monkey Pox.

I don't trust any of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:49 PM (abIsI)

54
Heavy water (99.8% D) in bulk is fifty dollars an ounce or less.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 06:50 PM (azNOR)

55

Harfy is chunking out a little. She needs to squirt out a few kids at some point. Libtarded chicks seem to not want to do that for some reason.

Ah...

She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a BA in Political Science with concentrations in Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at March 30, 2026 06:50 PM (et1vG)

56 I still can't get over the mob telling a guy to sit down and shut up and then chanting "This is what Democracy look like!".

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:50 PM (vFG9F)

57 21 I do not think The New York Times is a licensed architect, or even knows one.

They got an architect girl to help with the article. No word if she was a world-famous prestigious architect like the guy who designed the ballroom.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:39 PM (El6/E)

What I would like to see is a building *security* expert's take. Since the point of the ballroom is to hold as many high-profile assassination targets at a time as possible...

Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 06:50 PM (Sy6m/)

58 How many trans "women" had older sisters who beat them up when they were little?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:50 PM (AlhUl)

59 Why are we afraid of men who claim to be Napoleon?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 06:51 PM (Cqx++)

60 I played volleyball in a mixed league. One of the just regular guys spiked a ball so hard that it broke the nose of a girl he hit in the face. Imagine how much force he could have gotten on it if he'd ever practiced.

Posted by: huerfano at March 30, 2026 06:51 PM (98kQX)

61 48 I could have been first but I was buffing my yak.

Posted by: fd a

In my dream last night Sydney Sweeney was doing my buffing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:51 PM (abIsI)

62 >>>Careful with that kind of talk, a decade ago or so a lot of the guys here were lusting after her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

>Let your freak flags fly! Look at Barry Soetoro: I think Big Mike is probably a tiger in the sack.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 06:51 PM (Fbc0I)

63 What I would like to see is a building *security* expert's take. Since the point of the ballroom is to hold as many high-profile assassination targets at a time as possible...
Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 06:50 PM (Sy6m/)

I imagine it's safer then the large tents they use now with big dinners...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 06:51 PM (FtULh)

64 I could have been first but I was buffing my yak.
Posted by: fd

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Back in my day it was,
"Waxing the yak's lips".

Not that I would know, not being a farm boy or from Rhode Island...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:51 PM (/lPRQ)

65 The front columns for the ballroom rotate around to expose the machine guns.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

66 By the way, in the age of constant outrage, the ballroom is long gone.

Even Trump on money was 20 hours old before the newest outrage was Trump redoing the historic 'Treaty Room' in the White House.

Trump 2.0 is the best. Floats like a butterfly....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (Sco7b)

67 Any man what's buffs his yak after lights out spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (PiwSw)

68 I feel I have read somewhere that heavy water actually will do your body no good. I may be wrong, but that's stuck in my mind.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (AlhUl)

69 >>I gotta say I’m not too crazy about the ballroom. I think it is too big for the location. But fuck it, if my enemies hate it then I fucking love it.

According to Trump, the military is building a huge facility under the new ballroom. That might be one reason for the size.

In any case it's a hell of a lot better than constantly putting up a tent to host state events.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (viF8m)

70 F'n USPS can die in a fire. I'm going to start telling companies "if you are going to ship my order USPS, don't. Cancel my order".

Ordered a scope cover from bc a company in Missouri. Same city as MidwayUSA. Columbia.

MidwayUSA sends their stuff USPS and it goes to KC, then to Dallas and out to me.
The scope cover company sent it USPS and it hoes to KC, then up to Minneapolis, then to Dallas, then Coppell, then back to Dallas & supposedly out towards me.
F the USPS.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (Kksvc)

71 No one drinks it. I guess you could drink it but heavy water is extremely expensive. I'd guess, tens of thousands of dollars per ounce.

Tritium is radioactive, but deuterium is stable. You could drink heavy water safely. But not at that price.

Heavy water (99.8% D) in bulk is fifty dollars an ounce or less.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Well, heck, at that price, make it a double!

Posted by: mikeski enjoys a heavy bourbon at March 30, 2026 06:53 PM (VHUov)

72 CA Democrats under @GavinNewsom
just introduced the "MELT ICE Act" AB 1627.

It would PERMANENTLY ban anyone who worked for ICE during President Trump's term from ever becoming a cop or a teacher in the state.

The Democrats come up with the most creative ways to punish everybody but themselves and actual criminals.
But I repeat myself.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:54 PM (6ydKt)

73 Die of thirst?
Good grief this is stupidity on a global scale.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 06:54 PM (2WIwB)

74 Beard and beanie clad door-dashing soyboy bragged on social media he'd throw out the food order of any Trump supporter. Doordash suspended him. He then took to social media to cry about alt-right people who reported him. He now believes Doordash "heavily supports MAGA" because Doordash suspended him for bragging about throwing out orders of Trump supporters.

http://tiny.cc/j141101

It's fun to laugh at his self induced consequences, but it's also another reminder these people feel perfectly justified to act maliciously against us. God only knows to what degree each of them are willing to attack us.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 30, 2026 06:54 PM (mkw2N)

75 Any women who cooks carrots and peas together is unclean.

Posted by: Con-fucious at March 30, 2026 06:54 PM (abIsI)

76 The scope cover company sent it USPS and it hoes to KC, then up to Minneapolis, then to Dallas, then Coppell, then back to Dallas & supposedly out towards me.
F the USPS.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (Kksvc

I hope it brings you postcards.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 06:54 PM (Sco7b)

77 In any case it's a hell of a lot better than constantly putting up a tent to host state events.
Posted by: JackStraw

But now we'll have to pay to aerate the White House lawn, because the female dignitaries in their stiletto heels won't be doing it for us.

Posted by: mikeski drills down at March 30, 2026 06:54 PM (VHUov)

78 What I would like to see is a building *security* expert's take. Since the point of the ballroom is to hold as many high-profile assassination targets at a time as possible...
Posted by: SciVo

Donald "Vlad the Impaler" Trump looks you square in the eye and touches finger to nose...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:55 PM (/lPRQ)

79 If one want to order some heavy water, where could one do so? Could one find it on Amazon?

Posted by: Ali Abdula Mohamed at March 30, 2026 06:55 PM (vFG9F)

80 Canadian Dr.: ** Looks at chart.
Patient: …
Canadian Dr.: ** Looks at patient.
Patient: ** Shifts uncomfortably in seat
Canadian Dr.: Can I interest you in death?
Canadian Patient: ** Runs out of the room.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 06:56 PM (mlv7N)

81 Out: Free health care!

In : Free death care!

-
Well, abortion is reproductive freedom so this is health care freedom.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 06:56 PM (ndZc7)

82 A Canadian woman claims she went to the hospital for help with a sudden illness — and was shocked when a doctor offered to help her die instead.

-------------

"We could at least give her a pain pill first."

/obligatory DogEater

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 06:56 PM (dcjTK)

83 Canadian Dr.: ** Looks at chart.
Patient: …
Canadian Dr.: ** Looks at patient.
Patient: ** Shifts uncomfortably in seat
Canadian Dr.: Can I interest you in death?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

It's gout. Can we try allopurinol first?

Posted by: mikeski walks it off at March 30, 2026 06:58 PM (VHUov)

84
Out: Free health care!
In : Free death care!

-------------

I've been referring to ObamaCare as "DeathCare" since Day One.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 06:59 PM (dcjTK)

85 I'd rather be beat to death in a hockey rink than go to a Canadian clinic.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 06:59 PM (Fbc0I)

86 Be a shame if Harf drank a couple quarts of heavy water and...oops!!! Found herself in Canada.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 06:59 PM (2WIwB)

87 What's the current market rate for a healthy kidney?

Posted by: Canadian Health Professional at March 30, 2026 07:00 PM (abIsI)

88 That’s some great free health care those beady eyes Ice Backs have up there.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 07:00 PM (mlv7N)

89 I hope it brings you postcards.
Posted by: Stateless

I think it has more frequent flier miles than I do.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:01 PM (Kksvc)

90 Well, the government exists to kill people. So it is not surprising that Canada cannot keep its promises to the people and wants to kill its citizens and all else rather than provide the medical care it promised to provide.

By the way, the new NDP leader wants to have public grocery stores in Canada to deal with grocery bills going up. Given that Canada's government fails at the medical industry, how do you think they will do with food?

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:01 PM (hJH5n)

91 I hope I never need emergency care in Canada! "We can't help you with your problem of a ruptured appendix, but we can help you die quicker! I realize you did not come here to die, but it's offered for free in this country!"

I did not know Harf was still around except for me using her last name for gagging and puking. She strikes me as someone whose skull would thump like a melon due to most of her brain missing. In elementary school, at these coed games she speaks of, I feel certain in dodge ball people aimed at her violently (I would). She would then be hit and lie there like a fainting goat (missing her glasses from impact).

This heavy water you speak of I will have to file away in the event the woman who loves Iran and hates Trump returns and I see her online. She's been absent for two weeks, no doubt emailing others of how mean I am. I don't have anyone's email and also don't care much.

I'm not mean until she said Centcom lied. Otherwise I am basically harmless to others. Just don't lie and we good, mate. In her anger she probably protected a hive of yellowjackets (actually she really did, sort of, somehow gently killed them like in Canada. Euthenasia for hornets).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 07:01 PM (WONhk)

92 Yum, yellow cake and pinto beans!

Trump so mean!

Posted by: PJ at March 30, 2026 07:02 PM (+jscL)

93 It's gout. Can we try allopurinol first?
Posted by: mikeski walks it off at March 30, 2026 06:58 PM (VHUov)

Well, it's not lupus.

Posted by: Gregory House, M.D. at March 30, 2026 07:02 PM (PiwSw)

94 88 That’s some great free health care those beady eyes Ice Backs have up there.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

If only we had state of art medical care like they have in Cuba.

Posted by: Canadian at March 30, 2026 07:02 PM (abIsI)

95 79 If one want to order some heavy water, where could one do so? Could one find it on Amazon?
Posted by: Ali Abdula Mohamed at March 30, 2026 06:55 PM (vFG9F)

Give it a shot Ali. If Amazon can't fill your order, the nice men in suits and sunglasses who come knocking will help you.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 07:02 PM (2WIwB)

96 34 Once again, Ace deftly brings together disparate topic to create a unified theme.

Harf acting as if her indifference to suffering is virtuous perfectly anticipates the final form of homicidal empathy where the state can't wait to kill you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)

"From each according to their abilities (A), to each according to their needs (B)."

If A is not equal to or greater than B, the Politburo and its local political committees will take a very hard look at the need for your continued existence, Comrade.

Posted by: Gref at March 30, 2026 07:03 PM (5rh/l)

97 @87

>> What's the current market rate for a healthy kidney?

Depending on where you are located, 1500 bucks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 07:03 PM (c9d3D)

98 For only $9.95 a month, our End Of Life Insurance policy ensures that should your life path reach a dead end, your family will not have to pay for an expensive termination.

Posted by: Physicians Murderer Insurance at March 30, 2026 07:03 PM (vFG9F)

99 I would like that canadian doc to offer free euthanasia to all the old farts at the "No Kings" rallies when he returns from his child sex vacation in Cuba.

He could probably cull the herd of 25-35% as those old geezers love free shit.

What do we want? Free Euthanasia! When do we want it? Now!

Posted by: Foreskin Lint at March 30, 2026 07:04 PM (HUHft)

100 I think Whoopi has been drinking heavy water and heavy donuts.

Speaking of The View gargoyles, didja see this?

TheBlaze
@theblaze
The View’s Sunny Hostin: “I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children in this country.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 07:05 PM (ndZc7)

101 10 I'm not a fan of creating chaos in airports, but we really need to revisit disbanding/privatizing TSA and Dept of Homeland Security.

Getting the government into airport security was a Bush Boondoggle that did more harm than good.
Posted by: Leupold at March 30, 2026 06:36 PM (eIzlH)

We get it. You hate Bush and blame him for absolutely everything. (Hell, you blame for hyper-evil Muslims being in the country...never mind I have known of and ran into many long before Bush enter the WH.) But on this, I agree. What sucks is the tendency of people to want to see government "doing something" no matter how bad it is. We should heed Coolidge's advice about the tendency of having the government "do something".

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:06 PM (hJH5n)

102 "I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children in this country.”

All those foreign women coming here to drop a kid are not listening.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

103 The View’s Sunny Hostin: “I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children in this country.”

To be honest I'd rather those women not breed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:07 PM (El6/E)

104 By the way, the new NDP leader wants to have public grocery stores in Canada to deal with grocery bills going up. Given that Canada's government fails at the medical industry, how do you think they will do with food?

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:01 PM (hJH5n)

I recently caught some clips of the NDP convention they just held.

It was a parade of dysfunctional narcissists competing at a microphone over who had been recently been victimized the most by their fellow party members.

I thought the Dems were a shit-show.
And some Canuckians actually vote for these people.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 07:07 PM (6ydKt)

105 It's fun to laugh at his self induced consequences, but it's also another reminder these people feel perfectly justified to act maliciously against us. God only knows to what degree each of them are willing to attack us.

Posted by: bonhomme

They're petulant children with no impulse control.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 30, 2026 07:08 PM (9NN0K)

106 So I listened to the Harf cut.
More planetary scale stupid.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 07:08 PM (2WIwB)

107 26 >>> MUST WATCH: Marie Harf: “Wait, why are we so scared of tr*ns people?”

Because of the extreme disproportionate rates of mass murder?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (/lPRQ)
__________________________

Yeah, that. And, the absolute certainty that they are mentally ill. When someone acts erraticly, it is sound judgement to be wary of that individual's actions or potential actions. "Scared" is the wrong word.

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 07:09 PM (dIske)

108 81 Out: Free health care!

In : Free death care!

-
Well, abortion is reproductive freedom so this is health care freedom.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 06:56 PM (ndZc7)

Well, if the doctor murders you, you will have no health for which to care, nor will you require medical care. Above all, Canada saves some loonies (the C$1 coin, not nutjobs). Win win as far as the government is concerned.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:09 PM (hJH5n)

109 For only $9.95 a month, our End Of Life Insurance policy ensures that should your life path reach a dead end, your family will not have to pay for an expensive termination.
Posted by: Physicians Murderer Insurance

You supple the garrote, we supply the expertise.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 07:09 PM (ndZc7)

110 Getting the government into airport security was a Bush Boondoggle that did more harm than good"

Indeed.

Bush is asshoe

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:10 PM (XuXeR)

111 I love the diagram of the ship's flaws, Ace!

I looked at the criticism of the ballroom and saw mostly no problem. And it's paid by donations, donchaknow, marchers! Why do they care except TRUMP!?

I LOVE that normal people have a sense of humor to correct the diagram. And use the red ink of importance!

LOVE the blank stare by Rep Busted Hymen when Margaret asked that question. Deer meet headlights! Doh!

I don't understand the marching with stupid No King's signs that still make no sense to me. I could retalitate and march with "You don't make sense" signs, wearing a cardboard box, but am too lazy.

From the caliber of marchers I'm quite sure I could insult them as they mostly seem like confused queers. This is the highlight of their week!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 07:10 PM (WONhk)

112 I feel I have read somewhere that heavy water actually will do your body no good. I may be wrong, but that's stuck in my mind.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (AlhUl)

Those fellas who shoot the saline into their scrotums to make them big and fat would probably like the heavy water. Make the nutsack glow too. Happy days!

Posted by: Foreskin Lint at March 30, 2026 07:10 PM (HUHft)

113 ...and I think the NDP would do worse than the Venezuelans with state-run grocery stores.

The Venezuelans actually had an army to take it all over when things went sideways after Chavez nationalized the stores.
The Canadians can't even do that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 07:10 PM (6ydKt)

114 Let the Media eat yellowcake now!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:10 PM (2GVsD)

115 I blame Quebec for Canada's problems.

Posted by: Case at March 30, 2026 07:11 PM (pvf3X)

116 your family will not have to pay for an expensive termination."

Well, some specialized wildcat rounds can be pretty $$$...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:11 PM (XuXeR)

117 The new NDP leader, Avi Lewis, also called the current operations in Iran "illegal". Says who, Mr. Lewis: you? And if you think that, what exactly are you going to do about it? Arrest the government of the United States? And, by the way, Mr. Lewis, revisit Article 22 of the Vienna Convention of 1961 and tell me what is legal about seizing an embassy...just to start the list of Iranian criminality.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:12 PM (hJH5n)

118 >> Canucks are almost three times more likely to be put down by a doctor than Americans are to be shot with a gun.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)

Or as I like to say, it's almost three times as dangerous to be sad in a Canadian hospital as in an American ghetto.

>> The front columns for the ballroom rotate around to expose the machine guns.
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

The roof slides back and an M-SHORAD anti-aircraft emplacement rises into place, with Stinger missiles, Longbow Hellfire missiles, a 30mm cannon, and a 7.62mm machine gun in a 360-degree turret. Around it, a cloud of versatile drones lifts into the air, capable of anti-air, anti-armor, anti-personnel, and of course, anti-drone

Of course, all of the drones are hardened against the bespoke electronic counter-measures and counter-counter-measures that are barely visible below the roofline, where they won't interfere with the M-SHORAD's range of fire...

Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 07:12 PM (Sy6m/)

119 Oddly enough, we have suicide hotlines and a lot of services for mental health.

After taking care of my late mother for 14 years, my brain was really hyper-alert. I was listening for her non-stop for years. Nd I'd do it again but shaking hands level anxiety. My doctor, who I've been to maybe twice in 10 years prescribed anxiety pills and there's a nice lady that's been coming over.

That's why I've been watching the worst horror movies I can find. It's been a way to teach me that anxiety makes things worse than they actually are. And at least I'm not being sawed in half vertically.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 07:12 PM (Sco7b)

120 115 I blame Quebec for Canada's problems.
Posted by: Case at March 30, 2026 07:11 PM (pvf3X)

CBD naturally hates QC for being the Saudi Arabia of maple syrup. At least I'd imagine that to be the case.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:13 PM (hJH5n)

121 Getting the government into airport security was a Bush Boondoggle that did more harm than good.

==

really? Would you prefer Security at US airports run by the Chinese ? Or Qataris? Because that type of security was happening before 9/11. I question the need for DNI but unfortunately air security needs to stay in Fed's hands.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:13 PM (GD0B3)

122 Kali Dems law seems awfully close to a bill of attainder...These folks have not been convicted of any crime, like sexual predators committing sodomy with minors a certain Kali State Senator Scott Wiener (Douchebag-San Fran-Gloryhole) wanted to make legal...and did when it was signed into law by Greasy Gavin.
24-year-old adults buggering 14-year-olds, Good! TSA, BAD!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

123 >>>"I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children in this country.”

>The human spirit will conquer. Never underestimate our capacity to dominate. Civilization is the throttle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 07:14 PM (Fbc0I)

124 What I saw - she was so depressed she tried to suicide herself after the rape, but failed, and left herself severely crippled, and still wanting to die.

So, yes, Spain did kill her in a most cruel way.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:45 PM (/lPRQ)

She was gang raped. Whoopie would say that was rape rape x however many barbarians= failed suicide.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 07:14 PM (WONhk)

125 The new White House ballroom will be protected by the Golden Scalp Weasel ABM system.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:15 PM (2GVsD)

126 110 Getting the government into airport security was a Bush Boondoggle that did more harm than good"

Indeed.

Bush is asshoe
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:10 PM (XuXeR)

When the government was in airport security, as was the case in some locations in the country (such as SAT), was that also bad, or just bad when your divine object of hatred, Bush XLIII, did it? (That of course was local, not federal, government).

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:15 PM (hJH5n)

127 120 115 I blame Quebec for Canada's problems.
Posted by: Case at March 30, 2026 07:11 PM (pvf3X)

CBD naturally hates QC for being the Saudi Arabia of maple syrup. At least I'd imagine that to be the case.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:13 PM (hJH5n)

CBD doesn't hate maple syrup...but he doesn't waffle on it's use on French Toast...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 07:15 PM (ynpvh)

128 Because that type of security was happening before 9/11"

I see you haven't flown thru a number of US airports...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:15 PM (XuXeR)

129 When someone acts erraticly, it is sound judgement to be wary of that individual's actions or potential actions. "Scared" is the wrong word.

Exactly, wary is the right word. This is clearly a mentally unbalanced person who is part of a group that routinely demonstrates violence. Take care. Don't be afraid, be wise.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:16 PM (El6/E)

130 >>really? Would you prefer Security at US airports run by the Chinese ? Or Qataris? Because that type of security was happening before 9/11. I question the need for DNI but unfortunately air security needs to stay in Fed's hands.

There are around 20 US airports that use private security instead of TSA. San Francisco is one of them. They follow the same protocols but they aren't staffed by government employees.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m)

131 I feel I have read somewhere that heavy water actually will do your body no good. I may be wrong, but that's stuck in my mind.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM (AlhUl)
----
Yeah, it's mildly toxic in large doses. You'd have to drink A LOT of it to do yourself permanent harm. By that time you'd probably be suffering from normal water toxicity.

We drink it regularly in our normal water as it occurs naturally. But it's so diluted that it doesn't harm us at all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 07:17 PM (ESVrU)

132 really? Would you prefer Security at US airports run by the Chinese ? Or Qataris? Because that type of security was happening before 9/11. I question the need for DNI but unfortunately air security needs to stay in Fed's hands.
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:13 PM (GD0B3)

Here's an idea:

Have security at airports privately run, by a consortium set up by the major airlines, with an oversight role by local law enforcement (because any perps caught need to be turned over to somebody).

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:17 PM (hJH5n)

133 I see you haven't flown thru a number of US airports...
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:15 PM (XuXeR)

I have, most likely quite a bit more than some people here.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:18 PM (GD0B3)

134
There are around 20 US airports that use private security instead of TSA. San Francisco is one of them. They follow the same protocols but they aren't staffed by government employees.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 07:17 PM (viF8m)

MCO is another.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:18 PM (hJH5n)

135 That story about the young lady in Spain is really sad.

The hospital/state even made the excuse they couldn't delay the euthanasia because her organs had already been assigned to donor recipients.

The state and government of Spain literally ruined the girl's life and now they'll help her end it all.

The parents are going to suffer for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 07:19 PM (6ydKt)

136 Have security at airports privately run, by a consortium set up by the major airlines, with an oversight role by local law enforcement (because any perps caught need to be turned over to somebody).
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:17 PM (hJH5n)

that is what they had before 9/11, airlines "managing" their own security

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:19 PM (GD0B3)

137 OMG nooooooooo!

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
The Trump administration argues the 14th Amendment does not apply to people in the country illegally or on temporary visas.
If the Supreme Court agrees, it could render hundreds of thousands of children born to immigrant parents stateless.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 07:19 PM (ndZc7)

138 that is what they had before 9/11, airlines "managing" their own security
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:19 PM (GD0B3)

Not what I saw. And like you I have traveled through many airports back then.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:20 PM (hJH5n)

139 I am not as enamored of China , thorough 3rd level off shore Bermuda based companies owning US airport security apparatus

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:20 PM (GD0B3)

140 There are around 20 US airports that use private security instead of TSA. San Francisco is one of them"

This. Customs and Immigration were already in airports, along with local and private security, along with metal detectors.
To claim the TSA makes flying "safer" is an odd assertion...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (XuXeR)

141 He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

Posted by: Deuterium at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

142 Try our Euthanasia program! Become a lifetime member with a one time fee!

Satisfaction guaranteed!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (zZu0s)

143 Not what I saw. And like you I have traveled through many airports back then.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:20 PM (hJH5n)

And you are not aware that airlines outsources security to third parties ?

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (GD0B3)

144 USPS in the Midwest is dreadful. Things sit in the KC hub for two days, after sitting in Lenexa for a day. Then on to wichita for another rest.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (gQ15S)

145 first choice - die.
before offering paid medication.

See? If you're old, crippled, mentally handicapped...the Gov't wants you to die. Gee, I seem to remember some Austian Painter that had a similar program/progrom...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 07:22 PM (ynpvh)

146 He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
Posted by: Deuterium at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

Actually, you would be the heavy one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

147 139 I am not as enamored of China , thorough 3rd level off shore Bermuda based companies owning US airport security apparatus
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:20 PM (GD0B3)

Then, through legal means, you restrict the ownership to such to U.S. firms only, due to the public safety issue.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:22 PM (hJH5n)

148 If the Supreme Court agrees, it could render hundreds of thousands of children born to immigrant parents stateless.

I mean, no it would be like every other nation on earth and make them the citizenship of their parents.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:22 PM (El6/E)

149 146 He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
Posted by: Deuterium at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

Actually, you would be the heavy one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

Pikers.

Posted by: Tritium at March 30, 2026 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

150 See? If you're old, crippled, mentally handicapped...the Gov't wants you to die. Gee, I seem to remember some Austian Painter that had a similar program/progrom...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 07:22 PM (ynpvh)

The GDR would routinely dump its elderly in West Berlin rather than pay for their medical needs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:23 PM (hJH5n)

151 Carousel, eh?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (RIvkX)

152 Children born to foreigners should not be Americans merely because they were born on U S soil.

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (YwEeS)

153
68 I feel I have read somewhere that heavy water actually will do your body no good. I may be wrong, but that's stuck in my mind.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:52 PM

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That's right, it's kind of toxic. It's not radioactive, and a little bit one time won't really hurt you, but regular consumption of a significant amount is bad. Decades ago I recall seeing a study of fruit flies raised using water that was 0% to 50% heavy water, and the more heavy water, the shorter the life span. At the highest level the flies were pretty messed up.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (azNOR)

154 airlines "managing" their own security"

That pretty much ended around 1980. Airports, Customs and Immigration after that.

BTW, I've flown in and out of quite a few countries w/o "tsa"...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (XuXeR)

155 And you are not aware that airlines outsources security to third parties ?
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (GD0B3)

I didn't realize the San Antonio Airport Police were not affiliated with a government entity.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (hJH5n)

156 151 Carousel, eh?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (RIvkX)

Yes.

Posted by: Logan's Run at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (ynpvh)

157 San Fran company (CAS) is still under TSA. So they are compliant. Still, under TSA. Somebody needs to look into anyway. Sounds shady.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 07:25 PM (GD0B3)

158 That Spanish woman story was depressing

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 07:25 PM (Ia/+0)

159 154 airlines "managing" their own security"

That pretty much ended around 1980. Airports, Customs and Immigration after that.

BTW, I've flown in and out of quite a few countries w/o "tsa"...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:24 PM (XuXeR)

I read that as tna at first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 07:25 PM (ynpvh)

160 146 He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
Posted by: Deuterium at March 30, 2026 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

Actually, you would be the heavy one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

Pikers.
Posted by: Tritium at March 30, 2026 07:23 PM (ynpvh)
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This is why I love this place...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 07:25 PM (ESVrU)

161 It's 2026...let the airlines run their own security.

Ain't hard.

Posted by: El Al Israel Airlines at March 30, 2026 07:26 PM (HUHft)

162 See? If you're old, crippled, mentally handicapped...the Gov't wants you to die

Their "Free" health care system is overloaded in debt and collapsing. The governments were faced with three choices:

1) End universal health insurance
2) Work to lower costs and the graft it produces
3) Kill anyone who is too expensive

They picked the one that lets them keep the graft.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:26 PM (El6/E)

163 Update: Secret Service agent who shot himself in butt was trying to use gun light to find phone

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You know, like dropping a match in your gas tank to see if you're out of gas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 07:26 PM (ndZc7)

164 Point being that establishing another unionized (not unionized... chem joke) Federal Agency was uncalled for.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:27 PM (XuXeR)

165 161 It's 2026...let the airlines run their own security.

Ain't hard.
Posted by: El Al Israel Airlines at March 30, 2026 07:26 PM (HUHft)

Some people just cannot function without government.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:27 PM (hJH5n)

166 I gotta say I’m not too crazy about the ballroom. I think it is too big for the location. But fuck it, if my enemies hate it then I fucking love it.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:47 PM (uDDWT)

Oh, I am on board! The designs I've seen look wonderful, and I'm glad they kept security in mind for the columns. The room is going to be a pain to heat in the winter, though.

Posted by: pookysgirl, keen on aesthetics at March 30, 2026 07:27 PM (Wt5PA)

167
Heavy water (D2O, and there's also DOH, which will form instantly when H2O and D20 are mixed) is toxic. The hydrogen bond is stronger with deuterium due to the larger relative mass difference (D is twice as massive as H).

The messes up all sorts of biochemical reactions in the body, slowing them down and so forth.

About 25 - 50% heavy water would be toxic to lethal. You'd get there eventually if you drank nothing but heavy water for a week or two.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 30, 2026 07:27 PM (w6EFb)

168 >> San Fran company (CAS) is still under TSA. So they are compliant.

As I said, they have to follow the same protocols but they aren't under TSA. They got paid and kept working.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 07:27 PM (viF8m)

169 Update: Secret Service agent who shot himself in butt was trying to use gun light to find phone"

Ok, that's funny right there

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:28 PM (XuXeR)

170 Oh kami-sama

Terrorist enabling. oh fvck it, terrorist knob gobblers rallied in the City of Brotherly Love to call for everyone to cheer when a US soldier returns home in a casket.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)

171 Unless I got fooled with AI, Trump said there's huge defense facility being built under the ballroom. He mentioned something about a lawsuit, so I assume the bunker was recently made public info due to FOIA or something.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 30, 2026 07:28 PM (w/O5Q)

172 I have to start 'The Hobbit' soon.

Tonight, a Chinese horror movie. I've only seen a few but the Chinese make great zombie movies. Something about individuality being destroyed and becoming part of an undead, bloodthirsty collective brings out the best in them.

Amazing effects too. You'd almost think they were actually killing some of the actors....

Later.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 07:28 PM (Sco7b)

173 Update: Secret Service agent who shot himself in butt was trying to use gun light to find phone

One of the bottom tier guys Trump put on Biden heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:29 PM (El6/E)

174 I wouldn't mind wrestling a woman but I think we'd both prefer if I asked permission first

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 07:29 PM (gKWVE)

175 Oh, I am on board! The designs I've seen look wonderful, and I'm glad they kept security in mind for the columns. The room is going to be a pain to heat in the winter, though.
Posted by: pookysgirl, keen on aesthetics at March 30, 2026 07:27 PM (Wt5PA)

The key is that it offers a safe, secure location for state dinners and other functions as such, and that architecturally it matches with the WH. So far I have no problems with it at all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:29 PM (hJH5n)

176 give pain medication to a suffering woman.
You relieve paid today.

Euthanize her and you relieve her pain forever.

Tell an upset woman to "calm down", and you relieve her equanimity for a considerable period.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

177 Modern day euthanasia programs are trending perilously close to the programs of Nazi Germany. Let that sink in - but it won't for many because after all it is a Woke Leftist jam, and Orange Man Bad. Somehow they will connect Maga.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 07:29 PM (pDt9x)

178 >>To be honest I'd rather those women not breed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:07 PM

They're all way past breeding age as is most of their audience.

Posted by: huerfano at March 30, 2026 07:30 PM (98kQX)

179 Tubal

The Nazis only desired to murder the racially inferior or the handicapped.

The Modern Left in Canada wants to kill you over a backache.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 07:31 PM (2GVsD)

180 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

181 Jessica Tarlov spouted some of her "facts" about NoKings, saying 8 million turned out at 3,300 locations around the US.

That amounts to about 2,400 at each, or 60 busloads of 40 each.

Averaging out across states, it amounts to 66 per state on average.

Posted by: M. Gaga at March 30, 2026 07:32 PM (KiBMU)

182
1) End universal health insurance
2) Work to lower costs and the graft it produces
3) Kill anyone who is too expensive

They picked the one that lets them keep the graft.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:26 PM

I'm wondering if the death pushers are mainly in larger metro areas where resources may be stretched.

My mother ALWAYS got great care at our local hospital, which is in a medium size city. And I saw a LOT of people there that were in pretty bad shape, but that was 15 months ago.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 07:32 PM (Sco7b)

183 The Modern Left in Canada wants to kill you over a backache.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Well, as long as it's not over a hangover.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 07:32 PM (ndZc7)

184 What's all this talk about Canadians and Youth In Asia. How are they connected and why should I care?

Posted by: Emily Litella at March 30, 2026 07:33 PM (oftw2)

185 177 Modern day euthanasia programs are trending perilously close to the programs of Nazi Germany. Let that sink in - but it won't for many because after all it is a Woke Leftist jam, and Orange Man Bad. Somehow they will connect Maga.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 07:29 PM (pDt9x)

Nah. They Want Theirs, and the only way they can keep getting "free" medical care is if the government kills people. They want "free" medical care, and if that means the government starts murdering people in the name of cost cutting, so be it.

Mao did say "It is better for half the people to die so that the other half can eat their fill."

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:33 PM (hJH5n)

186 Look for the euthanasia plan to show up in the NHS in the UK soon.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 07:34 PM (+nEug)

187 By the way, has anyone seen the cast shot of the Harry Potter TV show HBO is coming out with? Black Snape looks like he's from the Matrix which is sad, but the funniest thing is the kids playing Hermione and Harry have Robert DeNiro's Frankenstein boots on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:34 PM (El6/E)

188 Look for the euthanasia plan to show up in the NHS in the UK soon.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 07:34 PM (+nEug)
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Something tells me their Muslim conquerors and overlords will not be subject to it...only the native population.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 07:36 PM (ESVrU)

189 I'm wondering if the death pushers are mainly in larger metro areas where resources may be stretched.

My mother ALWAYS got great care at our local hospital, which is in a medium size city. And I saw a LOT of people there that were in pretty bad shape, but that was 15 months ago.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 07:32 PM (Sco7b)

I haven't looked at the ON budget lately, but it has been projected that something like 80% of its budget will go to "free" medical care alone in 2030. So killing people alleviates that to some extent.

Privatization and not killing anyone would also work wonders but that means politicians lose power and that's not good, is it?

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:36 PM (hJH5n)

190 Mao did say "It is better for half the people to die so that the other half can eat their fill."
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:33 PM (hJH5n)
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I said the same thing with a snap of my fingers!

Posted by: Thanos at March 30, 2026 07:37 PM (ESVrU)

191 If one want to order some heavy water, where could one do so? Could one find it on Amazon?
Posted by: Ali Abdula Mohamed at March 30, 2026 06:55 PM (vFG9F)

Give it a shot Ali. If Amazon can't fill your order, the nice men in suits and sunglasses who come knocking will help you.
Posted by: Diogenes

Only heavy water Amazon has is some kind of "thick" water. Has the consistency of honey.

Great. I've always wanted to chew my water.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:37 PM (Kksvc)

192 186 Look for the euthanasia plan to show up in the NHS in the UK soon.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 07:34 PM (+nEug)

Given how stupid expensive the NHS is, I'm surprised the UK hasn't had doctor assisted murder for many decades now.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 07:37 PM (hJH5n)

193 181 Jessica Tarlov spouted some of her "facts" about NoKings, saying 8 million turned out at 3,300 locations around the US.

That amounts to about 2,400 at each, or 60 busloads of 40 each.

Averaging out across states, it amounts to 66 per state on average.
Posted by: M. Gaga at March 30, 2026 07:32 PM (KiBMU)

It was a good weekend for us. Our Canadian division of our subsidiary, Rent-A-Deviant, made a killing in Winnipeg this past weekend too!

Posted by: Rent-A-Mob at March 30, 2026 07:39 PM (hJH5n)

194 Heavy water is needed for nuclear reactors. It moderates the kinetic energy of the neutrons released during fission

Huh. "Heavy water reduces the speed and energy of those neutrons without absorbing them." - illuminem.com
I'd thought the neutrons were just trapped in the deuterium making it tritium.
That latter CAN happen, but usually tritium is made via lithium-6, which captures neutrons more easily. Lithium-7 will decay into tritium (and He-4 and a neutron).

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 07:40 PM (gKWVE)

195 @56/fd: { I still can't get over the mob telling a guy to sit down and shut up and then chanting "This is what Democracy look like!". }

"The American Form of Government"
https://youtu.be/VogzExP3qhI?t=296

(Cued up to 4:56, the section on Democracy, but the whole thing is worth a watch.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 30, 2026 07:40 PM (O7YUW)

196 [iI said the same thing with a snap of my fingers!
Posted by: Thanos

And, no lie, the same people who love Mao thought he was the hero for that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 07:40 PM (El6/E)

197 Drinking heavy water as your water source will eventually wreck your metabolism and enzymatic processes. The weight difference is enough to mess it all up up.
Children of people in the US illegally are also illegal. Only the children born to people on the citizenship path will become citizens when their parents become citizens.
Shouldn’t be this difficult

Posted by: Accomack at March 30, 2026 07:43 PM (GbONR)

198 f the Supreme Court agrees, it could render hundreds of thousands of children born to immigrant parents stateless.
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I mean, no it would be like every other nation on earth and make them the citizenship of their parents.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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And that country almost certainly claims them as citizens.
Usually whether they want it or not.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)

199 Always going to be easier to kill people than cure them.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 07:58 PM (vOtXJ)

200 198 f the Supreme Court agrees, it could render hundreds of thousands of children born to immigrant parents stateless.

You are the citizenship of your parents. That's has always been true.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 08:00 PM (vOtXJ)

201 Iran: 47 years and someone finally said, "Enough of your bullshit."

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 08:02 PM (vOtXJ)

202 Trump should sign an executive order:

"I hereby declare all people residing in the state of California, regardless of legal status or citizenship, as honorary members of ICE. In addition, all animals are also declared honorary members of ICE."

Posted by: Another Anon at March 30, 2026 08:49 PM (4h45B)

203 8 million. Still short.

Seems like the political science theory suggesting that no government has withstood a nonviolent challenge from 3.5% of its population mobilized during a peak event.

BBC, Harvard School of Business, Wikipedia, more.
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Theory....nothing but.

Posted by: Trying to Fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 11:32 PM (NFX2v)

FBI Director Kash Patel Eyes Releasing the Eric Swallwell Fang-Fang Documents

Release the Fartstein Files!

FBI director pushes to release investigative files on Rep. Eric Swalwell: Reports

FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing for the release of files related to an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell's (D-Calif.) interactions with a suspected Chinese spy, according to reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
FBI agents and other personnel in California have been directed to gather and redact sensitive information from documents in preparation for sharing with senior Trump administration officials, according to The New York Times, citing three people familiar with the matter.
The files stem from a decade-old counterintelligence probe into a Chinese woman, known both as Christine Fang and Fang Fang, who reportedly helped Swalwell with fundraising and placing an intern in his office during the 2014 campaign cycle.
Swalwell was not accused of criminal wrongdoing and severed ties with Fang in 2015 after being briefed by U.S. intelligence officials on their suspicions of her. A two-year House Ethics probe into the matter concluded in 2023 without taking any further action.
The public release of files in an investigation that did not result in criminal charges would mark a highly unusual step, the Post noted.

Oh, like when they released the Mueller Report about the Russiagate hoax?

Swalwell has for years accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the issue against him in retaliation for his criticisms of the president.

Are you kidding me? He's one of the main weaponizers in Congress.

Note that The Hill points none of this out.

On Saturday, he suggested the FBI's alleged actions were tied to his rising standing in the California governor's race.

Oh! You mean the Administration is trying to interfere with an upcoming election by releasing files?

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In a statement to the Post, an FBI spokesperson denied improper motives regarding the investigative files.
"The contentions in this story are incorrect," the spokesperson told the newspaper. "This FBI, being the most transparent in history, prepares documents for numerous different reasons, including for release to different agencies and departments to further review investigations that may have been opened under previous administrations."
Swalwell said in September that he "fully" expected to be prosecuted by the Trump administration, pointing to his name in a book written by Patel in which he listed "government gangsters" who should be held accountable.

If only. If only.

🚨 BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing to release investigative files related to Eric Swalwell banging a Chinese spy, per WaPo

Fang Fang�s coming back to haunt Swalwell 🤣🔥

RELEASE IT ALL! pic.twitter.com/PXglOn0XFO
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 28, 2026

Related: The media screamed for years that someone allegedly hacked DNC emails, and that person was, it was claimed but never proven, acting in concert with Russia.
"RUSSIA IS RIGGING THE ELECTION TO HELP THE TRAITOR TRUMP,' they screamed as if all reading from the same script.

Now Iran hacks Kash Patel's emails and that silence you hear is the media studiously avoiding the topic of which party Iran was seeking to rig an election for.

Patel wasn't even the FBI director when this hack took place. This was back in 2020 and 2021 -- when Patel was a congressional investigator primarily known for uncovering the RussiaGate hoax concocted by Hillary Clinton.

Hackers connected to the Iranian government accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and posted materials -- including photos and documents -- taken from his account, a person familiar with the breach confirmed to CNN.
The hackers have published a series of photos of Patel from before he became FBI director that they claim were stolen from his personal email account. A source familiar with the incident confirmed the images' authenticity.
The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022 and appear to include personal, business and travel correspondence that Patel had with various contacts, according to a preliminary CNN review of the files with the help of an independent cybersecurity researcher.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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Posted by: GF at March 30, 2026 05:31 PM (UjrO3)

2 Fang fang fuck fuck long time.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 05:31 PM (uDDWT)

3 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 05:32 PM (OM9sb)

4 I n00d'd.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 05:33 PM (OM9sb)

5 oh noes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 05:34 PM (MIIRH)

6 I was about to ask who this "Swalwell" guy even is, when I just discovered he's MY senator!

That's how relevant he is to his "constituency."

Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2026 05:34 PM (Av6i5)

7 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at March 30, 2026 05:34 PM (0sNs1)

8 I will throw the nothing will happen excrement against the HQ wall and get that out of the way. Then we can move on.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:35 PM (pDt9x)

9 "On Saturday, he suggested the FBI's alleged actions were tied to his rising standing in the California governor's race."

Last poll I saw had him tied for 4th place.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2026 05:36 PM (0N4FZ)

10 How exciting! Patel is stacking up convictions like cord wood! Nevermind...

Posted by: Vic Romano at March 30, 2026 05:36 PM (xNy4G)

11 Release the Fang Bang File!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 30, 2026 05:36 PM (fE6HJ)

12 Limey papers crying about Trump threatening desalination plants "war crime" . LOL fucking limeys.

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 05:36 PM (YwEeS)

13 Anyone who believes Swallwell innocent should welcome Kash's disclosure.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 05:36 PM (2ap+5)

14 OK, further research reveale he's a Representative, not a Senator. Close enough.

Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2026 05:37 PM (Av6i5)

15 Beat me to it, #7. I am feeling irrationally optimistic lately. Hope that doesn’t piss anyone off.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:37 PM (pDt9x)

16 11 Bro what if he sent her dick pics?

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 05:37 PM (YwEeS)

17 I suppose in the effort to ensure openness in our legislative branch we have no choice but to open all the info on Swallwell and his paramour.
As slimy as that may be,

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 05:37 PM (rbvCR)

18 And the Morons of the Horde will wonder if there are any Fang Fang Bang Bang photos in the files.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 05:37 PM (2GVsD)

19 Was Fang Fang hot? Would The Blade Bang?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:38 PM (1LxEq)

20 Eric Smallberries looks like a dullard. A ruh-tard, if you will.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 05:39 PM (0aYVJ)

21 Fang Fang make bang-bang, swallow all. Well!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:39 PM (azOtX)

22 Swallowswell is in a doom loop, unless CA voters really are that stupid.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Q/FnY)

23 Fang Fang love you long time.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:39 PM (pDt9x)

24 7 Nothing will happen.
Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at March 30, 2026 05:34 PM (0sNs1)

You must be batting about .990.
And be so tired of being right...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 05:39 PM (Sco7b)

25 Two birds with one stone: embarrass Swalwell and put a kibosh on his California governor aspirations. The other plus is to embarrass the CCP for their infiltration activities but at least you have to give it to them to know how easy are congresscritters.

Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 05:40 PM (Tbs6N)

26 Hey Robert- does my memory serve correctly that you're one of the other Iron Maiden fans amongst the Horde? Don't know if you saw the Hobby thread on Saturday, but there was a great interview linked of Bruce Dickinson being interviewed by the Charismatic Voice gal. Along with being an immensely entertaining conversation, he mentioned a personal elixir he concocted to stave off gout... thought you might want to check it out.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 30, 2026 05:40 PM (qVGoX)

27 Are you kidding me? He's one of the main weaponizers in Congress.

takes one to know one

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:40 PM (v3pYe)

28 Idk an awful lot has been happening.

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 05:40 PM (YwEeS)

29 The pictures I have seen of Fang Fang I would characterize as Standard Model Chinese.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:40 PM (pDt9x)

30 Swalwell has for years accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the issue against him

LOL "weaponizing" the law against a spy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:40 PM (El6/E)

31 The pictures I have seen of Fang Fang I would characterize as Standard Model Chinese.

She's a 5 for an Asian girl

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:41 PM (El6/E)

32 Eyes Releasing

That's not where it comes from.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 30, 2026 05:41 PM (abIsI)

33 dunno 'bout fang fang, but there was an episode of the well-known documentary "the tick!" that involved tongue tongue.

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:41 PM (v3pYe)

34 FBI Director Kash Patel Eyes Releasing the Eric Swallwell Fang-Fang Documents

Swallwell: Darling, help me to destroy the running-dog capitalists.
Fang-Fang: Why you so small. I thought American men have penises. You hung like baby. Ugh, I don't know if revolution worth this.
Swallwell: But I love you.
Fang-Fang: And your breath smell like shit. Not just bad, actual shit. Whose ass are you licking. Don't kiss me. Aaaaaaaaa. Gross, I have to gargle with rubbing alcohol.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 05:41 PM (ExV1e)

35 16 11 Bro what if he sent her dick pics?
Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 05:37 PM (YwEeS)
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Just keep your jeweler's loupe in your desk drawer and you shouldn't be able to see anything unseemly.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 05:42 PM (oqH4h)

36 Fang probably hides a razor blade in her hoohah.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 05:42 PM (abIsI)

37 Swalwell said in September that he "fully" expected to be prosecuted by the Trump administration, pointing to his name in a book written by Patel in which he listed "government gangsters" who should be held accountable.

you know else has their names written in a book?

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:42 PM (v3pYe)

38 If only Swallhell had listened to that great sage: "No yellow"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 30, 2026 05:42 PM (fE6HJ)

39 Patel wasn't even the FBI director when this hack took place. This was back in 2020 and 2021 -- when Patel was a congressional investigator primarily known for uncovering the RussiaGate hoax concocted by Hillary Clinton.

This is new to me, all I knew is that the hack revealed a regular dude with no nasty secrets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:43 PM (El6/E)

40 Has Kash himself said this? The sources all seem to be someone other than him.

If so, I have a hot take: it’s Fartswell himself that is the source for this. Look at the glowing reporting this is being leaked to try to hurt his “rising standing’ in the CA race. Who else but him would say that?

The Blade smells a really bad fart.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:43 PM (1LxEq)

41 Now Iran hacks Kash Patel's emails and that silence you hear is the media studiously avoiding the topic of which party Iran was seeking to rig an election for.

Asmongold covered this. Reddit is pissed because they didn't uncover anything bad.

https://youtu.be/ZxVNYQO47MU

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

42 you know else has their names written in a book?
Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:42 PM (v3pYe)

Navin Johnson?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 05:43 PM (0aYVJ)

43 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (FSWTk)

44 That would be a fun read

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)

45 How can we insinuate Pam Bondi into this thread? Because we must find some way.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (pDt9x)

46 29 The pictures I have seen of Fang Fang I would characterize as Standard Model Chinese.

fembot model b?

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (v3pYe)

47 Fartstein Didn't Shart Himself!

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (HW7Dq)

48 Swalwell is listed as having a negative net worth.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (+nEug)

49 Since the Epstein lies, my confidence in Patel is less than that of Jim Cramer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (abIsI)

50 46 29 The pictures I have seen of Fang Fang I would characterize as Standard Model Chinese.

fembot model b?
Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (v3pYe)

She has that rubber skin.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (pDt9x)

51 Ancient Chinese Secret

Posted by: Fang Fang at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (wVcYX)

52 Oh my! They just opened the on-board duty-free shop. Right across the aisle from where I am seated. A crowd of several people has gathered.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (azOtX)

53 Would The Blade Bang?
Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:38 PM (1LxEq)

She might be out of your league.

snopes.com/fact-check/eric-swalwell-chinese-spy/

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 05:46 PM (ExV1e)

54 51 Ancient Chinese Secret
Posted by: Fang Fang at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (wVcYX)

She uses nutmeg?

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:46 PM (pDt9x)

55
Swallwell: Oh honey, you complete me!

Fang Fang: YOU GO NOW!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 05:46 PM (u73oe)

56 I see a pic of Swalwell and think “i bet that’s one sweaty guy”.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:47 PM (pDt9x)

57 I see a pic of Swalwell and think “i bet that’s one sweaty guy”.

He looks like he sweats seed oils

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:48 PM (El6/E)

58 Oh my! They just opened the on-board duty-free shop. Right across the aisle from where I am seated. A crowd of several people has gathered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (azOtX)

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Are you on a cruise? To where?

Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (Tbs6N)

59 She uses nutmeg?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:46 PM (pDt9x)

Calgon

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (rbvCR)

60 51 Ancient Chinese Secret
Posted by: Fang Fang at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (wVcYX)

She uses nutmeg?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:46 PM (pDt9x)

MSG

Posted by: Fang Fang at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (wVcYX)

61 7.3 Earthquake in Vanuatu. I wonder if Fang has a surfboard?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (abIsI)

62 The pictures I have seen of Fang Fang I would characterize as Standard Model Chinese.

fembot model b?
Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:44 PM (v3pYe)

She has that rubber skin.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:45 PM (pDt9x)
——

So … GI Joe without the kung-fu grip then

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:50 PM (1LxEq)

63 Swalwell's FEC filings show him with about 1.5 million in his campaign account.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 05:50 PM (+nEug)

64 Swalwell is just another soi boy who can't control his impulses.

The waters of the deep state run wide in CA because nobody is paying attention.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:51 PM (Fbc0I)

65 Are you on a cruise? To where?
Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (Tbs6N)

A ferry. Blackball lines" MV Coho from Port Angeles, WA to Victoria, BC. The ship has been in service since 1959.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:51 PM (kDzQO)

66 Beijing just locked down Tiananmen Square.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 30, 2026 05:52 PM (X+xvk)

67 65 Are you on a cruise? To where?
Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (Tbs6N)

A ferry. Blackball lines" MV Coho from Port Angeles, WA to Victoria, BC. The ship has been in service since 1959.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:51 PM (kDzQO)

A 3 hour cruise, right?

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:52 PM (pDt9x)

68 Now Iran hacks Kash Patel's emails

==

this will cost them 40 additional cargo ships of oil!

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 05:53 PM (GD0B3)

69 Commenting has been really light today. Even with hidden content.

No Kings Day hangovers?

And what did Swalwell do to get a Chinese honeypot?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 05:53 PM (Sco7b)

70 Beijing just locked down Tiananmen Square.
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 30, 2026 05:52 PM (X+xvk)

Are they cleaning it? Concerned about the paving?

Posted by: Kindltot -- Viva l'Italia! Viva il Re! Viva il Duce! at March 30, 2026 05:53 PM (rbvCR)

71 So … GI Joe without the kung-fu grip then

Does she have the machine guns in her hooters?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:53 PM (El6/E)

72 I say the No Kings protests were astroturf, as Nancy Pelosi insinuated about any conservative protests. Their claim of eight million protesters is not genuine or they would show drone film of the heaving mobs. Instead all you get are ground level images so you can't see the density or extent of the marches.

Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 05:53 PM (Tbs6N)

73 A 3 hour cruise, right?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:52 PM (pDt9x)

Two hours. Sadly, no MaryAnne or Ginger in evidence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:54 PM (kDzQO)

74 He should have listened to me, and not Donovan.

Posted by: Hunter B. at March 30, 2026 05:54 PM (0sNs1)

75 So … GI Joe without the kung-fu grip then

Does she have the machine guns in her hooters?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:53 PM (El6/E)
——

[grins]

— The Machine Girl

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:55 PM (1LxEq)

76 according to The New York Times, citing three people familiar with the matter.
_________________________

Allow me to translate:

We really have nothing supporting this. Nor can we produce "three people familiar with the matter. In fact, it's necessary that it continue to remain untrue. Because, we can't try and push a political persecution narrative in the California Governor's race if there is actual substance to the story. We can't let republicans acquire the governor's mansion in California, and Swallwell has nothing of substance to run on. So, we're going to create a false narrative to get that spite and sympathy vote out there.

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 05:55 PM (dIske)

77 @22-"unless CA voters are really that stupid".

They are.

Posted by: Case at March 30, 2026 05:55 PM (pvf3X)

78 And what did Swalwell do to get a Chinese honeypot?

Be on the Intelligence committee and an obvious dupe

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:55 PM (El6/E)

79 A 3 hour cruise, right?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:52 PM (pDt9x)

Two hours. Sadly, no MaryAnne or Ginger in evidence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:54 PM (kDzQO)

Ha! I was all set to ask that very question.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 30, 2026 05:55 PM (0aYVJ)

80 Navin Johnson?
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Don't be a jerk.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 30, 2026 05:56 PM (KAi1n)

81 Instead all you get are ground level images so you can't see the density or extent of the marches.

There are some aerial shots but many of them are from previous marches and events. Joey Swoll keeps catching them on Twixxer, some of the video is even clearly labeled like "July 2025"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:57 PM (El6/E)

82 A 3 hour cruise, right?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:52 PM (pDt9x)

Two hours. Sadly, no MaryAnne or Ginger in evidence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon a

Anyone onboard that looks like the Professor?

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 30, 2026 05:57 PM (abIsI)

83 Navin Johnson?
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Don't be a jerk.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 30, 2026 05:56 PM (KAi1n)

———————

This place.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 05:58 PM (u73oe)

84 Note that The Hill points none of this out.
=====

Noted. But not surprised. Why would they report facts that are inconvenient and counter-narrative.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 05:58 PM (RIvkX)

85 I think Japanese women are on average, prettier than Chinese women. And Korean women can be quite the smoke shows.

I would say Fang-Fang’s a Karaoke Bar 6.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 05:58 PM (XV/Pl)

86 78 And what did Swalwell do to get a Chinese honeypot?

Be on the Intelligence committee and an obvious dupe
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:55 PM (El6/E)

Emphasis on the "obvious dupe" part - that boy's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 30, 2026 05:58 PM (SRRAx)

87 82 A 3 hour cruise, right?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:52 PM (pDt9x)

Two hours. Sadly, no MaryAnne or Ginger in evidence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon a

Anyone onboard that looks like the Professor?
Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 30, 2026 05:57 PM (abIsI)

Lindsay you want the Professor, you would settle for Gilligan, but you get Lovey.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 05:59 PM (pDt9x)

88 11 Bro what if he sent her dick pics?

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 05:37 PM (YwEeS)

Never. He has no dick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 05:59 PM (snZF9)

89 Alberta Oil Peon

Just for shits and grins, what's your impression of Bellingham Airport?

Posted by: MkY at March 30, 2026 05:59 PM (q6tQZ)

90 The founders, having watched the King eliminate parliamentary opposition by eliminating parliament members, wrote some pretty robust protections of congresscriters into the Constitution.
That's what makes getting rid of fraudsters and anti-US critters so difficult.
I have no confidence that any member of Congress will suffer real consequences.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 30, 2026 05:59 PM (rJ+qD)

91 I don't know why anyone cares who wins the governor race in california, that state is on automatic pilot for self destruction at this point.

Even if a *gasp* republican wins they can't change anything as the democrat super majority in the house and senate will over ride any veto's a republican governor would make.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2026 06:00 PM (0N4FZ)

92 Are you on a cruise? To where?
Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (Tbs6N)

A ferry. Blackball lines" MV Coho from Port Angeles, WA to Victoria, BC. The ship has been in service since 1959.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:51 PM (kDzQO)

----------------

Brilliant, have a fabulous time. Visited there with husband and teenage daughters in August 1991 and had lunch at an outside cafe opposite the Empress Hotel. Fantastic view.

Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 06:00 PM (Tbs6N)

93 On Saturday, he suggested the FBI's alleged actions were tied to his rising standing in the California governor's race.

Oh! You mean the Administration is trying to interfere with an upcoming election by releasing files?

Why shouldn't the people of California know exactly what Swalwell was doing with a Chinese spy?
Is it really interference to let the people know how stupid a politician running for office is?

Why not release it all?
What are you hiding, Eric?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:00 PM (6ydKt)

94 The pictures I have seen of Fang Fang I would characterize as Standard Model Chinese.
fembot model b?
Posted by: anachronda

So … GI Joe without the kung-fu grip then
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Of all the models to leave the kung-fu grip out of, they pick the Chinese one? That's gotta be rayciss.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 06:01 PM (VHUov)

95 Weng Weng > Fang Fang

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 30, 2026 06:01 PM (k9OZB)

96 Anyone onboard that looks like the Professor?
Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 30, 2026 05:57 PM (abIsI)

Nope. And I am looking at Victoria off the starboard bow right now. If we maintain this rate, we should dock on 15 minutes. But the ship is slowing down, too. Got to enter the inner harbor, and can't be making big wakes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:01 PM (kDzQO)

97 Spain closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, officials said Monday.

How about we send a heat seeking missile right up that commies ahole?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:01 PM (abIsI)

98 Just for shits and grins, what's your impression of Bellingham Airport?
Posted by: MkY at March 30, 2026 05:59 PM (q6tQZ)

I have never been in it, AFAIK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:03 PM (kDzQO)

99 >>The public release of files in an investigation that did not result in criminal charges would mark a highly unusual step, the Post noted.

It would if Swalwell was the only target. I'm a bit curious why the Obama FBI ended an investigation with no charges when a US Congressman was having an affair with a Chinese spy.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 06:03 PM (viF8m)

100

Ferry schedule claims hour and a half.

www.cohoferry.com/schedule-fares

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 06:03 PM (Cqx++)

101 I was wondering if anyone knows who The Political Insider (TPI) is that ace links to on the main page top?

They don’t have an about page and I was curious who they are?

I tried searching but search engines give crap results on non-leftist outlets.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 30, 2026 06:04 PM (r2KsI)

102 Nope. And I am looking at Victoria off the starboard bow right now. If we maintain this rate, we should dock on 15 minutes. But the ship is slowing down, too. Got to enter the inner harbor, and can't be making big wakes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

We've taken the Victoria Clipper once in the distant past, that thing puts up a rooster tail about 40ft in the air. Pricey though.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:04 PM (abIsI)

103 Spain closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, officials said Monday.

I mean... were we even using Spain? LOL. This is like Joe Kent urging people to email the white house to beg them to not invade Iran with soldiers on the ground. Objecting to what is not happening is an odd sort of virtue signaling

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:04 PM (El6/E)

104 He gave Bang Bang secrets because she was Chinese, not because she was a spy and giving him some.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:06 PM (/lPRQ)

105 Why shouldn't the people of California know exactly what Swalwell was doing with a Chinese spy?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:00 PM (6ydKt)

California would just nominate him for a statue.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 06:06 PM (snZF9)

106 Kind of hard to have a credible fight against fraud when your pulling shut like this.

NEW - Trump pardons nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz, convicted of a $39 million fraud scheme, just three months into a three-year prison term. Victims haven’t been able to collect from Schwartz.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 30, 2026 06:06 PM (CNl8/)

107 I am inundated in Eric Swalwell ads.

They have no substance:
-Fighting Trump!
-Impeachment!
-Affordability!
-Beer at Senior Prom!

Ok I added the last one

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 06:07 PM (RIvkX)

108 86 78 And what did Swalwell do to get a Chinese honeypot?

Be on the Intelligence committee and an obvious dupe
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:55 PM (El6/E)

Okay, thank you.

My loyalty to the Canadian government goes without question and I'm willing to open bidding at 10 biologically, human female honeypots.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 06:08 PM (Sco7b)

109 Id there are three Chinese working in you bizniss, company, or school then 2 are stealing your secrets.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:09 PM (/+uur)

110 We've taken the Victoria Clipper once in the distant past, that thing puts up a rooster tail about 40ft in the air. Pricey though.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:04 PM (abIsI)

They re-engined this ship a few years ago, and it picked up a few hundred more HP. Could account for the faster sailing. The roll has ceased, we are just cruising along on almost glassy-smooth water. I see a white ship with a red hull docked to my right; think it is a Canuck Coast Guard cutter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:09 PM (kDzQO)

111 ""Spain closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, officials said Monday.""

Sounds like somebody wants to get cunt punted out of NATO.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 06:10 PM (snZF9)

112 The media screamed for years that someone allegedly hacked DNC emails, and that person was ...

------------

His name was Seth Rich.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 06:10 PM (szF1R)

113 106 Kind of hard to have a credible fight against fraud when your pulling shut like this.

NEW - Trump pardons nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz, convicted of a $39 million fraud scheme, just three months into a three-year prison term. Victims haven’t been able to collect from Schwartz.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 30, 2026 06:06 PM (CNl8/)

Are you sure Trump did that, or was it the Auto-Pen again?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:10 PM (6ydKt)

114 110 We've taken the Victoria Clipper once in the distant past, that thing puts up a rooster tail about 40ft in the air. Pricey though.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:04 PM (abIsI)

They re-engined this ship a few years ago, and it picked up a few hundred more HP. Could account for the faster sailing. The roll has ceased, we are just cruising along on almost glassy-smooth water. I see a white ship with a red hull docked to my right; think it is a Canuck Coast Guard cutter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:09 PM (kDzQO)

So, no guns showing then?

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 06:10 PM (pDt9x)

115 They re-engined this ship a few years ago, and it picked up a few hundred more HP. Could account for the faster sailing. The roll has ceased, we are just cruising along on almost glassy-smooth water. I see a white ship with a red hull docked to my right; think it is a Canuck Coast Guard cutter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Can you see Mt. Baker?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:11 PM (abIsI)

116 >>> The hackers have published a series of photos of Patel from before he became FBI director that they claim were stolen from his personal email account. A source familiar with the incident confirmed the images' authenticity.

So, a lot of people vacation at Disney World, wearing a speedo and blowing bubbles in front of the Small World exhibit...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:11 PM (/lPRQ)

117 Sounds like somebody wants to get cunt punted out of NATO.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 06:10 PM

Their proposal is acceptable.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 06:11 PM (0ep87)

118 Can you see Mt. Baker?

Unlikely but Olympics almost certainly almost certainly

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:12 PM (El6/E)

119 Fang Fang isn't a prise

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 06:12 PM (Ia/+0)

120 Bro what if he sent her dick pics?
Posted by: steevy

What if she sent HIM dick pics ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (/lPRQ)

121 Swalwell may as well give up. The primary isn't until June. By then, Katie Porter's bikini picks will have swept the nation. She'll be a shoo in.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (AlhUl)

122 Can you see Mt. Baker?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:11 PM (abIsI)

Nope, but the snow-capped Olympic mts, were well in evidence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (kDzQO)

123 They re-engined this ship a few years ago, and it picked up a few hundred more HP. Could account for the faster sailing. The roll has ceased, we are just cruising along on almost glassy-smooth water. I see a white ship with a red hull docked to my right; think it is a Canuck Coast Guard cutter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:09 PM (kDzQO)

So, no guns showing then?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 06:10 PM (pDt9x)

Q ship

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (wVcYX)

124 His name was Seth Rich.
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 06:10 PM (szF1R)

The download was USB speed. Someone physically plugged a drive into the server.
When I was doing Navy project we ran a utility that shut down the box if it saw a USB interupt.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (/+uur)

125 Eric Swallowell is a CCP lickspittle, a local pol amazed how far he as climbed and looking to grab as much as possible as fast as possible before the ride ends.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (RIvkX)

126 Bro what if he sent her dick pics?
Posted by: steevy

What if she sent HIM dick pics ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

"Must be this tall to ride."

Posted by: Fang Fang at March 30, 2026 06:14 PM (VHUov)

127 120 Bro what if he sent her dick pics?
Posted by: steevy

What if she sent HIM dick pics ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (/lPRQ)

121 Swalwell may as well give up. The primary isn't until June. By then, Katie Porter's bikini picks will have swept the nation. She'll be a shoo in.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (AlhUl)

Eye Bleach por favor

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:14 PM (/+uur)

128 Who was the FBI Director in 2014?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 06:14 PM (viF8m)

129 I mean... were we even using Spain? LOL. This is like Joe Kent urging people to email the white house to beg them to not invade Iran with soldiers on the ground. Objecting to what is not happening is an odd sort of virtue signaling
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:04 PM (El6/E)
---
Spain is a more direct air route to the Middle East from CONUS. Tankers could refuel and also base there for the air bridge. Denying that airspace adds to the logistical burden, so screw them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:14 PM (ZOv7s)

130 Another strong black woman gets arrested in SF, more non-profit fraud, of course! The local version of BLM.
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A disgraced former San Francisco department head and her longtime beau have been arrested for allegedly grifting taxpayer funds for personal use through a city program intended to help the city’s black communities.

Sheryl Davis, former heard of the San Francisco Human Rights Commissions, and her nonprofit boss boyfriend James Spingola were taken into custody Monday on suspicion of multiple felony counts of misappropriating public funds and conflicts of interest.

https://tinyurl.com/4jrp6r7n

Posted by: beckster at March 30, 2026 06:15 PM (kX27y)

131 121 Swalwell may as well give up. The primary isn't until June. By then, Katie Porter's bikini picks will have swept the nation. She'll be a shoo in.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (AlhUl)

Protip - never go to dinner at Katie Porter’s house.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 06:15 PM (pDt9x)

132 Come se dice nice dick in mandarin.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:15 PM (/+uur)

133 Docking soon. Shutting down. Later.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:15 PM (kDzQO)

134 Holder 2014

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:16 PM (/+uur)

135 By then, Katie Porter's bikini picks will have swept the nation. She'll be a shoo in.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (AlhUl)
=====

Mercy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 06:16 PM (RIvkX)

136 133 Docking soon. Shutting down. Later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:15 PM (kDzQO)

Beware the Danger Hair.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 06:16 PM (pDt9x)

137 A disgraced former San Francisco department head and her longtime beau have been arrested for allegedly grifting taxpayer funds for personal use through a city program intended to help the city’s black communities.
====

I posted a link on this earlier. This money came from defunding the SFPD because they racist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 06:17 PM (RIvkX)

138 Why did the FBI warn Swalwell instead of arresting him?

Posted by: Wofus at March 30, 2026 06:18 PM (CNa+A)

139 >>Holder 2014

James Comey.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 06:18 PM (viF8m)

140 Good luck AOP

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)

141 Swalwell may as well give up. The primary isn't until June. By then, Katie Porter's bikini picks will have swept the nation. She'll be a shoo in.
Posted by: Eeyore

Thanks.

I did a Bing search for "Katie Porter's bikini picks".
Second hit was for "Katie Nicole" bikini picks.... guess she is famous.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:18 PM (/lPRQ)

142 PoPo tazed Tiger black ass cause he was drivin like a chinaman.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:19 PM (/+uur)

143 The BBC literally ran a segment about how dogs are a bad idea and people shouldn't own them because they make people frightened and uncomfortable. People meaning "our new Muslim overlords"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:19 PM (El6/E)

144 a city program intended to help the city’s black communities"

Ok, that's funny right there.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 06:19 PM (XuXeR)

145 What's California's plan to pay back the billions and billions of dollars in fraud money they ripped off the taxpayers of our country? I guess the Governor is too busy running for President to worry about it. What a shit state they are.

Posted by: Case at March 30, 2026 06:20 PM (pvf3X)

146 138 Why did the FBI warn Swalwell instead of arresting him?
Posted by: Wofus at March 30, 2026 06:18 PM (CNa+A)

Because he is just that dumb....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 30, 2026 06:20 PM (SRRAx)

147 James Comey.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 06:18 PM (viF8m)

Oppressing the black man

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:20 PM (/+uur)

148 SanFranpsycho, is there a PAC supporting Swalwell? His campaign fund is only showing a little over a million bucks in it.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 06:20 PM (+nEug)

149 I posted a link on this earlier. This money came from defunding the SFPD because they racist.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 06:17 PM (RIvkX)
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They the real racists, taking advantage of whitey. Sorry, didn't see your earlier link!

Posted by: beckster at March 30, 2026 06:20 PM (kX27y)

150 124 When I was doing Navy project we ran a utility that shut down the box if it saw a USB interupt.

lsb > usb

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 06:21 PM (v3pYe)

151 Why did the FBI warn Swalwell instead of arresting him?

Because he is of the protected class, he is more equal than us, and they will take no criminal action against him. But they want to harm his electoral chances.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 06:21 PM (El6/E)

152 Man, it's warm and we got a blast of rain and everything smells so green and fresh. I love it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:22 PM (ZOv7s)

153 I hope all of you are rich enough one day to be unconcerned about illegals. Like these assholes from deadline...

"Days after another round of No Kings! protests brought Robert De Niro, Jana Fonda, Jimmy Kimmel, Bruce Springsteen and millions more out on the streets to rally against Donald Trump, some of the same celebs and others are seeking to have an immigration detention facility in Texas shut down ASAP.

And when Raffi and Ms. Rachel speak, maybe it’s time to listen.

“No child should be locked in an immigration detention center,” says a petition also signed by Oscar winner Fonda, Pedro Pascal, Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku, The Gilded Age‘s Morgan Spector and Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Andor‘s Diego Luna, director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and many more."

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 06:22 PM (Sco7b)

154 144 a city program intended to help the city’s black communities"

Ok, that's funny right there.
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 06:19 PM (XuXeR)

CSL
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:23 PM (/+uur)

155 Comey knew all about the Biden family's corruption in China, Ukraine and beyond. He did nothing. Instead he tried to take down Trump with the idiotic Russia hoax.

Comey's job was to protect the permanent DC class and go after anyone who threatened them.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 06:23 PM (viF8m)

156 lsb > usb
Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 06:21 PM (v3pYe)

Lutheran Standard Bible

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:24 PM (/+uur)

157 They tased Tiger?

Heh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 30, 2026 06:24 PM (RJBgA)

158 Why did the FBI warn Swalwell instead of arresting him?
Posted by: Wofus at March 30, 2026 06:18 PM (CNa+A)
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Because Obama was in charge and the FBI was his lapdog.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

159 I have...never understood the appeal of Swalwell to anyone. He seems like an utterly incompetent boob.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 06:24 PM (vOtXJ)

160 Comey certainly was out to protect Hildabeast

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

161 They tased Tiger?

Heh
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factor

Just his black ass.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:25 PM (/lPRQ)

162 Swallowswell seems slimey to me

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 06:27 PM (Ia/+0)

163 >>> FBI Director Kash Patel Eyes Releasing the Eric Swallwell Fang-Fang Documents

Kash Patel Eyes ?

There is a puny joke in there somewhere but am not quite seeing it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:27 PM (/lPRQ)

164 Sarg:
Why da fuck you taze Tiger?
Patrol:
He drive worse than he momma?
Sarg:
OK this time

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:27 PM (/+uur)

165 Can you see Mt. Baker?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 06:11 PM (abIsI)

Nope, but the snow-capped Olympic mts, were well in evidence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 06:13 PM (kDzQO)

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When we stayed with family in Surrey in Vancouver Mt Baker was visible in all its glory from their back porch. That part of the world is beautiful, Vancouver harbour rivals Sydney harbour in Australia in its scenic beauty.

Posted by: Decaf at March 30, 2026 06:29 PM (Tbs6N)

166 Being elected Governor of California is like be chosen to Captain the Titanic.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 06:29 PM (IifOV)

167 159 I have...never understood the appeal of Swalwell to anyone. He seems like an utterly incompetent boob.
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I have friends in his district that always vote for him simply because there's a D after his name. Liberal Jews who can't help themselves.

Posted by: beckster at March 30, 2026 06:29 PM (kX27y)

168 25 Two birds with one stone: embarrass Swalwell and put a kibosh on his California governor aspirations.

—

In Cali being a CCP spy is a positive. This will boost his poll numbers by 5-7%.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:30 PM (uDDWT)

169 159 I have...never understood the appeal of Swalwell to anyone. He seems like an utterly incompetent boob.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 06:24 PM (vOtXJ)
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He's a loudmouth and an inveterate liar with zero sense of shame. He's basically the poster child for the Democrat party at this point.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 06:30 PM (oqH4h)

170 NATO is a joke and it serves no purpose. Get out!

And evict the UN.

The EU needs to cinch up their big boy belts and toe the line. Welcome to the 21st century.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 06:30 PM (Fbc0I)

171 well, good to know !

"Rumor has it, that the A10 warthogs have been extremely effective over Iranian militias in Iraq."

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 06:30 PM (GD0B3)

172 The New York Times takes an architectural look at the coming White House ballroom and finds there is a lot of ornamental stairs to no where and faux windows with bathroom stalls behind them

Nowhere is one word

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 06:30 PM (/+uur)

173 might as well clean up where we can

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 06:31 PM (GD0B3)

174 NOOD

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 30, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

175 well, good to know !

"Rumor has it, that the A10 warthogs have been extremely effective over Iranian militias in Iraq."

Posted by: runner

Iran put all their eggs into the "drone" and "rocket" baskets.
Should have saved some old school manpads...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 06:33 PM (/lPRQ)

176 Being elected Governor of California is like be chosen to Captain the Titanic.
Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 06:29 PM (IifOV)

I’ve been hearing how California and Illinois are on the brink of collapse for 15 years. Yet somehow they just kinda plodding on. Much like how the left says we’re in a perpetual Great Depression whenever a Republican is in the white house. It’s never as bad as the other side thinks it is.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 06:33 PM (uDDWT)

177 Protip - never go to dinner at Katie Porter’s house.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 06:15 PM (pDt9x)
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Corollary - Don't sleep in the same bed as Amber Heard.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 06:34 PM (oqH4h)

178 Jimmy Kimmel attended a "No Kings" protest on March 28, 2026, in Los Angeles, accompanied by his (young) children, including his son Billy, and his father. Kimmel shared photos from the rally on Instagram, which featured signs protesting against presidential immunity, noting his presence at the event with his family.

Great dad, huh?

His young son was born in 2017 with a congenital heart defect, has undergone three successful open-heart surgeries, with the most recent reported in May 2024. As of early 2026, he is reportedly doing well.

Phonies that they are, he & his ilk attend the very tame No Kings get togethers. Of course.

Btw, Kimmel has 2 grown 'kids' & he's a grandparent..

Posted by: Trying to Fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 06:34 PM (NFX2v)

179
63 Swalwell's FEC filings show him with about 1.5 million in his campaign account.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 05:50 PM

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That's over ten cents for every likely voter in California.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 06:41 PM (azNOR)

180 SanFranpsycho, is there a PAC supporting Swalwell? His campaign fund is only showing a little over a million bucks in it.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 06:20 PM (+nEug)
====

Uber
California Medical Association
iirc California Nurses Association

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 06:46 PM (RIvkX)

One of the Foreign Invaders and Somali Pirates Who Hijacked a Quarter of a Billion Dollars of American Money Is Sentenced to... 366 Days in Prison

A year and a day. That's it.

It's almost as if the Somali Pirates control the government of Minnesota.

The federal sentencing guidelines call for a sentence of 30 to 37 months, or 2 1/2 to 3 years in prison.

But the Somali Pirate's corrupt judge cut even that small sentence in half. Or in thirds.

Feeding Our Future defendant sentenced to over 1 year in prison

Another Feeding Our Future defendant was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison on Monday morning. He is scheduled to turn himself in to federal prison on June 2.
Abdul Abubakar Ali pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October 2022. Per the terms of the plea agreement, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and one count of wire fraud were dismissed at sentencing.
As previously reported, Ali used nonprofit Youth Investors Lab to enroll in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. He claimed to serve roughly 1.5 million meals total and that the meals were provided by S & S Catering. But no meals were ever served, prosecutors say.
Remarkably, both the government and the defense advocated for a probationary sentence, noting that Ali has taken responsibility for his actions, given valuable information to investigators and paid $92,500 in restitution so far.

Wow, $92,000. And he took responsibility for his actions?

However, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Brasel determined that Ali's role in the fraud scheme was too great for a probationary sentence. She noted that Ali recruited a friend to participate in the scheme and completely made up meal counts, rather than just exaggerating them.

Ihan Omar Promoted "Feed Our Future"

Ihan Omar Volunteered at "Feed Our Future"

Ilhan Omar got Donations from "Feed Our Future"

One of the heads was convicted of $250M in Fraud

Read that again $250 MILLION

He gets a year in jail

One Year, like 365 days

Thats less than 3rd� https://t.co/Uc2P29Zh9B pic.twitter.com/wNsiyU9TED
— Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) March 30, 2026

He just came out and said it. https://t.co/O2upU1ZYXS
— Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Sargon_of_Akkad) March 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 SPONGE

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2026 04:31 PM (xcxpd)

2 So...does he get to keep the money and just serve a year in prison? Or less, frankly. He'll be paroled before half that time has passed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2026 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

3 Top 10.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 04:32 PM (TN0g+)

4 A British version of a scrotum head.

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (YwEeS)

5 Can't crime your way to wealth. -- a bunch of millionaire who sure as fuck didn't earn it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

6 British MP Max Wilkinson: @x
is a "massive problem" because it allows critics of mass immigration to "have their voice heard in a really easy way that they couldn't in the past".

Who do these people think they are? Free citizens?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Riz8t)

7 Out: "nothing will happen" guy

In: "not f--king much will happen" guy

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (VHUov)

8 Nooded, I have.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:34 PM (ExV1e)

9 6 British MP Max Wilkinson: @x
is a "massive problem" because it allows critics of mass immigration to "have their voice heard in a really easy way that they couldn't in the past".

Who do these people think they are? Free citizens?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Riz8t)

Subjects, not citizens

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2026 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

10 At any point, did a little voice in this idiot's head say "you know, what I'm saying is realllllly stupid, and I should stop. Naaaaah, I'll just keep talking?" Or does he simply lack that little voice?

I'm not sure which would be more disturbing.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

11 I will gladly give you $92,000 tomorrow for $250 million yesterday. Hell I would even do 366 days in jail.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2026 04:36 PM (xvV+O)

12 Judge is a Trump appointee from the 1st term. We really got screwed when Trump trusted the wrong people for advice.

From wikipedia: In February 2026, Brasel ruled that U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) had likely violated the constitutional rights of thousands of detainees at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.[14] Brasel's emergency restraining order noted that detainees faced numerous barriers to accessing legal counsel and that "in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."[14] Her order required the government to allow non-citizens in custody the opportunity to contact legal counsel within an hour of their detention and before any out-of-state transfer.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 04:36 PM (TN0g+)

13 Is there some way we can make these judges serve the time they let the defendants off for?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 04:37 PM (AlhUl)

14 Subjects, not citizens
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2026 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

Ackshully... British subjects became citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC) on 1 January 1949, following the implementation of the British Nationality Act 1948. This act fundamentally changed the status from one shared with the entire Commonwealth to distinct, local citizenships.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

15 Trust in the judicial system reaches a new low.
Unless you're somali

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (bKa86)

16 We have to accept that all of this -- all the fraud and theft -- is an act of war. A civilizational war against the West.

Hang the bastards as spys.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (yFx9n)

17 Send 'em to CECOT!

And if you can't figure out which Muzzie is conducting fraud and which one isn't, send them both and let CECOT figure it out!

Posted by: Diabeetus at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (sWgE+)

18 This is the rare case where a judge actually gave a harsher sentence than the government prosecutors were pushing for, incidentally. Not that the judge gets off the hook, since her revised sentence is still well short of the guidelines.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (2ocoG)

19 With that kind of money, he can afford to date outside the family.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Sco7b)

20 13 Is there some way we can make these judges serve the time they let the defendants off for?
Posted by: Eeyore

Maybe there's a way we can make the 'reformed' criminal live in the judge's house for the unserved part of the term in the statute.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (Dv3i1)

21 Britain is dead.
They just don't know it yet.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 04:40 PM (2WIwB)

22 I think all these immigrants stealing and grifting and looting is getting out of hand.

Something needs to be done.

Posted by: What is to be done? at March 30, 2026 04:40 PM (/1l9x)

23 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:41 PM (CUNBy)

24 With that kind of money, he can afford to date outside the family.
Posted by: Stateless

Threadwinner!

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 04:41 PM (VHUov)

25 Darn; I came in too late for the "decrepit white hippies" thread.

It's raining and warm here, so I'm relaxing with a pipe after a busy day of errands and chores, and trying to catch up. The world is still weird, right? It didn't suddenly correct itself while I was sleeping?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

26 I like this idea from Treasury but if the prison sentences are going to be this short, I dunno how much good it will do

https://tinyurl.com/dpaw8chr

"Treasury secretary to reward tipsters with percentage of fines imposed on fraudsters"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:42 PM (El6/E)

27 "in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

Seems like they were given ample opportunity to leave the US before apprehension.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 04:42 PM (/lPRQ)

28 So...does he get to keep the money and just serve a year in prison? Or less, frankly. He'll be paroled before half that time has passed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2026 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

Most likely most of it is in Somalia. Or Somaliland. One of those shitholes.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:42 PM (CUNBy)

29 This is what brings on Revolutions - of the French kind - to rid society of the ruling class - judges, politicians, government apparatchiks, et al. These are the actual "Kings" ironically, and the Left is too stupid and brainwashed to see it.

IMHFO.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 30, 2026 04:42 PM (ZV81O)

30 Britain is dead.
They just don't know it yet.

So is America, unless God has mercy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:42 PM (El6/E)

31 Darn; I came in too late for the "decrepit white hippies" thread.

Feel free to bitch about them anyway. The opportunity is dying off. Slowly, oh so slowly, but it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:43 PM (ExV1e)

32 So is America, unless God has mercy

I would argue that Butler, PA means God has mercy.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:44 PM (2ocoG)

33 Its likely this guy got a pretty hefty fine a well, hopefully at least as much as the fraud.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:44 PM (El6/E)

34 I have a dream that the US adopts a "reciprocity" doctrine.

We treat all countries as they treat us.
-No churches in Middle East? OK, no mosques in the West.

- You burn our churches? We bomb your black cube.

- You make companies transfer technology? we ban those companies from doing business in your country.

- You make Christians pay tax? We make do the same to muslims.

- You want trade surplus? We want balance of trade.

- You cut off hands for theft? We do the same to your people.

- You have slaves in islam? Well, all muslims in West are now slaves too.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 04:44 PM (yFx9n)

35 With that kind of money, he can afford to date outside the family.
Posted by: Stateless

***
"Acts like he's too good for his own kin."
( -- Ilhan Omar)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)

36 This act fundamentally changed the status from one shared with the entire Commonwealth to distinct, local citizenships.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

They sure don't act like it.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not a global citizen at March 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Wt5PA)

37 The world is still weird, right? It didn't suddenly correct itself while I was sleeping?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

Fear not, Crippled fat chicks in wheelchairs wearing BDSM gear are still wheeling their way down your sidewalk.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:45 PM (CUNBy)

38 I’d do a 367 days in prison for 250 MILLION dollars and 92 thousand restitution

Dear God

Posted by: Gonzotx at March 30, 2026 04:45 PM (nGraA)

39 Feel free to bitch about them anyway. The opportunity is dying off. Slowly, oh so slowly, but it is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026

***
I did get time to observe that the Miss Statue of Liberty being led off by cops (as part of their street theatre) needed to do a little gym work, and she wouldn't be unattractive. Maybe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:46 PM (wzUl9)

40 Ihan Omar should be dipped several times into a tank of hungry piranha.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 04:46 PM (Fbc0I)

41 The Minneapolis Somali police officer who murdered innocent woman Damond for nothing only sentenced to 4.5 years after the original 12.5 sentence was overturned. He only served 3 years.

Minneapolis officer Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years for doing his job when the criminal Floyd died of drug overdose. Three of his fellow police officers were sentenced from 3 to 4.5 years because they didn't shoot Chauvin .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:47 PM (V4IXI)

42 They sure don't act like it.
Posted by: pookysgirl, not a global citizen at March 30, 2026 04:44 PM (Wt5PA)

It only happened 77 years ago. They probably don't know yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:47 PM (ExV1e)

43 The world is still weird, right? It didn't suddenly correct itself while I was sleeping?

No but the day before yesterday, just out of the blue, Japanese accounts were heavily promoted by Twixxer to everyone's delight. Pretty Japanese girls, beautiful photos of the cherry festival, posts on food and culture, people mocking Japanese leftists, it is glorious.

Its like a breath of fresh air, friendly, happy people in Japan and America sharing food pictures, ideas, having fun, goofing on each other.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:47 PM (El6/E)

44 I would be fine with his sentence if after the year in jail, he was denaturalized and sent back to Somalia. Also, make sure his bank accounts, etc. are empty.

After every conviction like this, impose the penalty, ensure they have no financial means that they can hold on to, and follow up with deportation and banned from ever entering the US again.

Posted by: Cheri at March 30, 2026 04:47 PM (oiNtH)

45 Too bad they didn't catch the perp carrying a gun while committing his fraud.
When you consider God is offended by injustice one might fear for our country.
Or something like that.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at March 30, 2026 04:47 PM (hV6Hr)

46 With that kind of money, he can afford to date outside the family.
Posted by: Stateless

What if he does not want to?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 04:47 PM (/lPRQ)

47 Fear not, Crippled fat chicks in wheelchairs wearing BDSM gear are still wheeling their way down your sidewalk.
Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026

***
Sidewalks here are too broken for that. They'd be rolling in the streets (which are no bargain either) and blocking traffic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:48 PM (wzUl9)

48 Is it even a question where all that taxpayer money went?

To foreign invaders who hate you and want to bring this country down. And their Democrat sponsors, protectors, and benefactors.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 04:48 PM (RIvkX)

49 I did get time to observe that the Miss Statue of Liberty being led off by cops (as part of their street theatre) needed to do a little gym work, and she wouldn't be unattractive. Maybe./i]

She still would be festooned with tattoos and have a corrupt nasty soul filled with hate and insanity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

50 I did get time to observe that the Miss Statue of Liberty being led off by cops (as part of their street theatre) needed to do a little gym work, and she wouldn't be unattractive. Maybe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:46 PM (wzUl9)

She'd speak eventually.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:48 PM (ExV1e)

51 >>Judge Nancy Brasel, a well-respected state jurist in Minnesota, is part of a package deal of nominees made between the Trump Administration and Minnesota’s Democratic senators. Her moderate record and uncontroversial background should net her a comfortable confirmation.

>>Meanwhile, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn) and the Trump Administration began negotiations over two vacancies on the U.S. District Court. They ultimately agreed on Brasel, Klobuchar’s candidate, and Minneapolis attorney Eric Tostrud, who was supported by Paulsen.[7] President Trump announced both Brasel and Tostrud on July 13, 2017.

https://tinyurl.com/ww2n376u

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 04:48 PM (viF8m)

52 No but the day before yesterday, just out of the blue, Japanese accounts were heavily promoted by Twixxer to everyone's delight. Pretty Japanese girls, beautiful photos of the cherry festival, posts on food and culture, people mocking Japanese leftists, it is glorious.

Its like a breath of fresh air, friendly, happy people in Japan and America sharing food pictures, ideas, having fun, goofing on each other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026

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I heard about that on my local talk radio today. Cool.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (wzUl9)

53 And he will likely only serve at most 75% of the sentence.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (V4IXI)

54 Is it even a question where all that taxpayer money went?

Part of it went to the Democrats, as tribute. Part of it went to Somalia to family and powerful people there. The rest was spent on stupid crap and spread among their family.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (El6/E)

55 For $250M I'd do 366 days in prison. Hell claim to be a woman and you don't even have to protect your 6 in the shower.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

56 Seems like everyone here is giving short shrift to the point about the guy "[giving] valuable information to investigators," hence the request by both the prosecution & defense for a probation sentence, and yet the judge still gave him a year. And we're knocking the judge for giving more of a sentence than the prosecutor and defense requested...? I mean, I'm fine with deporting the guy or locking him up and throwing away the key, but it seems like this guy is helping with other prosecutions, no?

Posted by: bearski at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (Bhsk7)

57 Her moderate record and uncontroversial background should net her a comfortable confirmation.

"NO RECESS APPOINTMENTS!"
--Senate Republicans

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:50 PM (El6/E)

58 Hmmm, not sure what I would do with a few billion $ but certainly 366 days is worth that

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 04:51 PM (Ia/+0)

59 No but the day before yesterday, just out of the blue, Japanese accounts were heavily promoted by Twixxer to everyone's delight. Pretty Japanese girls, beautiful photos of the cherry festival, posts on food and culture, people mocking Japanese leftists, it is glorious.

Its like a breath of fresh air, friendly, happy people in Japan and America sharing food pictures, ideas, having fun, goofing on each other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:47 PM (El6/E)

I noticed. Have the Indians and Pakistanis lost their stranglehold on the algo? Has it been fixed so it's not promoting incendiary posts and propaganda pages run by Pajeet by default?

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:51 PM (CUNBy)

60 >>>With that kind of money, he can afford to date outside the family.
Posted by: Stateless

What if he does not want to?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

>There's an old adage in Somalia; Incest is best.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 04:51 PM (Fbc0I)

61 The Somalians do control Minnesota

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 04:51 PM (Ia/+0)

62 Drool Brittania

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 04:51 PM (gtcuf)

63 For $250M I'd do 366 days in prison. Hell claim to be a woman and you don't even have to protect your 6 in the shower.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

Assuming that you're put in with violent prisoners, which is unlikely, find one of the bosses and promise a big bump in their commissary for protection.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (ExV1e)

64 I mean, I'm fine with deporting the guy or locking him up and throwing away the key, but it seems like this guy is helping with other prosecutions, no?[/]

I have never liked the idea of people getting away with crimes because they helped the prosecution. I mean, Whitey Bulger murdered and stole from everyone around him for years perfectly protected by the FBI because he fed them his rivals and cash. Mostly cash.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (El6/E)

65 Posted by: bearski at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (Bhsk7)

Prosecutors are pussies and 99% always looking for plea deals . That's why so many criminals who should still be in prison are walking the streets and looking for their next victims.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (V4IXI)

66 Abdul Abubakar Ali

Why are their names always so boring and similar?

Posted by: Sugar Free Gummy Bear at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (0OHKH)

67 [O/T -- Selena Zito has reported:]

Pittsburgh public schools are closing for 4 days during the NIGHTTIME NFL Draft.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (NgYxV)

68 Does it seem sometimes as if we are living in Bored of the Rings? I wouldn't be surprised if we suddenly had congresscreatures named Frito and Dildo Bugger, and a roller-skating dragon at a so-called "protest."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (wzUl9)

69 Denaturalize. Him and his entire family.

Then deport.

Quit fucking around here.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (vOtXJ)

70 Seems like everyone here is giving short shrift to the point about the guy "[giving] valuable information to investigators," hence the request by both the prosecution & defense for a probation sentence, and yet the judge still gave him a year.

I suppose it depends on what is meant by "valuable information".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

71 I noticed. Have the Indians and Pakistanis lost their stranglehold on the algo? Has it been fixed so it's not promoting incendiary posts and propaganda pages run by Pajeet by default?

They seem greatly diminished, but that might just be because I muted so many of them. You can refuse to see replies and posts from specific portions of the world if you choose as well now LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:53 PM (El6/E)

72 56 but it seems like this guy is helping with other prosecutions, no?

That's a pretty big assumption. I highly doubt he's giving them shit. It's in his culture not to.

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 04:53 PM (gtcuf)

73 He's really, really sorry.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 04:53 PM (IifOV)

74 Abdul Abubakar Ali
*
Why are their names always so boring and similar?
Posted by: Sugar Free Gummy Bear at March 30, 2026

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They only have fifteen or twenty to choose from?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:53 PM (wzUl9)

75 I wouldn't be surprised if we suddenly had congresscreatures named Frito and Dildo Bugger, and a roller-skating dragon at a so-called "protest."

Pretty sure I saw Dildo Buggers at a SF rally that Zombie covered

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:54 PM (El6/E)

76 So he gets to keep the money?

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 04:54 PM (vFG9F)

77 64 I have never liked the idea of people getting away with crimes because they helped the prosecution. I mean, Whitey Bulger murdered and stole from everyone around him for years perfectly protected by the FBI because he fed them his rivals and cash. Mostly cash. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

---------------

Don't disagree, but we can't knock the judge for being weak / corrupt / bad Trump pick when she gave a harsher sentence than the prosecution + defense requested, I would think...?

Posted by: bearski at March 30, 2026 04:54 PM (Bhsk7)

78 "Abdul Abubakar Ali "

I think I have spotted the problem.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 04:54 PM (vFG9F)

79 A Quarter of a Billion Dollars would buy a lot of tampons for the boys restrooms!

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 04:54 PM (NgYxV)

80 53 And he will likely only serve at most 75% of the sentence.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:49 PM (V4IXI)

And it will include time served - every minute he was in custody.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 04:54 PM (vOtXJ)

81
Pittsburgh public schools are closing for 4 days during the NIGHTTIME NFL Draft.
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026

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Gee, if we'd only had that in the springtime when I was in school.

No wonder these little twerps don't seem to learn anything.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (wzUl9)

82 That picture of Illhan Omar is blood pressure raising.

Hulk SMASH!

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (IifOV)

83 I noticed. Have the Indians and Pakistanis lost their stranglehold on the algo? Has it been fixed so it's not promoting incendiary posts and propaganda pages run by Pajeet by default?
Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:51 PM (CUNBy)

As I understand it, you now get paid for having impact in your own region. It is hoped that this will lessen the number of them who post shit about US and Japanese politics to game the system.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (ExV1e)

84 No relation

Posted by: Ali Abdul Abubakar at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (vFG9F)

85 And if he was giving evidence against Bro-Fo Omar, I wouldn't have a problem with this sentence. Highly doubt it, but would be nice...

Posted by: bearski at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (Bhsk7)

86 Abdul Abubakar Ali

Why are their names always so boring and similar?
Posted by: Sugar Free Gummy Bear at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM

No idea.

Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (0sNs1)

87 No wonder these little twerps don't seem to learn anything

Given what public schools are like I am not sure time away from them is so counterproductive

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (El6/E)

88 Ihan Omar should be dipped several times into a tank of hungry piranha.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Has Toby weighed in on his preferred approach?

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 30, 2026 04:56 PM (36bTp)

89 Even if he is helping the sentencing guidelines are a joke. 2 1/2 to 3 years for helping steal $250 million from American taxpayers?

The guidelines for that type of crime should be multiple decades hard time.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 04:56 PM (viF8m)

90 Abdul Abubakar Ali

Why are their names always so boring and similar?
Posted by: Sugar Free Gummy Bear

Their entire language is composed of only twenty three syllables.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 30, 2026 04:56 PM (/lPRQ)

91 He gets special halal meals, a comfortable prayer rug, and will reorganize the Koran prison library.

The only loser in this affair is overworked prison petting zoo goat.

Posted by: 13times at March 30, 2026 04:57 PM (3fEC+)

92 You will soon enough have Congresscritters named Mohammed

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 04:57 PM (Ia/+0)

93 And if he was giving evidence against Bro-Fo Omar, I wouldn't have a problem with this sentence. Highly doubt it, but would be nice...

Posted by: bearski at March 30, 2026 04:55 PM (Bhsk7)

If it got her thrown the fuck out of the country I would let him off scot-free.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 04:57 PM (snZF9)

94 Given what public schools are like I am not sure time away from them is so counterproductive
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026

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It wasn't counterproductive for me. I got my mother to call in sick for me lots of times; I watched Jeopardy! (the original daytime version) and read. I turned out okay. (Some might disagree.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:58 PM (wzUl9)

95 So he gets to keep the money?
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 04:54 PM (vFG9F)

Maybe you missed where he had already repaid almost 4/100ths of 1% of the money stolen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:58 PM (ExV1e)

96 Seize ALL his assets and those of his family. Deport everyone who has him in their contact list.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 04:58 PM (7x+fZ)

97 The pirate got one day per every $68,306 that he stole.

Posted by: Carolus at March 30, 2026 04:58 PM (oddef)

98 I think a lot of what the 'justice' system does is for the purpose of demoralizing the law abiding.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

99 "Maybe you missed where he had already repaid almost 4/100ths of 1% of the money stolen."

Oh. At least he is working on it.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 05:00 PM (vFG9F)

100 1) But the money somewhere you can recover it

2) Claim you spent it on hookers and blow

3) Claim to be a chick, serve your year in jail with a bunch of horny female inmates

4) Go back to whatever shithole you are from and recover the money and spend it on cheaper hooker and blow

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 05:00 PM (sKqQm)

101 And no one found it even a little bit suspicious that this one single lightbulbhead was claiming to have have provided 1.5 million meals.

It's all corruption all the way down in Tampon Timmy's Wonderland.

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 05:00 PM (gtcuf)

102 In the last 5 years, nothing has done more to discredit the judiciary than the judiciary.

These cartel judges are worse than trannies dancing around in dresses demanding we respect them--at least the tranny isn't stealing from our future and soiling our past.
His lies only live in the present.

No:
You cartel judges are a disgrace to all law and all order.

When the swing comes for you, you can plea to the deaf past, killed by your own hand in a fit of pique at the people you were sworn to protect for daring elect a man you found declasse.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 05:00 PM (HXT0k)

103 Seize ALL his assets and those of his family. Deport everyone who has him in their contact list.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026

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When we had a sane country, we would have. Say, during Calvin Coolidge's time.

Oh, wait. They weren't letting people like that into America during Cal's time, so the problem didn't come up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9)

104 Seize ALL his assets and those of his family. Deport everyone who has him in their contact list.

You forgot step 1:

Hang him, Iranian style

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 05:01 PM (sKqQm)

105 Walking on the beach with a Democrat.
"Look at the dead bird," I said.
"Where?" she said looking up.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:02 PM (2WIwB)

106 It's raining and warm here, so I'm relaxing with a pipe after a busy day of errands and chores, and trying to catch up. The world is still weird, right? It didn't suddenly correct itself while I was sleeping?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

Keep smoking that pipe. It'll get weirder

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2026 05:02 PM (zafwz)

107 Some of you may remember Lea Thompson from Back to the Future. Saturday, she posted a video encouraging supporters to make signs and attend a No Kings rally.

In the video, she displayed several signs she said she was making, including “Equality is not radical,” “Healthcare, not warfare,” and “Make bullying wrong again.”

She also stated, “Apparently, if 3.5% of a population protests in a sustained and peaceful way, it can topple authoritarian regimes. I know this is math, but that’s only 12 million of us, so we’ve gotten really close. I think we can do it tomorrow.”

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 05:03 PM (0sNs1)

108 Somebody has to finance those wars between Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Proxy wars are the best wars. Just ask Zelenskyy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:04 PM (Fbc0I)

109 Keep smoking that pipe. It'll get weirder
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2026

***
"The world is already too much for me. That's why I smoke this stuff."
( -- Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:04 PM (wzUl9)

110 She also stated, “Apparently, if 3.5% of a population protests in a sustained and peaceful way, it can topple authoritarian regimes.

And how is this "apparent?" Go back to fucking Howard the Duck, Lea.

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 05:05 PM (gtcuf)

111 After waiting at baggage claim only to realize my bag wasn't there, I were to the lost baggage counter. The lady there, sporting a Kamala pin, told me not to worry about my lost bag as she was a trained professional and would find it.
Her first question to me. "So, has your flight arrived yet?"

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:05 PM (2WIwB)

112 She also stated, “Apparently, if 3.5% of a population protests in a sustained and peaceful way, it can topple authoritarian regimes. I know this is math, but that’s only 12 million of us, so we’ve gotten really close. I think we can do it tomorrow.

The core problem we have in the US is that 60% or more just want to be left alone, 10-20% want to roll this shit back to sanity, and the 3% of the 20% that just want free shit thing dressing up as Handmaids will get them to be in charge of handing out the free shit

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 05:05 PM (sKqQm)

113 Judge is a Trump appointee from the 1st term. We really got screwed when Trump trusted the wrong people for advice.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 04:36 PM

I think people need to be reminded that Trump had no real plans for a cabinet and no idea how he would do anything anything in his first term because he did not think he would win.

IIRC it was the weekend before the election when he confided in his campaign team that he knew they could not win no matter what happened but they gave it a good try.

He was literally blindsided by his win like everyone else in the country was. I certainly never expected him to win.

While he was trying to organize a cabinet he was being attacked from both the left and the right on an hourly basis and was forced to constantly defend himself from minute one with the entire deep state, the courts along with the left and all of the rino's constantly attacking at him.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2026 05:06 PM (0N4FZ)

114 >A year and a day. That's it.
----
maybe he'll get shivved while he's in the joint

I kid, of course

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 05:07 PM (ZxPkt)

115 Her first question to me. "So, has your flight arrived yet?"

I would have asked her: "Are you the party to whom I am speaking?"

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 05:07 PM (gtcuf)

116 Some of you may remember Lea Thompson from Back to the Future. Saturday, she posted a video encouraging supporters to make signs and attend a No Kings rally.

We should encourage a nationwide series of Shut The Fuck Up rallies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

117 >>>Her first question to me. "So, has your flight arrived yet?"

Posted by: Diogenes

>Did she cackle and suck your cock? That's what Kamala would do.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:08 PM (Fbc0I)

118 I'm listening to the local classical music station. Some Schubert, some "Carmen," et al. is a fine antidote to world craziness. (For a while.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

119 Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 05:03 PM (0sNs

Acting the second most overpaid profession in the world.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 05:08 PM (V4IXI)

120 Looking at the sidebar, seeing mention of Charles de Batz de Castelmore (d'Artagnan), and thinking he was the original Bat Man...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 05:09 PM (ynpvh)

121 And no one found it even a little bit suspicious that this one single lightbulbhead was claiming to have have provided 1.5 million meals.

It's all corruption all the way down in Tampon Timmy's Wonderland.
Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 05:00 PM

Dude. We're Hobbits. Consider our daily meal schedule:

Breakfast – 7 a.m.
Second Breakfast – 9 a.m.
Elevenses – 11 a.m.
Luncheon – 1 p.m.
Afternoon Tea – 3 p.m.
Dinner – 6 p.m.
Supper – 9 p.m.

That's barely 1.607 years worth of meals for our Community.

Posted by: Abdul al Merry & Mohammad Pippin at March 30, 2026 05:09 PM (0sNs1)

122 Aboard the MV Coho, and we are under way. Sun is shining bright, sky full of fluffy white clouds and the sea has a very light chop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:09 PM (azOtX)

123 “Equality is not radical,”

Equality under the law? Of course not

Equality of outcome? You bet your sweet duck f*cking tits honey

Posted by: 18-1 in the style of that meme at March 30, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

124 Walked into a coffee shop that was featuring 10% off all large coffees. I ordered two and gave the lady at the cash register (wearing a No Kings button) my coupon. She looked at the coupon and said "Two large coffees at 10% off each is...mmm...lets see, 20%!"
I smiled as I paid.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:10 PM (2WIwB)

125 We have No Kings, but we have plenty of Imams.

Posted by: Wally at March 30, 2026 05:10 PM (zG4BR)

126 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2026 05:06 PM (0N4FZ)

According to Melania, when Trump told Melania he was running she said "You know if you run you'll win.'

Donald Trump has been in the public eye for 5 decades. WHEN, in all that time, has Donald Trump EVER ONCE not played to win?

The "Trump didn't expect to win" shit was a liberal media talking point.

I say this as a huge Trump supporter: Trump's fuck ups are Trump's fuckups. Don't try and sugarcoat them with liberal media talking pints.

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 05:10 PM (gtcuf)

127 124 Walked into a coffee shop that was featuring 10% off all large coffees. I ordered two and gave the lady at the cash register (wearing a No Kings button) my coupon. She looked at the coupon and said "Two large coffees at 10% off each is...mmm...lets see, 20%!"
I smiled as I paid.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:10 PM (2WIwB)

amazing, just simply amazing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 05:11 PM (ynpvh)

128 Two large coffees at 10% off each is...mmm...lets see, 20%!"
I smiled as I paid.
Posted by: Diogenes

🤣

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 30, 2026 05:11 PM (T5m6M)

129 The 18 and over population of the US is 266.98 million. The numbers don't add up.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 05:12 PM (+nEug)

130 I have a stupid question.

Why is the Internal Revenue Service sitting this one out?

The fraud is obvious. That would make the tax fraud obvious as well. Claiming to serve 1.5 million meals and not serving any would negate the structure of the entity. That's tax fraud.

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 05:12 PM (dIske)

131 Prosecutors are pussies and 99% always looking for plea deals . That's why so many criminals who should still be in prison are walking the streets and looking for their next victims.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (V4IXI)

Prosecutors are hyper-aggressively slef interested, and conviction rate is a big factor in getting to the next level.
A plea deal results in a conviction, ergo going to trial not only costs more and takes more time, there's the offchance that the perp skates.
They don't give one flying fuck about public safety or "justice", only their careers*

*The caveat is when they tilt at windmills for publicity and political advantage such as the specious charges leveled against POTUS

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2026 05:12 PM (zafwz)

132 $250 million for ONE year in what is probably a minimum security prison?

I'd do that...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 05:12 PM (mP0Kj)

133 One of my brothers is a federal agent. I had ask him before why they do a year plus one day. He said it’s to get around the First Step Act sentence reduction guidelines. If the sentence is one year or less (365 days or less) you have to serve the full sentence of one year, as the reduction credits don’t apply. If your sentence is great than 1 year (>365 days) then you do qualify. Hence why they do one year plus 1 day.

This person now qualifies for good behavior sentence reduction credits from 25-40%. The likelihood is this fraudster does 6 months or less. Crime really does pay.

Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at March 30, 2026 05:14 PM (np2zX)

134 Prosecutors are pussies and 99% always looking for plea deals . That's why so many criminals who should still be in prison are walking the streets and looking for their next victims.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:52 PM (V4IXI)

These are true stats...

The FBI has a successful prosecution rate of 99%.
Of FBI cases, 99% are plea deals.

Kinda makes ya go... hmmmm....

Note, Gen. Flynn, after NINE YEARS, finally gets a settlement from the DOJ for wrongful prosecution... after having to be pardoned by the President.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 05:15 PM (mP0Kj)

135 Aboard the MV Coho, and we are under way. Sun is shining bright, sky full of fluffy white clouds and the sea has a very light chop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:09 PM (azOtX)

Somewhere in the middle of the Strait, they will say you can shop duty free for like 2 freakin minutes.
The deals aren't that great, but the lure is.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2026 05:15 PM (zafwz)

136 Some of you may remember Lea Thompson from Back to the Future. Saturday, she posted a video encouraging supporters to make signs and attend a No Kings rally.

We should encourage a nationwide series of Shut The Fuck Up rallies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

When I passed through Madras, OR on Saturday, there was a sad little NoKings demo at the highway intersection, led by a slovenly fat harpy toting a crudely-lettered "jail Trump" sign. I flipped them the bird, and was rewarded by a burst of incoherent screeching.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:15 PM (azOtX)

137 Their entire language is composed of only twenty three syllables

And it has not changed for nearly 1000 years. Arabic is a very crude, simple, dumb language

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:15 PM (El6/E)

138 >>I think people need to be reminded that Trump had no real plans for a cabinet and no idea how he would do anything anything in his first term because he did not think he would win.

I think it's far too easy to forget what was going on back then. Not only did Trump run against the Republican establishment and thrash them, he was also being accused of being a Russian stooge. It's not like people were rushing to work for him back then. Many didn't think he'd last in office for a year.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 05:15 PM (viF8m)

139 - You burn our churches? We bomb your black cube.

That's great in theory, but you have to be absolutely sure that it is reduced to gravel in the process.

Can you imagine what a morale boost is would be if we bombed it and wasn't completely obliterated?

They're bad enough when they're losing, we can't afford to give them even one win. Especially a significant one like that.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (a+4eV)

140 Would you people give me a pass for fucking Lea Thompson? We were single, she was hot, and if she was babbling about politics back then, I wasn't listening.

Posted by: Howard the Duck at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (zG4BR)

141 I note that Jeffrey Skilling got 24 years (later reduced to 14, of which he served 12) for the Enron fraud. At least Enron was an actual business that had actual revenue and product.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (XMwZJ)

142 Some of you may remember Lea Thompson from Back to the Future. Saturday, she posted a video encouraging supporters to make signs and attend a No Kings rally.

I can fix her.

Or die trying

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (El6/E)

143 127 124 Walked into a coffee shop that was featuring 10% off all large coffees. I ordered two and gave the lady at the cash register (wearing a No Kings button) my coupon. She looked at the coupon and said "Two large coffees at 10% off each is...mmm...lets see, 20%!"
I smiled as I paid.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:10 PM (2WIwB)

amazing, just simply amazing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 05:11 PM (ynpvh)

Barista? probably had a Humanities type degree...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (mP0Kj)

144 @124 -- Those "No Kings" protesters are geniuses.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 05:19 PM (XMwZJ)

145 144 @124 -- Those "No Kings" protesters are geniuses.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 05:19 PM (XMwZJ)

Yeah, real frickin' Einsteins...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 05:20 PM (ynpvh)

146 When I passed through Madras, OR on Saturday, there was a sad little NoKings demo at the highway intersection, led by a slovenly fat harpy toting a crudely-lettered "jail Trump" sign. I flipped them the bird, and was rewarded by a burst of incoherent screeching.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:15 PM (azOtX)

Yo!
Sorry again we weren't able to get together.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:20 PM (2WIwB)

147 Heh...Lea Thompson. She dried up. She has a much more attractive daughter with actual talent. She played a great "airhead" in one of those Zombie movies. Or, maybe she wasn't acting. No idea. But, hot.

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 05:20 PM (dIske)

148 The "Trump didn't expect to win" shit was a liberal media talking point.

I say this as a huge Trump supporter: Trump's fuck ups are Trump's fuckups. Don't try and sugarcoat them with liberal media talking pints.

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 05:10 PM

Sorry but it isn't a liberal talking point. Trump himself said he was not going to win the week before the election. Even melania told that to the lady who wrote the "art of her deal" book about melania.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2026 05:21 PM (0N4FZ)

149 I think it's far too easy to forget what was going on back then. Not only did Trump run against the Republican establishment and thrash them, he was also being accused of being a Russian stooge. It's not like people were rushing to work for him back then. Many didn't think he'd last in office for a year.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 05:15 PM (viF8m)

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Heard some talking head today suggest tthat the DOJ can't get good lawyers because The Left will essentially destroy your legal career if you work for Trump.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 05:21 PM (HW7Dq)

150 This pigfucker pleaded guilty in 2022 and only now is being sentenced? Where was he all this time?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:22 PM (1LxEq)

151 The ship is doing a weird sort of corkscrew roll. Seems like a combined pitch and roll. The pixels are sloshing around in the pixel tank of my laptop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:22 PM (azOtX)

152 I'm trying to work my way through the state income tax form. Sometimes I wish I had studied accounting.

Of course, when I would have started with that, we didn't have (affordable, let alone cheap) calculators. Urgh.

(Forensic accounting might have been a strange sort of fun, if there was such a specialty in the '70s.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:23 PM (wzUl9)

153 The pixels are sloshing around in the pixel tank of my laptop.

Your ampersands are all going to get tangled up like fishhooks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:23 PM (El6/E)

154 I remember drinking Little Kings. They were pretty tasty for cheap beer. No Kings should be the non-alcoholic version.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:23 PM (Fbc0I)

155 The ship is doing a weird sort of corkscrew roll. Seems like a combined pitch and roll. The pixels are sloshing around in the pixel tank of my laptop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026

***
"Download our app! It's free!"
( -- Scylla and Charybdis)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:24 PM (wzUl9)

156 Would you people give me a pass for fucking Lea Thompson? We were single, she was hot, and if she was babbling about politics back then, I wasn't listening.
Posted by: Howard the Duck at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (zG4BR)

Your movie sucked but that scene was the greatest scene ever put on film.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 05:24 PM (OM9sb)

157 Yo!
Sorry again we weren't able to get together.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:20 PM (2WIwB)

Likewise. But I was able to meet MAE and Lazy Messenger.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:24 PM (azOtX)

158 Barista? probably had a Humanities type degree...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (mP0Kj)

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PhD guaranteed!

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 05:25 PM (HW7Dq)

159 There will be no national divorce.

*types*

*deletes*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 30, 2026 05:25 PM (vsOOT)

160 158 Barista? probably had a Humanities type degree...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (mP0Kj)

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PhD guaranteed!

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 05:25 PM (HW7Dq)

I think PhD should be pronounced like Elmer Fudd's last name...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 05:26 PM (ynpvh)

161 The state has no respect for taxpayer money. $250 million is stolen from hardworking taxpayers and one of the thieves gets a light sentence for paying back less than 1/250th of the stolen amount.

Peter St. Onge warned that the taxpayers are probably going to end up bailing out private credit as a number of the lenders (e.g., Blue Owl) have stopped allowing redemptions.

Peter also pointed out that the banks are lobbying Congress hard to make it illegal for stable coins to pay interest because those accounts are paying about 4% while banks are paying < 1/4%.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 05:26 PM (2ap+5)

162 Your movie sucked but that scene was the greatest scene ever put on film.

If she hadn't been playing his mom, that scene with her in the bedroom with Marty in Back to the Future would have been scorching hot. As it is, super awkward and disturbing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:28 PM (El6/E)

163 Some of you may remember Lea Thompson from Back to the Future. Saturday, she posted a video encouraging supporters to make signs and attend a No Kings rally.

I can fix her.

Or die trying

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:16 PM (El6/E)

She needs spankings.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 30, 2026 05:28 PM (vsOOT)

164 ‘ He claimed to serve roughly 1.5 million meals total and that the meals were provided by S & S Catering.’

1.5M meals. Imagine the infrastructure and resources to prepare and serve that many meals. The biggest professional catering companies in the country probably don’t serve that many meals in that time frame.

But this lone asshole probably had a bare-bones LLC with maybe one to two employees, tiny office space, and no resources to serve hamburger helper, let alone 1.5M meals.

The fact that nobody bothered to do any due diligence whatsoever on any of these companies makes it 100% clear to me that everyone was in on it, from top to bottom.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:29 PM (1LxEq)

165 139 That's great in theory, but you have to be absolutely sure that it is reduced to gravel in the process.

even then...

aiui, it was broken into about seven pieces a while ago and glued back together.

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:30 PM (v3pYe)

166 @97 -- You're only off by a factor of 10. That would be $683,060 of taxpayer money for every day of the sentence. Nice work if you can get it...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 05:30 PM (XMwZJ)

167 >>Lea Thompson
__
Lipless communist.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at March 30, 2026 05:31 PM (bNf8H)

168 >>Heard some talking head today suggest tthat the DOJ can't get good lawyers because The Left will essentially destroy your legal career if you work for Trump.

I've been reading about a counterattack on the ABA, one of the main groups harassing and trying to take down lawyers who work with Trump or any MAGA related person. The ABA has become a far left advocacy group and not a neutral arbiter of the law.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 05:32 PM (viF8m)

169 Lea had sort of a hillbilly/pixie look. Pixappeal.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 05:33 PM (2ap+5)

170 Likewise. But I was able to meet MAE and Lazy Messenger.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:24 PM (azOtX)

Excellent!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 05:33 PM (2WIwB)

171 N00d Patel/Swallwell action.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 05:33 PM (OM9sb)

172 Whenever an aging, washed-up actor suddenly takes to the airwaves to boldly rant about exactly whatever the Current Thing is, you can be sure the real reason is they are looking for attention and probably a role.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at March 30, 2026 05:33 PM (1LxEq)

173 Anyone can not serve 1.5 Million Meals.

What you people are forgetting is that this guy chose to not serve 1.5 Million People to Children.

Because, he cares.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 05:33 PM (W7FsI)

174 ruh roh

長谷川吉田 Hasegawa Yoshida
@EdoEraPervert
Translated from Japanese
I'm often seeing this word on TL, and I'm confused because I don't get what it means. What the heck is "Nigga"?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2026 05:33 PM (El6/E)

175 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 05:34 PM (MIIRH)

176 even then...

aiui, it was broken into about seven pieces a while ago and glued back together.
Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 05:30 PM (v3pYe)

Reduce to gravel then mill it down to minus .01" in a ball mill, put the resulting sludge into tanks, and empty them at sea.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 05:35 PM (azOtX)

177 Its a shame these Hollywood celebrities turned into Marxists

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:42 PM (Ia/+0)

178 That UK thinktank name.

s/OS/ONS/

Posted by: banana Dream at March 30, 2026 05:54 PM (r2KsI)

179 I'm pretty sure a year and day will allow parole after a few months.

Posted by: John M at March 30, 2026 06:11 PM (CzLfO)

Were You Inconvenienced by the Decrepit White Hippies During the CCP- and Soros-Funded No Kings Shuffle-Abouts?

Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
Mar 28
I got stuck in the middle of one of the idiotic CCP funded No Kings protests with my kid in this morning.
First of all it was 15 people. They were all white and over the age of 65 and lastly, if you continue to walk around with signs that say No Kings, you look like an idiot.
Literally no one was under the age of 65 in the whole crowd.

They're literally mutants.

Fetishist 'No Kings' protester in mask drags 'Trump' and 'JD Vance' behind her wheelchair

The "No Kings" protest in Atlanta took a turn for the weird as a masked artist dragged unhinged cosplayers dressed as President Trump and Vice President JD Vance behind her wheelchair.
Video of the street protest sideshow circulating online shows activist Jessica Blinkhorn clad in a black sheer skirt, a leather tube top and a full facemask reminiscent of "Mad Max: Fury Road" villain Immortan Joe seated in a motorized wheelchair as her fellow dress-up players awkwardly gyrate to techno music.
The Georgia State University teacher and self-described "DOGEWALKER" holds a metal leash in one hand, which is connected to a collar worn by a person wearing a Trump mask and dressed in his signature blue suit, red tie and MAGA hat, and a woman who appears to be mimicking Erika Kirk.
...
"This is performance as protest. This is art in action," Blinkhorn wrote in an Instagram post accompanying the unhinged video.
...

Blinkhorn has been awarded in the art world for her performance pieces about sex and disability. He received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024 -- a prestigious award that comes with tens of thousands of dollars in grant money -- for her project SPANKBOX.
The art "depicts individuals with physical disabilities in hypersexualized poses and situations," according to the fellowship.

Uh-huh.

Video of these sexual fetishist mutants here. (Toby just emailed me to say "Almost as hittable as Sarah Longwell.")

Robert DeNiro -- or, as I think this genius should be called, Bobby "The Brain" DeNiro -- stumbled and mumbled his way through a gibberish speech written for him by ChatGTP.

C3
@C_3C_3
Mar 28
No Kings crybaby and terminal TDS patient Robert DeNiro...
Has lost roughly $350 million on his last 5 movies.
Whoops!

For decades people praised DeNiro for somehow managing to make his eyes empty and absent. Turns out, no, he's not a great actor, he's just brain-damaged IRL. When he "portrays" a man with no inner monologue who seems to be an animal motivated only by primitive instinct, that's just him.

Bobby "The Brain" DeNiro shuffle-marched alongside pogrom-stirring race hustler and OG Grifter Al Sharpton as well as spherical bull-dyke and mortgage fraudster "Big Tish" James.

LMAO 🤣. No kings protester completely LOSES IT and STORMS AWAY when the interviewer points out that nobody voted for Kamala and she was installed as the nominee pic.twitter.com/k4soNACCuS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 29, 2026

Philadelphia, PA - at today's �No Kings� protest

"Death to America�
�Death to Israel�
Long Live the Intifada�

All while holding the �Palestinian� flag.

Those are literally terrorists in America.
pic.twitter.com/7oBKSWjb1A
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) March 28, 2026

�Then they came for the theater kids, and I said �make sure you get all the theater kids�� https://t.co/r4E5ylnmvm
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (Golden Age Arc) (@myth_pilot) March 30, 2026

As I always have to point out, The Handmaid's Tale was based on the oppression of women after the... Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.

But I'm sure all of these emptybrains support the Islamic Occupation of Iran.

I'm sure because I have video of it.

No kings protesters in Nashville, TN

These libtards are actually deranged pic.twitter.com/thWB19dYL6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 29, 2026

Pam from The Office is #based:

This is the best takedown of "No Kings" I've seen yet.

"You just hate what you're told to hate..."

"I just wish the anti-authoritarian energy was present during actual tyranny." 🔥pic.twitter.com/126eJbo8vc
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) March 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 First

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 03:31 PM (z/ZK2)

2 Silver

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 03:31 PM (z/ZK2)

3 Bronze for the hat trick

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 03:31 PM (z/ZK2)

4 We know who finances this theater. Go after them. Now.

If we have to resolve it, it won't end well for the mutants.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (AkEZC)

5 Not Cow Demon.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (XMwZJ)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

7 When did Triggy Puff become Hannibal?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (cWLG3)

8 Between this freak show, which somehow forgot what the Fourth of July holiday is, and the NDP conference in Winnipeg where the radical Leftist party of Canada chose a new leader for federal Parliament, the Left should never win an election again. At least on this continent.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 03:33 PM (z/ZK2)

9
Did we all have fun during the Day of White Rage?
We were all safe, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

10 a leather tube top
Looks more like a tire tube top to me.

Posted by: GWB at March 30, 2026 03:33 PM (x9vBb)

11 This is the Bartertown in parade form.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 03:35 PM (IifOV)

12 The Elderly Handmaidens could do more good parading around in Iran.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:35 PM (cWLG3)

13 Oh yeah, it is amusing as all hell to watch Leftists avoid the label. The Economist describes the Liberals as the center left party in Canada. True enough. But the NDP is “Leftish”. No. The NDP is the hard Left in Canada.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 03:35 PM (z/ZK2)

14 They are literally mutants. And, as such, lose all protections under the Constitution. The Constitution is for human beings that are citizens of the United States.

To CECOT with all these protestors!

Posted by: Diabeetus at March 30, 2026 03:35 PM (sWgE+)

15 not inconvenienced just annoyed by my family all over social media with posts and patting each other on the back for being such Good People

yuck

gonna make Easter a bit more annoying

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 03:35 PM (j+aD2)

16 12 The Elderly Handmaidens could do more good parading around in Iran.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:35 PM (cWLG3)

We’re busy crushing down the streets of Tehran in our new turbo Trans Am…

Posted by: Fearless Iranians From Hell at March 30, 2026 03:36 PM (z/ZK2)

17 Has lost roughly $350 million on his last 5 movies.

Also a divorce, that broke whatever was left of him. I kind of disagree about DeNiro's acting ability. He WAS very good for a couple of decades. He picked good roles that fitted his ability. He's an empty shell now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 03:36 PM (sAmhv)

18 I'm beggin' you all please, bring back the insane asylums. If not, I'll have to open my own with myself as the first patient because this crap is making me crazy.

Posted by: The guy that says nothing will happen (again) at March 30, 2026 03:36 PM (6uxuX)

19 The Statue of Liberty hasseveral thigh tattoos.

Filed under: Things i Didn't Know.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 30, 2026 03:36 PM (h3Irj)

20 My wife taught at an old folks home on Sunday.

All of them were talking about how they enjoyed the protest the day before...

Yep. The protests main demographic are old people waiting to die.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (N1DT3)

21 I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (oqH4h)

22 The Los Angeles Kings hardest hit.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (4xEtP)

23 >>>21 I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

how closely did you look?

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

24 No Kings was this weekend? Oh I forgot. Didn't see one protestor or one protest anywhere. Didn't smell any either. And I live in Manhattan.

This is much different than during the BLM tyranny in 2020 or so. Those protests were much better organized, much better funded, and much much better attended.

No Kings is barely a wet fart in a hurricane.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

25 i'll just take Based Pam from The Office, thank you.

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (1wjle)

26 Did not notice em here in lexington. But then again, I was going to work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (zZu0s)

27 how closely did you look?
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)
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Not closely enough, and now I hate you.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (oqH4h)

28 Why is that handmaiden holding a Bill Clinton sign? Is she for him or against him?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Cqx++)

29 I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.
Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (oqH4h)
_______

Ummm ... I think that's a dude, bro

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

30 >> I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

Just go to Thailand, Bro.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:39 PM (W7FsI)

31 @24 youtube was trending live coverage of the protests, because of course.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:39 PM (cWLG3)

32 Extras in the 2026 remake of The Road Warrior

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 03:39 PM (YwEeS)

33 >>Not closely enough, and now I hate you.
Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (oqH4h)

The hardest part about this entire situation is telling your father.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:39 PM (W7FsI)

34 >>>Ummm ... I think that's a dude, bro

yeah the facial geometry is weird and extreme and now I can see a dude in that. Not sure if it is a dude. Would not chance it. Not worth it even if it's a tatted up witch-faced broad.

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:40 PM (1wjle)

35
I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

How come she's not wearing a poem about tired people?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 03:40 PM (Cqx++)

36 No Kings is barely a wet fart in a hurricane.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at March 30, 2026 03:40 PM (z/ZK2)

37 >>Ummm ... I think that's a dude, bro
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

LEAVE BALLISTIC ALONE!
...also,
Love is love, homie.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (W7FsI)

38 how closely did you look?
Yeah, Miss SoL was a bit rough looking. Like she'd raped by a gang of TdA terrorists.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (XMwZJ)

39 They're literally mutants.

And they call us CHUDS!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (JCZqz)

40 >>>If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

In many ways, this is the story of the next post.

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (1wjle)

41 The hardest part about this entire situation is telling your father.
Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:39 PM (W7FsI)
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At least I'm not rollerblading.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (oqH4h)

42 My next-door neighbors are No-Kingers

Before the proest yesterday morning, they were running around frantically trying t pack the car with signs and accessories -- yelling at each other, upset, excited, desperate to get there in time and not forget anything.

aFterward, they invited abut 15 fellow No-Kingers to the house for an after-protest canapé party. they stood around laughing and sipping white wine, and then gathered in a circle and sang cringey "protest songs" that consisted n '60s and '70s hits with badly rewritten anti-Trump lyrics.

It was so sad, so pathetic.

Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (Av6i5)

43 20 My wife taught at an old folks home on Sunday.

All of them were talking about how they enjoyed the protest the day before...

Yep. The protests main demographic are old people waiting to die.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (N1DT3)

Where else can you have a free outdoor party, and even get "famous" attention and possibly paid?

This is an assisted living home dream. It's why they keep having them. Puts the olds out for at least 1/2 the day and the prior week is "getting ready" events...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (tOcjL)

44 40 >>>If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

In many ways, this is the story of the next post.
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (1wjle)

Go to Xinjiang province and fix tractors.

Posted by: Mao at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (z/ZK2)

45 While I might not bang the Statue of Liberty, I might give her a good tittie hump...

Posted by: Diabeetus at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (sWgE+)

46 21 I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

how closely did you look?
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

47 Wasn't there a sit down dinner type place called Kings Court? WAY back? Like 70s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

48 Shame wasn't on that mailing list to earn $20 to protest

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 03:42 PM (Ia/+0)

49 This is the best takedown of "No Kings" I've seen yet.

"You just hate what you're told to hate..."

"I just wish the anti-authoritarian energy was present during actual tyranny."

I remember when you had to show your vaccine card to dine out.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (Kksvc)

50 men's eyes don't look for beauty first, they look for easy, even nasty.

But... once you get done scanning for easy/nasty, you have to look closer and decide, "Is this even worth it on Easy Mode? What are we even doing here? "

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (1wjle)

51 yeah the facial geometry is weird and extreme and now I can see a dude in that. Not sure if it is a dude. Would not chance it. Not worth it even if it's a tatted up witch-faced broad.
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:40 PM (1wjle)

Or a tranny.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (z/ZK2)

52 46 21 I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

how closely did you look?
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

So it's not a pot bellied over tatted Shemale ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (FtULh)

53 Oh, and forgot to mention, that the after-party was also a DNC/Emily's List/The Squad fundraising event, with people giving speeches saying every dime was need to defeat Cheetoh Mussolini.

Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (Av6i5)

54 >>>aFterward, they invited abut 15 fellow No-Kingers to the house for an after-protest canapé party. they stood around laughing and sipping white wine, and then gathered in a circle and sang cringey "protest songs" that consisted n '60s and '70s hits with badly rewritten anti-Trump lyrics.

parody song lyrics are the lowest form of comedy. And I've written a few.

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:44 PM (1wjle)

55 Even if not dude, she's built like a fire hydrant.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

56 Toby just emailed me to say "Almost as hittable as Sarah Longwell.

Ace, it isn’t fair to make fun of blind horndog Toby

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 30, 2026 03:44 PM (36bTp)

57 The statue of liberty es la tarta.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 03:44 PM (2ap+5)

58 Why does that statue of Liberty have hooves?

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 03:44 PM (IifOV)

59 >>men's eyes don't look for beauty first, they look for easy, even nasty.

What our brains do is take the information given to it and form what is essentially an ideal for what it 'sees'.

Then, it adjusts as reality imposes itself on the ideal.

This, is the essential working of the 10 yard rule.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:45 PM (W7FsI)

60 51 yeah the facial geometry is weird and extreme and now I can see a dude in that. Not sure if it is a dude. Would not chance it. Not worth it even if it's a tatted up witch-faced broad.
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:40 PM (1wjle)

Or a tranny.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (z/ZK2)

I was thinking male to female tranny who actually spent money at least getting the good hormones...that type of person would want to show the nipples by going bra-less...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 03:45 PM (tOcjL)

61

I remember when you had to show your vaccine card to dine out.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (Kksvc)

Went to a St. Louis Blues hockey game during the covid thing. The people we went with, one guy's wife was a nurse. She had 'vaccine passports' pre printed for all of us so we had no issue getting into the arena.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

62
She's The Statue of Libertine.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 03:45 PM (IifOV)

63 53 Oh, and forgot to mention, that the after-party was also a DNC/Emily's List/The Squad fundraising event, with people giving speeches saying every dime was need to defeat Cheetoh Mussolini.
Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (Av6i5)

Didn't file an anonymous noise complaint over the singing?

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 03:46 PM (tOcjL)

64 But... once you get done scanning for easy/nasty, you have to look closer and decide, "Is this even worth it on Easy Mode? What are we even doing here? "
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (1wjle)

"would my dick be mad at me for sticking him in that?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

65 >>She's The Statue of Libertine.

I would have went with Latrine.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:46 PM (W7FsI)

66 Seriously, the best way to take down the "No Kings" groupies is just to laugh at them. And, make it obvious so there is no misunderstanding.

This also works on "transgenders".

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 03:47 PM (dIske)

67 No Kings sounds pretty sexist.

No Queens!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 30, 2026 03:47 PM (n5tGW)

68 Statue of Liberty -- whether male or female -- sure seems positively ecstatic at being arrested.

S/he's gazing at that officer like David French watching a particularly jacked bull pound his wife. Pure happiness.

It's almost like these abominations want to get arrested. Almost like it's all performance art.

Ya know?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

69 parody song lyrics are the lowest form of comedy. And I've written a few.
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:44 PM

Paul Shanklin wept.

Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 30, 2026 03:47 PM (4NO2D)

70 "Art in Action".

No. Leftists just have a dress-up fetish.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (iXqHn)

71 I didn't go through town on Sunday so I missed the ... whatever it was.
Supposedly there is another one tomorrow night. I 'm going to check it out.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (+nEug)

72 Cheetoh Mussolini.
Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2026 03:43 PM (Av6i5)

The judges would have also accepted, "Creamsicle Mussolini"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (rbvCR)

73 Wow. LOTS of bored white ladies in Nashville willing to play dress up.

How much were they paying?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (2Ez/1)

74 >>It's almost like these abominations want to get arrested. Almost like it's all performance art.

Make Hickory Shampoo Great Again.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (W7FsI)

75 It's almost like these abominations want to get arrested. Almost like it's all performance art.

Ya know?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

Cred.

Shows how far they're willing to go on their terrorist resume.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

76 "would my dick be mad at me for sticking him in that?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:46 PM

The Vespa Question. Will any of my friends see me riding that?

Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 30, 2026 03:49 PM (4NO2D)

77 Where else can you have a free outdoor party, and even get "famous" attention and possibly paid?
Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 03:41 PM (tOcjL)

NK's is also hobo Mardi Gras.

Posted by: 13times at March 30, 2026 03:49 PM (3fEC+)

78 Supposedly there is another one tomorrow night. I 'm going to check it out.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (+nEug)

Take plenty of pictures!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

79 57 The statue of liberty es la tarta.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho
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And that folks is the thread winner...

The horde never disappoints.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at March 30, 2026 03:49 PM (VkY89)

80 Vaccine cards, there's your King

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 03:50 PM (Ia/+0)

81
And not ONE mask! Think of the Covid variances!!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at March 30, 2026 03:50 PM (IifOV)

82 The hardest part about this entire situation is telling your father.
Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:39 PM (W7FsI)

*bats eyes*

He doesn't have to know.

Posted by: Statue of Libertine at March 30, 2026 03:50 PM (FMtrg)

83 I was blissfully ignorant as to who Sarah Longwell was until Ace's reference and forced me to look her up. Damn you, Ace, for ruining my bliss!

Posted by: No Ignorance nor bliss at March 30, 2026 03:50 PM (48kUI)

84 They had one of those all-Lefty-hands-on-deck protests in my town on Saturday. It was on a major street but not Main Street, and there was no interference with traffic. About 75% greybeards, 25% students, I'd guess. No Kings, LGBTQ, Free Palestine, No War, No Ice, etc.

Some support honks, but also loud exhortations to fuck themselves, and many birds were thrown, including my own.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 30, 2026 03:50 PM (kpS4V)

85 All of this No Kings bullshit, and yet you allow this illegal alien Retard Harry and his hootchie mama to run around free when Charles should be reeling in his bastard child. Charlies didn't sire that fuckstick, Diana was cucking that imbred.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 03:50 PM (Fbc0I)

86 I wonder whatever happened to the guy that was photographed taking a shit on the NYC cop car during the Wall Street protests.........

The left. They never cease to entertain when they go out and do dumb shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

87 73 How much were they paying?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 03:48 PM (2Ez/1)

They probably didn't have to.

They just had to tell people it was a reason for them to act like drama kids and wear costumes, and they were in.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 03:51 PM (iXqHn)

88 You know, a lot depends on how long you've been at sea.

Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 30, 2026 03:52 PM (4NO2D)

89 I was blissfully ignorant as to who Sarah Longwell was until Ace's reference and forced me to look her up. Damn you, Ace, for ruining my bliss!
Posted by: No Ignorance nor bliss at March 30, 2026 03:50 PM (48kUI)

She's so round. So firm.. So FULLY PACKED.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

90 The statue of liberty es la tarta.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 03:44 PM

Add a few pounds and she'd be a torta.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 03:52 PM (bFu5X)

91 From early this morning, someone talking to an elderly white woman:
---------
Interviewer: “Why do you think there’s not a lot of black people here?”
Protester:
“Because a lot of them are afraid of being arrested. And they don’t wanna get arrested. They can’t afford it. They can’t afford the lawyers. They can’t afford the time off from work. And they’re afraid.”
Interviewer: “Do you think black people are less likely to protest because they’re afraid of getting arrested?”
Protester:
“Yeah, I do. Because they know they’ll get arrested more than white people.”
Interviewer: “What about voter ID laws? A lot of people say that suppresses the black vote.”
Protester:
“Yeah, because a lot of black people don’t have IDs. They don’t drive. They don’t have cars. They use public transportation.”
=====
The media's narrative at work.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 03:52 PM (AkEZC)

92 Just read a story about TSA agents getting paid. A reporter asked the WH press sec. - why didn't you do this earlier? I don't know the full answer but did she say - sorry, are you asking me why he didn't act like a FUCKING KING SOONER?

Posted by: Sugar Free Gummy Bear at March 30, 2026 03:52 PM (0OHKH)

93 36 If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

here there be dragons

Posted by: al roker at March 30, 2026 03:52 PM (v3pYe)

94 I actually saw that one of my grade school teachers was at the No Kings march. She's got to be close to 80 now. Insanity.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (IifOV)

95 >> I was blissfully ignorant as to who Sarah Longwell was until Ace's reference and forced me to look her up.

Toby is gonna get mad if you are checking out his girl.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (W7FsI)

96 19 The Statue of Liberty hasseveral thigh tattoos.

Filed under: Things i Didn't Know.

Also appears to be chilly

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (kVoLy)

97 88 You know, a lot depends on how long you've been at sea.
Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 30, 2026 03:52 PM (4NO2D)

The Shame shall forever be engraved upon Your Soul.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (iXqHn)

98 Interviewer: “What about voter ID laws? A lot of people say that suppresses the black vote.”
Protester:
“Yeah, because a lot of black people don’t have IDs. They don’t drive. They don’t have cars. They use public transportation.”
=====

Tell me you're a racist that has never met a black person without telling me you're a racist that's never met a black person.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

99 25 i'll just take Based Pam from The Office, thank you.
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (1wjle)

Is that really 'Pam'? She looks like the years have been very kind to her.

Wonder if she lives in California.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (QGaXH)

100 Seriously, the best way to take down the "No Kings" groupies is just to laugh at them. And, make it obvious so there is no misunderstanding.

But be loud about it, because most of them have hearing aids.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (Riz8t)

101 parody song lyrics are the lowest form of comedy. And I've written a few.
Posted by: ace

Wait, so ace is really Afroman? How could I have not seen it before?

Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (vTZFs)

102 I mean, you do have to understand. A lot of faithless old folks, some who had no families (thanks to Roe V Wade hitting right when they would) and some whose families hate them, really have nothing to look forward to, nothing to "feel important with", except a path to obsolescence and death. This "No Kings movement" makes them matter, at least in their own heads. This gives their lives, as they are, meaning. When this ends (and the Dems dump them like they dump anyone no longer useful), many of them likely will, too.

So, I feel bad for them...and yet, I'd also like them to stay in their assisted living homes and have an ice cream party instead.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (tOcjL)

103 What is with the obsession of the Hand Maiden shit?

You look FOOLISH and PRIVILEGED

What kind of retard spends their free time annoying people in public?

Hurry up and die already. Useless fucks

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (CLB2E)

104 Manatee AND works at the Bulwark?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (zZu0s)

105 Finally, the protest babes!!

Saturday was great. I was horribly disappointed by two horror movies, watched coverage of No Kings Day 3 on MS Now AND watched 'Freddy Got Fingered.' Entertainment all around.

Hollywood has had 25 years to dig deeper and 'Freddy Got Fingered' was actually the best movie I saw that day. It was bad and I can't believe they crapped $14 million on it, but it wasn't that bad. Lily white and no bitching about racism and no gays,

And thanks to MS Now, Tom Green didn't even crack the top 7 most annoying people Saturday.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (Sco7b)

106 These idiots don't realize that a king would have them jailed or disappeared for protesting, possibly publicly executed so everyone got the point.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (ueM0k)

107 >>>Is that really 'Pam'? She looks like the years have been very kind to her.

no, just kinda looks and sounds like her.

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (1wjle)

108 23 >>>21 I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

how closely did you look?
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

THAT'S A MAN, BABY...!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (QGaXH)

109 parody song lyrics are the lowest form of comedy. And I've written a few.
Posted by: ace

Weird Al hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

110 Were You Inconvenienced by the Decrepit White Hippies During the CCP- and Soros-Funded No Kings Shuffle-Abouts?

No, because the half dozen or so old ladies from my county who protest ICE are downtown, where no one goes anymore.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2026 03:55 PM (0Htd1)

111 I personally loved when ace sang Ahab the A-rab on the podcast.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:55 PM (zZu0s)

112 67 No Kings sounds pretty sexist.

No Queens!

*stink eye*

Posted by: freddie mercury at March 30, 2026 03:55 PM (v3pYe)

113 Trump should announce he's renaming Independence Day to No Kings Day.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (viF8m)

114 no... not like a ham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PD785cMMZs

Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (1wjle)

115 What is with the obsession of the Hand Maiden shit?

You look FOOLISH and PRIVILEGED

What kind of retard spends their free time annoying people in public?

Hurry up and die already. Useless fucks
Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (CLB2E)

And they had 100 of the stupid f*cks lined up for that dipshittery.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

116 This is what mental illness looks like.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (2Ez/1)

117 108 THAT'S A MAN, BABY...!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (QGaXH)

You missed the Art Thread by a few hours, sir.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (iXqHn)

118 I hope Insurrection Barbie took the opportunity to yell, "Get a job, hippy!" at the old ladies.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (0Htd1)

119 Has lost roughly $350 million on his last 5 movies.

--------------

Sounds like a victim of Somali pirate fraud.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 03:57 PM (NgYxV)

120 103 What is with the obsession of the Hand Maiden shit?

You look FOOLISH and PRIVILEGED

What kind of retard spends their free time annoying people in public?

Hurry up and die already. Useless fucks
Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (CLB2E)

They want to be gang-ravaged by a bunch of swarthy Muslims.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 03:57 PM (iXqHn)

121 116 This is what mental illness looks like.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (2Ez/1)

Phases of dementia, most likely...the older you get, the more likely you will start to experience that mental fade...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 03:57 PM (tOcjL)

122 Bet lots of Queens were at tje No King protest

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0)

123 Has lost roughly $350 million on his last 5 movies.

--------------

Sounds like a victim of Somali pirate fraud.
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 03:57 PM (NgYxV)

Sad thing is, HE didn't lose anything. He got paid. The movie studios....THEY took it in the shorts for that asshole. But, you hired him. Reap it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

124 @91 -- Yeah, fear of getting arrested sure stopped them from rioting, looting, and burning down half their cities back in 2020.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 03:59 PM (XMwZJ)

125 Bet lots of Queens were at tje No King protest
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 03:57 PM (Ia/+0)

I'm sure there was quite the monkeypox convention in several areas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

126 LMAO 🤣. No kings protester completely LOSES IT and STORMS AWAY when the interviewer points out that nobody voted for Kamala and she was installed as the nominee

--------------

I think the deeper message he was trying to convey was:

#OrangeCheetoBad

/Furure MAHA Voter?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 04:00 PM (NgYxV)

127 Trump has to be more kingly
- Defy some Judicial decisions
- Indict/arrest/mug shot of opponent
- Search the residence of your opponent
- Pardon every last person in your administration

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 04:01 PM (bKa86)

128 It's depressing to realize that a large number of your countrymen are idiots. Insane, psychopathic, idiots.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 30, 2026 04:01 PM (XMwZJ)

129 Those are literally terrorists in America.

---------------

And that's just considering Congress.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 04:01 PM (NgYxV)

130 I guess it was a younger, more spritely Robert DeNiro who so eloquently, and without pause, delivered his "Fuck Trump!" speech at the Oscars a couple years ago.

Posted by: Beelzebubba at March 30, 2026 04:01 PM (bufu1)

131 76 "would my dick be mad at me for sticking him in that?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:46 PM

The Vespa Question. Will any of my friends see me riding that?
Posted by: toby928(c) is keeping a low profile at March 30, 2026 03:49 PM (4NO2D)

Had a crude friend who's favorite joke was 'what do fat chicks and Vespas have in common?

Answer: they can both be a lot of fun but you don't want you're friends to see you riding one.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 04:02 PM (QGaXH)

132 I'd bang the Statue of Liberty there.

how closely did you look?
Posted by: ace at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (1wjle)

BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

***

Was thinking the same thing.
*shudders*
And her costume is missing the pigeon shit.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 04:03 PM (2WIwB)

133 10 years ago there would have been zero chance of a no kings protest in my town. someone somewhere decided we needed an assisted living facility on every street in town and now they are able to get 20 or 30 addlepated geezers out to get in the way and wave professionally printed signs over their heads with the flesh on their arms sagging to their waists. It's time to move.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 04:03 PM (2ap+5)

134 I live about 20min from downtown and did not notice the aging hippies.

The photo of the strange man wrapped like a tire in the wheelchair is bizarre, but not enough for me to find out or care.

It will soon be hot and they will stop these No King's worthless parades due to their age. Pass the baton to the paid protesters and move straight into real riot month which is June.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 04:04 PM (WONhk)

135 101 parody song lyrics are the lowest form of comedy. And I've written a few.
Posted by: ace

Wait, so ace is really Afroman? How could I have not seen it before?
Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM

Could Ace actually be Weird Al?????

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at March 30, 2026 04:04 PM (WsJuq)

136 I actually saw that one of my grade school teachers was at the No Kings march. She's got to be close to 80 now. Insanity.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Day trip from the old folks home.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 04:04 PM (Kksvc)

137 18 I'm beggin' you all please, bring back the insane asylums. If not, I'll have to open my own with ~~myself as the first patient~~ blackjack and hookers

fixt

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (v3pYe)

138 I celebrated "No Kings" by reading "Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Totally worth it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (ESVrU)

139 Oh, my mistake! That is a woman who looks like a tire in the wheelchair! Oopsie!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (WONhk)

140

Sorry gents who have rarely felt the touch of a female, that's a woman, albeit a large nosed one.

Here's the side pic

https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/no-kings-rally-turns-
violent-and-woman-dressed-as-statue-of-liberty-is-arrested/

[Delete the hard return after turns- ]

Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (g6TN6)

141 parody song lyrics are the lowest form of comedy. And I've written a few.
Posted by: ace

Hello fart shits my old friend
I must contend with you again
Because the Taco Bell I was eating
Has left my butthole weeping
It's run thru me like a molten lava train
Oh the pain
And now I poop with violence

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (Kksvc)

142 In South Portland Maine, the "No Kings" Protest was like 3 people on the sidewalk around 1PM when we drove by Broadway near the bridge into Portland... which is where they are every weekend these days.

Yes. These people who have been dropped on their heads as children are there every weekend now.

I was with the wife, but I so dearly wanted to roll the windows down and blast ICE ICE BABY from my huge stereo in the MAGA red dirty diesel truck.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (WYStd)

143 Retards all. No argument at all.

Just remember they all vote. There’s unfortunately no law keeping idiots like this from voting.

Posted by: That Guy at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (g/iaZ)

144 Ok. A Trans tire in the wheelchair. I think I now have this correct as I have things to do.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 04:07 PM (WONhk)

145 117 108 THAT'S A MAN, BABY...!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (QGaXH)

You missed the Art Thread by a few hours, sir.
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (iXqHn)

I'm on the left coast and slept late today....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 04:07 PM (QGaXH)

146 The art "depicts individuals with physical disabilities in hypersexualized poses and situations," according to the fellowship.
----
There's a deleted scene in the movie Event Horizon that features such "art."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 04:08 PM (ESVrU)

147 Very serious people.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at March 30, 2026 04:08 PM (F0XtB)

148 Final comment on The Tire in The Wheelchair: is very sunburned.

They probably had to cut that tire off the moobs and submerge the entire deal in a pool.

I'll bet the smell triggered dogs miles away.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 04:09 PM (WONhk)

149 Why is that handmaiden holding a Bill Clinton sign? Is she for him or against him?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (Cqx++)

I presume that it was a list of all the pedos outed by THE EPSTEIN FILES! which included Prince Andrew - who was outed as having leaked government secrets, Elon Musk - who wasn't in the files at all AFAIK, and Woody Allen - who was almost certainly a pedo but also not in the files.

Not mentioned were the hundreds (thousands?) of teachers who molest kids every year. But that's okay.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:09 PM (ExV1e)

150 118 I hope Insurrection Barbie took the opportunity to yell, "Get a job, hippy!" at the old ladies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 30, 2026 03:56 PM (0Htd1)

Now that I'm waayyyyy over 29, when I see the young guys with shaved heads I want to growl at them 'get a haircut, hippie'. When/if they say 'wth you talking about, old man' I'd say 'I dunno, it's just what old guys told me when I was your age so......'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 04:10 PM (QGaXH)

151 That poor wheelchair.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 04:10 PM (7WnOb)

152 How were the paid protests in the college towns?

Those were the only places Hillary was giving speeches in 2016?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b)

153 Back when it was a bundle of pipes in a factory it never could have forsaw what torture is final destination would be.

* bows head for wheelchair.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 04:13 PM (7WnOb)

154 Chesterton pointed out that for the ordinary man in Britain, the King was the only person he'd know was NOT oppressing him. He also said we have an elected King and Britain has a hereditary President, who can do nothing but preside.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 04:13 PM (AlhUl)

155 103 What is with the obsession of the Hand Maiden shit?

You look FOOLISH and PRIVILEGED

What kind of retard spends their free time annoying people in public?

Hurry up and die already. Useless fucks
Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 03:54 PM (CLB2E)

Probably the same ones that spend their free time trying to annoy other posters on schmaart military blogs...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 04:13 PM (QGaXH)

156

As for the gimp, he is near death, so that's a plus. That belly is less fat than retained liquid (ascites), and that level looks like liver failure

Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 04:13 PM (g6TN6)

157 I presume that it was a list of all the pedos outed by THE EPSTEIN FILES! which included Prince Andrew - who was outed as having leaked government secrets, Elon Musk - who wasn't in the files at all AFAIK, and Woody Allen - who was almost certainly a pedo but also not in the files.

Right, they're still trying to make "Trump's name is in the files" happen.

The files don't actually support claims that what was happening there was pedos, just a lot of rich guys banging "yacht girls" like Meghan Markle. Especially considering the legal age in the Virgin Islands is 16.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:13 PM (2ocoG)

158 For decades people praised DeNiro for somehow managing to make his eyes empty and absent.
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I always insisted on Duval and Caine as at least as good. Hell, Jane Fonda was pretty good at the start of Barbarella (her career was all downhill from there, when she got dressed.)

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 04:14 PM (AlhUl)

159 Video of these sexual fetishist mutants here. (Toby just emailed me to say "Almost as hittable as Sarah Longwell.")
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My father might have hit on some of them - back in 1942, when they were doable.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 04:16 PM (AlhUl)

160 Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 04:05 PM (Kksvc)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 04:16 PM (NcvvS)

161 Breaking

DA Brooke Rollins announcing arrests of former city officials today including Chair of the Human Rights Commission. Millions in fraud to live the high life, build personal brand, pay tuition and personal expenses.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 04:16 PM (RIvkX)

162 Most of the cello section in my community orchestra was absent. Then again, it's for those who are 29 and older.

Posted by: InZona at March 30, 2026 04:16 PM (/O9OF)

163 Regarding the Epstein Files.
Great News!!

Variety reports there's going to be a movie!

Sony Pictures Television is shopping a project about the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein with Laura Dern attached to star, Variety has learned.

The limited series is based on the book “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story” by Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald journalist who put a renewed spotlight on Epstein and his crimes. Dern will star in the series as Brown.

The official description of the series describes it as “an explosive account of an investigative reporter exposing the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors. Drawing from Brown’s experience as a groundbreaking reporter for the Miami Herald, the book and the limited series follow her relentless years-long investigation that identified 80 victims, persuaded key survivors to go on the record, and led to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrests.”

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 04:16 PM (Sco7b)

164 What is with the obsession of the Hand Maiden shit?

It's the meme, where the woman in the Handmaid outfit explains that Republicans want to force her to have hot sex with high-status very masculine men and then Niagara Falls comes out of her cooter.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:16 PM (2ocoG)

165
"Trump has to go! 23 skidoo!"

-Old White Hippy

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 04:17 PM (VWtfl)

166 >>>Hello fart shits my old friend
I must contend with you again
Because the Taco Bell I was eating
Has left my butthole weeping
It's run thru me like a molten lava train
Oh the pain
And now I poop with violence

Posted by: rickb223

>Did you get the 2 Chicken Chalupas Supreme Combo? It's like avian caviar in a crispy corn shell.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 04:17 PM (Fbc0I)

167 What is with the obsession of the Hand Maiden shit?

How many of the hand maiden people lived their lives hopping from one bed to the next until they aged out of it and they fantasize about a rich, powerful man claiming them and using them... sexually. His strong arms holding them down as he thrusts into them. There's nothing they can do, they're helpless against him.

It's all BDSM fantasy time for leftovers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:18 PM (ExV1e)

168 Why are so many sodomites, breech loaders, homos, queer boys, shemales, rump rangers and other disordered sexual freaks at these no kings rallies?

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at March 30, 2026 04:18 PM (/1l9x)

169 Final comment on The Tire in The Wheelchair: is very sunburned.

They probably had to cut that tire off the moobs and submerge the entire deal in a pool.

I'll bet the smell triggered dogs miles away.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 04:09 PM (WONhk)

Pool..pool..oh you mean like an acid bath? That would work.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (snZF9)

170 Why are so many sodomites, breech loaders, homos, queer boys, shemales, rump rangers and other disordered sexual freaks at these no kings rallies?
Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at March 30, 2026 04:18 PM (/1l9x)
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Boredom?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (RIvkX)

171 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

172

Birds of a feather flock together, Pray

Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 04:20 PM (g6TN6)

173 I luv Trump's response to all this...

Basically... Thanks for protesting to make sure no Kings come in and take over the Country... as Elected President I appreciate your hard work.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 04:20 PM (mP0Kj)

174 "Trump has to go! 23 skidoo!"

-Old White Hippy

Is that like Biden's "No Malarky Tour" in 2020?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:20 PM (2ocoG)

175 171 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?
Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

Half the country was always weird... we just USED to use public shame to make them hide it.

Now, they are OUT, and Proud.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

176 During COVID the government repeatedly violated laws and the constitution. Ho-hum. In fact, if you didn't agree you were ostracized. And it wasn't the president; it was a local unelected health official calling the shots.

Kamala Harris received 0.0% of the democrat primary vote, and they made her their candidate solely because they realized their actual candidate, Joe Biden, was going to lose badly. That's the total reasoning behind the switch - we are going to lose with Biden, maybe we can win with Kamala. Voters? Fuck the voters.

No kings blah blah. Such bullshit.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 04:22 PM (vOtXJ)

177 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

Lack of war on our soil. Nobody can make them (oopsie) collateral damage, so they breed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 04:22 PM (snZF9)

178 Dr Petersen lamented that one in 10 Americans has an IQ lower than 70, which means they cannot do even the simplest productive tasks, and asked "what can you do with this population?"

We have his answer.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 30, 2026 04:23 PM (wBaIH)

179 171 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?
Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

Because the cops stopped letting people beat them to death.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 04:23 PM (iXqHn)

180 If a protest erupts and no one watches, did it really happen

ABC, NBC and CBS average about a total of 21 million viewers according to Grok. A small portion of the total population.

MS Now is about 1.6 million. CNN is about 700,000.

I wonder how many Americans didn't even know this was going on or why?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 04:24 PM (Sco7b)

181 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

Heavy Metal.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 04:24 PM (7WnOb)

182 "His" other sign says, "toss your salad. pocket change"

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 30, 2026 04:24 PM (YlWIZ)

183 167 What is with the obsession of the Hand Maiden shit?

It fucking gives me chills. These people are positively creepy. They are very average looking women with male dominance fantasies.

By the way, the TV show doesn't even resemble the book. The premise of the book is "what if Christians in North America treated women like the Iranians and the Saudis?"

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 04:25 PM (vOtXJ)

184 175 Half the country was always weird... we just USED to use public shame to make them hide it.

Now, they are OUT, and Proud.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2026 04:21 PM (mP0Kj)

Their dads used to beat the living shit out of them so much that if they even THOUGHT a weird thought, they'd have an instant response as if they'd been beaten again, and that was enough to stop them.

That doesn't happen now.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 04:25 PM (iXqHn)

185 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Somehow it became conventional wisdom that if your sex life is anything other than hetero missionary with the lights off you're a Communist and must vote accordingly.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:25 PM (2ocoG)

186 Oops, wrong thread:
Speaking of washed up old has-beens, remember that guy Cahrles from the Small Mint-Colored Pigskins web site? The guy that, from the onset of the site, absolutely HATED the mullahs of Iran? Held them responsible for all the ills in the middle east? You'd think that now they're finally being dealt with he'd at least back the Trump administration's actions?

Well, you'd be wrong. Not posting the link, but talk about a 180 degree switcheroo. Cash conquers all, for some people.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at March 30, 2026 04:25 PM (Ft5W9)

187 You know that scene from Mad Men where Donald Draper is in the elevator with the kid and the kid is really upset that Don supposedly stole his idea. The kid says I feel sorry for you. Don looks straight ahead, says I don’t think about you at all and walks out.

Thats how I feel about these retards. I’ve forgotten the stupid protests even existed. Why give them any attention, they’re 65 year old children.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 04:25 PM (uDDWT)

188 30 MARCH 2026
/
SF NEWS
/
JAY BARMANN
Sheryl Davis, Human Rights Commission Director and Dream Keeper Chief Under Breed, Arrested on Felony Charges

https://tinyurl.com/b9uker2y

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 04:26 PM (RIvkX)

189 If people wonder why I didn't just name the guy and his website, he used to be notorious for web-bot crawling on the lookout for his name being used in vain, and siccing his spavined cohort of followers on the comments. It takes WEEKS to get the smell of Icy-Hot and cat pee out of the room!

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at March 30, 2026 04:26 PM (Ft5W9)

190 >>>How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Posted by: redridinghood

>Somebody has to subsidize their pharmaceuticals when they're mid-transition.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 04:26 PM (Fbc0I)

191 Damn. I had so much to share, but stupid WORK had to distract me.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 04:27 PM (JCZqz)

192 Kamala Harris received 0.0% of the democrat primary vote, and they made her their candidate solely because they realized their actual candidate, Joe Biden, was going to lose badly. That's the total reasoning behind the switch - we are going to lose with Biden, maybe we can win with Kamala. Voters? Fuck the voters.

No kings blah blah. Such bullshit.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 04:22 PM

It's "No Kings". They're allowed to have queens.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 30, 2026 04:28 PM (y9ksN)

193 parody song lyrics are the lowest form of comedy. And I've written a few.
Posted by: ace

Wait, so ace is really Afroman? How could I have not seen it before?
Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2026 03:53 PM (vTZFs)

Because you got high?

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:28 PM (CUNBy)

194 The "literal Statue of Liberty" (which of course she isn't) needs to lay off the Doritos and hit the gym. Not much, she's in pretty good shape compared to the thing at the top of the post, but it's a shame that she's not in top condition.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 04:28 PM (wzUl9)

195 Nobody ever calls Jharles by his government name, anyway.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 04:29 PM (iXqHn)

196 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 04:19 PM (NpAcC)

Heavy Metal.

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None of the metal heads I know are into goofy shit like that.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 30, 2026 04:30 PM (y9ksN)

197 Well, you'd be wrong. Not posting the link, but talk about a 180 degree switcheroo. Cash conquers all, for some people.

We all know who you mean. The alleged jazz guitarist who allegedly rides a bicycle with no seat. He got a new girlfriend and adopted her politics. That was pretty much the end of anyone smart posting there.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:30 PM (2ocoG)

198 If people wonder why I didn't just name the guy and his website, he used to be notorious for web-bot crawling on the lookout for his name being used in vain, and siccing his spavined cohort of followers on the comments. It takes WEEKS to get the smell of Icy-Hot and cat pee out of the room!
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at March 30, 2026 04:26 PM (Ft5W9)

I suppose a bigger question is, "Why did you even go see if he's still alive?" He was something big, something important, and he became just another looney closet in an internet filled with them.

Let his name be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:30 PM (ExV1e)

199 By the way, the TV show doesn't even resemble the book. The premise of the book is "what if Christians in North America treated women like the Iranians and the Saudis?"
Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 04:25 PM (vOtXJ)

I actually watched the first couple of seasons about...eight years ago? Just before I got my CDL.

Dear Lord, it was awful. Just a badly, badly written series. I got a couple of episodes into season three and bailed. It was just getting worse and I couldn't stand it anymore,

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:31 PM (CUNBy)

200

How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

The abolition of male bullying behavior

Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 04:31 PM (g6TN6)

201 Somebody has to subsidize their pharmaceuticals when they're mid-transition.

We've still got several tons of fentanyl don't we?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

202 None of the metal heads I know are into goofy shit like that.

Metal *heads* aren't, but the music press in general and the specialist metal press in particular is way hard left and very angry about it.

Very much like all the other specialist press, actually.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:32 PM (2ocoG)

203 "How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Posted by: redridinghood"

The internet. Before it, the weirdness was mostly localized.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 04:32 PM (vFG9F)

204 Dr Petersen lamented that one in 10 Americans has an IQ lower than 70, which means they cannot do even the simplest productive tasks, and asked "what can you do with this population?"

We have his answer.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 30, 2026 04:23 PM (wBaIH)

So that means one in ten have an IQ higher than 130...given a standard distribution.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 04:32 PM (2WIwB)

205 "Heavy Metal.
Posted by: Reforger"

Like lead?

Posted by: Rome at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (vFG9F)

206 De Niro was good in King of Comedy and Casino. He has other good movies though that I could see others just as good in his role. Just imo of course.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (V4IXI)

207 US Army investigating why two of its attack choppers stopped at Kid Rock's house after buzzing liberal protesters 😂

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Well duhhhh! It's Kid Rock's house and the commie rat bastards needed a buzzing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (ndZc7)

208 The internet. Before it, the weirdness was mostly localized.

To be fair, that's also how *our* weirdness got together.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (2ocoG)

209 Nood. Another miscarriage of justice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

210 I love it when wiseguy De Niro opens his piehole. He's the next Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 04:33 PM (Fbc0I)

211 US Army investigating why two of its attack choppers stopped at Kid Rock's house after buzzing liberal protesters 😂

That's perfect. I 100% endorse that use of my tax dollars.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:34 PM (2ocoG)

212 He got a new girlfriend and adopted her politics. That was pretty much the end of anyone smart posting there.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:30 PM (2ocoG)

Did he really get a new GF?

Tale as old as time, man.

Maybe he should have hooked up with another man and maybe he would've been allowed to keep his opinion.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 04:35 PM (CUNBy)

213 I just got a delivery from the fattest FedEx driver ever. She must have a bag of ring dings to snack on

Posted by: Accomack at March 30, 2026 04:35 PM (+sNap)

214

Bell curve remains unbeaten (generally speaking). The problem is distributions among various demographic groups ("G factor")

Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 04:36 PM (g6TN6)

215 No one goes from Conservative to Liberal unless they were always a liberal role playing a conservative.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 04:36 PM (V4IXI)

216 33 >>Not closely enough, and now I hate you.
Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:38 PM (oqH4h)

The hardest part about this entire situation is telling your father.
Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 03:39 PM (W7FsI)

Incidentally, of one of the funniest comments on YouTube is on the music video for "The Man" by The Killers. It goes something like, "After watching this, I finally sat my parents down to tell them that they're gay."

Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 04:37 PM (Sy6m/)

217 How did half the country get so f'n weird? How?

Posted by: redridinghood

How? Internet. They were always weird. We just never heard about it.

Someone did some stupid shit in Elkhorn, Idaho was never heard about in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Thanks to the internet, it's now on a reel on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter.
Everyone sees it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 04:42 PM (Kksvc)

218 I already had people telling me that the X video of the Iranians marching and thanking Trump was AI. If it was, that's okay with me. Our side needs to play the same "dirty pool" the leftists do. But, double it.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 30, 2026 04:42 PM (5xuJ/)

219 "Heavy Metal."

It was a joke, sort of.

I should have socked it as Tipper Gore.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 04:43 PM (7WnOb)

220 Elementary to college is now Cultural Marxist Seminaries they teach Marxism and not much else. Students are go protest for free benifits like homes, food, college. Whites are racists and everyone on the planet deserves a home free I might add in the US.

Oh and forgot, white people are destroying the planet,

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)

221 We all know who you mean. The alleged jazz guitarist who allegedly rides a bicycle with no seat. He got a new girlfriend and adopted her politics. That was pretty much the end of anyone smart posting there.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 04:30 PM (2ocoG)

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I don't. Who are you talking about?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 30, 2026 05:05 PM (aZm/F)

222 I don't go out shopping or travelling for the ENTIRE day, and, of course, never participate. (No local eateries, stores, etc. should benefit from any of the insane gatherings.)

One of ours is always at the County Courthouse - and the county is ran entirely by very well-heeled & connected Democrats/Socialists - but, no doubt we're all paying for their protection and that of the "orators and entertainment." 🙄

>PennLive dot com

"A No Kings rally in Media, Pa included a march to the Delaware County Courthouse for a 90-minute rally that included songs and speeches." Heaven help us all. 🤡

"This is your flag too!" was the retort from the audience for some alleged patriotic song.
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Well, THAT crowd didn't wall far for the festivities. Someone should have hollered the undocumented would be in their school and neighborhood & they would have scattered like roaches.

But all-in-all, as several hundreds 'liked:' It worked guys!!! There's still no king after...

Mockingly, of course.

Posted by: Trying to fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 05:06 PM (NFX2v)

223 "The Georgia State University teacher"
The Democrats, in the long tradition within their party of creating a political operation funded with tax dollars (a "machine"), have duplicated it, not with direct government jobs -because we've created laws like the Hatch Act making that difficult - but with government-adjacent operations, like schools and universities, and " NGOs".
Kill the Teacher's Unions, dismantle all the socially-conscious fluff curricula in colleges, and defund, without exception, NGOs. Let them run on donations, not taxes.
I'm betting that the collapse of this kind of street theater would mimic the USAID cuts response.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 30, 2026 05:49 PM (rJ+qD)

224 "No Kings" from the Rule-Me-Harder-Daddy Party is rich.

It's on the same wavelength as soyboy progs affecting camo to show their Man Cred.

They wouldn't know the stirrings of actual liberty if it crawled up their leg and bit em on their teeny weeny dicks.

Posted by: Zek at March 30, 2026 05:54 PM (5FPX4)

Did Democrats Just Steal a Congeressional Seat?

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
HOLY CRAP!! A Palm Beach elections office volunteer just got arrested for STEALING an encrypted access key and computer equipment in the March 24 special election where the Democrat won by 800 votes
This is the district the includes Mar-a-Lago.
Investigators worry that the encryption -- used for training -- could be reverse engineered and used to tamper with voter registration
The theft was reported on March 27, a few days after last Tuesday's special election, per WPTV. The theft occurred on March 19, just days before election day
"During the search of [John] Panicci's home, detectives recovered the stolen items along with a substantial amount of electronic and digital storage devices. Panicci was transported to the Palm Beach County Jail and booked on charges."
Election integrity is vital to our republic.
If it's happening in Florida -- IT'S HAPPENING NATIONWIDE

Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
You wondered how Democrat Emily Gregory defeated Trump-endorsed Republican Jon Maples by roughly 797--800 votes (51.2% to 48.8%, out of about 33,400 votes cast in a low-turnout special).
The district had previously been held by a Republican who won by a much larger margin in 2024.
FACTS: On March 19, during a volunteer training session at the elections office (4301 Cherry Road) ahead of the March 24 special election, Panicci allegedly stole an encrypted access key from a voter registration terminal. Surveillance photos reportedly captured the act.

He maintains a Facebook profile under John Panicci (@JohnWPB), describing himself as a "huge tech nerd."
The key was programmed only for training databases, not live voter registration or election systems. However, investigators expressed concern that someone technically skilled could reverse-engineer the encryption and misuse it in a real kiosk.

The theft was reported to detectives on March 27. They identified Panicci, obtained search and arrest warrants, and executed them at his Lake Worth/Greenacres-area home on March 28. They recovered the stolen key and equipment, plus a large amount of other electronic and digital storage devices.
He faces charges related to theft of computer equipment/property crimes (including taking/damaging electronic devices). He was booked into Palm Beach County Jail and held on $6,000 bail, with a no-contact order regarding the elections office. The investigation is ongoing, including a review of seized devices.
It appears that Panicci was in communication with Debbie Wasserman Schultz's DC office over a dozen times since Christmas.
If you recall, Wasserman and her Assistant United States Attorney (federal prosecutor) in the District of Columbia, brother, Steven Wasserman, who bungled the case, provided cover for the Awan brothers (Imran Awan, Abid Awan, and Jamal Awan), who were Pakistani-American IT staffers who worked as shared/contracted technicians for numerous Democratic members of Congress.

And they knew the guy was sketchy pic.twitter.com/xsKP1Spjp3
— kelly 🇺🇸 (@kelly54708895) March 29, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 Yes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 02:32 PM (FmapG)

2 But the seat's been flipped and nothing will change that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 02:33 PM (FmapG)

3 Did Democrats Just Steal a Congeressional Seat?
______________________

Rhetorical question.

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 02:33 PM (dIske)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Ace,

Isn't this a Florida House seat? Not a U.S. House seat...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (n9ltV)

6 Election do over with paper ballots and purple dye.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (7HqqU)

7 O hell yes they stole it!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (MIIRH)

8 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (NcvvS)

9 Can Jon Maples sue to overturn the results?

Does he have standing?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (ESVrU)

10 After stealing a presidential election, this isn't really a shocker.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (W7FsI)

11 ... but 2 is essentially right nonetheless.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (MIIRH)

12 but it's only one in a billion percent

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (CWTWj)

13 Small potatoes. Wait until November.

Posted by: huerfano at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (98kQX)

14 MS Now has been circle jerking over an election in Trump's district that flipped Democrat. Honestly. Fairly. Compketely above board. I'm sure.

There were a bunch of other elections too.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (Sco7b)

15 What's the best way to protect Our Democracy(TM)?

Prevent people from questioning the integrity of our elections, obviously!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

16 Afternoon.

"Did Democrats steal a Congressional seat?"

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (xZzjp)

17 Deimoscrats will steal money from the Tooth Fairy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (7HqqU)

18 there is precedent for overturning local elections

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (GD0B3)

19 Sure, 'oath to protect and defend the constitution', and look for ways to ensure the desired outcome by stealing equipment & IP.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (NcvvS)

20 6, oh please yes!

from your keyboard to His ears, Anna!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (MIIRH)

21 Ace, I don't think this was a congressional seat. I think it's state legislature.

But I agree it smells worst than Ahmed's crusty underwear stained with goat ass.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

22 And they knew the guy was sketchy pic.twitter.com/xsKP1Spjp3

— kelly 🇺🇸 (@kelly54708895) March 29, 2026

Figures.

Typical "the suspect was 'known to police'" bullshit we hear every f*cking time there's a shooting.

If the left can't cheat, they never win anything again outside of blueist of the blue shitholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

23 not my pancakes!! (curley)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (CWTWj)

24 I'm sure it's nothing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

25 There needs to be a special election for that seat. Even if there was no actual foul play there is now a perception that the election was contaminated in some way. Conduct a re-do and see what happens.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (0N4FZ)

26 Team Nickelback will look into the matter.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (abIsI)

27 The media was crowing about this... It's a sign that MAGA is dead ! This is Trump's own district !.....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (ECasK)

28 Guessing that the key wasn't used for the special, but would have been ready to alter the general this fall.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (NcvvS)

29 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (2Ez/1)

30 2 But the seat's been flipped and nothing will change that.

it's a state rep seat in special election which will have a redo in the fall

which will go to the R

still, they need to jail that blonde mofo, soonest

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (j+aD2)

31 I would think the election board has standing, to protect their phony jobs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 02:38 PM (7HqqU)

32 Can Jon Maples sue to overturn the results?

Does he have standing?

——
With the right judge

Posted by: Gonzotx at March 30, 2026 02:38 PM (nGraA)

33 The fraud, nationwide it is.

But the SAFE act? Nah bruh... can't have that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 02:38 PM (AkEZC)

34 28 Guessing that the key wasn't used for the special, but would have been ready to alter the general this fall.

no I think they used it now

they wanted the headlines

they were planning on doing it again in the fall too tho, of course. this was like a teaser

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

35 Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at March 30, 2026 02:38 PM (2Ez/1)

36 This country's elections are run by little old ladies who are tech-illiterate and want to be in bed no later than 9 p.m.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Decision Desk veteran at March 30, 2026 02:39 PM (Wt5PA)

37 it's shocking

this is Florida!

imagine what goes on in PA or CA !!!

or NJ!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:39 PM (j+aD2)

38 Walked right in and out. It was easy

ccording to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, the theft occurred on March 19 at the Supervisor of Elections’ headquarters on Cherry Road. Surveillance footage and digital check-in logs allegedly show Panicci, who was not on the original training roster, writing his name in, scanning his identification, and entering the room at 8:34 a.m.

Surveillance footage captured the moment Panicci, seated at a voter registration kiosk, reached over to an adjacent machine and pulled a black-and-silver SanDisk USB from its port. Investigators say he then slipped the device into his right pants pocket and left the facility.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 30, 2026 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

39 Stealing elections is a key part of saving Democracy!!!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (JCZqz)

40 it's a state rep seat in special election which will have a redo in the fall

which will go to the R

still, they need to jail that blonde mofo, soonest

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (j+aD2)

I hear you, and I agree. But that's not the point. The point is that they're stealing seats with literally zero consequences.

Until they receive consequences (or have consequences imposed upon them), nothing changes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (FmapG)

41 if it were a dem seat that a repub unexpectedly won with these the suspicions the ny times, the wa post and the atlanta constitution and urinal would be investigating for weeks

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (CWTWj)

42 Nice collection of typos from that brain surgeon.

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (YwEeS)

43 Stealing elections is a key part of saving Democracy!!!

Or Democrat-cy, at least.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (2ocoG)

44 Surveillance footage captured the moment Panicci, seated at a voter registration kiosk, reached over to an adjacent machine and pulled a black-and-silver SanDisk USB from its port. Investigators say he then slipped the device into his right pants pocket and left the facility.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 30, 2026 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

They're so used to no consequence, they're just out and out BOLD about their criminal activities.

"We've got the biggest voter fraud system the world has ever seen."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

45 It's who they are.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (N1DT3)

46 If the left can't cheat, they never win anything again outside of blueist of the blue shitholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

"Why will the SAVE Act never pass?"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (MIIRH)

47 Election fraud is no joke. The gallows or the guillotine. If you're against execution, at least chop off their filthy hands.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (Fbc0I)

48 Voting needs to be as low tech as possible. Paper ballots, nothing digital, counted by mechanical machines, etc.

As soon as you introduce anything digital, trust goes out the window.

I can't wait to hear how these Dominion type voting systems are unhackable. No such thing.

Posted by: Leupold at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (F0+gz)

49 And if you think the left didn't have a particular hard on for this district (because Mar a Lago), then you aren't paying attention.

They've been lusting after this one like a Democrat after a child.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (FmapG)

50 btw Nick Shirley's MOM is a great follow on X

she's mostly investigating the 127 year old voters

they have those in Florida still too!

she's also pretty MILFY I have to say

seems like a fun lady

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:42 PM (j+aD2)

51 If the theft happened in a state race, not the Congressional race, can't Florida's Legislature just refuse to seat the cheat?

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 02:42 PM (gKWVE)

52
I can't wait to hear how these Dominion type voting systems are unhackable. No such thing.
Posted by: Leupold at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (F0+gz)

During a hearing in Georgia back in 2020, someone hacked a voting machine using the internet connected thermostat on the wall in the same room as the machine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

53 As soon as you introduce anything digital, trust goes out the window.

Minnesota cheats just fine with nothing digital. They just need a Buick.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 02:42 PM (2ocoG)

54 46 If the left can't cheat, they never win anything again outside of blueist of the blue shitholes.

not just that, but the retention numbers for seated congressmen are way way way WAY high

that is due to fraud

that's why Thune is doing what he's doing

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:43 PM (j+aD2)

55 1. When they say "reverse engineered by someone with high technical skills," they mean someone who knows to change the username from "admin#training" to just "admin"

To a systems engineer, this whole thing is nuts. There should be no "training keys" -- what a security mess.

2. Why steal it if it was only good for training?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 02:43 PM (yFx9n)

56 if there's smoke there's fire

if there's democrats there's cheating. always been

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:44 PM (CWTWj)

57 Fortunately we can be assured that no Democrat would ever be involved in anything crooked. Elections or otherwise.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 02:44 PM (AlhUl)

58 I was assured by certain folks on this blog that the election process in our country was beyond reproach.

Posted by: Big Dickus In Ass at March 30, 2026 02:44 PM (/1l9x)

59 He was just stealing the keys to feed his family!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (u73oe)

60 not just that, but the retention numbers for seated congressmen are way way way WAY high

that is due to fraud

that's why Thune is doing what he's doing
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:43 PM (j+aD2)

Congress has an approval rating of 15% at most and yet every incumbent is gets re-elected.

It's like magic!

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (xZzjp)

61 I was assured by certain folks on this blog that the election process in our country was beyond reproach.
Posted by: Big Dickus In Ass at March 30, 2026 02:44 PM (/1l9x)

"That's RIGHT!!!!!"

- - - - - Brian in New Orleans

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

62 I can't wait to hear how these Dominion type voting systems are unhackable. No such thing.
Posted by: Leupold at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (F0+gz)

Awaiting the appearance of Brian in New Orleans ... any moment now ...

***mutters BINO BINO BINO ***

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (3sXRv)

63 58 I was assured by certain folks on this blog that the election process in our country was beyond reproach.

well that wasn't me!

Ive seen the white boxes snuck into Philly polling places after hours via the back door!

Philly has always, always cheated

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (j+aD2)

64 58 I was assured by certain folks on this blog that the election process in our country was beyond reproach.

Posted by: Big Dickus In Ass at March 30, 2026 02:44 PM (/1l9x)

Elections in Saddam's Iraq were also beyond reproach...complain about them as an Iraqi and you were tortured and killed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (ynpvh)

65 Fortunately we can be assured that no Democrat would ever be involved in anything crooked. Elections or otherwise.

I am routinely assured that any time a Democrat "wins" an election the voters there deserve it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (2ocoG)

66 Redo the election day. Wouldn't take much time or effort.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (g8Ew8)

67 "That's RIGHT!!!!!"

- - - - - Brian in New Orleans
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

62 I can't wait to hear how these Dominion type voting systems are unhackable. No such thing.
Posted by: Leupold at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (F0+gz)

Awaiting the appearance of Brian in New Orleans ... any moment now ...

***mutters BINO BINO BINO ***
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (3sXRv)

Once again ... Sponge is first !

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (3sXRv)

68 As someone who works in regulated computing environments on a daily basis...

There are systems where credentials that are used to authenticate to a training environment are also capable to authenticate in production. In fact its quite common for users in our systems to have a single set of credentials that allows for access to both.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (WYStd)

69 "at his Lake Worth/Greenacres-area..."
----------

Wow! That's right where I grew up after we moved from NYC back in the 1960's....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (QGaXH)

70 Congress has an approval rating of 15% at most and yet every incumbent is gets re-elected.

It's like magic!

exactly! and we're to believe that's all due to people being dumb and provincial and/or name recognition?!?!

pull the other one, Narrative

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (j+aD2)

71 Once again ... Sponge is first !
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (3sXRv)

LMMFAO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

72 You know, an obvious deterrent to this sort of shit would be to require only secure USB ports on any election-related devices. Make the ports something like Cannon or Amphenol connectors; multi-pin plugs/sockets with a screw or bayonet type locking ring equipped with holes to insert padlocks. Port designed to be "dead" until the locking ring is seated, and padlocks inserted.

See "tag out/lock out" switches on machinery for an idea of how this could be implemented.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (5ZXSK)

73 63 58 I was assured by certain folks on this blog that the election process in our country was beyond reproach.

well that wasn't me!

Ive seen the white boxes snuck into Philly polling places after hours via the back door!

Philly has always, always cheated

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:45 PM (j+aD2)

Including at least one member of PA's highest court was involved in shenanigans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (ynpvh)

74
McAWFL's Daughter: How do we stop Trump?

McAWFL: First, we carry around signs.

McAWFL's Daughter: Then what?

McAWFL: That's it!

Posted by: Comic Relief Segment of the Show at March 30, 2026 02:47 PM (2Ez/1)

75 I read this story on another blog and some people coming to the defense of the guy by saying it was only used for training, blah, blah. The question remains, okay, so why did he steal it along with other equipment? What was the purpose - to do training at home? Magic 8 ball says "Yeah, right".

Posted by: Cheri at March 30, 2026 02:47 PM (oiNtH)

76 74
McAWFL's Daughter: How do we stop Trump?

McAWFL: First, we carry around signs.

McAWFL's Daughter: Then what?

McAWFL: That's it!

Posted by: Comic Relief Segment of the Show at March 30, 2026 02:47 PM (2Ez/1)

Does the McAWFL come with extra cheese and lots of whine?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:47 PM (ynpvh)

77 Does a furry shit in the woods?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:47 PM (VmB4Z)

78 BifBewalski recommended the Fat Electrician on YT and his videoa on 'The Battle of Athens' when I last brought it up.

I still have to fully watch them but I did watch part and the guy is really good. There are 13 videos on that election fraud involving guns being brought to set things right.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 02:48 PM (Sco7b)

79 77 Does a furry shit in the woods?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:47 PM (VmB4Z)

Sometimes. Oh, that was rhetorical. Nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:48 PM (ynpvh)

80 The key was programmed only for training databases, not live voter registration or election systems. However, investigators expressed concern that someone technically skilled could reverse-engineer the encryption and misuse it in a real kiosk.

Then he had no need to steal it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 02:48 PM (Kksvc)

81 Our Sacred Democracy is being subverted by Sacred voter fraud. They can't help themselves.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 02:49 PM (Fbc0I)

82 80 The key was programmed only for training databases, not live voter registration or election systems. However, investigators expressed concern that someone technically skilled could reverse-engineer the encryption and misuse it in a real kiosk.

this is just muddying the water

they're not this dumb

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 02:49 PM (j+aD2)

83 There is no proven significant widespread voter fraud.

Election fraud.... maybe.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 30, 2026 02:49 PM (8/+vP)

84 Does a furry shit in its hoods?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:49 PM (R28e7)

85 83 There is no proven significant widespread voter fraud.

Election fraud.... maybe.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 30, 2026 02:49 PM (8/+vP)

Some voting is like a post turtle...you know the dead guy was not casting the ballot...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:50 PM (ynpvh)

86 "he then slipped the device into his right pants pocket and left the facility"

You sure that was a usb device?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 02:50 PM (DgMqy)

87 Does a furry shit in its hoods?
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:49 PM (R28e7)

Is a furry a sick, twisted individual that shouldn't be within 100 miles of a child at any time, ever?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

88 It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: the ghost of harry reid at March 30, 2026 02:51 PM (TdYBy)

89 84 Does a furry shit in its hoods?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:49 PM (R28e7)

Homey don't play that game.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:51 PM (ynpvh)

90 re 83: proven = someone was found guilty

this is like the cops say you weren't really robbed because they never caught the robber

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:51 PM (CWTWj)

91 86 "he then slipped the device into his right pants pocket and left the facility"

You sure that was a usb device?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 02:50 PM (DgMqy)

Well, it was a micro USB device...so maybe there was some question...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:52 PM (ynpvh)

92
You sure that was a usb device?
Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 02:50 PM (DgMqy)

The pocket pussy. When you just can't get to a real pussy in time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

93 42 Nice collection of typos from that brain surgeon.
Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (YwEeS)

I noticed that also, but with auto-cucumber and sausage-finger susceptible phone keyboards it's hard to attribute multiple typo's to illiteracy as opposed to inattentiveness.

I proofread this very carefuly befor I hit 'past'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:52 PM (QGaXH)

94
I proofread this very carefuly befor I hit 'past'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:52 PM (QGaXH)

Well played, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

95 90 re 83: proven = someone was found guilty

this is like the cops say you weren't really robbed because they never caught the robber

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:51 PM (CWTWj)

Soros prosecutors would also say girls in schools weren't sexually harassed and assaulted by trans as well.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

96 Election fraud never happens.
Except when it does.

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 02:53 PM (uDDWT)

97 It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: the ghost of harry reid at March 30, 2026 02:51 PM (TdYBy)

I honestly keep forgetting he's dead, and then something like this happens and just brightens up my day a bit.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 02:54 PM (FmapG)

98 It's (D)ifferent when Democrats do it.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 02:54 PM (iXqHn)

99 97 It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: the ghost of harry reid at March 30, 2026 02:51 PM (TdYBy)

I honestly keep forgetting he's dead, and then something like this happens and just brightens up my day a bit.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 02:54 PM (FmapG)

Eternally being assaulted by Satan's exercise band...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:54 PM (ynpvh)

100 it's not really fraud if it helps the dems prevent the election from being stolen

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:55 PM (CWTWj)

101 93 I noticed that also, but with auto-cucumber and sausage-finger susceptible phone keyboards

as shown in the well-known documentary "everything everywhere all at once"

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 02:56 PM (v3pYe)

102 keith olbermann is a twat

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 02:56 PM (CWTWj)

103 The pocket pussy. When you just can't get to a real pussy in time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:52 PM

"Send nudes. Hurry!" - Tony "El Big Sleaze" Gonzales (R-TX)

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM (2ocoG)

104 I think that whole 'training key' business is a ruse. Even if the stolen article is useless, it probably could be digitally 'disassembled' to see how the Real McCoy's work and how they could be duplicated or defeated.

Isn't that the whole purpose for the concept of Patents? Because all you have to do is buy one and take it apart to see how to make your own?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM (QGaXH)

105 There are a disturbing number of lampposts in this country without leftists hanging from them.

Posted by: tintex at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM (yKTmi)

106 They stole the presidential election in 2020.

They stole several senate seats and the AZ governorship in 2022.

They stole the WI senate race in 2024

So did they steal a seat in 2026?

8 ball says Y-E-S

Posted by: Heroq at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM (uDDWT)

107 Till people get tossed into FPMITA prison, this will continue

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM (/6GbT)

108
"Send nudes. Hurry!" - Tony "El Big Sleaze" Gonzales (R-TX)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM (2ocoG)

"Bobs and vagene!"

- - -- - Haji

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

109 "Send nudes. Hurry!" - Tony "El Big Sleaze" Gonzales (R-TX)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM

The incumbent does not always win. Let's go, Brandon!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 02:58 PM (bFu5X)

110 The key was programmed only for training databases, not live voter registration or election systems

Changing a database connection string isn't exactly rocket science.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 30, 2026 02:59 PM (BSRx7)

111 Till people get tossed into FPMITA prison, this will continue
Posted by: A dude in MI at March 30, 2026 02:57 PM (/6GbT)

This.

they keep telling me how some woman from some small town somewhere went to jail, but they NEVER tell me they found the head of the snake or whomever was financing the scheme.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

112 Democrats stealing an election. So a day that ends in 'y'?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 30, 2026 02:59 PM (xcxpd)

113 Tim for me to log off here, and amble over to the ferry dock. I expect there will be wifi on the ship.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 03:00 PM (5ZXSK)

114 Guy accidentally shoots himself in the face after bullets ricochet off of an armadillo.

That's called Karmadillo.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 03:00 PM (Kksvc)

115 If Trump = Hitler, what crime wouldn't you commit to stop him? I mean, you'd be a hero, right? Saving the world?

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 30, 2026 03:01 PM (vOtXJ)

116 76 74
Does the McAWFL come with extra cheese and lots of whine?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:47 PM (ynpvh)

Extra yeast.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:01 PM (QGaXH)

117
Extra yeast.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:01 PM (QGaXH)

ewwwwwww.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

118 Democracy dies in a pants pocket.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 30, 2026 03:01 PM (TezPK)

119 Election fraud is no joke. The gallows or the guillotine. If you're against execution, at least chop off their filthy hands.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 02:41 PM (Fbc0I)

Pinochet skeet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 03:02 PM (snZF9)

120 Democracy dies in a pants pocket.
Posted by: Joe Mama at March 30, 2026 03:01 PM (TezPK)

That's where I keep my fingerbang for interns!

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 30, 2026 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

121 Wait until midterm shenanigans gets here

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

122
Pinochet skeet.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 03:02 PM (snZF9)

PULL!

*thhhwwwwaaaaaaaallllk*

*BLAM*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

123 94
I proofread this very carefuly befor I hit 'past'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:52 PM (QGaXH)

Well played, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

Thank you! High praise coming from one of the more well-known commenters.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:03 PM (QGaXH)

124 There would be no reason to steal an access key unless he was going to do something with it.

Posted by: Delurker at March 30, 2026 03:04 PM (gtcuf)

125
Thank you! High praise coming from one of the more well-known commenters.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:03 PM (QGaXH)

I'm incredibly overrated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

126 Pinochet skeet.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 03:02 PM (snZF9)

PULL!

*thhhwwwwaaaaaaaallllk*

*BLAM*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Pinochet man. No pull, you push.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 03:04 PM (snZF9)

127 Tony Seruga @TonySeruga

This is the guy that during the Presidential campaign claimed that he had mass cellphone records, and could track things like "57% of the attendees at the Kamala Harris rally in East Bumfuck last night had been to at least three Harris rallies in the past".

He was trying to make the point that Harris had a corps of professional attendees that the Harris campaign was bussing from event to event.

While I'd like to believe that, I never saw anyone corroborate Seruga's claims, nor did I see anyone refuting Seruga's claims, so I still don't know if he was blowing smoke or not.

It was very odd.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 30, 2026 03:05 PM (n1OCj)

128 He showed up and signed in to a class he wasn't registered to take, stole a memory stick and left before class was even going.

Yeah. Nothing to see THERE, at all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

129 So what is the punishment for this? I assume that it is something trivial - just stealing a low value government asset.

The guy should be facing the death penalty...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 03:06 PM (sKqQm)

130
Pinochet man. No pull, you push.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 03:04 PM (snZF9)

As God as my witness, I thought election fraudsters could fly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

131 Ok....Lunch time here on the left coast. Time to rustle up some food and see what the wife is doing....

Laters all....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:07 PM (QGaXH)

132 >>>Guy accidentally shoots himself in the face after bullets ricochet off of an armadillo.

That's called Karmadillo.

Posted by: rickb223

>Ballistics. How do they work? Sad. Yet funny since he's not dead.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 03:08 PM (Fbc0I)

133 Investigators worry that the encryption -- used for training -- could be reverse engineered and used to tamper with voter registration

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Translation: Investigators worry that the encryption -- used for training -- was reverse engineered and used to tamper with voter registration

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 03:08 PM (RIvkX)

134 Tina Peters got 9 years in jail for analyzing voter data she wasn't allowed to.

Will this guy get 9 weeks of community service even?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

135 As God as my witness, I thought election fraudsters could fly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

Ah, now I understand the launch thing. Pull it is. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 03:08 PM (snZF9)

136 Did Democrats Just Steal a Congressional Seat?

Does a bear poo-poo in the woods?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 03:09 PM (2WIwB)

137 Republicans will do nothing. Harder to fundraise when you occupy the seat.

Posted by: Resist_we_much at March 30, 2026 03:09 PM (cpys8)

138 Arrested but nothing will change that seat, its in the past now.

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

139 Ok....Lunch time here on the left coast. Time to rustle up some food and see what the wife is doing....

Laters all....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:07 PM (QGaXH)

***

Hmmmm...
*wonders what's on the menu*

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 03:10 PM (2WIwB)

140 ID and paper ballots

The election of 1880 was more secure

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at March 30, 2026 03:11 PM (uw1r+)

141 >>@EricLDaugh
·
34m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Trump-endorsed Jon Maples has RE-FILED to run for the Florida House seat where a liberal elections volunteer got arrested for stealing an encrypted access key and computer equipment

>>LFG! He has a better chance in November, when the average Republican knows an election is happening

>>Maples only lost by ~800 VOTES in the District 87 special election on March 24, which includes Mar-a-Lago

>>Win this seat BACK, and make sure the election is secure.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)

142 This reminds me - during the '00 election a Dem election worker - Irv Slosberg was found with a stolen vot-a-matic. The Dem SoS refused to investigate.

A reporter interviewed the guy that managed the location the machine was stolen from and I remember to this day the guy who ran the site, some career Dem operative, had the biggest shit eating grin as he said he had no idea how Slosberg ended up with the Vot-a-Matic

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

143 and then the bear said you don't really come here to hunt, do you?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 30, 2026 03:12 PM (CWTWj)

144 The hits keep coming.

MS NOW: The manosphere is turning against Trump over Iran.

It's from The Atlantic so you know it must be true. I'm sorry. I'll keep slumming for awhile up until my brain says 'Oh Rachel Maddow! Pants off!'

Even in jest.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 03:13 PM (Sco7b)

145 Did Democrats Just Steal a Congressional Seat?

If we had an honest news source out there, we'd probably have less issues with this stuff. At least, a more informed Republic. Alas, we're stuck with the sex machine, Brian Stelter and his fellow lying propagandists.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 03:14 PM (sAmhv)

146 DOJ will get to this West Palm Beach possible election theft after they investigate POTUS oft stated 2020 stolen election ... and the stolen Senate and Representative seats in 2024 . May be.

May be never.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 30, 2026 03:15 PM (hr1Ra)

147 Wait until midterm shenanigans gets here
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 03:03 PM (Ia/+0)
*********
They want to guarantee it's a bloodbath.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 03:16 PM (NpAcC)

148 Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at March 30, 2026 03:16 PM (vqA1l)

149 Team Nickelback will look into the matter.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:37 PM (abIsI)

Look at this photograph...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:17 PM (zZu0s)

150
Look at this photograph...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:17 PM (zZu0s)

Meh. I felt like shit when I woke up this morning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

151 Conger-essional. I like it.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 03:19 PM (TN0g+)

152 @144 WTF is the "manosphere?" Is that a millenial thing?

Posted by: Snarf at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (cWLG3)

153 The wonders of special elections...

2024:
R 57,471
D 39,151

2026 special
R 16,316
D 17,113

So R turnout was about 1/3 of normal, and D turnout about half

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

154 Homey don't play that game.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 02:51 PM (ynpvh)

---------------

Heh.

A great old meme before memes were cool.

/In Living Color

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (R28e7)

155 Snarf snarf

Posted by: Snarf at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (cWLG3)

156 voter fraud really needs to be a capital punishment

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (azZ8r)

157 Having one known-good encryption key for a given cryptographic system isn't really the keys to the kingdom. It's one data point in a vast sea of other keys that could work.

The guy is a crook and and asshole and should have the book thrown at him, but the odds that he could use the one key he stole to reverse-engineer the cryptographic schema is kind of a silly idea.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (oqH4h)

158 Republicans lost that seat because we are lazy fucks who don't turn out, especially when it comes to off-year and special elections, not because this dipshit stole a USB key.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:22 PM (oqH4h)

159

A single extra Democrat seat in the Florida House of Representatives is exactly meaningless. It's even less than a fart in a hurricane

Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 03:22 PM (g6TN6)

160 Republicans lost that seat because we are lazy fucks who don't turn out, especially when it comes to off-year and special elections, not because this dipshit stole a USB key.
Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:22 PM (oqH4h)

I think it's both.

Now, dipshit may've stolen the key for the NEXT election that's in a few months, but I don't doubt there were nefarious doings in THIS election as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

161
A single extra Democrat seat in the Florida House of Representatives is exactly meaningless. It's even less than a fart in a hurricane
Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 03:22 PM (g6TN6)

"BUT IT'S IN TRUMP'S BACK YARD!!!!"

- - - - - news

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

162 157 Having one known-good encryption key for a given cryptographic system isn't really the keys to the kingdom. It's one data point in a vast sea of other keys that could work.

The guy is a crook and and asshole and should have the book thrown at him, but the odds that he could use the one key he stole to reverse-engineer the cryptographic schema is kind of a silly idea.
Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (oqH4h)
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Unless the "training" key is a copy of the real thing. Also not sure if it's a MFA key like a Yubikey or or digital signing key like Safenet. Anyone know?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:23 PM (cWLG3)

163 And I don't want to be the guy that tests the 'fart in a hurricane' theory.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

164 152 @144 WTF is the "manosphere?" Is that a millenial thing?
Posted by: Snarf at March 30, 2026 03:20 PM (cWLG3)

The manosphere is more interested in banging on their cheekbones with hammers and doing meth than worry about Iran, I thought. And telling stories about hoes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 03:24 PM (zZu0s)

165 The wonders of special elections...

2024:
R 57,471
D 39,151

2026 special
R 16,316
D 17,113

So R turnout was about 1/3 of normal, and D turnout about half
Posted by: 18-1

See? Deportations are working!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 03:24 PM (Kksvc)

166 Unless the "training" key is a copy of the real thing. Also not sure if it's a MFA key like a Yubikey or or digital signing key like Safenet. Anyone know?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:23 PM (cWLG3)
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I don't know for sure but since it's been described as a USB key I'm assuming it's a Yubikey or something similar.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:24 PM (oqH4h)

167 does he also work for Mikie Sherrill?

Posted by: Avi at March 30, 2026 03:25 PM (ieodf)

168 In Living Color

Yeah, Jim Carrey the white Stepin Fetchit.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 03:25 PM (Kt19C)

169 Yeah, Jim Carrey the white Stepin Fetchit.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 03:25 PM (Kt19C)

He did do some funny shit, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

170 Republicans lost that seat because we are lazy fucks who don't turn out, especially when it comes to off-year and special elections, not because this dipshit stole a USB key.
-----

And Ishtar was a box office bomb because movie goers in 1987 were lazy fucks who didn't turn out, and not because there was no compelling reason to go to the movie.

Blaming the voters/audience/fans for not voting, going to a movie, or attending a sporting event is dumb. Give the voters, audience, or fans something they get EXCITED about and they'll get out of their house and GO. That's why Trump has won 3 straight Presidential elections.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 03:26 PM (TN0g+)

171 Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at March 30, 2026 03:16 PM (vqA1l)

Has the Pope recalled all the Catholic chaplains?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 03:26 PM (2WIwB)

172 Look at this photograph...

https://is.gd/MyATva

(NSFW)

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Kt19C)

173 167 does he also work for Mikie Sherrill?
Posted by: Avi at March 30, 2026 03:25 PM (ieodf)
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The kid who likes Life cereal?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:28 PM (cWLG3)

174 The briskets are sitting here cooling across from me.

Taunting me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 03:28 PM (RIvkX)

175 (NSFW)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Kt19C)

Dafuq?

Dude........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

176 @158

Yes. I get more upset at GOP complacency than known bad DNC behavior. I'm also sick of our lame faggy party constantly looking to capitulate to the rabid left as if they believe they will be spared. The GWB era neutered the GOPe.

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 03:28 PM (61TgR)

177 If we had an honest news source out there, we'd probably have less issues with this stuff. At least, a more informed Republic. Alas, we're stuck with the sex machine, Brian Stelter and his fellow lying propagandists.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 03:14 PM (sAmhv)

------------

If we had an honest & objective and media instead of the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia -- I can't see how Democrat-Communists could win any statewide or national elections, only city & county seats in blue shithole cities.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 03:29 PM (NgYxV)

178 A single extra Democrat seat in the Florida House of Representatives is exactly meaningless. It's even less than a fart in a hurricane
Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 03:22 PM (g6TN6)

Test run.
The enemy is always looking for a new way to cheat and win.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 03:29 PM (2WIwB)

179 @175 TMI?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (cWLG3)

180 Removed? How about arrested and put in solitary like a J6er.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (xvV+O)

181 Blaming the voters/audience/fans for not voting, going to a movie, or attending a sporting event is dumb. Give the voters, audience, or fans something they get EXCITED about and they'll get out of their house and GO. That's why Trump has won 3 straight Presidential elections.
Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 03:26 PM (TN0g+)
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Special elections for state house seats aren't exactly WWE events bro. Most people don't even know they're going on until it's too late, and there isn't a DJT in every state house district everywhere.

It's not news that GOP voters are notoriously poor at turning out for these things, and we should hold each other a little more accountable rather than hand-waving it away saying that the candidate didn't give everyone a sustained erection therefore its his/her fault. Don't want commies to get elected? Pay attention and go vote for the bland-ass Republican candidate.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (oqH4h)

182 127 Tony Seruga @TonySeruga

This is the guy that during the Presidential campaign claimed that he had mass cellphone records, and could track things like "57% of the attendees at the Kamala Harris rally in East Bumfuck last night had been to at least three Harris rallies in the past".

He was trying to make the point that Harris had a corps of professional attendees that the Harris campaign was bussing from event to event.

While I'd like to believe that, I never saw anyone corroborate Seruga's claims, nor did I see anyone refuting Seruga's claims, so I still don't know if he was blowing smoke or not.

It was very odd.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 30, 2026 03:05 PM (n1OCj)

=====

He was a good football player and analyst. I thought he had died though.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (2ap+5)

183

Is the banhammer warmed up?

Commissar is asking for it....

Posted by: imp at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (g6TN6)

184 (NSFW)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Kt19C)

Dafuq?

Dude........
Posted by: Sponge

Never swim in leech infested waters.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (Kksvc)

185 @175 TMI?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (cWLG3)

Don't go to the link is all I'll say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

186 Commissar, slap a hot iron on it.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 03:31 PM (cWLG3)

187 If we had an honest & objective and media instead of the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia -- I can't see how Democrat-Communists could win any statewide or national elections, only city & county seats in blue shithole cities.
Posted by: ShainS

If we had an honest and objective media, the dems wouldn't try half the shit they do.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Kksvc)

188 Look at this photograph...

https://is.gd/MyATva

(NSFW)

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 03:27 PM (Kt19C)

-------------

Can we vote for bannable offenses? lol

Even Admiral Ackbar was never that cruel ....

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (NgYxV)

189 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

190
That's what you get when you pay $20, same as in town.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 30, 2026 03:32 PM (IifOV)

191 He was a good football player and analyst. I thought he had died though.
----

Yeah, he had a good sense of humor.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 03:33 PM (TN0g+)

192 Never swim in leech infested waters.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 03:30 PM (Kksvc)

--------------

lmao

My initial fuzzy reaction was some kind of deformed octopus.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 03:34 PM (NgYxV)

193 Well, I'll be a frozen Iguana!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 03:34 PM (Cqx++)

194 Afternoon guys,

Launch today.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-44
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 30, 2026
Launch Time: 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC, 23:15 CEST)

https://youtu.be/Fn6zLTaqwRE

Posted by: Joyenz at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (2F0/Y)

195 BTW, I saw Deformed Octopus open for Hootie & the Blowfish at SeaWorld in '93.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 03:37 PM (NgYxV)

196 Festive Little Hats is a code word for Joooooos

Posted by: Guy Mandude at March 30, 2026 03:42 PM (vqA1l)

197 "The key was programmed only for training databases, not live voter registration or election systems."

Suuuuure it was. That's why it was worth stealing right?

Posted by: Gosport at March 30, 2026 04:08 PM (Vh6nj)

198 Did Democrats Just Steal a Congeressional Seat?

Spelling. How does it work?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 30, 2026 04:08 PM (5xuJ/)

199 Speaking of washed up old has-beens, remember that guy Cahrles from the Small Mint-Colored Pigskins web site? The guy that, from the onset of the site, absolutely HATED the mullahs of Iran? Held them responsible for all the ills in the middle east? You'd think that now they're finally being dealt with he'd at least back the Trump administration's actions?

Well, you'd be wrong. Not posting the link, but talk about a 180 degree switcheroo. Cash conquers all, for some people.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at March 30, 2026 04:18 PM (Ft5W9)

200 If people wonder why I didn't just name the guy and his website, he used to be notorious for web-bot crawling on the lookout for his name being used in vain, and siccing his spavined cohort of followers on the comments. It takes WEEKS to get the smell of Icy-Hot and cat pee out of the room!

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at March 30, 2026 04:21 PM (Ft5W9)

201 196 Festive Little Hats is a code word for Joooooos
Posted by: Guy Mandude at March 30, 2026 03:42 PM (vqA1l)

I knew that. It's so funny that you think I wouldn't know that.

Posted by: Candace Owens AS Nathan Thurm at March 30, 2026 04:30 PM (PiwSw)

202 It was a state legislative House seat, not a US House seat.

Not too concerned. The legislature is adjourned for the year (except for brief special sessions scheduled), so she won't have a whole lot of voting to do.

And we'll get the seat back in November, just like we did in HD 35 in 2024 when Dem Tom Keen won a special there and the Dems were crowing. They weren't crowing that November when Republican Erika Booth (a school teacher no less) whom he beat in the special came back to win for the full two-year term.

Posted by: Flakey Foont at March 30, 2026 05:08 PM (kvDvI)

Washington Post "Reporter:" My Iranian Handlers and Sponsors Tell Me the US is Dropping Land Mines From Planes On to Residential Neighborhoods and I Believe Them Very Much

This reminds me of Operation Sorry, Charlie (Chicken of the C-4). The Iranian propaganda site I found claimed the cans of tuna -- which maybe resemble "mines" a little -- were dropped from the skies on to residential neighborhoods.

I wonder if there's a connection. Though these "mines" don't look like flat tuna cans.

After making this ridiculous claim, the Washington Post then issued a
correction stating that this "independent journalist" was invited to Iran by Iran's state media and led around by the nose by government "representatives."

Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran.

Human rights groups have long called to ban land mines because of their propensity to harm or kill civilians, often years after conflicts have ended. https://t.co/XtPJkLT1fp pic.twitter.com/ryRpQb9hCF
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 28, 2026

Heckuva correction.
First of all, even though the text now says Lascanis was invited by the regime, how was this omitted? Either the Post was lied to or the reporters didn't do due diligence. https://t.co/sMZPCzmesQ pic.twitter.com/NLzbz696FL
— David Gerstman (@soccerdhg) March 29, 2026

Remember iran shot down the U.S.S Enterprise. pic.twitter.com/bmZf6ixwqN
— Cl.Hoggatt (@ClHoggatt) March 28, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM

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1 Yay!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

2 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Days without accident: 0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Nice!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (iMotb)

6 wtf does the Post hire some asshat Greek-Canadian?!?! and trust that person?!?!

idiotic

don't they have any war correspondents on staff or something?

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (j+aD2)

7 this "independent journalist" was invited to Iran by Iran's state media and led around by the nose by government "representatives."

Does he actually wear a nose ring?

Posted by: gKWVE wouldn't be surprised at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (gKWVE)

8 Heh

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (TQc0R)

9 Canadian journalists
Experts
AND Wapo?

You can take this story to the bank!

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (Sco7b)

10 Ya know, if I worked for an outfit that was looking to fire a majority of the staff, I'd be a bit more circumspect about doing the things that led to the plan to fire a majority of the staff in the first place. Maybe that's just me.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (Riz8t)

11 here, more appropriate for this thread

There are several things going on, the "discomfort" in the strait, which will be resolved shortly, and how much is left to remove in Iran - ballistic missile production, removal of uranium, etc. The government situation is a little murky. Looks like Trump is willing to leave it in the hands of Ghalibaf ("very respected person", lol) , the foreign minister and maybe even Pezeshkian.
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (GD0B3)

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:34 PM (GD0B3)

12 At least they didn't place any new teddy bears in front of the debris. That's progress.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

13 This is no different than the 'news' coming out of Gaza.

The leftist media hates America and will negatively print anything they think makes us look bad.

Enemy of the people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

14 don't they have any war correspondents on staff or something?"

"Alexa, do we have any correspondents on staff?"

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:34 PM (XuXeR)

15 willowed, but too good to miss. My opinion:

252 His whole strategy has been to remove the threat of Iran closing the strait. In other examples, he has done that (or proposed) using commercial interests and involving all parties. He did that in the Armenian-Azerbaijan war, and he proposed it several times in Ukraine.

In Ukraine, it is mostly about resources and the solution is to have US profiting, as well as both sides, so that no one has an interest in blowing it up.

The problem from the Strait is (1) how do you seize it from Iran -- well he is doing that now. and (2) how do you get the world to agree -- well having energy cut for several weeks is doing that.

The whole shutdown of the strait was planned by Trump

You heard it here first.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (yFx9n)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (yFx9n)

16 Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran.

Wouldn't mines be way more effective if they couldn't be clearly seen from a distance far enough to avoid them?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (ExV1e)

17 this "independent journalist" was invited to Iran by Iran's state media and led around by the nose by government "representatives."

Does he actually wear a nose ring?

Not needed when someone has his hand up your backside.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Riz8t)

18 Remember this oldie but goody?

https://is.gd/S3Sp4d

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Carney is an Iranian puppet.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (GD0B3)

20 I'm not sure how that image of New Jersey beach proves anything.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 01:36 PM (DgMqy)

21 I think Al Jazeera is more accurate than CNN...

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:36 PM (GD0B3)

22 The government situation is a little murky. Looks like Trump is willing to leave it in the hands of Ghalibaf ("very respected person", lol) , the foreign minister and maybe even Pezeshkian

I don't hate this plan

we'll keep them on their toes too

they SHOULD behave knowing there's a bomb with their names on it

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 01:36 PM (j+aD2)

23 Carney is an Iranian puppet.

Nuh-uh!!! I'm a Chinese puppet. Get your facts straight.

Posted by: Mark Carney at March 30, 2026 01:37 PM (Riz8t)

24 Ghalibaf ? Supposedly the people want the Shah back.. Don't think they would like to be under the control of this murderous regime member...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:37 PM (ECasK)

25 and Al Jazeera is..well , you know what it is, they never met a "martyr" they did not like.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:37 PM (GD0B3)

26 Wow, this is still happening in 2026?

Bezos didn’t lay off enough journalists at the Wash Post. Fire whoever hired this Iran-owned “independent “ reporter.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 01:37 PM (4KUe5)

27 I think Al Jazeera is more accurate than CNN...
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:36 PM (GD0B3)

"I trust Iran more than this President!"

- - - - - - John "Traitor" Brennan

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

28 What, the Jooos weren't available to blame?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 01:38 PM (VmB4Z)

29 Wouldn't mines be way more effective if they couldn't be clearly seen from a distance far enough to avoid them?"

That's why they're tuna cans. Duh.

Charlie don't surf.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:38 PM (XuXeR)

30 Sorry, that posted before I cleaned it up.

I was saying that Trump planned a commercial corridor in the Strait, and the war, and shutdown, is ground prep for that.

He planned the crisis to show the world that we can not live with the threat of Iran (or China) closing it as they please. In spite of the net zero insanity.

So now they know -- they need the Strait.
Now Trump will offer a solution. A solution he has been planning for years.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:38 PM (yFx9n)

31 Correction: My sources tell me that these objects are rubber bullets. Can anyone confirm?

Posted by: Award Winning WaPo Journalist at March 30, 2026 01:39 PM (ssz2a)

32 Is that a Claymore?

Wtf lol

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 01:39 PM (oqH4h)

33 Would you rather....

Step barefoot on 'landmines' in Iran or San Francisco?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:39 PM (Sco7b)

34 24 Ghalibaf ? Supposedly the people want the Shah back.. Don't think they would like to be under the control of this murderous regime member...

unfortunately not all the people, nor the majority seemingly

they said the same of that lady in VZ and she is working out fine. she was a monster people said! and they were probably telling the truth but she's doing fine.

these are not nice places, they have some very rough people. a nice story might not work as well as an insider with the proper motivations (like not dying)

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 01:39 PM (j+aD2)

35 Correction: My sources tell me that these objects are rubber bullets. Can anyone confirm?"

Hear hear.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:39 PM (XuXeR)

36 You fucked up! You trusted us!

Posted by: The Washington Post at March 30, 2026 01:39 PM (guGkK)

37 Cucker Qatarlson hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (VmB4Z)

38 Does anyone believe the media at all any more?

wtf are this pictures of? How do I know they were taken in Iran? How do I know they were taken recently? wtf am I even looking at?

I call BULLSHIT

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (fi76o)

39 Pipelines are a Band-Aid. They can equally be interdicted by a resurgent Iran. Iran has to be freed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 01:36 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) repeats himself at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (4NO2D)

40 I didn't think we had boots on the ground there yet?

How the hell are the US Troops setting mines if they're not there?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

41 these are not nice places"

They're normal places. We're the odd ducks.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (XuXeR)

42 Remember iran shot down the U.S.S Enterprise.

That's, uh, a fantastic start to a lucrative career as a galactic two-bit pirate. Want to help me drop some Omega 47 mines around the US?

Posted by: Nus Braka at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (JCZqz)

43 How the hell are the US Troops setting mines if they're not there?"

Dude... didn't you see the movie?

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:41 PM (XuXeR)

44 They're normal places. We're the odd ducks.

lol exactly, man

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 01:41 PM (j+aD2)

45 How the hell are the US Troops setting mines if they're not there?

They SAY they aren't there, but I heard Elon sent them a boring machine and they tunneled there from Israel.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:41 PM (Riz8t)

46 Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran.

But no orange rubber bullets? Where are the orange rubber bullets?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 01:41 PM (guGkK)

47
Dude... didn't you see the movie?
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:41 PM (XuXeR)

Throw Momma From the Train?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

48 They're normal places. We're the odd ducks.

For now.....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:42 PM (ECasK)

49 Want to help me drop some Omega 47 mines around the US?"

It's the Omega 13. Never give up, never surrender!

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:42 PM (XuXeR)

50
We look like a newspaper.
But we're not.

Posted by: The Washington Post at March 30, 2026 01:42 PM (2Ez/1)

51 That's, uh, a fantastic start to a lucrative career as a galactic two-bit pirate. Want to help me drop some Omega 47 mines around the US?
Posted by: Nus Braka at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (JCZqz)

That's ho.......Oh......you said BIT pirate......

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at March 30, 2026 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

52 43 How the hell are the US Troops setting mines if they're not there?"

Dude... didn't you see the movie?
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:41 PM (XuXeR)

We drop 10000 mines with little hot air balloons attached by ribbons out of aircraft so that they flutter down and settle on the ground...

Duh...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 01:43 PM (tOcjL)

53 If I was negotiating with the new Iranian president:

Congratulations on the new position, Haji. Your name is not Haji? Well it is now. Here’s the deal. You will cease any and all threats in the straight of Hormuz. You will now refer to it as Dire Straits and your new title is the Sultan of swing. You will give up all offensive missile capabilities and surrender every last bit of uranium in your country. Do this and you will live. Do it not and we will fucking kill you too. Have a nice day.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 01:43 PM (u73oe)

54 There are reports that the US is laying mines, by air, at suspected Iranian missile launch sites in an attempt to deter more missiles, drones and rockets from being launched. If true, it would not be a "war crime" but rather a prudent measure to stop the missile attacks as the launch sites are nowhere near most populated areas.

And no civilians would be permitted near one. Unless the mullahs are using civilians as human shields.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 01:43 PM (AkEZC)

55 Are they saying the mines were airdropped? What would make an airdropped mine explode?

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 01:43 PM (2ap+5)

56 Wouldn't mines be way more effective if they couldn't be clearly seen from a distance far enough to avoid them?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They're videogame land mines. They give the player a fighting chance.

Posted by: mikeski restores 25% health with a cheeseburger at March 30, 2026 01:43 PM (VHUov)

57 We need a LOT fewer degrees in this country, but especially in the media.

Only educated people can be this stupid.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 01:44 PM (N1DT3)

58 The Post put a paper in my mailbox the other day, I suppose in the forlorn hope that I'll come back to them. It's tiny now. It's like reading a Kleenex. The good news is you can use either one to blow your nose.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:44 PM (Riz8t)

59 34 24 Ghalibaf ? Supposedly the people want the Shah back.. Don't think they would like to be under the control of this murderous regime member...

unfortunately not all the people, nor the majority seemingly

they said the same of that lady in VZ and she is working out fine. she was a monster people said! and they were probably telling the truth but she's doing fine.

these are not nice places, they have some very rough people. a nice story might not work as well as an insider with the proper motivations (like not dying)
Posted by: BlackOrchid
=====
And that is why any realistic regime change operation has to use brute pragmatism. We care less what the regime does internally as long as it doesn't threaten the neighbors nor world peace.

That means no nukes, no foreign proxies, and a military designed for internal defense only.

If the Shah can show the grit to take over without American troops, then fine, otherwise we deal with the faction in the regime willing to do what it takes to make peace.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:44 PM (E4rtv)

60 You can get a nasty cut from a tuna can lid.

Posted by: Live From The ER at March 30, 2026 01:44 PM (oftw2)

61 Congratulations on the new position, Haji. Your name is not Haji? Well it is now."

What do you think of that? Do you like your new name, Haji?

"Yes Sargent"

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:45 PM (XuXeR)

62 Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran.

But no orange rubber bullets? Where are the orange rubber bullets?
Posted by: Cicero

WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:45 PM (VHUov)

63 If the Shah can show the grit to take over without American troops, then fine, otherwise we deal with the faction in the regime willing to do what it takes to make peace.

yep

I am fully aligned with this approach

it's very new, isn't it? let's give it a chance.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 01:45 PM (j+aD2)

64 Congratulations on the new position, Haji. Your name is not Haji? Well it is now. Here’s the deal. You will cease any and all threats in the straight of Hormuz. You will now refer to it as Dire Straits and your new title is the Sultan of swing.

And the Iranian national anthem is now Midnight at the Oasis.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:45 PM (Riz8t)

65 "Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine!" - Quadaffi Duck

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (W7FsI)

66 "Ghalibaf" sounds like the name of one of the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz.

Posted by: But that's just me at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (2Ez/1)

67 It's tiny now. It's like reading a Kleenex. The good news is you can use either one to blow your nose."

Yeah. The "daily" WaPo is now... nothing. It's pathetic.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (XuXeR)

68 Sounds like another Canadian who needs MAID.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (iXqHn)

69 57 We need a LOT fewer degrees in this country, but especially in the media.

Only educated people can be this stupid.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
=======
I think US senators, university professors and administrators are giving the media a run for the money.

Sort of like the old Monty Python Sketch, "Upper Class Twit of the Year" in reality.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (E4rtv)

70 Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran.

But no orange rubber bullets? Where are the orange rubber bullets?
Posted by: Cicero

Reminds me of when the Gazans told stories of Israeli forces shooting up schools and the woman stood there holding an unspent round as an example.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

71 What do you think of that? Do you like your new name, Haji?

"Yes Sargent"
Posted by: man

They don't serve goat & couscous in my mess hall Pvt. Hadji.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (Kksvc)

72 Congratulations on the new position, Haji. Your name is not Haji? Well it is now. Here’s the deal. You will cease any and all threats in the straight of Hormuz. You will now refer to it as Dire Straits and your new title is the Sultan of swing. You will give up all offensive missile capabilities and surrender every last bit of uranium in your country. Do this and you will live. Do it not and we will fucking kill you too. Have a nice day.

*SNORT*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 01:47 PM (guGkK)

73 Boy, that's a really small Enterprise. Go-kart class.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 30, 2026 01:47 PM (/HDaX)

74 You can tune a fish, but you can't tuna can.

Posted by: REO Speedwagon at March 30, 2026 01:47 PM (wVcYX)

75 The problem from the Strait is (1) how do you seize it from Iran -- well he is doing that now. and (2) how do you get the world to agree -- well having energy cut for several weeks is doing that.

The whole shutdown of the strait was planned by Trump

You heard it here first.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (yFx9n)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (yFx9n)

You'd have to be a pretty weak strategist to think that tankers could merrily file in and out of the gulf during a shooting war. Even if Iran gave up on day one there would be plenty of snafus during a turnover of that magnitude.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 30, 2026 01:47 PM (8avO+)

76 Reminds me of when the Gazans told stories of Israeli forces shooting up schools and the woman stood there holding an unspent round as an example."

Or the Iraqi abuelita holding three rounds while claiming "they hit my house"...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (XuXeR)

77 I have it on good authority from the Klingon Empire that the USS Enterprise was destroyed in orbit around the Genesis planet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (ESVrU)

78 Seriously, Tinned Tuna (actually, all tinned fish) is the new bougie trend . Nice of us to help Iran stay current.

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (lCppi)

79 The only way to secure the strait, long term, is a US base (or several) on the islands, patrolling and eliminating arms build up. Make it a mine/fast boat/missile/drone free zone.

The only way to justify that, is if US makes some profit. So we "insure" the shipments, and guarantee security. We take a cut of everything through the strait, that we control.

The Gulf states will agree because they make their own revenue and the security of not having the mad mullahs is worth it. The rest of world will (now) agree because they have been forced to understand that they still rely on the strait.

Iran will agree eventually too.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (yFx9n)

80 The problem from the Strait is (1) how do you seize it from Iran

Kharg Island glows. 24/7/10000 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Kksvc)

81 The good news is you can use either one to blow your nose.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:44 PM (Riz8t

If it was only softer and 3-ply.

MS Now - National average gas $3.99. Rend clothing appropriately. No mention of Biden's prices.

CNN and Fox airing White House briefing.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Sco7b)

82 Reminds me of when the Gazans told stories of Israeli forces shooting up schools and the woman stood there holding an unspent round as an example."

Or the Iraqi abuelita holding three rounds while claiming "they hit my house"...
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (XuXeR)

Or their "dead" moving around under the body bags.

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2026 01:49 PM (lCppi)

83 yep

I am fully aligned with this approach

it's very new, isn't it? let's give it a chance.
Posted by: BlackOrchid

It was actually the old way of American foreign policy until Vietnam. Blame the CIA and the Best and Brightest for idiotic ideals of forcing social change via coups and other forms of nasty regime changes. All that did was breed external and internal wars. Ukraine is one example, there are plenty of others like Iran itself.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:49 PM (E4rtv)

84 Pezeshkian is still the President of Iran
Ghalibaf is the Speaker of Parliment

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 01:49 PM (+nEug)

85 They don't serve goat & couscous in my mess hall Pvt. Hadji."

Is that you, John Wayne?

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:49 PM (XuXeR)

86 Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran.

"Experts say"

You can stop reading right there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 01:49 PM (guGkK)

87
CNN and Fox airing White House briefing.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Sco7b)

SEE?!?

CNN is REICH WING!!!!!!

Posted by: Blue Hair Septum Piercing at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

88 The rest of world will (now) agree because they have been forced to understand that they still rely on the ~~strait~~ US.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Kksvc)

89 You'd have to be a pretty weak strategist to think that tankers could merrily file in and out of the gulf during a shooting war. Even if Iran gave up on day one there would be plenty of snafus during a turnover of that magnitude.

No matter what agreement is reached, and with whom, I expect some bitter enders will try to pop off missiles at an oil tanker. They're the Iranian version of the nips who just couldn't accept defeat. The Japs had to remove the propellers from their own planes so that the loons didn't try to kamikaze them.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Riz8t)

90 What would make an airdropped mine explode?

Being missgendered?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Kt19C)

91 "Ghalibaf" sounds like the name of one of the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz.
Posted by: But that's just me

Or the generic name of some new GLP-1-type drug. (Don't take if allergic to, etc.)

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (VHUov)

92 Sponge - Last week you asked how I was doing and didn't get a chance to reply. Mea Culpa.

Doing good. Trying to adjust to the meds and oral chemo they have me on. But it looks like the cancer is gone. Thank you, God.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (N39Ws)

93 They don't serve goat & couscous in my mess hall Pvt. Hadji."

Is that you, John Wayne?
Posted by: man

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Kksvc)

94
Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran.

Wouldn't mines be way more effective if they couldn't be clearly seen from a distance far enough to avoid them?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (ExV1e)

The GATOR system is mostly anti-tank mines, which would be difficult to spot anywhere from inside a Soviet-style tank, although easy enough for ground troops to see. Lots of vids from Ukraine where the Russians run straight into mines that are just sitting on the road with no concealment.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:51 PM (y9nCu)

95 MS Now - National average gas $3.99."

Drop CA from that and it's what....

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:51 PM (XuXeR)

96 But it looks like the cancer is gone. Thank you, God.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 01:51 PM (Kksvc)

97 Is it a "genocide" yet?

Asking for a friend because I'm hood either way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 01:51 PM (RIvkX)

98
Doing good. Trying to adjust to the meds and oral chemo they have me on. But it looks like the cancer is gone. Thank you, God.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (N39Ws)

Hallelujah!!! God is great.

That's some good news.

Posted by: Blue Hair Septum Piercing at March 30, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

99 And shyte.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

100 Figures.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

101 You'd have to be a pretty weak strategist to think that tankers could merrily file in and out of the gulf during a shooting war. Even if Iran gave up on day one there would be plenty of snafus during a turnover of that magnitude.
Posted by: Oldcat

------------

And yet that is what the entire world is claiming -- that Trump screwed up and did not expect the strait to be closed, and that Iran is winning and the world hates Trump because Iran closed the strait and he is begging for help and begging Iran to open it again.

bullshit. He planned this.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (yFx9n)

102 What would make an airdropped mine explode?

The sudden stop?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (Kksvc)

103 Someone please point out the land mine in the photo. Looks like trash to me, after a rain.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (WONhk)

104 Oh, mines! I thought they said air dropped mimes and I thought that was a bit harsh.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (u73oe)

105 The schools in Iran have been closed for 3 weeks now. IRGC are using them as headquarters.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (+nEug)

106 Ghalibaf is the Speaker of Parliment
Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 01:49 PM (+nEug)

Not this Parliament!

Posted by: George Clinton at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (wVcYX)

107 *snort"

Who said that? Who the F*** said that? Who's the slimey little communist twinkle toes c******....

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (XuXeR)

108 That alleged "land mine" looks a lot like an electrical junction box from Home Depot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (5ZXSK)

109 Iran promises to set US troops on fire. Tehran vows to retaliate if Pentagon follows through on plans for weeks-long ground invasion

It blows my mind that anyone still believes boots on the ground is the modern day warfare. We’re seeing it in real time in Ukraine/Russia that drones absolutely annihilate ground troops. We’re walking soldiers literally to their death.

Hegseth put US troops in significant harms way by refusing to adhere to the rules of war. Iran has little incentive to treat captured/injured US troops humanely if the US already refused to do so.

Military You're going the wrong way! Turn around! We have a President who is a criminal and likely an asset of a foreign nation, And the commander of our military is an alcoholic white nationalist who thinks he can bring about the "End of days".

We have a government sponsored militia (ICE) brutalizing our people at home and It's very likely that our elections will be rigged by republicans and their allies.

We need our military here freeing us from tyranny not attacking oil again.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (JCZqz)

110 What am I supposed to see in those photos?

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (aZm/F)

111 You'd have to be a pretty weak strategist to think that tankers could merrily file in and out of the gulf during a shooting war. Even if Iran gave up on day one there would be plenty of snafus during a turnover of that magnitude.
Posted by: Oldcat
=========
Its happened before. Iran-Iraq war.

Truth is tankers are damn difficult to sink with anti ship missiles or drones. Just too damn big. The one sunk ship so far caught on fire and was drifting without a crew for 13 days.

And the Iran-Iraq war did not have the US out to blow up minelayers, rocket launching sites, and shoot up their fiberglass speedboat flotillas with A-10s.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (E4rtv)

112 Someone please point out the land mine in the photo. Looks like trash to me, after a rain.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 01:52 PM (WONhk)

The green thing in the middle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)

113 57 We need a LOT fewer degrees in this country, but especially in the media.
Only educated people can be this stupid.

Only the LIBs.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBdOutLogic

Even as wave after wave of (T)error appear over the horizon as did so many Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, LIBs still need you to believe the intent of each pilot is unknowable even as they urge them on to their targets, in order to be first into the shelters, not because they Value their own lives, but rather to displace someone else who does.

Another LIB folly.
Retrieve 1000lb of Uranium from Iran?

NO! Bury the Largest transportable 100Megaton warhead and reduce the mountain to slag. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

And the doctor Strangelove Strategy?
Plant similar across their military bases and leave?
Guaranteed they would go out just beause, in order to set them off.

LIB Strategic Insanity:
They hold their own people as human shields and the rest of the world as hostages, too long we have stayed our hands. NO MORE.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsHalftimeAmerica250

forWAR'd !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (KHL1r)

114 Are they saying the mines were airdropped? What would make an airdropped mine explode?
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho

The explosives are armed on a long delay timer, set when dropped? Or armed by first impact with ground plus a short delay timer?

It could probably be done, it just sounds really retarded. So it made sense to the media.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (VHUov)

115
Drop CA from that and it's what....
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:51 PM (XuXeR)

Here in NOrCal I just paid $5.59 a gallon

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (ECasK)

116 "Boy, that's a really small Enterprise."

Gotta be careful about making sure you use the ' and not the " when you submit your plans.

Posted by: PabloD at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (ToabM)

117 Uhmm… I can’t see anything that resembles a mine in that photo.

Have we developed cloaking mines?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (I3MsR)

118 And wouldn’t it be more on the nose if we dropped mimes?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (I3MsR)

119
Hegseth put US troops in significant harms way by refusing to adhere to the rules of war. Iran has little incentive to treat captured/injured US troops humanely if the US already refused to do so.

They so forgot about the sailors captured during the Owebama regime.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)

120 The Mossad should drop tubes of preparation h with toothpaste labels on it. Why not have some fun?

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (cO6oP)

121 We need our military here freeing us from tyranny not attacking oil again.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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Those people are insane from acute consumption of media poisoning. There is no wisdom in them to be found.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (E4rtv)

122 SEE?!?

CNN is REICH WING!!!!!!
Posted by: Blue Hair Septum Piercing at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

That's even funnier because I've seen posts from the lefties complaining about the right wing bias of the news media.

Of course those are people that would take train rides across America thinking there needs to be more internment camps.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Sco7b)

123 Didn't Frank Zappa write a tune about the organic migration of native land mines in Persia? I think that song was right after crew slut.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (Fbc0I)

124 You cannot hate the media enough, no matter how hard you try.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (wtvvX)

125 The explosives are armed on a long delay timer, set when dropped? Or armed by first impact with ground plus a short delay timer?

It could probably be done, it just sounds really retarded. So it made sense to the media.

Some would call that a "bomb"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (guGkK)

126 So ICE is now a militia? And not Federal law enforcement?

What a strange reality these people live in.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2026 01:54 PM (xcxpd)

127 Yeah, we're going to be using those green foiliage colored land mines in a brown and arid, sand ridden country.

Posted by: Orson at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (dIske)

128 I don't know that picture is real, and even if it is, what it is supposed to show.

I see a stick, some rocks, some mud, some old broccoli, something green, something yellow and something blue...

Someone actually published this?

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (lCppi)

129 What am I supposed to see in those photos?

It's not that kind of test. Your answer tells me a lot about you.

Posted by: Dr. Rorschach at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (Riz8t)

130 You'd have to be a pretty weak strategist to think that tankers could merrily file in and out of the gulf during a shooting war. Even if Iran gave up on day one there would be plenty of snafus during a turnover of that magnitude.
Posted by: Oldcat

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And yet that is what the entire world is claiming -- that Trump screwed up and did not expect the strait to be closed, and that Iran is winning and the world hates Trump because Iran closed the strait and he is begging for help and begging Iran to open it again.

bullshit. He planned this.
Posted by: bob

Pull the US out of the UN and let the rest of the world figure it out.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (Kksvc)

131 Our media needs an enema.

Preferably violent

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (61TgR)

132 Doing good. Trying to adjust to the meds and oral chemo they have me on. But it looks like the cancer is gone. Thank you, God.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (N39Ws)

=====
b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (RIvkX)

133 109 Iran promises to set US troops on fire. Tehran vows to retaliate if Pentagon follows through on plans for weeks-long ground invasion
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And I vow to whip prime Mike Tyson's ass for lookin' at me funny.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (oqH4h)

134 Next they'll tell me that neon green dildos are raining down from the sky in Tehran

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

135 Are they saying the mines were airdropped? What would make an airdropped mine explode?
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho

The explosives are armed on a long delay timer, set when dropped? Or armed by first impact with ground plus a short delay timer?

It could probably be done, it just sounds really retarded. So it made sense to the media.
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (VHUov)

You guys are overthinking this. We have a phone app to arm them after they land. The sucky part is sitting through the 5 minutes of commercials after every 10th mine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (ExV1e)

136 One of those rocks looks like an uneaten sandwich.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (DgMqy)

137 Next they'll tell me that neon green dildos are raining down from the sky in Tehran

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

*seethes in jealousy*

Posted by: The WNBA at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

138 Saw gas at 5.99 per gallon, here in the Pipples' Democratic Republic of Warshington.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (5ZXSK)

139 I want to interview Wapo's "experts."

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (lCppi)

140 Hegseth put US troops in significant harms way by refusing to adhere to the rules of war.

==

the only ones hurt and killed were stationed on bases protecting our "arab allies"

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (GD0B3)

141 I supposed to see in those photos?"

Boobs.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (XuXeR)

142 Here in NOrCal I just paid $5.59 a gallon
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (ECasK

My part of Canada is $6 US a gallon. AI did the math.

That said, I really hope Australia suffers.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (Sco7b)

143 That's, uh, a fantastic start to a lucrative career as a galactic two-bit pirate. Want to help me drop some Omega 47 mines around the US?

Actually, a very close friend of mine, Hunter Biden is having a birthday party for one of his kids and has asked for a Klingon to show up and give a lecture on Toxic Masculinity? Would you be able to assist with booking that? OH, if possible, do you think that Klingon could wear a cocktail dress?

Posted by: Nelly at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (7gpcF)

144 Today's Fox Bidness Varney & Co Trivia question:

What is the earliest date Easter can fall on?

March 20
March 22
March 24
March 26

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (QGaXH)

145 We need our military here freeing us from tyranny not attacking oil again.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Welp, I'm done whining about tyranny and fascism for the afternoon. Now its off to the the grocery store and the senior center.

*puts on Crocs*

Posted by: Reddit Poster at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (guGkK)

146 OH, if possible, do you think that Klingon could wear a cocktail dress?
Posted by: Nelly at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (7gpcF)
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No yellow.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (oqH4h)

147 You guys are overthinking this. We have a phone app to arm them after they land. The sucky part is sitting through the 5 minutes of commercials after every 10th mine.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (ExV1e)

Did you see the video where the Ukrainian soldier covered his tank with QR codes because the Chinese drones the Russians were using had to scan the code and they'd just drop to the ground and start online shopping?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

148 What is the earliest date Easter can fall on?"

The Paolo, he falls on many dates...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (XuXeR)

149 After some research, turns out these mines can only be detonated by pulling a CD labeled "child pornography" out of the pouch. It is strongly attached and requires determination to remove. Surprisingly effective against jihadists.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (2ap+5)

150
"Ghalibaf" sounds like the name of one of the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz.
Posted by: But that's just me

Obligatory Lollipop Guild rocking the fuck out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sfwql9FLw4&list=WL&index=7

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (y9nCu)

151 80 The problem from the Strait is (1) how do you seize it from Iran

Kharg Island glows. 24/7/10000 years.
Posted by: rickb223
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Kharg is the ultimate threat to the Iranian regime by the US and Israel. No Kharg island, 90 percent of Iranian exports just go poof with little to no other financing available for the regime to pay the IRGC etc.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)

152 They say that you need to unfocus your eyes to see the landmine but that's wrong. You need deep focus.

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (4NO2D)

153 It could probably be done, it just sounds really retarded. So it made sense to the media.
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM (VHUov)

There is such a thing as an air dispersal mine. There is also such a thing as a cluster munition that has a good amount of duds that might go off if you step on them or drive on them.
They are reported as being a bitch to police up afterwards.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (rbvCR)

154 Boobs.
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:57 PM (XuXeR)

SPORTSBRA! GO BOOBS!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

155 Boobs.

Posted by: It's always boobs at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (2Ez/1)

156 Australia is a week away from Mad Max?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (7HqqU)

157 You guys are overthinking this. We have a phone app to arm them after they land. The sucky part is sitting through the 5 minutes of commercials after every 10th mine.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (ExV1e)
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Set it up as a freemium game so that people download the app and start setting off landmines whenever they score a big achievement.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 01:59 PM (ESVrU)

158 Canadians and Iranian Shiites - the perfect mix!

Toronto:

https://tinyurl.com/n38wfd5e

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 01:59 PM (1o8D5)

159 WaPo had to correct itself about this obviously fake story. Meanwhile, Reuters is claiming that "1898 Wong Kim Ark ruling, which established that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly all born on US soil" and the NYT is attacking Trump for putting faux windows and staircases into the Whitehouse ballroom building -- a regular feature in classical architecture.

The press is feeding the left a steady stream of non-reality.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 30, 2026 01:59 PM (0MjtC)

160 >>> 134 Next they'll tell me that neon green dildos are raining down from the sky in Tehran
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

WTF? Those are OUR neon green dildos!!!!!

Posted by: WNBA at March 30, 2026 01:59 PM (ULPxl)

161 What is the earliest date Easter can fall on?

Search tells me that the answer is 3/22.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:59 PM (ExV1e)

162 I thought they said air dropped mimes and I thought that was a bit harsh.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

I didn't hear any complaints.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (gKWVE)

163 That wasn't a mine, it was a mailbox, you idiot.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (DgMqy)

164 Ninja mines!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (wVcYX)

165 You guys are overthinking this. We have a phone app to arm them after they land. The sucky part is sitting through the 5 minutes of commercials after every 10th mine.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:56 PM (ExV1e)
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Set it up as a freemium game so that people download the app and start setting off landmines whenever they score a big achievement.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Havk them and send the "Return To Base" signal.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (Kksvc)

166 We've had air-dropped landmines since the Vietnam War. Whether that green thing in the photo is a mine is another question.

Posted by: PabloD at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (ToabM)

167 "Imagines appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces" in residential Iran.

How exactly did we "scatter" land mines inside Iranian borders? We have no ground forces there, do we?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (iFTx/)

168 That said, I really hope Australia suffers.
Posted by: Stateless
=========
Australia and New Zealand eliminated their own refineries to trust the tender mercies of China and others to ship refined products to them.

That is what globalism does to Western nations, it rots the brain of leftists and the corporate right that cannot understand other nations have their own interests to protect.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (E4rtv)

169 Who dropped a land mine in my pants? Look Fat, cut it out!

Posted by: Sloppy Joe at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (oftw2)

170 I'm disappointed someone hasn't photoshopped this into the picture.

https://tinyurl.com/52cvk6ta

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (lCppi)

171 Kharg is the ultimate threat to the Iranian regime by the US and Israel. No Kharg island, 90 percent of Iranian exports just go poof with little to no other financing available for the regime to pay the IRGC etc.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)
-

"Just flip it over." - Henry Calvin Johnson Jr.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (1o8D5)

172 122 SEE?!?
...
That's even funnier because I've seen posts from the lefties complaining about the right wing bias of the news media.

https://www.tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhenLIBsDisarm And why they're always on the Attack.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-SaveDaWorldTakeTheGun
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PressWithBothHands

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (jCTQg)

173 Luftwaffe in WWII had cluster bombs: AB250 and AB500 to name two.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (7HqqU)

174 I thought they said air dropped mimes and I thought that was a bit harsh.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

I didn't hear any complaints.
Posted by: gKWVE

Handcuff a deaf person and you take away their 1st Amendment rights.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (Kksvc)

175 We've had air-dropped landmines since the Vietnam War. Whether that green thing in the photo is a mine is another question.

Are you questioning experts? Seriously?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (guGkK)

176 Are mines usually painted army olive drab?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (zZu0s)

177 OT: Way to solve current DHS standoff.

Move ICE Back to DOJ. Move any ICE funding from the BBB there, and have DOJ oversee ICE like they oversee FBI (and like they USED to oversee ICE before DHS was a thing). They have EOIR (aka the immigration judges) already, so it's even streamlining the whole civil legal process.

I don't think this is entirely legal, but if Congress isn't funding something, they effectively have closed DHS, so certain functions deemed necessary maybe could be moved....sorta legally. And we're already doing this at Department of Ed even with funding.

Dems would NEVER refuse to fund DOJ (lawyers make too much money and support Ds too hard), so we'd be out of stand off land.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:02 PM (tOcjL)

178 126 So ICE is now a militia? And not Federal law enforcement?

What a strange reality these people live in.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

That's OLD news, peddled by Dem politicians as well as activists. ICE aren't law enforcement, they're Trump's paramilitary brownshirts to rough up and intimidate the Left.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 02:02 PM (JCZqz)

179 167 "Imagines appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces" in residential Iran.

How exactly did we "scatter" land mines inside Iranian borders? We have no ground forces there, do we?
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Its all bullshit and lies from Iran (or like any Arab country in conflict with the West). Lying is a specific trait in the Middle East along with flattery and treachery. Islam makes this worse by tacitly praising it when directed at others outside their faith.

I simply ignore that shit on X and scroll by.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 02:03 PM (E4rtv)

180 Are mines usually painted army olive drab?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:01 PM (zZu0s)

Only the new ones. The ones left over from when Biden was President are covered in glitter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 02:03 PM (ExV1e)

181 Are mines usually painted army olive drab?

Look for the word ACME on the exterior.

Posted by: The Coyote at March 30, 2026 02:03 PM (guGkK)

182 178 126 So ICE is now a militia? And not Federal law enforcement?

What a strange reality these people live in.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

That's OLD news, peddled by Dem politicians as well as activists. ICE aren't law enforcement, they're Trump's paramilitary brownshirts to rough up and intimidate the Left.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 02:02 PM (JCZqz)

Comprised entirely of the Proud Boys.

Posted by: Yes, they've claimed this at March 30, 2026 02:03 PM (TbWk/)

183 If only Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta were regularly still on the air to help guide and shape our understanding.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:04 PM (0sNs1)

184 166 We've had air-dropped landmines since the Vietnam War. Whether that green thing in the photo is a mine is another question.
Posted by: PabloD

We're willing to say it is, blow up a 10 year old, and blame America and The Jews.

Posted by: Hamas at March 30, 2026 02:04 PM (JCZqz)

185 Nice staging there.

Posted by: Clay Moore - Front Towards Enema at March 30, 2026 02:05 PM (TezPK)

186 161 What is the earliest date Easter can fall on?

Search tells me that the answer is 3/22.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:59 PM (ExV1e)

Get this in before we nood:

That is correct. According to Stuart Varney, the earliest Easter can fall is March 22 but it's extremely rare event. Last time was 1818 and will not occur again until 2285.

I don't believe I'll be around for that.

Latest Easter can occur is April 25th.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:05 PM (QGaXH)

187 167 How exactly did we "scatter" land mines inside Iranian borders? We have no ground forces there, do we?

doubtless dropped en masse from b-52s

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 02:05 PM (v3pYe)

188 286 That is correct. According to Stuart Varney, the earliest Easter can fall is March 22 but it's extremely rare event. Last time was 1818 and will not occur again until 2285.

I don't believe I'll be around for that.

nonsense. in five years or so, we'll be able to upload you to chatgpt, and then you'll be immortal.

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 02:06 PM (v3pYe)

189 That is what globalism does to Western nations, it rots the brain of leftists and the corporate right that cannot understand other nations have their own interests to protect.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 02:00 PM (E4rtv

That's why they need to suffer for awhile. NetZero, 'MadMax' suffer.

Let them experience the unlubed WNBA green dildo of consequences until they see the error of their ways.

That being said, 'I watched 1978 'Halloween' last night. Us poor souls couldn't pause tv and had rotary phones. What 'Saw' scenario was that.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Sco7b)

190 If only Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta were regularly still on the air to help guide and shape our understanding.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:04 PM (0sNs1)

How soon they forget.

Posted by: Brian Williams at March 30, 2026 02:06 PM (wVcYX)

191
doubtless dropped en masse from b-52s
Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 02:05 PM (v3pYe)

Chuck a claymore off your roof and report back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

192 The green thing in the middle.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: The green things kinectically-deposited on WNBA courts at March 30, 2026 02:07 PM (0sNs1)

193 Looks like a hot plate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:08 PM (zZu0s)

194 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump not to pay TSA.

The Judge said it was Racist to pay TSA during the Congressional Two-week Break.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at March 30, 2026 02:08 PM (X7dyz)

195 "A Canadian independent journalist"

Of course it was.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:09 PM (abIsI)

196 Should not be a nood. This one had only been up 30ish minutes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:09 PM (zZu0s)

197 That's why they need to suffer for awhile. NetZero, 'MadMax' suffer.

Let them experience the unlubed WNBA green dildo of consequences until they see the error of their ways.

That being said, 'I watched 1978 'Halloween' last night. Us poor souls couldn't pause tv and had rotary phones. What 'Saw' scenario was that.
Posted by: Stateless
=======
Brain rot always causes idiots to double down--in this case, EVs from the Chicoms but not building the power plants to sustain them. The German solution.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

198 The green thing in the middle.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:53 PM

That's my Kermie!

Posted by: Miss Piggy at March 30, 2026 02:10 PM (wVcYX)

199 So what exactly is the correction? They misidentified the guy as a Canadian Journalist in Iran with permission to report. So, is he not a Canadian Journalist? Did he not have permission? Was he just reporting what the Iranians told him and not actually visit the site?

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 30, 2026 02:10 PM (s1cCL)

200 That being said, 'I watched 1978 'Halloween' last night. Us poor souls couldn't pause tv and had rotary phones.

Phones? Luxury.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:10 PM (abIsI)

201 I don't believe I'll be around for that.

Not with THAT ATTITUDE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 02:11 PM (ExV1e)

202 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 30, 2026 02:11 PM (nDXEV)

203 What is suppose to be the landmine? The green thing???
That does not look like a residential area, where are the residences?

Posted by: lin-duh at March 30, 2026 02:11 PM (9AdGW)

204 Bonk bonk on the head
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 30, 2026 02:11 PM (nDXEV)

A boot to the head.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

205 WaPo: Trump gives Iranians smallpox infected blankets.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 02:12 PM (ndZc7)

206 WaPo: Trump gives Iranians smallpox infected blankets.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 02:12 PM (ndZc7)

After hunting the Iranian Bison to near-extinction.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)

207 By Grabthar's Hammer
By the Sons of Warvan
Our 241 Marines will be avenged.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 30, 2026 02:13 PM (wBaIH)

208 By Grabthar's Hammer... what a savings.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)

209 The green thing in the middle.
Posted by: Sponge

Willie Nelson is not green.

Posted by: mikeski, helping the commissar at March 30, 2026 02:14 PM (VHUov)

210 How exactly did we "scatter" land mines inside Iranian borders? We have no ground forces there, do we?

doubtless dropped en masse from b-52s
Posted by: anachronda

And didn't hit anyone on the ground or go thru a shit shack's roof?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 02:14 PM (Kksvc)

211 194 Hawaiian Judge orders Trump not to pay TSA.

The Judge said it was Racist to pay TSA during the Congressional Two-week Break.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News

And during...(checks stupid woke calendar)...Women's History Month!!!

Posted by: Woke Retarded Leftist at March 30, 2026 02:14 PM (JCZqz)

212 "Scotty, I told you to raise the shields!!!"

Posted by: Brewingfrog at March 30, 2026 02:14 PM (V4wbn)

213 From post 197:

The "green dildo of consequence" should become a 'thing' around here......like the barrel....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:15 PM (QGaXH)

214 All of the left media is still pushing the lie that the US bombed the girl's school.

And the ones that don't explicitly push it, strongly imply it by the A + B must = C of "A, it was hit + B, the US was targeting the base nearby = C, so the US must have hit the school."

None of them disclose that the sole source of the claim it was the US that hit it, that it was a girls schools, or even that any girls died is only the Iranians.
The same Iranians that killed 30,000 a month before.
And no leftie cried about those murdered.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 02:16 PM (HXT0k)

215 208 By Grabthar's Hammer... what a savings.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 02:14 PM (ExV1e)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

216 Remember iran shot down the U.S.S Enterprise.

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Wait, I thought that was The Jooos ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:16 PM (zHyGC)

217 Hegseth's orders were very clear - "drop the mines between the minarets"

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM (2ap+5)

218 The good news is you can use either one to blow your nose.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:44 PM (Riz8t

If it was only softer and 3-ply.

MS Now - National average gas $3.99. Rend clothing appropriately. No mention of Biden's prices.

CNN and Fox airing White House briefing.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:48 PM (Sco7b)

June 14th, 2022, I paid 4.90 for regular under Biden. This, at Quick Check. I've been keeping an Excel gasoline database since Dec 2005.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM (5xuJ/)

219 OT rant: I am sitting in a cafe in Port Angeles. Ordered biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Could not eat the gravy. Had fennel and other herbs, and chopped green onions in it. More like half-ass Hollandaise sauce than white sausage gravy. How can you fuck up gravy? The potato rounds were good, and they were kind enough to take the biscuits off the check. So there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM (5ZXSK)

220 Chuck a claymore off your roof and report back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:06 PM

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

Posted by: M57 electrical firing device at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM (0sNs1)

221 From the picture in the WaPo article, the "mine" looks like the dummy Claymore replica I bought and hung on my front door (with wires leading off toward the door bell) to ward off door to door sales people.

Posted by: Dave's not here at March 30, 2026 02:18 PM (kp5iD)

222 Mmmm - Charles Payne has a young lady on his show in a shortish black dress, long black hair, fair complexion....high heels, looks absolutely delish.......

Kiana Danial - Invest Diva CEO

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:18 PM (QGaXH)

223
google BLU-43 Dragontooth for an example of an air dispersal anti-personnel mine. there are others, bigger.

I think these are a copy of a Russian design, and hated by the Left, with the claim that they are a war crime because kids might pick them up.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 02:18 PM (yFx9n)

224 And no leftie cried about those murdered.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 02:16 PM (HXT0k)

--------------

Text you'll be telling me that The Left is rooting for Iran to win the war and for maximum American casualties.

Wait wut?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:19 PM (zHyGC)

225 And during...(checks stupid woke calendar)...Women's History Month!!!"

And the McCain funeral!

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 02:19 PM (XuXeR)

226 219 OT rant: I am sitting in a cafe in Port Angeles. Ordered biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Could not eat the gravy.

We've lived in WA for close to 20 years now, the people here will eat shit on a roll and call it good. People in this state are f*cked in the head in general.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:20 PM (abIsI)

227 Yesterday, I saw a clip of some Iranian official detailing the war crimes committed by the US.

I commented: "Why is he speaking English? And why is the name of his agency behind him only in English? And not Farsi?"

Because, the intended audience is the Western Left ....

And no one on the left will understand the implications of that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 02:20 PM (HXT0k)

228 Ordered biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Could not eat the gravy. Had fennel and other herbs, and chopped green onions in it. More like half-ass Hollandaise sauce than white sausage gravy. How can you fuck up gravy? The potato rounds were good, and they were kind enough to take the biscuits off the check. So there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM

Expecting quality biscuits and gravy anywhere outside the American South is suboptimal, and likely to result in disappointment.

This is known.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:20 PM (0sNs1)

229 The first people to go without a paycheck during a “government shutdown” is CONGRESS.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 02:21 PM (IgV8W)

230 I am surprised the 'mine' does not have 'Property of US Army' stenciled on the side.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

231 230 I am surprised the 'mine' does not have 'Property of US Army' stenciled on the side.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

With a picture of Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 02:21 PM (ECasK)

232 >>Expecting quality biscuits and gravy anywhere outside the American South is suboptimal, and likely to result in disappointment.

If you can find Logging, you can find quality Biscuits and Gravy.

Just like finding a Railroad Town will uncover really good Chinese Food.

Just a little something I have learned from traveling the country for over 29 years.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 02:22 PM (W7FsI)

233 And during...(checks stupid woke calendar)...Women's History Month!!!"

And the McCain funeral!
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 02:19 PM

Don't forget the final countdown for Pride Month preparations!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:22 PM (0sNs1)

234 219 OT rant: I am sitting in a cafe in Port Angeles. Ordered biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Could not eat the gravy. Had fennel and other herbs, and chopped green onions in it. More like half-ass Hollandaise sauce than white sausage gravy. How can you fuck up gravy? The potato rounds were good, and they were kind enough to take the biscuits off the check. So there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM (5ZXSK)

Safe travels to you and yours, sir.

Seems a little early in the season for northern migration....Az got too warm already?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:22 PM (QGaXH)

235 Herr Trump has perfected the Bouncing Betty so now we can drop them from planes. It's technology baby! The fuhrer would be proud.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 02:23 PM (Fbc0I)

236 I think these are a copy of a Russian design, and hated by the Left, with the claim that they are a war crime because kids might pick them up.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 02:18 PM (yFx9n)

Not more than once.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

237 June 14th, 2022, I paid 4.90 for regular under Biden. This, at Quick Check. I've been keeping an Excel gasoline database since Dec 2005.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM (5xuJ/)

Yeah, you'll never hear that though.

2022 may as well have been 2022 BC to the lefties.

The front page is loaading a little slow. But it's loading. With content.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 02:23 PM (Sco7b)

238 If an Iranian steps on a landmine in the residential area, and it blows him to bits, would it make a sound?

Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Who Likes Old Stupid Hippie Riddles at March 30, 2026 02:23 PM (/1l9x)

239 167 How exactly did we "scatter" land mines inside Iranian borders? We have no ground forces there, do we?

***

Like Johnny Appleseed, only with more "boom."

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2026 02:23 PM (lCppi)

240 Shades of "Baby Milk Factory". These sand devils are clever.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (TezPK)

241 219 OT rant: I am sitting in a cafe in Port Angeles. Ordered biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Could not eat the gravy. Had fennel and other herbs, and chopped green onions in it. More like half-ass Hollandaise sauce than white sausage gravy. How can you fuck up gravy? The potato rounds were good, and they were kind enough to take the biscuits off the check. So there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM (5ZXSK)

California cuisine is about adding fresh stuff to and lightening up everything. You don't order comfort food in California and expect a deep South version...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (tOcjL)

242 Ah, correction,

I just googled and it looks like the commies copied us, and the Blu-43 was a US design, later copied by the Russians.

Anyway, they are air dispersal, and green to be hard to see

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (yFx9n)

243 Expecting quality biscuits and gravy anywhere outside the American South is suboptimal, and likely to result in disappointment.

This is known.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:20 PM (0sNs1)

I have had decent biscuits and gravy in Canada, for Pete's sake. And I have enjoyed the southern variety, too. This was some damfool chef being too "creative". Fennel does not belong in food, period.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (5ZXSK)

244 And during...(checks stupid woke calendar)...Women's History Month!!!"

And the McCain funeral!
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 02:19 PM

Don't forget the final countdown for Pride Month preparations!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:22 PM (0sNs1)

It's the final countdown!

Posted by: Europe at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (wVcYX)

245 228 Ordered biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Could not eat the gravy. Had fennel and other herbs, and chopped green onions in it. More like half-ass Hollandaise sauce than white sausage gravy. How can you fuck up gravy? The potato rounds were good, and they were kind enough to take the biscuits off the check. So there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM

Expecting quality biscuits and gravy anywhere outside the American South is suboptimal, and likely to result in disappointment.

This is known.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:20 PM (0sNs1)

It's like ordering a Philly cheesesteak anywhere but the Philly/South Jersey area...

1st time I did that and got served mayo on the steak was eye-opening...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:25 PM (tOcjL)

246 We should drop mimes from planes into Iranian neighborhoods.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 30, 2026 02:25 PM (dtRBu)

247 because kids might pick them up.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 02:18 PM (yFx9n)

Not more than once.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:23 PM

In fairness, at that point they'll be disarmed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:25 PM (0sNs1)

248 Mammaw made the best biscuits and gravy (northern indiana.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

249 241 California cuisine is about adding fresh stuff to and lightening up everything. You don't order comfort food in California and expect a deep South version...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (tOcjL)

Port Angeles is in Washington State near the Canadian border. Otherwise your comment is entirely correct.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (QGaXH)

250 We should do an airdrop into the 4 largest cities of of tens of thousands of small parachutes that have either an AK47+200rds of ammo, some cheap ak47 bolt action rifles with a decent sniper scope, or a care package of 4 grenades.

Supposedly the average citizen wants to chuck off the Oslamo-fascists. It's time for them to prove it.

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (2Nfh9)

251 When The Missus and I were driving home from NC we stopped at a place called Biscuitville.

I love anything and everything biscuit, so I thought we had driven off a cliff and gone to heaven.

A whole town made of biscuits! What??

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (DgMqy)

252 Safe travels to you and yours, sir.

Seems a little early in the season for northern migration....Az got too warm already?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:22 PM (QGaXH)

Have an event to attend in Comox, BC on Wednesday. Would have remained in AZ 3 more weeks had it not come up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (5ZXSK)

253 We should drop mimes from planes into Iranian neighborhoods.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 30, 2026 02:25 PM (dtRBu)

That WOULD be a warcrime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (zZu0s)

254 I have had decent biscuits and gravy in Canada, for Pete's sake. And I have enjoyed the southern variety, too. This was some damfool chef being too "creative". Fennel does not belong in food, period.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (5ZXSK)

I like fennel.

It's a flavoring already in a lot of pre-made sausage, so that's not that crazy for a California chef...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (tOcjL)

255 Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World Holding Bubble Wand as Government Shutdown Drags on

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (abIsI)

256 Completed The Hobbit challenge last night. Do I want to go to LotR or just watch the movies again. Can't make up my mind.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (lJ0H4)

257 "I think these are a copy of a Russian design, and hated by the Left, with the claim that they are a war crime because kids might pick them up
Posted by: bob"

I'm surprised that with the demise of USAID there are even any third world kids left.

Posted by: Ripley at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (GUOwU)

258 249 241 California cuisine is about adding fresh stuff to and lightening up everything. You don't order comfort food in California and expect a deep South version...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:24 PM (tOcjL)

Port Angeles is in Washington State near the Canadian border. Otherwise your comment is entirely correct.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (QGaXH)

Man, this is like Springfield, isn't it

. Gonna be the same name in every dang state...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM (tOcjL)

259 Wait, I thought that was The Jooos ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:16 PM (zHyGC)
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Nah! Shatner is a MoT.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM (1o8D5)

260 Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World Holding Bubble Wand as Government Shutdown Drags on
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM

No glitter?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM (0sNs1)

261 So it's a food thread?

Posted by: Just got here at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM (2Ez/1)

262 Completed The Hobbit challenge last night. Do I want to go to LotR or just watch the movies again. Can't make up my mind.
Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (lJ0H4)
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Read the books. You won't be disappointed.

I just finished Return of the King this morning.

Just an amazing story from start to finish.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (ESVrU)

263 250 Supposedly the average citizen wants to chuck off the Oslamo-fascists. It's time for them to prove it.

Posted by: hatethedeepstate at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (2Nfh9)

I've wondered about this too. Iranians I've known or not stupid or violent people. You'd think in 40+ years they'd have figured a way to organize a resistance and arm themselves.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (QGaXH)

264 Ordered biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Could not eat the gravy. Had fennel and other herbs, and chopped green onions in it. More like half-ass Hollandaise sauce than white sausage gravy. How can you fuck up gravy? The potato rounds were good, and they were kind enough to take the biscuits off the check. So there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:17 PM

Expecting quality biscuits and gravy anywhere outside the American South is suboptimal, and likely to result in disappointment.

This is known.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

You never order biscuits and gravy north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (Kksvc)

265 261 So it's a food thread?

well, technically, i suppose, boob threads are food threads

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (v3pYe)

266 Does anyone believe the media at all any more?

wtf are this pictures of? How do I know they were taken in Iran? How do I know they were taken recently? wtf am I even looking at?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2026 01:40 PM (fi76o)

Our credibility and reputation for honest reporting is all the assurance you'll ever need.

Posted by: WAPO still thinks it's 1989 at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (zafwz)

267 Landmines?! That green thing looks like someone dropped a roll of 100 mph tape.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (bFu5X)

268 219 - fennel? in biscuit-gravy?

*facepalm*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (MIIRH)

269 Port Angeles is in Washington State near the Canadian border. Otherwise your comment is entirely correct.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (QGaXH)

Well, the border here is a sea border, running through the middle of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Is kind of convoluted, for hystorical reasons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:30 PM (5ZXSK)

270 256 Completed The Hobbit challenge last night. Do I want to go to LotR or just watch the movies again. Can't make up my mind.
Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (lJ0H4)

Finished the Hobbit on Saturday and am a third of the way through The Fellowship of The Ring... I'd go on if I were you... Of course I did read them years ago so my second time through

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 02:30 PM (ECasK)

271 219 - fennel? in biscuit-gravy?

*facepalm*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (MIIRH)/

His description of what they did was what could be considered blasphemy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

272 255 Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World Holding Bubble Wand as Government Shutdown Drags on
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (abIsI)
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Was the bubble wand penis-shaped?

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 02:31 PM (oqH4h)

273 261 So it's a food thread?
Posted by: Just got here at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM (2Ez/1)

Well, Safeway has 99 cents/lb bone in turkey breast (which isn't even that cheap at Thanksgiving), so I'm trying weeknight turkey tomorrow. Gonna crockpot it and see what happens (planning to leave skin on, season under skin and then pull skin off to crisp it once turkey rests...and see what the crockpot juices can do for a gravy)...

I got citrus, herbs, olive oil, and plenty of s&p ready for the job, and I want to see how doable and tasty it is (b/c it might become a future teen youth group meal if it's at least half as good as my full baked bird - it just needs to meet weeknight standard vs weekend standard)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:31 PM (tOcjL)

274 268 219 - fennel? in biscuit-gravy?

*facepalm*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (MIIRH)

Lots of sausage does have fennel seed

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 02:31 PM (ECasK)

275 Audio book:

Bilbo and Co are just now rolling up on Beorn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:31 PM (zZu0s)

276 Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World Holding Bubble Wand as Government Shutdown Drags on
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM

No glitter?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM

Well, it's probably not anywhere you'd want to see...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 02:31 PM (bFu5X)

277 258 249 241 Man, this is like Springfield, isn't it. Gonna be the same name in every dang state...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM (tOcjL)

LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:31 PM (QGaXH)

278 Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World Holding Bubble Wand as Government Shutdown Drags on
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (abIsI)
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Someone should've yelled at him to get the f*ck back to work and pass the SAVE Act. The faggoty prick.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

279 Was the bubble wand penis-shaped?
Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 02:31 PM (oqH4h)

Then he would not have been using his hands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 30, 2026 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

280 "251 When The Missus and I were driving home from NC we stopped at a place called Biscuitville.
I love anything and everything biscuit, so I thought we had driven off a cliff and gone to heaven.
A whole town made of biscuits! What??
Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (DgMqy) "

I was really disappointed by Pie Town, NM ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 02:32 PM (MIIRH)

281 The best biscuits are made with White Lily flour, which is made from white winter wheat. It is difficult to source outside the South, and often difficult within the South.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

282 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 02:33 PM (NcvvS)

283 278 Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World Holding Bubble Wand as Government Shutdown Drags on
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (abIsI)
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How very..... Festive

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 02:33 PM (ECasK)

284 3.99 gas under Trump - price to pay for possibly ending nearly 50 year war that Iran's mullahs have been waging on US

3.99 gas under Biden - price to pay for pipeline of taxpayer funds laundered through NGOs and Ukraine to the coffers of Democrat (and plenty of Republican!) campaigns, but mostly their pockets.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 02:33 PM (Dv3i1)

285 I've found in my travels that food quality and taste isn't so much what region your physically in, but rather the quality of the ingredients and recipe.

I've had some horrible, watery biscuits and gravy in the south. I've had limpdick tasteless cheesesteak in Philly.

My grandmother made some truly excellent biscuits and gravy. She was German to the core and the southernmost she ever went was maybe Atlantic City.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

286 I saw Bad Bummy open for Juan de Fuca at Tottenham Hotspur last year.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (VmB4Z)

287 262 Completed The Hobbit challenge last night. Do I want to go to LotR or just watch the movies again. Can't make up my mind.
Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 02:27 PM (lJ0H4)
----
Read the books. You won't be disappointed.

I just finished Return of the King this morning.

Just an amazing story from start to finish.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 02:29 PM (ESVrU)

I'm actually busy reading Shannon Bream's 'Nothing is Impossible with God' book and Hackett Fischer's 'Paul Revere's Ride'.

Not to make it a book thread.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:34 PM (QGaXH)

288 So it's a food thread?
Posted by: Just got here at March 30, 2026 02:28 PM

In fairness, it contains enough military content to justify the Smart Military Blog cognomen.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (0sNs1)

289 Finished the Hobbit on Saturday and am a third of the way through The Fellowship of The Ring... I'd go on if I were you... Of course I did read them years ago so my second time through
Posted by: It's me donna

Read the Hobbit the first time when I was in high school. Read LotR after I got out of college. Both were a long time ago. I'll probably go on. I wonder how Ace is coming along.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (lJ0H4)

290 >>>California cuisine is about adding fresh stuff to and lightening up everything. You don't order comfort food in California and expect a deep South version...
Posted by: Nova Local

>California puts green shit on pizza. It's bad enough when I see a black olive.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (Fbc0I)

291 Although this has nothing to do with biscuits, a colleague who takes the water taxi in from the south shore got a nice pic of the new USS Massachusetts (SSN 79

as it was leaving the harbor this morning after its commissioning on Saturday. At least I assume it was leaving. Held up the harbor traffic, anyway.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 02:35 PM (bFu5X)

292 798. Stupid hampsters.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (bFu5X)

293 The best biscuits are made with White Lily flour, which is made from white winter wheat. It is difficult to source outside the South, and often difficult within the South.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Hard White Winter Wheat
https://tinyurl.com/5n9ajyxx

Soft White Winter Wheat
https://tinyurl.com/yph5jfeh

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (Kksvc)

294 I always thought mines had a skull and crossbones painted on them. Or ACME.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 30, 2026 02:38 PM (mZm4x)

295 269 Port Angeles is in Washington State near the Canadian border. Otherwise your comment is entirely correct.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:26 PM (QGaXH)

Well, the border here is a sea border, running through the middle of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Is kind of convoluted, for hystorical reasons.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 02:30 PM (5ZXSK)

Riding the ferry from Victoria to Vancouver I picked up a US cell phone signal. When I looked on a map I saw we passed close to Point Roberts, one of several 'enclaves?' created by the way the border was drawn.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 02:40 PM (QGaXH)

296 256 Completed The Hobbit challenge last night.

dunno what the hobbit challenge is, so i'm'a just assume it involves curling the hair on your feet.

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 02:46 PM (v3pYe)

297 So...it's the green thing?

Like the green dildos at women's basketball? If so, I totally support this idea from the military!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 30, 2026 02:48 PM (WONhk)

298 We should only bieve American propaganda

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at March 30, 2026 03:25 PM (YLI2d)

Stronk Black Female Democrat Congresswoman Found Guilty in Stronkly Embezzling Millions of Dollars of Taxpayer COVID Funds

Remember when the GOP kicked out George Santos based only on allegations?

Why is this gangster bitch still in Congress?

It's always (D)ifferent, isn't it?

Indicted Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was found "guilty" on 25 of 27 ethics charges early Friday, a sweeping bipartisan verdict after a rare public House hearing that now all but seals her fate in Congress.
The decision came after more than six hours of testimony Thursday night, where an evenly divided subcommittee -- four Republicans and four Democrats -- weighed evidence from a two-year investigation into allegations that millions in federal COVID-era funds were improperly funneled into Cherfilus-McCormick's political operation. While the panel did not release a vote breakdown, members from both parties aggressively questioned her defense throughout the hearing before ultimately siding with investigators on nearly every count.
At the center of the case is a network of transactions tied to Trinity Health Care Solutions, a company linked to the congresswoman's family that received more than $6 million in government funding tied to pandemic-related services. Ethics investigators concluded that millions of those dollars were routed through entities connected to Cherfilus-McCormick -- including a consulting firm she owned -- before making their way into her campaign through loans and contributions, some of which were deemed illegal. A House report found that at least $3.6 million in taxpayer-backed funds ultimately reached her political operation.
The case now moves to the full committee, where Chairman Michael Guest and Ranking Member Mark DeSaulnier said lawmakers will determine after the April recess what punishment to recommend. Possible outcomes range from censure to expulsion -- one of the most severe penalties Congress can impose on a sitting member.
Cherfilus-McCormick rejected the findings and said she intends to fight the allegations. "I look forward to proving my innocence," she said in a statement, adding that her focus remains on serving Florida's 20th Congressional District.
Pressure is already building from within her own party. Washington Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wrote on X, "You can't crime your way into legitimate power. Since she was found guilty, she should resign or be removed."
The ethics ruling comes just weeks before Cherfilus-McCormick is set to stand trial in federal court on 15 criminal counts tied to many of the same allegations. Prosecutors say she diverted pandemic relief funds for political use and personal expenses, including luxury purchases. If convicted, she faces up to 53 years in prison.

Happy Monday!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:20 PM

Comments

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1 First cause Ace broke the site.

Posted by: Bewm at March 30, 2026 12:23 PM (jQ/ea)

2 Very sneaky, Bewm.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (VHUov)

3 Almost never post here but couldn't resist the layup.

Posted by: Bewm at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (jQ/ea)

4 OK, who stressed out the hamsters? I'm not mad. I just need to know what the next step is.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 12:34 PM (BpO1e)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

6 * trying to flag down the "nothing will happen" guy *

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (VHUov)

7 Sneaky way to get a first.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Ace.

You broke the blog.....again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

9 what the blazes lol

happy bloody red Monday!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (j+aD2)

10 All your link are belong to Ace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

11 I don’t even know how I got here; maybe Scottie beamed me in?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (UvXT3)

12 Happy Monday, Ace.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

13 Save us Chuy.

You're our only hope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Cherfilus-McCormick's political operation.

chuck e. cheese > chirfilus-mccormick

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (v3pYe)

15 Winter came for the blog of Ace ...

Posted by: Arya Stark at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (3sXRv)

16 d'oh!

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (v3pYe)

17 demonrats circle the wagons, "our side" runs for the pitchforks and torches yelling "burn the witch".

one more aspect of Failure Theater.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (MIIRH)

18 TO THE BARREL!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

19 TO THE BARREL!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

The virtual Barrel, or the real one?

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (VHUov)

20
Indicted Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was found "guilty" on 25 of 27 ethics charges early Friday, a sweeping bipartisan verdict after a rare public House hearing that now all but seals her fate in Congress.

Shouldn't it seal her fate in PRISON!??!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

21 A broken blog AND a barreling. It truly is Monday.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (ExV1e)

22
The virtual Barrel, or the real one?
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (VHUov)

When did we get a virtual one?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

23 Is there a democrat that DOESN'T lie, cheat and steal everything?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

24 When did we get a virtual one?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

Ace infiltrated that stupid Facebook VR thing that only 3 people use. The barrel is in the corner.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

25 Got there eventually.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (FpHTM)

26 Isn’t the barrel always virtual??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (UvXT3)

27 Well this is an interesting black hole!

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (OoFl2)

28 Front page still broke.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

29 The virtual Barrel, or the real one?
Posted by: mikeski

When did we get a virtual one?
Posted by: Sponge

I figured there must be one for this virtual thread.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM (VHUov)

30 Well this is an interesting black hole!
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (OoFl2)

That's rayciss. -- Dallas City Council

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM (ExV1e)

31 I am not sure my L33t skilz got me here, I think it is my skills in finding MP3 files in badly formatted RSS feeds

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM (rbvCR)

32 Isn’t the barrel always virtual??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (UvXT3)

Not if you believe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

33 Main page is still…. Mainly empty

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:41 PM (UvXT3)

34 OK, What da fuq is going on?

@PixyMisa was also suspended from X.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 30, 2026 12:42 PM (wtvvX)

35 Maybe this is the Matrix. Is Sponge Neo?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:42 PM (UvXT3)

36 Good morning! I had to work to get here, and I don't even know if this comment will go on the correct post.

Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Sy6m/)

37 Maybe someone should slide into Ace's DMs and let him know.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:43 PM (ExV1e)

38 Indicted Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was found "guilty" on 25 of 27 ethics charges early Friday, a sweeping bipartisan verdict after a rare public House hearing that now all but seals her fate in Congress.
____

Let's not be hasty.

Posted by: Congress at March 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Dv3i1)

39
That's rayciss. -- Dallas City Council
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM (ExV1e)

Ah yes. The greatness of John Wylie Price.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

40 Is there anybody out there? — Pink Floyd… and me (sensing everyone left)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:44 PM (UvXT3)

41 After the Large Hadron Collider went live reality got wonky.

Posted by: Yogi Berra at March 30, 2026 12:44 PM (cWLG3)

42 Maybe someone should slide into Ace's DMs and let him know.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:43 PM (ExV1e)

I emailed CBD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

43 Medicare and medicaid fraud is massive in Florida, and one report I saw was figuring that the major driver of this was the Cuban government which was using medical billing fraud as a revenue source for the Cuban state.
This would make the greatest revenue sources for the Cuban state to be Taking remittances from Cuban expats, the leasing of medical personnel to other 3rd world states, and US fraud.

Viva la revolución del pueblo, y vivé Castro y Marx!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 12:44 PM (rbvCR)

44 GO DIRECTLY TO COMMENTS.

DO NOT PASS MU. DO NOT COLLECT $200.

Posted by: Community Chest at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (wtvvX)

45 Well this is an interesting black hole!
Posted by: Piper

I think you meant "black whore." And she's not that interesting; half of Congress does this shit.

Posted by: mikeski and/or Wesley Crusher at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (VHUov)

46 Maybe this is the Matrix. Is Sponge Neo?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:42 PM (UvXT3)

Does this mean I'll be able to dodge the bullets at the next TxMoMe?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

47 Does this mean I'll be able to dodge the bullets at the next TxMoMe?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

You could try insulting nurse and find out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

48
You could try insulting nurse and find out.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

I would NEVER do that.

However, they DO keep asking me to go check something at the 700 yard target........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

49 However, they DO keep asking me to go check something at the 700 yard target........
Posted by: Sponge

At least they're giving you a sporting chance?

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:48 PM (VHUov)

50 So all the red must have blown it up...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:50 PM (ECasK)

51 Afternoon.

Aaaaaaaaace!

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2026 12:50 PM (tX5ZJ)

52
At least they're giving you a sporting chance?
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:48 PM (VHUov)

I have questioned the big Target logoed vest they make me wear......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

53 49 However, they DO keep asking me to go check something at the 700 yard target........
Posted by: Sponge

At least they're giving you a sporting chance?
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:48 PM (VHUov)
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Does anyone get nervous collecting their targets at that range? Not quite the same as driving a golf cart to collect balls at the driving range.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 12:51 PM (cWLG3)

54 She should be fined just for having a ridiculous hyphenated multisyllabic name.

Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at March 30, 2026 12:51 PM (2Ez/1)

55 Pull.

*launches orange sporting clays*

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 12:51 PM (FpHTM)

56 The post number on the previous posting was old: it was a number that should have been used on the 17th.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:52 PM (ZVgZ4)

57 4 OK, who stressed out the hamsters? I'm not mad. I just need to know what the next step is.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 12:34 PM (BpO1e)

Pixy fired the last batch but then went and hired a new bunch of layabouts.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 30, 2026 12:52 PM (syz1S)

58 The post number on the previous posting was old: it was a number that should have been used on the 17th.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:52 PM (ZVgZ4)

It's cute you think Ace doesn't actually have a time machine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

59 I really like Ace's clean new look, but isn't this gonna ruin his view count?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (yFx9n)

60 So all the red must have blown it up...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:50 PM (ECasK)

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Bleeding Pixels -- which would be a good name for a techno metal band.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (CgLwP)

61 Seems like the news on this page is toreadors are in charge.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

62
Pixy fired the last batch but then went and hired a new bunch of layabouts.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 30, 2026 12:52 PM (syz1S)

When you get your laborers from the Home Depot parking lot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

63 See what happens when we joke about not reading the content.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (Sco7b)

64 Thanks for posting this URL, Sponge.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (CgLwP)

65 Seeing red again...

Posted by: pookysgirl, channeling Chevelle at March 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Wt5PA)

66 Where the hell is this? Because it doesn't come up normally.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Kksvc)

67 53 49 However, they DO keep asking me to go check something at the 700 yard target........
Posted by: Sponge

At least they're giving you a sporting chance?
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:48 PM (VHUov)
---
Does anyone get nervous collecting their targets at that range? Not quite the same as driving a golf cart to collect balls at the driving range.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 12:51 PM (cWLG3)

As long as neither Alec Baldwin nor zombie Dick Cheney are there, you're probably fine...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 30, 2026 12:54 PM (wtvvX)

68 I saw Bleeding Pixels open for Technotronic at Chuy's in '95.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

69 66 Where the hell is this? Because it doesn't come up normally.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Kksvc)

You just plug in the next post number in line.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (FpHTM)

70 "Tolkien Reading Day 6" Update:

I just finished Lord of the Rings this morning.

Perhaps the blog has decided to journey with Frodo and Bilbo across the Western Seas to Valinor.

When it returns, after travelling down strange roads and spending time in the Halls of Mandos, it will no longer be AoSHQ the Gray, but AoSHQ the White.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (ESVrU)

71 Remember the special election in Florida that went from R to D? The one that included Mar-a-Lago?

Some retard was caught stealing an "election key" piece of software and rigging the vote count.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (AkEZC)

72 56 The post number on the previous posting was old: it was a number that should have been used on the 17th.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:52 PM (ZVgZ4)

So it was post-dated?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (wtvvX)

73 What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-going on here?

Posted by: Taggart at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (wVcYX)

74 Seems like the news on this page is toreadors are in charge.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Fitting.

"Olé!" .....and she's still in Congress.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (VHUov)

75 Thanks for posting this URL, Sponge.
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:53 PM (CgLwP)

I reposted it from someone else, but figured it was ignored since most were NOT here yet.

But, you're welcome. I help where I can.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

76 70 "Tolkien Reading Day 6" Update:

I just finished Lord of the Rings this morning.

Finished the Hobbit and about a third of the way in on Fellowship of the Ring... Started on Friday

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:56 PM (ECasK)

77 73 What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-going on here?

the agony of the feet, mostly

Posted by: mick dorris at March 30, 2026 12:56 PM (v3pYe)

78 The post number on the previous posting was old: it was a number that should have been used on the 17th.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Century?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:57 PM (Kksvc)

79 What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-going on here?
Posted by: Taggart at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (wVcYX)

Get a message to the HQ. Tell 'em I said "OUCH!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

80 What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-going on here?

the agony of the feet, mostly
Posted by: mick dorris

I think you boys have had enough.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:57 PM (Kksvc)

81 Pixy fired the last batch but then went and hired a new bunch of layabouts.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Next time, try guinea pigs.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (BpO1e)

82 Thanks for posting this URL, Sponge.
Posted by: ShainS

I reposted it from someone else, but figured it was ignored since most were NOT here yet.
Posted by: Sponge

* ponders changing nickname to "Cassandra" *

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (VHUov)

83 For what it is worth,

To get to a post when the main page is blown up
1. Look on left sidebar and you will see links. The links are useless, but they contain the post number.

2. Insert the post number into the address using the format you see in your browser for any comment link. Like in the address bar right now, or in a browser history view.

that will get you to the post without going through the main page.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (yFx9n)

84 BLOG IS FIXED!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

85 Well that was interesting

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (jFCkp)

86 April Fools is Wednesday.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 12:59 PM (NpAcC)

87 57 4 OK, who stressed out the hamsters? I'm not mad. I just need to know what the next step is.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 12:34 PM (BpO1e)

Pixy fired the last batch but then went and hired a new bunch of layabouts.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 30, 2026 12:52 PM (syz1S)

It’s really hard to find American rodents to do this kind of tedious work.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:59 PM (OoFl2)

88
* ponders changing nickname to "Cassandra" *
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (VHUov)

I was looking for your post/nick, but couldn't get back to the old thread.

Heh. Sorry.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

89 61 Seems like the news on this page is toreadors are in charge.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

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Don't spit on the floor.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:00 PM (yFx9n)

90 34 @PixyMisa was also suspended from X.

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: hamster liberation front at March 30, 2026 01:00 PM (v3pYe)

91 hah, welcome back morons

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xcxpd)

92 IIRC, this cuntiferous bitch's "defense" is that the millions of dollars that she stole was actually legitimate salary and bonuses from the company. "No, I didn't steal the millions of dollars. The money was paid to me as compensation for doing nothing. See? Totally legit, you racists!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 30, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

93 Main page is back! Top link leads to this post.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ZVgZ4)

94 *see Captain Kirk's image floating by*

Transporter malfunction!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 01:02 PM (wVcYX)

95 ^ 7 Sneaky way to get a first.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

Sorry about that, Comp Sci guys have an edge when someone forgets an end tag.

Posted by: Bewm at March 30, 2026 01:02 PM (jQ/ea)

96 Some retard was caught stealing an "election key" piece of software and rigging the vote count.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (AkEZC)

I'm not sure that's an entirely accurate summary. As I understand it, the key was for training and they had no evidence that the actual election was tampered with but they were concerned that it could be.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:02 PM (ExV1e)

97 I went over to the Blackout Blog, but it's so dark over there.

Posted by: Heavenly Sunshine at March 30, 2026 01:02 PM (oftw2)

98 Sorry about that, Comp Sci guys have an edge when someone forgets an end tag.
Posted by: Bewm at March 30, 2026 01:02 PM (jQ/ea)

No apology necessary.

To the winner go the spoils.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

99 >>that will get you to the post without going through the main page.

What we really need is a way to see the Comments without seeing the Post.

That would cut down on people mistakenly reading the Content.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (W7FsI)

100 Dem Den of Thieves and Hypocrites

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (tG1pe)

101 Wow, I think something may actually happen this time!

Posted by: The guy that says Something will happen! at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (n5tGW)

102 Main page is back! Top link leads to this post.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ZVgZ4)

Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

103 STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Kt19C)

104 However, they DO keep asking me to go check something at the 700 yard target........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:47 PM

SERPENTINE!!

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (4NO2D)

105 * ponders changing nickname to "Cassandra" *
Posted by: mikeski

I was looking for your post/nick, but couldn't get back to the old thread.
Heh. Sorry.....
Posted by: Sponge

No need to apologize. I was joking about your link bringing everyone here when mine didn't. Cassandra could see the future, but was cursed so no one would believe her.

Posted by: mikeski and/or Ben R. at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (VHUov)

106 I was wondering iif the blog was broke again
Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Nz7u9)

107 Coincidently, the tax firm's VPN - Server connection has been down this morning, so instead of preparing tax returns I'm hanging out here while it gets fixed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 01:04 PM (wVcYX)

108 I'm thinking that even if she is convicted and sent to jail, she won't be expelled from congress. Just a hunch.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2026 01:04 PM (0U5gm)

109
That would cut down on people mistakenly reading the Content.
Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (W7FsI)

Content?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

110 Isn’t the barrel always virtual??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM

Not if you believe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM

The Velveteen Barrel is not a children's story.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 01:04 PM (bFu5X)

111 Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (AkEZC)

I'm not sure that's an entirely accurate summary. As I understand it, the key was for training and they had no evidence that the actual election was tampered with but they were concerned that it could be.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

------------
Did he steal it before, or after the election?

Also, why the fuck do these "keys" exist -- paper ballots do not need keys. Will we never fix this?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:04 PM (yFx9n)

112 Remember when the GOP kicked out George Santos based only on allegations?

Their hands were open. He didn't pay.

Posted by: t-bird at March 30, 2026 01:05 PM (PM/iv)

113 96 Some retard was caught stealing an "election key" piece of software and rigging the vote count.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 12:55 PM (AkEZC)

I'm not sure that's an entirely accurate summary. As I understand it, the key was for training and they had no evidence that the actual election was tampered with but they were concerned that it could be.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:02 PM (ExV1e)
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It was just a training system *nudge nudge wink wink*

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 01:05 PM (cWLG3)

114 This site could run better if we replaced the hampsters with chinchillas. After we work them to death, sell the fur.

Posted by: Profit! at March 30, 2026 01:05 PM (oftw2)

115 "Git out the bisshes"

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 01:06 PM (zBRgX)

116 >>>Remember when the GOP kicked out George Santos based only on allegations?

Santos lied to everyone but his constituents.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 01:06 PM (rbvCR)

117 Did he steal it before, or after the election?

Also, why the fuck do these "keys" exist -- paper ballots do not need keys. Will we never fix this?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:04 PM (yFx9n)

The key that he stole was not the election key. The concern is that someone might have been able to reverse engineer the election key from the training key.

Assuming that the key uses a GUID, I'm not sure how they would do that but for all I know it just uses a one digit code.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:06 PM (ExV1e)

118
OK, who stressed out the hamsters? I'm not mad. I just need to know what the next step is.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 12:34 PM (BpO1e)

They did it themselves. Three different varieties of anabolic steroids, 2 gallons of Val-U-Rite vodka and a low-grade beaver tranquilizer.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (y9nCu)

119
They did it themselves. Three different varieties of anabolic steroids, 2 gallons of Val-U-Rite vodka and a low-grade beaver tranquilizer.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (y9nCu)

Nice beaver!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

120 Joni Mitchell appeared at the Canadian music awards, and while standing next to Prime Minister Mark Carney, she explained how wonderful Carney and Canada is, and how awful the United States is.

Mitchell moved to the United States in 1965.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (n1OCj)

121 114 This site could run better if we replaced the hampsters with chinchillas. After we work them to death, sell the fur.
Posted by: Profit!

chinchillas run too fast. Ace could never keep up with it.
Maybe if we broke one of their legs.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (yFx9n)

122 My prediction: If a motion to expel her from congress is even brought up, not a single dem will vote in favor.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (u73oe)

123 Two stories of interest:

1) Gotterdammerung in Iran.
Alireza Jafari, an 11-year-old boy, has been identified as a child soldier killed while serving at an IRGC checkpoint in Tehran.

According to Hengaw, a Norway-based human rights organization, he is the first reported Iranian child soldier to be killed since the escalation of the war in the Middle East.

He was initially reported as a civilian casualty, but the “Teachers’ Basij” organization later confirmed that he died “while on duty.” According to his mother, he was at the checkpoint with his father due to a shortage of personnel.

https://is.gd/RxXhbM

An ICE officer at Bush Airport has been handing out lollipops to kids

Two guesses as to which the MFM condemns.
https://is.gd/iQ6FIM

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (Riz8t)

124 Cherfilus-McCormick rejected the findings and said she intends to fight the allegations. "I look forward to proving my innocence," she said in a statement, adding that her focus remains on serving Florida's 20th Congressional District.

You go, girl!

Posted by: City Girl Super Mayor Tiffany Henyard at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (wVcYX)

125 This website is technological masterpiece

Posted by: Halfhand at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (BSRx7)

126 84 BLOG IS FIXED!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

When that happens, ace ends a closing link tag incorrectly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (bcF3R)

127 Joni Mitchell appeared at the Canadian music awards, and while standing next to Prime Minister Mark Carney, she explained how wonderful Carney and Canada is, and how awful the United States is.

Mitchell moved to the United States in 1965.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (n1OCj)

And Canada sucks balls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

128 The Blog Lives!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (bss/y)

129 They did it themselves. Three different varieties of anabolic steroids, 2 gallons of Val-U-Rite vodka and a low-grade beaver tranquilizer.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Why would one be tranquilizing low-grade beaver?

Posted by: mikeski is more confused than normal at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (VHUov)

130
When that happens, ace ends a closing link tag incorrectly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 30, 2026 01:08 PM (bcF3R)

I don't have keys to fix the kingdom, so all I can do is scream and shout when someone else fixes things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

131 The Critical Drinker has recommended another movie. That's, like, three in the past month. What's going on here?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

132 Joni Mitchell appeared at the Canadian music awards, and while standing next to Prime Minister Mark Carney, she explained how wonderful Carney and Canada is, and how awful the United States is.

Mitchell moved to the United States in 1965.

And yet, here you are.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (Riz8t)

133
Ms Chickfilet probably has the same problems that former congresscreature Anthony Weiner did -- misconduct is too obvious to cover up, and didn't take care of obligations to the party hierarchy.

If she'd diverted some stolen loot to the party like she should have, in return they'd have counseled
her on how to give the thievery legal concealment. The opportunity is lost now -- like tears in rain. Or fried chicken sauce into sandwich packaging.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (VWtfl)

134 1) Gotterdammerung in Iran.
Alireza Jafari, an 11-year-old boy, has been identified as a child soldier killed while serving at an IRGC checkpoint in Tehran.

According to Hengaw, a Norway-based human rights organization, he is the first reported Iranian child soldier to be killed since the escalation of the war in the Middle East.

Tousi said Iran was gonna do this so they could claim US/Israel is killing children...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (ECasK)

135 Why would one be tranquilizing low-grade beaver?
Posted by: mikeski is more confused than normal at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM

*tucks handkerchief back in pocket*

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (4NO2D)

136 Noticing it's always the proud black shequeefas bonita-jacksons that are the loudest. See that dumb black cunt AG from NY

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (zBRgX)

137 Next time, try guinea pigs.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 12:58 PM (BpO1e)

Would they even fit?

Posted by: that troll in the art thread at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (gKWVE)

138 "Wild hamster fur, with its rich golden, brown, and cream tones, was highly sought after in mid-20th-century Europe but is no longer used in modern fur production, making garments [of that type] nearly impossible to find today."

It is not impossible to find a market for used hamsters, after all, but it is not currently haut couture

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR)

139 Yet another example of a "Fundamentally non-serious" selection.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 01:10 PM (TN0g+)

140 They did it themselves. Three different varieties of anabolic steroids, 2 gallons of Val-U-Rite vodka and a low-grade beaver tranquilizer.

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Damn you, Bernice!!

Posted by: Josephistan at March 30, 2026 01:10 PM (y9ksN)

141 123 Two stories of interest:

1) Gotterdammerung in Iran.
Alireza Jafari, an 11-year-old boy, has been identified as a child soldier killed while serving at an IRGC checkpoint in Tehran.

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That was the plan, and it is very obvious to all but the Left.

They did not use child soldiers because they ran out of men, they used them at the checkpoints so that they would be killed and there would be outrage. Hoping to stop the checkpoint bombing.

There should be outrage -- at Iran.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:10 PM (yFx9n)

142 The Critical Drinker has recommended another movie. That's, like, three in the past month. What's going on here?

Hail Mary, One Piece (not a movie), and what others?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

143 Noticing it's always the proud black shequeefas bonita-jacksons that are the loudest. See that dumb black cunt AG from NY
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"Fundamentally non-serious" selection.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (TN0g+)

144 My conservative principles tell me that we must wait until Miss Cherfilus-McCormick's equally left wing successor has been elected and seated before expelling her from Congress. It's the principles that distinguish us from the Democrats!

Posted by: George Conway at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ssz2a)

145 now for some unsettling news...

"Caitlin Doornbos
@CaitlinDoornbos
2h
President Trump confirmed to me today that the US is negotiating with Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, saying we'll "find out in about a week" whether he is someone America can truly work with.."

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3)

146 The Critical Drinker has recommended another movie. That's, like, three in the past month. What's going on here?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

Nephew saw Hail Mary on Saturday and said it was REALLY good. Drinker said it was good, so it seems he's hit a rash of releases that actually don't suck ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

147 109
That would cut down on people mistakenly reading the Content.
Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 01:03 PM (W7FsI)

Content?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Content? Content? We don' need no steenking content....

Posted by: Zombie Alfonso Bedoya at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (QGaXH)

148
Joni Mitchell appeared at the Canadian music awards, and while standing next to Prime Minister Mark Carney, she explained how wonderful Carney and Canada is, and how awful the United States is.

Mitchell moved to the United States in 1965.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (n1OCj)

Deport the fat old hag back to Ottawa, Toronto or whatever Canuckian village she spawned from.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:12 PM (y9nCu)

149 If he the guy to sign unconditional surrender then yes, he is the one to "negotiate" with.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:12 PM (GD0B3)

150 86 April Fools is Wednesday.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 12:59 PM (NpAc

That's what makes March Fools so funny.
Nobody expects it.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 01:12 PM (Sco7b)

151 Hail Mary, One Piece (not a movie), and what others?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

"I Swear" and, now, "Mr. Inbetween" - which, I confess, may not be a movie. I haven't watched the review yet, it just came up in my feed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:12 PM (ExV1e)

152 Off old late night movie sock......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (QGaXH)

153
"Caitlin Doornbos
@CaitlinDoornbos
2h
President Trump confirmed to me today that the US is negotiating with Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, saying we'll "find out in about a week" whether he is someone America can truly work with.."

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3)

And Ghalibaf claims he is not talking to Trump and death to America... So something isn't right here....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (ECasK)

154 Hail Mary, One Piece (not a movie), and what others?

He also liked Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (Riz8t)

155 Don't mess with me!

Posted by: Mr. Inbetween at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (Dv3i1)

156
Deport the fat old hag back to Ottawa, Toronto or whatever Canuckian village she spawned from.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

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Joni Mitchel? Isn't she dead yet?

I would have thought she would be looking at clouds from the top side by now.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:14 PM (yFx9n)

157 @CaitlinDoornbos
2h
President Trump confirmed to me today that the US is negotiating with Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, saying we'll "find out in about a week" whether he is someone America can truly work with.."

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3)

His name is Mohammad.

You're not going in the right direction quite yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

158 My only comment on the content is that is one strange name… won’t even try to spell it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 01:14 PM (xT8gx)

159 Nephew saw Hail Mary on Saturday and said it was REALLY good. Drinker said it was good, so it seems he's hit a rash of releases that actually don't suck ass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

I saw it on Thursday and thought it was good. Wife said that any movie that can make you both laugh and cry is pretty good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:14 PM (ExV1e)

160 Two guesses as to which the MFM condemns.

Related: jihadists killed a bunch of Christians in Nigeria this weekend. Most of the media "local crime story"ed it, but Reuters had a headline that it was gunmen protesting climate change.

That's levels of THE MESSAGE even Critical Drinker can't fathom.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:14 PM (2ocoG)

161 He also liked Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (Riz8t)

It's madness, I tell you. Madness!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

162 >>Related: jihadists killed a bunch of Christians in Nigeria this weekend. Most of the media "local crime story"ed it, but Reuters had a headline that it was gunmen protesting climate change.

Syrian Christians took a lot of damage this weekend, too.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 01:15 PM (W7FsI)

163 If he the guy to sign unconditional surrender then yes, he is the one to "negotiate" with.
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:12 PM (GD0B3)

It is more like 1910 Mexico, where the first thing is to keep from being assassinated by the other factions before you build a ruling coalition that can hold power.
If Venezuela is any example, Trump is offering a route to survival if certain benchmarks are met.

I would not want to be in negotiation with Trump, he employs suave and polished leg-breakers

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 01:15 PM (rbvCR)

164 And Ghalibaf claims he is not talking to Trump and death to America... So something isn't right here....
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (ECasK)

I’m honestly getting a little annoyed with deferred threats and negotiations…. Bomb the shit out of them. I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45. Fuck that shit just end it by winning

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (xT8gx)

165
Related: jihadists killed a bunch of Christians in Nigeria this weekend. Most of the media "local crime story"ed it, but Reuters had a headline that it was gunmen protesting climate change.

"islhamists doing islhamic things, again"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

166 Washington Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wrote on X, "You can't crime your way into legitimate power.

Says who?

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (BSRx7)

167 And Ghalibaf claims he is not talking to Trump and death to America... So something isn't right here....
Posted by: It's me donna

Negotiating with Iran be like:

https://youtu.be/yXuhtZ9lh9A

.....they just have a lot of that first guy.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (VHUov)

168 I’m honestly getting a little annoyed with deferred threats and negotiations…. Bomb the shit out of them. I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45. Fuck that shit just end it by winning
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (xT8gx)

I'm with you

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (ECasK)

169 Since I should have called a timeout but didn't, I now have lots of free time to read the blog.

Posted by: Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (Y1sOo)

170 but Reuters had a headline that it was gunmen protesting climate change.
_____

Those Christians were trying to change the climate of Sharia the jihadists were trying to enforce?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (Dv3i1)

171 I saw Cherfilus open for Sonnybone at the Circle Star Theater in '77.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (aV/WY)

172 I believe Caitlan is full of shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (+nEug)

173 I've started watching the Generation Kill miniseries and I kept thinking 'who is that guy'. And then I remembered, he's Murderbot. A Skarsgard of some description.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (4NO2D)

174 I’m honestly getting a little annoyed with deferred threats and negotiations…. Bomb the shit out of them. I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45. Fuck that shit just end it by winning

I mean, bombing the shit out of them is continuing, according to both CENTCOM and the IDF.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (2ocoG)

175 And Ghalibaf claims he is not talking to Trump and death to America... So something isn't right here....

=

Ghalibaf is lying, of course.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (GD0B3)

176 Since I should have called a timeout but didn't, I now have lots of free time to read the blog.
Posted by: Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer at March 30, 2026 01:16 PM (Y1sOo)

I laughed…. Never woulda happened to Coach K

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (xT8gx)

177 Since I should have called a timeout but didn't, I now have lots of free time to read the blog.
Posted by: Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (TN0g+)

178
And Ghalibaf claims he is not talking to Trump and death to America... So something isn't right here....
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (ECasK)

Trolling the mullahs and IRGC to get them fighting among themselves. An obvious move, but I expect that it'll still get Ghalibaf's head lopped off with a dull hacksaw.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (y9nCu)

179 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: LaQuisha at March 30, 2026 01:18 PM (2Ez/1)

180 Cherfilus"

God Bless You....

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)

181 It’s really hard to find American rodents to do this kind of tedious work.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:59 PM (OoFl2)
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You try fitting a capybara into a hampster wheel.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 30, 2026 01:18 PM (8gbRx)

182 Hey, Ms. Cherfilus-McCormick, if you need to get away for a bit, I know a guy who can hook you up with a cabin rental in Tennessee. Call me.

Posted by: Fani Willis at March 30, 2026 01:18 PM (wVcYX)

183 I mean, bombing the shit out of them is continuing, according to both CENTCOM and the IDF.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (2ocoG)

The uploaded videos that Tousi plays strongly suggests that bombing has not stopped.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

184 Trolling the mullahs and IRGC to get them fighting among themselves. An obvious move, but I expect that it'll still get Ghalibaf's head lopped off with a dull hacksaw.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:17 PM (y9nCu)

Israel tried to take him out the other day according to the IDF...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (ECasK)

185 Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

What's a "Gluesenkamp"? Sounds like a German vibrator or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (2ocoG)

186 In 1945 there weren't 56 other countries all screaming about how they want the war to go.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (+nEug)

187 His name is Mohammad."

The Mossad is on it...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (XuXeR)

188 It’s really hard to find American rodents to do this kind of tedious work.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:59 PM (OoFl2)

What about your ex?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (ExV1e)

189 Trolling the mullahs and IRGC to get them fighting among themselves. An obvious move, but I expect that it'll still get Ghalibaf's head lopped off with a dull hacksaw.

"We do a little trolling" - DJT

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (2ocoG)

190 chinchillas run too fast. Ace could never keep up with it.
Maybe if we broke one of their legs.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:07 PM (yFx9n)

A gimpchilla?

Posted by: From the mind of Roger Corman at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (TbWk/)

191 That's rayciss. -- Dallas City Council
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:40 PM (ExV1e)

But Dallas ISD explicitly advertising for black and Latino teachers is somehow not.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (z/ZK2)

192 Related: jihadists killed a bunch of Christians in Nigeria this weekend. Most of the media "local crime story"ed it, but Reuters had a headline that it was gunmen protesting climate change.

That's levels of THE MESSAGE even Critical Drinker can't fathom.
Posted by: Ian S.

"Gunmen protesting climate change."

So it was an armed raid on a Christian coal-fired power plant?

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (VHUov)

193 I see Lamont has been up to his old tricks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (TdYBy)

194 What's a "Gluesenkamp"?"

Zwanzig Marks, same as in Stuttgart...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (XuXeR)

195 We saw the Hail Mary movie Saturday. A very fun movie without the woke crap. Considering to go watch it again.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (tYGL3)

196 162 >>Related: jihadists killed a bunch of Christians in Nigeria this weekend. Most of the media "local crime story"ed it, but Reuters had a headline that it was gunmen protesting climate change.

Syrian Christians took a lot of damage this weekend, too.

Posted by: garrett at March 30, 2026 01:15 PM (W7FsI)

Palm Sunday, so next week, Easter, is going to be as bad or worse.

Posted by: moki at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (wLjpr)

197 In 1945 there weren't 56 other countries all screaming about how they want the war to go.

There probably were, but we had the good sense to ignore them.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

198 Islam is the cancer of the universe.

We must crush it with everything we have RIGHT FUCKING NOW

I believe this whole "negotiation" nonsense is theater. These Islamist pieces of garbage will never surrender. Kill them all

Posted by: melodicmetal at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (zBRgX)

199 If your name is "Marie Gluesenkamp Perez" you're flaunting some serious syllable privilege.

Posted by: Monosyllablic hypercritic at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (2Ez/1)

200 Bomb them and keep bombing them until they are willing to sign an unconditional surrender that includes a secular government and democratic processes with real protections for individual rights.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (QGaXH)

201 But Dallas ISD explicitly advertising for black and Latino teachers is somehow not.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (z/ZK2)

Dallas ISD is one of the worst ISD's in the world........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

202 174 I’m honestly getting a little annoyed with deferred threats and negotiations…. Bomb the shit out of them. I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45. Fuck that shit just end it by winning

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He's buying time to get more ground assets in place.

Posted by: Josephistan at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (y9ksN)

203 It's part trolling, part they are negotiating. For real. So speaker signs some BS agreement agreeing to everything. US leaves. 24 hours later, or 2.5 years later, after all rebels are executed, Jihadis proclaim agreement invalid because of xyz, isupreme burrito has to agree too, speaker does not speak for anyone, etc. and they all go back to what they were doing before. solidifying power and turning more and more into N. Korea, but worse.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (GD0B3)

204 Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

205 What's a "Gluesenkamp"? Sounds like a German vibrator or something.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (2ocoG)
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Sounds like a name for an inertialess drive made up by Doc Smith.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 30, 2026 01:22 PM (8gbRx)

206 Bomb them and keep bombing them until they are willing to sign an unconditional surrender that includes a secular government and democratic processes with real protections for individual rights.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 01:21 PM (QGaXH)

Yes, of course. No one has attempted to create a Jeffersonian democracy in the middle east yet.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

207 We saw the Hail Mary movie Saturday. A very fun movie without the woke crap. Considering to go watch it again.
Posted by: Beartooth at March 30, 2026 01:20 PM (tYGL3)

There was one moment, fairly early on, when I had concerns but... nope, they passed it right on by without messages, or fan service for the modern audience.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:22 PM (ExV1e)

208 Bomb them and keep bombing them until they are willing to sign an unconditional surrender that includes a secular government and democratic processes with real protections for individual rights.
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And then tell them "We're thinking about it" and bomb then one more time for good measure.

Posted by: Crusader at March 30, 2026 01:23 PM (TN0g+)

209 204 - well put

How is Mrs. Sponge doing?

Posted by: moki at March 30, 2026 01:23 PM (wLjpr)

210 No one has attempted to create a Jeffersonian democracy in the middle east yet."

I can do it!

!Jeb!

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:23 PM (XuXeR)

211 *Sounds like a name for an inertialess drive made up by Doc Smith.*

Two point Twenty One Gigawatts.

Posted by: Doc Brown at March 30, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1)

212
"Caitlin Doornbos
@CaitlinDoornbos
2h
President Trump confirmed to me today that the US is negotiating with Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, saying we'll "find out in about a week" whether he is someone America can truly work with.."

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3)

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No such announcements can be taken at face value at this time. Maybe there is no discussion at all with this guy. Or maybe the US wants the Iranians to kill him so we don't have to. Who knows.

The war is going well. The war is an historic disaster. 2 + 2 = 5. None of us know anything for sure.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 01:24 PM (VWtfl)

213 Just bomb until unconditional surrender. Period. They can figure out their own government after that…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (xT8gx)

214 !Jeb!
Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 01:23 PM (XuXeR)

The real ¡Jeb! would use proper 69 punctuation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (ExV1e)

215
How is Mrs. Sponge doing?
Posted by: moki at March 30, 2026 01:23 PM (wLjpr)

She's doing good. She thinks she's got the menopause thing going on and has been having bouts with the tireds a bit, but other than that, doing good.

Thanks for asking.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

216 No such announcements can be taken at face value at this time. Maybe there is no discussion at all with this guy. Or maybe the US wants the Iranians to kill him so we don't have to. Who knows.

The war is going well. The war is an historic disaster. 2 + 2 = 5. None of us know anything for sure.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2026 01:24 PM (VWtfl)

what announcement ? Trump is on record now, and this has been leaking for over a week.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (GD0B3)

217 I didn’t know “crime” was a verb.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (z/ZK2)

218 What's a "Gluesenkamp"? Sounds like a German vibrator or something.
Posted by: Ian S.

grüßen = greetings
kampf = combat

So, a declaration of war? The first stanza of a rap battle?

Posted by: mikeski's got nothin' at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (VHUov)

219 Wow, I think something may actually happen this time!

Dream on. Once she starts throwing out the race card, they'll all back down and skulk off like puppies who just got caught with their nose in the garbage can. Censured at best. Expulsion? LOL

Posted by: The guy that says nothing will happen (again) at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (6uxuX)

220 There was one moment, fairly early on, when I had concerns but... nope, they passed it right on by without messages, or fan service for the modern audience.

That's good, because all 45 of the modern audience is busy playing 1348: Ex Voto, a game in which you play a lesbian knight in medieval Italy that must rescue her girlfriend from men and scissor her.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (2ocoG)

221 I didn’t know “crime” was a verb.
Posted by: Cow Demon

All nouns can be verbed.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 01:26 PM (VHUov)

222 I’ll betcha Caitlin Clark is hotter than Caitlin Doornblos

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 01:26 PM (xT8gx)

223 In war I am the first casualty.

Posted by: The Truth at March 30, 2026 01:26 PM (z/ZK2)

224 Caveat to my post at 200: I don't think there's any negotiating with these people. (the mullahs).

I saw a news item that people were adopting those little pigs as pets and carrying them with them as a protective strategy against aggressive Muslim men...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 01:26 PM (QGaXH)

225 I saw it on Thursday and thought it was good. Wife said that any movie that can make you both laugh and cry is pretty good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:14 PM (ExV1e)

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* The original 1971 TV movie "Brian's Song" has entered the chat *

First time I ever cried watching the television or movie show at age 9. I was deeply embarrassed and trying to hide my tears from my mom ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (aV/WY)

226 In war I am the first casualty.
Posted by: The Truth at March 30, 2026 01:26 PM (z/ZK2)

It's not always about you! -- Peace

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

227 Morning, Ace and Horde! Sitting at a cafe in Port Angeles, WA, waiting for the ferry MV Coho to carry me to Victoria, BC. Had a nice visit with Nurse R, and we met Mark Andrew Edwards and Lazy Messenger yesterday afternoon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (5ZXSK)

228
Some people may have done some things.
Mistakes may have been made.
If so, it was in the enthusiasm of the moment.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Old news.
Time to move on.

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (0sNs1)

229
That's good, because all 45 of the modern audience is busy playing 1348: Ex Voto, a game in which you play a lesbian knight in medieval Italy that must rescue her girlfriend from men and scissor her.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (2ocoG)

Are they hot? Cuz I might play that........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

230 I mean, it could be interpreted as the ops was so successful US an Israel are running out of targets.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (GD0B3)

231 164 And Ghalibaf claims he is not talking to Trump and death to America... So something isn't right here....
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 01:13 PM (ECasK)

I’m honestly getting a little annoyed with deferred threats and negotiations…. Bomb the shit out of them. I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45. Fuck that shit just end it by winning
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Wars have their own timetables because the enemy always has options. Trump is trying to avoid destroying the civil society in Iran leaving some form of government in place but not the Basiji nor IRGC. And without invading en masse which would take months of preparation.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (E4rtv)

232 Trump is going to set up a "commercial corridor" in the strait, with US bases and US companies controlling the oil and guaranteeing access. (with some revenue)

He will get world support because of the past two weeks. At least, I think that is the plan based on evidence.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:28 PM (yFx9n)

233
Just bomb until unconditional surrender. Period. They can figure out their own government after that…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 01:25 PM (xT8gx)

I AM INTRIGUED BY YOUR IDEAS AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2026 01:28 PM (y9nCu)

234 Morning, Ace and Horde! Sitting at a cafe in Port Angeles, WA, waiting for the ferry MV Coho to carry me to Victoria, BC. Had a nice visit with Nurse R, and we met Mark Andrew Edwards and Lazy Messenger yesterday afternoon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (5ZXSK)

I would like to drink whiskey with MAE some time......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

235 Sitting at a cafe in Port Angeles, WA, waiting for the ferry MV Coho to carry me to Victoria, BC.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM

Always an opportunity to see orcas and bald eagles.

May your voyage be free of mephitic penguin bouquets!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (0sNs1)

236 Are they hot? Cuz I might play that........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

Here's the 'knight'.

avclub.com/1348-ex-voto-game-review

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (ExV1e)

237 * The original 1971 TV movie "Brian's Song" has entered the chat *

First time I ever cried watching the television or movie show at age 9. I was deeply embarrassed and trying to hide my tears from my mom ...
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (aV/

All men and boys are allowed to cry watching Brian’s Song and Old Yeller.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (z/ZK2)

238 Caveat to my post at 200: I don't think there's any negotiating with these people. (the mullahs).
I saw a news item that people were adopting those little pigs as pets and carrying them with them as a protective strategy against aggressive Muslim men...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 01:26 PM (QGaXH)

Pakistani students in Korea want to set up a proper mosque in the area they live while attending university, which the neighbors don't want, so the local Koreans have taken to doing barbeques in the square in front of the Pakistani student's "social club" and are roasting whole pigs once a week.
They seem to be leaving the heads behind when they leave too.
Such disrespect.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (rbvCR)

239 What's a "Gluesenkamp"?

$20, same as in town

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (Kt19C)

240 Are they hot? Cuz I might play that........

The girlfriend is decent, the main character looks like a 12 year old boy.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (2ocoG)

241 I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45

We did however negotiate with Emperor Hirohito and whoever was left in Japan.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (gKWVE)

242 Here's the 'knight'.

avclub.com/1348-ex-voto-game-review
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (ExV1e)

Owt......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

243 230 I mean, it could be interpreted as the ops was so successful US an Israel are running out of targets.
Posted by: runner
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I think part of it is whack a mole with the deep underground bunkers and their exits to launch missiles. Israel and the US are going down the list--hitting component factories now to prevent a quick rebuild of Iran's missile capabilities. Same with hitting the steel mills.

Patience in such cases is a virtue as there are no clear lines like an invasion as the target of the bombing campaign is the will of the enemy to continue and the systematic crippling of the IRGC apparatus running Iran.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)

244
The girlfriend is decent, the main character looks like a 12 year old boy.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:29 PM (2ocoG)

Leftie gamers do seem to love them some pedo.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

245 I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45

We did however negotiate with Emperor Hirohito and whoever was left in Japan.

We were negotiating both with Japan and with ourselves. There was a real fear that if we hanged Hirohito, the commies would take over Japan.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 01:31 PM (Riz8t)

246 Functional nood!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

247 Trump is going to set up a "commercial corridor" in the strait, with US bases and US companies controlling the oil and guaranteeing access. (with some revenue)

He will get world support because of the past two weeks. At least, I think that is the plan based on evidence.

One underreported aspect of this is that Australia and New Zealand are out of gas and oil. They have plenty they can drill for, but all the refineries were shut down to stop global warming so they ship it to China for refining and then China ships them back the gas/diesel/etc.

Nothing says reducing carbon emissions like having to ship oil overseas.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:31 PM (2ocoG)

248 Whatever actions Congress takes, I think Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick hopes to bring it to jury trial in DC, where she'll have a built-in sympathetic jury pool. Add to that sympathy the purposely convoluted money trail she and her accomplices established and you've got a near-guarantee of a hung jury and a strong chance at acquittal.

Posted by: troyriser at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (DPeYO)

249 The ONLY acceptable "negotiation" :

No. More. Mullahs.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (iXqHn)

250 241 I don’t think we tried to negotiate with Hitler in 45

We did however negotiate with Emperor Hirohito and whoever was left in Japan.
Posted by: gKWVE

Hirohito is the more appropriate historical example as we are trying to separate the sheep from the goats in Iran--the titular civilian government versus the IRGC. In Japan, it was something similar--Tojo and the militarists versus the civilians.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (E4rtv)

251 There are several things going on, the "discomfort" in the strait, which will be resolved shortly, and how much is left to remove in Iran - ballistic missile production, removal of uranium, etc. The government situation is a little murky. Looks like Trump is willing to leave it in the hands of Ghalibaf ("very respected person", lol) , the foreign minister and maybe even Pezeshkian.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 01:32 PM (GD0B3)

252 His whole strategy has been to remove the threat of Iran closing the strait. In other examples, he has done that (or proposed) using commercial interests and involving all parties. He did that in the Armenian-Azerbaijan war, and he proposed it several times in Ukraine.

In Ukraine, it is mostly about resources and the solution is to have US profiting, as well as both sides, so that no one has an interest in blowing it up.

The problem from the Strait is (1) how do you seize it from Iran -- well he is doing that now. and (2) how do you get the world to agree -- well having energy cut for several weeks is doing that.

The whole shutdown of the strait was planned by Trump

You heard it here first.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (yFx9n)

253 248 Whatever actions Congress takes, I think Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick hopes to bring it to jury trial in DC, where she'll have a built-in sympathetic jury pool. Add to that sympathy the purposely convoluted money trail she and her accomplices established and you've got a near-guarantee of a hung jury and a strong chance at acquittal.
Posted by: troyriser
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Indictment is in Florida. She won't get a DC jury.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:33 PM (E4rtv)

254 The problem from the Strait is (1) how do you seize it from Iran -- well he is doing that now. and (2) how do you get the world to agree -- well having energy cut for several weeks is doing that.

Also, this closure has lit a fire under everyone else in the region to get pipelines built so nothing has to go through the strait.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 01:35 PM (2ocoG)

255 227 Morning, Ace and Horde! Sitting at a cafe in Port Angeles, WA, waiting for the ferry MV Coho to carry me to Victoria, BC. Had a nice visit with Nurse R, and we met Mark Andrew Edwards and Lazy Messenger yesterday afternoon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 01:27 PM (5ZXSK)

Good Morning AOP

I see you've begun your spring migration. Seems a little early this year?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 01:36 PM (QGaXH)

256 Pipelines are a Band-Aid. They can equally be interdicted by a resurgent Iran. Iran has to be freed.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 01:36 PM (4NO2D)

257 One underreported aspect of this is that Australia and New Zealand are out of gas and oil. They have plenty they can drill for, but all the refineries were shut down to stop global warming so they ship it to China for refining and then China ships them back the gas/diesel/etc.

Nothing says reducing carbon emissions like having to ship oil overseas.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Environmentalists are literally stupid people because despite their F*cking Love Science bullshit, they do not understand cause and effect worth a damn. Nor do they understand tradeoffs.

That is because they have rotten Marxist programming running in their watermelon brains (green on the outside, red on the inside).

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:37 PM (E4rtv)

258 You people have the $$$ to go to movies? Must be nice!

Posted by: Very Fixed Income at March 30, 2026 01:37 PM (oftw2)

259 They did not use child soldiers because they ran out of men, they used them at the checkpoints so that they would be killed and there would be outrage. Hoping to stop the checkpoint bombing.

There should be outrage -- at Iran.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 30, 2026 01:10 PM (yFx9n)

As long as it's muzzloid children, I don't give a shit. Satan has already claimed their souls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2026 01:38 PM (5ZXSK)

260 The problem from the Strait is (1) how do you seize it from Iran -- well he is doing that now. and (2) how do you get the world to agree -- well having energy cut for several weeks is doing that.

The whole shutdown of the strait was planned by Trump

You heard it here first.
Posted by: bob
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Pretty inevitable that Iran would seek to shut the Persian Gulf if attacked. That was always their go to threat so I am sure that Trump and DoW already gamed that one out.

Posted by: whig at March 30, 2026 01:38 PM (E4rtv)

261 dammit

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 01:39 PM (4NO2D)

262 I don't believe ANY news about the Iran thing. 96 hour rule, if that.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at March 30, 2026 01:46 PM (vqA1l)

263 "You people have the $$$ to go to movies? Must be nice!"

scamdemic shutdown killed the local theater complex. No place to see a movie now.

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 30, 2026 01:50 PM (cO6oP)

264 Pipelines are a Band-Aid. They can equally be interdicted by a resurgent Iran. Iran has to be freed.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Sounds like a perfect plan for Persians to pursue.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 30, 2026 02:02 PM (TezPK)

265 The RNC will make defrauding the taxpayer one of their mid-term planks. The DNC knows this and doesn't want this albatrose.

Posted by: Scott1M at March 30, 2026 02:42 PM (O9uxk)

266 258 You people have the $$$ to go to movies? Must be nice!
Posted by: Very Fixed Income at March 30, 2026 01:37 PM (oftw2)
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Luxury!

Posted by: A Man from Yorkshire at March 30, 2026 02:48 PM (cWLG3)

THE MORNING RANT: Housing Affordability Requires Vast Swaths of Virtually Uninhabitable Urban Areas Be Reclaimed

An issue I have periodically revisited is the need for “municipal conservatism” as an alternative to Democrat-administered destruction of our cities. In a 2024 piece at The Blaze, I wrote “Republicans need to offer our struggling cities an agenda focused on delivering excellent city services, including effective policing, cleanliness, anti-vagrancy measures, public safety, reliable utilities, and family-friendly parks. This agenda should promote a political climate that supports small businesses, primary education, churches, families, and patriotism. Democrat-run cities have grown hostile to these foundational elements of urban civilization, creating an enormous opportunity for Republicans.” This is not “small government conservatism.” It is “civil order conservatism.”

Hampton Prescott, one of my favorite follows on Twitter/X (@HamptonPrezcott), is a real estate professional in Atlanta who is heavily focused on this exact issue. (He also covers architectural trends, commenting on the correlation of bad commercial architecture with the state of urban environments.)

The Trump WH was close to figuring this out when they deployed the National Guard to crime ridden cities. The ONLY way to solve housing affordability is to reclaim vast swaths of urban areas that have been rendered effectively uninhabitable due to lack of safety. https://t.co/pgkBbEW5Jg
— Hampton Prescott (@HamptonPrezcott) March 13, 2026

Because I want to keep fueling discussion about the importance of municipal conservatism, I invited Mr. Prescott to provide me an essay as to his thoughts on the subject. He kindly obliged. Here it is:

Donald Trump’s second term has coincided with an increase in use and application of the phrase “you can just do things.” Whether it is taking out the Ayatollah after 50 years of western appeasement, shutting the southern border after hearing all kinds of “reasons why we can’t do anything about it” by the leftist/libertarian industrial complexes, or eliminating discriminatory hiring practices after decades of conservative apathy (or enabling), the age of dismantling stale orthodoxies is firmly upon us. I’d like to talk about another example of something justified for decades as “just the way things are” - abysmal governance of major cities and the idea that there is no hope for right-leaning leadership that efficiently and effectively provides safety and security for citizens.
Even many left-leaning folks will admit, our major cities are disaster zones. Capital flight, out of control vagrancy, serial criminals let loose by a malignant justice system, expensive services that underperform in quality (to put it charitably) - our major cities may be experiencing the roughest stretch since the dark days of the late 1970’s. Now the median conservative may look at this sad state of affairs and remark to himself, “not my circus, but maybe this will provide fodder for an attack ad come election season.” I’m here to tell that this is the height of loser attitude, and is a set of common wisdom that is commonly wrong. A few reasons why people are looking at this issue the wrong way:
• Yes, while a statewide or national GOP candidate likely won’t be winning over 50% of a major metro’s vote anytime soon, you need to look at the gross numbers involved. For example, Metro Atlanta has 6.4 million people in it as of 2024. If you apply the standard 65% turnout rate and assume that the GOP candidate is going to lose by 10 points, that is still 1.84 million potential voters that could be in your camp. Therefore, politicians ignoring the concerns of urban right-leaning voters or simply those longing for public safety may end up costing them the election. Having a tailored candidate at the local level, that delivers on their simplified promises (see later in the post for my proposed three-point pledge) would filter up to benefit these statewide and national candidates (granted they tailor their message to these urban voters!)
• A dynamic of municipal elections that is often overlooked - turnout is generally absolutely abysmal. To wit, the 2021 Atlanta Mayoral Election (which saw multiple competitive candidates) had a whopping turnout of 25% of active registered voters. Even the 2024 NYC mayoral election, likely the most ballyhooed municipal race in recent memory, saw turnout come out to a ho-hum 43% of registered voters.
• The GOP has made housing affordability a huge priority for their governance platform. As anyone who follows my X account knows, proponents of housing affordability are missing the absolute largest driver of the problem - the only way you can materially help with housing affordability is to reclaim the vast swaths of buildable land surrounding job centers that were abandoned to crime and disorder over the past few decades. Further straining affordability, city dwellers are also effectively forced to pay twice for services like education - their taxes pay for dysfunctional schools which in turn force them to pay tuition, with prices reflecting inelastic demand, for private school. Solving this issue at the local level would filter up to substantial improvements on a national scale, another factor that should interest the GOP.
Of course, a “national GOP” style of message at the local, urban level is a guarantee of failure. Talking about fiscal conservatism, tax cuts, and reducing municipal services is not going to motivate and inspire your average urban voter. (Probably not even affluent voters.) A candidate that follows the spirit of the ideas posited here would need to prioritize safety and municipal order above all else. I highlight these issues as they are the absolute prerequisites for quite literally anything in an urban ecosystem to work. As a real estate professional, I am always amused at the relative lack of attention paid amongst industry luminaries towards something that is absolutely core to any success in the industry. There is almost a learned helplessness to the issue, as if the move is to perpetually be in retreat as destructive, pro-crime forces destroy more and more of the built environment. Those who remain spend their political capital seeking out tax breaks (which won’t matter as long as a neighborhood feels unsafe and is seeing its productive populace flee.) This approach, of course, is absolute nonsense.
The real estate community, as generational leadership turnover occurs, is a natural ally in this endeavor. They need to get organized on the front end, defining simple goals for candidates to support, such as:
1. Effectively address crime and disorder.
2. Utilize the Walt Disney approach to cleanliness.
3. Manage but don’t cut services, which will benefit tremendously from effectuating #1.
Getting voter turnout in municipal elections above its current anemic levels would yield tremendous ROI - for the cities themselves, and for their own business interests.
Look no further than the value appreciation seen in Florida cities benefiting from strong messaging and action on crime and disorder. (And for the inverse, look no further than the value destruction in formerly high-flying cities such as Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland and Denver).
This is an exciting time where long-held, indefensible orthodoxies are being discarded. “You can just do things” is the ethos of our time. Taking back our cities and making the apathy that has dominated for so long a relic of a bygone era is an opportunity waiting there for the taking.
[Hampton Presoctt]

Thank you, Hampton, for this much appreciated contribution. Here is a link to his Twitter/X page if you would like to read more from Mr. Prescott.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Buck.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Hello

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 30, 2026 11:02 AM (k2hhB)

4 Forced gentrification should be A Thing.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 11:03 AM (BpO1e)

5 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 11:03 AM (+HNx/)

6 Peace and goodwill to all mank ind.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 11:03 AM (cWLG3)

7 America! Fuck Yeah!

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:04 AM (4NO2D)

8 we should take the little pockets of desirability and make them hyperdense.

Or as John Lautner said, "murder factories".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 30, 2026 11:04 AM (Kt19C)

9 Housing is a weird issue for the left. They know people in general want prices to go down but the left ideologically wants them to go way, way up and perhaps more importantly their northeastern and left coast AWFLs have a significant portion of their savings wrapped up in housing prices.

So the left will talk about housing as if it is somehow separate from supply and demand.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:05 AM (sKqQm)

10 Isn't this why Trump won the first time?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

11 One of the bigger obstacles is the "rights" groups that get in the way of things getting cleaned up. Those people should be turned into mulch that feeds the trees we plant in the newly safe neighborhoods.

Or am I being too rude?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 11:06 AM (BpO1e)

12 One example I've mentioned before but always makes me laugh:

The left: Immigration is a human right! We need to bring in more people, many more people!

Also the left: How dare housing prices go up when we bring in a bunch of immigrants...that's racist!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

13 Forced gentrification should be A Thing.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 11:03 AM (BpO1e)

Men in women's sports FTW!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

14 I don't want to live like bees.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 11:06 AM (wVcYX)

15 glirpgleepgloop

Posted by: Racist...who is secretly in love with his black neighbor at March 30, 2026 11:06 AM (JvP6j)

16 Good points, and I've seen all of it at work where I live. Reclaim the cities and a great number of problems resolve themselves.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:06 AM (OUMaO)

17 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (bFu5X)

18 Forced gentrification should be A Thing.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 11:03 AM (BpO1e)

Men in women's sports FTW!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:06 AM

ISWYDT, Gent.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

19 TL;DR. Cliff's Notes?

Because the inner cities are gonna inner city regardless.

Has nothing to do with "lack of safety". Has everything to do with pride of ownership.

Section 8 is gonna Section 8. Every big blue city proves that.

You will get safety with ownership.
Homeowners aren't going to put up with shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Kksvc)

20 As Sting noted, you don't have to live like a refugee.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

21 A candidate that follows the spirit of the ideas posited here would need to prioritize safety and municipal order above all else.
_____

Wait, I've been told that inner-city voters vastly prefer the candidates that promises to not prosecute the inner-city criminals - no safety, no municipal order. Isn't that how Larry Krasner keeps getting re-elected in Philthadephia?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Dv3i1)

22 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (bFu5X)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Donald Trump’s second term has coincided with an increase in use and application of the phrase “you can just do things.

Yesterday, we had an extended discussion about "analysis paralysis". This is one of the reasons why nothing gets done. The other is that the left opposes and blocks every common sense solution to any problem, because someone on the right (being largely people of common sense) came up with a good solution.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

24 Or another one I see:

The left: We need more housing and for progressive officials to overrule local officials that won't let them build more housing for our new immigrants!

Also the left: How dare the state take away our natural spaces and historic buildings and replace them with tenements! Don't they know what this is doing to the character of my quaint town (and housing prices?!?)

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (sKqQm)

25 Collectivism is a religion for some, and its’ implications are what we hate.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (pDt9x)

26 ‘ The ONLY way to solve housing affordability is to reclaim vast swaths of urban areas that have been rendered effectively uninhabitable due to lack of safety’

Are they going to make democrat government go away? Because it won’t work without that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (jbnUc)

27 The left's idea of housing is ultra-dense apartments with state managed utilities and public transportation.

Subjugation of the public requires them to be immobile and dependent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (AkEZC)

28 20 As Sting noted, you don't have to live like a refugee.

---------

*ahem*

Posted by: Tom Petty at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (+HNx/)

29 If you want dreaded " gentrification" you'll need to shut down X as every single day there are more reports of brutal, senseless attacks by blacks against whites. Not one mention in this posting about that. Or talk the gays into moving into the bombed out areas as they did in Chicago.

Young white males are ready to get fitted with Hugo Boss uniforms and engage in ethnic cleansing. They've been locked out of every other opportunity.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (qwx/I)

30 As Sting noted, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

Tom Petty hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

31 Getting voter turnout in municipal elections above its current anemic levels would yield tremendous ROI - for the cities themselves, and for their own business interests.

Yes, but the people living there believe their votes don't matter and they are right - the local officials just cast enough ballots to keep returning the same people over and over...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

32 Morning

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (0ogfQ)

33 30 As Sting noted, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

Tom Petty hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Don’t come around here no more. Whatever you’re lookin’ for.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:10 AM (pDt9x)

34 25 Collectivism is a religion for some, and its’ implications are what we hate.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (pDt9x)

-----------

You don't like warmth then?

Posted by: Z. Mamdani at March 30, 2026 11:10 AM (+HNx/)

35 The left's idea of housing is ultra-dense apartments with state managed utilities and public transportation.

For everyone else.

They'll still get a detached house with a yard, a car, and all the LNG they need to keep their house warm in the winter...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:10 AM (sKqQm)

36 The ONLY way to solve housing affordability is to reclaim vast swaths of urban areas that have been rendered effectively uninhabitable due to lack of safety.

aka Wolfen.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 11:11 AM (wVcYX)

37 You mean releasing people with 32 felony arrests is not the norm?
Throwing a couple thousand "career criminals" in the slammer would make any large city safer and more habitable for law-abiding, working, residents. The mayhem is tolerated and encouraged on many levels.

Posted by: Sweet Rural Shade at March 30, 2026 11:11 AM (oftw2)

38 Without saying it directly, he's saying that we need a Bukele. Or several Bukele's, one for each large urban center. And the high level support to allow them to do what needs to be done.

A key lesson from his efforts: yes, you can incarcerate your way to peace and prosperity. 1% - 2% of the population needs to be taken off the streets for good, and the rest can live quite peacefully.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 11:11 AM (/QdgR)

39 The house my mother grew up in in Detroit, 2020 census population 639,111 - turned into a drug house and was eventually razed.

I haven't crossed over to Michigan for years, but even in a car on 'freeways' in daylight, it's pretty creepy.

May Coleman Young rot in hell.

Damn, cute young woman from Alberta didn't win a car on TPIR.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 11:11 AM (Sco7b)

40
Don’t come around here no more. Whatever you’re lookin’ for.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:10 AM (pDt9x)

Cuz I'm free.

Free ballin......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

41 The other is that the left opposes and blocks every common sense solution to any problem, because someone on the right (being largely people of common sense) came up with a good solution.
____

There are a lot of jobs that rely on the maintenance of the infrastructure of destitution. Solving these means people will lose their meaningless jobs that nonetheless provide paychecks.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 11:12 AM (Dv3i1)

42 27 The left's idea of housing is ultra-dense apartments with state managed utilities and public transportation.

Subjugation of the public requires them to be immobile and dependent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (AkEZC)

And making it illegal to be more than a 15-minutes walk away from your pod.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:12 AM (uEmCf)

43 But without massive vote fraud reform--made permanent, robust and aggressive--every city will soon enough slip back into Demo-socalist crime-ridden hellholes.

Like all con-men, they must short-circuit logical thinking with emotion.
And giving them more power to fix the crime--that they allowed and caused--is their easiest, and longest-running, manipulation.

To put it another way, why should we fix their problem before we prevent them from profiting from the problem?

But all of that is irrelevant:
Renters should never have a vote.
Take that away and the cities will fix themselves.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 11:12 AM (HXT0k)

44 Democrat activists are suing to stop Trump from paying TSA. That’s levels of picking the losing side of an issue not seen since they shot John Wick’s dog.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 11:12 AM (3cXfB)

45 "The only way you can materially help with housing affordability is to reclaim the vast swaths of buildable land surrounding job centers that were abandoned to crime and disorder over the past few decades."

====≈

Wow. I've never seen it stated this way, but after commuting into/ of Metro Detroit for a few decades . . . Yeah, this makes so much sense.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 30, 2026 11:13 AM (bMded)

46 Cities?
Yuck.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)

47 I think the big urban areas (NY, Chicago, Philly, Atlanta, LA, etc) is where the vote cheating is concentrated so even if republicans start focusing on this they'll still lose elections in these blue shitholes. It's a problem.... some conservative pol may have a great agenda and message for these big cities but getting elected... nigh near impossible no matter how great your message and candidate

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 11:13 AM (xT8gx)

48 Because the inner cities are gonna inner city regardless.

Has nothing to do with "lack of safety". Has everything to do with pride of ownership.

Section 8 is gonna Section 8. Every big blue city proves that.

You will get safety with ownership.
Homeowners aren't going to put up with shit.

I was in downtown DC two nights ago. I rarely go there anymore, so it's a good way to observe the contrast between what was, and what is.

I just couldn't believe what has happened to the area where our restaurant was. It's breathtaking. It's obvious a ton of money (and definitely NOT taxpayer money) has been invested. The homes are gorgeous. People with that kind of resources aren't going to put up with the crappy governments DC enjoyed in the 20th century.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

49 ***“Republicans need to offer our struggling cities an agenda focused
--

on true conservative values and not middling modifiers to coddle the Democrats and Squishy middle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:13 AM (0ogfQ)

50 11
‘ Those people should be turned into mulch that feeds the trees we plant in the newly safe neighborhoods.

Or am I being too rude?’

No. Thats not rude at all. That’s what they would want for themselves.
Or at least that’s what I want for them and that’s close enough.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2026 11:14 AM (jbnUc)

51 There is a LOT of this city that needs reclaiming. The MId-City neighborhood where I went to junior high, for one, and the area around my high school as well. Great swaths of Uptown and territories bordering it need reclaiming.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 11:14 AM (wzUl9)

52 on true conservative values and not middling modifiers to coddle the Democrats and Squishy middle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:13 AM (0ogfQ)

There is no other way.............

Posted by: John Thune at March 30, 2026 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

53 Fifty years of codified welfare state governance tends to affect people in a very bad way.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:15 AM (pDt9x)

54 38 Without saying it directly, he's saying that we need a Bukele. Or several Bukele's, one for each large urban center. And the high level support to allow them to do what needs to be done.

A key lesson from his efforts: yes, you can incarcerate your way to peace and prosperity. 1% - 2% of the population needs to be taken off the streets for good, and the rest can live quite peacefully.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 11:11 AM (/QdgR)

In the short term, that kind of prison cost is likely unaffordable for most bankrupt cities...not to mention, the unaffordability and time needed for the US legal system to make that work...

Thus, why deportation has been the 1st answer...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:15 AM (tOcjL)

55 The Democrat Elite already know that the easiest solution for getting rid of the "Filthy Poors" is to price them out of existence.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:15 AM (uEmCf)

56 So perhaps instead of sending young males to go and secure Kharg Island at the risk of getting blown up, disemboweled, and castrated, we take the MRAPs out of mothballs and send them to restore order in our cities.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 30, 2026 11:16 AM (qwx/I)

57 33 30 As Sting noted, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

Tom Petty hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Don’t come around here no more. Whatever you’re lookin’ for.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:10 AM (pDt9x)
---
As Bob Dylan said "every rose has its thorns."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 11:16 AM (cWLG3)

58 All of our violent felons need to be transported for life. Greenland would work.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:16 AM (pDt9x)

59 the only way you can materially help with housing affordability is to reclaim the vast swaths of buildable land surrounding job centers that were abandoned to crime and disorder over the past few decades.
>>>>

This may be true, but there's the issue that the "job centers" are also leaving the urban areas.

MAYBE if people feel safe living there, the jobs will return, but there is a LOT of empty office space in most (all?) urban centers.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (N1DT3)

60 The Democrat Elite already know that the easiest solution for getting rid of the "Filthy Poors" is to price them out of existence.
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:15 AM (uEmCf)

Yet, they're overrunning LA, NYC, Chitcago.......the most expensive places to live.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

61 Chicago Bob is up to it again.

Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

-
Well, Joshua maybe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (ndZc7)

62 As Bob Dylan said "every rose has its thorns."

And as he also said:
"ahhh-hnnnn huuhhhhh ahhhhhnyyyd".

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

63 ---
As Bob Dylan said "every rose has its thorns."
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 11:16 AM (cWLG3)

Just like every night has it's dawn.

And every cowboy sings a sad, sad song.

Posted by: Bill and Ted at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

64 - the only way you can materially help with housing affordability is to reclaim the vast swaths of buildable land surrounding job centers that were abandoned to crime and disorder over the past few decades
******

Eliminate communist police work, selective enforcement, no go zone, and ideological anti-American organizations starting with no mosques, no muzzies and no anti-fa.

To heal a wound you must eliminate the infection.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (0ogfQ)

65 The Democrat-Communists are not getting rid of the urban poor, they are getting rid of the urban middle class.

The Democrat-Communists love the poor. So much so that they want to create tens of millions more of them.

Posted by: 15 Tiny Cities at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (qUkBO)

66 61 Chicago Bob is up to it again.

Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

-
Well, Joshua maybe.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (ndZc7)
I read that blindingly stupid comment he made. Biblical illiteracy, or just pandering?

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

67 Chicago Bob is up to it again.

Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

-
Well, Joshua maybe.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (ndZc7)

And The Bee responded perfectly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

68 To heal a wound you must eliminate the infection.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM

Slap hot iron to it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (4NO2D)

69 As Sting noted, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

Tom Petty hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Don’t come around here no more. Whatever you’re lookin’ for.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:10 AM (pDt9x)
---
As Bob Dylan said "every rose has its thorns."
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
- Governor Walz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (ndZc7)

70 Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

Interfice omnes et Deus eos ordinat.

Posted by: Pope Urban II at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (qwx/I)

71 60 Yet, they're overrunning LA, NYC, Chitcago.......the most expensive places to live.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

But NOT Martha's Vineyard, where the snobbiest of the snobs live.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:19 AM (uEmCf)

72 I read that blindingly stupid comment he made. Biblical illiteracy, or just pandering?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

EmBRACE the power of and.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

73
But NOT Martha's Vineyard, where the snobbiest of the snobs live.
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:19 AM (uEmCf)

They built a wall.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

74 A thought: When the country was growing, we dealt with the native tribes eventually by herding them into reservations. Now we've essentially done the same with certain native-born ethnic "tribes", except instead of some waste lands on the margins, we've set up our cities as "reservations".

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:19 AM (OUMaO)

75 All low income housing areas should have police sub stations of the appropriate staffing and walking beats.

This is the required first step before you can implement any other steps.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:21 AM (V4IXI)

76 But NOT Martha's Vineyard, where the snobbiest of the snobs live.
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:19 AM (uEmCf)

They built a wall.
Posted by: Sponge

They busses asses out toot sweet.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:21 AM (Kksvc)

77 Also, you can't deport citizens. Even if they are shitty citizens.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (OUMaO)

78 Is the underclass and slave master relationship on the Left permanent?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (u82oZ)

79 "Affordability" is a feeling, not a fact. Stop using that word.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (2Ez/1)

80 All low income housing areas should have police sub stations of the appropriate staffing and walking beats.

This is the required first step before you can implement any other steps.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:21 AM (V4IXI)

All inner city yutes have been bred with the 'fact' that police are bad and want to kill them. Policing the streets will never bring peace and safety to the inner city.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

81 77 Also, you can't deport citizens. Even if they are shitty citizens.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (OUMaO)

A King could -

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:23 AM (pDt9x)

82 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

The Old Testament hardest hit.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:23 AM (V4IXI)

83 I agree that something must be done and we shouldn't cede the battleground.

However my other response is the same one I have for many pundits:
Sounds nice, but as always the devil is in the details. It's a problem for all of us, don't just say "$politician must come up with a plan". That's dodging your own responsibility.

Also..."Walt Disney approach to cleanliness". Okay, I understand the general implication - litter/blown trash makes things look bad and reduces civic pride and order, but what does the "Walt Disney approach" per set, look like in implementation?

Posted by: RandomDave at March 30, 2026 11:23 AM (ONKca)

84 Also, you can't deport citizens. Even if they are shitty citizens.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (OUMaO)

A King could -
Posted by: tubal

A dictator could make them play catch with mortars.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (Kksvc)

85 So perhaps instead of sending young males to go and secure Kharg Island at the risk of getting blown up, disemboweled, and castrated, we take the MRAPs out of mothballs and send them to restore order in our cities.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 30, 2026 11:16 AM (qwx/I)

And send the miscreants to secure Kharg Island instead.

If they succeed? Great! Reward them.

If they don't succeed? Our cities would be a lot better off.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (N1DT3)

86 Sounds great. But I doubt you can get there from here. At least without disenfranchising most of the populations of our cities.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (AlhUl)

87 Alaska is our only real suitable gulag area. I would expect Alaskans to object to having thousands of criminals dumped there but I can't think of anywhere else.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (4NO2D)

88 I mean, if you want more of something, you need to incentivize it, and create the economic conditions whereby incentives will lead to results.

Or said another way...

Everything is out of wack, you gotta get it in wack or else you'll get ungatz on pumpernickel.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (XV/Pl)

89 Once Worldcoin, and Universal Basic Income are established, we won't have this problem.

They aren't kidding...these people have serious plans. Just finished a frightening article "The Orb Will See You Now". They're serious, and have plans. Never mind the loons in the street, worry about the AI tech oligarchs.

It's a slog, but worth the read
https://shorturl.at/M8Uf7

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (XeU6L)

90 Is the underclass and slave master relationship on the Left permanent?

That's up to the underclass, who are, after all, not being held against their will. As long as they're willing to take the government cheese instead of acting like they have full agency, the Dems will be happy to keep them on the plantation.

It's a novel concept: the opt-in slave.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

91 Cities in the current era are odd.

Most of the jobs left along with the middle class.

So they are the homes of the rich and the poor, full of high end entertainment for the elites and drugs and crime for the poor.

Frankly the easiest way to fix this is probably just make sure the criminal elements can get access to the urban rich. They'll either leave and collapse the system or start demanding real solutions (like NYC in the 90s).

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (sKqQm)

92 Austin is apparently NOT housing-friendly... but the state of Texas keeps finding ways to slap down the local hipsters and AWFLs.
tinyurl.com/4aawnsev

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 11:24 AM (gKWVE)

93 77 Also, you can't deport citizens. Even if they are shitty citizens.
Posted by: Brother Tim
---

You can do anything you have the will to do.
See: Donald J. Trump

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:25 AM (0ogfQ)

94 "Republicans need to offer our struggling cities an agenda focused on delivering excellent..."

Great idea. And a winning theme.
Except most of the ones who would vote for it have already fled the cities. Not sure what the fix is.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 11:25 AM (2WIwB)

95 I frequently note that every possible fault line in our society has cracked open - but there is none bigger than the urban vs rural/small-town divide.

It appears to transcend everything. Rich or poor, black or white, Christian or atheist, you name it - when it comes to political loyalties, all other factors are subordinate to whether people CHOOSE to live in an urban environment or not. It's a self-selection mechanism.

Not that some people on both sides aren't "trapped behind enemy lines," but in general these political majorities form voluntarily according to the values people have.

And the divide is only growing and growing, as the cities descend into straight-up hellscapes and people flee them accordingly. At this rate, if you still live in one of these cesspools, it's because you must live there, or because you love the cesspool and would never countenance living among your inferiors who don't have to ward off CHUDs on a daily basis, because you hate them.

I would put the odds of a major political shift in a given urban antpile at around 0%. A good-governance platform won't convince people whose attitude is "I wish I could gas you and everyone like you."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2026 11:25 AM (BI5O2)

96 All low income housing areas should have police sub stations of the appropriate staffing and walking beats.

This is the required first step before you can implement any other steps.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:21 AM (V4IXI)

All inner city yutes have been bred with the 'fact' that police are bad and want to kill them. Policing the streets will never bring peace and safety to the inner city.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Especially when "don't act white" is a mantra.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:25 AM (Kksvc)

97 I read that blindingly stupid comment he made. Biblical illiteracy, or just pandering?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

Embrace the healing power of "and".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:25 AM (N1DT3)

98 I agree with what most are saying but I think we’re leaving out the fact that a certain party WANTS criminals to run free and for vast swaths to be dependent.
It’s a nation wide vote farm.
Until the democrats are broken this vision of urban renewal is a fantasy.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2026 11:26 AM (jbnUc)

99 Gotta go to work. bbl

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 11:26 AM (0ogfQ)

100 A King could -

Posted by: tubal

The Israelites clamored for a king. Several books enumerate how well that worked out.

Always be careful what you wish for...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:26 AM (OUMaO)

101 The horror that is the Trump ballroom.

https://is.gd/B1kT9Z

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:26 AM (ndZc7)

102 All inner city yutes have been bred with the 'fact' that police are bad and want to kill them. Policing the streets will never bring peace and safety to the inner city.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm not trying to change born criminals. I'm trying to prevent and make it harder for them to commit the crimes. Letting them create no go zones is insane.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:27 AM (V4IXI)

103 Biblical illiteracy, or just pandering?

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

He worships progressivism, not the God of the Bible.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (n9ltV)

104 King could -

Posted by: tubal

The Israelites clamored for a king. Several books enumerate how well that worked out.

Always be careful what you wish for...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:26 AM (OUMaO)

Well look how well the Judges are working out in Israel now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (V4IXI)

105 Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
- Governor Walz
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (ndZc7)
--

Wait 'til you spend the night in my Sugar Walls.

Posted by: Tim "Sugar" Walz at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (0bjKf)

106 I saw a banner from a No Kangz rally that read "Democracy Must Win!"

Now...do they not remember we had an election at the end of 2024?

Or...is the whole left on board with Elissa Slotkin now in arguing the 2024 election was stolen?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (sKqQm)

107 I read that blindingly stupid comment he made. Biblical illiteracy, or just pandering?
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:18 AM (pDt9x)

He was probably trying to say this war does not meet the Just War doctrine requirements...and being an American-raised Catholic, he sucks at the Biblical stuff (b/c they fell away from teaching the Bible for a few decades after Vatican 2).

Now, there is a discussion for if the Iran war meets the Just War doctrine...but in his homily, the Pope obviously avoided that and just let out his pissed off feelings about the war and went flailing...since I've heard heretical homilies from priests before, hearing one from the Pope (about God not listening to all prayers) is not surprising b/c he's been an emotional throwback 60's hippie priest (if I had a concept for his thoughts - environment, make peace not war, etc)...so when he talks on "hippie" topics, you understand his pre-existing biases...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (tOcjL)

108 All inner city yutes have been bred with the 'fact' that police are bad and want to kill them. Policing the streets will never bring peace and safety to the inner city.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Especially when "don't act white" is a mantra.

Posted by: rickb223

So what, we ship 'em all off somewhere else? Africa? Haiti? Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (OUMaO)

109 Canada's housing affordability is ACTUALLY an issue the politicians seem to be concerned about. It's expensive as hell to live here.

In my small town where I've run 6 or 7 errands in 30 minutes or so, a new building went up and small apartments are about $1500 a month. That's insane.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (Sco7b)

110 Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"
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I guess King David was wasting his breath.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2026 11:29 AM (XeU6L)

111 100 A King could -

Posted by: tubal

The Israelites clamored for a king. Several books enumerate how well that worked out.

Always be careful what you wish for...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:26 AM (OUMaO)

I was being a little tongue in cheek, Tim. We have elections, for better or worse, every four years, and that detail has produced some horrible miscreants in our memories. Kingly powers, given our system, is a very bad idea.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (pDt9x)

112 A key lesson from his efforts: yes, you can incarcerate your way to peace and prosperity. 1% - 2% of the population needs to be taken off the streets for good, and the rest can live quite peacefully.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 11:11 AM (/QdgR)

There is another way. -- Vlad III

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

113 77 Also, you can't deport citizens. Even if they are shitty citizens.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (OUMaO)

True, but a large portion of the city underclass causing issues are not citizens...so working on that part reduces costs and problems quickly before you tackle the rest...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (tOcjL)

114 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

Also you're ignoring exactly what Rudy did in NYC.

Damn I hate the 'can't' attitude

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (V4IXI)

115 Always be careful what you wish for...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:26 AM (OUMaO)

Well look how well the Judges are working out in Israel now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Judges 19 is the section of the Bible for "True Crime" fans. Anyone else can be forgiven for steering clear.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (OUMaO)

116 Also you're ignoring exactly what Rudy did in NYC.

Damn I hate the 'can't' attitude
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (V4IXI)

It didn't last.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

117 Canuckistan has expensive housing because they have way more taxes and regulations then we do along with less land people want to live in combined with importing 23% of their population in recent years.

Restrict supply and explode demand and what happens to costs?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

118 In my small town where I've run 6 or 7 errands in 30 minutes or so, a new building went up and small apartments are about $1500 a month. That's insane.
Posted by: Stateless
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Same here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

119 I was being a little tongue in cheek, Tim. We have elections, for better or worse, every four years, and that detail has produced some horrible miscreants in our memories. Kingly powers, given our system, is a very bad idea.

Posted by: tubal

I've clearly been lurking Substack too long. Holy hell, some of what's proposed there...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:31 AM (OUMaO)

120 The real issue is why are large swaths of America's cities so unsafe and full of crime?

Posted by: Unsafe At Any Speed at March 30, 2026 11:31 AM (h+Nbi)

121 This pope has pictures of him venerating the Pachamama. I'm fine with his goddess not hearing my prayers. I'd be more worried if she did take notice.
Wonder if he has an antique puzzlebox somewhere in his chambers.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 11:32 AM (gKWVE)

122 So what, we ship 'em all off somewhere else? Africa? Haiti? Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?
Posted by: Brother Tim

You have to change the pattern of thinking.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:32 AM (Kksvc)

123 Yudhishthira's Dice

Does this lack of empathy, self-respect, no long range planning, and hostility to success have a biological basis? Like a marker in a F-19 PET scan?

The answer is more death penalties and tell women to have kids with good men. Fathers are a missing solution.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 11:32 AM (u82oZ)

124 The left's idea of housing is ultra-dense apartments with state managed utilities and public transportation.

Subjugation of the public requires them to be immobile and dependent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (AkEZC)

Their goal isn't to subjugate the masses. Their goal is to achieve permanent power, replace the masses with robots/AI, and eliminate the masses. Having them centrally located makes the extermination easier.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

125 They were just movies!

Posted by: Snake Plissken at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (wVcYX)

126 In my small town where I've run 6 or 7 errands in 30 minutes or so, a new building went up and small apartments are about $1500 a month. That's insane.
Posted by: Stateless

Price is being used as a filter. Since they can't do anything else to keep the garbage-tier folk out, they just hike the prices until they can't afford to rent there...though now decent working class folk can't either.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (OUMaO)

127 90 Is the underclass and slave master relationship on the Left permanent?

That's up to the underclass, who are, after all, not being held against their will. As long as they're willing to take the government cheese instead of acting like they have full agency, the Dems will be happy to keep them on the plantation.

It's a novel concept: the opt-in slave.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026

The biggest issue here is they aren’t slaves, really. They are pets. Slaves labored. This group gets paid and fed to do nothing at all.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (Wmg4n)

128 Having escaped urban and suburban hell I'm in favor of the Pol Pot solution for cities.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (TsyKT)

129 So what, we ship 'em all off somewhere else? Africa? Haiti? Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?
_____

Do not send your criminals here!

Posted by: Haiti at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (Dv3i1)

130 It's a novel concept: the opt-in slave.
Posted by: Archimedes

I saw The Opt-In Slave open for The Artist Formerly Known As Prince at First Avenue in '95.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (VHUov)

131 a large portion of the city underclass causing issues are not citizens

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (tOcjL)

Nonsense. Illegals are disproportionately represented in the crime stats, but homegrown Americans still commit a large majority of the crime in America.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (n9ltV)

132 I guess King David was wasting his breath.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Or King Hezekiah. He didn't just bend over and take it when the Assyrians swept in.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (gKWVE)

133 95 I would put the odds of a major political shift in a given urban antpile at around 0%. A good-governance platform won't convince people whose attitude is "I wish I could gas you and everyone like you."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2026 11:25 AM (BI5O2)

I wasn't raised urban, neither the white nor black side (now I've made myself a target for the troll) were urban.

But I don't know how I prove to people that I'm not part of the urban cohort and don't want to be forced into it by some "You'll never be one of us" rhetoric.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (uEmCf)

134 124 The left's idea of housing is ultra-dense apartments with state managed utilities and public transportation.

Subjugation of the public requires them to be immobile and dependent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (AkEZC)

Their goal isn't to subjugate the masses. Their goal is to achieve permanent power, replace the masses with robots/AI, and eliminate the masses. Having them centrally located makes the extermination easier.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

Just cut off their Soylent Green supply. Problems solved.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (pDt9x)

135 A thought: When the country was growing, we dealt with the native tribes eventually by herding them into reservations. Now we've essentially done the same with certain native-born ethnic "tribes", except instead of some waste lands on the margins, we've set up our cities as "reservations".
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:19 AM (OUMaO)

I say keep them there. We sure as hell don't want them out here in the rest of the country.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (g8Ew8)

136 the only way you can materially help with housing affordability is to reclaim the vast swaths of buildable land surrounding job centers that were abandoned to crime and disorder over the past few decades
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I've a problem with that "job centers."
What kind of jobs?
In what industries?

We can't just hand-wave "job centers" into existence.

And then:
Think about your job, or one you used to do, or those of people you know.
Would you trade your current housing for a high-rise tenement (or condo/townhome) but you could get to work in under 15 minutes?
Those ghetto lots are tiny; you can have house or yard but not both.

Oh, and for revitalization: Underground utilities run $1 million per mile.
What kind of jobs support the developers to invest in building the housing to restore those urban areas?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (HXT0k)

137 Having them centrally located makes the extermination easier.

Boy howdy. You lure them onto a skyscraper, and ZAAPPPPP!

Posted by: The aliens from Independence Day at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

138 The answer is more death penalties and tell women to have kids with good men. Fathers are a missing solution.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

You have to change welfare.
No father present? No checks.

Stop LBJ'ing them.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Kksvc)

139 You have to change the pattern of thinking.

Posted by: rickb223

Agreed, but that's a huge undertaking. Lots of things need doing before you can even put the basics in place.

Daunting task, and I wonder who's even up for it. Still worthy.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:34 AM (OUMaO)

140 Honestly, if I were planning a brand new metro area to create from scratch, you'd think densely packed apartments and businesses would be the way to go. A lot less money spent on infrastructure (construction and maintenance), less are to patrol for police and such, etc. Everything would be much more efficient.

But, it wouldn't be how many people want to live, so they'd always be leaving, either for whatever "suburbs" existed, or for other areas entirely. And there seems to be some weird social pressure for people in these environments to be less self sufficient and expect more and more services to be provided for them.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (JCZqz)

141 27 The left's idea of housing is ultra-dense apartments with state managed utilities and public transportation.

Subjugation of the public requires them to be immobile and dependent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 11:08 AM (AkEZC)

The progressive dream is the same as it was in the 19th century - cram as many people as possible into choked, stifling government tenements where vermin, cholera, tuberculosis, typhus and crime ravage the unwashed plebs.

Posted by: They've always been great humanitarians at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (TbWk/)

142 In Houston they are putting up subsidized housing next to multimillion dollar neighborhoods.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (V4IXI)

143 Chicago Bob is up to it again.

Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

Well.
I know for a fact he is wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (2WIwB)

144 The answer is more death penalties and tell women to have kids with good men. Fathers are a missing solution.

I saw an interview with a guy that had seven baby mommas and wasn't paying any child support.

He noted that he never gave his real name, where he lives, or where he works to the women...but they were still willing to have unprotected sex with him.

He argued it wasn't his fault anyway since he offered to pay for an abortion.

You aren't going to be able to persuade this kind of guy to be a dad.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)

145 Price is being used as a filter. Since they can't do anything else to keep the garbage-tier folk out, they just hike the prices until they can't afford to rent there...though now decent working class folk can't either.

That's not exactly a new idea.

Posted by: Disney World at March 30, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

146 Came in late but thank you for highlighting Mr Prescott

great stuff!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 11:36 AM (j+aD2)

147 Giuliani did clean up NYC.

Then they replaced him with Bloomberg, and a run of commie retards that turned it back into what they WANTED it to be.

CAN policing be the solution? Of course. But not when they don't want it for themselves.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

148 All inner city yutes have been bred with the 'fact' that police are bad and want to kill them. Policing the streets will never bring peace and safety to the inner city.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

Depends on how you police the streets. -- ED-209

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:36 AM (ExV1e)

149 142 In Houston they are putting up subsidized housing next to multimillion dollar neighborhoods.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (V4IXI)

They tried that here and the love every illegal DEI rich crowd nixed that... Can't have those icky people in my neighborhood...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 11:37 AM (ECasK)

150 I say keep them there. We sure as hell don't want them out here in the rest of the country.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Except, we've seen the outsized influence cities have on political outcomes. Seems there must be a better solution.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:37 AM (OUMaO)

151 31 a large portion of the city underclass causing issues are not citizens

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:30 AM (tOcjL)

Nonsense. Illegals are disproportionately represented in the crime stats, but homegrown Americans still commit a large majority of the crime in America.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (n9ltV)

A. We aren't just talking crime - issues are filth, littering, homelessness, welfare needs, etc.
B. They are the cheapest and easiest group to solve. As mentioned above, the legal system makes incarcerating large swaths on a dime unaffordable in most places, whereas just shipping those possible home decreases the problem in the fastest way possible
C. They contribute to the overall lawless feel. If someone can just come in illegally and "steal my welfare", then I should just go steal it back. It degrades the legal structure and desire for goodness.
D. Illegals are the ultimate renters. They don't care if they come and go, destroy and depart, cash out and leave...they have zero interest or care in the welfare of America, the country...and that shows.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:37 AM (tOcjL)

152 The answer is more death penalties and tell women to have kids with good men. Fathers are a missing solution.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 11:32 AM (u82oZ)

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2026 11:38 AM (n9ltV)

153 Just got home from a road trip Vacay. Drove through St Louis, Nashville, Knoxville, Columbia. Discounting the rot in St Louis every place is essentially the same. Masses of people living the lives of anxious ants.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:38 AM (pDt9x)

154 You have to change the pattern of thinking.

Posted by: rickb223

Agreed, but that's a huge undertaking. Lots of things need doing before you can even put the basics in place.

Daunting task, and I wonder who's even up for it. Still worthy.

This is probably the single biggest crime Obama committed. I think things were gradually improving until he took office, and it was all "whitey is the reason for all your troubles" from then on.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

155 he's been an emotional throwback 60's hippie priest

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Like, far out, dude.
- Chicago Bob

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ndZc7)

156 If Republicans don't turn out in great numbers like in 2024, you are going to get creamed. We will get a Dem Senate, Dem house and impeachments.

We are urging Nevadans to show up. Typically voter turn out drops 15%-22% in midterms.

Show UP>make your voice heard. I jumped into a political race to do something. You can vote up and down the ticket for Republicans. Yup, I know there are a lot of RINOs out there (See John Thune) but Thune is better than any Democrat-even though he disappoints

Posted by: Jeff Carter at March 30, 2026 11:38 AM (ZiwLX)

157 More simply put, the democrap party is and always has been the biggest organized crime mob that has ever been in the Americas.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2026 11:39 AM (xvV+O)

158 So what, we ship 'em all off somewhere else? Africa? Haiti? Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?
_____

Do not send your criminals here!
Posted by: Haiti at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (Dv3i1)

Country's full. Pygmy hippo out front should have told you.

Posted by: Republic of Liberia at March 30, 2026 11:39 AM (wVcYX)

159 138 Stop LBJ'ing them.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:34 AM (Kksvc)

Just under 140 more years in LBJ's "200 Years"...

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:39 AM (uEmCf)

160 CAN policing be the solution? Of course. But not when they don't want it for themselves.
Posted by: Sponge

I promise to do things...like incarcerate everyone that deserves it.

Posted by: Bukele for US President 48? at March 30, 2026 11:39 AM (JCZqz)

161 He argued it wasn't his fault anyway since he offered to pay for an abortion.

You aren't going to be able to persuade this kind of guy to be a dad.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)

No, but you can place a lien on him and garnish his wages or benefits through DNA testing and get him to pay 1/2 for all 7. As mentioned, it takes 2 to tango, so he was also having the sex.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:40 AM (tOcjL)

162 Their goal isn't to subjugate the masses. Their goal is to achieve permanent power, replace the masses with robots/AI, and eliminate the masses. Having them centrally located makes the extermination easier.

No, they want the masses, just a manageable amount of them. Being elites isn't any fun if you can't micromanage the peasants, and that is why the modern left is the way that it is.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 30, 2026 11:40 AM (2ocoG)

163 Great post, Buck.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 30, 2026 11:40 AM (dK+Kv)

164 The progressive dream is the same as it was in the 19th century - cram as many people as possible into choked, stifling government tenements where vermin, cholera, tuberculosis, typhus and crime ravage the unwashed plebs.
Posted by: They've always been great humanitarians
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Khrushchevkas and Brezhnevkas. I think you get your own bathroom in the Breshnevka.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (XvL8K)

165 This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these...

Posted by: Mr. Wiggin at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (4NO2D)

166 I saw an interview with a guy that had seven baby mommas and wasn't paying any child support.

He noted that he never gave his real name, where he lives, or where he works to the women...but they were still willing to have unprotected sex with him.

He argued it wasn't his fault anyway since he offered to pay for an abortion.

You aren't going to be able to persuade this kind of guy to be a dad.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)

Among things I've reconsidered since I was a young man:

We need to bring back the significant cultural stigma around bastards.

It seems cruel and that's why it's very hard to even suggest, because the child bears absolutely no fault for the circumstances of their birth. However, I can't help but notice that when we made life hard for bastards, we got a lot fewer of them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (N1DT3)

167 Agreed, but that's a huge undertaking. Lots of things need doing before you can even put the basics in place.

Daunting task, and I wonder who's even up for it. Still worthy.
Posted by: Brother Tim

Knowing what needs to be done is easy. Implementing it is hard. And nothing will come cheap. It's almost like you need:

Jobs
Owned homes
Razed section 8 warehouses
Changed generational thinking

all at the exact same time. Remove any one of them and it won't work.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (Kksvc)

168 You have to change welfare.
No father present? No checks.

Stop LBJ'ing them.
Posted by: rickb223 at March

And for the fathers who skedaddled and remain gone pecan? What about those mothers?

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (Wmg4n)

169 108 So what, we ship 'em all off somewhere else? Africa? Haiti? Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (OUMaO)

And what will you do to the blacks who aren't on the Demoncrat plantation?

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (uEmCf)

170
This is probably the single biggest crime Obama committed. I think things were gradually improving until he took office, and it was all "whitey is the reason for all your troubles" from then on.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

Abortion on demand made it 'cool' to have unprotected sex without consequence. The problem is, they didn't think about STD's and all. Planned Parenthood was created SPECIFICALLY to kill off the black race, yet a majority of the black communities will defend it to the hilt.

Until you change the mindset of the inner cities that children are a gift from God that must be cherished, nurtured and educated, policing won't help much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

171 You aren't going to be able to persuade this kind of guy to be a dad.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (sKqQm)

Small mercies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (dK+Kv)

172 Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?

As a lot of people tell the Karens/AWFLs nowadays, deportation for illegals/permanent prison for natives is the *most* humane option. Everything else from there involves stuff they *really* won't like.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (2ocoG)

173 Utilize the Walt Disney approach to cleanliness.

Maybe the "Disney approach" from 20 years ago.

Posted by: Chuck C at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (D0HYP)

174 No, but you can place a lien on him and garnish his wages or benefits through DNA testing and get him to pay 1/2 for all 7. As mentioned, it takes 2 to tango, so he was also having the sex.

The women he impregnated didn't have enough info apparently to name him to the government (or didn't want to)

The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (sKqQm)

175 A random thought of how we could handle things. We call in advisors from El Salvador and Singapore on how to make neighborhoods more peaceful.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (BpO1e)

176 The women he impregnated didn't have enough info apparently to name him to the government (or didn't want to)

The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...
Posted by: 18-1 at March

This step is already in place.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (Wmg4n)

177 You get what you tolerate.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)

178 And I other news, Charles Barkley continues to go back and forth from being reasonable to being a retard.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (V4IXI)

179 The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...

We need a DNA registry of every citizen upon birth. I can see no way this could go wrong...

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

180 You get what you tolerate.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (2Ez/1)

Good and hard.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:44 AM (V4IXI)

181 Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

Well.
I know for a fact he is wrong.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (2WIwB)

So God didn't listen to the prayers of Saul or David or Jonathan or Joshua or Gideon. Right. So, apparently even having a passing familiarity with the Bible isn't a requirement for holding the highest position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy.

Posted by: They should just hold open casting calls at March 30, 2026 11:44 AM (TbWk/)

182 Honestly, if I were planning a brand new metro area to create from scratch, you'd think densely packed apartments and businesses would be the way to go. A lot less money spent on infrastructure (construction and maintenance), less are to patrol for police and such, etc. Everything would be much more efficient.
---
So basically, the more realistic you make SimCity (or any game), the more it sucks and fails.
Like, it's incredibly complex, multiple conflicts and endless sources of failure.
So there's all sorts of "this work" adjustments hidden in the code to keep it from being too realistic so that people will continue to play it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 11:44 AM (HXT0k)

183 It seems cruel and that's why it's very hard to even suggest, because the child bears absolutely no fault for the circumstances of their birth. However, I can't help but notice that when we made life hard for bastards, we got a lot fewer of them.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at

How about we bring back stigma against bastards who leave their children?

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:45 AM (Wmg4n)

184 And I other news, Charles Barkley continues to go back and forth from being reasonable to being a retard.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (V4IXI)

/sigh

Yeah, that's Sir Charles.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:45 AM (N1DT3)

185 AI Overview - The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and its state/local affiliates significantly influence U.S. housing costs and market conditions through advocacy for increased inventory, zoning reform, and, recently, navigating major legal changes regarding commission structures. NAR data suggests a 2026 comeback with a projected 14% increase in home sales, though price growth is expected to remain firm (around 4%) due to persistent, albeit easing, supply shortages.

And -
Rising homeowners insurance premiums are rapidly becoming a primary driver of the housing affordability crisis, often rivaling mortgage rates and home prices in impact. As of early 2026, insurance costs have increased for five consecutive years, with national premiums projected to rise another 4% to 8%, often exceeding $3,000 annually.

From above: "Democrat-run cities have grown hostile to these foundational elements of urban civilization, creating an enormous opportunity for Republicans."

Oh, ho! They're socialists & will be glad take the $ in cities such as Philly, Chicago, etc. but there'll be no gratefulness & little financial accountability for practical solutions.

Posted by: Trying to fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

186 Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick has officially announced that she will no longer preside over multiple lawsuits involving @elonmusk and his companies after Elon's lawyers alleged she had shown bias against him after ruling against him in high-profile cases. Last week, Elon's attorneys wrote to the court pointing to a LinkedIn screenshot that they said shows she supported a post on the network celebrating Elon's defeat in a California civil fraud trial. In the past, Judge McCormick ruled against Elon with his $56B Tesla pay package case and the Twitter lawsuit.

... Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick has almost single-handedly destroyed Delaware as a corporate haven

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 11:45 AM (RHGPo)

187 174 No, but you can place a lien on him and garnish his wages or benefits through DNA testing and get him to pay 1/2 for all 7. As mentioned, it takes 2 to tango, so he was also having the sex.

The women he impregnated didn't have enough info apparently to name him to the government (or didn't want to)

The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (sKqQm)

You DNA test the baby and keep track of all welfare benefits baby ever receives...dad pays back 1/2 when he is eventually found no matter how long it takes.

Yes, this is harsh...but this is the type of thing that solves the problem cold. I guarantee a 99% reduction in these type of "no father" births instantly...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:45 AM (tOcjL)

188 How about we bring back stigma against bastards who leave their children?
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:45 AM (Wmg4n)

That too, but it won't be enough.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:46 AM (N1DT3)

189 169 108 So what, we ship 'em all off somewhere else? Africa? Haiti? Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (OUMaO)

And what will you do to the blacks who aren't on the Demoncrat plantation?
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (uEmCf)

The idea of it being in any sense race based is stupid on the surface.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:46 AM (pDt9x)

190 We need a DNA registry of every citizen upon birth. I can see no way this could go wrong...

Yeah, this is a core problem with having government provide benefits isn't it? Either they collect data on everyone or claim that they can't due anything about the fraud without doing so...

Though as we've seen even when they have the info they rarely use it that way

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:47 AM (sKqQm)

191 How about we bring back stigma against bastards who leave their children?

Stigma implies a capacity for shame, which deadbeat dads pretty obviously don't have if they're willing to abandon their children. No, the punishments need to be independently applied.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

192 179 The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...

We need a DNA registry of every citizen upon birth. I can see no way this could go wrong...
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

23 and me says hi...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:47 AM (tOcjL)

193 The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...
Posted by: 18-1

A tyrant can do that. Mandatory DNA testing for everything. All in a hackable database. The cure seems worse than the disease.
Just decouple, in 5 years, welfare benefits for single moms.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 11:47 AM (u82oZ)

194 Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, intended to hit President Donald Trump amid nationwide "no kings" protests, but instead Republicans argued her comment admits the flimsy case being made. "Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings," Hirono's Saturday morning X post read as left-wing protesters marched in various anti-Trump demonstrations. The remarks landed with rare agreement from figures on the right, though. "So you agree – you think your 'no kings' rallies are stupid…," replied Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 11:47 AM (RHGPo)

195 Among things I've reconsidered since I was a young man:

We need to bring back the significant cultural stigma around bastards.

A *lot* of those stigmas (also calling unmarried women "old maids", and shaming promiscuity) turned out to be Chesterton's fences.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 11:47 AM (2ocoG)

196 Price is being used as a filter. Since they can't do anything else to keep the garbage-tier folk out, they just hike the prices until they can't afford to rent there...though now decent working class folk can't either.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 11:33 AM (OUMaO)

How does Section 8 work?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

197 178 And I other news, Charles Barkley continues to go back and forth from being reasonable to being a retard.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (V4IXI)

Straddling a fence will make your balls sore, at some point.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (pDt9x)

198 And for the fathers who skedaddled and remain gone pecan? What about those mothers?
Posted by: Piper

Pick a date. Anyone born after that date is no longer eligible for welfare.

If the baby mommas knew there would be no welfare checks if there was no father present, they might keep their legs closed.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Kksvc)

199 And I other news, Charles Barkley continues to go back and forth from being reasonable to being a retard.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:43 AM (V4IXI)

That's his schtick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

200 Air Canada CEO steps down amid backlash over apology video after fatal LaGuardia plane crash — because it wasn’t in French

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

201 189 The idea of it being in any sense race based is stupid on the surface.
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:46 AM (pDt9x)

Brother Tim specifically naming Africa and Haiti sort of implies that that's what he was going for.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (uEmCf)

202 Questions of will aside, WTF do you do without going down the worst possible roads?

Like I said before, young white males dressed in Hugo Boss.

Or institutionalizing, sterilizing, and lobotomizing dangerous criminals to keep their defective genes from entering the gene pool.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (qwx/I)

203 Pay inner city youths to be sterilized.

$300 and a bag of frozen peas for males and a bottle of dope for the broodmares.

Make it cool, get the rappers behind it.

Posted by: Snip Snip and Clip Clip at March 30, 2026 11:49 AM (h+Nbi)

204 Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

"Dude. Do you even Bible?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

205 Women have always had defective radar when choosing who to mate with.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:49 AM (V4IXI)

206 198 And for the fathers who skedaddled and remain gone pecan? What about those mothers?
Posted by: Piper

Pick a date. Anyone born after that date is no longer eligible for welfare.

If the baby mommas knew there would be no welfare checks if there was no father present, they might keep their legs closed.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Kksvc)

And if the dads knew they'd personally pay the mom's welfare cost, the same would happen. And dad doesn't have the 9 months of health effects, so seems like the way better distribution of responsibility.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2026 11:49 AM (tOcjL)

207 Because I want to keep fueling discussion about the importance of municipal conservatism

Good luck. Conservative opinion on cities ranges from "we should wall them off Escape From NY style" to "why aren't we bombing these places like Dresden!?" Anyone sane who could leave for the suburbs has done so. So the cities are insane. There's no solution to fixing the cities that doesn't involve governing them from the outside in some way.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 30, 2026 11:50 AM (TdYBy)

208 Air Canada CEO steps down amid backlash over apology video after fatal LaGuardia plane crash — because it wasn’t in French

.. I've met a few Frenchmen who think that ancient dialect they speak in Quebec isn't really French

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 11:50 AM (RHGPo)

209 The answer is more death penalties and tell women to have kids with good men.

Ugh. Good men give me the ick. -- the TikTok generation

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:50 AM (ExV1e)

210 The bigger solution is no Government income transfer benefits.

VA disabliity and military pensions qualify, as does 401K retirement plans. No social security. Learn to invest.

Have we no canals to be dug, superfund sites to cleanse, trash and snow to be removed?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 11:50 AM (u82oZ)

211 Pick a date. Anyone born after that date is no longer eligible for welfare.

If the baby mommas knew there would be no welfare checks if there was no father present, they might keep their legs closed.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 11:48 AM (Kksvc)

You get more of what you subsidize, and there is no greater example of this than the explosion of single motherhood emanating from LBJ's Great Society. One of the cruelest things to ever happen to the black American community. Thomas Sowell had addressed this at length over the years. American blacks were starting to achieve parity with whites along a number of positive social indicators, then LBJ derailed it.

Posted by: An evil that remains to be rectified at March 30, 2026 11:52 AM (TbWk/)

212 And what will you do to the blacks who aren't on the Demoncrat plantation?
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (uEmCf)

I think he just left out South and Central America. Right now the courts aren't letting us ship these illegal criminals to their home countries. That has to stop.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:52 AM (V4IXI)

213 And just for an update.

The Art Thread has been disinfected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

214 No, they want the masses, just a manageable amount of them. Being elites isn't any fun if you can't micromanage the peasants, and that is why the modern left is the way that it is.
Posted by: The Paolo at March 30, 2026 11:40 AM (2ocoG)

They want some masses but they don't want OUR masses. Their 750M total human population formula excludes whites (except among the elite, and possibly the technical classes) and blacks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

215 188 How about we bring back stigma against bastards who leave their children?
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:45 AM (Wmg4n)

That too, but it won't be enough.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March

I just think we need to be careful. But for the Grace of God go I. I am not on welfare, thankfully I live with someone who makes a great salary and provides for me and a child that is not his. But my child’s father walked out on her 6th birthday and with a lot of technical legal maneuvering, ended up with no obligation for support at all. He is a AH of the highest order.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (Wmg4n)

216 A *lot* of those stigmas (also calling unmarried women "old maids", and shaming promiscuity) turned out to be Chesterton's fences.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 11:47 AM (2ocoG)

There will be (and already have been) consequences for it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (N1DT3)

217 212 And what will you do to the blacks who aren't on the Demoncrat plantation?
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 11:41 AM (uEmCf)

I think he just left out South and Central America. Right now the courts aren't letting us ship these illegal criminals to their home countries. That has to stop.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:52 AM (V4IXI)

Ship the white miscreants to Australia? Hey, that could work!!

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (pDt9x)

218
Utilize the Walt Disney approach to cleanliness.

Get Goofy to push a broom.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (Cqx++)

219 Totally agree with Mr. Prescott. I have lived in and loved and left a few great American cities--L.A., Chicago. Crime and cost of living made living there impossible.

My plan, as I've said many times before: If a city can meet certain metrics of crime reduction as outlined by HUD, then FHA or some other govt entity can make favorable home loans available to buyers. Not renters, not investors, but owner-occupiers. Everyone I know wants to live "close in" or even downtown, with all the arts and activities, but not if it's Mad Max territory.

Posted by: Random PJ at March 30, 2026 11:54 AM (+jscL)

220 They want some masses but they don't want OUR masses. Their 750M total human population formula excludes whites (except among the elite, and possibly the technical classes) and blacks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

The Matrix

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:54 AM (V4IXI)

221 213 And just for an update.

The Art Thread has been disinfected.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Missed it. We have an infestation??

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:54 AM (pDt9x)

222 Day ending in "Y".

Violence Erupts in Central Haitian Town as Gang Violence and Bloodshed Rages

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:54 AM (ndZc7)

223 The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (sKqQm)

Mandatory DNA testing is unpopular, among a segment of the population, for some reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 11:54 AM (ExV1e)

224 But my child’s father walked out on her 6th birthday and with a lot of technical legal maneuvering, ended up with no obligation for support at all. He is a AH of the highest order.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (Wmg4n)

So, you're saying lawyers ruin everything?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

225 186. Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick has almost single-handedly destroyed Delaware as a corporate haven
Posted by: SMOD

From your lips to G-d's ears.

Posted by: Trying to fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (NFX2v)

226 Pick a date. Anyone born after that date is no longer eligible for welfare.

If the baby mommas knew there would be no welfare checks if there was no father present, they might keep their legs closed.

And yet, we supposedly solved that problem during the Clinton administration. The time you could be on welfare was limited to a couple of years.

However, as usual, the Dems decided that this was not in their electoral interest, and renamed programs and implemented mass cheating to get around the limitations.

As I said earlier, as long as the Dems benefit, this will not end until the recipients develop a sense of pride, and I mean a real one based on achievement, not the false pride of the woke left.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

227 Have we no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Posted by: E. Scrooge at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (2Ez/1)

228 143 Chicago Bob is up to it again.

Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

Well.
I know for a fact he is wrong.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (2WIwB)

---
He should know Saint Michael can intercede, "protect us in battle."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (cWLG3)

229 You DNA test the baby and keep track of all welfare benefits baby ever receives...dad pays back 1/2 when he is eventually found no matter how long it takes.

Yes, this is harsh...but this is the type of thing that solves the problem cold. I guarantee a 99% reduction in these type of "no father" births instantly...
Posted by: Nova Local

While it may be a good idea financially, I would guarantee no such thing. "Inability to delay gratification" is the defining characteristic of the permanently-poor, permanently-renting, permanently-on-welfare, underclass.

"Stop busting a nut or we might come get you in 20 years" is not a deterrent to people who literally can't (or won't) plan for next month.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (VHUov)

230
Missed it. We have an infestation??
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 11:54 AM (pDt9x)

We did. I'm guessing CBD cleaned up after it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

231 Ugh. Good men give me the ick. -- the TikTok generation
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Sadly, that's been a thing for years. Dated a woman who said that because I was not beating her or abusing her, she thought something was wrong with the relationship.

And now a prayer of gratitude that I didn't embrace the intrusive thought that came up when I heard that.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM (BpO1e)

232
Violence Erupts in Central Haitian Town as Gang Violence and Bloodshed Rages
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:54 AM (ndZc7)

But Conan O'Brien SWORE to me that place was GREAT.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

233 I just think we need to be careful. But for the Grace of God go I. I am not on welfare, thankfully I live with someone who makes a great salary and provides for me and a child that is not his. But my child’s father walked out on her 6th birthday and with a lot of technical legal maneuvering, ended up with no obligation for support at all. He is a AH of the highest order.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 11:53 AM (Wmg4n)

I agree that sucks.

I do note you say "my child's father" and not "my ex-husband".

If I'm reading it correctly, you took that risk by not marrying him. Yes, I'm sure you were young and foolish, but we once had lots of protections around young and foolish men and women that were torn down as "prudish attitudes about sex!"

As noted, we had those protections for a reason.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:56 AM (N1DT3)

234 Good writeup, Buck...but you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first.

Cities, and especially American cities in the last century just trend leftward, with short spates of common sense when shit gets so bad they elect a conservative-ish government, i.e. the Giuliani years in NYC, during which time the citizenry then forget how bad shit was and it inevitably goes south again in short order.

Posted by: ballistic at March 30, 2026 11:56 AM (oqH4h)

235 "One of the bigger obstacles is the "rights" groups that get in the way of things getting cleaned up."

And I think those groups are covers for gangs and quasi-gangs like the DSA. They always ignore the profit for home owners who sell and businesses in gentrification.

Posted by: Random PJ at March 30, 2026 11:56 AM (+jscL)

236 The first step it would seem would be to tie their benefits to naming a farther but then they might just lie...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:42 AM (sKqQm)

There are cases in which this happened. Some guy suddenly finds himself years in arrears in child support for a kid that he never knew existed born of a woman he never had sex with, because she put his name on the birth certificate as the father. Misery ensues.

Posted by: Paternity should be proven not just asserted at March 30, 2026 11:57 AM (TbWk/)

237 Thomas Sowell had addressed this at length over the years. American blacks were starting to achieve parity with whites along a number of positive social indicators, then LBJ derailed it.

Yup. In the late 50s the trend lines were that the black middle class would be at parity by 1980. It didn't take LBJ long to throw it into reverse and blow all the gears out of the transmission.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (2ocoG)

238 also calling unmarried women "old maids"

In my own life I can see the stark difference in the older women who have a number of kids and grandkids, who tend to be worried about them and practical things, and the childless older women that seem to focus a similar level of concern on whatever the FNM tells them to be concerned about

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (sKqQm)

239 Won't happen because Democrats cry racism and enough people including illegal immigrant and dead believe it to get them elected.

Posted by: hadsil at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (Xht4H)

240 I watch a lot of The First 48 hours, Lockup , Jail, Court Cam , etc.

The length of the rap sheets on 90% of these criminals is insane. Insane because there is no way they should have been out on the streets.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (V4IXI)

241 So, you're saying lawyers ruin everything?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM

*Spock eyebrow*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (bFu5X)

242 Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World as Senate Takes Recess While DHS Remains Shut Down

-
He just loves Donald Duck.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 11:59 AM (ndZc7)

243 I agree that sucks.

I do note you say "my child's father" and not "my ex-husband".

If I'm reading it correctly, you took that risk by not marrying him. Yes, I'm sure you were young and foolish, but we once had lots of protections around young and foolish men and women that were torn down as "prudish attitudes about sex!"

As noted, we had those protections for a reason.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March

I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (OoFl2)

244 So, you're saying lawyers ruin everything?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:55 AM

We also assist where we can.

Posted by: Bean counters with spreadsheets and pivot tables. at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (wVcYX)

245
*Spock eyebrow*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (bFu5X)

Don't shoot the messenger! Its PIPER! SHE said it!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

246 There are cases in which this happened. Some guy suddenly finds himself years in arrears in child support for a kid that he never knew existed born of a woman he never had sex with, because she put his name on the birth certificate as the father. Misery ensues.

Courts have also been known to make men pay child support even when the child is DNA-proven to not be theirs.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (2ocoG)

247
I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (OoFl2)

Ooof. That's quite the kick in the crotch.

*sads*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

248 No Kings rally...
A lot of commie flags flying at them.
Those asshats aren't going to like my No Commies rally.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (2WIwB)

249 There are cases in which this happened. Some guy suddenly finds himself years in arrears in child support for a kid that he never knew existed born of a woman he never had sex with, because she put his name on the birth certificate as the father. Misery ensues.

Courts have also been known to make men pay child support even when the child is DNA-proven to not be theirs.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (2ocoG)

It's for the Greater Good!

Posted by: Family Law Courts at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (wVcYX)

250 AI is fun. When itconfirms my biases. From Grok.

ME....Is there a city in the United States that's cited more online than most others to highlight societal decay?

Grok

Yes, Detroit is by far the most frequently cited U.S. city online as a symbol or archetype of societal/urban decay.

It stands out due to its dramatic post-1950 collapse—from a peak population of nearly 1.85–2 million (America's auto capital and one of the wealthiest big cities) to roughly 630,000–650,000 today, accompanied by massive deindustrialization, white flight, high crime rates in past decades, widespread abandonment ("ruin porn" imagery of derelict factories, homes, and infrastructure), and the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in 2013

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Sco7b)

251 If I'm reading it correctly, you took that risk by not marrying him. Yes, I'm sure you were young and foolish, but we once had lots of protections around young and foolish men and women that were torn down as "prudish attitudes about sex!"

As noted, we had those protections for a reason.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 11:56 AM (N1DT3)

And I should say I am not without compassion for women who make poor choices in this world that mocks them for good choices.

We had a woman in our last church with a young child born out of wedlock. Very sweet little girl who was friends with our children.

I have no desire whatsoever to shun a child. It actually hurts even to think of doing so. But I also realize that sometimes the right thing can hurt. (And allows for grace to be offered by people with intimate knowledge.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (N1DT3)

252 Mandatory DNA testing is unpopular, among a segment of the population, for some reason.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Isn't DNA taken upon entry to jail?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Kksvc)

253 "...and the childless older women that seem to focus a similar level of concern on whatever the FNM tells them to be concerned about."
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Will no one think of the cats?

Posted by: Old maids everywhere at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (2Ez/1)

254 Mandatory DNA testing is unpopular, among a segment of the population, for some reason.

I read an Am I the Asshole thread recently where the poster was an unmarried woman that had just had a kid. She had two primary boyfriends in the time period when she got preggers. A wealthier guy with a solid job and a Paolo.

She was almost certain the father was Paolo based on when she got preggers, but she put down Working Man as the father because hey he could afford to pay.

Surprisingly in the thread about half the posters argued that she was indeed the asshole. The other half argued that since Working Man had sex with her too he was responsible even if it was not actually his kid.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (sKqQm)

255 I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (OoFl2)

IN THAT CASE: first thing, we kill all the lawyers.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 12:02 PM (N1DT3)

256
We also assist where we can.
Posted by: Bean counters with spreadsheets and pivot tables. at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (wVcYX)

Valid. I have borne witness to your destructive tendencies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

257 There are cases in which this happened. Some guy suddenly finds himself years in arrears in child support for a kid that he never knew existed born of a woman he never had sex with, because she put his name on the birth certificate as the father. Misery ensues.
Posted by: Paternity should be proven not just asserted at March 30, 2026 11:57 AM (TbWk/)

As I understand it, if a man signs the birth certificate, even if he's later determined to NOT be the father, he's on the hook forever as far as the government is concerned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:02 PM (ExV1e)

258 Courts have also been known to make men pay child support even when the child is DNA-proven to not be theirs.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (2ocoG)

Also insane. The reasoning is like common law marriage. If you put yourself out as the father and act as the father for a certain time period you are considered the father.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:03 PM (V4IXI)

259 >>Ooof. That's quite the kick in the crotch.

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Shania Twain at March 30, 2026 12:03 PM (Y1sOo)

260 Hiroshima 1945 vs 2026

Detroit 1945 vs 2026

Posted by: Know Your Memes at March 30, 2026 12:03 PM (wVcYX)

261 Will no one think of the cats?
Posted by: Old maids everywhere at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM

*holds up sign*

Halp us!

Posted by: The Cats at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (bFu5X)

262 ME....Is there a city in the United States that's cited more online than most others to highlight societal decay?

Grok

Yes, Detroit is by far the most frequently cited U.S. city online as a symbol or archetype of societal/urban decay.

It stands out due to its dramatic post-1950 collapse—from a peak population of nearly 1.85–2 million (America's auto capital and one of the wealthiest big cities) to roughly 630,000–650,000 today, accompanied by massive deindustrialization, white flight, high crime rates in past decades, widespread abandonment ("ruin porn" imagery of derelict factories, homes, and infrastructure), and the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in 2013

Posted by: Stateless

Put a picture of 1945 Hiroshima and Detroit side by side and then a picture of 2026 Hiroshima and Detroit side by side.

The contrast is startling.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (Kksvc)

263 - Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

Lindsey Graham, Gay Icon, Spotted at Disney World.

FIFY.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (u82oZ)

264 In my own life I can see the stark difference in the older women who have a number of kids and grandkids, who tend to be worried about them and practical things, and the childless older women that seem to focus a similar level of concern on whatever the FNM tells them to be concerned about
Posted by: 18-1 at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (sKqQm)

My wife is fairly conservative. Her childless sisters spent the weekend at rallies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

265 As noted, we had those protections for a reason.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March

I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00

By the way, we have 3 children. The oldest 2 were adults when we got divorced- 1 out of school, 1 in college. He doesn’t speak to my oldest at all, probably because she wouldn’t hold back on him, he speaks to our middle child occasionally, usually only if she reaches out to him first.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (OoFl2)

266
*holds up sign*

Halp us!
Posted by: The Cats at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (bFu5X)

Stuck in Irack?

*harking back to John Kerry's dumbass*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

267 Courts have also been known to make men pay child support even when the child is DNA-proven to not be theirs.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (2ocoG)

Also insane. The reasoning is like common law marriage. If you put yourself out as the father and act as the father for a certain time period you are considered the father.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Somehow, though, fraud in paternity doesn't enter into the equation.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:05 PM (Kksvc)

268
Based on 2023–2025 data, approximately 40% of all live births in the USA occur outside of marriage. Recent data indicates there are roughly 1.44 million infants born to unmarried mothers annually. While marriage rates have declined, many of these births occur within cohabiting, unmarried partner households. CDC

World Population Review: Not every child born out of wedlock grows up with a single parent. Many are born to cohabiting couples, but cohabiting unions tend to be less stable than marriages, which means children born outside marriage are more likely to experience family breakups and transitions.
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About a quarter (24%) of women who had their first child from 2020 to 2024 lived with an unmarried partner, up from around 17% in the early 1990s, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.

But a smaller share of women had their first child while neither married nor living with a partner, dropping from roughly 20% to about 15% in 30 years.

Posted by: Trying to fuhgeddaboudit at March 30, 2026 12:05 PM (NFX2v)

269 He is currently married to my ex best friend.

Why do I think that's a big part of the story?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ExV1e)

270 I have absolutely no respect for any man who after leaving his wife of girlfriend, abandons any children as well. I don't care about what happened between the adults, but no one can call himself a man if he craps on his kids.
I've known several men who did this and they quickly found out they were no longer welcome around me.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 12:06 PM (2WIwB)

271 Why do I think that's a big part of the story?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:05 PM (ExV1e)

I'm guessing he'd been banging her quite a while before the divorce thing happened.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

272 Chicago Bob is up to it again.

Pope goes viral for saying God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"

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Well, Joshua maybe.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at

Possible. I kinda been praying to see black smoke from the vatican chimney lately. Still nothing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:07 PM (snZF9)

273 Yes, Detroit is by far the most frequently cited U.S. city online as a symbol or archetype of societal/urban decay.

It stands out due to its dramatic post-1950 collapse—from a peak population of nearly 1.85–2 million (America's auto capital and one of the wealthiest big cities) to roughly 630,000–650,000 today, accompanied by massive deindustrialization, white flight, high crime rates in past decades, widespread abandonment ("ruin porn" imagery of derelict factories, homes, and infrastructure), and the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in 2013

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:01 PM (Sco7b)

Detroit is SLOWLY fixing itself. I visited back in 2000 and was VERY glad that I was there to watch a marathon at 6am on a Sunday because if I were there at night, I'd have left immediately.

Today, downtown Detroit doesn't feel run down and scary. It just feels empty, which is an improvement. It's still not a place I'd love to live, but downtown is actually a decent place. (Most of the crime now happens in the outer ring of the city.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 12:07 PM (N1DT3)

274 Courts have also been known to make men pay child support even when the child is DNA-proven to not be theirs.
Posted by: Ian S.

Hermesmann v. Seyer has entered the chat.

The actual father was found, by a court in Kansas, to be on the hook for child support. Even though he was 13 years old, and therefore a statutory rape victim. (The mother had actually plea-bargained down to a lesser charge.)

And this wasn't the mother suing him; it was the state of Kansas, suing him in the mother's name.

He got hit for the state's court costs, too. Of course.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:07 PM (VHUov)

275 Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (OoFl2)

How many of those 22 years were good? Did you have your youngest to try to do something to save the marriage? Sort of rhetorical and not expecting an answer. It's that's a scenario I have seen a lot .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:08 PM (V4IXI)

276 243
‘ I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.’

He’s living in L.A. with my best old ex-friend Rae…

Posted by: Jim Croce at March 30, 2026 12:08 PM (jbnUc)

277 I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (OoFl2)

I'm glad you seem to realize we aren't ALL a***oles. I mean, TJM and Diogenes, sure, but not all of us.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

278 I don't believe Canada is a real place.

Canadian public TV hires interpreter to play air guitar for deaf people during RUSH concert broadcast

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 12:09 PM (ndZc7)

279 Courts have also been known to make men pay child support even when the child is DNA-proven to not be theirs.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (2ocoG)

Also insane. The reasoning is like common law marriage. If you put yourself out as the father and act as the father for a certain time period you are considered the father.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Crazy thing.....I've got a long time friend who had a kid with woman, they divorced, she had another kid with a deadbeat. My bud did everything he could to help raise her (the 2nd that wasn't his) as his own right along with his own son.

She got with another deadbeat and my friend had ZERO rights with the little girl, even though he'd been the only real father she ever knew. Courts told him such.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

280 I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (OoFl2)

I'm glad you seem to realize we aren't ALL a***oles. I mean, TJM and Diogenes, sure, but not all of us.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

This!
Oh...
Heeeyyy!!!!
Wait a minute!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (2WIwB)

281 245
*Spock eyebrow*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (bFu5X)

Don't shoot the messenger! Its PIPER! SHE said it!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March

His mom is a divorce atty. I am trying to talk Doof into ghost writing a book, let me tell you, no one will believe it’s all true. It’s crazy. With a capital crazy. I am fine, honestly. He can go live his best pretend life. It’s the pain my children feel that gets me.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (OoFl2)

282
I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (OoFl2)

Ouch... What a rotter

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (ECasK)

283 By the way, we have 3 children. The oldest 2 were adults when we got divorced- 1 out of school, 1 in college. He doesn’t speak to my oldest at all, probably because she wouldn’t hold back on him, he speaks to our middle child occasionally, usually only if she reaches out to him first.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (OoFl2)

Stories like this always remind me to be thankful to God for putting my wife and I together.

I'm so sorry you were betrayed like that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (N1DT3)

284 Somehow, though, fraud in paternity doesn't enter into the equation.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:05 PM (Kksvc)

Which leads to the other reasoning of the court. The child's welfare takes precedence on all other issues.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (V4IXI)

285 Canadian public TV hires interpreter to play air guitar for deaf people during RUSH concert broadcast

Oh my word. That has to be the greatest video of all time.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

286 So, it’s a family law thread now??

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 12:11 PM (pDt9x)

287 I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:00 PM (OoFl2)

Somehow I don't think he traded up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:12 PM (snZF9)

288 It’s the pain my children feel that gets me.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (OoFl2)

THAT, unfortunately, means you're a good parent. Hopefully they learn from it in their adult lives.

First Lady and I swore from the day we talked about having kids, we would do everything we could to raise our children to NEVER look at us the way we looked at our parents.

I'm pretty sure we've been successful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

289 The bad leaders in localities today become the bad leaders at state and federal levels tomorrow. That’s it. Take Ken King. He’s a Leftist Republican for District 88 in the TX HR, and he got his start on the Canadian ISD (?) school board.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 12:13 PM (nqStX)

290 So, it’s a family law thread now??
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 12:11 PM

Well, we're discussing Piper's obviously insane ex, so it's more of a boob thread.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:13 PM (bFu5X)

291
Well, we're discussing Piper's obviously insane ex, so it's more of a boob thread.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:13 PM (bFu5X)

SPORTSBRA!!!! GO BOOBS!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

292 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes crazy but the court only looks at that the real father had already been determined before he became involved and unless he adopted her he had no parental rights.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:14 PM (V4IXI)

293 So, it’s a family law thread now??
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 12:11 PM (pDt9x)

I'm waiting for the Doctor Ruth book.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 12:14 PM (2WIwB)

294 I was married to him 22 years. He is currently married to my ex best friend.

Being married and having unmarried close friends is a red flag often enough to be a cliche. My brother's first wife was banging his best friend before they even got married. Fortunately that was pretty easy to unwind once he finally admitted that me, our sister, and all of his *other* friends were right and she was "for the streets".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 12:14 PM (2ocoG)

295 286 So, it’s a family law thread now??
Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 12:11 PM (pDt9x)
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It's Kramah versus Kramah all ovah again.

Posted by: Yogi Berra at March 30, 2026 12:14 PM (cWLG3)

296 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM (2Ez/1)

297 Canadian air guitarist.

https://is.gd/L7aW4a

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I wonder if you need a degree for that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM (ndZc7)

298 275 Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:04 PM (OoFl2)

How many of those 22 years were good? Did you have your youngest to try to do something to save the marriage? Sort of rhetorical and not expecting an answer. It's that's a scenario I have seen a lot .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30

Wait for the book. 😂. There is too much there to go into here, because none of it was good. And no, she was not the result of saving anything. And he reads this blog so I am going to stop here. He is currently flipping out I am threatening a book again, I promise you. To which I say, you should have been a better person and then I could have written better things about you.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM (OoFl2)

299 Canadian air guitarist.

https://is.gd/L7aW4a

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I wonder if you need a degree for that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM

Nah.

Posted by: Mandela Funeral Sign Language Guy at March 30, 2026 12:16 PM (bFu5X)

300 Canadian air guitarist.

https://is.gd/L7aW4a

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I wonder if you need a degree for that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM (ndZc7)

Obviously not. That dude SUCKS at air guitar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

301 I don't believe Canada is a real place.

Canadian public TV hires interpreter to play air guitar for deaf people during RUSH concert broadcast
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck. How does someone get that job?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:16 PM (Kksvc)

302 Canadian air guitarist.

https://is.gd/L7aW4a

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I wonder if you need a degree for that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM (ndZc7)

Nope, just a lobotomy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:16 PM (snZF9)

303 I came to the gray boxes and ended up witnessing a soap opera plot

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:17 PM (X5Baq)

304 I came to the gray boxes and ended up witnessing a soap opera plot
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:17 PM (X5Baq)

I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

305 Sigh. Been waiting three hours now for my doctor's scheduler to "call me right back".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (ExV1e)

306 Obviously not. That dude SUCKS at air guitar.
Posted by: Sponge

It that Bob Ross's gay nephew from Jersey?

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (VHUov)

307 303 I came to the gray boxes and ended up witnessing a soap opera plot
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:17 PM (X5Baq)

Be grateful You don't get my Bio...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (ECasK)

308 Wait for the book. 😂. There is too much there to go into here, because none of it was good. And no, she was not the result of saving anything. And he reads this blog so I am going to stop here. He is currently flipping out I am threatening a book again, I promise you. To which I say, you should have been a better person and then I could have written better things about you.
Posted by: Piper

Rape him. Figuratively and legally.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Kksvc)

309 True life is stranger than fiction

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (X5Baq)

310 >>Being married and having unmarried close friends is a red flag

Was the 'unmarried close friend' to 3 women for about 20 years. Never came close to crossing the line with any of them because their marriages came first for them and for me (ushered at one wedding, attended another and was seated at the wedding party's date table).

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (NcvvS)

311 @301 One arm air drums? They got.ripped off!

Posted by: Yogi Berra at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (cWLG3)

312 I'd be an air guitar expert copying Robert Smith of The Cure.

I degree required

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (V4IXI)

313
Be grateful You don't get my Bio...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (ECasK)

logical?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

314 304 I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

There hasn't been real fighting in the NHL since Bob Probert retired.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (uEmCf)

315 I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

----------------

It was more of a kerfuffle than a fight.

/

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (+61Ue)

316 302 Canadian air guitarist.

https://is.gd/L7aW4a

First World Problems
My government spends good money on stupid shit...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (Sco7b)

317 Canadian air guitarist.

https://is.gd/L7aW4a

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I wonder if you need a degree for that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM (ndZc7)

Nope, just a lobotomy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It's Canada. They'll probably MAID him afterwards.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (OUMaO)

318 He reads here?

Dude. You fucked up. Dumber than dirt.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (7WnOb)

319 One arm air drums? They got.ripped off!
Posted by: Yogi Berra at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (cWLG3)

*sobs*

*runs from room*

Posted by: The Drummer from Def Leppard at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

320 I'm glad you seem to realize we aren't ALL a***oles. I mean, TJM and Diogenes, sure, but not all of us.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

This!
Oh...
Heeeyyy!!!!
Wait a minute!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026

Ha! I really am fine now. I wasn’t for a long time, but I am now.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (OoFl2)

321
logical?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Zz0t1).

My husband would say not...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:20 PM (ECasK)

322 Canadian air guitarist.

https://is.gd/L7aW4a

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I wonder if you need a degree for that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM (ndZc7)

Could be worse. Could be Canadian progressive microtonal experimental interdimensional jazz funk polka-dotted math schnozz rock.

youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so&t=204s

Posted by: Only in Canadia at March 30, 2026 12:20 PM (TbWk/)

323 Wait for the book. 😂. There is too much there to go into here, because none of it was good. And no, she was not the result of saving anything. And he reads this blog so I am going to stop here. He is currently flipping out I am threatening a book again, I promise you. To which I say, you should have been a better person and then I could have written better things about you.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:15 PM

Doc Muldoon would cast the tale in limericks.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 12:20 PM (4NO2D)

324
There hasn't been real fighting in the NHL since Bob Probert retired.
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (uEmCf)

I'll have to disagree on that. There have been some pretty good ones over the last few seasons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

325 I watched Goon again about a week ago. That is a good movie. Retard strength for the win.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:20 PM (V4IXI)

326 The child's welfare takes precedence on all other issues.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (V4IXI)

Yet, they will grant custody to a mother who demonstrably, and continually, makes bad decisions over a father who has a stable life and desperately wants custody.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ExV1e)

327 There hasn't been real fighting in the NHL since Bob Probert retired.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM (uEmCf)

---------------

I heard someone who was in that business claim that those fights are pretty much staged and the players give themselves cues on whether they they want to go at it or not.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (+61Ue)

328 Holy shit.

Ace broke the blog again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

329 Avoid the main page.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

330 Hockey fights always look fake to me…. But I hardly ever watch hockey so that “always” encompasses like a total of five “fights”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (X5Baq)

331 There seems to be a new one, but I think it's an autobio by Marcel Marceau.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

332 Ace broke the blog again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

That appears to be the case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ExV1e)

333 329 Avoid the main page.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

I looked... But lived to tell...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ECasK)

334 Ha! I really am fine now. I wasn’t for a long time, but I am now.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM

We can still bust on your ex, though, right? Asking for a lot of friends.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:22 PM (bFu5X)

335 I heard someone who was in that business claim that those fights are pretty much staged and the players give themselves cues on whether they they want to go at it or not.
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (+61Ue)

Goon pretty much confirms that though I would say staged, just pre-ordered.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:22 PM (V4IXI)

336
I looked... But lived to tell...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ECasK)

I just figured there was a hole in the space/time continuum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)

337 >>There hasn't been real fighting in the NHL since Bob Probert retired.

Still boggles the mind that Probie went from Detroit to Chicago.

Holy shit, hadn't heard that he was gone! His Wikipedia page is really old-school NHL.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:22 PM (NcvvS)

338 The child's welfare takes precedence on all other issues.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:10 PM (V4IXI)

Yet, they will grant custody to a mother who demonstrably, and continually, makes bad decisions over a father who has a stable life and desperately wants custody.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ExV1e)

Yup, seen that a lot, even when the woman would be rejected by a crack house.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:22 PM (snZF9)

339 But seriously, having a good spouse is the difference between a happy life and misery for a man.

I am still on first wife, 45 years this June. I am sure I would already been dead had we not met.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 12:23 PM (4NO2D)

340 Wouldn't say.....

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:23 PM (V4IXI)

341 329 Avoid the main page.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

I looked... But lived to tell...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ECasK)

Madonna, is that you? :-)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:23 PM (X5Baq)

342 There seems to be a new one, but I think it's an autobio by Marcel Marceau.
Posted by: Archimedes

Or it's a guest post by Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:23 PM (VHUov)

343 327 I heard someone who was in that business claim that those fights are pretty much staged and the players give themselves cues on whether they they want to go at it or not.
Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (+61Ue)

For the Heavyweight Goons, it's an "Honor System" thing. The fights aren't exactly fake, per se, but they agree to do it before the game and there's no real emotion behind it. They just do it to justify their spot in the lineup.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 12:23 PM (uEmCf)

344 331 There seems to be a new one, but I think it's an autobio by Marcel Marceau.

i'll wait for the audiobook

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (v3pYe)

345 Still boggles the mind that Probie went from Detroit to Chicago.

Holy shit, hadn't heard that he was gone! His Wikipedia page is really old-school NHL.
Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:22 PM (NcvvS)

I felt the same way when Chris Chelios went from Chicago to Detroit.

I mean, WTF, man?!?

I have an autographed Bob Probert player card.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

346 I am still on first wife, 45 years this June. I am sure I would already been dead had we not met.

I'm coming up on 40 in a few weeks. My wife always says "I'm the best thing that ever happened to you." I do not argue.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

347 broke it GOOD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (MIIRH)

348 When it comes to assigning Child Support obligations, any chump'll do!

Posted by: Family Law Courts at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (wVcYX)

349 Avoid the main page.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

I looked... But lived to tell...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM

When you look into the abyss of the blog...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (bFu5X)

350
I am still on first wife, 45 years this June. I am sure I would already been dead had we not met.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 12:23 PM (4NO2D)

God bless you both!

First Lady is my first. I'm her second.

We're together 29 years, married 22.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

351 Yet, they will grant custody to a mother who demonstrably, and continually, makes bad decisions over a father who has a stable life and desperately wants custody.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:21 PM (ExV1e)

Other crazy thing about the court. Tie goes to the mother and a tie is ridiculously defined.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:25 PM (V4IXI)

352 First, there was Green Orange Friday.

Now this......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

353 Ha! I really am fine now. I wasn’t for a long time, but I am now.
Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:19 PM

We can still bust on your ex, though, right? Asking for a lot of friends.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

+10,000

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:25 PM (Kksvc)

354 welp I think the Comment Section finally won the Battle for the Blog

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (j+aD2)

355 I'm coming up on 40 in a few weeks. My wife always says "I'm the best thing that ever happened to you." I do not argue.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

Mine says the opposite. Its how I know I got her in the first place. She is insane.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (snZF9)

356
I have often told Mrs Eez that marrying her was the only smart decision I ever made.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (MIIRH)

357 Front page still seems down.

I'm thinking the protest babes pics are taking forever to load.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

358 I had a close friend who was absolutely screwed by family court. Judges wouldn’t even let him see his kids… nuts

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (X5Baq)

359 Mine says the opposite. Its how I know I got her in the first place. She is insane.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (snZF9)

I tell my wife all the time. "Dumbass. You married me."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

360 I looked at the main page and I was killed!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (u73oe)

361 The story of Rob Parker as a rookie trying to get Probert to fight him in a game is classic Probert.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (Y1sOo)

362 I'm coming up on 40 in a few weeks. My wife always says "I'm the best thing that ever happened to you." I do not argue.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM

I heard a comedienne the other day who commented that her last ex-boyfriend had been a frat bro type. "Dude, I turned around your life and your hat!"

I laughed.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (bFu5X)

363 Front page still seems down.

I'm thinking the protest babes pics are taking forever to load.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

It's Ace.

And Lamont the Big Dummy is dead.

Chuy is our only hope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

364 357 Front page still seems down.

I'm thinking the protest babes pics are taking forever to load.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

Thanks Stateless, I thought it was only me.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (y171U)

365 Mine says the opposite. Its how I know I got her in the first place. She is insane.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (snZF9)

Any club that would have you as a member you wouldn't want to join. LOL

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (V4IXI)

366
It is better to live in a corner of the roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

Posted by: Proverbs 25:24 at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

367 Looks like the home page is hosed.

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM (Yrpv2)

368 LOL I looked at the main page.

Stealth Mode!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM (/QdgR)

369 >>I felt the same way when Chris Chelios went from Chicago to Detroit.

Yeah, utter betrayal. Good grief, guys, you shouldn't be with more than 1 Original Six team!

Was in Grand Rapids for work once, and sat in on a bar trivia contest. Asked if extra credit applied if knew the player's (Bobby Hull) middle name? Denied, reasonably politely.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM (NcvvS)

370 as in got to call up Pixy on the phone good.

*pokes smart military blog with stick*

It's dead, Jim.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM (MIIRH)

371 My wife always says "I'm the best thing that ever happened to you."
Posted by: Archimedes

Mine says the opposite.
Posted by: Berserker

"I'm the worst thing that ever happened to you?"

or

"You're the best thing that ever happened to me?"

Either way, that's pretty metal.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM (VHUov)

372 And you get an ad that takes over your screen when you jump to the top/bottom of the comments page. Not good.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM (y171U)

373 I had a close friend who was absolutely screwed by family court. Judges wouldn’t even let him see his kids… nuts

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:26 PM (X5Baq)

Yup, me too. He went from making 350K a year to homeless in the woods talking to trees, to dead a few years later. Taking his kids broke him.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM (snZF9)

374 LOL I looked at the main page.

Stealth Mode!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 12:28 PM

404: Blog not found.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:29 PM (bFu5X)

375 Calling all COB's. Calling all COB's.

Ace did it again. I repeat. Ace did it again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

376 The front page at this point is like Kramer at the corner of 1st and 1st…. How can a street intersect with itself? It’s like the nexus of the universe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:29 PM (X5Baq)

377
Ace is hilarious.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 12:29 PM (3ek7K)

378 Ace is hilarious.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 12:29 PM

This is why we keep coming back here every day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (bFu5X)

379 We need to bring back the significant cultural stigma around bastards. --F.V.

Fine by me, and after watching you try to sermonize yourself out of major snap-judge asshole status, let's just start with you.

Bet you're fun at potlucks.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (zdLoL)

380 How many comments can this one page handle before it goes wonky? 1,000?

Posted by: Joemarine at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (y171U)

381 [io]
This is why we keep coming back here every day.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (bFu5X)

I still regret not being around for the great "busty lesbian pron" post.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

382 All part of the charm of the AoSHQ experience. Do not ever change it!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (wVcYX)

383 Detroit was destroyed on purpose by the Dem mayor at the time, says a paper written by some Harvard folks. Dem mayors are copying his methods all over now.

Just google The Curley Effect.

Posted by: Random PJ at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (+jscL)

384
RMBS,

Yep, ya never know.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (3ek7K)

385 376 The front page at this point is like Kramer at the corner of 1st and 1st…. How can a street intersect with itself? It’s like the nexus of the universe
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:29 PM (X5Baq)

I thought we discussed muslim family trees last night.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Sco7b)

386 How many comments can this one page handle before it goes wonky? 1,000?
Posted by: Joemarine at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (y171U)

We've been over 1000 before.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:31 PM (ExV1e)

387 Beau Biden died from looking at the main page.

Posted by: Not a joke at March 30, 2026 12:31 PM (2Ez/1)

388 >>First Lady is my first. I'm her second.

We're together 29 years, married 22.

Similar here, married 27 years - but we got engaged 10 weeks after our first date, and married 6 months later.

God bless you both, Sponge.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:31 PM (NcvvS)

389 Wife and I were walking around the courthouse square last week and another couple was walking towards -- with the man wearing a t-shirt that said "Trophy Husband."

I turned to my wife and said "You need to get me one of those!"

The other couple left and the guy said "She got it for me!" -- pointing at his wife ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Yrpv2)

390
I thought we discussed muslim family trees last night.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Sco7b)

Baaa-a-a-a-a-ah!

Posted by: Grandpa at March 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

391 Or… the front page is like outer space. It’s a vacuum; nothing there

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (X5Baq)

392 Detroit was destroyed on purpose by the Dem mayor at the time, says a paper written by some Harvard folks. Dem mayors are copying his methods all over now.

Just google The Curley Effect.
Posted by: Random PJ at March 30, 2026 12:30 PM (+jscL)

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (wVcYX)

393 It is better to live in a corner of the roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Posted by: Proverbs 25:24 at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

There's a line from Genesis, when Jacob and Rebecah are old, and Esau has taken two wives from the locals, and they're all living together. (Rebekah is stuck with the two young wives all day long)

"And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (/QdgR)

394 Similar here, married 27 years - but we got engaged 10 weeks after our first date, and married 6 months later.

God bless you both, Sponge.
Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:31 PM (NcvvS)

Wow. Wife and I got engaged about 10 weeks after our first date, married 6 months later, just celebrated 30 years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (ExV1e)

395 The main page is like a B-2 bomber on Iranian radar.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (ZVgZ4)

396 *The other couple LAUGHED ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (Yrpv2)

397 Similar here, married 27 years - but we got engaged 10 weeks after our first date, and married 6 months later.

God bless you both, Sponge.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:31 PM (NcvvS)

Thank you.

We were talking about getting married already, but then her dad gave me the 'shit or get off the pot' speech. I figured I'd better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

398 apropos of nothing, but my Final Four is correct

of course, I doubt my winners will win ... but maybe?

go UConn!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (j+aD2)

399 The NOOD works, even if the main page doesn't.

Also, it's full of link.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=419109

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (VHUov)

400 Or… the front page is like outer space. It’s a vacuum; nothing there
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (X5Baq)

Hey now... the left sidebar isn't messed up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

401 You broke the bloody blog... Where's a pub...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (ECasK)

402 366
It is better to live in a corner of the roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Posted by: Proverbs 25:24 at March 30, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

I think I've now been divorced longer than I was married. But I can definitely attest that is true. However the financial, emotional, professional, psychological and personal fallout - and spending quite some time barely hanging on by a fraying thread - are also quite awful. The whole thing was quite the life-destroying experience.

Posted by: Sometimes you can't win for losing at March 30, 2026 12:33 PM (TbWk/)

403 Wow, is this what Elon means when he says our lives are a simulation?

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 12:34 PM (Wmg4n)

404 301 I don't believe Canada is a real place.

Canadian public TV hires interpreter to play air guitar for deaf people during RUSH concert broadcast
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck. How does someone get that job?

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: harvey weinstein at March 30, 2026 12:34 PM (v3pYe)

405 Canadian public TV hires interpreter to play air guitar for deaf people during RUSH concert broadcast

ah I see no one here is watching DTF St Lousi!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 30, 2026 12:34 PM (j+aD2)

406 The main page is like a B-2 bomber on Iranian radar.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:32 PM (ZVgZ4)

Or iran on a b2 bomber radar.

Sir, there's nothing there

Oh goody, head for home.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (snZF9)

407 To confirm Canada is not real, watch the past weekend’s NDP convention.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 30, 2026 12:35 PM (nqStX)

408 The Langoliers have eaten the Main Page!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (wVcYX)

409 I’m just gonna guess Ace hit post as he was walking out the door. We’ll find out in an hour or so.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (u73oe)

410 Another victory for Islam!

Tel Aviv is in flames, and the blog is down!

Posted by: "Independent" Hezbollah "Journalists"! at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (n1OCj)

411 We're America's largest National Park!

Posted by: Canadia at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (2Ez/1)

412 >>Wife and I got engaged about 10 weeks after our first date, married 6 months later, just celebrated 30 years.

Congratulations, quite a coincidence! We had worked together for almost 10 months, so we had seen each other in day-to-day activities, gotten to know each other. We had our first date the day after I left the project (quite amicably).

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (NcvvS)

413 We're America's largest National Park!
Posted by: Canadia

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Kksvc)

414 The Langoliers have eaten the Main Page!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 12:36 PM (wVcYX)

Maybe point them to DC.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (snZF9)

415 I’m just gonna guess Ace hit post as he was walking out the door. We’ll find out in an hour or so.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

We should get reparations.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Kksvc)

416 Something broke. Even the right side column is gone on the main page.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:38 PM (Kksvc)

417 We're America's largest National Park!
Posted by: Canadia

Generally speaking, Canadians try to live as close to the United States as possible, and Americans try to live as far away from Canada as possible.

Posted by: The Truth! at March 30, 2026 12:38 PM (n1OCj)

418 >>We were talking about getting married already, but then her dad gave me the 'shit or get off the pot' speech. I figured I'd better.

Yep, dads can do that. Didn't meet wife's dad until we were, as wife would say, 'safely engaged'. Formidable gentleman.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (NcvvS)

419 I’m just gonna guess Ace hit post as he was walking out the door. We’ll find out in an hour or so.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

We should get reparations.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Kksvc)

*makes "call me" gesture*

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (wVcYX)

420 I’m just gonna guess Ace hit post as he was walking out the door. We’ll find out in an hour or so.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

We should get reparations.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Kksvc)

*makes "call me" gesture*
Posted by: Jackie Chiles

More like "makes shake weight" motion.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:39 PM (Kksvc)

421 LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 12:41 PM (MIIRH)

422 In the pictures from my first wedding people are laughing in the background. Much fortelling the future. My biggest mistake.
Second marriage is still going strong. 33 together and 25 married.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 12:42 PM (7WnOb)

423 420 I’m just gonna guess Ace hit post as he was walking out the door. We’ll find out in an hour or so.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Maybe he's subconsciously telling us he wants 3 day weekends.

Or telling me to start 'The Hobbit' already. Hey, I was busy. MS Now and No Kings Day! C'mon....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Sco7b)

424 OMG - where'd everything go?

This reminds me of the Twilight Zone movie where a young couple gets a 'behind the scenes' look at how reality is constructed......LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 12:44 PM (QGaXH)

425 To the blackout blog???

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:44 PM (Kksvc)

426 To the blackout blog???
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:44 PM

We can keep this thread going!

.45!
Maryanne!
Longbows!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (bFu5X)

427 Outrageous!
Egregious!
Preposterous!

https://youtube.com/shorts/IyxRkCEATgY

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (2Ez/1)

428 Have one foot in the new comments thread and one here.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (cWLG3)

429 Luckily, I had this tab open.

Do you think the hampsters perfer Monster or Red Bull?

Posted by: pookysgirl happens to have Monster in the fridge at March 30, 2026 12:46 PM (Wt5PA)

430 We can keep this thread going!

.45!
Maryanne!
Longbows!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (bFu

Carrots in chili, ketchup on hot dogs...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 12:46 PM (ECasK)

431 In the pictures from my first wedding people are laughing in the background. Much fortelling the future. My biggest mistake.
Second marriage is still going strong. 33 together and 25 married.
Posted by: Reforger

Best Man should never start his speech, "Good to see y'all again".

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 12:46 PM (Kksvc)

432 In the pictures from my first wedding people are laughing in the background. Much fortelling the future. My biggest mistake.
Second marriage is still going strong. 33 together and 25 married.
Posted by: Reforger

Best Man should never start his speech, "Good to see y'all again".
Posted by: rickb223

Or "As they say, third time's the charm."

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:47 PM (VHUov)

433 428 Have one foot in the new comments thread and one here.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 12:45 PM (cWLG3)

So it's your fault. You're crossing the streams. Shit or get off the pot.

Posted by: Reforger at March 30, 2026 12:48 PM (7WnOb)

434 Marriage is grand.
Divorce is a hundred grand.

Posted by: Family lawyer at March 30, 2026 12:48 PM (2Ez/1)

435 NOODlum, in case you missed it.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=419109

Since ace broke the main page.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

436 Since I've been watching horror movies, there's one on Shudder called 'Crazy Old Lady'.

A man goes to do a favor for his ex-wife's mother. Things go badly.

I put it in my watchlist. I'm sure a few morons would find it a comedy.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:49 PM (Sco7b)

437 Main page is back up.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 01:00 PM (NcvvS)

438 Being as I am from Chicago, I explain to people that there is lots of affordable housing in Chicago. The question is not how much can you pay, but how much gunfire can you tolerate.

Posted by: Nemo at March 30, 2026 01:19 PM (4RPgu)

439 If "you can just do things" includes just shooting the bastards, than I'm all for it.

Posted by: Riddle at March 30, 2026 01:26 PM (lT/s0)

440 The main issue I see with this sort of idea is that it usually ends with the original residents pushed out to a worse area and trendy urbans with money moving in.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 30, 2026 02:21 PM (8avO+)

441 This essay assumes something close to an honest election.
Fat chance.
The first order of business is to clean up the election process: not only voter id, etc, but the vast amount of taxpayer dollars being diverted via grants to nice-sounding organizations that are, in fact, thinly disguised Democrat Party operations. Like it or not, LIVs do swing elections, and these grant-receiving "NGOs" have a lot of influence on them. Choke off NGO funding, and it'll be like killing USAID; you might be able to win an election.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 30, 2026 02:23 PM (rJ+qD)

442 When the high-rise housing projects failed, we realized that it's not a housing problem, it's a people problem. Those people. They are the problem.

Posted by: Wofus at March 30, 2026 06:33 PM (CNa+A)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Vel. Normandy
Alexey Bogolyubov

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 art

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 09:30 AM (/+uur)

2 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 09:31 AM (R11M+)

3 Andy and Opie!

Posted by: Roy at March 30, 2026 09:32 AM (H3P5y)

4 The fishery has selected a new Holy Mackerel.

Posted by: red speck at March 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Ve/HL)

5
Vel?
Vel vut?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 30, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

6 Nice. Love the color of the water and sky.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

7 I can smell it from here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:32 AM (AkEZC)

8 4 The fishery has selected a new Holy Mackerel.
Posted by: red speck at March 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Ve/HL)

You can tell by the applewood smoke.

Posted by: Roy at March 30, 2026 09:33 AM (H3P5y)

9 'Some day, son- this will all be yours.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2026 09:33 AM (bss/y)

10 Looks like a photo taken with Steve Inman's potato cam.

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 30, 2026 09:33 AM (cO6oP)

11 I can see the sniper's perch.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2026 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

12 I didn't know Russians landed at Normandy. I thought they were tied up in the east.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:33 AM (Kksvc)

13 'Some day, son- this will all be yours.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

June 5th, 1944.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:34 AM (Kksvc)

14 The disciples are running late with their catch this morning, son.

Posted by: Roy at March 30, 2026 09:34 AM (H3P5y)

15 Normandy being photobombed by the Rock of Gibraltar.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 09:35 AM (2Ez/1)

16 The fishery has selected a new Holy Mackerel.
Posted by: red speck at March 30, 2026 09:32 AM (Ve/HL)

Fake news, the smoke is clearly black.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 09:35 AM (ExV1e)

17 Nice little scene, art.

Posted by: RandomDave at March 30, 2026 09:35 AM (ONKca)

18 Alexey Bogolyubov got around quite a bit.

Posted by: huerfano at March 30, 2026 09:36 AM (98kQX)

19 needs bikini sunbather.

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 09:37 AM (R11M+)

20 "Vel. Normandy" is a notable painting by the Russian artist Alexey Bogolyubov, created in 1880. This artwork exemplifies his expertise in landscape painting, showcasing the beauty of the Normandy region.

Peaceful area. Nothing exciting would ever happen there.

Until it did.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Sco7b)

21 'Some day, son- this will all be yours.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2026 09:33 AM (bss/y)

But I don't want all of this, I just want... to... -- the Prince in Swamp Castle

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 09:39 AM (ExV1e)

22 Well, it's no "River Rouge", so...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:40 AM (XuXeR)

23 Some day, son- this will all be yours.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2026 09:33 AM (bss/y)

But I don't want all of this, I just want... to... -- the Prince in Swamp Castle
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I just want to...be a dentist.
Posted by: Hermey

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Kksvc)

24 Nice to see they built a chimney that wouldn't burn the place down.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 09:40 AM (Fbc0I)

25 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

26 OBVIOUSLY not aware of the impending global warming sea surge what will kill billions.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

27 Vel. could indicate "white"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 09:41 AM (RIvkX)

28 needs bikini sunbather.
Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 09:37 AM (R11M+)

Next up: SVIM vear......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

29 Title doesn't check out.
For some inexplicable reason the artist felt compelled to abbreviate the first word of the tilte and no one knows what it means.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at March 30, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

30 "Vel. Normandy" is a notable painting by the Russian artist Alexey Bogolyubov, created in 1880. This artwork exemplifies his expertise in landscape painting, showcasing the beauty of the Normandy region.

Peaceful area. Nothing exciting would ever happen there.

Until it did.
Posted by: Stateless

Who won the first Tour De France?

7th Panzer Division is not the correct answer. Who knew?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:43 AM (Kksvc)

31 Some day, son- this will all be yours.'

"You know those five thousand ships you say the Allies haven't got?"

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:43 AM (XuXeR)

32 *title

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at March 30, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

33 Next up: SVIM vear......"

"Very nice"

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:44 AM (XuXeR)

34 Not bad, very pleasant looking. I like the colors.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 30, 2026 09:45 AM (CHHv1)

35 Title doesn't check out.
For some inexplicable reason the artist felt compelled to abbreviate the first word of the tilte and no one knows what it means.

Posted by: Person who checks out titles at March 30, 2026 09:42 AM

As an artist travelling through Europe, obviously it's the initials of the chicks he was banging through his travels...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 09:45 AM (Sco7b)

36 > Peaceful area. Nothing exciting would ever happen there.

Until it did.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Sco7b)

Yes, it does have its moments of turmoil.

Posted by: William the Bastard at March 30, 2026 09:47 AM (IG3/x)

37
Vel(vet Underground). Normandy

You're welcome!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 09:47 AM (xG4kz)

38 I'm not quite sure how this exemplifies Russian Supremacy...

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 09:47 AM (uEmCf)

39 Who won the first Tour De France?

7th Panzer Division is not the correct answer. Who knew?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:43 AM (Kksvc)

That was funny. Thanks.

I'm looking at some of this other artists works. He has a lot of paintings of shipwrecks and sea battles.

Pretty cool.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 09:48 AM (Sco7b)

40 Normandy

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

Operation Oh My Lord! - a limerick

The smiling Frenchman Jean Marc René
Once a year he has sex all the way
If his sex life is so crappy
Well then why is he so happy?
He replies, "Because today is de day!!"

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)

41 "Remember, son, just because it's 20 francs in town doesn't mean it's the better deal."

Posted by: That Guy walking with the boy at March 30, 2026 09:49 AM (0sNs1)

42 Can't be Africa. There's a 3 story building.

Posted by: All Cultures Are Equal at March 30, 2026 09:49 AM (oftw2)

43 Mel Torme's hometown. The fog was especially velvety that day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 09:49 AM (IG3/x)

44 Vel(vet Underground). Normandy

You're welcome!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 09:47 AM (xG4kz)

Do the Humpty hump.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

45 While the painting is fine... calm yourself, CBD, I cannot help but think we'd have more comments if there were more bewbs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 09:50 AM (ExV1e)

46 I really like the painting and the scene. Bogolyubov (glad I don't have to pronounce that name) captured the quiet of a beach at low tide. The exposed timbers of the dock, the moist sand and the seaweed left behind the receding water shows that. The breeze is gentle (smoke from the chimney and the fluttering pennants) add to the feeling as does the father and son walking along. There is nothing hurried or hectic about the figures. I like the contrast of the worn wood of the work building and the rocks against the more elegant stone house in the background. Just enough detail to make the distinction clear. It's a pleasant, peaceful scene.

The artist is new to me. I looked up some of his other works. He does wonderful sea and landscapes. There is a hint of John Constable landscapes and the Hudson River School in some of them. Bogolyubov deserves more study.

CBD, thanks. A nice painting and artist to start the week.

Posted by: JTB at March 30, 2026 09:50 AM (yTvNw)

47 "Is that the house where all the Commie spies live?"

Said the little boy to his dad as they walked past it.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at March 30, 2026 09:50 AM (BHrzb)

48
Dudes on the motorbikes at upper left are making indiscreet inquiries about that "screechy Norski falsetto dude fleeing with the cute chick".

Boundaries between presentation mediums were woefully weak back in those days.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 09:51 AM (xG4kz)

49 Vel(vet Underground). Normandy

You're welcome!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:51 AM (Kksvc)

50 "Remember, son, just because it's 20 francs in town doesn't mean it's the better deal."
Posted by: That Guy walking with the boy
###

Mademoiselle from Armentieres, Parley-voo?

Posted by: Hinky, dinky, parley-voo. at March 30, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

51 I like the painting. Looks peaceful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 09:52 AM (xT8gx)

52 He replies, "Because today is de day!!"
Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 09:48 AM (qgHp7)

ha

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 09:52 AM (/+uur)

53 Can't be Africa. There's a 3 story building.
Posted by: All Cultures Are Equal

5'7"? I didn't know they could stack shit that high.
Posted by: Gunnery Sgt Hartman

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:53 AM (Kksvc)

54 Man to son, "in a hundred years we're going to get invaded by a bunch of Americans."

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 09:54 AM (2GVsD)

55 Fritz built a pillbox on that bluff just before they got word from Brits of the invasion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 09:56 AM (Fbc0I)

56 19 >>needs bikini sunbather.

My sister did a stint in Leningrad. Said one of her "you're not in California anymore" moments was in Winter, watching people go out at noon to the canal -- protected from the wind but in full sun -- and strip down to their skivvies just to soak up some vitamin D.

Posted by: red speck at March 30, 2026 09:57 AM (Ve/HL)

57 The perfect addition to the wall above the Chowder Bar at the Days Inn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 09:57 AM (+HNx/)

58 Andy and Opie

**********

Sidekicks

Now Snow White has Sleepy and Dopey
And Andy Griffith has Barney and Opie
But it seems, if I recall
That the saddest pair of all
Obama just has Chage-y and Hope-y

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 09:57 AM (qgHp7)

59
Remember, you do not own seaside property, you merely rent it.

There is an interesting public display at one of the National Parks or Recreation Areas in the vicinity of the Virginia Capes which shows how much the low-lying islands in that area have moved around through the centuries.

Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 09:57 AM (xG4kz)

60 Wait. We have a Chowder Bar?
Since when?

Posted by: Random Days Inn employee at March 30, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

61 Bogolyubov has some pretty nice seascapes. He apparently had a thing for ships.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:59 AM (AkEZC)

62 My sister did a stint in Leningrad. Said one of her "you're not in California anymore" moments was in Winter, watching people go out at noon to the canal -- protected from the wind but in full sun -- and strip down to their skivvies just to soak up some vitamin D.
Posted by: red speck

How do the Inuit do it above the arctic circle? Can't think there would be any good day in winter.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:59 AM (Kksvc)

63 Looked it up:

Veules-les-Roses, Normandy, 1880

BTW, there's a nice portrait of the artist by my favorite Russian painter, Ilya Repin, on Bogolyubov's Wikipedia page.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 09:59 AM (lJ0H4)

64
Were this mine, I would display it prominently.

But I would be a dick and insist that visitors to our abode provide an explanation of the "Val." portion of its title.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:00 AM (xG4kz)

65 61 Bogolyubov has some pretty nice seascapes. He apparently had a thing for ships.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:59 AM (AkEZC)

-----------

Good man, that Bogolyubov.

Posted by: Peter the Great at March 30, 2026 10:00 AM (+HNx/)

66 Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 09:57 AM (xG4kz)

Victorian and Inverness?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:00 AM (ExV1e)

67 >Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?

*Charles and Henry have entered the chat*

Posted by: Google Maps at March 30, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

68
Alexey "By Golly" Bogolyubov

The dude thoroughly loathed his nickname.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:01 AM (xG4kz)

69
Wait. We have a Chowder Bar?
Since when?
Posted by: Random Days Inn employee

Ever since this place was overrun by chowder heads, so, for a long time now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:04 AM (xG4kz)

70 > How do the Inuit do it above the arctic circle? Can't think there would be any good day in winter.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:59 AM (Kksvc)

Eskimos (who are not all "Inuit" by any means) tend to eat a lot of fish and sea mammal meat, good sources of vitamin D.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 10:04 AM (IG3/x)

71 Ouf, look at those hideous prole buildings. We must put zem in zeir place.

Posted by: William le Bastard at March 30, 2026 10:05 AM (gKWVE)

72 How do the Inuit do it above the arctic circle? Can't think there would be any good day in winter.

From their diet.

Inuit and other Arctic indigenous peoples (often referred to as Eskimos) traditionally obtain Vitamin D
through a diet rich in marine mammals, fatty fish, and raw animal products rather than sunlight. Key sources include seal liver, blubber, salmon, and whale skin (muktuk), which are consumed raw or boiled to maximize nutrient intake.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:05 AM (Riz8t)

73 "Chowderhead" is an informal, derogatory term for someone considered foolish or stupid. It originated as a mispronunciation of "jolterhead," an old insult referring to a blockhead.

Posted by: Getting ahead at March 30, 2026 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)

74 *Charles and Henry have entered the chat*
Posted by: Google Maps

I worked at Cape Henry Collegiate School for 12 years. It's in Virginia Beach.

Posted by: Captain Fork at March 30, 2026 10:06 AM (oftw2)

75 Oh my, the microcephalic brigade has arrived.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:06 AM (Riz8t)

76 Inuit and other Arctic indigenous peoples (often referred to as Eskimos) traditionally obtain Vitamin D through a diet rich in marine mammals, fatty fish, and raw animal products rather than sunlight. Key sources include seal liver, blubber, salmon, and whale skin (muktuk), which are consumed raw or boiled to maximize nutrient intake.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:05 AM (Riz8t)

On the plus side, very few annoying vegans bother the Eskimos about their diet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:07 AM (ExV1e)

77 On the plus side, very few annoying vegans bother the Eskimos about their diet.

Man, that would be a tough dietary row to hoe.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:07 AM (Riz8t)

78 Interviewer: Why is it titled Vel. Normandy?

Bogolyubov: Vell, eet ees Normandy, no?

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:07 AM (qgHp7)

79
I think that Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator had the coolest name.

Dude always knew where he was and to where he was going, not at all like that British dunderhead shackled to MeAgain, the Duchess of Sus.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:07 AM (xG4kz)

80 Seal liver? Again?

Posted by: Eskimo kid, coming in for dinner after a long day playing in the snow at March 30, 2026 10:08 AM (2Ez/1)

81 What am I looking at here?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:08 AM (4NO2D)

82 (X82bt)

Nuke from orbit with extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:08 AM (2GVsD)

83 You'd blubber too if you had to eat whale meat all the time!

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:09 AM (qgHp7)

84
On the plus side, very few annoying vegans bother the Eskimos about their diet.

"Un, lichens scraped from the rocks and algae scraped from the ice. Why do you ask?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:09 AM (xG4kz)

85 > Inuit and other Arctic indigenous peoples (often referred to as Eskimos)

The Inuit only live in Canada.

The Inupiat in Alaska are fairly closely related, but do not generally call themselves "Inuit".

The Yupik in Alaska are not Inuit, and do not like being called that AT ALL. Historically the groups did not get along.

Yes, the languages are related, but it's like calling a Spaniard "French" because they both speak Romance languages.

In other words, it's a "might get your ass kicked" thing.

Stupid "woke" white Canadian communists push the narrative that all Eskimos are "Inuit", and that the word "Eskimo" is racist. They are not and it is not.

Did they bother asking the actual people what they wanted to be called?

Surely you jest.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 10:10 AM (IG3/x)

86 You'd blubber too if you had to eat whale meat all the time!
Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:09 AM (qgHp7)

Sometimes they'd eat Expeditionary Penguins.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:10 AM (ExV1e)

87 The sea was tranquil that day, like an old man napping in a deli.

Posted by: George Costanza at March 30, 2026 10:10 AM (DqQS/)

88 Sniper in the widows peak.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at March 30, 2026 10:10 AM (WQDw6)

89 > On the plus side, very few annoying vegans bother the Eskimos about their diet.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:07 AM (ExV1e)

Oh, the Greenpeace tards do show up to protest Eskimo whale hunts now and then.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (IG3/x)

90 Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?"

Double bonus... Does the hair match the capes?

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (XuXeR)

91 You'd blubber too if you had to eat whale meat all the time!

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:09 AM (qgHp7)
-

That's muk talk!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (1o8D5)

92 Now if we can get rid of the CrossFit atheists!

Posted by: Just the punchline at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (2Ez/1)

93 Already a troll here.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (cWLG3)

94 Seal liver? Again?

Posted by: Eskimo kid, coming in for dinner after a long day playing in the snow

You want krill again? Because this is how you get more krill.

Posted by: Fed up Eskimo parent at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (Riz8t)

95 "Interviewer: Why is it titled Vel. Normandy?"

See #63

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 10:12 AM (lJ0H4)

96 Already a troll here.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM

A lame one.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:12 AM (4NO2D)

97 Alexey "By Golly" Bogolyubov

The dude thoroughly loathed his nickname.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

***********

Bigly!

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:12 AM (qgHp7)

98 Sniper in the widows peak.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at March 30, 2026 10:10 AM (WQDw6)
-

I can see the widow but I can't see her peak!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 10:12 AM (1o8D5)

99 Art news;
Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse stolen from Italian museum reut.rs/3PTgvAx

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (gKWVE)

100 Sorry, but we're just not Inuit.

Posted by: The Yupik at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)

101 Clean up on aisle 73.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (lJ0H4)

102
In other words, it's a "might get your ass kicked" thing.

Or get stuffed in a seal's air hole in the sea ice.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (xG4kz)

103 94 Already a troll here.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (cWLG3)

---------

Be kind. Maybe the poor dear has Tourette's.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (+HNx/)

104 Art news;
Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse stolen from Italian museum reut.rs/3PTgvAx
Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (gKWVE)

Did they have an historic first female head of security?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (ExV1e)

105 > Did they bother asking the actual people what they wanted to be called?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 10:10 AM (IG3/x)

It's like the woketards coming up with the idiotic term "Latinx".

Yeah, go into a working class Chicano bar and start calling people that... see what happens.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 10:14 AM (IG3/x)

106 Is that that Normandy house featured in The Longest Day? Looks sorta like it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 10:14 AM (wVcYX)

107 Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse stolen from Italian museum

So the 12 tons of Kit-Kats were just a ruse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:14 AM (2GVsD)

108 Let's build this heavy-duty ramp leading right into the English channel.

For no particular reason.

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 30, 2026 10:15 AM (MDua2)

109 (X82bt)
youtu.be/1aUImaOmwDs

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:15 AM (gKWVE)

110 Clean up on aisle 73.

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 10:13 AM (lJ0H4)
-

Troll needs to be... blacklisted.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 10:15 AM (1o8D5)

111 @108 I wonder if the kit-kats were swapped out for the artworks.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:16 AM (cWLG3)

112 Posted by: Racist at March 30, 2026 10:06 AM (X82bt)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 30, 2026 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

113 Speaking of you are what you eat, this was baffling but amusing in a wtf kind of way.

https://x.com/i/status/2038344917450408327

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

114 Based on the persistence of comment 73, we probably could have ignored the whole 100 comment thing today. CBD must have slipped on a first world problem and hit his head.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:16 AM (ExV1e)

115 OT: If it takes 60 votes in the senate to remove illegal aliens from Medicaid, when did they get 60 votes to put them on Medicaid? Or even 51?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 10:17 AM (Kksvc)

116
Did they bother asking the actual people what they wanted to be called?

After having received a few savage beatings, the interrogators eventually figured out that the natives' phrase for "dumb fuckers" had been made in reference to them and was not, in fact, the natives' name for themselves.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:17 AM (xG4kz)

117 94 Already a troll here.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:11 AM (cWLG3)

I'd think they'd all still be resting after the big party Saturday.
Soaking their wrinkled feet in Epsom Salts.

Still pounding down the Tums from all the ethnic food they ate since they were downtown.

Trying to get the booty calls feigning injured backs out of the house.

You don't easily recover from a weekend of elderly sex, prescription drugs and Springsteen rock and roll.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:18 AM (Sco7b)

118 42 there's a building. fify

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 10:18 AM (R11M+)

119 After having received a few savage beatings, the interrogators eventually figured out that the natives' phrase for "dumb fuckers" had been made in reference to them and was not, in fact, the natives' name for themselves.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 10:18 AM (Kksvc)

120 OT: If it takes 60 votes in the senate to remove illegal aliens from Medicaid, when did they get 60 votes to put them on Medicaid? Or even 51?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 10:17 AM (Kksvc)

Owebamacare. Reconciliation. 51 votes. Wasn't it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

121 Nice, I like this.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 30, 2026 10:21 AM (nz1sK)

122
Tonight! On "In Search Of..."!

Who was behind the great Kit Kat Kaper? And why were paintings from cheese eating surrender monkeys caught in its snares?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:21 AM (xG4kz)

123 On the plus side, very few annoying vegans bother the Eskimos about their diet.

Vegans. Also a source of vitamin D.

Posted by: Hey, I'm Just the Chef at March 30, 2026 10:22 AM (rxwdW)

124 I'm enjoying reading about Andy Weir dab on the modern-audience Trek shows. Apparently he offered a "pitch", as they call it, but Paramount turned him down and filmed gay klingons in space instead.
It seems rare that an author would dare attack such a woke darling. Usually they're fat blobs of quivering jello like Brandon Sanderson or Peter Hamilton (the list could go on and on).

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:22 AM (gKWVE)

125 Who was behind the great Kit Kat Kaper? And why were paintings from cheese eating surrender monkeys caught in its snares?

It was Auric Butterfinger

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:23 AM (2GVsD)

126 "Un, lichens scraped from the rocks and algae scraped from the ice. Why do you ask?"

**********

Dietary Angst - a limerick

A young Inuit kid, just a whelp
Tried a vegan diet, all by himself
"No more whale meat and blubber,
It all tastes like rubber!"
It turned out to be a cry for kelp.

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:23 AM (qgHp7)

127 You don't easily recover from a weekend of elderly sex, prescription drugs and Springsteen rock and roll.
Posted by: Stateless

Disco Stu don't advertise.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:24 AM (gKWVE)

128
It was Auric Butterfinger
Posted by: Anna Puma

Nice! LOL!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:24 AM (xG4kz)

129 It turned out to be a cry for kelp.
Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:23 AM (qgHp7)

ba-dum, TISSSSSS

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

130 Ladies and gentlemen, your modern leftist: gender-confused white man refuses to enter Trader Joe's because there are too many...older white people.

https://is.gd/HzCTE6

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:25 AM (Riz8t)

131 72 plus lots of them die from fermenting muktuk on their fridgidaire's.

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 10:26 AM (R11M+)

132 I did not have mockery of the Inuit diet on my bingo card for the day.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:26 AM (Riz8t)

133 Finish your brussel sprouts, Jimmy.
There are starving Inuit kids in the Artic, you know...

Posted by: Your mother at March 30, 2026 10:27 AM (2Ez/1)

134
I wonder if the kit-kats were swapped out for the artworks.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

In an alternate universe, we young'uns built frontier forts and stockades with Kit Kat bars, and not Lincoln Logs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:27 AM (xG4kz)

135 129
It was Auric Butterfinger
Posted by: Anna Puma

Nice! LOL!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:24 AM (xG4kz)

THAT'S FUNNY BECAUSE AURIC MEANS FROM GOLD AND BUTTERFINGERS ARE SORT OF GOLD.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 30, 2026 10:28 AM (cWLG3)

136 Finish your brussel sprouts, Jimmy.
There are starving Inuit kids in the Artic, you know...

Yeah, like we'd eat those things. They look like walrus turds.

Posted by: Inuit kids at March 30, 2026 10:28 AM (Riz8t)

137 My wife told me "Finish your dinner. There are people starving in Africa!"

I told her "Have sex with me. There are men horny in Canada!"

Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield at March 30, 2026 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

138
I did not have mockery of the Inuit diet on my bingo card for the day.
Posted by: Archimedes

One must be mighty nimble in order to remain au courant here at the 'Q!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:28 AM (xG4kz)

139 I dunno about dying from fermentation, but the old school distillation was to freeze the booze and scrape off the water ice.
DO NOT DO THIS. Proper distillation as practiced by the, uh, Muslims leaves a mostly pure ethanol. Freeze distillation will leave methanol and other toxic compounds.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:28 AM (gKWVE)

140 Star Trek Academy has been cancelled even though the masochists will get a second season that was already in the can.

And it seems Kurtzman is finally on the way out. So, it is safe for Andy to mouth off in the hope they pick him to save the series.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:28 AM (2GVsD)

141 Who was behind the great Kit Kat Kaper? And why were paintings from cheese eating surrender monkeys caught in its snares?

It was Auric Butterfinger
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:23 AM (2GVsD)

Chunky, James Chunky.

Posted by: 007 at March 30, 2026 10:30 AM (wVcYX)

142 Ladies and gentlemen, your modern leftist: gender-confused white man refuses to enter Trader Joe's because there are too many...older white people.

https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes

And judging from the cars in the parking lot(my last trip to TJ's was a couple of weeks ago)they are all middle class and upper middle class. Quel horror!

Posted by: Tuna at March 30, 2026 10:30 AM (lJ0H4)

143 Just......wow.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

144 131 Ladies and gentlemen, your modern leftist: gender-confused white man refuses to enter Trader Joe's because there are too many...older white people.

https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:25 AM

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Dude. Instacart.
And therapy.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (2Ez/1)

145 I suspect we're going to be threatened with commenter registration again.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (gKWVE)

146
Wth

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (3ek7K)

147 141 Star Trek Academy has been cancelled even though the masochists will get a second season that was already in the can.

And it seems Kurtzman is finally on the way out. So, it is safe for Andy to mouth off in the hope they pick him to save the series.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:28 AM (2GVsD)
--
Tanned and ready!

Posted by: Will Wheaton at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (cWLG3)

148
https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes

Wow....Broken. Just completely broken.

God didn't get it wrong. That thing did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

149 Shut up Wesley

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:32 AM (2GVsD)

150 In 2023 Gavin Newsom did what he called a "Red State" tour and visited Alabama, Florida and a few other red states.
Newsom's wife said she brought her children to the red states so they could learn about racism, sexism, and bullying first hand.

-
You know, like going on a safari.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

151 I suspect we're going to be threatened with commenter registration again.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (gKWVE)

Yeah. Cob's better address asap, I would imagine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

152 In California it is legal to marry first cousins, it is not legal in Mississippi or Louisiana.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:33 AM (2GVsD)

153
Where is the hall monitor?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 10:33 AM (3ek7K)

154 The cobs went AWOL?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:33 AM (cWLG3)

155 I picked up the red phone.

Posted by: Piper at March 30, 2026 10:33 AM (OoFl2)

156 I see that Soyjak Party has made it into this site.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 10:34 AM (iXqHn)

157 In 2023 Gavin Newsom did what he called a "Red State" tour and visited Alabama, Florida and a few other red states.
Newsom's wife said she brought her children to the red states so they could learn about racism, sexism, and bullying first hand.

-
You know, like going on a safari.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

I bet they went to the doc to get shots beforehand.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2026 10:34 AM (wVcYX)

158 Where is the hall monitor?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 30, 2026 10:33 AM (3ek7K)/i]

We'll need a TJM sighing forthwith.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

159
https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes

Wow....Broken. Just completely broken.

Did that thing have a plushie in its lap?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

160 https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes

Wow....Broken. Just completely broken.

God didn't get it wrong. That thing did.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Not only broken, he deprived all those old white people of his vibrant diversity. He's basically a Nazi.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

161 It seems reddit has made an appearance.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

162 If anyone missed it, Stephen Colbert did the computer voice in Starfleet Academy. It was like they were intentionally trying to piss off half the audience from the start.

Strange New Worlds hasn't been too bad. The first 2 seasons were kind of fun, at points.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:36 AM (Sco7b)

163 Rose colored glasses, heart tats under each eye, nose ring, blue colored hair, morbidly obese.

That is not how to go through life.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:36 AM (2GVsD)

164 Not only broken, he deprived all those old white people of his vibrant diversity. He's basically a Nazi.

"I feel out of place".

My friend, you'd be out of place on Mars.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026 10:36 AM (Riz8t)

165 164 It seems reddit has made an appearance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Nah. More than likely either KF or Soyjak.Party.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 10:37 AM (iXqHn)

166
Newsom's wife said she brought her children to the red states so they could learn about racism, sexism, and bullying first hand.

So non-judgmental!

When are you taking your little darlings into the heart of Oakland, Sugar Tits? They'd get a better education there and for far less cost, too!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026 10:37 AM (xG4kz)

167 163 https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes

Wow....Broken. Just completely broken.

God didn't get it wrong. That thing did.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Not only broken, he deprived all those old white people of his vibrant diversity. He's basically a Nazi.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 10:34 AM (ExV1e)
----
Is zhey posting here right now? Would explain a lot.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:37 AM (cWLG3)

168 Can smell the salt water and decay.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 10:38 AM (snZF9)

169 Not worth a response.

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:38 AM (qgHp7)

170 Is zhey posting here right now? Would explain a lot.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:37 AM (cWLG3)

I would love to see the list of pharmaceuticals it's on currently.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

171 The troll plays with words like a cretin plays with poo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 10:38 AM (RIvkX)

172 163 https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes

I've seen enough Jerry Springer and Maury to bet big dollars her boyfriends have all been black.

So she feels their suffering...

I'm sure I can't be the only one thinking she was going to pick her butt when she reached behind her...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:38 AM (Sco7b)

173 The troll plays with words like a cretin plays with poo.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 10:38 AM (RIvkX)

Ipso facto, it plays with poo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

174 The troll plays with words like a cretin plays with poo.

We have a former President of the United States posting here?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:39 AM (2GVsD)

175 Newsom’s wife sounds like a peach!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 10:39 AM (+m+QQ)

176 73 is still there.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:39 AM (cWLG3)

177 We have a former President of the United States posting here?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:39 AM (2GVsD)

You won't be laughing when I find who shit my pants........

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 30, 2026 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

178 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang.
Not an impressive piece of art, but it does appeal to me.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 30, 2026 10:42 AM (2WIwB)

179 I wouldn't mind a registration, as long as no ID is required. I would have it be a pain in the ass, maybe 10 of those annoying select-all-with-bicycle things in a row.

And require a day or two wait before you can comment.

This would end the weak drive-by trolls without being a PITA for regulars by giving real teeth to bannings.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:42 AM (4NO2D)

180 The troll plays with words like a cretin plays with poo.

We have a former President of the United States posting here?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Jump back Joe. I'm coming for ya!
Posted by: Corn Pop

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 10:42 AM (Kksvc)

181 . . . Bogolyubov (glad I don't have to pronounce that name) captured the quiet of a beach at low tide. The exposed timbers of the dock, the moist sand and the seaweed left behind the receding water shows that. . . .
Posted by: JTB at March 30, 2026

***
"Boh-GUL-you-bov"

(aka "Less and less I like this Yakubovsky!")

Very handsome painting. I think it's Grandpa and Grandson or -daughter walking on the strand; I can just make out the grown man's walking stick. Of course, in 1880 well-to-do men carried walking sticks whether they were limped or not, so it could be Dad and Son/Daughter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 10:43 AM (wzUl9)

182 Not only broken, he deprived all those old white people of his vibrant diversity. He's basically a Nazi.

"I feel out of place".

Casting for The 5th Element is down the hall, bub.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 30, 2026 10:43 AM (MDua2)

183 Nothing says 'in touch with the common man' like labeling the entire Midwest and South as rabid racists.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

184 https://is.gd/HzCTE6
Posted by: Archimedes

Wow....Broken. Just completely broken.

God didn't get it wrong. That thing did.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Whatever that is its toast. Unfit for life on planet earth.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 10:43 AM (snZF9)

185 180 I wouldn't mind a registration, as long as no ID is required. I would have it be a pain in the ass, maybe 10 of those annoying select-all-with-bicycle things in a row.

And require a day or two wait before you can comment.

This would end the weak drive-by trolls without being a PITA for regulars by giving real teeth to bannings.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:42 AM (4NO2D)
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I don't see how that would work unless you ban VPN networks, which might also prevent cobs from posting from France.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:44 AM (cWLG3)

186 A new The Fugitive.

Braxton McCoy
@braxton_mccoy
It wasn't me. It was the no-armed man. You find this man! You find this man!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:45 AM (ndZc7)

187 Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026

***
Cloak Cape and Opera Cape?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)

188 Bers

Fit for only Planet Zootopia.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:45 AM (2GVsD)

189 Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026

Fred and Ethel?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Just saw on Facebook:

Alberta is booked for surgery in October.
They’re having a government removed.

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Kksvc)

191 Perhaps it's AI.

Posted by: Who can tell? at March 30, 2026 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)

192 Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026

***
Cloak Cape and Opera Cape?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)

No capes!

Posted by: Edna Mode at March 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wVcYX)

193 I don't see how that would work unless you ban VPN networks, which might also prevent cobs from posting from France.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:44 AM

You would have to log in to comment, you can't comment until 48 hours after creating your account, if you get banned you have to create a new account, painfully, and wait another two days.

IP addresses wouldn't matter.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:46 AM (4NO2D)

194 Damn if I had posted OT before a hundred comments I would have been deleted immediately.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 10:47 AM (V4IXI)

195 @195 That would help deter bot accounts, but not determined trolls.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:47 AM (cWLG3)

196
No capes!
Posted by: Edna Mode at March 30, 2026 10:46 AM (wVcYX)

Well shucks.

Posted by: The Justice League at March 30, 2026 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

197 Nothing says 'in touch with the common man' like labeling the entire Midwest and South as rabid racists.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

So you think the troll is Mrs. Newsom?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

198 'salright

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (DgMqy)

199 Let's spell it out:

People Newson's wife considers vibrant diversity: pet-eating Haitians, rapey/jihadi Afghans and Syrians, murderous TdA Venezuelans, scammy Somalis*.

People Newsom's wife considers unsafe bigots: Alabamans and Floridians.

Gotcha!

*IIRC, over 90% of Somali women have had clitorectomies - and they do it in the US, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (Suwql)

200 The visible nic must be separate from the account login though.

Changing nics is fundamental to this board, at least BEN ROTHLISBERGER thinks so.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (4NO2D)

201 I wish they'd all go back to Africa.

Posted by: Racist San Franpsycho

They're not terribly fond of 'em there.

I honestly feel kinda bad for them, in a sense. The moment they started to properly belong here, along comes Obozo and it gets completely scotched, possibly for good. Many will never really "belong" anywhere, and it's their own actions, but goaded by people who never had their best interests at heart.

It's a tragedy top to bottom.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (OUMaO)

202
So you think the troll is Mrs. Newsom?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (ndZc7)

There's a greater than zero chance.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026

Batman and Robin

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (V4IXI)

204 is.gd links don't work on my work computers.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 10:49 AM (iXqHn)

205 Das Normandie? Normandie?!!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 10:50 AM (ZPDpH)

206 Ciao. Back to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hobby. Jya ne minna.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 30, 2026 10:50 AM (2GVsD)

207 Inuit and other Arctic indigenous peoples (often referred to as Eskimos) traditionally obtain Vitamin D
through a diet rich in marine mammals, fatty fish, and raw animal products rather than sunlight. Key sources include seal liver, blubber, salmon, and whale skin (muktuk), which are consumed raw or boiled to maximize nutrient intake.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2026

***
Sounds as appetizing as the dried squid my late cat Chekov loved. I'd buy it for him at the local Asian market and he'd gobble it. His brother Wolf wouldn't touch it -- and Wolf was a big-time eater.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 10:50 AM (wzUl9)

208 is.gd links don't work on my work computers.
Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 10:49 AM (iXqHn)

My company has banned all shortened URL's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

209 134 finish your hiball, there are sober children in india.

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 10:50 AM (R11M+)

210 Not all heroes wear them.

Posted by: Or so I've been told at March 30, 2026 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)

211 I don't see how that would work unless you ban VPN networks, which might also prevent cobs from posting from France.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO

Plus some of us are posting from multiple devices in multiple locations in the course of an average day. Could be an issue.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 10:51 AM (OUMaO)

212 That would help deter bot accounts, but not determined trolls.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:47 AM

Trolls lack the patience and work ethic to get around even a free account. For each account they have to go create a fakemail account, then work through 10 rounds of disqus crap, then wait two days, to create an account they can use on one thread before being banned and having to start over.

What you want is max pain for min gain.

Trolls are lazy and stupid by nature.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:51 AM (4NO2D)

213 Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 10:48 AM (OUMaO)

*********

Wake up Brother Tim. Don't cut/paste the troll droppings.

Posted by: muldoon at March 30, 2026 10:51 AM (qgHp7)

214 Nick Cannon created a stir this weekend. From ew

Nick Cannon calls Democrats 'the party of the KKK,' voices support for Trump: 'Motherf---er's cleaning house'

"I f--- with Trump," Cannon told guest Amber Rose on his "Big Drive" web show this week

The Dems should be kind of worried...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:51 AM (Sco7b)

215 You won't see an Inuit with a six pack unless it's beer.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 10:51 AM (V4IXI)

216 Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 30, 2026

***
Kirk and Spock
Solo and Illya
Lorelai and Rory
?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

217 If a Pixy has an idea ready to implement he could freeze the hashes temporarily (so bans stick) until it's done.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:52 AM (cWLG3)

218 Wake up Brother Tim. Don't cut/paste the troll droppings.

Posted by: muldoon

Ugh. Serves me right. Thanks.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

219 Just saw on Facebook:

Alberta is booked for surgery in October.
They’re having a government removed.

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 10:46 AM (Kksvc)

Funny shit. I was watching a few motorcycle tour vids from people riding down from alaska and through Alberta. Alberta looked really nice, dare I say almost american. It needs to get that Canadian blister off it's ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 10:53 AM (snZF9)

220 221 Wake up Brother Tim. Don't cut/paste the troll droppings.

Posted by: muldoon

Ugh. Serves me right. Thanks.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 10:52 AM (OUMaO)

Absolvo te.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 10:53 AM (pDt9x)

221 Calvin and Hobbes.

Posted by: Just the punchline at March 30, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)

222 >>Bonus question: what are the names of the two capes that make up the Virginia Capes?

Charles and Henry

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 10:53 AM (Suwql)

223 If a Pixy has an idea ready to implement he could freeze the hashes temporarily (so bans stick) until it's done.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:52 AM

Hashes are IP derived, that's why VPNs get around the ban. Logins are not IP dependent. Move, use a public machine, use VPN.. none of that matters with a login.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:54 AM (4NO2D)

224 I've thought this through.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:54 AM (4NO2D)

225 Needs more landing craft and barrage balloons.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 30, 2026 10:55 AM (TezPK)

226 >>Nick Cannon calls Democrats 'the party of the KKK,' voices support for Trump: 'Motherf---er's cleaning house'

Heh. Cannon is exceedingly rich and has many children.
He's fully invested in the future.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 10:55 AM (Suwql)

227 I've thought this through.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:54 AM (4NO2D)

It seems we've had this discussion several times and none of it will ever happen.

This site is what this site is and it won't change anytime soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

228 I just want to keep the nics separate from the login.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:55 AM (4NO2D)

229 We've had open posting for 25 years. And a lot worse troll infestation.

We have always done better than just managing it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 10:55 AM (V4IXI)

230 228 Needs more landing craft and barrage balloons.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 30, 2026 10:55 AM (TezPK

Give it about 84 years...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:56 AM (Sco7b)

231 Designated driver.

https://is.gd/UWmLnF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7)

232 What is the objection to free unverified logons?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:56 AM (4NO2D)

233 226 If a Pixy has an idea ready to implement he could freeze the hashes temporarily (so bans stick) until it's done.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:52 AM

Hashes are IP derived, that's why VPNs get around the ban. Logins are not IP dependent. Move, use a public machine, use VPN.. none of that matters with a login.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:54 AM (4NO2D)
---
I'm game as long as it doesn't require location IDs or PII.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 10:57 AM (cWLG3)

234 64.

Sorry.
Need more coffee

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 10:57 AM (Sco7b)

235 I just want to keep the nics separate from the login.

Posted by: toby928(c)

Xitter handles it fairly well, so it can be done.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 10:57 AM (OUMaO)

236 Designated driver.

https://is.gd/UWmLnF
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 30, 2026 10:56 AM (ndZc7)

Don't drive angry.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

237 230 I've thought this through.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:54 AM (4NO2D)

It seems we've had this discussion several times and none of it will ever happen.

This site is what this site is and it won't change anytime soon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

My opinion is that our HQ ain’t broke, don’t need fixin’. By far the most user friendly site on the net.

Posted by: tubal at March 30, 2026 10:58 AM (pDt9x)

238 Let them roam. It's a waste if Shareblue money, they never get traction here, it's just a chickenfuck for them, at $0.50 a post or whatever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2026 10:58 AM (BI5O2)

239 Xitter handles it fairly well, so it can be done.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 30, 2026 10:57 AM

Does it? I thought if I changed my handle on twitface it changes it on all my posts and responses.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 10:58 AM (4NO2D)

240 I love this site just as it is. That we can "sign" our comments as by whatever name matches the joke we're making is a delight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 10:58 AM (wzUl9)

241 Spent half the thread commenting and worrying about a troll or two. Luv ya but ...

Posted by: You know better at March 30, 2026 10:59 AM (NFX2v)

242 154 Where is the hall monitor?

there's a hall monitor at my current place of employment. mounted just opposite the main entrance. it shows a rotation of images that include a calendar, a summary of upcoming events, and currently noted employees.

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 10:59 AM (v3pYe)

243 Normandy 1890? Yogi Berra will be strafing and firing rockets at your shore in 50 years.

Posted by: One of the All-Time Greats at March 30, 2026 11:00 AM (oftw2)

244 @239 Xitter is inundated with accounts impersonating Western media with fake engagement.
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/2038212261597118818

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 30, 2026 11:00 AM (cWLG3)

245 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

246 I love this site just as it is. That we can "sign" our comments as by whatever name matches the joke we're making is a delight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 10:58 AM (wzUl9)

Yeah we just need a rapid response death squad to visit the assholes in mommy's basement. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 11:01 AM (snZF9)

247 Spent half the thread commenting and worrying about a troll or two. Luv ya but ...
Posted by: You know better at March 30, 2026 10:59 AM

It's a technical discussion. It was just prompted by the sackless worm. But designing systems is what I spent 40 years doing, so I can't stop myself from thinking about how to improve computer things.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 11:03 AM (4NO2D)

248 220 If a Pixy has an idea ready to implement he could freeze the hashes temporarily (so bans stick) until it's done.

corned beef hash > frozen hash

Posted by: anachronda at March 30, 2026 11:03 AM (v3pYe)

249 My theory is most trolls are closeted homosexuals.

Like Ernst Rhom.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 30, 2026 11:04 AM (V4IXI)

250 All trolls are Average Joe.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at March 30, 2026 11:05 AM (4NO2D)

251 There be noodness.

Posted by: Noodlum at March 30, 2026 11:07 AM (2Ez/1)

252 184 hard to agree or disagree with a one word post.
(paraphrasing peter boyle), "it's a word..."
i sympathize with your sediments.

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (R11M+)

253 183 meant one above

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 11:09 AM (R11M+)

254 veal normandine.

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 11:13 AM (R11M+)

255 208 mine too. and the search words gun or knife. but for some weird reason, american thinker finally comes through.

Posted by: cmeat at March 30, 2026 11:14 AM (R11M+)

256 It turned out to be a cry for kelp.
Posted by: muldoon

LOL

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 30, 2026 11:35 AM (6U1c2)

257 Expliciete video’s bekijken op veilige en betrouwbare platforms.
Vind veilige streaming hubs voor een premium ervaring.

Posted by: ASIAN ANAL PORN CLIPS at March 30, 2026 02:36 PM (fgzKL)

The Morning Report — 3/30/26

Good morning kids. And so we had the so-called "No Kings" protests in a number of cities and towns across America over the weekend. Is it just me or, for a tyrannical king, Donald Trump is the most piss-poor example in history. As longtime commenter of note MP4 once quipped, if he and by extension we really were a fraction of the Nazi fascists they shriek we are, they'd all have been smoke up a crematorium chimney long ago. And this past weekend would've seen the protesters bullet-ridden corpses stacked up like so much cordwood or scooped into dump trucks as seen in Soylent Green. Of course, the things that so many braindead Americans railed against are all part and parcel of the Democrat/Left playbook. Despite parading around in the moldering skin suit of "Democracy" it is they and they alone that have spent the better part of two centuries tearing down the very pillars of the civil society they claim to be defending. It is the sine qua non of projection.

In Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, the usual “resistance” crowd managed to again show their rage at President Donald Trump and their fury at being out of power; they may even have succeeded in mobilizing Democrats for the midterm elections — but they also broadcast the opposition’s complete lack of any coherent political message.
Forget about the waving of Soviet flags and tributes to anti-American dictators at various rallies: The entire “No Kings” conceit is a lie. Democrats against “kings”? Hah! They love them — as long as the king has a (D) after his name.
Not long ago, Democrats applauded every abuse of executive power by President Barack Obama.
From unconstitutional rewrites of the Affordable Care Act (a k a ObamaCare), to immigration amnesty for “dreamers” (DACA) and their parents (DAPA); to unilaterally declaring the Senate to be in recess so he could pack the National Labor Relations Board with union lackeys, Obama was not shy about autocratic behavior.
“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” he declared when Congress refused to bow to his will, vowing “to sign executive orders, and take executive actions and administrative actions.”
He did, and Democrats didn’t complain, but applauded.
Tom Friedman, The New York Times’ smug voice of liberal “wisdom,” fantasized of what Obama could achieve “if we could just be China for a day.”
Obama lost, often at the Supreme Court. That didn’t stop him.
Nor did it stop President Joe Biden, who became infamous for ignoring Supreme Court decisions.
When the Supreme Court said that extending a COVID-era moratorium on evictions would be unconstitutional, Biden just did it anyway.
The same when the Supremes told Biden he lacked the power to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt. Democrats didn’t protest against Biden acting like a king. In fact, they encouraged him to go even further.
Then there were the coronavirus restrictions, imposed and extended by every Democratic governor.
Blue states shuttered businesses and locked kids out of schools — when Americans in fact could’ve conducted most normal activities safely.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom even banned religious worship in private homes; he’d eventually lose in the Supreme Court — but Democrats had no problem with it. So when it comes to “no kings,” Dems aren’t just accusing Trump — they’re falsifying their own history.
The truth is that Democrats cheer authoritarian behavior — as long as they’re in charge.
Let them back into power, and they’ll prove it once again.

In essence, yet again their protests were puerile, infantile and pointless. And not to be glossed over, in a number of instances Violent.

No Kings demonstrations in Portland, Oregon got out of hand in the evening with protesters sporting gas masks attacking police officers who were trying to control the crowd, according to video posted on X by FreedomNews.tv. There was no immediate word on arrests.
In Dallas, Police had to separate No Kings demonstrators from “Pro America” counter demonstrators as the two groups engaged in heated clashes. Video of the scene showed a protester being hauled away and arrested and other shouting “f–k you” at apparent pro-Trump demonstrators who were carrying flags and automatic weapons.
A large mob of demonstrators waving Palestinian and other flags hurled cement blocks towards Department of Homeland Security agents in Los Angeles.

In short, like Gazan terrorists and Persian oppressors, these usurpers think nothing of preserving their occupation of positions of influence by imperiling their own countrymen, women, and children.
They’re figuratively huddling behind you, and putting their citizenry’s security and substance at risk in direct dereliction of their sworn duty to “insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty.”
You, the American people, are the Democrats’ human shields.

As I stated last week, the phrase "Death to America" is not native to the Iranian mullahs. It was and is the goal of the anti-American Left and its epicenter in the Democrat party.

Have a great day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

...The incident happened while the president's aircraft sat on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport. Military pilots moved quickly, intercepted the plane, and deployed flares to get the pilot's attention and force a change in course.F-16s Scramble Near Trump’s Air Force One After Security Scare

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

Forget about the waving of Soviet flags and tributes to anti-American dictators at various rallies: The entire “No Kings” conceit is a lie.
The left LOVES kings — the ones with (D) after their name
“PSA: My office has authorized immediate arrests for anyone assaulting law enforcement. You will be arrested and charged with a federal felony.”
Scenes of Communist Flags, Riots, and Violent Clashes With DHS During ‘No Kings’ Protests
Los Angeles "No Kings" protest features vandalism, threats, and assault, oh my.
ICE Drops Hammer After ‘Kill’ Threat Against Agents Surfaces During ‘No Kings’ Riot
Behind the street lunacy lies a network of permanent government infrastructure and activism.
Indivisible’s “No Kings” protests and the January 6 prosecutor’s wife
Los Angeles "No Kings" protest features vandalism, threats, and assault, oh my.
‘No Kings’ Protest Turns Into Riot As Projectiles Fly, ‘Kill’ Message Found On Federal Building
Who would have guessed?
“Death to America”: Communists, Islamic Terror Supporters Riot at ‘No Kings’ Rallies
Like many Jews, he’s starting to realize that the whole Democrat infrastructure is a lie, and he’s courageous enough to speak out.
A blue-haired, gay, Jewish man offers wise insights about “No Kings”
"Leftists will invariably promote their concepts of peace, love, and equality with violence, vandalism, intolerance, and rage."
The Violence at 'No Kings' Was Quite Predictable
You’d think a king would work harder to oppress all these protesters!
King Trump tolerates another ‘no kings’ march
It's an opportunity for conservatives to confront America with the truth.
‘No Kings’ Schedules Next Riots for May Day Murder of Police Officers
What we call “wokeness” is the unexamined expansion of civil rights into a moralized regime that strains liberal norms—reform requires naming the source, not the symptoms.
The ‘Ideology with No Name’ Has a Name: It’s ‘Civil Rights’
The NAACP picked controversial Biden Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke as its new top attorney.
NAACP’s New Top Counsel Kristen Clarke Targeted Conservatives Under Biden Junta
You, the American people, are the Democrats’ human shields.
Democrats, Brethren Of Hamas And Ayatollahs, Are Making You Their Human Shields
AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
The Pentagon is preparing for what could become weeks-long ground operations inside Iran — including Special Operations raids and limited infantry missions — as U.S. forces, including a Marine expeditionary unit now in theater, continue to build up for a potentially more dangerous next phase of Operation Epic Fury, according to a report published Saturday.
Report: Pentagon Preps Weeks‑Long Ground Ops in Iran as U.S. Marines Arrive in Theater
Even for the most fanatic regimes, ground realities still matter.
Iran’s Eschatological Rage Does Not Render Victory Impossible
Thad McCotter: Iran’s chokehold on the Straits of Hormuz exploits Western division, turning diplomacy into surrender and giving the mullahs a new shield for terror, coercion, and nuclear ambition.
The Dire Strait of Hormuz
If Iran can order American blood spilled on U.S. soil, the real question isn’t why confront it—it’s what alternative would actually stop it.
The War of Salman Rushdie’s Eye

* * * * *
Roger Kimball: While commentators trade in familiar fears, events on the ground point to a far more decisive outcome than the online debate suggests.
The First Alt-War: Online Fantasy vs. Reality in the Iran Campaign
We do not want the Battle of Kharg to become part of the United States Marine Corps legacy. They have more than enough to be proud of without being saddled with this potential debacle.
Lindsey 'warmonger' Graham needs to give peace a chance
A decorated patriot’s fall into conspiracism shows how even the best can be consumed by antisemitic fantasy—and why such thinking must be confronted before it spreads.
Why Joe Kent Matters
El-Sayed made the comments during a campaign conference call a day after an Israeli strike killed the late Iranian supreme leader, audio obtained by the Free Beacon shows
'There Are a Lot of People in Dearborn Who Are Sad': Democrat Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Said He Needed To Stay Silent on Khamenei Killing Because Many of Michigan’s Muslim Voters ‘Are Sad’

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The larger concern is not whether ICE and CBP can be funded, but whether Democrats will be allowed to set the conditions.
Americans Shouldn’t Need The House To Save Mass Deportations From Weak Senate Republicans
“The people that have been inflicting this harm [on migrants] need to be prosecuted,” Indian immigrant Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Friday at a “shadow hearing” she hosted. “They need to be brought before us, and they need to be held account [sic] for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.”
Immigrant Rep. Pramila Jayapal Urges ‘Reparations’ for Illegal Migrants
How many American citizens have to be raped or murdered before politicians are motivated to get our borders under control?
When is enough enough?
Pritzker blamed President Donald Trump for Gorman’s murder, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien released twice under the Biden administration in 2023. Johnson, likewise, said the killing would not change his approach to governing. Egbewole asserted on “Fox News Live” that Pritzker’s offive released a good statement on the murder, but then he politicized it, while Johnson failed to respond sympathetically to Gorman’s family.
Former Biden Official Yemisi Egbewole Blasts JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson Over Responses To Sheridan Gorman Murder
In fact, you probably haven't even heard of it.
You Haven’t Read the Best Book Ever Written on American Immigration
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
The task force has a wide range of activity that it considers fraud.
Here’s Vance’s Plan To Attack $250 Billion In Annual Fraud Losses
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Infrastructure is optional. Bureaucracy is permanent.
Residents burned out in the Eaton fire handed water bills for their non-existent water
“We’re here to protest this homeless shelter, which is going to bring danger to the neighborhood,” local Kevin Zhang, 40, told The Post.
Hundreds of protesters swarm proposed NYC men’s homeless shelter site, physically block construction truck
More than half of all the research that has ever been used to design America’s social safety net is likely untrue, a study found.
To Cut Welfare Fraud, Target Government-Funded Academic Fraud
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Immigration hard-liners are taking aim at rules that protect foreign-born U.S. citizens from deportation even if they become terrorists. Naturalized citizens committed three suspected terrorist attacks in Texas, Michigan and Virginia in a two-week timeframe after the U.S. went to war with Iran’s Islamic regime in February. Other naturalized citizens caught plotting terrorist attacks have been released or are due for release back onto America’s streets, according to Department of Justice (DOJ), court and prison records.
US Law Says These Foreign-Born Terrorists Are Just As American As You
The problem of Muslim loyalty continues to be ignored, but won’t go away.
Muslim Woman in U.S. Military Says She Won’t Fight Muslims
A Pakistani Christian could face the death penalty due to blasphemy allegations.Trial proceedings were completed for Ishtiaq Saleem, who was accused of downloading blasphemous material on social media, Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADF) said in a news release on 18 March. Saleem will receive a verdict after court proceedings conclude for his alleged accomplice, Muhammad Umair, ADF said.
Pakistani Christian Faces Death Penalty Over Blasphemy Allegations
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Behind closed doors, the judge overseeing Trump’s grand jury told prosecutors she ‘loved’ their legal strategy.
New Document Shows Chief Judge Howell Privately Endorsed Jack Smith’s Get-Trump Lawfare
The FBI investigation into Phares features some of the same figures that are accused of railroading Carter Page and advancing the Russia collusion hoax against President Donald J. Trump, including former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith and former Obama government Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan.
FBI Abused FISA to Wiretap ANOTHER 2016 Trump Advisor – Who Says the CIA Was Also Spying on Him.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Both Ayn Rand and George Orwell would have recognized what is going on—and, in fact, they warned us about it.
American Media Are Using Classic Techniques To Push Propaganda
Six horrific crimes. Six illegal aliens. Zero national outrage.
The Illegal Alien Crime Spree the Media Didn't Tell You About This Week
The comedy never ends.
Brian Stelter’s Stilted Take on Trump Somehow Ending Democracy (Totie Tuber - jjs)
“As soon as they get off the reservation they’re all hard leftists, which is who they were the whole time.”
Adam Carolla Explains Why So Few People Trust the Legacy Media

* * * * *
Two consequential jury trials in New Mexico and California have ended with verdicts against social media giant Meta following lawsuits claiming that children were harmed by social media addiction.
Landmark Social Media Addiction Trials Bring Rulings Against Meta, Other Tech Giants
If this verdict holds, every parent who handed their 8-year-old an iPhone and forgot about it now has a roadmap to a payday.
Meta and Google are not responsible for raising your children, no matter what an LA jury says
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Futures market traders on Friday raised the likelihood that the Fed increases interest rates before the end of the year to 52%, CNBC reported. This marks the first time the prospect of the Fed raising rates before 2026 is over is more likely than not, according to the futures market. Furthermore, the stock market shed over 3 trillion dollars in market capitalization since conflict began, a decrease of over 7% from January, according to Axios.
Three-Headed Economic Monster Looms In Face Of American Consumers As Iran Conflict Rages, Midterms Approach
“Voters began associating Democrat governance with rising prices... Democrats have started to back sweeping middle-class tax cuts... Both movements are responding to the same underlying reality.”
Democrats’ Tax-and-Spend Dead End
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The judge said at the sentencing that imprisonment would have a “poor impact”
Killer of 84-Year-Old Man, Who Inspired #StopAsianHate, Freed With No Prison
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Such stories evoke the prurient pop music theme found in the rock band Van Halen’s 1984 tune “Hot For Teacher.” However, in the real world, the overwhelming majority of these criminal relationships are never disclosed and prosecuted, and their destructive impact on victims goes largely unreported.
Exclusive: Teacher Sexual Misconduct Is ‘Rampant’ in U.S. Schools, Leading Experts Find
‘I can say “death to America” and “death to Israel” whenever I want,’ Student Workers of Columbia member says
Columbia Student Union Demands ‘Academic Freedom’ To Protect Political Activism in the Classroom
ABORTION
The death of Kermit Gosnell closes a chapter on one of America’s most grotesque medical crimes—enabled by neglect, shielded by silence, and paid for by the vulnerable.
Black Alley Abortion: Abortionist/Murderer Kermit Gosnell Was an Affirmative-Action Case
More than two-thirds of Americans indicated they are against Biden-era Food and Drug Administration rules that allow women to receive dangerous abortion pills without seeing a doctor in-person first, according to a new poll reported Wednesday.
Majority Of Voters Want Tighter Abortion Pill Safeguards, New Poll Shows
SECOND AMENDMENT
Gavin Newsom will do for America what he's done to California.
Second Amendment: California loses again
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
A new variant! Shall we panic or yawn?
COVID in the headlines again!
Ischemic stroke occurs when a blood clot or plaque buildup blocks a blood vessel in the brain, cutting off oxygen and nutrients and causing brain cells to die within minutes. It is the most common type of stroke, accounting for approximately 87 percent of all stroke cases.
Biden Officials Identified Stroke Safety Signal in Seniors Taking Pfizer’s COVID Booster, Then Pushed For Them to ‘Increase Uptake’
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The amendment comes amidst lackluster effort by the Senate GOP to pass the SAVE America Act, which would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot.
47 Democrats Vote Against Voter ID After Claiming They’d Support It
California Democrats are desperate to stop an investigation into election fraud.
California's AG fights for election fraud
Chris Marston, general counsel for the Virginia GOP, said early voting has seen “much higher” Republican turnout than usual.
Cocky Virginia Dems Starting To Sweat Over April’s Referendum On Rigged Political Maps
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Senator Thune must step up or step aside.
RINOs Learned Nothing from Trump’s Victories
CPAC attendance has significantly decreased, and ticket prices have plummeted, as the Schlapps have enriched themselves.
REVEALED: ACU Chief Matt Schlapp Bilks $1M+ Annual Salary Amid CPAC Decline.
President Donald Trump and other conservatives have long accused Omar of marrying her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to facilitate his move to the U.S. in 2009. Vance said on “The Benny Johnson Show” that the White House “definitely” believes Omar committed fraud, and they are actively looking into options on how to investigate and ultimately “go after” her for it.
JD Vance Says White House Plans To ‘Go After’ Bro-Fo Omar For Alleged Immigration Fraud
If the allegations are true, Cesar Chavez’s legacy exposes how ideology can canonize flawed figures—and why Americans should rethink who we choose to celebrate.
Cancel Cesar Chavez, Whether the Allegations Are True or Not
“There is reason to believe that AOC’s use of campaign funds to pay for a psychiatrist who has no experience in ‘leadership training.’”
Titty-Caca AOC Accused of Masking Therapy as $19K Campaign Expense
POLITICS
“After barely registering in the informal survey last year, 35% of attendees at this year’s event said they wanted him to be the party’s next nominee.”
Vance Tops CPAC, Rubio Surges as Field Collapses
"I really believe this is a time where we need new leadership, new moral imagination to pull our country together, because the challenges on the horizon aren’t just this current crisis that Trump has caused. He shouldn’t be the main character of our narrative right now. We have real challenges from new technologies like AI and robotics, new challenges that we need more unity in our country, and a reminder that we are not each other’s enemies. In fact, our ability to find common ground is always been our greatest hope.”
Cory Booker Calls for New Leaders: Democrats Have ‘Failed This Moment’
Big Apple voters will soon regret choosing the disastrous double-whammy of socialism and Islam in last year's election.
Hey, New York, Had Enough Of Your New Mayor Yet?
If you really want to learn about the political process, you should try running for office.
I Lost the Election, but I Won a Car
But is America ready for a straight white male and Christian president?
Dems Consider Edgy Plan to Nominate Straight White Man for President
What’s a state to do when voters won’t vote for the minority candidates?
Democracy is Racist
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Netanyahu says actions were not 'malicious,' vows fixes ahead of Easter.
Israel Blocks Catholic Cardinal From Holy Site On Palm Sunday Over Safety Concerns
The only nation in the Middle East where Christians can practice their religion freely and thrive is once again facing disgusting misinformation ahead of Passover and Easter. And the woke leaders of France and Spain, who so often attack Christian values, are suddenly pretending to love Christianity in order to smear Israel.
Macron, Sanchez Slam Holy Sepulcher Closure, Ignore Iranian Missiles That Necessitated It
The US government will allow a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba, effectively easing a blockade that has pushed the island into an energy crisis, according to a report.
US allows Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba amid blockade as Trump says island ‘has to survive’
Sands said, “We don’t know what the government of Greenland will do down the road. They want to make a deal with China if we’re not there. with our hand out with a lot of money and investment. … We have to get a deal.”
Exclusive — Former Denmark Ambassador: We Must Get Control of Greenland Before China Does
A horrifying glimpse inside China's Gulag Archipelago.
PragerU Video: Shocking Details about China’s Billion-Dollar Organ Harvesting Program
Want to live forever? The Chinese government has a way.
Immortality via Atrocities
The Paris incident follows a pattern seen in neighboring countries, according to France 24. Dutch authorities suspect Iran recruited four youths arrested in connection with a Rotterdam synagogue bombing. An obscure group with ties to Tehran also claimed an arson attack last week in London targeting volunteer ambulances operated by a Jewish organization.
Police Arrest Three Suspects In Attempted Bank Of America Bombing In Paris
It is “a possibility that is quite close” that the British people will pass into history “like the Canaanites or the Arcadians”, and it is an open question whether there will be a Europe in 50 years’ time, a European Parliament conference heard from a panel of expert speakers.
EU Parliament Conference Hears Continent ‘On Track For Civil War’
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
President Trump’s selection of Jim O’Neill to head the National Science Foundation could open the next great chapter of discovery.
How to Break America’s Great Scientific Stagnation
Neptune as seen by Voyager-2 in 1989, four days before closest approach
...today, let’s begin a tour of some of Voyager-2’s imagery of Neptune itself.
Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he was eating dinner on Jan. 7 after prepping for a spacewalk the next day when it happened. He couldn’t talk and remembers no pain.Astronaut Mike Fincke finally reveals details of his medical emergency on ISS
Meanwhile, an exciting find of Old Kingdom tombs has been reported in southern Egypt.
Radar Readings Suggest Possibility of a Second Sphinx — Archaeologists Remain Doubtful
A recent book challenges humans’ common ancestry with primates.
More Man Than Ape
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
To rebuild masculinity, boys must return to manual work—where real skills, real tools, and real consequences forge discipline, independence, and purpose.
On Manual Work for Men
Watching it, I no longer wonder why children think that they’re not spiritual beings who are greater than the sum of their parts but are, instead, just Lego pieces.
A ‘trans-sensitive’ training video for pediatricians should frighten us all
'My testicles don't make me less of a woman' (pronounced "test-a-kleaze" - jjs)
‘Woman’ With Testicles Furious at Being Excluded From Olympics
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
It’s only gotten worse.
The Continuous Decline of Morality in the USA
A report in April said waves of young people were flocking to Catholic Churches across the nation, and months later the Vatican news agency Fides shared statistics showing a boom in the Catholic populations of Asia and Africa.
Bishop: U.S. Catholic Conversions Increasing as People Are ‘Hungry for Truth’
Rhodesia was born of a vision, the vision of one man, Cecil John Rhodes, who believed that the British way of life was the best and made it his own life's work to spread that British way of life over.
We Are All Rhodesians Now: Why the First Casualty of Western Self-Repudiation Was a Country and Why It Won’t Be the Last
While “wokeness” is a relatively new phenomenon, its philosophical foundation is just a metamorphosis of decades-long anti-Western tendencies.
Is the Anti-Western Bias of Western Intellectuals an Incurable Affliction?
Christian Toto: Two new horror comedies cast rich elites as satanic (and worse)
Are Audiences Sick of ‘Eat the Rich’ Movies?
Toto Too: Author's common-sense stance has scribes attacking her, 'Harry Potter'
Media’s War Against J.K. Rowling Will Never End
“We got the Gulf of America now,” Cannon explained. “He’s like the club. He’s charging a $5 million bottle service fee to get into the country.” Of course, Cannon was entirely correct about the Republican Party. The GOP, which was created only a few years before the Civil War, won the war against the south, outlawed slavery, and even elected some of the first blacks to public office after the war. Then, in the 1960s, the 1964 Civil Rights Act could not have been passed if it weren’t for GOP votes as the Democrat Party voted against rights for blacks.
Watch: Nick Cannon Calls the Democrat Party the ‘Party of the KKK,’ Says ‘I F**K With Trump’
HITHER & YON
On the necessity of choosing
In Praise of “Inferior”
Murrell did not elaborate on the comment, which appeared to be a reference to the assassination of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec. 4, 2024.
Five Guys CEO says he gave $1.5M staff bonus so he wouldn’t get shot in the back like UnitedHealthcare boss

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1 Happy Monday

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 07:36 AM (/+uur)

2 Ah, the blessed JJ....

Now, coffeve.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:36 AM (XuXeR)

3 Top 5! yAy!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 07:38 AM (BpO1e)

4 > Is it just me or, for a tyrannical king, Donald Trump is the most piss-poor example in history.

Likewise "Fascist".

For one (as we all know) the Fascists were socialists.

For another, Trump is cutting the shit out of the government, reducing its power in essentially every area -- because that's exactly what a Fascist would do, right? When I think of "minimal government" the first word that comes to mind is "Fascist". You bet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 07:39 AM (IG3/x)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

6 I think Kharg Island would be a great place to establish a free range swine colony. It could be started by air dropping crates / pig shelters that open automatically upon landing.
Could pigs find adequate fresh water and vegetation on Kharg Island?

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 30, 2026 07:40 AM (1FEc1)

7 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

8 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 07:41 AM (AkEZC)

9 If the Democrats win control of the House, Senate, and White House by 2028, they'll do a 180 and go from "No Kings" to "All Kings" in a nanosecond. They'll be violating civil rights without the slightest hesitation.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 30, 2026 07:42 AM (bi2p/)

10 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 07:42 AM (C6BUp)

11 Tim Walz: “We’re damn sure about this. We need no damn kings.”

*throws up jazzzzz hands*

But how 'bout a big old QUEEEENNNNNNN

Posted by: Queen Tim at March 30, 2026 07:42 AM (/+uur)

12 Yes indeed, there was even a "No Kings" protest in Casper, WY. Was in Caper on business on Saturday and saw it. Maybe 100-150 people marching along 2nd Street in downtown Casper. Filthy commie drones.

Posted by: A Nomad Of The Time Streams at March 30, 2026 07:43 AM (kLUcw)

13 Spamila Jawa-Pal needs to be removed from the country she so obviously despises.

These asswipes are always screeching, but somehow never seem to leave.

There are 192 other countries, Spamila. Pick one and vote with your feet.

Or wait and have one picked for you.

Your option.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 07:44 AM (IG3/x)

14 Raise your hand if you find it hard to GAF about the upcoming Artemis flight-

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 07:45 AM (ZxPkt)

15 “The people that have been inflicting this harm [on migrants] need to be prosecuted,”

This woman is a great example about why you don't let foreigners into any position of power. Now let's talk about reparations for the victims of crime inflicted by illegal aliens.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 07:46 AM (BpO1e)

16 Alias, you and your kind were just fine for Obama's attack on Libya. Maybe you should sit this out.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 07:46 AM (BpO1e)

17 Don Black

We need to pray for the astronauts. Lots of red rockets of distress flying from the operations, maintenance, and procurement centers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

18 All this talk of "kings" gets to me, because it shows the historical ignorance of almost everyone. Kings, in history, have mostly not been Absolute. There is a reason we use that word as a modifier referring to the Early Modern Era.

And even then it was a status that most merely aspired to. Few did. (BTW, note that the declaration does not simply say George was bad BECAUSE he was a king.) The whole issue is more complicated than people treat it as.

Like the Romans, we Americans are raised to reject the title "king". But that didn't stop Rome from getting a monarchy under another name. And it won't protect us.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 07:47 AM (AlhUl)

19 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at March 30, 2026 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)

20 Took note in the No King BS that the Communists flags all showed up.

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 07:48 AM (C6BUp)

21
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 30, 2026 07:48 AM (tljrc)

22 > But how 'bout a big old QUEEEENNNNNNN
Posted by: Queen Tim at March 30, 2026 07:42 AM (/+uur)

And don't forget the joker...

Lemmy Kilmister where are you now, when we need you?

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at March 30, 2026 07:49 AM (IG3/x)

23 BOING!

And no smo kings!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 07:49 AM (1o8D5)

24 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

25 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 07:49 AM (Zz0t1)

26 Of course, the things that so many braindead Americans railed against are all part and parcel of the Democrat/Left playbook.

They're not braindead. They're greedy whore capitalists who will do anything for a buck. ANYTHING. Including sell their souls. Which they've done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Zz0t1)

27 The best thing about Saturday's protests was finding out from People's Hippo Voice that in our 50th state, the slogan can't be "No Kings" because local Hawaiian leftists have to embrace the racist demands of the indigenous tribal heirs to rule the islands.

I laughed about this for an hour.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at March 30, 2026 07:51 AM (3AwA+)

28 Roger Kimball: While commentators trade in familiar fears, events on the ground point to a far more decisive outcome than the online debate suggests.
The First Alt-War: Online Fantasy vs. Reality in the Iran Campaign
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I am a big fan of Kimball's; have been since he first appeared. But I'm not blind to his big weakness: when it comes to predictions, his record is terrible. He is an incurable optimist. He is a reverse Cassandra, always predicting the best outcome, and (almost) always wrong.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 07:52 AM (AlhUl)

29 Saw some "protesters" on the sidewalk near a busy intersection in my local 'hood. The most noticeable attribute was the long gray hair of the female specimens.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

30 17 We need to pray for the astronauts. Lots of red rockets of distress flying from the operations, maintenance, and procurement centers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Amen.

Let's not forget the propose of this mission is to fly a woman and black man around the moon to prove equity.

Posted by: Auspex at March 30, 2026 07:52 AM (Y8DZL)

31 People should be lining up to piss on Kermit Gosnell's grave. Put him at the top of the list for the moment.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 07:53 AM (Fbc0I)

32 Such stories evoke the prurient pop music theme found in the rock band Van Halen’s 1984 tune “Hot For Teacher.” However, in the real world, the overwhelming majority of these criminal relationships are never disclosed and prosecuted, and their destructive impact on victims goes largely unreported.

Sad to say but, since the majority of the children in this case are boys, #metoo doesn't care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

33 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 30, 2026 07:53 AM (53oGX)

34 There are a lot of Dearborn who are sad.
=====

Too fvcking bad. GTFO.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

35 In Dallas, Police had to separate No Kings demonstrators from “Pro America” counter demonstrators as the two groups engaged in heated clashes. Video of the scene showed a protester being hauled away and arrested and other shouting “f–k you” at apparent pro-Trump demonstrators who were carrying flags and automatic weapons.

Were there shots fired? I don't think so. Therefore, stating that there were 'automatic weapons' being carried by Pro-Trump marchers makes you a journalistic hack asshole. Did you assume or just pee your pants at the sight of the scary AR-15? Did you ask the carrier if it had a giggle switch?

Media. The ENEMY of the people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

36 thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 30, 2026 07:56 AM (MIIRH)

37 You posted “Eschatological Rage” twice!

Obvious answer: “ I LIKE Eschatological Rage !”

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 30, 2026 07:56 AM (1FEc1)

38 Why Joe Kent Matters
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Bad (circular) link.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 07:56 AM (AlhUl)

39 There are a lot of Dearborn who are sad.

No one cares.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

40 If the Democrats win control of the House, Senate, and White House by 2028, they'll do a 180 and go from "No Kings" to "All Kings" in a nanosecond. They'll be violating civil rights without the slightest hesitation.

If I have taught you people anything, it's that there are no rules. I did everything from running guns to mexico, droning American citizens, destroyed the health care system, opened the border to 3rd world savages and made you watch Mike's schlong flip flap around on TV and nothing happened to me.

Hope and change baby!

Posted by: Barack Mugabe, Race Warlord at March 30, 2026 07:58 AM (/1l9x)

41 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:58 AM (Kksvc)

42
As I stated last week, the phrase "Death to America" is not native to the Iranian mullahs. It was and is the goal of the anti-American Left and its epicenter in the Democrat party.

"You know it's sad but true......"

-- - - - - - Metallica

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

43 I keep seeing all these entries on X, heralding the historic-ness of Artemis and yada yada yada

and I think, we already did the lunar loop-de-loop with Apollo 8-
Apollo 11 we even landed, and got out and walked around

so Godspeed and have a safe flight, but whatever

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 07:58 AM (ZxPkt)

44 It is “a possibility that is quite close” that the British people will pass into history “like the Canaanites or the Arcadians”, and it is an open question whether there will be a Europe in 50 years’ time, a European Parliament conference heard from a panel of expert speakers.

The European Parliament responded with, "What can we do to speed that up? Aloha Snackbar!"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

45 Thank you JJ. Morning all

I saw no protesters this weekend... at all

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 07:59 AM (xT8gx)

46 It's just another Merlot Monday.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at March 30, 2026 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)

I wish it were Sunday.

Cuz THAT'S my FUN day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 07:59 AM (Zz0t1)

47 So when it comes to “no kings,” Dems aren’t just accusing Trump — they’re falsifying their own history.

Projection isn't just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:59 AM (Kksvc)

48 Morning all
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 07:58 AM (Kksvc)]

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:00 AM (Zz0t1)

49 "Is it just me or, for a tyrannical king, Donald Trump is the most piss-poor example in history."

Like MP4 said - If Donald Trump were even 1/10th of the tyrant these dummies claim to believe he is, they'd already be smoke up a chimney.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 08:01 AM (FmapG)

50 When some media personality says 'automatic weapons' it's automatic stupidity.

Nobody runs around with automatic weapons unless they're a Democrat criminal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 08:01 AM (Fbc0I)

51 Kings are the longer cigarettes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:03 AM (FhK4c)

52 No, Mr. Former Denmark ambassador, WE will control Denmark. Get in the back seat.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority. at March 30, 2026 08:03 AM (oftw2)

53 In Praise of “Inferior”
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That wants to be on the right track, but it's poorly done. Not just ill written, but ill argued. It throws out what it thinks is good (superior/inferior) with no indication of why. So it's really just a plea for consensus. We can get that on Blue Sky, or any MSM station (news or talk show).

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:04 AM (AlhUl)

54 I keep seeing all these entries on X, heralding the historic-ness of Artemis and yada yada yada

and I think, we already did the lunar loop-de-loop with Apollo 8-
Apollo 11 we even landed, and got out and walked around

so Godspeed and have a safe flight, but whatever
Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 07:58 AM (ZxPkt)

When I worked at Hughes Space & Comm many moons ago back in the 90s, we sent a satellite around the moon... the purpose being, an anomaly had burned excessive fuel on the spacecraft, so it was stranded in a highly inclined orbit and was, therefore, useless. But it did have enough fuel to get around the moon... the moon's gravity gave it a "gravity assist" slingshot back to earth, lowering its orbital inclination, making it a useful satellite. A brilliant engineer at Hughes, Jerry Salvatore, had the idea and ran the whole operation. The guy was a genius. So yeah... we've even been around the moon with a commercial satellite (no people onboard though)...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 08:04 AM (xT8gx)

55 Nobody runs around with automatic weapons unless they're a Democrat criminal.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 08:01 AM (Fbc0I)

Automatic weapons are hard to get and VERY expensive.

Your average Joe Blow at a protest is NOT going to be carrying one around on display.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

56 The No Kings Protests are:
80% Boomers
20% communists
100% dependent upon a government check.

It's not a king they are opposed to--it's the people:
The ones they're stealing that check from.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 08:04 AM (HXT0k)

57 At our local No Kings protest, the sheriff (a Dem, btw) attempted to speak but was shouted down:

"protestors kept yelling, saying that “nobody wants to hear from him” before chanting “this is what democracy looks like.”

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

58 "However, in the real world, the overwhelming majority of these criminal relationships are never disclosed and prosecuted, and their destructive impact on victims goes largely unreported."

Sad to say but, since the majority of the children in this case are boys, #metoo doesn't care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

Even here, on this very website, plenty of posters say things like 'where was she when I was in sixth grade?' or 'He's so lucky - she's gorgeous!'

Boys being r*ped by their teachers should be abhorrent to everyone, but it just isn't. I don't get it.

I have a young son and a young daughter. I'd absolutely 3S ANYONE who did anything like that to either of them.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 08:04 AM (FmapG)

59 A volunteer has been arrested for tampering with the recent special election in Palm Beach (this is the one where a Democrat won in Mar-A-Lago's district).

https://instapundit.com/786085/

I guess I need to revise the idea that all elections are rigged except in Florida, LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 08:05 AM (xrQwm)

60 > If the Democrats win control of the House, Senate, and White House by 2028, they'll do a 180 and go from "No Kings" to "All Kings" in a nanosecond. They'll be violating civil rights without the slightest hesitation.
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1. We better prepare, but hope this doesn't happen
and
2. Trump's administration better get the judiciary to heel before then

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 08:05 AM (AkEZC)

61 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Fist bump

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 08:05 AM (Kksvc)

62
"protestors kept yelling, saying that “nobody wants to hear from him” before chanting “this is what democracy looks like.”
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

Acting like monarchist douchebags isn't what democracy looks like.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)

63 Traveled back to where I grew up in Illinois and saw all these excited older peeps with signs and a holier than thou attitude and realized it was a no kings match. Maybe about 50-75 people. In this town they are tearing down local history to make way for housing and lots start at 700k and 2/3 sold out. So life there is tough. Sadly town used to be conservative growing up but as people fled Chicago it’s just another female blue haired haven.
They say you can’t go home and in this case they are right.

Posted by: Hyacinth at March 30, 2026 08:06 AM (zViR+)

64 Media’s War Against J.K. Rowling Will Never End
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All this has made her wildly overrated on the right. Just how much sense does it take to realize that girls are girls and boys are boys?

That is controversial shows what bad shape we are in.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:06 AM (AlhUl)

65 Morn' all... Loved the breathless coverage of the "No Kings" tantrums this weekend... Largest ever !

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 08:06 AM (FtULh)

66 I think the attack on the Iranian Power Grid started last night.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:07 AM (FhK4c)

67 Over the weekend jihadis killed a bunch of Nigerian Christians. Al-Reuters reported it as "Gunmen" who are "protesting climate change". You can't hate the media enough.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 08:07 AM (xrQwm)

68 We have a college town nearby where the no kings thing got press coverage.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:08 AM (FhK4c)

69 > If the Democrats win control of the House, Senate, and White House by 2028, they'll do a 180 and go from "No Kings" to "All Kings" in a nanosecond. They'll be violating civil rights without the slightest hesitation.
---------
1. We better prepare, but hope this doesn't happen
and
2. Trump's administration better get the judiciary to heel before then
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 08:05 AM (AkEZC)

I agree and I'm afraid that a dem will reach the white house probably by the 2032 election... maybe it can be delayed until 2036 but I doubt it. Americans tend to get bored with a single party after some period of time. Once they get there, look out

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 08:08 AM (xT8gx)

70 My favorite was during last year's TxMoMe, BruceWayne's dad drove to Corsicana to get coffee n' such and there were protestors doing their 'No Kings' bullshit in town.

"I drove around the block twice just so I could flip them off."

Made me laugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

71 68 We have a college town nearby where the no kings thing got press coverage.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:08 AM (FhK4c)

In my little corner of the world they actually closed down a street.. Headline news...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 08:09 AM (ECasK)

72 They're not braindead. They're greedy whore capitalists who will do anything for a buck. ANYTHING. Including sell their souls. Which they've done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Zz0t1)

That's some of it. The rest is that the left tends to be intellectually complacent. My wife's siblings all attended NK rallies this weekend and I doubt any were paid.

I presume my BIL's objection to Trump is his unwillingness to go to war with Russia over Ukraine. Both of my SILs are simpler. They're Democrats. They've always been Democrats. Whatever the Democrats are for is good, even if it's the complete opposite of what they were for 6 months ago. They don't even question it. That which the High Priest (esses) at the DNC speak is TRUTH and cannot be contemplated.

I assume that there are similar on the right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

73 And one of the worst of those cases was ‘Grandpa’ Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai man, being killed in broad daylight in San Francisco by a violent thug that was caught on video.
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When SFPsycho first mentioned this incredible verdict, when a judge released a murderer with a sentence of time-served and meaningless probation, I thought there mist be more to the story. American courts can't have degraded so far.

Well, they have. Vigilante action is all that is left in SF.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 30, 2026 08:09 AM (0aOmD)

74 We have a college town nearby where the no kings thing got press coverage.

Several places had multiple protests around 2-3 hours apart so that the media could report "multiple well-attended anti-Trump protests" even though it could be easily proven it was the same rent-a-mob at each one.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 08:09 AM (xrQwm)

75 Like MP4 said - If Donald Trump were even 1/10th of the tyrant these dummies claim to believe he is, they'd already be smoke up a chimney.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Sounds like a great alternate timeline from where I'm standing. Some woman asked online about why we right wingers don't counterprotest.

My response: "Sweetie, we counter protest by going to our jobs and living our lives. If we were as bad as you claimed, you'd be in a camp or used as breeding stock. Now take that ring out of your nose and call your father."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 08:09 AM (BpO1e)

76 'My testicles don't make me less of a woman'
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Zero isn't less. It's not at all.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:10 AM (AlhUl)

77 Media’s War Against J.K. Rowling Will Never End

Funny, that. I saw where HBO is touting it's "Original Series" where it's simply remaking the Harry Potter movies using kids that look exactly like the other kids that were in the original Harry Potter.

Original? War against J. K. Rowling?

Seems, not so much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

78 Snape can't read.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:11 AM (FhK4c)

79 Adults using children for sexual gratification must be dropped into the sea. No shovels.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

80 So glad I don't own a television anymore.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1)

81 78 Snape can't read.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I got a laugh out of someone's comment regarding the palette swapped Snape:

"When it gets to the boggart scene, it will be Neville Longbottom's biggest fear is a black man hiding in his closet."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 08:14 AM (BpO1e)

82 I keep seeing all these entries on X, heralding the historic-ness of Artemis and yada yada yada

I suppose pointing out that the woman and black man will, potentially, accomplish their 'historic' feat a mere 57 years and a few months after white men did it would be unappreciated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

83 Adults using children for sexual gratification must be dropped into the sea. No shovels.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

What would they do with a shovel in the sea?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

84 I have two flat screens I haven't watched in years.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:14 AM (FhK4c)

85 I don't know much about JK Rowling but the kids that were fortunate enough to be cast as the main characters in the Harry Potter movies are HUGE ingrates... she made them rich and famous and their response is to shit all over Rowling in the name of wokeness. Nothing worse than being an ingrate...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 08:15 AM (xT8gx)

86 >>>J.K. Rowling Will Never End

>Maybe we can get some readings like Tolkien. It seems these things never end. Just kidding, dorks. Morning.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 08:15 AM (Fbc0I)

87 I can imagine DEI recruitment of astronauts will take a big hit if they don't make it back.

Hope SpaceX is on the ball.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

88 I used to have a different nic

The entire historical first industry is denying a common humanity to the US.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

89 That is controversial shows what bad shape we are in.
Posted by: Eeyore

We are so cooked it isn't funny.
Watched a reel on Fb last night. GE Electric minigun goes brrrrrrt.

Most GUYS said it was AI because the belt didn't move. Uh, guys, that's the sleeve. Belt rides inside.
Not hard to see that.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 08:17 AM (Kksvc)

90 When SFPsycho first mentioned this incredible verdict, when a judge released a murderer with a sentence of time-served and meaningless probation, I thought there mist be more to the story. American courts can't have degraded so far.

Well, they have. Vigilante action is all that is left in SF.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 30, 2026 08:09 AM (0aOmD)
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San Francisco HATES old people.

Change my mind.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

91 You should find the NYT complaint about the new ballroom.

It's "unnecessarily big" and "too tall."
Illustrated by red, squiggly lines.

Very serious.

Seriously stupid.

That's after the author complaining the end facing the street is not the actual entrance and that interior view is blocked by the rows of columns.
(gosh, can anyone think of a reason for that?)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 08:18 AM (HXT0k)

92 >>>I can imagine DEI recruitment of astronauts will take a big hit if they don't make it back.

Hope SpaceX is on the ball.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

>Make all recruits DEI. You want to be special? Blast off!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 08:18 AM (Fbc0I)

93 Even here, on this very website, plenty of posters say things like 'where was she when I was in sixth grade?' or 'He's so lucky - she's gorgeous!'

Thinking back on the teachers I had...

My art teacher in grades 1-3 might have been pretty, I don't remember her well. My health teacher in grade 10 was, probably, a 6. All the others were, to my eyes at the time, ancient. Probably in their 50s. LOL.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

94 Seems a fun experiment might be to mingle into a protest, pick up a sign and appear to play along. Then, during a lull in the action mutter to a nearby soy boy stoner that you're not sure this is really worth $65.
In my sanctified imagination earring tattoo boy turns to me and says "65? I'm only getting 40!"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

95 "No Kings protests"- so that's what all those well dressed, retired white senior citizen waving signs were doing on the side of the road on Saturday. I thought they wanted to wash my car.

Posted by: Joe at March 30, 2026 08:19 AM (Uy/WF)

96 Christian Toto: Two new horror comedies cast rich elites as satanic (and worse)
Are Audiences Sick of ‘Eat the Rich’ Movies?
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The richest counties in the US vote for Democrats. The worst of the billionaire club (Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc) are leftists. Plenty of rich Hollywood celebrities read from the same stupid lefty politics scripts. I'd agree that rich elites are more likely worshipping stan, unwittingly or not. But I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's not these prominent rich elites these movies are portraying.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 08:21 AM (Dv3i1)

97 In better news: Apparently the algorithm at X was muting Japanese posts for Americans. That was changed and all of the sudden, a lot of Pro-American and Pro-Japanese posts are being displayed.

A lot of Americans have been extending invitations to Japanese people to come over for BBQ. Fellow Hordians, I have an idea for the next Moron Meetup!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 08:24 AM (BpO1e)

98 Hulagu did some good works.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:24 AM (FhK4c)

99 Quarter Twenty

If we can be organized, we can wreck their parade with mockery. GOPe wants to lose, so not them.
The New T.E.A. Party?

"Ethyl, look, there is a sign that makes no logical sense!"
"A unthinking Democrat! Take a picture, Ethyl."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

100 In a few years, most of the old wrinkled ass farts in the No Kings protests will be dead and no one will remember them or care.

Remind them of that and point and laugh.

Posted by: Tango Uniform at March 30, 2026 08:24 AM (/1l9x)

101 When SFPsycho first mentioned this incredible verdict, when a judge released a murderer with a sentence of time-served and meaningless probation, I thought there mist be more to the story. American courts can't have degraded so far.

Well, they have. Vigilante action is all that is left in SF America
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Because it's not just in SF.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 08:25 AM (Kksvc)

102 96 The richest counties in the US vote for Democrats. The worst of the billionaire club (Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc) are leftists. Plenty of rich Hollywood celebrities read from the same stupid lefty politics scripts. I'd agree that rich elites are more likely worshipping stan, unwittingly or not. But I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's not these prominent rich elites these movies are portraying.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 08:21 AM (Dv3i1)

Plenty of celebrities behaving in sexually inappropriate ways (R. Kelly, P. Diddy, etc...)

The Left : "TRUMP IS THE ONLY EVIL RICH AND FAMOUS SEXUAL DEVIANT!"

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 08:25 AM (iXqHn)

103 There's always Oakland.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:26 AM (FhK4c)

104 “In the wake of the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Senate Democrats were clear: no blank check for a lawless ICE and Border Patrol,” Schumer said in a statement.

Howmanyare2many has now published the deaths of 1279 (one thousand two hundred seventy-nine) Americans since his started his posting in May of 2019.

Go to Hell Chucky

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 08:26 AM (/+uur)

105 I don't know much about JK Rowling but the kids that were fortunate enough to be cast as the main characters in the Harry Potter movies are HUGE ingrates

At least the older actors didn't jump on the bandwagon. Now it's possible that the younger actors didn't want to put their careers in jeopardy by angering Al Gayeda but even if they had, they're rich enough to retire.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 08:26 AM (BpO1e)

106 85 I don't know much about JK Rowling but the kids that were fortunate enough to be cast as the main characters in the Harry Potter movies are HUGE ingrates... she made them rich and famous and their response is to shit all over Rowling in the name of wokeness. Nothing worse than being an ingrate...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

There has to be a word worse than simple "wokeness" for those advocating for the giving poisoning cross-sex hormones and genital mutilations to children.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 08:27 AM (Dv3i1)

107 Happy Monday!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:27 AM (Suwql)

108 Today Is National Pencil Day.✏️

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

109 Can you imagine the media frenzy if Biden's DNI claimed they had intercepted communication between the Russia government and the Trump campaign describing a plot to send $200 million of US tax dollars funneled through USAID back to the Trump campaign? The airwaves would be on fire.

Instead we get an orgy of celebration from the media over an astroturf No Kings protest against Trump paid for by groups associated with Soros, Singham and the CCP.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 08:28 AM (viF8m)

110 The Left : "TRUMP IS THE ONLY EVIL RICH AND FAMOUS SEXUAL DEVIANT!"
Posted by: XTC

What Melania does must work!

Seriously, a virus targeting sexual deviancy already culled many Leftists. Do you want another one?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

111 “In the wake of the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Senate Democrats were clear: no blank check for a lawless ICE and Border Patrol,” Schumer said in a statement.

Murders?

Seems you don't know the definition by law of what constitutes a murder, there Chuck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

112 There's always Oakland.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:26 AM (FhK4c)
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Unfortunately.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

113 Chuck Martel

Demons to be cast out of society would not be out of place for those mooks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

114 69. That is why Confirming Federal Judges is so important Linus. Lifetime appointments the left cannot erase in the future. And if they ignore the courts, that is when the civil war, sadly, could start.

There are many Bush Judges on appeals that will not retire, because they are RINO's. sighhh

Posted by: Jonah at March 30, 2026 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

115 > >I can imagine DEI recruitment of astronauts will take a big hit if they don't make it back.
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Everyone on a mission like Artemis has a "job." Tasks they're supposed to do at certain times and without being prompted. I can only imagine the looks when someone on a mission cranks out "don't tell me what to do, you're not the boss of me!"

Seconds before the inevitable explosion.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 08:29 AM (AkEZC)

116 Wasn't Pretti Goode in The Devil went down to Georgia?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:29 AM (FhK4c)

117 @nypost
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53m
Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defense minister says https://trib.al/RJn0GUA

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 08:30 AM (ZxPkt)

118 >>Immigrant Rep. Pramila Jayapal Urges ‘Reparations’ for Illegal Migrants

Definitely -- I wany ALL the money given to illegal immigrants paid back. and if Jayapal also wants more on top of that for the damage it's done to our citizens who went without assistance because of them, great!!

For foreign schemers, the kind Nick Shirley keep rooting out, there should be additional fines.

This is what she meant right?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:30 AM (Suwql)

119 A lot of Americans have been extending invitations to Japanese people to come over for BBQ. Fellow Hordians, I have an idea for the next Moron Meetup!
Posted by: NR Pax

Not gonna say it. Wouldn't be prudent. Too early for a tasteless joke.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 08:30 AM (Kksvc)

120 EU Parliament Conference Hears Continent ‘On Track For Civil War’
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That was interesting. I am not convinced that Europe is worse off than we are. At least many of them have recognized their in-house traitors. We Americans on the right still elect our Thunes.

I don't know they are better off, either. We are both in uncharted waters.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:30 AM (AlhUl)

121 Spain isn't really on the way to anywhere.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:31 AM (FhK4c)

122 Everyone on a mission like Artemis has a "job." Tasks they're supposed to do at certain times and without being prompted. I can only imagine the looks when someone on a mission cranks out "don't tell me what to do, you're not the boss of me!"

Seconds before the inevitable explosion.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 08:29 AM (AkEZC)

/punchline

Feed the monkey

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 08:31 AM (/+uur)

123 >I can only imagine the looks when someone on a mission cranks out "don't tell me what to do, you're not the boss of me!"

Seconds before the inevitable explosion.

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He knows what he did.

Posted by: Karen McAstronut at March 30, 2026 08:31 AM (2Ez/1)

124 117 @nypost
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53m
Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defense minister says https://trib.al/RJn0GUA
Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 08:30 AM (ZxPkt)

Al-Andalus has returned to the Caliphate.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 08:31 AM (iXqHn)

125 All of this No Kings stuff is going to be interesting viewed in hindsight. It'll be grimly silly - the gloves are off now, and once "King" Trump is out of the way, the Democrats will formalize the end of representative government.

After shrieking about No Kings for years, their very next move will be to install a dictator. And given the late American republic's predilection for nepotism, there's a good chance the second President-for-life will be the offspring of the first.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2026 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

126 Jonah

We hold bartenders to higher standards than judges.

Wish there was a downward path for judicial errors in release of criminals. Bounce then out of being a judge.

An engineer can lose a PE status for a gross error, right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:33 AM (u82oZ)

127 How many American citizens have to be raped or murdered before politicians are motivated to get our borders under control?

We know most Progressives think 1279 is not enough.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 08:33 AM (/+uur)

128 The Spanish never repaired the damage the muslims did the first time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 30, 2026 08:33 AM (FhK4c)

129 Israel Blocks Catholic Cardinal From Holy Site On Palm Sunday Over Safety Concerns

Macron, Sanchez Slam Holy Sepulcher Closure, Ignore Iranian Missiles That Necessitated It
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Maybe, just maybe, we should wait until we really know what happened and who did what.

Or is that too premodern?

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:34 AM (AlhUl)

130 All of this No Kings stuff is going to be interesting viewed in hindsight. It'll be grimly silly - the gloves are off now, and once "King" Trump is out of the way,

the Democrats will formalize the end of representative government.

And then we formalize the end of democrats.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 08:34 AM (Kksvc)

131 My tax lady has been trying to submit our taxes electronically and has been rejected for "bad PIN" for 3 weeks now.

It's the pin they give me on the IRS website.

Someone stole my SSN, didn't they........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

132 125 125 All of this No Kings stuff is going to be interesting viewed in hindsight. It'll be grimly silly - the gloves are off now, and once "King" Trump is out of the way, the Democrats will formalize the end of representative government.

After shrieking about No Kings for years, their very next move will be to install a dictator. And given the late American republic's predilection for nepotism, there's a good chance the second President-for-life will be the offspring of the first.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2026 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

They'll install one of the Troons (probably that one from Delaware), so more than likely there will be no biological son to take over.

Posted by: XTC at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (iXqHn)

133 Can you get good Mexican food in Spain?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

134 More fraud, this time at LAUSD:

The Los Angeles School District IT employee accused of siphoning millions from the district and getting huge kickbacks in return sent incriminating text messages that could put her behind bars for years.

A text chain between LAUSD staffer Hong “Grace” Peng and Gautham Sampath obtained by the California Post reveals damning evidence, according to prosecutors.

Sampath then routed and laundered more than $3 million in kickbacks back to Peng through various intermediaries, Hochman alleges.

According to the criminal complaint, Innive received over $39 million in payments from LAUSD between 2017 and 2023. . . .

Best part is that Peng can barely speak English, but she was in charge of the country's largest county's school IT department.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (Suwql)

135 Boss Moss

Nothing makes for an enraged population like very bad policy. The Spanish government is removing the control rods from a reactor running hot. It is an own goal, self-kill, decision.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

136 Democracy is Racist
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I can't say I'm enamored of the recent "democracy uber alles" trend on the right, or the growing egalitarianism. Our revolution was 1776, not 1789.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:36 AM (AlhUl)

137
Best part is that Peng can barely speak English, but she was in charge of the country's largest county's school IT department.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (Suwql)

What are the odds Swalwell was putting a microphallus to her?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

138 Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (Suwql)

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For the keeeeeeeeeds!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 08:38 AM (RIvkX)

139 >According to the criminal complaint, Innive received over $39 million in payments from LAUSD between 2017 and 2023. . . .

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at March 30, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

140 Here’s Vance’s Plan To Attack ~~$250 Billion~~ $1 TRILLION In Annual Fraud Losses

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 08:40 AM (/+uur)

141 2 new excellent federal Judges will be confirmed for Texas in Austin and El Paso this week. This will hopefully help us with Border control in the future.

Also the Bush Rino Chief Judge of the 6th circuit, Sutton, is retiring. The hack who ruled for Obamacare back in 2009

Posted by: Jonah at March 30, 2026 08:41 AM (YCxFk)

142 Muslim Woman in U.S. Military Says She Won’t Fight Muslims
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What are we doing wrong? In the days of the Raj, Mahometans under British command would, and did.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:41 AM (AlhUl)

143 Eeyore

Gotta admit, the US Constitution, if followed, is excellent system software for an advanced civilization. Certainly better than Parliamentary democracy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

144 Someone stole my SSN, didn't they........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes. Good luck, you will need to venture to an IRS office and meet with a federal lackey in MeatSpace. When you go in take a red ticket, it means you want to make a payment and you will go to the head of the line over the moochers and old farts lined up in there for a hand out with their green tickets.

Good luck...bring your checkbook too.

Posted by: Been There, Done That at March 30, 2026 08:42 AM (/1l9x)

145 Best part is that Peng can barely speak English, but she was in charge of the country's largest county's school IT department.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:35 AM (Suwql)

Peng is asshoe

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 08:42 AM (/+uur)

146
Good luck...bring your checkbook too.
Posted by: Been There, Done That at March 30, 2026 08:42 AM (/1l9x)

They actually owe me this go-around. That hardly EVER happens.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

147 >>Christian Toto: Two new horror comedies cast rich elites as satanic (and worse)
Are Audiences Sick of ‘Eat the Rich’ Movies?

Who is watching and enjoying these movies?

Seems like it's the rich Lefties who fancy themselves Socialists. They are the ones who celebrate movies like Triangle of Sadness, Parasite, Snowpiercer, and The Menu.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:42 AM (Suwql)

148 126. LOL.

Posted by: Jonah at March 30, 2026 08:43 AM (YCxFk)

149 Netanyahu says actions were not 'malicious,' vows fixes ahead of Easter.
Israel Blocks Catholic Cardinal From Holy Site On Palm Sunday Over Safety Concerns

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Cardinal Pizza is a phag. And his shite is retarded. He parades in pali garb, surrounded by balistenians and always trying to stir up trouble. The site has been closed since 2/28 for everybody. Jews could not celebrate their holy days at the Wall, muslims stayed away from al aqsa for thier eid holy day, but Pizzarela ignored all of that and wanted to make a scene. What a phag.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:43 AM (GD0B3)

150 Eeyore

The British Army used small-unit cohesion, pride of regiment, and devotion to the Queen to compel stalwart behavior in the face of combat with cobelievers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

151 Scott Bissent interview with Brian Kilmead, Bissent says that during Covid, Biden administration removed the fraud department in most government agencies so they could send money out for requests quickly and then never brought the departments back. He also said that Minnesota was actually transparent, here’s the address, here’s the amount money sent, go there, it’s an empty store front. California and New York are hiding that info.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 30, 2026 08:44 AM (mZm4x)

152 >>Peng is asshoe

Some Ting Wong, indeed!

"Later that year, Peng texts Sampath, “Let’s grab these money first.. Its already in the pocket. Low hanging fruits… let’s get these money… It’ll be good for us.”

The complaint shows several payments to various companies all owned by Sampath. At one point the duo discusses setting up the additional entities.

“We need to come up with lot of companies,” Sampath says, “at least 3-4 to take out the money… Close to million will be transferred to you… Easy to track unless we are very careful,” he continues.

Peng responds, “Should we start another company under a different name?… I can setup a company in HK… China… or Singapore.”

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:44 AM (Suwql)

153 150 Eeyore

The British Army used small-unit cohesion, pride of regiment, and devotion to the Queen to compel stalwart behavior in the face of combat with cobelievers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

The Navy used rum sodomy and lashings for the same effect.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 08:45 AM (/+uur)

154 Well, if Merrick Garland had been confirmed to SCOTUS in 2016, what would this country look like Right now,.

1. Roe would still be in place
2. Massive Federal Gun Control
etc...

That is why Judges matter

Posted by: Jonah at March 30, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

155 Two new horror comedies cast rich elites as satanic

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We had several horror comedies that did this more than competently already, and it's hard to see how they can be outdone. DC, NYC, LA... how are you going to beat them?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2026 08:46 AM (BI5O2)

156
That is why Judges matter
Posted by: Jonah at March 30, 2026 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

Elections have consequenses.

From your local dogcatcher to the President of the United States.

Pay attention. Vote. Make it count.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

157 Macron, Sanchez Slam Holy Sepulcher Closure, Ignore Iranian Missiles That Necessitated I

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and fucking Socialists, who have no care for muslim invasion of their countries , for hundreds of churches burned and desecrated on their soil by muslims, for christians in other part of the world, all of a sudden are concerned? give me a break.those two p8ssies never misss an opportunity to say something nasty about Isharel, do they.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:47 AM (GD0B3)

158 > 142 Muslim Woman in U.S. Military Says She Won’t Fight Muslims
_______
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:41 AM (AlhUl)

That's cool.

Enjoy your stay in USDB Leavenworth, sweetie.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 08:47 AM (IG3/x)

159 126 love this idea.

Posted by: Hyacinth at March 30, 2026 08:48 AM (c99AZ)

160 158 > 142 Muslim Woman in U.S. Military Says She Won’t Fight Muslims
_______
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2026 08:41 AM (AlhUl)

But has no problem fighting Christians...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 08:48 AM (ECasK)

161 The British Army used small-unit cohesion, pride of regiment, and devotion to the Queen to compel stalwart behavior in the face of combat with cobelievers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:44 AM (u82oZ)

Plus they were men. Not some emotionally driven broad with aunt flo issues.

Posted by: Zombie Chinese Gordon at March 30, 2026 08:48 AM (/1l9x)

162 Muslim Woman in U.S. Military Says She Won’t Fight Muslims

Statements like that should be grounds for immediate dismissal once the ten lashes were applied.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 08:48 AM (BpO1e)

163 Cardinal Pizza is a phag. And his shite is retarded. He parades in pali garb, surrounded by balistenians and always trying to stir up trouble. The site has been closed since 2/28 for everybody. Jews could not celebrate their holy days at the Wall, muslims stayed away from al aqsa for thier eid holy day, but Pizzarela ignored all of that and wanted to make a scene. What a phag.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:43 AM (GD0B3)
-

Pizza's shit, the Pope's, Spain PM's, the SM Catholic "influencers", and a cast of others whose tilt was already known beforehand.

Schmucks, the whole lotta them!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 08:49 AM (1o8D5)

164 But has no problem fighting Christians...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 08:48 AM (ECasK)

Her book CALLS for that. It's fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

165 Pizzaballer and his balestenian terrorist buddies wanted another headline about how bad Ishrael is. now he got it. Pole Leo needs to replace his stupid ass.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:49 AM (GD0B3)

166 r hennigantx

Well, the USN, since 1914, can't use two of those. And only sodomy after pbho changed policy.

We have to win at sea to get to the bars. The one exception is during a long at-sea time, beer is authorized to be consumed in a whaleboat away from the ship. Pretty tame.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:50 AM (u82oZ)

167 No Kings draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. nonviolent protest. Weird how it gets so little media attention. Back in 2010, tea party protests were constantly in the news despite being only thousands to tens of thousands at most.

Great turnout! Just over 2% of the entire US population! It keeps growing in size and in the number of issues the crowds are protesting for. Looking forward to No Kings 4.

I heard we have a general strike on May 1? Any details yet?

Does using a PTO day work or does that defeat the purpose? 1st business day is typically a busy day for my work.

Great question! Yes it still counts! In fact id say it counts MORE! You still get paid but your employer loses labor for the day.

The history books need to reflect that this president was the worst president in modern history. He not only presided over the end of the United States as the sole superpower and global hegemon, he *actively facilitated* it. That's something literally no other President ever would begin to understand.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 08:50 AM (JCZqz)

168 165 Pizzaballer and his balestenian terrorist buddies wanted another headline about how bad Ishrael is. now he got it. Pole Leo needs to replace his stupid ass.
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:49 AM (GD0B3)

I imagine Leo agrees with him....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 08:50 AM (ECasK)

169 My art teacher in grades 1-3 might have been pretty, I don't remember her well. My health teacher in grade 10 was, probably, a 6. All the others were, to my eyes at the time, ancient. Probably in their 50s. LOL.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

I had a high school teacher, Ms Spinelli, who looked and dressed like a 28 year old Jayne Mansfield with a hard New Yawk accent. Every man and boy in the school lusted after her and one day she said her boyfriend was coming to pick her up after school to go to something of his.

So we all ran down to the parking lot to get a glimpse, and up pulls this nasty Harley, and when the guy gets off he’s like six foot twenty with tattoos on all his knuckles, and he’s got a stare that makes you want to apologize for just looking at him. So after that we still lusted after her, but we were kinda scared of her, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (ZPDpH)

170 >>A volunteer has been arrested for tampering with the recent special election in Palm Beach (this is the one where a Democrat won in Mar-A-Lago's district).

https://instapundit.com/786085/

They need to re-do the election.
Seriously, what's the point of finding it if they let the tainted, obviously unusual results remain?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Suwql)

171 He knew full well that everything is closed, and did not contact anybody about any special permissions. CLOSED MOFO, there are missiles and stuff. Idiot.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (GD0B3)

172 The 'No Kings' things is even stupider then that 'MAGA' thing. Fucking campaign slogans blown up into philosophical, theological, proportions of great silliness. A ridiculous cult.

MAGA: Make America's Genitals Awesome

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Fbc0I)

173 No Kings draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. nonviolent protest. Weird how it gets so little media attention. Back in 2010, tea party protests were constantly in the news despite being only thousands to tens of thousands at most.

Non-violent?

Portland PD begs to differ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

174 Non-violent?

Portland PD begs to differ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

Don't forget about us

Posted by: LA at March 30, 2026 08:52 AM (ECasK)

175 The Pope smokes Dope!

Posted by: Zombie David Peel at March 30, 2026 08:52 AM (oftw2)

176 I imagine Leo agrees with him....
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 08:50 AM (ECasK)

Stuffed pIzza is Francis' boy.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:52 AM (GD0B3)

177 Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono

Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings

11:55 AM · Mar 28, 2026

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

178 @maziehirono

Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings

11:55 AM · Mar 28, 2026
Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

She finally said something truthful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

179 Reddit- ignorant blog rats

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 08:53 AM (ZxPkt)

180 Cold beer vending machine at Dodgers Stadium.

https://x.com/i/status/2038442065055633563

Posted by: Market forces at March 30, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

181 🚨 JUST IN: The No Kings protestors are being called out as massive hypocrites after waving COMMUNIST FLAGS in NYC

They don't like kings — but they like straight-up DICTATORS.

The dumbest political movement of our lifetime.

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

182 Peng. Sampath.

Legal immigrants, like the Somalis.

I took a ton of crap here last time I said it, I don't care, and I'll say it again: no more foreigners in America, period. Enough of them.

We've got a good supply of our own anti-American criminal undesirables with poor hygiene.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2026 08:54 AM (BI5O2)

183 They covered the marxist clown parades, and did not cover the huge Iranian rally in DC. typical

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 08:54 AM (GD0B3)

184 >>No Kings draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. nonviolent protest. Weird how it gets so little media attention. Back in 2010, tea party protests were constantly in the news despite being only thousands to tens of thousands at most.

Heh. First, the estimates keep growing - first six, then seven, now eight million. By next month it will be twelve million!!

Weird how it gets so little media attention?
PROTEST FATIGUE. We all have it, and the media is too busy worrying about lost audience to flatter you with fawning press. Grow up.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:54 AM (Suwql)

185 Cold beer vending machine at Dodgers Stadium.

https://x.com/i/status/2038442065055633563
Posted by: Market forces at March 30, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

$18.25 for a beer? F*ck off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

186 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Getting the right people to run is the problem. Talented normals are put off by that.

I will not stand for a new office, despite the good I did in my old position. Was a reelected incumbent when I left.

IMHO, the local GOPe organizations are not helpful, far-sighted, and absolutely not focused on winning the lower elected position. They have no depth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

187 I loved the pro Palestinian , Mexican and Gay flags.....Nothing says America like those.... Patriotism at its highest... And a lot of them were high...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 08:55 AM (ECasK)

188 me Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

Leftist warrior on TikTok LIVE stated that MAGA supporters’ heads should be removed from their bodies and used gay slurs to insult both women and men.

A man who goes by “CasperMcfly” told the host that “every fvcking MAGA supporter should have their head removed from their body.” He then proceeded to insult a veteran who is gay, calling him a “beta-ass, cock-ass-fvcking, boot-licking f*g.” He also said that anyone who identifies as MAGA “is a fvcking b*tch” and referred to women as “cvnts.”

After he uploaded a video crying to his followers that he was suspended because the app is biased, he proudly admitted that since he can’t physically attack MAGA supporters, the only thing left is to verbally insult them and he encouraged others to do the same. Of course, he failed to mention that he had wished physical harm on conservatives.

https://tinyurl.com/mv62jymz

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

189 OMG!! Read some of the comments after the NY Post Left Loves Kings article. Unbelievably unhinged. "Trump is a dummy, Trump is destabilizing the world, he's a grifter, a felon!!" And on and on. If the Dems win the midterms, this country is done. These people are incurable.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 30, 2026 08:55 AM (5xuJ/)

190 I find it very hard to believe that there were 8 million no kings protesters over the weekend.... divide by 10

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 30, 2026 08:56 AM (xT8gx)

191 Voter ID Vindicated By Obama Judge

There will be photo voter ID in the State of North Carolina...

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 08:56 AM (RHGPo)

192 > No Kings draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. nonviolent protest.
----
okay
so how are things different, here on the day after?

to me, 8 million high school drama club rejects spent their weekend acting out
sound and fury, signifying nothing

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 08:57 AM (ZxPkt)

193 MAGA: Make America's Genitals Awesome

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Fbc0I)

Um. We already ARE awesome.

- Florida

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at March 30, 2026 08:57 AM (FmapG)

194 The evil impulse doesn't shy from using falsehood to spread hate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 30, 2026 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

195 "A recent book challenges humans’ common ancestry with primates.
More Man Than Ape"

Interesting theory. Provable? I suggest it's no more provable than has been the search for the 'missing link' species that both humans and chimps plus bonobos evolved from. Why? If all primates evolved from ancestor species that lived in Central Africa ten or more million years ago, the hunt for fossils is likely fruitless. Fossilization (minerals replacing organic bones that were buried beneath rock erosion deposits) is unlikely in long-existing wet terrains. Millions of years of being buried in decaying vegetation is not conducive to fossilization of bones. In other words, in equatorial Africa.

Posted by: Gref at March 30, 2026 08:58 AM (5rh/l)

196 I still remember that one of the left's biggest complaints about Trump's years ago was thst he wasn't being authoritarian enough.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 30, 2026 08:59 AM (GD7iS)

197 > They don't like kings — but they like straight-up DICTATORS.

The dumbest political movement of our lifetime.
----------
The organizers of those "protests," the ones who funded them, certainly knew what they were doing when they purchased those flags for the nutjobs to wave.

They're sending a message. I believe them. Communist dictators are exactly what they want. And will likely get if permitted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:00 AM (AkEZC)

198 >> JUST IN: The No Kings protestors are being called out as massive hypocrites after waving COMMUNIST FLAGS in NYC

When the whole thing was planned and paid for by communists what did people expect?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 09:00 AM (viF8m)

199 Seriously, these people should march around carrying signs that read DOWN WITH THE THING!

would make about as much sense

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 09:00 AM (ZxPkt)

200 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 08:50 AM (JCZqz)

Reading these makes me fear we are doomed...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 09:00 AM (ECasK)

201 Well, if Merrick Garland had been confirmed to SCOTUS in 2016, what would this country look like Right now,.

1. Roe would still be in place
2. Massive Federal Gun Control
etc...
--
I'll say it again:
He was the 5th vote to make FCC and FEC regulations of the news constitutional.
"Fake news" was coined by Hillary to lay the groundwork for regulations they'd already drafted to prevent "misinformation."
Among those were:
- all websites would require either actual, verified name or verification of identity by the owner (which list subject to inspection w/o warrant)
- all website owners who disseminate or discuss news must register as a reporter (real name/address/etc.)
- all website owners would be required to moderate all comments to prevent "misinformation."

This site, and any that wasn't hard left, would be gone.

All of this was being discussed, it wasn't idle talk.

And all of those rules will snap in place the second the Dems control all branches again.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 30, 2026 09:00 AM (HXT0k)

202 Viral Pageant Nightmare: Thai Teen Beauty Queen’s Fake Teeth Fall Out Mid-Speech During Live Broadcast

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2026 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

203 Gref

DNA analysis of chimps, bonobos, and other species listed say he is all wet. Chimps, bonobos, and man share a common ancestor. Full stop.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 09:03 AM (u82oZ)

204 And it wasn't the biggest protest in US history. Earth Day 1970 when the US population was significantly smaller and fewer illegals had more that twice the number of participants.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2026 09:03 AM (viF8m)

205 estimated 8 million "

Well, I estimate it at ... stupid. So there.

Estimates are just that. Nothing more.

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

206 202 Viral Pageant Nightmare: Thai Teen Beauty Queen’s Fake Teeth Fall Out Mid-Speech During Live Broadcast
Posted by: SMOD

I never have that embarrassing problem!

Posted by: Polly Gripp at March 30, 2026 09:04 AM (oftw2)

207 Judge Jessica Fehrenbach released an 18-year-old felon.

FOUR days later, he was charged with shooting someone dead.

JAIL THE JUDGES.

https://tinyurl.com/2cz8mpn6

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:04 AM (Kksvc)

208 $18.25 for a beer? F*ck off."

So, how about a $40 "foot long" hotdog?

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

209 Judge Jessica Fehrenbach released an 18-year-old felon.

FOUR days later, he was charged with shooting someone dead.

JAIL THE JUDGES.

https://tinyurl.com/2cz8mpn6
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:04 AM (Kksvc)

Democrats want chaos.

Democrats want you to die.

Democrats want you to beg them to do something.

Democrats want martial law.

Democrats want your guns.

Democrats want to be king.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

210 DNA analysis of chimps, bonobos, and other species listed say he is all wet. Chimps, bonobos, and man share a common ancestor. Full stop.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Heh, you want be monkey-be monkey! Me no monkey!

Posted by: The Wild Man Of Borneo at March 30, 2026 09:06 AM (oftw2)

211 >@CityofGolden
·
Mar 28
There's been an increase in traffic collisions between vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcycles. Watch out for one another, and decrease distractions both as a driver and as a pedestrian or cyclist crossing the street.
----

imagine that
in a state where pot and 'shrooms are legal
huh

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 09:06 AM (ZxPkt)

212 Judge Jessica Fehrenbach released an 18-year-old felon.

FOUR days later, he was charged with shooting someone dead.

JAIL THE JUDGES."

So more 1930's Spain. A perceived out of control judiciary, and...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

213 Here's an actual set of quotes from an older, white female "No Kings" protester:
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Interviewer: “Why do you think there’s not a lot of black people here?”
Protester:
“Because a lot of them are afraid of being arrested. And they don’t wanna get arrested. They can’t afford it. They can’t afford the lawyers. They can’t afford the time off from work. And they’re afraid.”
Interviewer: “Do you think black people are less likely to protest because they’re afraid of getting arrested?”
Protester:
“Yeah, I do. Because they know they’ll get arrested more than white people.”
Interviewer: “What about voter ID laws? A lot of people say that suppresses the black vote.”
Protester:
“Yeah, because a lot of black people don’t have IDs. They don’t drive. They don’t have cars. They use public transportation.”

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:08 AM (AkEZC)

214 imagine that
in a state where pot and 'shrooms are legal
huh"

"Thank God we're not liable"

/smahtphone makers

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

215 >>>Seriously, these people should march around carrying signs that read DOWN WITH THE THING!

>The THING IS A FINK!

Suckers.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 09:08 AM (Fbc0I)

216 My Mistake. No Senate for two more weeks, as these slackers are on break for Easter Holiday. What is the point?

Posted by: Jonah at March 30, 2026 09:10 AM (YCxFk)

217 imagine that
in a state where pot and 'shrooms are legal
huh
Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 09:06 AM (ZxPkt)

Kid riding his motorcycle a couple weeks ago was riding along at the speed limit in the right hand lane when the car in the left lane just decided he needed to turn left, slammed on the brakes and jerked left.

Kid t-boned the car, flew over and wound up with broken bones and a lacerated liver.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

218 Jerked right.

My bad.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

219 Spain has closed its airspace to flights involved in the United States’ Operation Epic Fury against Iran’s Islamic regime, the Spanish newspaper El País reported on Monday, with the NATO ally specifically tracking U.S. aircraft.

==

Spain is asshoe.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 09:12 AM (GD0B3)

220 8 million in blue States and Blue urban areas! how does that change the electoral college

Posted by: Jonah at March 30, 2026 09:12 AM (YCxFk)

221 I freely confess that I'd be perfectly happy if Donald Trump became King and we could dispense with Congress and the Courts for the remaining two-plus years and set about restoring the Republic.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 30, 2026 09:14 AM (E2lD7)

222 Democrats want you to die.

Fancy that. That's exactly what I want for democrats.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:14 AM (Kksvc)

223 8 Gerontillion adult toddlers and paid communist agitators.

Posted by: A Nomad Of The Time Streams at March 30, 2026 09:15 AM (kLUcw)

224 8 BillLIon PeOple!1

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 09:15 AM (GD0B3)

225 Here's an actual set of quotes from an older, white female "No Kings" protester:
-------------
Interviewer: “Why do you think there’s not a lot of black people here?”
Protester:
“Because a lot of them are afraid of being arrested. And they don’t wanna get arrested. They can’t afford it. They can’t afford the lawyers. They can’t afford the time off from work. And they’re afraid.”
Interviewer: “Do you think black people are less likely to protest because they’re afraid of getting arrested?”
Protester:
“Yeah, I do. Because they know they’ll get arrested more than white people.”
Interviewer: “What about voter ID laws? A lot of people say that suppresses the black vote.”
Protester:
“Yeah, because a lot of black people don’t have IDs. They don’t drive. They don’t have cars. They use public transportation.”
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Racist much chica?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:15 AM (Kksvc)

226 “Yeah, because a lot of black people don’t have IDs. They don’t drive. They don’t have cars. They use public transportation.”
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:08 AM (AkEZC

How do they carry home the watermelons and chicken?

Thanks for sharing the stupidity.

MS Now - organizers: 8 million marched. Prove it. And even if they did. So what? Worldwide Covid protests were unreported and tech suppressed. Unless buildings and people burn, no one cares or notices after 3 days.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 09:16 AM (Sco7b)

227 Their ‘Tax the Rich’ campaign targets millionaires, but Democratic Socialists of America lefties are now pushing for a slew of tax hikes that would slam middle-class New Yorkers.

The party’s NYC chapter is asking potential candidates seeking its endorsement if they will back hiking income taxes for individuals making more than $300,000 — three times less than the $1 million threshold socialist Mayor Mamdani campaigned on.

It does seem like every Progressive taxing idea starts with a theoretical magical number (Millionaires and Billionaires) and then quickly adds in about 50% of the upper middle class.
Same as every Progressive Program is going to cost X to start and fix the problem and then becomes 10X when viewed over the first few years.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 09:18 AM (/+uur)

228 @mazemoore
In 2023 Gavin Newsom did what he called a "Red State" tour and visited Alabama, Florida and a few other red states.

Newsom's [whore] wife said she brought her children to the red states so they could learn about racism, sexism, and bullying first hand.

(word in brackets is my edit, not the author's @mazemoore)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)

229 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 08:50 AM (JCZqz)

Reading these makes me fear we are doomed...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 09:00 AM (ECasK)

Just read the comments following that NY Post article on No Kings, and you'll be absolutely convinced.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 30, 2026 09:19 AM (5xuJ/)

230 Their ‘Tax the Rich’ campaign targets millionaires"

The proper name is "Politics of Envy"...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:19 AM (XuXeR)

231 MAGS
@TAftermath2020

Now this is an organic March! Thousands of pro-America Iranians marching in DC in support of Trump!

https://tinyurl.com/4cey9f3j

Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

232 My Mistake. No Senate for two more weeks, as these slackers are on break for Easter Holiday. What is the point?
Posted by: Jonah

Actual work in Chamber - 79 days a year.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:20 AM (Kksvc)

233 200 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 30, 2026 08:50 AM (JCZqz)

Reading these makes me fear we are doomed...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 09:00 AM (ECasK)

Remember that most Redditors these days are Euros. (Who can’t stop talking about the US). Europe is doomed, certainly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 09:20 AM (ZPDpH)

234 and other shouting “f–k you” at apparent pro-Trump demonstrators who were carrying flags and automatic weapons.

and so it begins??

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 30, 2026 09:20 AM (4NO2D)

235 Actual work in Chamber - 79 days a year.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:20 AM (Kksvc)

Being able to commit fraud and insider trading to become independently wealthy?

Priceless........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 30, 2026 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

236 They need to re-do the election.
Seriously, what's the point of finding it if they let the tainted, obviously unusual results remain?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2026 08:51 AM (Suwql)

The important part of the post...

"Investigators worry that the encryption — used for training — could be reverse engineered and used to tamper with voter registration"

Good that they caught the guy, good that they found a potential weakness, but no evidence that the special election was tampered with. Pretty sure it would be up to the House to order a re-do since the Dem was already declared the winner.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

237 231 MAGS
@TAftermath2020

Now this is an organic March! Thousands of pro-America Iranians marching in DC in support of Trump!

https://tinyurl.com/4cey9f3j
Posted by: redridinghood at March 30, 2026 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

Probably counted those in with the 8 million No kings...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 09:22 AM (ECasK)

238 232 My Mistake. No Senate for two more weeks, as these slackers are on break for Easter Holiday. What is the point?
Posted by: Jonah

Thune is doing an excellent job at proving his senate has no more justification to exist.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 30, 2026 09:22 AM (E2lD7)

239 It just goes to show the sway the media has over the narrative about disenfranchised minorities and voter ID laws.

That old white woman may, or may not believe that shit, but it's right in line with the left's narrative.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:23 AM (AkEZC)

240 "Investigators worry that the encryption — used for training — could be reverse engineered and used to tamper with voter registration"

If "it could", then "it was". And nothing will happen...

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:23 AM (XuXeR)

241 No Kings draw estimated 8 million in largest single-day U.S. nonviolent protest. Weird how it gets so little media attention.

That person's reality filter is top of the line. Even I'm impressed by it.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 09:23 AM (BpO1e)

242 Listening to some national radio news over the weekend, heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country.

Your terms are acceptable!

Might I suggest the communist utopia of North Korea?

Posted by: ShainS at March 30, 2026 09:24 AM (2Y1NN)

243 heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country."

Can I donate?

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

244 @TheBabylonBee

Pope Leo Explains God Does Not Listen To People Who Wage War So Long As You Don’t Count Moses, David, Joshua, Elijah, Saul, Gideon, Samson, Or Anyone Else In Bible https://buff.ly/tWfpECv

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 09:26 AM (Dv3i1)

245 244 @TheBabylonBee

Pope Leo Explains God Does Not Listen To People Who Wage War So Long As You Don’t Count Moses, David, Joshua, Elijah, Saul, Gideon, Samson, Or Anyone Else In Bible https://buff.ly/tWfpECv
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 09:26 AM (Dv3i1)

That's a good one...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 09:26 AM (ECasK)

246 "heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country."

Yet they never do. Interesting. It seems they'd rather fulfill their sacred destiny to bitch.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 30, 2026 09:26 AM (E2lD7)

247 244 @TheBabylonBee
___

Maybe the Pope never read the bible. That might explain a few things.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 30, 2026 09:27 AM (Dv3i1)

248 Just read the comments following that NY Post article on No Kings, and you'll be absolutely convinced.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

I expect NYC residents to start calling Mayor Jihadi Pharaoh or Emperor Hirohito.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2026 09:27 AM (Kksvc)

249 > heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country.
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Someone sounds.... concerned.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2026 09:27 AM (AkEZC)

250 249 > heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country.

15 ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 09:28 AM (ECasK)

251 pope Leo Explains God Does Not Listen To People Who Wage War

==

Did he just diss the crusades ? lol

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2026 09:28 AM (GD0B3)

252 243 heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country."

So where does The Paolo live?

As for those women? Wait until they learn that they can't just show up in a foreign country and get free handouts.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 09:29 AM (BpO1e)

253 Listening to some national radio news over the weekend, heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country.

- 40% of American women aged 15-44 will claim that they want to relocate to a foreign country.
- 40% of American women aged 15-44 will claim that they want to live in a world without men.
- 40% of American women aged 15-44 will claim that they want to be boss babes.
- 40% of American women aged 15-44 don't even know who their Senators are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

254 other shouting “f–k you” at apparent pro-Trump demonstrators who were carrying flags and automatic weapons.

There'll be an extra tin of herring in the writer's paybox this week.

Posted by: Big Penguin at March 30, 2026 09:29 AM (0sNs1)

255 251 pope Leo Explains God Does Not Listen To People Who Wage War

So he's talking about the Iranian Mullahs ...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2026 09:29 AM (ECasK)

256
A
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Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 09:31 AM (/+uur)

257 Pope Bob should stay in his lane

Posted by: Don Black at March 30, 2026 09:31 AM (ZxPkt)

258 253: I used to have a different nic, you have an excellent point.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 09:31 AM (BpO1e)

259 This latest batch of Popes don't know much about scripture or history. Just socialism and subjugation. Nice gig.

Aquinas is rolling around in his tomb.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 09:37 AM (Fbc0I)

260 253 Listening to some national radio news over the weekend, heard there's a poll claiming 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to relocate to a foreign country.

- 40% of American women aged 15-44 will claim that they want to relocate to a foreign country.
- 40% of American women aged 15-44 will claim that they want to live in a world without men.
- 40% of American women aged 15-44 will claim that they want to be boss babes.
- 40% of American women aged 15-44 don't even know who their Senators are.

>>>
So, these liberal whores wishing to go and be subjected to barbarians in foreign lands are spouting one of the best lines in Blazing Saddles:

What are your crimes? "Rape, murder, arson, rape"

You said rape twice! "I like rape"

Posted by: The Obama brats have two daddies at March 30, 2026 09:54 AM (5DfsO)

261 What about King Barry, the chocolate jesus, the shit Midas?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at March 30, 2026 09:57 AM (WQDw6)

262 - 40% of American women aged 15-44 don't even know who their Senators are.

- 40% of American women wonder why nobody loves them. Not even their cats.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 30, 2026 10:16 AM (N39Ws)

263 The Dem-Left love to yell about "this is what democracy looks like!" And I guess they're right - as the Founding Fathers noted, democracy inevitably leads to an inhuman temper-tantrum.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at March 30, 2026 10:56 AM (bufu1)

264 @J.J. Sefton: Nice use of the King Friday Puppet from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, for today's picture.

Some old neurons were dusted off there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 30, 2026 11:28 AM (O7YUW)

265 Want to live forever? The Chinese government has a way.
Immortality via Atrocities

This is the reason when my FIL offered to have me go to China for a transplant I said no. My gut feel was that pretty much any transplant organ received in China would come from dissidents, and I would not support that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2026 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

266 No kings - meaning?

No thinKING, no worKING, no joKING ...

Posted by: _Jim at March 30, 2026 01:06 PM (O+NnT)

267 That dye that's used in bank thefts and extortion payoffs - the one that explodes when they open the money package and sprays everyone nearby with blue that stains skin and doesn't wash off?
Load up a drone with that stuff and spray the entire crowd at these marches and "protests"/ riots. That would out a whole lot of left wing idiots. Walk into work at the bank on Monday with streaks of blue on your face and hands. How long before you're cleaning out your desk with the placard with your name and "Loan Officer" on it?
"The people are the sea in which the revolutionary swim."
- Mao, or Ho Chi Minh ... some communist, anyway.
Damned hard to swim undetected when you look like a Blue Neon.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 30, 2026 05:26 PM (rJ+qD)

268 Thune is doing an excellent job at proving ~~his senate~~ he has no more justification to exist.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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FIFY

Posted by: buddhaha at March 30, 2026 05:31 PM (rJ+qD)

Daily Tech News 30 March 2026

Top Story

Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh isn't even on store shelves yet and it's already had a price increase. (WCCFTech)

10% officially and up to 25% in online listings. Still decent value if it weren't for all the other headwinds Intel is facing here.

Sailing straight into an F5 tornado.
But you can save a lot of money on audiophile-grade cables. (Tom's Hardware)

Mostly by not buying them. Once again, there is no detectable difference between $4000 cables and a $7 pair from the Amazon Basics range.

Tech News

Microplastics are glove contamination. (University of Michigan)

The researchers are sure that once they rule out the omnipresent glove particles they will have the truth and not a big fat ball of nothing.
One day after Microsoft announced a new focus on security, the company had to release an emergency security patch. (Computer Weekly)

For a bug created by the March Windows update.
M4 and M5 Macs can't run external 4k monitors at native resolution in HiDPI mode. (S McLeod)

You might wonder how people didn't notice.

People did.

But Apple doesn't sell a 4k monitor - only 5k and 6k models - so they didn't care.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Beans.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

2 G'day Skip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 30, 2026 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

3 G’day, all.

Posted by: French Jeton at March 30, 2026 04:07 AM (j0T5y)

4 PRETENDERS RULE!

Posted by: Caf at March 30, 2026 04:14 AM (qS/Xm)

5 RULERS PRETEND!

Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 04:14 AM (Sy6m/)

6 Wild looking skies in Oz from Tropical Cyclone Narelle. Never seen anything like it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 04:23 AM (Fbc0I)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 04:26 AM (sAmhv)

8 G'day everyone.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 30, 2026 04:39 AM (Q/FnY)

9 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 30, 2026 04:40 AM (bQ4nt)

10 Nine comments in 45 minutes. Sad!

Posted by: hall monitor lizard at March 30, 2026 04:47 AM (QAaXS)

11 Always liked the Pretenders
She let Rush use her music because her dad was a big Rush guy

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 04:47 AM (Ia/+0)

12 Making bank probably didn’t hurt, either.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 04:48 AM (vSCm4)

13 I can watch Duke lose all day.

Posted by: Accomak at March 30, 2026 04:52 AM (wkU1F)

14 My new shiny Macbook Sky comes in today. Looking forward to playing with my new expensive toy. Don't really need another laptop, I just wanted an Apple. Could have gotten a renewed one but didn't. At the moment, I can afford a new Apple. I'm sure I'll like it. I suspect I may need to get some spare cables. I do have 4 external HDs around but I don't think they'll fit without an adapter. Find out when it arrives. I probably do have some cables that will work, just have to find them. I am not an organized type. I'm a wee bit scattered.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 04:53 AM (sAmhv)

15 I heard Duke lost. Yay! Now I wish I watched the game. Sounded like a good one!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 04:55 AM (sAmhv)

16 Hello forum techies from your non techie poster

I'm into day three of a "no news" Holy Week fast- although I must admit to accidentally clicking on a "Legal insurrection" site and seeing a headline before I backed out 😉 it feels good.

So I'm here ( as I said I would be ask for prayers ( which I'll do in a moment ) and to relate a story about a " God incident" rather than what others might call a "coincidence". There is a lovely lady in her 90's who resides at the nursing home. She comes to the services even though she is RC. They watch the Mass by simulcast in n Sundays but I am there they last Saturday of the month. Saturday was our recognition of Palm Sunday and Holy Week . Her daughter came and sat through part of the service but had to leave . I always begin a service with a time of silence and suggest breath prayers in which they breathe in and out saying a bit of scripture such as "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want"

Continued below . Don't want to activate spam warnings

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 30, 2026 05:02 AM (JAyzc)

17 >>>I heard Duke lost. Yay! Now I wish I watched the game. Sounded like a good one!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

>That was one game for the decade. I have a buddy who's a big Duke supporter. You know we busted his balls until he couldn't take it anymore.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:04 AM (Fbc0I)

18 G'morning, all!

Been busy with life.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 05:06 AM (iMotb)

19 I have a couple of boxes and a filing cabinet full of cables from my computer building days. I suppose maybe their is some copper in them. But locally the copper thief's have been busy stealing any cables they can find, some power outages have plagued the area.

Posted by: Colin at March 30, 2026 05:06 AM (e8qy3)

20 Disclaimer: Beans.

The first item, is Beans.

Posted by: John Carter of Mars at March 30, 2026 05:08 AM (O7YUW)

21 Watched the UConn/Duke game yesterday with our kitten's grand-Human.

Not really a big fan of any sports, but don't hate them either.

But her husband was traveling back from a mission trip yesterday, and it was just an enjoyable time together after church.

And what an ending to the game.

Wow!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 05:09 AM (iMotb)

22 16-part 2

Anyway the suggestion for Saturday was "Be still and know that I am God" which is from one of the psalms. The woman's daughter said " I want to show you something" and the back of her cell phone was that very saying! It was great!

And now for the prayer request: My son- the horticulture major has an interview at 10:00 . If you could keep him in prayer I would be so grateful. He's a good young man and as kind poster Boswell would tell you and a good employee . Thanks so much! God bless you

Back to a news fast although I am most grateful for what Ace and JJ. And others provide here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 30, 2026 05:09 AM (JAyzc)

23 Fen I hope he gets it

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:12 AM (Ia/+0)

24 Mornin' everyone.

Intel putting prices up on an item, after the initial price has been announced, and before it hits the market: Well that's fine, you can do that, as long as you're willing to watch a bunch of your customers refuse to purchase at that price.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 30, 2026 05:13 AM (O7YUW)

25 I think Chrissie Hynde had Rush donate the money to the charity of her choice.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2026 05:13 AM (gQ15S)

26 Fen, prayers up for your son.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 05:13 AM (iMotb)

27 Good morning Horde,

Our unnaturally mild winter is rolling into what appears to be a dry spring. Mother Nature apparently has a trick or two up her sleeve. Suddenly the forecast is for rain and snow all week. All of our fruit trees are budding early. I hope they don’t end up frozen.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 30, 2026 05:15 AM (xAJnx)

28 Good luck with your sons job interview. We need people who know how to grow food, before the solar panels take over. My neighbors son was just told his new job is ending already after a year and he is a good kid with a mechanical engineering degree. The company is from out of state and is consolidating research and development in Texas. I have faith that he will survive at the grand old age of 24.

Posted by: Colin at March 30, 2026 05:19 AM (e8qy3)

29 But Apple doesn't sell a 4k monitor - only 5k and 6k models - so they didn't care.

Sounds like Apple.

People have been asking them to put the charging port on the front of the Magic Mouse since 2009 and they still don't care because it would ruin Johnny Ive's elegant design.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 05:19 AM (6ydKt)

30 I think in east we had hardest winter in a long time, and very wet.

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:20 AM (Ia/+0)

31 Being it's the tech thread...

I had to replace the front door lock the other week and decided to go with a smart lock from Kwikset.

All went well, install was smooth, and the features seem to be well integrated into the app.

But, the advertised '5 month battery life' seems to be about 15 days in real life. And it has lost WiFi connectivity twice now.

Tech support responded with a rout 'Do these things' and closed out the complaint with n o further action on their part.
A second online complaint has been received, and simply setting there with no reply from them for a week now.

So....I'm disappointed and frustrated with that little adventure.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 05:23 AM (iMotb)

32 At least supposed to get to mid 60s today, better tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:26 AM (Ia/+0)

33 >>>I think in east we had hardest winter in a long time, and very wet.

Posted by: Skip

>This is the mildest winter I've ever seen. Dry with a light snow pack, which will later mean wildfires. Unless we get tropical storms. Weather machines and contrails, that's the ticket.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:26 AM (Fbc0I)

34 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers!

Okay. We're all agreed: It's Monday. But remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:26 AM (wzUl9)

35 Heating oil is getting low and have no desire to have to get that delivery now

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:27 AM (Ia/+0)

36 Intel has done an excellent job, according to reviews, with the Arrow Lake refresh and the 250K Plus & 270K Plus.

They've gotten these chips working wonders for productivity apps, beating AMD on the regular. Gaming has much improved to now being on par with the 14900K from three years ago and the new chips are often beating AMD's equivalent non-X3D chips. They are also much less power-hungry than their recent CPUs.

The problem is the chips are on for a dead-end socket so you can't upgrade them in socket on current motherboards.

But this bodes extremely well for Intel's next generation Nova Lake chips that are supposed to come out later this year.
Intel might finally be able to compete, or beat, AMD in productivity & gaming for the first time in years.

2027 should be a very good year for CPUs with AMD's Zen 6 coming out as well.

Terrible year for everything else, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 05:29 AM (6ydKt)

37 Actually got enough sleep by my standards; Stirling the great black cat did not wake me up.

I happened to see a new channel on my online TV guide last night; they were running Charade w/ Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. According to the schedule they wre supposed to be showing the Darren McGavin 1950s Mike Hammer right now, and the Jack Lord series Stoney Burke (!) at five. But the channel is showing a test pattern. Oh, well.

The channel? It's called "Ace"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:29 AM (wzUl9)

38 Googles apple magic mouse
They put the charging port on the bottom of the mouse?
Yeah, it looks sleek, but that's an impracticable place.
We do all sorts of odd things for sexy looks

Posted by: Accomak at March 30, 2026 05:31 AM (wkU1F)

39 ^^^^ should be:

The problem is the chips are on a dead-end socket so you can't upgrade them with next-gen CPUs in socket after current motherboards.

*Yawns*
*drinks more caffeine*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 05:31 AM (6ydKt)

40 Have a little job to go to first, not sure where afterwards
At least wifi there I found out.

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Ia/+0)

41 >>>I had to replace the front door lock the other week and decided to go with a smart lock from Kwikset.

All went well, install was smooth, and the features seem to be well integrated into the app.

>Wait, your lock comes with an app? More wireless noise? Amazing. Our brains are being saturated and we're drowning in RFI.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Fbc0I)

42 I had a choice of LG ranges with the features we wanted. Said no the model with wifi.

Posted by: Accomak at March 30, 2026 05:33 AM (wkU1F)

43 Sat down with my state tax form yesterday.

It's a car crash, and a big one. Fortunately I do not have to pay until 5/15.

This morning, too, I have to order my new tires, and then have a video call with the lender in Kansas who's been "pre-approving" me. So, Monday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)

44 $4000 for an audio cable?

I can think of A LOT of better things to do with $4000 than an audio cable.

I've never understood that part of audiophilia at all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 05:36 AM (6ydKt)

45 I understand it perfectly - if you can sell some idiot a $4000 cable, it’s nice work. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 05:38 AM (P7T1m)

46 @31/Village Idiot's Apprentice:

After you've secured another company's lock and put that on, I'd package everything back up for the Kwikset smart lock, and return it as "not fit for purpose", with an explanation as well.

You tried, in good faith, to use the company's support. It sucks. You owe them nothing.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 30, 2026 05:39 AM (O7YUW)

47 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 05:40 AM (u82oZ)

48 Good morning, one and all.

Hadrian, I sent the picture of The Big Dummy to my mother. She thinks it's outrageous that he's not allowed to have a beer and a TV in his crate but I explained that dog shows probably had rules about it.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 05:41 AM (BpO1e)

49 >>>I understand it perfectly - if you can sell some idiot a $4000 cable, it’s nice work. Rinse, lather, repeat.

Posted by: Common Tater

>Hah! For $4K I could use some new industrial grade eardrums. Yeah, that's not coming back.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:41 AM (Fbc0I)

50 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Doing more walking these days. I now have four different widows to walk inside the mall with.

Walking, not stalking.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 05:42 AM (u82oZ)

51 All the available retail homey depot doors, door locks and hardware are pure trash. I wondered about that some years back, where’s the “good stuff”?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 30, 2026 05:44 AM (CLXqj)

52 My workout motivation seems to be hiding. Or to have fled to China. (It'll regret that for sure.) This week will be warm to hot all through -- "winter" is long over -- with early a.m. temps about 70 if we're lucky, so I can go tomorrow. Right? Right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

53 38 Googles apple magic mouse
They put the charging port on the bottom of the mouse?
Yeah, it looks sleek, but that's an impracticable place.
We do all sorts of odd things for sexy looks

Posted by: Accomak at March 30, 2026 05:31 AM (wkU1F)

It means you can't use the mouse while charging it.
That's the biggest complaint.

Other than that, it's a fine mouse to use if you don't mind the ergonomics of it. The touch feature is the best part as it scrolls by sliding up and down, you can double-tap on it to zoom in, and other mutli-finger gestures work as well.

But Apple refuses to change the port placement.
I figured they'd have come out with a version by now that uses a charging mat to charge it while you're using it, but they haven't done that either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 05:47 AM (6ydKt)

54 If I want higher fidelity on my stereo, I turn up the treble. Higher frequency hearing loss due to high pressure air lines.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 05:49 AM (Fbc0I)

55 I gave up on the mouse that came with the iMac when I inherited it and set it up last April; it was too fussy. I just went with a plain black battery-powered one. Ordered a larger black Apple-style keyboard from Amazon, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

56 As for the furry thugs, they are galloping or trotting around, and giving me The Look that says, "Feed me NOW!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

57 Wolfus Aurelius

Who will take care of your cats during your trip?
Can you bring Ms. Linda along?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 05:54 AM (u82oZ)

58 w00t late

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 05:57 AM (fNISR)

59 Salty!

Sounds like healthy fun.
Enjoy.

To all the lock responses, thank you.

Seems like both quality and customer support has gone completely out the window on so many things.

To be fair, the initial issues from several months ago with the tp-Link Deco X60 mesh wifi have been addressed at a pace and level that absolutely blows me away.

They sent me a Beta version to try that has identified and resolved every issue that I was having with the system. And in a very short amount of time.

I would send an e-mail update in the morning, and usually by evening there would be a response from them. So in that respect, good customer service, and a commitment to resolving the issues.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 05:58 AM (iMotb)

60 >>>Microplastics are glove contamination. (University of Michigan)

wut
I guess I could go read that.

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 05:58 AM (fNISR)

61 But you can save a lot of money ...
Mostly by not buying them.

hahahaha

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 06:01 AM (fNISR)

62 @59/Village Idiot's Apprentice:

And yet TP-Link has gotten caught up in the ban of all new foreign routers. Pity, they sound like they actually have good customer service! I'm glad they took such good care of you, that's rare these days.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 30, 2026 06:02 AM (O7YUW)

63 Who will take care of your cats during your trip?
Can you bring Ms. Linda along?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026

***
If she were to come along, I'd have to locate a pet sitter. She loves them both, so she'll have no trouble coming over to visit with them and look after their needs. I'll stock up on food and leave some $$ for emergencies.

I've brought up the topic of moving many times over the years, and most especially since I retired and can actually do it. Silence or "I don't know" are the only responses. And I am pretty sure that "Kansas" will get a look as if I'd waved a dead skunk under her nose.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

64 >>>Microplastics are glove contamination.

"glove" in German is der Handschuh

Just sayin'.

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 06:03 AM (fNISR)

65 The "Ace" channel is up! Now to see if the schedule was correct. I remember Stoney Burke being in the TV Guide when I was very small, but nothing about the show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

66 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Cornbread.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 30, 2026 06:06 AM (FtzQl)

67 So now let's talk about the USPS for a moment.

My MiL mailed us a large envelope from Baltimore to our house in South Carolina over 2.5 weeks ago.
Somehow the USPS equipment scanned the address wrong and in the bar code they put on the envelope, they got the zip code wrong.
After 9 trips to and from the same Post Office in Mississippi my MiL called them and fortunately spoke with the Postmaster there who said "As a matter of fact, I have your envelope in my hand right this moment", and was relabeling it correctly to come to our house in Summerville, with a new tracking number and all.

So Saturday I got the e-mail notice that the envelope had been successfully delivered here in Summerville and placed in a PO Box.

We don't have a PO box.

So...off to the Post Office this morning to see what the heck is going on with this thing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:07 AM (iMotb)

68 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Cornbread.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 30, 2026

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At first glance I read that as "Conelrad."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

69 I've got a TP-Link router, too.

I don't know what the recent news means in regards to updating the firmware, etc.

It sucks, I paid like $200 for this set a little over a year ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

70 "And yet TP-Link has gotten caught up in the ban of all new foreign routers."

I saw that.

Oddly enough, the model that I own is manufactured in the US.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:08 AM (iMotb)

71 At first glance I read that as "Conelrad."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)
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He's a helluva detective.

(obscure reference)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 30, 2026 06:08 AM (FtzQl)

72 Nope on Stoney Burke; "Ace" is running one of those "Victims Justice" infomercials for victims of asbestos exposure. Oh, well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:09 AM (wzUl9)

73 55 I gave up on the mouse that came with the iMac when I inherited it and set it up last April; it was too fussy. I just went with a plain black battery-powered one. Ordered a larger black Apple-style keyboard from Amazon, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9)

They aren't for everybody.

If you get hand cramps from your mouse a a lot, you definitely don't want a Magic Mouse because they are tiny and force a crab-claw hold on the mouse..

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

74 We don't have a PO box.

So...off to the Post Office this morning to see what the heck is going on with this thing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:07 AM (iMotb)

Good luck.
I dread going to the Post Office here as much as the DMV.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:11 AM (6ydKt)

75 If you get hand cramps from your mouse a a lot, you definitely don't want a Magic Mouse because they are tiny and force a crab-claw hold on the mouse..
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)
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I like my thumb-operated trackball.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 30, 2026 06:11 AM (FtzQl)

76 If you get hand cramps from your mouse a a lot, you definitely don't want a Magic Mouse because they are tiny and force a crab-claw hold on the mouse..
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026

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It was that, a little, and that the mouse did not always scroll the way it should. Possibly the mouse, which is a good twelve years old like the iMac, is fugged up with moisture or dust.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

77
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 30, 2026 06:13 AM (tljrc)

78 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Here is a Fleet Spacer's song to go with your toast:

https://youtu.be/nskdpeogRPQ?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 06:13 AM (u82oZ)

79 And I need to pick up stamps this week too. Yes, I still mail my bills with checks. The online thing might be convenient, but it's saving the companies money they do not pass on to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

80 Wolfus Aurelius

About 20% of the mail I sent in MAY 2023 was not delivered properly. I got a return as undeliverable to a PO Box. This trend continues.

I use bank transfers to ensure prompt payment, not for any savings.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 06:18 AM (u82oZ)

81 @69/ SpeakingOf: "I've got a TP-Link router, too.

I don't know what the recent news means in regards to updating the firmware, etc. "

Should be no problem. The ban only applies to new routers created/released after the ban date. Existing routers are fine apparently, although it's suspicions about security across the line that allegedly is the reason for the ban.

This doesn't make sense though. Either the line of routers (and the company) is or is not a danger, and if so, there would be a much stronger stance like blocking all imports from that company and encouraging mass replacement of that equipment with another manufacturer's.

So what I think is really going on is this is just pressure to relocate manufacturing facilities overseas into the USA.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 30, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW)

82 "Good luck.
I dread going to the Post Office here as much as the DMV."

Both the main Post Office and the one over by Lowe's Foods, while crowded give us excellent customer service.
The DMV over in Ladson has been outstanding, although understaffed, and over-used.

And the Dorchester County tax offices over on Fifth st. are amazing to work with.

Of course, these experiences are being compared to the same services in Baltimore, so...YMMV.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:20 AM (iMotb)

83 Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 06:13 AM (u82oZ)

Fun!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 30, 2026 06:21 AM (FtzQl)

84 35 Heating oil is getting low and have no desire to have to get that delivery now
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 05:27 AM (Ia/+0)

It'd beat the rush!

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 06:22 AM (fNISR)

85 Did I miss the No Kings rally?

Dangit!

Posted by: That guy what hates Stephen King at March 30, 2026 06:24 AM (skR0U)

86 I’ve been using Kensington Trackball mice for decades.

Accept no substitute.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2026 06:24 AM (XV/Pl)

87 It was that, a little, and that the mouse did not always scroll the way it should. Possibly the mouse, which is a good twelve years old like the iMac, is fugged up with moisture or dust.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

They come with the scroll direction set to 'Scroll Up to go Down, Scroll Down to go Up' as default. You have to change it in the mouse settings. I hate that on Mac and Windows so I reverse it to the natural direction.

The sensor on the bottom can get covered up with stuff sometimes, but I blow it out then wipe off the lens, and it usually goes back to normal.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:25 AM (6ydKt)

88 Good morning all. 49 and clear in western NC going up to the low 70's today. Haven't weighed myself in over a month so I got on the scale first thing....yikes!!

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 30, 2026 06:27 AM (hp5hq)

89 So what I think is really going on is this is just pressure to relocate manufacturing facilities overseas into the USA.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 30, 2026 06:19 AM (O7YUW)

I'm sure that's part of it, and I agree that most of this equipment should be made in North America, from a security standpoint at least.

From what I've read they are worried the routers can be turned into botnets and used for hacking attacks, etc.

The routers still work here, and I have no idea about updating it anyhow, as it does everything without me.

The only thing I ever do is reboot it if the signal goes down.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:28 AM (6ydKt)

90 About 20% of the mail I sent in MAY 2023 was not delivered properly. I got a return as undeliverable to a PO Box. This trend continues.

I use bank transfers to ensure prompt payment, not for any savings.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026

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If I have trouble with mailing payments, I'll consider switching. So far so good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

91 Of course, these experiences are being compared to the same services in Baltimore, so...YMMV.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:20 AM (iMotb)

I just don't like lines.

Goose Creek USPS is always a long line.
Moncks Corner DMV, which I had to go to last time because it's right next to Berkeley County offices, is always crowded and it's bigger than that one in Ladson which was standing room only last time I renewed my DL there.

It's a lot quicker than it used to be before they started giving you a number when you arrive.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

92 Movies! is showing Impact, an early Fifties noir with Brian Donlevy as a well-to-do businessman whose wife and her lover try to kill him. Everyone thinks he's dead; so he disappears and takes another identity in a different state. I watched it on YooToob some years ago and found it fascinating. Donlevy didn't often play a heroic lead; he was better known for his screen villains.

"Ace" channel is running Tarzan -- not the 1960s Ron Ely version, but something much more recent with a blond Tarzan.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

93 Moncks Corner DMV, which I had to go to last time because it's right next to Berkeley County offices, is always crowded and it's bigger than that one in Ladson which was standing room only last time I renewed my DL there.

It's a lot quicker than it used to be before they started giving you a number when you arrive.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026

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Do you have those quick license/registration offices which can get you in and out in twenty minutes? They cost a few dollars more, but they really do work. Or is that only a Lousy-ana thing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

94 So what I think is really going on is this is just pressure to relocate manufacturing facilities overseas into the USA.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I'm fine with that. This should have been done years ago.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 06:36 AM (BpO1e)

95 "Do you have those quick license/registration offices which can get you in and out in twenty minutes?"

I saw an actual freestanding Kiosk in maybe the Nexton Harris-Teeter to do that stuff.

I just remember seeing it and going...'Huh?'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:38 AM (iMotb)

96 Here it is!

https://scdmvexpress.com

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:40 AM (iMotb)

97 mornin yall. The local sheriff was shouted down by protestors at the No Kings rally last weekend as he tried to speak (by invitation):

"But protestors kept yelling, saying that “nobody wants to hear from him” before chanting “this is what democracy looks like.”

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

98 97 mornin yall. The local sheriff was shouted down by protestors at the No Kings rally last weekend as he tried to speak (by invitation):

"But protestors kept yelling, saying that “nobody wants to hear from him” before chanting “this is what democracy looks like.”
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

What a mess.

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 06:42 AM (fNISR)

99 Do you have those quick license/registration offices which can get you in and out in twenty minutes? They cost a few dollars more, but they really do work. Or is that only a Lousy-ana thing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

Nah, here they divide the windows up by category.
Licenses get a few windows, Paperwork, Registrations, Titles, get a few windows, and other stuff get their windows.

When you walk in you talk to a 'receptionist' who finds out what you're there for and directs you to any forms you need and then gives you a ticket with a letter at the beginning and a number after, so A034 means Driver's License renewal, 34th person in line, for example.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

100 100

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 06:44 AM (fNISR)

101 >>I can watch Duke lose all day.

Feeling old, remembering when Duke was the plucky underdog taking on the Tarheel juggernaut.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 06:44 AM (NcvvS)

102 "Do you have those quick license/registration offices which can get you in and out in twenty minutes?"

I saw an actual freestanding Kiosk in maybe the Nexton Harris-Teeter to do that stuff.

I just remember seeing it and going...'Huh?'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026

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These are offices in strip malls. Apparently they have access to the same data as the DMV, and can get you in and out in much less time, for a few extra dollars (like $10, I think). They take your picture for the renewed license, give you a quick eye test, all that. The state still gets its money.

If you have to do the driving test, written or road, that's still the DMV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:44 AM (wzUl9)

103 A034 means Driver's License renewal, 34th person in line, for example.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 30, 2026 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

34th customer to come in today?

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 06:45 AM (fNISR)

104 Here it is!

https://scdmvexpress.com
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026

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That's the registration only, though. Maybe the other "express" services will be coming.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 06:46 AM (wzUl9)

105 m

Mob rule for me, not thee.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

106 "That's the registration only, though. Maybe the other "express" services will be coming."

True, but hey, it's a start.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:48 AM (iMotb)

107 Guys, your choice of website ad deployment was always obnoxious enough, but now when I click the 'keep reading' thingy I get a full page ad that I can't get out of without resubmitting the URL. I generally do not utilize ad blockers, especially on sites I like, but this is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: Mike Porter at March 30, 2026 06:48 AM (I55Xh)

108 "Or is that only a Lousy-ana thing?"

The Auto Club of Southern California can do anything regarding registration and titles the DMV does. You have to be a member.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 30, 2026 06:49 AM (qFwJc)

109 "but now when I click the 'keep reading' thingy I get a full page ad that I can't get out of without resubmitting the URL."

Skip the 'Keep Reading' link, and just click on 'Comments' down at the bottom of the thread next to the time.

A known and frustrating issue.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 30, 2026 06:51 AM (iMotb)

110 Posted by: Mike Porter at March 30, 2026 06:48 AM (I55Xh)

Click on the red "Comments" that you can see on the front page at the bottom of a post (at the same time that you can see the red "Continue reading"); like here:

Continue reading
Posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM Comments

Posted by: m at March 30, 2026 06:53 AM (fNISR)

111 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

"Tolkien Reading Day 6"

Frodo and Sam have just escaped the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

They must now travel across the Plateau of Gorgoroth and make their way up the slopes of Mt. Doom...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026 06:55 AM (ESVrU)

112 Frodo and Sam have just escaped the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

They must now travel across the Plateau of Gorgoroth and make their way up the slopes of Mt. Doom...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2026

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It's been a LONG time since I read the original. They leave the Shire not long after Frodo/Bilbo's birthday, Sept. 22, and arrive at Mt. Doom in late March? The main action encompasses about six months?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 30, 2026 07:01 AM (wzUl9)

113 >>The main action encompasses about six months?

They spend a couple of months in Rivendell and a month in Lothlorien.

Posted by: Nazdar at March 30, 2026 07:03 AM (NcvvS)

114
Next week (4/06 & 4/07), I'll be producing an album in Nashville with this guy https://tinyurl.com/4b3rhcpv
It's a short clip, made with a cell phone, live at Lucky Bastard Saloon on Broadway so you know, not the best quality. He's settled on 12 of his originals for the album. It's gonna' be fun

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at March 30, 2026 07:06 AM (DDJSl)

115 Feels like something big is getting ready to happen in Iran this week. Predicting timing on things like this is always foolhardy; but the US has put up a wall of noise and meaningless statements for at least 2 weeks now, and the “negotiations” were just misdirection to give the chattering classes something to talk about.

Whatever was being prepared is about to launch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 07:07 AM (ZPDpH)

116 Tom Servo

Either a beatdown of all 31 Mosaic Defense control sites, or all electrical power to Iran.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

117 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 30, 2026 07:13 AM (2Ez/1)

118 Huh. The opening line of the Lion King song "Circle of Life" means

"All hail the king, we all bow in the presence of the king.".

Apparently if you make fun of that you will get sued:

"Lion King' composer sues comedian for $27M over 'Circle of Life' joke"

Now I have never seen that movie or even know what it's about, but how does the Circle of Life square with No Kings? It's all very confusing.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2026 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

119 Now I have never seen that movie or even know what it's about, but how does the Circle of Life square with No Kings? It's all very confusing.
Posted by: fd

What I am hoping is that the judge looks at the Plaintiff's attorney and says something like "You and your client have fifteen seconds to get out of my courtroom before my bailiff beats the hell out of you for wasting my time."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 07:19 AM (BpO1e)

120 NR Pax

Now apply this nationwide.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

121 Either a beatdown of all 31 Mosaic Defense control sites, or all electrical power to Iran.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 30, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

Amazing that so many targets have been hit, but those haven’t been on the top of the list yet. Most in the west have grossly underestimated the size of the military complex Iran has been building (but I don’t think our military did, hence the 6 week between the massacres and the first strikes)

My guess is that first step will be to seize the small islands in the Straits. I think the talk about Kharg has been misdirection; but we shall see.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 07:21 AM (ZPDpH)

122 Insty says an election volunteer has been arrested for tampering with the Mar-A-Lago district election that the Democrats are crowing about.

They literally can't win without cheating.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 30, 2026 07:22 AM (5hs8R)

123 120 NR Pax

Now apply this nationwide.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Bailiff induced beatings for wasting a court's time? I can accept that.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 30, 2026 07:22 AM (BpO1e)

124 Hubby was watching golf on Saturday and there was a commercial for usps. Money squandered, they need to spend it on hiring employees who aren't idiots. Have to say that our local office is very well run.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 30, 2026 07:29 AM (2NHgQ)

125 Once again, there is no detectable difference between $4000 cables and a $7 pair from the Amazon Basics range."

So the Monster Cables ($100 plus) back in the 90's were a deal?

heh

Posted by: man at March 30, 2026 07:34 AM (XuXeR)

126
JJS is here

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 30, 2026 07:36 AM (/+uur)

127 Noodisms.

Posted by: Noodalator at March 30, 2026 07:39 AM (2Ez/1)

128 >>>Once again, there is no detectable difference between $4000 cables and a $7 pair from the Amazon Basics range."

So the Monster Cables ($100 plus) back in the 90's were a deal?

heh

Posted by: man

>The only reason to pay more for cables is in their construction and durability. There's not much difference in the way they convey sound, frequency and electrons, unless you bought the cheapest, loosest shit you could find.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 07:41 AM (Fbc0I)

Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 29, 2026 [Doof]

The Alaska Highway (from @Globe32048 on X)

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday night ONT. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Food Thread B-roll Footage

From the "I suffered through it, now you must do so" category

Everyone is making hot dog like this, after save this genius idea. pic.twitter.com/yXaXZDFAt2
— Kitchen Bites 🍳 (@KitchenBites_) March 27, 2026

We really are doomed as a society, aren't we?

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Interested in marrying your cousin?

If this is a desire of yours and you live in Florida, you're safe for now.

Can You Still Marry Your First Cousin in Florida? Here’s What the Failed Bill Means

A bill in Florida made some noise recently—well, more than usual legislative noise, honestly—before it quietly stalled out in the Senate. It got people asking a surprisingly common question: can you legally marry your first cousin in Florida? The short answer, at least for now, is yes… but the longer answer drifts a bit.
The proposal, known as HB 733, was introduced by Anne Gerwig back in December. On paper, it wasn’t really about cousins at all—at least not primarily. It focused on healthcare changes, workforce adjustments, Department of Health stuff… the kind of policy that rarely trends. But tucked inside, almost like an afterthought, was a provision that would make it illegal to marry your first cousin.
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Oddly enough, the bill itself passed through the Senate without opposition. No drama there. But once it bounced back to the House, it lost momentum and died.
So as things stand, yes, you can still legally marry your first cousin in Florida. That hasn’t changed.

Believe it or not, there are currently SEVENTEEN states where first cousins can legally marry.

Marrying your first cousin is still legal in US state after law banning family union fails to pass

Are you surprised by this list?

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So Kewl!

When he said "2 hours", I thought "No dang way!"
I stand corrected.
Clean craftsmanship, too. pic.twitter.com/HhilivDWgZ
— J∅kër Kîng 👑 (@j0ker937) March 25, 2026

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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Audrey Hepburn’s Effortless Chic: The Iconic Givenchy Wardrobe in Charade (1963)

If there’s one film that captures Audrey Hepburn at her most stylishly modern, it’s Charade. This 1963 romantic thriller—often called “the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made”—pairs Audrey with Cary Grant against a glamorous Parisian backdrop. But while the plot delivers mystery, suspense, and witty banter, it’s Audrey’s wardrobe that truly steals every scene.
Designed by her lifelong collaborator and dear friend Hubert de Givenchy, the costumes in Charade mark a perfect bridge between Old Hollywood glamour and the clean, sophisticated style of the early 1960s. No over-the-top ball gowns here, just impeccable tailoring, rich autumnal colors, structured coats, and simple yet stunning dresses that highlight Audrey’s signature gamine silhouette. The result? A wardrobe that feels utterly wearable today.

The Red Coat Ensemble: Playful Parisian Perfection
One of the most memorable looks is Audrey’s vibrant red wool coat paired with a crisp white pillbox hat and white gloves. Whether she’s strolling along the Seine eating an ice cream cone with Cary Grant or navigating the streets of Paris, this outfit radiates joyful elegance. The coat’s clean lines and bold color make it pop, while the accessories add polish.

The Marigold Coat: Bold & Structured
Givenchy’s marigold wool single-breasted knee-length coat is another standout. Featuring three-quarter sleeves and distinctive black domed buttons, this piece brings sunny energy. Audrey wears it with confidence—hands in pockets or paired with a sleek black bag—showing how a strong color and sharp tailoring can create instant impact. This look is my absolute favorite.

The Beige/Cream Coat & Dress: Understated Sophistication
For quieter, more introspective moments, Audrey slips into a soft cream single-breasted coat (rumored to be one she kept in her personal wardrobe). Often layered over a matching dress with a contrasting black belt or funnel neck detail, it embodies quiet luxury. The high-buttoned jackets and pencil skirts in Givenchy’s designs for the film masked the collarbone (a preference of Audrey’s) while accentuating her tiny waist. Simple, elegant, and endlessly chic.

The Little Black Dress and other looks
Even in a film full of daywear, Audrey delivers evening sophistication in a sleek black Givenchy cocktail dress. Fitted yet restrained, it’s paired with dramatic eye makeup. Beyond the LBD, she rocks several tailored skirt suits and shift dresses in tones like deep navy blue, cream, and black.

Accessories That Elevate Everything
No Audrey wardrobe is complete without the perfect finishing touches:
• Hats: From classic white pillboxes to leopard-print versions and headscarves.
• Gloves: Crisp white or sleek black, always adding polish.
• Shoes: Simple black kitten-heel pumps for day (with pointy blue evening slippers for night).
• Extras: Oversized sunglasses, a chic black handbag, and dramatic winged eyeliner with nude lips.

Why Charade’s Wardrobe Still Inspires Us
What makes this collection so special is its modernity. Givenchy drew from his Autumn/Winter 1962 collections, delivering tapered silhouettes, frock coats, and tailored suits that feel fresh even now. Audrey’s character, Reggie Lampert, is navigating murder, hidden treasure, and romance—and she does it all looking impossibly put-together. Many of these pieces—especially the coats—have become cultural touchstones, referenced by designers and vintage lovers alike.

If you’re looking to channel Audrey in Charade for your own wardrobe, start with a bold-colored coat, a tailored sheath dress, or a classic LBD with statement accessories. Add a pillbox hat or white gloves for that extra Old Hollywood-meets-60s flair.

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Thanks, Piper!

Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.

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DJ Doof - Born on This Date Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com

1943 - Chad Allan who was the founding member and original lead singer of the Canadian rock band Guess Who

1945 - Songwriter, vocalist, drummer and keyboard player Speedy Keen, from Thunderclap Newman

1959 - American singer-songwriter and musician Perry Farrell from Jane's Addiction

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1 You had to be there.

Or were you?

Posted by: mindful webworker - on the dot at March 29, 2026 10:01 PM (jrd4M)

2 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 29, 2026 10:01 PM (sAmhv)

3
Hello All!

Posted by: four seasons at March 29, 2026 10:01 PM (3ek7K)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2026 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

5 Sorry, but Audrey Hepburn could really use some curves.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:02 PM (8DR9B)

6 howdy!

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 29, 2026 10:03 PM (kVAAW)

7 Probably quite a few bodies in that top pic.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

8 Sorry I'm late, I was looking for a Kit Kat.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:03 PM (GD7iS)

9 Passed it up.

Posted by: Will Robinson at March 29, 2026 10:04 PM (cO6oP)

10

Cicero,

Don't be sorry. People like what they like.

Posted by: four seasons at March 29, 2026 10:04 PM (3ek7K)

11 Sorry I'm late, I was looking for a Kit Kat.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:03 PM (GD7iS)

Gimme a break!

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:04 PM (QMAsf)

12 Hi all! The Charade review was a special request from Slash Buzz, so hope it gets seen!

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:04 PM (OoFl2)

13 We haven't done the research BUT - R. and I have some of the same kin in an SE PA cemetery. The stones are from the 1740s.

So yeah, we're cousins in some fashion. Keeping it in the family.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2026 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

14 I'm feeling okay this morning, and you know
We're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go

Posted by: gKWVE at March 29, 2026 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

15 The Alaska Highway is very nice, but the Friendship Highway from Lhasa, Tibet to Nepal is full of rockslides, yurts and yetis.

Advantage: Friendship Highway

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:05 PM (8DR9B)

16 Evening, all!!

Thanks for the Thunderclap Newman clip!

Posted by: caf at March 29, 2026 10:05 PM (qS/Xm)

17 It is very that the addition of ketchup to a hot dog is the least problematic thing about it. Whoever created that "recipe" needs to have pretty much everything revoked.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:05 PM (GD7iS)

18 hot dog vid: dafuq?

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 29, 2026 10:05 PM (kVAAW)

19 I couldn’t get through the hot dog thing. I am not eating one, and I don’t want to see it blended into whatever the ending was. 😂

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (OoFl2)

20 I'm feeling okay this morning, and you know
We're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go

We're on the Road to Nowhere. Come on inside.

Posted by: David Byrne at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (8DR9B)

21 Good evening morons en bedankt Disko en Piper

Audrey Hepburn is definitely +1

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (RIvkX)

22 Hot dog, bun, mustard. Stop.

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (7D3Aa)

23 5 Sorry, but Audrey Hepburn could really use some curves.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29

She was very tiny.

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:07 PM (OoFl2)

24 Audrey Hepburn = yes, thank you!

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 29, 2026 10:08 PM (7D3Aa)

25

I was tiny when I was born. Too bad it didn't last, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at March 29, 2026 10:08 PM (3ek7K)

26 That hot dog "croquette" looks awful. Who puts ketchup on a hot dog?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

27 Are you surprised by this list?

That Minnesota isn't on it, so this is the second ONT in a week or so that proves we aren't all completely insane?

.....

For anyone wondering about the North Carolina exception, "double cousins" happen when your parents' siblings also marry. If your dad's brother marries your mom's sister, or some other combination.

Then their kids are "your dad's brother's kid" and also "your mom's sister's kid," so they're cousins along two paths. Double cousins.

I know this because my Dad has some double cousins, so I have double-cousins-once-removed.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)

28 What was D’Artagnan doing hiding in that closet?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (ZVgZ4)

29 Who knew the Alaskan Highway was just a one lane road.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (/lPRQ)

30 That hot dog "croquette" looks awful. Who puts ketchup on a hot dog?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We are not animals!!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

31 The hot dog thing was disgusting. Why would you do that? It was already ready to eat???

Posted by: Iris at March 29, 2026 10:10 PM (bOJ2I)

32 Highway looks like a gravel road.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 10:10 PM (Cqx++)

33 Double-Cousin Probation. Someone had to say it.

Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2026 10:11 PM (Q+gd/)

34 Thunderclap Newman song is catchy, not digging the commie cocksucker lyrics though.

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 29, 2026 10:11 PM (kVAAW)

35 Hot dog, bun, mustard. Stop.
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (7D3Aa)

Acceptable. I personally like to add a few extra things - sometimes all the way up to the Chicago dog ("drag it through the garden").

But the abomination concocted in that video is simply rage-bait!

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

36 We Do Not Need Improvement.

Posted by: Hot Dogs at March 29, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

37 It's funny 'cause it's true.

Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir savages modern Star Trek after they rejected his pitch:

“I pitched a Star Trek show to Paramount and I was in Zoom with the showrunners with all the shows and spent a lot of time talking to [executive producer Alex Kurtzman]. I don’t like a lot of the new Trek. He, as a person, is a really nice guy. But at the same time, those shows are shit. He is a nice guy. But they didn’t accept my pitch so, you know, fuck ’em.”
. . . .
Yeah, I saw a … I forgot who it was — I wish I could remember who it was who said it, some analyst — he said something like: ‘All modern science fiction TV shows and movies have been heavily influenced by the original Star Trek — except for the current batch of Star Trek shows.'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ndZc7)

38 It is very that the addition of ketchup to a hot dog is the least problematic thing about it. Whoever created that "recipe" needs to have pretty much everything revoked.
Posted by: tankdemon

tankdemon awards them no points, and may G-d have mercy on their soul.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)

39 Double-Cousin Probation

Filmed in Swat Valley or maybe in Telford

Posted by: gKWVE at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (gKWVE)

40 That hot dog blender fried whatsit is disgusting. WTF were they thinking?

Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ZxPkt)

41 > Believe it or not, there are currently SEVENTEEN states where first cousins can legally marry.
---------
I'll just note, for the record, West Virginia is NOT on that list.

Fucking heathens.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (AkEZC)

42 For the most disgusting hot dogs in the US, go to Chicago! I cannot believe the stuff they throw on 'em just because. I ordered my standard mustard only and the staff in the joint seemed offended. My SIL, a Chicagoan, shook his head in shame.

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (7D3Aa)

43 Being legal to marry your first cousin in Rhode Island... everything makes sense now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (/lPRQ)

44 Who puts ketchup on a hot dog?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

Toddlers. The only acceptable people group to do so!

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

45 MMMM. Boiled hot dog bun.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (0Htd1)

46 A hot dog roasted over a campfire needs no condiment.

Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (Q+gd/)

47 A tutorial on making a hot dog into something your cat won't even eat. Can't get that anywhere but the HQ.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:13 PM (JkO4W)

48 ONT

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 10:13 PM (DoBxX)

49 Piper, nice work.

Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 10:13 PM (ZxPkt)

50 For the most disgusting hot dogs in the US, go to Chicago! I cannot believe the stuff they throw on 'em just because. I ordered my standard mustard only and the staff in the joint seemed offended. My SIL, a Chicagoan, shook his head in shame.
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (7D3Aa)

After my reply to you at #35, this comment makes me giggle!

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

51 Everyone is making hot dog like this??

Sure they are.

And I thought the Macaroni Fries on the Food Thread was bizarre!

The hot dog is such a simple thing. Cook wieners. Optionally, toast bun. Complicate with relish or cheese or chili. Eat.

Posted by: mindful webworker - connie o'suer at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (jrd4M)

52 Thanks for the Sunday Night ONT, Doof!

Great photo up top. Driving that road would be the adventure of a lifetime.

Thanks to Piper for the Audrey Hepburn fashion review!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (vrNzf)

53 47 A tutorial on making a hot dog into something your cat won't even eat. Can't get that anywhere but the HQ.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:13 PM (JkO4W)

We aim to please here at Doof’s Sort Of Okay Emporium, LLC!

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (OoFl2)

54 Audrey was simply beautiful.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (2GVsD)

55 Audrey Hepburn almost starved to death in WW2 - she had a very hard time. Got stuck at her aunts place in the Netherlands, iirc and at one point they were eating grass.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ZPDpH)

56 5 Sorry, but Audrey Hepburn could really use some curves.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:02 PM (8DR9B)

I prefer curvy myself. But Audrey's an exception to the rule for me. Occasionally, a thin chick just has it. She did. A more recent example would be Natascha McElhone, circa Ronin.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 29, 2026 10:15 PM (82lx3)

57 Oh, and those hot dogs... beyond gross.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 29, 2026 10:15 PM (vrNzf)

58 You know who makes hot dogs like that? Christopher Reeves, that's who.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:15 PM (JkO4W)

59 MMMM. Boiled hot dog bun.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (0Htd1)

"Boiled hot dog bun" will be used again here at the HQ in some fashion. If I wasn't so attached to my nic, I'd strongly consider changing it to Boiled Hot Dog Bun!

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

60 @latestinspace
·
56m
NEWS 🚨: Astronomers say the surge of large fireball events worldwide recently "warrants serious investigation"'

About a dozen of the biggest are all coming from the same place in space.

Klendathu?

Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 10:16 PM (ZxPkt)

61 Thanks, Don Black, Legally Sufficient, SFPsycho, everyone else!

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:16 PM (OoFl2)

62 Just got done watching The Ten Commandments.

Two takeaways:

1) Anne Baxter had a fantastic rack
2) Metallica's Creeping Death is basically accurate

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 29, 2026 10:16 PM (qwx/I)

63 No one is making hot dog like that. Audrey looks lovely, as always and Mr. Grant is very dapper. Hard to believe he was a song and dance man named Archie Leach.

Posted by: huerfano at March 29, 2026 10:17 PM (98kQX)

64 In the Scouts we were winter camping and couldn't get a fire going so the hot dogs were eaten a la popsicle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

65 Two takeaways:

1) Anne Baxter had a fantastic rack

-------

Stop. That's two right there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:17 PM (JkO4W)

66 Speaking of heavenly bodies, early may you puny Earthlings will probably get treated to a sun grazer comet called MAPS in early April.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:17 PM (2GVsD)

67 Klendathu?
Posted by: Don Black

I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords.

Posted by: Kent Brockman at March 29, 2026 10:18 PM (gKWVE)

68 For the most disgusting hot dogs in the US, go to Chicago! I cannot believe the stuff they throw on 'em just because. I ordered my standard mustard only and the staff in the joint seemed offended. My SIL, a Chicagoan, shook his head in shame.
Posted by: LRob in OK

======

Between the overly accessorized hot dogs, and the too-deep pizza, and whatever JEF might be sampling, Chicago has some odd cooking.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 29, 2026 10:18 PM (8AONa)

69 We aim to please here at Doof’s Sort Of Okay Emporium, LLC!
Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (OoFl2)

I think you can have your own shell company now. All you need is a whelming name. What ya got?

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

70 That "recipe" is vomit worthy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 10:18 PM (DoBxX)

71 19 I couldn’t get through the hot dog thing. I am not eating one, and I don’t want to see it blended into whatever the ending was. 😂
Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (OoFl2)

What if he added Kale ?

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (3sXRv)

72 That hot dog "croquette" looks awful. Who puts ketchup on a hot dog?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

Ketchup, mayo, and relish. Maybe a slice of tomato, but no lettuce or cheese.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

73 Nice. Audrey Hepburn.

Based upon the pics I would say Cary Grant is about 5' 2".
I did not know that.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (/lPRQ)

74 Somehow, those 7-11 hotdogs on the rollers, that've been there for weeks, don't look so bad now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (AkEZC)

75 The hot dog thing was intentionally disgusting. It’s like a highway wreck: you can’t help rubbernecking. It drives clicks.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (ZVgZ4)

76 Charade is a favorite movie, great plot and Audrey & Cary made a fabulous couple even though he thought he was too old to play her love interest. Need to watch it again soon.
Thanks Piper.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (2NHgQ)

77 Glamorous outfits by Audrey -- antithesis of a No Kings outfit. Poor girl's metabolism probably never recovered from WWII.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (qwx/I)

78 In the Scouts we were winter camping and couldn't get a fire going so the hot dogs were eaten a la popsicle.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

New meaning to the "snap" of a hot dog, huh?

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

79 What was D’Artagnan doing hiding in that closet?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (ZVgZ4)

Considering he liked puffy shirts....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

80
NEWS 🚨: Astronomers say the surge of large fireball events worldwide recently "warrants serious investigation"'

Climate change. Obviously.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)

81 Just curious. What level of cousin are you if you share a great grandfather? I once met someone who, after we talked, I realized we had the same great grandfather. He wanted my phone number and I didn't give it to him, because, geez, we're not hillbillies.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

82 One of the most memorable looks is Audrey’s vibrant red wool coat paired with a crisp white pillbox hat and white gloves. Whether she’s strolling along the Seine eating an ice cream cone

How long do the gloves stay white while she's eating ice cream? HOW LONG???

Also, why does she have a macaroon stuck to the side of the ice cream?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

83 Martini Farmer, they make gas station sushi look edible.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (2GVsD)

84 The hot dog thing was disgusting. Why would you do that? It was already ready to eat???
Posted by: Iris at March 29, 2026 10:10 PM (bOJ2I)

The video has 4.6 million views so they're gettin' paid!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM (ExV1e)

85 Winter camping without a fire? That's really roughing it.

Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM (Q+gd/)

86 The Dutch Hunger Winter.

Operation Mana/Operation Chow Hound

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)

87 43 Being legal to marry your first cousin in Rhode Island... everything makes sense now.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (/lPRQ)

Let us all praise NYS ...

Posted by: F.D.R. at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM (3sXRv)

88
69 We aim to please here at Doof’s Sort Of Okay Emporium, LLC!
Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (OoFl2)

I think you can have your own shell company now. All you need is a whelming name. What ya got?
Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:18

Pipers Questionably Chic Boutique, LLC?

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:22 PM (OoFl2)

89 84 The hot dog thing was disgusting. Why would you do that? It was already ready to eat???
Posted by: Iris at March 29, 2026 10:10 PM (bOJ2I)

The video has 4.6 million views so they're gettin' paid!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM (ExV1e)

Rage Bait works ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 29, 2026 10:22 PM (3sXRv)

90 Goodness gracious GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!

Posted by: Zombie Jerry Lee Lewis at March 29, 2026 10:22 PM (JkO4W)

91 For the most disgusting hot dogs in the US, go to Chicago! I cannot believe the stuff they throw on 'em just because. I ordered my standard mustard only and the staff in the joint seemed offended. My SIL, a Chicagoan, shook his head in shame.
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (7D3Aa)
=====

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

92 Just curious. What level of cousin are you if you share a great grandfather? I once met someone who, after we talked, I realized we had the same great grandfather. He wanted my phone number and I didn't give it to him, because, geez, we're not hillbillies.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

Share parents = Siblings.
Share grandparents = Cousins.
Share great grandparents = Second cousins.

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:23 PM (QMAsf)

93
This is the first time I can remember ever being hapoy that tomorrow is a Monday. 2,000 miles in the Ram 3500 dually, 6.7L turbo diesel since last Thursday. Yesterday (i think) i tried hyper mile-ing it crusing at 55 across Texas. 18.1mpg. Today leaving DFW towards Shittle Rock on I-30, speed limit is 75, to keep from being run down i cruised at 75. 18.1mpg. It doesn't freaking care, 1200rpm, or 2,000 rpm, 18.1mpg. It's a very comfy ride too, i'd be sore and achey from the charger after those miles, but the 3500 no issues at all.

Thank God tomorrow is Monday as I get back home tomorrow. Looking forward to some down time.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 29, 2026 10:23 PM (aclF1)

94 "The Mummy" is what I call a Cobra-class movie... one you can watch 175 times and it still kicks ass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2026 10:23 PM (BI5O2)

95 I am calling the 72 day rule on those remains because the church, upon finding the grave, called in a guy who has been searching for D’Artagnan's grave. He has a vested interest in the matter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:23 PM (2GVsD)

96 71 19 I couldn’t get through the hot dog thing. I am not eating one, and I don’t want to see it blended into whatever the ending was. 😂
Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (OoFl2)

What if he added Kale ?
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 29,

Only if I could pick off the kale and it only that.

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:23 PM (OoFl2)

97
The video has 4.6 million views so they're gettin' paid!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Where does the money come from?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)

98 Nice little video on the sub-panel replacement.

Motivates me to replace mine now.
It's outdated and has a place to install (optional) main disconnect which is no longer available. The actual main panel is outside on the opposite corner of the house and is kind of a PITA to deal with.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (/lPRQ)

99 Doof! Did you see the live Rush performance tonight?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (84SEz)

100 The hot dog vid is bad, that said I saw a commercial for the real housewives of Rhode Island. That tops the hot dog vid. Looked just plain awful, all that Botox was tough to watch.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (2NHgQ)

101 A social system is stable as long as its disputes are not over fundamentals.
—DON K. PRICE, The Scientific Estate (1965)
——

Posted by: Men Can Get Pregnant!!! at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (4QJOq)

102 Are you surprised by this list?

Virginia has cousin marriage, but not WEST Virginia? Yeah, I'm surprised.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)

103 I'm going to save the hotdog idea for when I loose all my teeth.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (4NO2D)

104 Doof! Did you see the live Rush performance tonight?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (84SEz)

Nope. What did I miss??

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

105 Where does the money come from?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)

--------

Yoo hoo! Hello there sailor!

Posted by: Blue Chew Ads at March 29, 2026 10:25 PM (JkO4W)

106 "If you’re looking to channel Audrey in Charade for your own wardrobe…"

I don't think I could pull it off as well as she did.

She was kinda cute.
😏

Posted by: mindful webworker - master of understatement at March 29, 2026 10:25 PM (jrd4M)

107 Hey, Anna Puma. Looked up some info on the comet and the astro folks say I should go to the southern hemisphere to see it best! Would you go to Australia and shoot some videos for us? Thanks.

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 29, 2026 10:25 PM (7D3Aa)

108 Mississippi and Louisiana are not on that list.

But hoity toity New York is.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

109 Charade is a great movie!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 10:26 PM (DoBxX)

110 I am off to bed, friends. I ran today and I don’t really know why, but I am tired, lol. I will check in mañana. Have a great night!

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:26 PM (OoFl2)

111 Where does the money come from?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (Cqx++)

The account had a blue checkmark so, presumably, they got paid by X for having a buncha views. I don't twitter so I'm not sure about the details.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 29, 2026 10:27 PM (ExV1e)

112 Nice little video on the sub-panel replacement.

Motivates me to replace mine now.
It's outdated and has a place to install (optional) main disconnect which is no longer available. The actual main panel is outside on the opposite corner of the house and is kind of a PITA to deal with.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (/lPRQ)

Aside from the BAAAAHHHHSTIN accent, it was awesome.

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:27 PM (QMAsf)

113 Winter camping without a fire? That's really roughing it.
Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM

My brother thinks staying in a Roadway Inn instead of a Marriott is roughing it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 10:27 PM (4NO2D)

114 I'll just watch videos of the comet on the Internet. Save myself travel fare and travel time. Plus avoid getting killed by Australian wildlife.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:27 PM (2GVsD)

115 Night Piper

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:28 PM (2GVsD)

116 Ketchup, mayo, and relish. Maybe a slice of tomato, but no lettuce or cheese.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)
====

You must be having some sort of psychotic break.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:28 PM (RIvkX)

117 Virginia has cousin marriage

Which explains the Democrat majorities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 29, 2026 10:28 PM (ExV1e)

118 Sorry I'm late, I was looking for a Kit Kat.
Posted by: tankdemon

That's just what the person who pulled off the big Kit Kat heist would say!

Posted by: mindful webworker - the effective detective at March 29, 2026 10:28 PM (jrd4M)

119 I keep seeing stories that Japan is sending help to open the Strait of Hormuz. Has Godzilla, Mothra, or Rodan been reported in the area yet? Are they going to spearhead the attack on Kharg Island?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 29, 2026 10:29 PM (S/Y4j)

120 Twelve tons of Kit-Kats, who is Auric Butterfinger?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 10:29 PM (2GVsD)

121 Are you surprised by this list?

==
yes, I thought were weren't Phakistahn.

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2026 10:30 PM (GD0B3)

122 We haven't done the research BUT - R. and I have some of the same kin in an SE PA cemetery. The stones are from the 1740s.

So yeah, we're cousins in some fashion. Keeping it in the family.
Posted by: Tonypete

Statistically, everyone on earth is probably your 100th cousin at the absolute furthest, just because there weren't that many people back then.

If you're not first cousins, then your grandparents are 4 different people. Not second cousins, then your great-grandparents are 8 different people. And it doubles every generation back.

That doesn't mean you can't be 28th cousins, just because there weren't 2 billion people alive 30 generations ago. But it means if you are further apart than that, each of you is inbred several times over already, since your own ancestors had to have interbred.

Since travel was amazingly limited for most of human history, anyone socially similar is probably much much closer than 100th. So if you're an Average White Dude, you're probably marrying your 10th-15th cousin if you marry an Average White Girl. And you're not getting near 100th unless you're marrying a Samoan or an African pygmy or someone from some other genetic cul-de-sac.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 10:30 PM (VHUov)

123 Twelve tons of Kit-Kats, who is Auric Butterfinger?

No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to become diabetic.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 29, 2026 10:30 PM (Riz8t)

124 Winter camping without a fire? That's really roughing it.
Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM (Q+gd/)
* * * *
They were all working on their campfire badges.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 29, 2026 10:30 PM (vrNzf)

125 You must be having some sort of psychotic break.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:28 PM (RIvkX)

I'm a very particular eater, what can I say. Part poor, part country, part depression-era grandparents.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2026 10:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

126 117 Virginia has cousin marriage

Which explains the Democrat majorities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Large islamist population in NoVA.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 29, 2026 10:31 PM (sAmhv)

127 The hot dog vid is bad, that said I saw a commercial for the real housewives of Rhode Island. That tops the hot dog vid. Looked just plain awful, all that Botox was tough to watch.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (2NHgQ)
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Can't be Real if it's in Rhode Island.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:31 PM (RIvkX)

128 I still make beanie weenies once in a while. If I'm going to eat altered hot dogs that is the only recipe I'm going to use. Sliced hot dogs, pork and beans, mustard, onion flakes, pepper. Simmer a bit.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 10:32 PM (+89TD)

129 That hot dog blender fried whatsit is disgusting. WTF were they thinking?
Posted by: Don Black

It was revolting before they even got to the blender.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:33 PM (/lPRQ)

130 What was D’Artagnan doing hiding in that closet?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (ZVgZ4)

proving that no one is better than he at Hide-and-Seek

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 10:33 PM (rbvCR)

131 A social system is stable as long as its disputes are not over fundamentals.

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Even with all other things being stable, one fundamental difference in worldviews between two large segments of a society is enough to shatter it.

But, with the size and diversity of America, our fundamental differences travel along every fault line in society... economic, cultural, geographic, religious, racial, linguistic, and so on - everything here is in conflict, and no longer the healthy kind.

And unlike the only other similarly gigantic and diverse country, we have no tradition of ruthless autocracy to keep all those wild horses in the same harness.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 29, 2026 10:33 PM (BI5O2)

132 Audrey could use a padded bra...just sayin'.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 29, 2026 10:35 PM (XMwZJ)

133 NEWS 🚨: Astronomers say the surge of large fireball events worldwide recently "warrants serious investigation"'
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Probably some of that's due to the proliferation of home security cameras, and other "benign" surveillance systems.

Or aliens.

Honestly... as the solar system moves through space and the planets do their thing, stuff gets moved about. Might even explain climate changes.

Or bigfoot.

Or aliens.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 10:35 PM (AkEZC)

134 Thank you for the ONT Doof and Piper. I liked the fashion pictures. Very pretty.

If you just stop the hot dogs after the blender part, you could just drink through a straw.

My friends brought over some of their daughter's birthday cake. Excellent.

I just saw 1978's 'Halloween' which was pretty good. 9 out of 10. It introduced some Jaime Lee Curtis chick who was moderately hot. One more horror movie before bed. Hopefully psychologically devastating. I have a list....

Everyone have a happy week. The dog's healing nicely.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 10:36 PM (Sco7b)

135 I love Audrey. Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady are two of my favorite movies.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 29, 2026 10:36 PM (y171U)

136 Nope. What did I miss??
Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

Finding My Way with Annika, live at the Junos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVw-4L59Tw0

Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2026 10:36 PM (84SEz)

137 My second cousins married each other in Montreal. They even had the same last name.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)

138 >> say the surge of large fireball events worldwide

I posted an AMS report on this the other night. Here it is again:
https://is.gd/zvt5U5

What's going on is a bit complicated. Q1 of 2026 was at the top of the fireball event count. A couple other years have seen similar counts. What's different about this is the number of large fireball events, seen by many people and with sonic booms.

The seem to be coming from the antihelion point and from high declinations. The latter would be from debris in high inclined orbits (relative to the ecliptic).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 29, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

139 Charles Darwin's parents were first cousins. There was a whole lotta Wedgwood on the gift table at that wedding.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 29, 2026 10:37 PM (w/O5Q)

140 Just curious. What level of cousin are you if you share a great grandfather? I once met someone who, after we talked, I realized we had the same great grandfather. He wanted my phone number and I didn't give it to him, because, geez, we're not hillbillies.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Share parents = Siblings.
Share grandparents = Cousins.
Share great grandparents = Second cousins.
Posted by: Doof

And if you add a generation on only one side of the family tree, that's where you get the "cousin, X times removed."

If you an I are first cousins, then your kids and I are first cousins once removed. Your grandkids and I are first cousins twice removed. etc.

Same if we're second cousins; then your kids and I are second cousins once removed. etc.

Double cousins I explained back at #27; if "your mom's sister's kid" and "your dad's brother's kid" are the same kid, because your parents' siblings married, then that kid is your double cousin.

Half-cousins come from half-siblings; your mom's half-sister's kid is your half-cousin.

So it's possible, if pairs of half-siblings marry, to have a "double half cousin."

Posted by: mikeski tunes up his banjo at March 29, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)

141 My second cousins married each other in Montreal. They even had the same last name.

The Democrats going on about married women losing the franchise to the Save Act hardest hit?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2026 10:38 PM (84SEz)

142 I'm my own grandpa.

Posted by: Willie Nelson at March 29, 2026 10:39 PM (JkO4W)

143 MMMM. Boiled hot dog bun.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (0Htd1)

A lot of traditional Spanish cooking seems to be based around using stale bread sopped with water or broth for a thickener. However that recipe was nasty.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 10:40 PM (rbvCR)

144 55 Audrey Hepburn almost starved to death in WW2 - she had a very hard time. Got stuck at her aunts place in the Netherlands, iirc and at one point they were eating grass.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (ZPDpH)
......................................
I read that they had to eat tulip bulbs due to starvation.

Love her. I could never be as tiny as her even if I ate only tulip bulbs. I'm 5'8"

Thanks, Piper. She's lovely and could wear anything. Loved the tailoring. I want long gloves now.

Thanks, Doof, for These Eyes by The Guess Who. One of two songs by them I liked.

Y'all try to behave. I am still being really good and going to bed early.

All the trees are blooming now and it's a beautiful but muted spring to go from lack of snow to skipping spring to warm. Weird. Getting some rain this week or a lot of my decades old daffodils are kaput for some reason (maybe the gradual build up to warm weather vs hello! Who needs spring?). Or the peach daffodils are not as hardy and I will replace them

Introduced our newest grandgirl to cherry blossoms yesterday and she enjoyed it. Didn't try to eat them like her sister, so she may be smarter. They are both lovely girls.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at March 29, 2026 10:40 PM (WONhk)

145 Share parents = Siblings.
Share grandparents = Cousins.
Share great grandparents = Second cousins.
Posted by: Doof

I think it's first cousins once removed

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 10:40 PM (znREB)

146 Share grandparents = (First) Cousins.

And if you are a grand-child and your cousin is a great-grand-child, then you are First Cousins Once Removed

Posted by: Chuck C at March 29, 2026 10:40 PM (D0HYP)

147 What did I miss??
Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

Finding My Way with Annika, live at the Junos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVw-4L59Tw0
Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2026 10:36 PM (84SEz)

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

Good way to not be compared to Peart -- play a song from the first album!

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:41 PM (QMAsf)

148 Ketchup, mayo, and relish....
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I think that's thousand island dressing.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

149 And if you are a grand-child and your cousin is a great-grand-child, then you are First Cousins Once Removed
Posted by: Chuck C at March 29, 2026 10:40 PM (D0HYP)

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Who even knows this shit?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:41 PM (JkO4W)

150 I'm my own grandpa.
Posted by: Willie Nelson

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🤪

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2026 10:42 PM (GD0B3)

151 81 Just curious. What level of cousin are you if you share a great grandfather?
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

First cousin twice removed?
One of the ONT Cobs posted a cousins tree a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 29, 2026 10:42 PM (y171U)

152 None of you saved the Cousin Explainer thing Weird Dave shared a few weeks ago???

Posted by: it's like I don't know you people at March 29, 2026 10:42 PM (ULPxl)

153 I think that hot dog thing must be a prank to see if you can get people to do stupid stuff.

Posted by: Ripley at March 29, 2026 10:43 PM (PTDkx)

154 Good way to not be compared to Peart -- play a song from the first album!

Agreed. And Ged's voice coaching definitely helped too, that's the best he's sounded since R30 in 2004.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2026 10:43 PM (84SEz)

155 So it's possible, if pairs of half-siblings marry, to have a "double half cousin."

Posted by: mikeski tunes up his banjo at March 29, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov

Too much screen time.

I read that as doable half cousin.
I guess you could have both.

It'd be fun to use that ancestry website on people in muslim countries. The inter-twining would be fascinating.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 10:43 PM (Sco7b)

156 74 Somehow, those 7-11 hotdogs on the rollers, that've been there for weeks, don't look so bad now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

My sister worked at a gas station store that had those. There were people who would come in just before closing because they liked hot dogs that had been cooked to the point of being leathery.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

157 Key feature of visiting cousins in Montreal: arguments about who was related to whom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

158 It'd be fun to use that ancestry website on people in muslim countries. The inter-twining would be fascinating.
Posted by: Stateless

If your family tree looks like a DNA helix, your DNA probably doesn't.

Posted by: mikeski spins right round at March 29, 2026 10:45 PM (VHUov)

159 I am calling the 72 day rule on those remains because the church, upon finding the grave, called in a guy who has been searching for D’Artagnan's grave. He has a vested interest in the matter.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Maybe they can make it into the new Oak Island.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:45 PM (/lPRQ)

160 Chuck Norris married his first cousin in Oregon...and nobody said anything.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 29, 2026 10:45 PM (Riz8t)

161 I got a line of double cousins from my dad's paternal grandparents. Great grandpa's sister married great grandma's brother. For whatever reason, we'd long since lost track of that line and it only came up when I traced it out on Ancestry.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 29, 2026 10:45 PM (/HDaX)

162 My grandparents on my Dad’s side went through WWII in the Netherlands. Grandma said in the cities rats were sold for 5 Guilders, or about a dollar and 25 cents in 1945 money. That’s hungry!

Posted by: Van down by the river at March 29, 2026 10:45 PM (uJCIG)

163 Pharaohs married their sisters. And look what happened to them, all died out!

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2026 10:45 PM (GD0B3)

164 Ketchup, mayo, and relish....
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I think that's thousand island dressing.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

Or, Cane's.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2026 10:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

165 Chicago hot dog is acceptable.
Their so-called deep dish pizza is pure marketing rip off garbage.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

166 Thanks, Doof. Anyhow, I wouldn't ever date someone who had the same last name as me. Creepy.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 29, 2026 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

167 163 Pharaohs married their sisters. And look what happened to them, all died out!

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It was those damn Beatles!

Posted by: Sam the Sham at March 29, 2026 10:48 PM (JkO4W)

168 A hot dog roasted over a campfire needs no condiment.
****

Or bun. Eat it right off the roasting fork.

Posted by: clarence at March 29, 2026 10:48 PM (bbCED)

169 Doof, as much as it disgusted me, I will say that the addition of the hot dog video is driving engagement in the comments, which is the purpose of the content, meaning it was a successful addition to tonight's ONT.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:49 PM (GD7iS)

170 "Key feature of visiting cousins in Montreal: arguments about who was related to whom.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)"

Even with the Drouin Collection, it gets messy.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 29, 2026 10:49 PM (/HDaX)

171 NEWS 🚨: Astronomers say the surge of large fireball events worldwide recently "warrants serious investigation"'
About a dozen of the biggest are all coming from the same place in space.

Klendathu?
Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 10:16 PM (ZxPkt)

Quick, we must consult with Hans Zarkov!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 10:49 PM (rbvCR)

172 Or bun. Eat it right off the roasting fork.
Posted by: clarence at March 29, 2026 10:48 PM (bbCED)

Ooh, how hoity-toity! We just picked up sticks from the ground.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2026 10:49 PM (1Ff7Z)

173 I've read that 3rd or 4th cousins are a kind of optimal relationship for human breeding. It's a pretty low inbreeding coefficient and you have some common traits that can be reinforced.

Though in my case the cousins I've met are basically Cro-Magnons. I mean, useful when fighting a clan of Neandertals but not much use in 2026.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 29, 2026 10:49 PM (qwx/I)

174 If your family tree looks like a DNA helix, your DNA probably doesn't.
Posted by: mikeski spins right round at March 29, 2026 10:45 PM (VHUov

Lol. Thank you. That was funny.

Related to this topic, for anyone interested who haven't seen it, there's an episode of X-Files, now on PlutoTV, called 'Home'. It was great!

Fox only aired it once. Not for the squeamish....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 10:50 PM (Sco7b)

175 "Good way to not be compared to Peart -- play a song from the first album!"

Agreed. And Ged's voice coaching definitely helped too, that's the best he's sounded since R30 in 2004.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2026 10:43 PM (84SEz)

Her tom fills were very Neil-ish. She's very talented. Looking forward to seeing stuff like 2112 and YYZ -- they HAVE to play those!!

I'm very curious as to how much of the heavy prog stuff they'll play and other stuff with weird time signatures. By Tor, Cygnus, Natural Science, Xanadu.

Hard to believe this is actually happening.

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:50 PM (QMAsf)

176 168 A hot dog roasted over a campfire needs no condiment.
****

Or bun. Eat it right off the roasting fork.
Posted by: clarence at March 29, 2026 10:48 PM (bbCED)

Roasting fork? You didn't just whittle a stick into a skewer?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:51 PM (GD7iS)

177 Quick, we must consult with Hans Zarkov!

I haven’t changed!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 29, 2026 10:51 PM (EXyHK)

178 Doof, as much as it disgusted me, I will say that the addition of the hot dog video is driving engagement in the comments, which is the purpose of the content, meaning it was a successful addition to tonight's ONT.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:49 PM (GD7iS)

I get paid the same regardless of the number of comments my threads get!

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:53 PM (QMAsf)

179 For Palm Sunday:

Hosanna - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 album version)
https://youtu.be/wsKLXFlhk7s

For all its many faults, Jesus Christ Superstar had some great bits. Of course, it had the best source material.

I’ve always thought, the great thing about Jesus saying the stones themselves would cry out (Luke 19:40) is, he wasn’t just speaking metaphorically. It was one of the most powerful moments in history. However superficial and fickle the mobs turned out to be later.
❤️✝️

Fun trivia: I was DJ'ing at WBeloitCollegeRadio (mighty 5 watts at 88.1FM, could be heard in Rockford when the wind was right) when the station manager handed me the original boxed Jesus Christ Superstar album, complete with all the background promo on the performers and writers and production. We had West Coast connections in those days. I was, I'd bet, the first to play the album on Midwest radio. FWIW.

Wish I'd kept the promo package, but we respected the station library in those great days. I loved thumbing through the record collection - it had everything, all genres. A few years later, the station had been taken over and the library ransacked by snot-nosed vermin youngsters.

Siiiigh.

Posted by: mindful webworker - if your TV dial (!) was tuned just right, you could pick us up on channel 6 at March 29, 2026 10:54 PM (jrd4M)

180 I get paid the same regardless of the number of comments my threads get!
Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:53 PM (QMAsf)

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Laugh, sure, but I hear the dental plan is outstanding.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:55 PM (JkO4W)

181 63 No one is making hot dog like that. Audrey looks lovely, as always and Mr. Grant is very dapper. Hard to believe he was a song and dance man named Archie Leach.
Posted by: huerfano at March 29, 2026 10:17 PM (98kQX)

Wasn't he a circus acrobat at one point?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:55 PM (GD7iS)

182 I worked for a man who married his first cousin. Italian-American from Arthur Avenue, Bronx. They agreed before the marriage not to have children, but did adopt two. They were very happy together.

Posted by: Clemente Bruno at March 29, 2026 10:55 PM (oftw2)

183 I read that they had to eat tulip bulbs due to starvation.
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So a diet of onions after all the onions run out?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)

184 Wasn't he a circus acrobat at one point?
Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 10:55 PM (GD7iS)

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Liberace said he might as well be one.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:57 PM (JkO4W)

185 Posters have been roasting Cenk Uyghur on X for bragging that his grandparents were first cousins.

Most common reply - “Obviously.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2026 10:59 PM (ZPDpH)

186 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at March 29, 2026 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

187 Where I grew up, there was a local Podunk radio station that was interesting and very useful, as it was the best way to hear if school was canceled because of snow. I remember the announcer advertising ladies clothes at some upscale shop. He pronounced Givenchy as Ja-Vench-Knee. Accent on the second syllable.

Posted by: All Ladies Clothes Half-Off at March 29, 2026 11:00 PM (oftw2)

188 Virginia has cousin marriage, but not WEST Virginia? Yeah, I'm surprised.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 29, 2026 10:24 PM (Riz8t)

Cousin marriage is often a mechanism to avoid breaking up estates, or losing land through out-marriage dowries and inheritance. Virginia had the large, landed estate class which sought to maintain their lands and fortunes, and West Virginia generally were small holders who either had little to nothing, or might improve by marriage.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

189 Wish I'd kept the promo package, but we respected the station library in those great days. I loved thumbing through the record collection - it had everything, all genres. A few years later, the station had been taken over and the library ransacked by snot-nosed vermin youngsters.

Siiiigh.
Posted by: mindful webworker - if your TV dial (!) was tuned just right, you could pick us up on channel 6 at March 29, 2026 10:54 PM (jrd4M)

Loved that album, mindful! Played it til I memorized it, Weber and Rices best work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2026 11:03 PM (ZPDpH)

190 Top pic is my favorite type. I love it when the mountains come out of the sky-they stand there!

Posted by: In A Roundabout Way at March 29, 2026 11:03 PM (oftw2)

191 118 Sorry I'm late, I was looking for a Kit Kat.
Posted by: tankdemon

That's just what the person who pulled off the big Kit Kat heist would say!
Posted by: mindful webworker - the effective detective at March 29, 2026 10:28 PM (jrd4M)

Shhhhh!!!!

Posted by: tankdemon at March 29, 2026 11:03 PM (GD7iS)

192 They were all working on their campfire badges.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 29, 2026 10:30 PM (vrNzf)

When all else fails, make sure you include a road flare in your firemaking kit.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 11:04 PM (rbvCR)

193 Btw love the mystery click - on of the best driving songs ever written!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2026 11:05 PM (ZPDpH)

194 40 That hot dog blender fried whatsit is disgusting. WTF were they thinking?
Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (ZxPkt)

We're supposed to bring appetizers to wife's family's Easter dinner (~30+ people). She was wondering what to bring......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 29, 2026 11:06 PM (QGaXH)

195 I’ve read that, based on studies in Iceland, 2d-cousin marriage is the optimal kind of breeding for genetic fitness.

Posted by: Bulg at March 29, 2026 11:06 PM (77rzZ)

196 I'm not looking to bang cousins. My family tree is sufficiently scary to deter lust even if there were not other reasons to not knock boots with near relatives. But I don't get how people accept Genesis's account, which clearly involves relatives getting it on, as everyone came from 2 people, but get so weirded out about modern cousin love.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 29, 2026 11:06 PM (82lx3)

197 Posters have been roasting Cenk Uyghur on X for bragging that his grandparents were first cousins.

Most common reply - “Obviously.”

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marrying your first cousin did wonders for ishlam !

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2026 11:07 PM (GD0B3)

198 I’ve read that, based on studies in Iceland, 2d-cousin marriage is the optimal kind of breeding for genetic fitness.
Posted by: Bulg

On the other six-fingered hand, Iceland is really big on bringing in outsiders for genetic diversity. Not just to have a slave underclass like all the other muslim-importers in Europe.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)

199 Hotdogs

Hotdog one minute in the microwave

Bun 10 seconds in the microwave

Mustard , Mayo , onion , sweet relish in the bun:

Add Hotdog.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 29, 2026 11:10 PM (V4IXI)

200 That hotdog video... why, oh why, would someone even need to complicate hotdogs like that?

"Everybody's so creative!"

Gag.

Howdy, horde!

Love the Audrey Hepburn style content, Piper! Thanks.

Posted by: JQ at March 29, 2026 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

201 I was attracted to one first cousin. She's very much on my wavelength and I think the feeling's mutual. We enjoyed hanging around together, though we didn't date or marry.

Posted by: I Found My Perfect Match, Though at March 29, 2026 11:11 PM (oftw2)

202 But I don't get how people accept Genesis's account, which clearly involves relatives getting it on, as everyone came from 2 people, but get so weirded out about modern cousin love.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

And the world's family tree necked down to a single pair again with Noah's family, when everyone else but him and his wife and kids got drowneded.

I guess G-d planned it that way, so the genetics worked out better back then than they do now.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 11:12 PM (VHUov)

203 We're supposed to bring appetizers to wife's family's Easter dinner (~30+ people). She was wondering what to bring......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 29, 2026 11:06 PM (QGaXH)

Riga Gold Brislings in tomato sauce, mashed and spread on rusks.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 11:12 PM (rbvCR)

204 The guy fixing the breaker box...dude loves his job. You can feel the passion. I knew it when he referred to the breaker box as "she".

Oh, and about the First Cousin matrimony listing of states. You knew Georgia was on there. They still had Common Law Marriage up to 1997. And, there's proof that West Virginia gets a bad rap.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 11:12 PM (dIske)

205 Wasn't the marriages back in the days of Kings and Queens sort of arranged to keep the blood lines intact by marrying within the family? As time passed the knowledge of it not being a good idea became apparent they stopped the ritual?

Posted by: Case at March 29, 2026 11:12 PM (pvf3X)

206 All this cousin marriage reminds me of The Hills Have Eyes.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 29, 2026 11:16 PM (V4IXI)

207 Further reading on Operation Mana/Chow Hound

https://tinyurl.com/kudtdad2

The RAF and USAAF dropped 10,000 tons of food for the starving Dutch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 29, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)

208
Thanks, Doof. Anyhow, I wouldn't ever date someone who had the same last name as me. Creepy.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I know a man and a woman with the same last name who got married. To top it off, his name is Patrick and hers was Patricia.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 11:18 PM (Cqx++)

209
And the world's family tree necked down to a single pair again with Noah's family, when everyone else but him and his wife and kids got drowneded.

I guess G-d planned it that way, so the genetics worked out better back then than they do now.
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 11:12 PM (VHUov)

Not just humans, but all the animals saved by the Arc. The whole world is just one inbred lion chasing a half a tard zebra while twitchy human takes a picture.

I think maybe the Space Aliens are here for entertainment purposes.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 29, 2026 11:19 PM (w/O5Q)

210 Oh looky, something for Doof. Live footage from Rush with the new drummer Anika. Yup, they're in good hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndDKhJkMuYw

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 29, 2026 11:19 PM (snZF9)

211 205 Wasn't the marriages back in the days of Kings and Queens sort of arranged to keep the blood lines intact by marrying within the family? As time passed the knowledge of it not being a good idea became apparent they stopped the ritual?

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Not since the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt.

Maybe the Assyrians.

Fucking Assyrians.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 11:19 PM (JkO4W)

212 I am calling the 72 day rule on those remains because the church, upon finding the grave, called in a guy who has been searching for D’Artagnan's grave. He has a vested interest in the matter.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The men in vestments called in a man with a vested interest, hoping that the man in the grave wasn't buried in a vest. The people keeping tabs are hoping he was buried in a tabard.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 29, 2026 11:20 PM (S/Y4j)

213 Sunday ONT supplement

☛Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring… actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210…
(X - h/t Blazingcatfur)
https://bit.ly/4cid9Pl

☛The single most Texan human being
(X vid 2:38 - h/t IOTWreport)
https://bit.ly/4diwguz

☛I started a towel war at a hotel
(vid 1:17 h/t IOTWreport)
youtu.be/8GR5vitGJk8

ICYMI, latest silly Mindful Webwork illustration
☛What Are We Protesting?
https://bit.ly/no-kinks

Posted by: mindful webworker - like and subscribe at March 29, 2026 11:21 PM (jrd4M)

214 Wasn't the marriages back in the days of Kings and Queens sort of arranged to keep the blood lines intact by marrying within the family? As time passed the knowledge of it not being a good idea became apparent they stopped the ritual?
Posted by: Case

It kept the warring to a minimum. If the Earl of Sandwich sent a daughter to the Count of Hotdog to marry one of his sons every couple generations, the Count wouldn't start eyeing the Earl's lands.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 11:21 PM (VHUov)

215 I get paid the same regardless of the number of comments my threads get!
Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:53 PM (QMAsf)

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Laugh, sure, but I hear the dental plan is outstanding.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 10:55 PM (JkO4W)

Is it string and a doorknob, or has it been upgraded to use fishing line?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 29, 2026 11:22 PM (S/Y4j)

216 200 That hotdog video... why, oh why, would someone even need to complicate hotdogs like that?

"Everybody's so creative!"

Gag.

Posted by: JQ at March 29, 2026 11:10 PM (rdVOm)
_________________________

Generation Z is a hoot. They seem to be a generation that wants to stand out as unique and contributory...so they make crap like those hotdog patties. Almost weekly you can find some "new" thing that they come up with, which is just re-branding of something invented decades ago (tents was my favorite so far). Their food recipes are voluminous and usually fail in that they aren't interested in the food. They focus on appearance and process. No substance...no quality. Just gimmicks.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 11:25 PM (dIske)

217 210: Heh! I think Doof posted that earlier. I'll be interested in how she does with Xanadu or Tom Sawyer. I'm sure she'll be fine. Musicians figure it out. The good ones anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 29, 2026 11:25 PM (sAmhv)

218 I hear the dental plan is outstanding.
Posted by: Cicero

Is that still true since Nevergiveup abandoned the ship?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Ike the barber and discount dentristy at March 29, 2026 11:26 PM (jrd4M)

219 Oh looky, something for Doof. Live footage from Rush with the new drummer Anika. Yup, they're in good hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndDKhJkMuYw
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 29, 2026 11:19 PM (snZF9)

Ian posted that upthread a little while ago. Agreed - they chose well!

I dialed up La Villa Strangiato a little while ago. Very much hoping that makes into their live set this year.

Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 11:27 PM (QMAsf)

220 211 205 Wasn't the marriages back in the days of Kings and Queens sort of arranged to keep the blood lines intact by marrying within the family? As time passed the knowledge of it not being a good idea became apparent they stopped the ritual?

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Not since the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt.

Maybe the Assyrians.

Fucking Assyrians.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 11:19 PM (JkO4W)

_______________________________

To this day (around the Nubian Penninsula of Egypt) the consanguinity ratio (that's second cousins or closer) is just north of 80%.

I'd like to see someone gain some marbles and present a bill to parliament in the UK disallowing marriages of first cousins just to see heads explode. Their birth defects rate went up significantly over the last two decades. It's not hard to guess why.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 11:30 PM (dIske)

221 @forallcurious
·
1h
James Webb officially detected a molecule called dimethyl sulfide on an alien world.

This molecule is produced exclusively by marine life on Earth.

Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 11:31 PM (ZxPkt)

222 Jane’s Addiction. Yes!!

I love the at band, saw them in concert many times. Also Porno for Pyros, aka Jane’s Addiction Dos..

Posted by: Heroq at March 29, 2026 11:31 PM (uDDWT)

223 218 Is Nevergiveup no longer part of the Horde?

Posted by: Bulg at March 29, 2026 11:32 PM (77rzZ)

224
He will always be a part of the Horde.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 29, 2026 11:33 PM (3ek7K)

225 James Webb officially detected a molecule called dimethyl sulfide on an alien world.

This molecule is produced exclusively by marine life on Earth.

Hasn't it been found in comets as well? If so there is some non biological means it can be proceeded.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2026 11:33 PM (sKqQm)

226 I don't get how people accept Genesis's account, which clearly involves relatives getting it on, as everyone came from 2 people…
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Well, there were those folks in the Land of Nod that Cain married into…🫨 (Gen 4:16-17)

Posted by: mindful webworker - Ike the barber and discount dentristy at March 29, 2026 11:33 PM (jrd4M)

227 Sabine Hossenfelder was noting on her youtube that there was a lot of evidence for life in the recent findings, but it's all maybe 65%-conclusive. They don't want to report alien life and get proven wrong on any one case, as was done on Venus.
But with about 50 planets each 65%-conclusive, those odds are high that at least one has life.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 29, 2026 11:35 PM (gKWVE)

228 Not just humans, but all the animals saved by the Arc. The whole world is just one inbred lion chasing a half a tard zebra while twitchy human takes a picture.

I think maybe the Space Aliens are here for entertainment purposes.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 29, 2026 11:19 PM (w/O5Q)

You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!

Posted by: Biology with Mr. Garrison at March 29, 2026 11:35 PM (TbWk/)

229 cruised at 75. 18.1mpg. It doesn't freaking care, 1200rpm, or 2,000 rpm, 18.1mpg.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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You aren't depending on the lie-o-meter reading on the overhead, are you?
On mine, it's the eternal optimist, showing 1.5-3 mpg better than I calculate using pump readings and odometer mileage.
On my 6.7, chipped & deleted, long bed 3500 4 door SRW, empty bed, keeping it 1200-1400 rpm, I get 18.5-19.5 mpg. Everything else lowers it, all the way down to 13 when I'm hauling the small travel.trailer at 70-75 mph.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 29, 2026 11:35 PM (rJ+qD)

230 Oh well, seems like anybody can marry whoever or whatever they want to these days. None of my business.

Posted by: Case at March 29, 2026 11:37 PM (pvf3X)

231 Evening all,

We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 16
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 30, 2025
Launch Time: 4:02 a.m. PDT (1102 UTC, 13:02 CEST)

https://youtu.be/dreQumHRroA

Posted by: Joyenz at March 29, 2026 11:38 PM (2F0/Y)

232 A too-narrow gene pool is likely a big factor in why we're east africans and not neanderthals (or denisovans, for the east asians amongst us).
The Neanderthals and the Denisovans had Eurasia all to themselves for six hundred thousand years and did nothing with it. They even had their own warm Holocene in the "Eemian" 120000 years ago.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 29, 2026 11:38 PM (gKWVE)

233 @FoxNews
·
1h
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We're doing extremely well in that negotiation, but you never know with Iran because we negotiate with them, and then we always have to blow them up."

Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 11:39 PM (ZxPkt)

234 Oh well, seems like anybody can marry whoever or whatever they want to these days. None of my business.
Posted by: Case

Decades of perverts, paving the way for us!

Posted by: AI sexbots at March 29, 2026 11:40 PM (VHUov)

235 Just throwing this out there:

In 2014, an Indian man named Udesh Mahto, who treated his pet monkey Ramu like an adopted son, hosted a wedding for his two monkeys (Ramu and Ramdulari) in Bihar, with guests celebrating the union.

__________________________________

I wonder where they were registered for gifts.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 11:41 PM (dIske)

236
I'm looking forward to some of the newer space telescope/instruments that are supposed to be launched in the next few years. They'll be able to get a lot more details about exoplanet atmospheres and all that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 29, 2026 11:41 PM (w6EFb)

237 221 @forallcurious
·
1h
James Webb officially detected a molecule called dimethyl sulfide on an alien world.

This molecule is produced exclusively by marine life on Earth.
Posted by: Don Black at March 29, 2026 11:31 PM (ZxPkt)

Damn.... caught us...

So long! and thanks for the fish!

Posted by: Dolphins at March 29, 2026 11:41 PM (mP0Kj)

238 seems like anybody can marry whoever or whatever they want to these days. None of my business.
Posted by: Case

They never did let me marry Claudia Schiffer in 1991, the bastards.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 29, 2026 11:41 PM (gKWVE)

239 1h
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We're doing extremely well in that negotiation, but you never know with Iran because we negotiate with them, and then we always have to blow them up."

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The man knows how to play his hand.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 11:42 PM (JkO4W)

240 Heh! I think Doof posted that earlier. I'll be interested in how she does with Xanadu or Tom Sawyer. I'm sure she'll be fine. Musicians figure it out. The good ones anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 29, 2026 11:25 PM (sAmhv)

I didn't see it. I don't back track often, lol. I just happened to it in the side bar on you tube while I was flipping through rush songs since my frigging bass player wanted me to learn Dreamline for some frigging reason, and thought oooh doof needs to see this. I think she'll be fine. It will have to take her a little bit to learn all the toys Peart played with, chimes, blocks, etc, but she'll be ok. The very first thing I noticed about her in her personal vids from months ago is how she uses her wrists. She has a shit ton of control.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 29, 2026 11:45 PM (snZF9)

241
I love how President Trump says what he thinks.

No weasely words from him.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 29, 2026 11:45 PM (3ek7K)

242 1h
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We're doing extremely well in that negotiation, but you never know with Iran because we negotiate with them, and then we always have to blow them up."

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The man knows how to play his hand.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 11:42 PM (JkO4W)

I wonder how well Mossad is coming with the splody Muslim prayer rugs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 29, 2026 11:45 PM (S/Y4j)

243 word from Iran is that today (or yesterday already for them) was the biggest bombing day since the whole thing began

Posted by: runner at March 29, 2026 11:46 PM (GD0B3)

244 Not since the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt.
Poster by Orson
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That close, yes, but take look at the degree of intermarriage among European royalty in the 18th and 19th Century. The Islamic tradition of cousin marriage has nothing on those relationships.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 29, 2026 11:50 PM (rJ+qD)

245 Good evening, I was going to say something but I've got to say, that hot dog looks somewhat obscene.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 11:53 PM (pUqS1)

246 I thought Sammy Cahn did the lyrics for Charade, but the song is a Mancini/Mercer composition. It's a good movie theme song.

Posted by: We Came On Next To Closing at March 29, 2026 11:54 PM (oftw2)

247 I was going to place this on the g thread but didn't want to piss anybody off.

Kinetic projectile related:
3m
Trump: U.S. negotiation with Iran is doing "extremely well, but you never know with Iran, because we negotiate with them, and then we always have to blow them up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 11:54 PM (pUqS1)

248 Looking back now, after a Fist Full of Dollars, Trump is on a roll tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 11:55 PM (pUqS1)

249 243 word from Iran is that today (or yesterday already for them) was the biggest bombing day since the whole thing began
Posted by: runner
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And Israel turned their lights out without damaging the system. So...it's not only the weather.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 11:57 PM (pUqS1)

250 Iranian reports say Hassan Hasanzadeh, commander of the IRGC’s Mohammad Rasul‑Allah Corps, responsible for security around Tehran and suppression of unrest, was killed in an Israeli airstrike today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 11:58 PM (pUqS1)

251 > 29 Who knew the Alaskan Highway was just a one lane road.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:09 PM (/lPRQ)

It's not. It's always been two lanes at a minimum.

It's also all paved nowadays, so that's either an old picture or a picture of some other highway (possibly in Alaska.... there are plenty of unpaved highways here, but the Alcan isn't one of them).

It was all unpaved when I came up as a whippersnapper going on 50 years ago. It was a real adventure back then.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 12:00 AM (IG3/x)

252 The very first thing I noticed about her in her personal vids from months ago is how she uses her wrists. She has a shit ton of control.
Posted by: Berserker

Reminds me of Baard Kolstad from Leprous. Dude is so loose I'm surprised he isn't launching drumsticks everywhere.

"Drum playthough" vids, cued up to the better parts:

https://youtu.be/nj6fM2KpyOA?t=146
https://youtu.be/m1vzTamSFz8?t=237

'Ette bonus..... drumming shirtless:

https://youtu.be/kSGWhJtU238?t=126

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:00 AM (VHUov)

253 41 > Believe it or not, there are currently SEVENTEEN states where first cousins can legally marry.
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I'll just note, for the record, West Virginia is NOT on that list.

Fucking heathens.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 10:12 PM (AkEZC)

Interestingly, I have recently read that cosmopolitan NYC has more consanguinity than Appalachia. Photos of mutant-looking men can be attributed to malnutrition, and "laziness" to malaria. In other words, the most negative parts of the "hillbilly" stereotype are an ignorant prejudice of sheltered cityfolk who need to get out of their (inbred) borough and see the wider world.

Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 12:01 AM (Sy6m/)

254 > That close, yes, but take look at the degree of intermarriage among European royalty in the 18th and 19th Century.
Posted by: buddhaha at March 29, 2026 11:50 PM (rJ+qD)

As I recall, the last Spanish Habsburg was the son of uncle and niece, but due to all the other inbreeding they were actually genetically closer than a normal brother and sister.

The dude had problems. Lots of problems. Which, of course, were blamed on witchcraft rather than a couple of hundred years of uncle fucking.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 12:03 AM (IG3/x)

255 'Ette bonus..... drumming shirtless:

https://youtu.be/kSGWhJtU238?t=126
Posted by: mikeski
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Miss read your statement.
yuck

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:03 AM (pUqS1)

256 Need clarification

My grandmother was married to a completely unrelated man. Her brother married a completely unrelated woman. Are his granddaughters my cousins....

Posted by: Lord Percy at March 30, 2026 12:06 AM (T8RPZ)

257 >> On the other six-fingered hand, Iceland is really big on bringing in outsiders for genetic diversity.
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)

Icelandic women have long been known for being..."friendly" to visitors, for that very reason, ,often with the tacit consent of their husbands.

There's a reason why our soldiers and airmen called Reykjavik "Break Ya Dick". Hospitable place.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 12:07 AM (IG3/x)

258 > I'll just note, for the record, West Virginia is NOT on that list.

I believe New York is the only state where you can (under some circumstances) marry your uncle.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2026 12:08 AM (IG3/x)

259 Sleep stuff is kicking in. Too bad.

There's a nice Chinese zombie movie called 'The Sadness' on Shudder. Pretty messed up. It's great. I'll watch it all tomorrow.

My friends cat is resting so comfortably. I feel kind of bad tossing her outside. Snowflake has been here most of the day. I bought and gave her flea medication today, with my friends' approval.

I'd suck as a liberal working to get kids body parts chopped off without parental knowledge.

In any event, we have determined that cats sleeping on laps make any movie, no matter how f'ed up, less scary. More research is planned...

Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 30, 2026 12:08 AM (Sco7b)

260 On my 6.7, chipped & deleted, long bed 3500 4 door SRW, empty bed, keeping it 1200-1400 rpm, I get 18.5-19.5 mpg. Everything else lowers it, all the way down to 13 when I'm hauling the small travel.trailer at 70-75 mph.
Posted by: buddhaha
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35 to 40 mph? How do you stand it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:10 AM (pUqS1)

261 'Ette bonus..... drumming shirtless:
Posted by: mikeski

Miss read your statement.
yuck
Posted by: Braenyard

Sorry. Bonus for the 'ettes. I don't know of any 'ettes who are professional drummers.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:11 AM (VHUov)

262 Didn't Iceland cure mental retardation by terminating all of those pregnancies or am I thinking of another Scandinavian adjacent territory? I dunno.

Happy Sunday, the eve of more Trumpian times, gosh it is great to be alive. My taxes are done. I am enjoying a double Chivas.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 30, 2026 12:15 AM (0nHVk)

263 >> I don't know of any 'ettes who are professional drummers.
Posted by: mikeski
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It would have been......interesting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:16 AM (pUqS1)

264 I saw that Saudi Arabia has got an oil pipeline open that bypasses the Strait of Hormuse.

Posted by: Case at March 30, 2026 12:16 AM (pvf3X)

265 Wasn't the marriages back in the days of Kings and Queens sort of arranged to keep the blood lines intact by marrying within the family? As time passed the knowledge of it not being a good idea became apparent they stopped the ritual?
Posted by: Case at March 29, 2026 11:12 PM (pvf3X)

Tell it the Hapsburgs, if you can find any.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:16 AM (ZVgZ4)

266 Congrats, Debby!

I'm still sorting papers for tax app't... ugh...

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 12:19 AM (rdVOm)

267 WTAF IS THAT HOT DOG MONSTROSITY?!?!?

There are SO MANY things wrong with it, starting with it seems a lot like (but more complicated than) that thing where you crushed up crackers (were they matzo?) and then made dough with the crumbs and made it into ... a cracker or some sh**. Just WITF are you boiling the buns, then adding bread crumbs to the mixture? And the video goes a full minute more after he says "goodbye."

Can we please start issuing Letters of Marque for this kind of crap? Let people hunt these folks down and, at minimum, remove them from the internet. Permanently. Ugh.

Posted by: GWB at March 30, 2026 12:23 AM (x9vBb)

268 249 243 word from Iran is that today (or yesterday already for them) was the biggest bombing day since the whole thing began
Posted by: runner

Trump is using this talk about negotiations to cover up a lot of shit that is going down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 12:24 AM (ZPDpH)

269 "Kill the imposter syndrome in your head.

"Because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using AI to do it."

-- I love aphorisms

Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2026 12:25 AM (rbvCR)

270 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 30, 2026 12:25 AM (SRRAx)

271 Tell it the Hapsburgs, if you can find any.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 30, 2026 12:16 AM (ZVgZ4)

Some of them turned up in Canada recently; they’ve been hiding out there since the end of WW1.
They’re still incredibly wealthy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 12:26 AM (ZPDpH)

272 word from Iran is that today (or yesterday already for them) was the biggest bombing day since the whole thing began
Posted by: runner

Trump is using this talk about negotiations to cover up a lot of shit that is going down.
Posted by: Tom Servo

He's doing the meme.

Muslim wacko: I will blow shit up!
Pres BHO: Let's negotiate.....

Muslim wacko: I will blow shit up!
Pres Autopen: Let's negotiate.....

Pres Trump: I will blow shit up!
Muslim wacko: Let's negotiate.....

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:27 AM (VHUov)

273
word from Iran is that today (or yesterday already for them) was the biggest bombing day since the whole thing began
Posted by: runner

Sending or receiving?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2026 12:27 AM (Cqx++)

274
244 ... . The Islamic tradition of cousin marriage has nothing on those relationships.

Well, there's this:

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and -africa/21693632-marriage-between-close-relatives -much-too-common-keeping-it-family

(remove spaces before '-' at end of lines)

The birth-defect rate in Pakistan is as bad as Saudi Arabia, even among Pakistanis in England.

There is some evidence that marrying 1st cousins every 3 or more generations is usually not harmful ... but continuously doing it leads to the nightmare many Muslims are living.

There is some evidence that marrying 3rd cousins is slightly better than marrying non-relatives, but IIRC it is weak and the debate continues.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 30, 2026 12:28 AM (FlRtG)

275 That hot dog is an X rated euphemism.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:30 AM (pUqS1)

276 JQ, I hope that you feel this sense of relief soon, of course I'll probably get a letter or something from the IRS, didn't Trump campaign, at least back in 2016, on a simple postcard type return? People would love to hear that message right now, except for a lot of tax preparers. Taxes need not be this complicated at all.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 30, 2026 12:31 AM (0nHVk)

277 Time to shut it down, I guess. I'd like to sleep a full eight hours for once. I got woken up last night by the dog; something got his attention and he dutifully started sounding the alarm. I don't know what triggered it, but he's not prone to barking at anything and everything. Be well, Hordelings.

Posted by: PabloD at March 30, 2026 12:32 AM (8sD0/)

278 Piper, thank you for featuring Charade tonight!

Posted by: Slash Buzz at March 30, 2026 12:33 AM (FstDi)

279 The Huxley family did it and one other notable American family from the 19th century. Scientists, I think.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:34 AM (pUqS1)

280 I think it was Rick Perry that talked about a "postcard" tax return, way back when.

My mind keeps going back to the meme of the little boy, saying something like... "the gov *already knows* how much I make and how much I've paid, why don't they just send me a bill?"

But anyway-- everything's such a mess because I had to stash things where hubby couldn't access, when he was starting to *lose his mind* and sometimes it had to be done in a hurry-- ugh!

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 12:36 AM (rdVOm)

281 JQ, I hope that you feel this sense of relief soon, of course I'll probably get a letter or something from the IRS, didn't Trump campaign, at least back in 2016, on a simple postcard type return? People would love to hear that message right now, except for a lot of tax preparers. Taxes need not be this complicated at all.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 30, 2026 12:31 AM (0nHVk)

I use H&R Block. I used the same agent there for years. I walk in, she has everything ready, I sign a few things and I'm out the door in 15 minutes. $3-400 later anyway, but I don't need to do math. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:38 AM (snZF9)

282 Israel, for the first time, is planning to propose to the Trump Administration the development of U.S. military bases on its soil, including the construction of new bases and the relocation of existing military bases in countries across the Middle East, senior officials tell Israel’s Channel 12
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That's going to be hot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:39 AM (pUqS1)

283 The state I didn't see in the list is West Virginia.
But the setting for "Deliverance" IS there: Georgia.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 12:41 AM (HHRcx)

284 Yes, I use an HRBlock agent, too. Same gal for years.

2025 is just a mess due to the aforementioned f'd up situation with hubby and *loads* of retirement withdrawals for nursing home payment. Medical bills, etc etc etc.

It'll be alright once I find everything. LOL, got until Tuesday afternoon!

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)

285 That Alaska highway looks cool. I was watching some vids a few nights ago about motorcycle trips from alaska down to the lower 48. Some real nice scenery, but you might as well be on the moon. I would like to do it someday. I never thought about a bucket list, but I do have an urge to tour the US on a motorcycle. Huge time commitment though, and I'm not a ride in the rain person, so I can see some extended hotel stays. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 12:44 AM (snZF9)

286 That's some road up top. Who here represents Alaska? Is it tcn?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 12:44 AM (F50AR)

287 Canvassers for republican candidates running in primaries are meeting hostility from registered republicans when knocking on their doors. Threats to call the police, sicking their dogs on them even threatening them being shot!

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 30, 2026 12:45 AM (EWnlc)

288 A pretty sparse comment section for almost 3 hours in. Anyway, we're headed to see the grandkids in Texas tomorrow, but it's a two-day drive. There is a Buc'ees on the way there, so I got that going for me.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 30, 2026 12:45 AM (Risui)

289 word from Iran is that today (or yesterday already for them) was the biggest bombing day since the whole thing began
Posted by: runner

Trump is using this talk about negotiations to cover up a lot of shit that is going down.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It's all pretty amazing, since we ran out of munitions three weeks ago.

Posted by: Methos at March 30, 2026 12:46 AM (vSvIl)

290 A pretty sparse comment section for almost 3 hours in.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry

Sorry, we're all trying to figure out if we're Kevin Bacon's sixth cousin or not.

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:47 AM (VHUov)

291 Companies aren't automatically sending out 1099 forms like they always did. I have to go chase them down online.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 12:49 AM (lkaN3)

292
But anyway-- everything's such a mess because I had to stash things where hubby couldn't access, when he was starting to *lose his mind* and sometimes it had to be done in a hurry-- ugh!
Posted by: JQ
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Friend of a friend's husband (self employed) passed away. About a year later she had settled down and was in the process of sorting out things.
She came across a cigar box with $100K. She got a little sentimental but it passed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:49 AM (pUqS1)

293 @290 Even trump supporters here are confused about what we are doing.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 30, 2026 12:50 AM (EWnlc)

294 Companies aren't automatically sending out 1099 forms like they always did. I have to go chase them down online.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

At some point, they opted you in to "paperless delivery."

Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:52 AM (VHUov)

295 It's all pretty amazing, since we ran out of munitions three weeks ago.
Posted by: Methos at March 30, 2026 12:46 AM (vSvIl)

And Iran has blown up all the bases and sunk the aircraft carrier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2026 12:52 AM (ZPDpH)

296 69 We aim to please here at Doof’s Sort Of Okay Emporium, LLC!
Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 10:14 PM (OoFl2)

I think you can have your own shell company now. All you need is a whelming name. What ya got?
Posted by: Doof at March 29, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

Idea: "Piper's Mostly Clothing Attire"

Posted by: SciVo at March 30, 2026 12:53 AM (Sy6m/)

297 Money tycoon Jimmy Rogers rode his motorcycle around the world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 12:54 AM (pUqS1)

298 I love how President Trump says what he thinks.

No weasely words from him.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 29, 2026 11:45 PM (

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So do I. But my family has mild TDS. They must have loved President mumbles. Open borders, criminals, inflation...

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 12:54 AM (lkaN3)

299 Fairly certain I won't find any cigar box full o' cash.. hubby had a few hundred stashed, but he told me about it years ago.

It just sucks that everything has been chaos for several years and I've been s l o w l y 'sifting the ashes' but not nearly done yet.

Most days, I really hate my life.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)

300 At some point, they opted you in to "paperless delivery."
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:52 AM (VHUov)

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Yeah, they did themselves a big favor. I'll have to check last year's taxes to see if i'm missing anything.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 12:58 AM (vzty+)

301 72 Ketchup, mayo, and relish. Maybe a slice of tomato, but no lettuce or cheese.
- - - - - -
aka Thousand Island dressing

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at March 30, 2026 01:01 AM (CeBi/)

302 85 Winter camping without a fire? That's really roughing it.
Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2026 10:21 PM (Q+

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"To Build a Fire" by Jack London. High suspense; the story really grabbed me.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 01:02 AM (vzty+)

303 "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. High suspense; the story really grabbed me.
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Read that in jr. high... it left a mark.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

304
Most days, I really hate my life.
Posted by: JQ at March
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It'll work out. I took care of mom her last years. It falls apart slowly you know it's happening but don't realize how many nuts are falling to the ground.
I carried a log book / ledger /calendar to keep track of each day.
It will come back it's just shaky right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 01:05 AM (pUqS1)

305 Willowed from Weasel's gun thread:

To be fair, with concealed carry as the only apparent option there, loaded and with 2 or 3 spare mags, 50 rnds with 50 to rotate through for practice should be enough. If not you got bigger problems...

Do they have any action shoot & scoot competitions in Israel? If so, what do they do, sell ammo by the box during the competition ? Either way, I hope ammo is readily available even if restricted.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 07:51 PM (/lPRQ)
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Plenty of open carry here, just not preferable.

When you go to licensed ranges here, you usually bring your "old" ammo from home, fire it, and replace the missing 100 inventory with bullets purchased on site.

I'm sure there are competitions. Again, organized by licensed ranges. If you go off to the middle of nowhere and come back with less ammo, you will need to explain where did your bullet inventory go to. Totally illegal.

BTW, there are separate licenses for competition sports and hunting guns.

No lack of 9MM ammo in this country.

Yesterday, I treated myself to a custom Eclipse Intrepid IWB holster. Nifty!

Thanks for all the congrats!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 01:10 AM (1o8D5)

306
Read that in jr. high... it left a mark.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

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I started to read it a second time and ... I had to stop myself about halfway through. London is such a good writer

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 01:12 AM (Haopq)

307 At some point, they opted you in to "paperless delivery."
Posted by: mikeski at March 30, 2026 12:52 AM (VHUov)
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Yeah, they did themselves a big favor. I'll have to check last year's taxes to see if i'm missing anything.
Posted by: JM
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Get on their website and set your preference.to mail.delivery for the 1099s. They may well.have "required opt-out" ed you into electronic delivery, but they have to send it by mail if that's what you want.

From Duck duck go Search Assist:
"Companies cannot charge a fee for sending 1099 forms on paper if the recipient has not consented to receive them electronically. The IRS requires consent for electronic delivery, and if consent is not given (or withdrawn - my comment), the paper form must be issued without a fee."

Posted by: buddhaha at March 30, 2026 01:15 AM (rJ+qD)

308 >> you will need to explain where did your bullet inventory go to.
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My canoe tipped over and everything fell out an sunk to the bottom. I tried to retrieve it but I almost drowned, had to let it go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 01:16 AM (pUqS1)

309 My canoe tipped over and everything fell out an sunk to the bottom. I tried to retrieve it but I almost drowned, had to let it go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 01:16 AM (pUqS1)
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/moves from jerusalem to shores of the jordan river

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 01:17 AM (1o8D5)

310 Seems like every time I'm in the middle of a significant (messy and need to spread out!) project, some major BS happens that forces me to pack it all up, drop it, and get dragged into somebody else's problem. Case in point: the latest crap with BIL. "Help me! No one else will help me!"

I. Am. So. Fucking. Done!

Thankfully, BIL does NOT have my phone number. Heh.

Relishing the silence. Got a lock on my front gate, so no more uninvited, unannounced, unwanted visitors!

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

311 Speaking of cousins, one of mine is here on a business trip and we are meeting him for lunch tomorrow after I see my oncology surgeon.

On the cancer front, things are going okay. I'm seeing a radiologist on Tuesday because there appears to be some growth on one of the smaller tumors. The hope is they can zap it out with a couple of treatments. But my cancer markers are in the "normal" range, so that's a good thing!

Unfortunately, one of the meds that has to be given with this pump is a steroid, so I am rapidly regaining weight that I had lost over the past 3 years. And I am one of those people whose blood sugar numbers go up on steroids (no diabetes on either side of my family, and it has never been an issue otherwise).

On the other hand, I am having lots of fun planning our trip to NYC - my friend and her daughter want to climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty. I managed to snag the last couple of tickets available, which just happens to be the last day we will be there, so it should be lots of fun for them! I got tickets to go to the pedestal - that's as far as I will be able to get with my scooter. We're going to have a blast!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 30, 2026 01:29 AM (SRRAx)

312 For the next No Kings protests, somebody should don the creepy Burger King costume and mock them rudely

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at March 30, 2026 01:31 AM (CeBi/)

313 LOL. "no kings"

I should roll up with a sign of my own: Sofa King! Get on this!

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

314 No Kings? Why? I mean, they won a couple of Stanley Cups a few years back but getting rid of them seems extreme.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 01:38 AM (sAmhv)

315 Most days, I really hate my life.
Posted by: JQ at March

It'll work out. I took care of mom her last years. It falls apart slowly you know it's happening but don't realize how many nuts are falling to the ground.
I carried a log book / ledger /calendar to keep track of each day.
It will come back it's just shaky right now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 01:05 AM (pUqS1)

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May I briefly complain? Mom was in the hospital, sick but alert and talkative. The doctor insisted she have a surgery she didn't want. She had the surgery and afterwards she was on such heavy painkillers that she wasn't conscious for her last week of life. We never got to tell her goodbye. End of complaining.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 01:39 AM (yJi77)

316 Winter camping without a fire? That's really roughing it.
Posted by: davidt
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When we lived in CA, I set up.my vacation time such that I had a few days (combined with holiday times) around the Xmas -New Years school days off.
We'd head up to Yosemite a few days before Xmas, and camp in the valley. The first couple of years we did this, we stayed in our big Frostline backpacking tent. Then I bought a Suburban and we slept in that for about 4 years. I finally got an old Canned Ham trailer that we used until we left CA. Luxury! 2 burner propane stove "indoors" instead of a Coleman gas camp stove on a picnic table that had the snow pushed off! A propane mantle light that raised the temp enough that water in a pot wouldn't freeze overnight! A booth and table that we could eat around without getting our pants seats wet from the little bit of snow that remained on the picnic table! A bunk that folded down for the kids, and the table moved down and made a bed out of the booth!
We'd go ice skating, hiking, XC skiing in the valley, and later, the kids would go downhill at Badger Pass. But, we always had fire. Every night. Marshmallows, hot dogs and once each trip, s'mores.
Great memories

Posted by: buddhaha at March 30, 2026 01:41 AM (rJ+qD)

317 JM, sorry about your mom.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 01:42 AM (pUqS1)

318 Sorry about your mom, JM in Illinois. That truly sucked.

I see hubby every day. Some days, he's good; some days, not so good. Either way, he's not the same guy I married and it hurts to realize this. He's just a shell, and keeps hanging on. He "knows" me I guess... calls me by and refers to me by his XW's name... but I know at least that he thinks I'm his wife.

Meanwhile, our retirement savings is getting sucked dry. Rapidly.

There won't be anything left when I'm old and sick and need it.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

319 Got app't with Elder Law Atty in May. Pity they're so booked up...

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

320 JM, I am sorry for you, that is not my preferred exit ramp, I love my kids, I hope that I pass and we are all laughing about something, it is the way of our people.

I am sleepy Horde and I bid you all sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 30, 2026 01:51 AM (0nHVk)

321 'Night, Debby. Sleep well.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

322 Composite;
The Bar Association won't like me stating the obvious, but this is the inevitable conclusion if the Courts don't make a massive corrective turn in the very near future.

We're about to see lynchings and local tribal protection racket gangs come back out of sheer necessity.
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https://tinyurl.com/mr2fd45u

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 01:54 AM (pUqS1)

323 Looked at the clock a while ago and it said 12:34. Funny how often I'll look at the clock and see it's 1:23 or 2:34, 3:45 or 4:56. I'm sure it's just that thing where I don't think about it when it's not a sequence, but it still feels like it happens more often.

I never seem to see 5:67, though.

Time to o'clock out for the night. 🕐 This was the day that was.

This one kept Hank and the boys in beans and biscuits.
https://youtu.be/Wn2e4Dhod7M

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it'll get warmer at March 30, 2026 02:04 AM (jrd4M)

324 There won't be anything left when I'm old and sick and need it.
Posted by: JQ
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In the past you mentioned a second option place that was OK and less expensive but you and hubs talked it over and he wanted to stay where he is. -That is my memory. If it is so, and you moved him to new quarters would he remember that significantly or simply accept new story different quarters?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:06 AM (pUqS1)

325 It's not that hubby *wants* to stay where he is, it's that the other place doesn't have the *level of care* that he requires.

It isn't that much cheaper, either.

There are few choices here.

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

326 "Oh looky, something for Doof. Live footage from Rush with the new drummer Anika. Yup, they're in good hands."

This is horrible. Gack...

Posted by: pawn at March 30, 2026 02:13 AM (qmOsv)

327 We're about to see lynchings and local tribal protection racket gangs come back out of sheer necessity.
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https://tinyurl.com/mr2fd45u

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 01:54 AM (pUqS1)

I'm not even sure wtf I was watching there.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 02:17 AM (snZF9)

328 My uncle was a pattern maker for big enameled signs like Holiday Inn. He made a Beware Watch Pig for the walk up. There was no pig but if you didn't watch out the goat would get you.

@RealJessica
10h
A French couple at a Marseille beach brings their pet pig to deter Muslim migrants, who reportedly harassed beachgoers.

Reports claims the presence of the pig is an increasingly common tactic to maintain safety

https://tinyurl.com/yc7ctjj7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:18 AM (pUqS1)

329 LOL. "no kings"

I should roll up with a sign of my own: Sofa King! Get on this!
Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

Officers! They're looting the Food King!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 30, 2026 02:20 AM (S/Y4j)

330 It's one step from chaos. Surprising the women were so compliant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:21 AM (pUqS1)

331 "Oh looky, something for Doof. Live footage from Rush with the new drummer Anika. Yup, they're in good hands."

This is horrible. Gack...

Posted by: pawn at March 30, 2026 02:13 AM (qmOsv)

I didn't see anything technically wrong with it. She played it great. I mean yeah I'm not a fan of anything from the first album. I have an unopened original first album from back then, and it wasn't because I was collecting it. It probably sounded exactly like it did when they first played it a million years ago during their Wyld Stallyns days. Did I mention I have an original unopened copy? She did play it good though.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 02:26 AM (snZF9)

332 It's one step from chaos. Surprising the women were so compliant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:21 AM (pUqS1)

Yeah that was fucked up. I still don't understand wtf was going on though.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2026 02:31 AM (snZF9)

333 Wall Street Mav retweeted
Based Jessica
@RealJessica
12h
Democrat Radicals in Portland were once again taught a lesson last night.

This has become a regular occurrence for them though. Great work by the Federal Agents!
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No, arresting three or four is not a lesson. Subdue them all and put them in a tank for as long as legally and as expensive as possible. That would be a lesson . This experience is just another night out with bragging rights.

https://tinyurl.com/54e9ksnv

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:36 AM (pUqS1)

334 Put the Althea's outside today. I could hear them say
Free at last, free at last.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:43 AM (pUqS1)

335 314 No Kings? Why? I mean, they won a couple of Stanley Cups a few years back but getting rid of them seems extreme.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 30, 2026 01:38 AM (sAmhv)

Well, Elvis is dead, and they got rid of Jesus, so who is really left?

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 02:47 AM (DwqWV)

336 Here's another reason they let the muzzies rape white women and girls in England.

London: https://tinyurl.com/443kahct

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:53 AM (pUqS1)

337 286 That's some road up top. Who here represents Alaska? Is it tcn?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 30, 2026 12:44 AM (F50AR)

That photo is in Canada. All the highways up here are paved.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 02:54 AM (DwqWV)

338 336 Here's another reason they let the muzzies rape white women and girls in England.

London: https://tinyurl.com/443kahct

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 02:53 AM (pUqS1)

What the actual.....

Oh hell no.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 30, 2026 02:55 AM (DwqWV)

339 >>London: https://tinyurl.com/443kahct
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DAFUQ was that?!

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)

340 339 >>London: https://tinyurl.com/443kahct
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DAFUQ was that?!
Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 03:01 AM (rdVOm)

A sign the end times are near....??

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 30, 2026 03:11 AM (QGaXH)

341 A sign the end times are near....??
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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SMOD, don't let us down!

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

342 Don't want to but must bid adieu until tomorrow.
'night

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 30, 2026 03:26 AM (pUqS1)

343 If I'm going to chop up a hot dog, it's going into the beans. I don't want to know what that disgusting smashed ball thing tastes like.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 03:31 AM (Fbc0I)

344 If I'm going to chop up a hot dog, it's going into the beans.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 03:31 AM (Fbc0I)
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There are also hot dogs in beer recipes out there.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 30, 2026 03:35 AM (1o8D5)

345 Panel replacement guy didn't address how all of the condensation and corrosion got into the panel. Sucks working with romex.

My preference is a QO panel with a main. Not a bad job though, sometimes you have no spare length and then it really suck balls depending on who did the hack job.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 03:45 AM (Fbc0I)

346 >>>There are also hot dogs in beer recipes out there.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

>That's probably not too bad, I boil my bratwurst in beer and onions before I grill them. Then the overflow of brats go back into the beer. The son of a nazi taught me that.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 30, 2026 03:59 AM (Fbc0I)

347 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2026 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

348 What happened to the main page? Center is all blank.

Posted by: GWB at March 30, 2026 12:24 PM (x9vBb)

Gun Thread: Final March Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the fifth of five March editions? This is madness!

Coming Soon: April editions.

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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FUNdamentals

Trigger mechanics and YOU.

So was this helpful? Do you agree with the methodologies presented in the video? If not, why not?

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Guns Of The Horde

Yowza! Our pal Biden's Dog shoots and scores!

It took over half a year for Israel's Ministry of National Security to process and approve my gun license application. As of this past Wednesday, I am licensed. As of Friday, I am armed with the first firearm I have ever owned in my life.
Until about seven months ago, Israeli laws did not make me eligible to be licensed to carry. Because of the October 7th War, licensing was expanded to include more categories of citizens. However, I only became eligible 7 months ago, when the law was modified to include most Jerusalem residents, like myself. Recently, additional cities and towns have become eligible.
The license is solely for a handgun, not a rifle, for which I am not eligible. I had about 15 handguns to choose from. I chose the Glock 43X MOS. The weight and grip in my not large hand seemed just right. To finalize the license, you have to pass a written test on Israel's weapons laws, which are very strict and limiting. In addition, there is basic gun training, including weapons handling, followed by live fire shooting with 100 bullets.
Speaking of 100 bullets, that's the MAXIMUM Israel's law allows you to possess. And if you think that's crazy, the maximum used to be 50 bullets until the law was changed after the October 7th War broke out in 2023.
In Israel, concealed carry is not only legal. It is the government's preferred method for its armed citizens. I received an IWB holster with my purchase. However, I also have a Galco Lite shoulder holster. I originally bought it for one our pups but he changed his mind and stuck with IWB holstering. I prefer shoulder when wearing a jacket or coat.
So, I will definitely be paying MORE attention hereon in to the gun thread. The thread is published past my bedtime, which is why I've almost never commented there. Thanks for much I've already learned to date from the threads' contents.

CONGRATULATIONS Biden's Dog! Nice shooting!! This really made my day, thank you!!

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F.A.R.C.

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 07:00 PM (Wnv9h)

2 Evenin', Weasel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 07:01 PM (Wnv9h)

3 Here!

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 07:01 PM (30Gj0)

4 98 >>"...certain PA Dutch processed meats..."

SCRAPPLE!
My mom grew up in Philly and loooooves that stuff!

I grew up in Berks County we had Lebanon Bologna, Scrapple, Pigs Feet Jelly, Polish Cabbage Rolls {Galumpkis} and Shoo-Fly-Pie (Molasses crumb cake layered with a gooey molasses bottom) .........

The good Ole Days.....

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 29, 2026 07:01 PM (38587)

5 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 07:02 PM (Ia/+0)

6 Damn, RMBS.
Here, but serving grilled London broil teriyaki.
I shall return.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 07:02 PM (30Gj0)

7 Hello, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:03 PM (BCwQW)

8 >>> As of Friday, I am armed with the first firearm I have ever owned in my life.

You poor man.
Most of us have so many many that when we get up in the night to relieve ourselves we have kick one or two back under the bed on our way to the bathroom.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 07:03 PM (/lPRQ)

9 5 GTs in a month. Thanks, Weasel!

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 07:03 PM (30Gj0)

10 Damn, RMBS.
Here, but serving grilled London broil teriyaki.
I shall return.
Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 07:02 PM

Nice. Enjoy!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 07:03 PM (Wnv9h)

11 Howdy!

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at March 29, 2026 07:08 PM (sAmhv)

12 Just stepped over there and emptied an FNX 45 magazine. My absentee landowner urbanite neighbors are out shooting (not at me). I like to shoot ( not at them ) some when they do to remind them I live over here, plus, practice!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:09 PM (UajcV)

13 Biden's Dog, great news. I'm happy to hear you qualified and are now armed!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 29, 2026 07:12 PM (RDqo2)

14 By the way, I really like this pistol. You could never have convinced me that a double-stack 45 would be a good idea, but it fits my hand and I can get many rounds on target quickly with it. I have had one failure to feed with some cheap ammo, but none since over a couple thousand rounds.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:13 PM (UajcV)

15 I had no idea Israel’s gun laws were so strict.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 07:18 PM (hJH5n)

16 Biden's dog, congrats on your new glock owning status!

A blessed Holy Week and a blessed Passover to all you horde of arms.
May the Lord protect you always, and Archangel Michael defend you in battle

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 07:19 PM (tcsrY)

17 It took over half a year for Israel's Ministry of National Security to process and approve my gun license
_-_
...and the state I live in is doing its damnedest to pass laws much closer to those of Israel. I hear that a concealed carry permit now takes about four months here, but I thought the law said 90 days...have to look that up.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:19 PM (UajcV)

18 I had no idea Israel’s gun laws were so strict.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 07:18 PM (hJH5n)

IIRC, it's been like that ever since Israel came into existence in 1948. Probably a legacy of the European background the nation's founders brought with them.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:20 PM (BCwQW)

19 Good evening gubthreaders and all the ships at sea!

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:20 PM (NlEaG)

20 Hasn't Israel ever heard of the Second Amendment?

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:21 PM (NlEaG)

21 DMV MGC went to the range today. It was good shooting with the crew again. Hadnt been to the range for a bit.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:23 PM (NlEaG)

22 Huge props to Biden’s Dog!

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 07:24 PM (hJH5n)

23 DMV MGC went to the range today. It was good shooting with the crew again. Hadnt been to the range for a bit.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:23 PM

Hope to shoot with y'all again after the NoVaMoMe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 07:25 PM (Wnv9h)

24 Had the daughter and new son-in-law over last weekend. I already posted about it last week, but, man, that kid can shoot! Son-in-law,that is...daughter is good, but her husband is closer to Jerry Miculek level of good!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:26 PM (UajcV)

25 Hasn't Israel ever heard of the Second Amendment?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:21 PM (NlEaG)

Surprisingly, no. Given the nation's utter dependence on reservists who are expected to report to the mobilization stations within hours of notification, Israel has never had the "Minuteman" legacy we inherited from the first clashes w/ the Indians on the frontier before 1775.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:26 PM (BCwQW)

26 IIRC, it's been like that ever since Israel came into existence in 1948. Probably a legacy of the European background the nation's founders brought with them.
Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:20 PM (BCwQW)

Ephraim Kishon wrote in one of his short stories about the trouble he had visiting a friend in a hospital outside of visiting hours in Israel as it was barricaded and surrounded by barbed wire, as it has been during the troubles at the end of the British Mandate, and the hospital seemed to keep all the barricades and wire out of respect for tradition

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 07:27 PM (rbvCR)

27 Here, but serving grilled London broil teriyaki.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 07:02 PM

Bride of PI is also doing London broil tonight.

GMTA!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 29, 2026 07:27 PM (HlyYF)

28 the nation's utter dependence on reservists
_-_
As Toqueville said, every nations bears some marks of the circumstances of its birth.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:28 PM (UajcV)

29 *nation...using phone typing...no good.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:29 PM (UajcV)

30 but, man, that kid can shoot!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:26 PM

You clearly instilled in your daughter some good traits to look for in a man.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 29, 2026 07:30 PM (HlyYF)

31 "Do you agree with the methodologies presented in the video? If not, why not?"
I disagree because if what works for me doesn't work for you it's just proof that you are a defective human.
Congratulations BD. See you at the range

Posted by: Nato at March 29, 2026 07:31 PM (HcqhF)

32 good traits to look for in a man
_-_
I started that early with them..."See that dude over there with the untied shoes, blue hair, and his hat on sideways? Bring one of those home and I'll..."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:33 PM (UajcV)

33 https://tinyurl.com/3fwhtp3k
Link from Lawrence Person's Battlestar blog, a anti drone shotgun round test video.
It's a beehive round in 12ga with wedge shape pellets strung together

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

34 Morning.

Err, wait, umm, yes, okay, that was the afternoon nap, not the morning nap.

Good evening.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 07:34 PM (UJMvS)

35 sra blaster wanted to try a new drill today - inspired by a guntuber we watched. What we did was start the target at 20 yards, and hit the return so that it comes at you at a fair pace and then draw from concealed carry holster and shoot 3 (or more depending) rounds at the approaching target.

As noted here before adding timing and movement to shooting makes for a much different experience. It was fun but made you feel like you were really earning your shots. I have said before that I have learned that I can shoot about the same accuracy with iron sights and dots on a handgun, but that I can acquire the target faster with the dot. sra blaster has something going on with her vision that is really messing with her use of a dot (not just an excuse for the range she has some vision issues that she's going to be visiting a specialist for). She did better with her P365 with iron sights. (To make it a little less confusing the P365 is her main carry and she has a Kimber CDS9 that is her OTHER carry pistol and it has a dot.)

But a neat drill especially with your carry gun

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:35 PM (NlEaG)

36 17 It took over half a year for Israel's Ministry of National Security to process and approve my gun license
_-_
...and the state I live in is doing its damnedest to pass laws much closer to those of Israel. I hear that a concealed carry permit now takes about four months here, but I thought the law said 90 days...have to look that up.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 07:19 PM (UajcV)

By way of comparison, when I got my LTC in 2010, TX DPS processed the application and got me the LTC in a month.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 07:35 PM (hJH5n)

37 Stolen from an earlier thread
_______________________

LOL

literal headline from ABC news:

What apparently began as a home invasion turned quickly into a frightening scene for the suspects, after the resident started to defend himself.

https://tinyurl.com/5dpdam2j
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 07:35 PM (/lPRQ)

38 Anyone with experience with
Crimson Trace Rad Micro Pro Green?

On sale at PSA for $99.
Worth it as a test bed for pistol optics?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 07:39 PM (/lPRQ)

39 Range report, silhouette edition.

We had our half size silhouette match yesterday, 200, 300, 400 and 500 meters, 5 targets at each distance.

I went 15 for 15 @ 200, 300 and 400 meters but fell on my face @ 500 meters, only hitting one ram.

At first, I thought it was a vertical stringing issue, rear rest..then realized later it was a dope issue. What I thought was going over the back of the ram was actually passing between the belly and the rail the ram was sitting on. in other words, I was shooting about .25 MOA low. Drat. Still though, much like the 1,000 yard match stuff last week, something to build on.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 07:39 PM (UJMvS)

40
Surprisingly, no. Given the nation's utter dependence on reservists who are expected to report to the mobilization stations within hours of notification, Israel has never had the "Minuteman" legacy we inherited from the first clashes w/ the Indians on the frontier before 1775.
Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:26 PM (BCwQW)

Obviously the 2A question is tongue in cheek but in the 80s people I knew who went to Israel said it was not uncommon to see civilians walking around with an Uzi slung over their back.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:39 PM (NlEaG)

41 Duke got schooled. That was frigging awesome.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 07:39 PM (Fbc0I)

42 I agree with the vacuum tube video.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 07:40 PM (Cqx++)

43 Don't know if this is a trend or just a coincidence but I'm seeing more articles about revolvers becoming more popular. Sometimes about how they can be an advantage for concealed carry for older folks or those who have trouble racking a slide: less hand strength needed and simpler operation. But others are about the easy versatility for ammo, especially for hand loading. 44 special, 41 magnum, 32 long/magnum are some of the calibers I saw mentioned.

I'm noticing a similar situation with pistol caliber lever action rifles versus AR styles.

Anyone else notice this or is it just my imagination?

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 07:41 PM (yTvNw)

44 Good Sunday evening, gub 'ettes and 'rons, and a special DoorDash delivery of a fifth of his chosen libation to our host Weasel. (Or cigars. Whatever.)

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 29, 2026 07:41 PM (t2oSI)

45 As comment says there
ABC is really worried about how frightened the invaders were

Turns out they weren't frightening for long

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 07:42 PM (Ia/+0)

46 "Speaking of 100 bullets, that's the MAXIMUM Israel's law allows you to possess. And if you think that's crazy, the maximum used to be 50 bullets until the law was changed after the October 7th War broke out in 2023."

I shoot more than 100 rounds in a single range session.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 29, 2026 07:43 PM (0N4FZ)

47
literal headline from ABC news:

What apparently began as a home invasion turned quickly into a frightening scene for the suspects, after the resident started to defend himself.

https://tinyurl.com/5dpdam2j
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

One of the comments:

Ask not why I would value my property over someone else's life.
Ask, rather, why someone would value my property over his own life

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 07:43 PM (Cqx++)

48 Also congrats to Biden's Dog for his persistence to join the armed contingent!

100 rounds max possession limit? looks at safe Yeah, I'd be over by just a few ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 29, 2026 07:43 PM (t2oSI)

49 Of course dinner conversation covvered Virginia's coming gun laws.

We might have to change our shooting location to Maryland because its less hassle.

Think about that.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:43 PM (NlEaG)

50 What we did was start the target at 20 yards, and hit the return so that it comes at you at a fair pace and then draw from concealed carry holster and shoot 3 (or more depending) rounds at the approaching target.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 07:35 PM

That sounds like an excellent drill to prepare for a dangerous real life situation.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 29, 2026 07:44 PM (HlyYF)

51 It's a beehive round in 12ga with wedge shape pellets strung together
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

Now they need to look at the weapons system firing those rounds. Most shotguns are too heavy and/or have too low of a magazine capacity to be an effective infantry support weapon. An infantryman carrying a shotgun for drone defense probably doesn't have the capacity to carry much more than a pistol. And if this round is only good as a "last ditch" defensive weapon of last resort, you better be able to crank out a lot of rounds fast if you have a flock of drones coming your way. Most shotguns have too low of a rate of fire and magazines that are not deep enough to be effective close in defensive weapon. I think you'll need something belt fed with a high rate of fire and (hopefully) a longer range to get the most out of this round.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:45 PM (BCwQW)

52 Also congrats to Biden's Dog for his persistence to join the armed contingent!

100 rounds max possession limit? looks at safe Yeah, I'd be over by just a few ...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless)

To be fair, with concealed carry as the only apparent option there, loaded and with 2 or 3 spare mags, 50 rnds with 50 to rotate through for practice should be enough. If not you got bigger problems...

Do they have any action shoot & scoot competitions in Israel?
If so, what do they do, sell ammo by the box during the competition ? Either way, I hope ammo is readily available even if restricted.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 07:51 PM (/lPRQ)

53 The FARC is a cool looking gun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 07:52 PM (zZu0s)

54 In my county in Alabama, you literally walk out with your CC license after you apply. They don't even take your picture anymore, they just used the same one as your DL, since the sheriff has a connection to the database.

Takes about five minutes once you are in front of the clerk with your $25. I paid $100 for the permanent license last time so I don't have to renew anymore.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 07:56 PM (4NO2D)

55 For record , link came from Lawrence Person's Battleswarm Blog

Certainly that round would work on lower flying drones and coming at you in very small numbers, like 1 or 2.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 07:56 PM (Ia/+0)

56 Anyone else notice this or is it just my imagination?
Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 07:41 PM (yTvNw)

It's not new. Revolvers always have been pitched as a better choice for elderly folks who don't have the strength to rack a slide for decades. This was especially true in the 80s and 90s, when GI 1911s were the semi-auto most people were familiar with. Trouble is, revolvers are the easiest to learn, but the hardest to master. The double action trigger pull is the reason why. Sharon would, on paper, be an ideal candidate for a revolver. But she couldn't pull the trigger on a Colt Detective Special in double action today because it's pull weight was far too heavy for her. If you're going to be effective with a revolver, you have to be able to handle the double action trigger pull. Revolvers do have more practical uses in your ability to switch between Special and Magnum loads. But for most, I think .38 Special/.357 Magnum will be most peoples' limit. Most people won't care to shoot anything more powerful than that other than occasionally.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:56 PM (BCwQW)

57 54 In my county in Alabama, you literally walk out with your CC license after you apply. They don't even take your picture anymore, they just used the same one as your DL, since the sheriff has a connection to the database.

Takes about five minutes once you are in front of the clerk with your $25. I paid $100 for the permanent license last time so I don't have to renew anymore.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 07:56 PM (4NO2D)
I kinda wish Texas was the same way.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2026 08:01 PM (LHPAg)

58 yikes - that Federal Air Marshal qualification is brutal. No chance I'd pass that even with unlimited tries, and they fail after the third attempt.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 29, 2026 08:01 PM (t2oSI)

59 PI, I am now resuscitated enough to comment. Red meat is a gift, just like beer. And women.

Biden’s Dog, I am so happy for you!
Being able to defend your self and your family is also a gift.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 08:02 PM (GVUrx)

60 Anyone else notice this or is it just my imagination?
Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 07:41 PM (yTvNw)

I think that newer semi-autos have lighter recoil springs and better grip surfaces that make gripping the slide easier than a GI 1911. Some are specifically aimed at users with less grip strength than your typical military age male (S&W Shield E-Z, Walther PDP-F, just to name a couple).

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:02 PM (BCwQW)

61 Something else I've noticed is new members joining the Muzzleloading Forum and the Cast Boolits forum. The numbers aren't huge as these are rather niche parts of the hobby. But it may point towards a more hands-on attitude about firearms beyond pulling the trigger or cleaning your guns.

Or maybe this is me speculating since I haven't got to the range for a while.

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 08:02 PM (yTvNw)

62 My revolver is the first gun I have picked up that just felt like an extension of my hand.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 08:03 PM (+nEug)

63 62 My revolver is the first gun I have picked up that just felt like an extension of my hand.
_-_
Welp. That's the one, eh?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 08:05 PM (UajcV)

64 I'd fail the air marshal test. My draw is slow. Rounds on target I'm reasonably quick. Initial draw? Sundial.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 08:06 PM (UJMvS)

65 Hi all
I am late because I just spent an hour trying to find a Kimber micro that takes a dot with 10 rds or ,ess mag. No luck.
Have been exploring pocket guns and wanted to rent a 380 S&W that I'd read about . It was broken. Asked about the Ruger. They didn't have it . Checked out the 43x and it is so similar to my g48 it did not seem worthwhile. So passed on renting.
SRA B,aster let me try shooting her Kimber CDs9

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:07 PM (t/2Uw)

66 I never thought we needed anything other than the 2nd amendment. Silly me. I'm happy to live in this state or I may encounter problems.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 08:07 PM (Fbc0I)

67 62 My revolver is the first gun I have picked up that just felt like an extension of my hand.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 08:03 PM (+nEug)
We had a quick run to New Braunfels yesterday, tight schedule, down and back 13 hours, three drivers.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2026 08:08 PM (LHPAg)

68 Anyone else notice this or is it just my imagination?
Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 07:41 PM (yTvNw)

I think that newer semi-autos have lighter recoil springs and better grip surfaces that make gripping the slide easier than a GI 1911. Some are specifically aimed at users with less grip strength than your typical military age male (S&W Shield E-Z, Walther PDP-F, just to name a couple).
Posted by: Ed L

You can add the Ruger Security 380 to that list as well.
The slide has some features to enhance grip for racking (I think the E-Z does too). Compared to most micro 380s it is a relatively 'large' gun which cuts down on recoil as further.
Got one for the wife. I think it is the easiest gun to rack that I have ever tried.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 08:08 PM (/lPRQ)

69 She loaned me her holster and I got to shoot drawing from the holster. It was perfect. I hit the target, didn't need the latch. Felt good in my hand.
Perfect. But turns out it is a 15 rd mag. I looked and looked and although I can buy a gun with a 15 rd mag and own a 15 rd mag, I can't buy a 15 rd mag in MD. If I get gun shipped to my local FFL, they can't give me the mags.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:10 PM (t/2Uw)

70 But turns out it is a 15 rd mag. I looked and looked and although I can buy a gun with a 15 rd mag and own a 15 rd mag, I can't buy a 15 rd mag in MD. If I get gun shipped to my local FFL, they can't give me the mags.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Road Trip !

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 08:11 PM (/lPRQ)

71 56 ... "Revolvers do have more practical uses in your ability to switch between Special and Magnum loads. But for most, I think .38 Special/.357 Magnum will be most peoples' limit. Most people won't care to shoot anything more powerful than that other than occasionally."

Ed L,
I know that semis these days are easier to rack than previous versions. That's why I got a Smith Equalizer which is easier to rack than even the early EZ series. The articles I saw were more about recreational shooting with revolvers than about defense and about hand loading.

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 08:11 PM (yTvNw)

72 65 Hi all
I am late because I just spent an hour trying to find a Kimber micro that takes a dot with 10 rds or ,ess mag. No luck.
Have been exploring pocket guns and wanted to rent a 380 S&W that I'd read about . It was broken. Asked about the Ruger. They didn't have it . Checked out the 43x and it is so similar to my g48 it did not seem worthwhile. So passed on renting.
SRA B,aster let me try shooting her Kimber CDs9
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:07 PM (t/2Uw)

CDS9 comes with 13 and 15 round mags - they do have 10 rounders they would probably sell them with in Maryland

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 08:12 PM (NlEaG)

73 never thought we needed anything other than the 2nd amendment.
_-_
Colorado was fairly libertarian when I moved here back in 2000. When I applied for a CHP, the county (El Paso County) did the permit. They said around 21 days, and I got it in 19. Now the state gets involved and drags-out the whole process. I think maybe we need more Texans or Alabamans or something!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 08:12 PM (UajcV)

74 If I get gun shipped to my local FFL, they can't give me the mags.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:10 PM (t/2Uw)

I was going to recommend you get them shipped to Cabelas in VA, then I remembered I was in Spamburger's Virginia.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana! ~ at March 29, 2026 08:13 PM (hOUT3)

75 I looked and looked and although I can buy a gun with a 15 rd mag and own a 15 rd mag, I can't buy a 15 rd mag in MD. If I get gun shipped to my local FFL, they can't give me the mags.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:10 PM

Manufacturers often make "California" models w/10 rd mags. Is there one for that model?

Then go to one of the surrounding states to purchase the 15 rounder that you can have, but not buy, in MD?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

76 Does this look like a useful thing for the range?

https://tinyurl.com/48yf65x2

I use a net bag kind of thing that velcros on and this looks more neat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 08:15 PM (4NO2D)

77 I decided that a 300 Blackout AR without suppressor is kinda silly so I am looking for a suppressor. I see some that are reasonably priced. But,
before I get that, I need an NFA trust for the gun and suppressor.
Are the online trust sites reliable?
Any comments on the process?
I did get an optical scope from Amazon and might switch to iron sights considering Blackout's useful range.

Posted by: Accomak at March 29, 2026 08:17 PM (wkU1F)

78 Speaking of VA gun laws I do see a number of YouTube videos and the quality of what people have to say sometimes make me shake my head.

I saw a guy talking about what he was doing - kept saying "I am not a lawyer" so you know he wouldn't be liable but anyway he was wrong - like aggressively wrong about a bunch of stuff that is even current law. Raised my blood pressure and I realized it was less about what he was getting wrong but that he was leading others down a wrong path - and then I wondered was this Fed posting? Or Commonwealth posting?

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 08:18 PM (NlEaG)

79 I know that semis these days are easier to rack than previous versions. That's why I got a Smith Equalizer which is easier to rack than even the early EZ series. The articles I saw were more about recreational shooting with revolvers than about defense and about hand loading.
Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 08:11 PM (yTvNw)

Ah, OK. If that's you're wanting to do, revolvers do give you more options, especially if you load your own. Whig will tell you that revolver casings are easier to reload than most semi-auto ones. They're the easiest entry path into the reloading game.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:18 PM (BCwQW)

80 Manufacturers often make "California" models w/10 rd mags. Is there one for that model?

Then go to one of the surrounding states to purchase the 15 rounder that you can have, but not buy, in MD?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:15 PM (0sNs1)

Funny the 10 rounders are more expensive than the 13 and 15s!

Kind of a pain to have to plop $80 down to buy stuff you would have gotten for free if you weren't in Maryland.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at March 29, 2026 08:19 PM (NlEaG)

81 Kimber does make a 10-round mag for the CDS9:

https://store.kimberamerica.com/cds9-10-round-magazine

Whether they sell a Kommiefornia version that ships with that mag is the question. Maybe call their C/S?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:19 PM (0sNs1)

82 Kimber contact info:

Customer Service
Toll-Free: (88

243-4522
Hours: M–F, 9:30 a.m.– 6 p.m. Eastern

customerservice@kimberamerica.com

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

83 Manufacturers often make "California" models w/10 rd mags. Is there one for that model?

Then go to one of the surrounding states to purchase the 15 rounder that you can have, but not buy, in MD?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Obviously you will have to buy the gun in Maryland. Your dealer may or may not give you a 10 rnd mag(s), if he has any available... Might as well get/order the one that comes with ten rounders.

The road trip to get normal 15 rnd mags.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 08:22 PM (/lPRQ)

84 need an NFA trust for the gun and suppressor.
Are the online trust sites reliable?
Any comments on the process?

I used these guys online and had no trouble with the ATF.

https://thetrustshop.net/

The ATF will need to have fingerprint cards and you can have those taken by your local LE. And they want a passport photo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 08:22 PM (4NO2D)

85 I got 30 round mags from Magpul shipped to my home in Accomack. A FFL in Maryland had the same rifle in stock for less than guns.com but with 10 round mag.

Posted by: Accomak at March 29, 2026 08:22 PM (wkU1F)

86 A relative may be relocating to CT. I took a look at the gun laws. AYFKM?
10 round mags, no “assault rifles” (Ruger Mini 14 ok as long as no folding stock; all ARs verboten).
No f’ing way.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 08:23 PM (lqzPE)

87 Does this look like a useful thing for the range?

https://tinyurl.com/48yf65x2

I use a net bag kind of thing that velcros on and this looks more neat.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Link saved.
For $25 it might be worth trying out.
If no-worky no big loss.

Another similar item was, IIRC, "the Brass Goat". It costs a lot more so never got one.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 08:24 PM (/lPRQ)

88 When I bought my suppressor, the local gun shop called someone who came to the shop to do my fingerprint cards. I was surprised, to say the least. $20.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 08:25 PM (UJMvS)

89 69 She loaned me her holster and I got to shoot drawing from the holster. It was perfect. I hit the target, didn't need the latch. Felt good in my hand.
Perfect. But turns out it is a 15 rd mag. I looked and looked and although I can buy a gun with a 15 rd mag and own a 15 rd mag, I can't buy a 15 rd mag in MD. If I get gun shipped to my local FFL, they can't give me the mags.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:10 PM (t/2Uw)
Saint John Moses Browning will now read the holy writ. 'If, in thy village, the overseers limit you to ten rounds, there is a thing called eight round magazine. Two to the chest, one to the head, one to the pelvic girdle, with four to spare, plus the one you had in the chamber to begin with. That makes nine rounds of glorious .45 ACP still under the illegal ten round law.'

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2026 08:25 PM (LHPAg)

90 76 ... " Does this look like a useful thing for the range?

https://tinyurl.com/48yf65x2

I use a net bag kind of thing that velcros on and this looks more neat."

The guys I see with brass catchers at the range use what is essentially a fishing net on a weighted stand. It can be positioned as needed for whatever gun they are using. Seems to work. Don't know about the gadget in the link.

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 08:25 PM (yTvNw)

91 That makes nine rounds of glorious .45 ACP still under the illegal ten round law.'
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2026 08:25 PM (LHPAg)

Verily. ‘sTruth.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 08:26 PM (lqzPE)

92 Anyone else notice this or is it just my imagination?
Posted by: JTB
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They are especially for first time trigger pullers. The only caveat is snubbies can have some fairly harsh recoil and be difficult to shoot without practice.

To shoot snubbies well, you have to follow Weasel's guidance on managing a trigger and do a full reset each time you pull it. And double action triggers take a longer time to master along with the short sight distance.

And learning to shoot one by cocking it for single action is not advisable as most beginning users don't know how to decock one and even experienced types do so with trepidation and a good backstop. And reloading a snubbie has to be practiced religiously if you want more than 5-6 shots.

If you are a newcomer to firearms and want a revolver, get a used police model with a 4 inch barrel as these were the easiest revolvers to learn to shoot well. They are not the most concealable though if you plan to carry outside of the home. Then consider a semi auto.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:26 PM (E4rtv)

93 Obviously you will have to buy the gun in Maryland. Your dealer may or may not give you a 10 rnd mag(s), if he has any available... Might as well get/order the one that comes with ten rounders.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 08:22 PM

Not necessarily true. You can 'purchase' a handgun in another state, IF you're legal to buy a handgun (21 or over, clean 4473) AND the handgun is legal in your state.

Assuming that, you can 'buy' the handgun in the other state, and have the FFL ship it to a FFL in your home state, where you'll actually do the paperwork and take possession legally.

This is probably not particularly efficacious in Sharon's case.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:27 PM (0sNs1)

94 The gun is listed as non California, non MA compliant so can't be so,d there at all.
Bass Pro which is MD has the gun on the website. Because of the extended mag, I don't think it can take a 10 rd. The separate mag I saw was only for 6-8 rd models. Cabelas and Bass Pro are same Co. if I can buy in VA and then have the gun shipped to ass Pro and pick up the mags in VA that would work but lots of hassle. BP is in Hanover which is a trek. Cabelas in VA not that far from the range. Strange that not everyone carries Kimber.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:28 PM (t/2Uw)

95 Posted by: Accomak at March 29, 2026 08:17 PM (wkU1F)

Some more questions about your build:
-Have you considered adjustable gas blocks? The suppressor on a DI AR will (by design) push more gas back into the gas tube, the barrel, and the receiver. Can your gas tube handle the additional pressures a suppressor will create? Too much pressure can burst your gas tube. Adjustable gas blocks redirect that pressure forward instead of into the firearm.
- Will your bolt/bolt carrier direct this gas into your face out from the ejection port? This is not a pleasant experience.
- The gap between the charging handle and the upper receiver is NOT gas tight. Most people using iron sights will have their cheeks next to the charging handle. Even if you don't, you will probably breathe in propellant gases as they leak out of that gap between the charging handle and upper receiver. Consider getting a gas tight charging handle. Propellant gases are known carcinogens. Even if you don't get cancer, they can still make you sick.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:28 PM (BCwQW)

96 Good grief, all of these regulations. From a gun standpoint, the move to AZ has been nothing short of a revelation.

Need a suppressor? No problem. 30 round magazine for your semi-auto? Check out the fifty round one we have over here.

Etc.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 08:29 PM (UJMvS)

97 The guys I see with brass catchers at the range use what is essentially a fishing net on a weighted stand. It can be positioned as needed for whatever gun they are using. Seems to work. Don't know about the gadget in the link.
Posted by: JTB

I seen a guy using a fishnet device with a semi handgun.
Might be homemade but it worked really well once positioned.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 08:30 PM (/lPRQ)

98 62 My revolver is the first gun I have picked up that just felt like an extension of my hand.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Smith K Frame revolvers, Browning High Powers, and Smith 2nd and 3rd Generation semi automatics are like that for most people without much if any grip alteration whether you have small or large hands.

Not that you find many of them around anymore, but Colt New Service and Colt E Frame (Official Police) can be with the right grips.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:30 PM (E4rtv)

99 There are 10-round .45ACP magazines for the 1911, if you don't mind some extra magazine hanging low and ready to go.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

100 91 That makes nine rounds of glorious .45 ACP still under the illegal ten round law.'
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2026 08:25 PM (LHPAg)

This is one time that math is allowed on AoS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana! ~ at March 29, 2026 08:32 PM (hOUT3)

101 Waiting for scores to be posted for the spawns competition this weekend. She only shot 4 guns this competition. She usually shoots 6+. This competition was tougher because one stage which was very tricky. It's called "pop quiz". 4 small round plates and 1 large rectangular plate. One 10" circle on each side standing alone, 2 12" circles behind the rectangle with only half showing from each side of the rectangle which is hanging vertically, and the round 12" stop plate in front of the rectangle plate. The rectangle is 18"x24". If you hit the rectangle it's a 3 second penalty. There were very few kids who shot a clean stage. This stage adds seconds to kids normal times because it's hard.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2026 08:32 PM (VCgbV)

102 The ATF will need to have fingerprint cards and you can have those taken by your local LE. And they want a passport photo.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 08:22 PM (4NO2D)

HIGHLY recommend that you submit digital copies of both. Digital copies will get approved a LOT faster than paper copies. For individual Form 1s or Form 4s, digital copies can get turned around in as little as 72 hours. Paper submissions will still take six or more months. Your choice.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:33 PM (BCwQW)

103 This is probably not particularly efficacious in Sharon's case.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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If you don't mind firing older firearms, a C&R (aka Collector's) license allows you to get firearms shipped to your home in many places or to the nearest FFL in those that don't allow such freedoms. Only catch is that your firearms bought (including handguns) have to be made 50 years or ago or more.

You also have to deal with teh ATF, keep a bound volume of your purchases, and the license is good for three years. Fingerprints, and background check required.

Some online vendors still give discounts to C&R holders.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:34 PM (E4rtv)

104 lin-duh, are the scores on practiscore?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 08:35 PM (UJMvS)

105 The one thing they don't tell you is what the vacuum tube can do when it's filled with radioactive material. New ball game.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 08:36 PM (Fbc0I)

106 Most people using iron sights will have their cheeks next to the charging handle. Even if you don't, you will probably breathe in propellant gases as they leak out of that gap between the charging handle and upper receiver. Consider getting a gas tight charging handle. Propellant gases are known carcinogens. Even if you don't get cancer, they can still make you sick.
Posted by: Ed L

There are also two different manufacturers of adjustable gas keys which can be used instead of an adjustable gas block on existing AR setups if you don't want to mess with changing the gas block. They replace the gas key on a std. bolt. Rubber City Armory and Sun Devil? or some such sold them. RCA is more available at different places.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)

107 The more Highway Patrol I watch, the easier it is to believe that Broderick Crawford was a raging alcoholic. (But his one-shot kill rate with a snubnose revolver is still impressive.)

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 29, 2026 08:37 PM (t2oSI)

108 Not that you find many of them around anymore, but Colt New Service and Colt E Frame (Official Police) can be with the right grips.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:30 PM (E4rtv)

Whig, aren't Colt Python grips compatible with Colt Official Police frames? IIRC, the difference between the E Frame (Official Police) and I Frame (Python) was the E Frame had the hammer mounted firing pins. The Python had an internal firing pin. On paper at least, the Python grips (even current production ones) should work on the Official Police.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:38 PM (BCwQW)

109 Hey morons,
AOP, The Nurse, Lazy Messenger just got done having dinner in Monroe. A good time was had by all.

We did talk guns a little, mostly about projects and fix-it plans for AOP's collection. Mostly just hanging out in person.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 08:39 PM (xcxpd)

110 Following on the Israeli pager …

The “Ukrainian Hotfoot”

A newly reported operation suggests Kyiv may have found another low-cost way to disrupt Russian forces away from the front line: heated insoles allegedly rigged with small explosive charges and sent through volunteer aid channels.

According to Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi, operatives from Ukraine’s special services allegedly inserted explosive-filled heated insoles into shipments destined for Russian military units. The items were reportedly moved with the help of Russian volunteers and charitable foundations, allowing them to pass as ordinary humanitarian aid.

Posted by: SMOD at March 29, 2026 08:39 PM (O7XEN)

111 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 08:39 PM (xcxpd)
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Nice!

Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 08:40 PM (FUvyF)

112 also did hit the range yesterday but forgot to bring 9mm ammo!

So it was a .22 LR day, since I always have some of that on hand. So I did make holes in paper with my G44 and it wasn't a wasted trip or anything.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 08:41 PM (xcxpd)

113 Thanks for the Gun Thread Weasel!

Posted by: DBCooper at March 29, 2026 08:42 PM (C/U/L)

114 Blake,
SASP has the scores but they aren't posted yet. She only shot 2 matches in practiscore.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2026 08:42 PM (VCgbV)

115 Blake,
SASP has the scores but they aren't posted yet. She only shot 2 matches in practiscore.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2026 08:42 PM (VCgbV)

116 So... I'll have to dig up more on the hows of longer distance shootey...
The young'n showed up with a new (to him) Weatherby Vanguard in 6.5 Creedmore equipped w/a nice scope setup.

We'll need the 100 yard range to start.

Posted by: man at March 29, 2026 08:43 PM (XuXeR)

117 I dealt with the gas issue on my suppressed 300blk house gun by using both an adjustable gasblock and a side charging upper.

https://flic.kr/p/2n8fVYA

Since I used a 9.5" barrel to keep the length normal with this giant can, I had to make it a pistol, which keeps me from having a vertical foregrip like I would prefer.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 08:43 PM (4NO2D)

118 According to Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi, operatives from Ukraine’s special services allegedly inserted explosive-filled heated insoles into shipments destined for Russian military units. The items were reportedly moved with the help of Russian volunteers and charitable foundations, allowing them to pass as ordinary humanitarian aid.
Posted by: SMOD at March 29, 2026 08:39 PM (O7XEN)

Considering that most donated materials are looted by Russian unit commanders and higher ranking officers before they ever reach Ivan and Pavel, this tactic may be even more effective than it may first appear. Even if it's just a rumor, it's got to have an effect on Russian morale.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:44 PM (BCwQW)

119 The items were reportedly moved with the help of Russian volunteers and charitable foundations, allowing them to pass as ordinary humanitarian aid.
Posted by: SMOD at March 29, 2026 08:39 PM (O7XEN)

Huh. Sabotaging humanitarian aid. Ill wait for the war crimes people to chime in.

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Anyone?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

120 also did hit the range yesterday but forgot to bring 9mm ammo!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 08:41 PM

CBD is gonna ask if that meant nurse had no opportunity to shoot.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:46 PM (0sNs1)

121 LOL.
I will look into that. Lol
Guns cars fishing and boobs, all men are on the spectrum.

Posted by: Accomak at March 29, 2026 08:47 PM (wkU1F)

122 Re EdL comments
The old classic revolver cases are straight walled and many are low pressure in 32 S&W Long, 32 H&R, and 38 or 44 Special. Not much stress on the brass nor much effort to resize the brass. 45 ACP or 45 Colt are likewise very friendly to reloaders--straight wall, low pressure cartridge.

44 Magnum brass, with a full hunting load, can be tough to resize and that goes for the other dinosaur hunting rounds as well. But all revolvers are generous on bullet selection.

Semi-autos
40 S&W is not tricky on brass but rather loads are sensitive to spikes in a high pressure cartridge. 9mm is not difficult but it is a tapered case and you have to really be careful of seating depth.

And bottleneck cases whether revolver or semi auto can be a pain in the butt. The old cowboy 32-40, 38-40, and 44-40 have a very slight neck and it is very easy to ruin brass resizing if not careful. The 357 Sig is a pig to reload as the short neck and high pressure means care needed. Old and odd rounds like 38 Super can vary how the pistol is headspaced and bullet selection for semi autos means paying close attention to how deep your bullet seats in the case and crimping to avoid setback.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:47 PM (E4rtv)

123 lin-duh, Ace the cat just meowed that she hopes y'all are doing well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:48 PM (0sNs1)

124 JTB, I do wonder what is good for self defense to look for as both vision and grip strength decline

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 08:49 PM (eZ5tL)

125 Range Report:
The weather moderated enough up here to take the Ruger 10-22 out and do a ballistics table work up for CCI Standard 40 g. LRN ammo. 50, 100, 200 and 300 on 5” paddles from a dueling tree.
It’s so nice hearing a tiny little “ting” as lead meets steel.
If you are interested, I did a couple of posts over at my place.
If you don’t have a 10-22, why not? It’s probably the best/most fun all round semi auto on the planet.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 08:49 PM (fRFTM)

126 I had no idea Israel’s gun laws were so strict.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 07:18 PM (hJH5n)

You would think they would be more cognizant of Nehemiah's view of arming oneself. Especially around Jerusalem.

Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 08:49 PM (5tsvC)

127 Of all the easiest to reload though, 38 Special and 45 ACP are top ones to start with. 9mm is not difficult but you have to measure your time versus buying on that one.

Rifles and shotguns are a whole nother matter.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:49 PM (E4rtv)

128 100 rounds is nothing. I probably have that rolling around loose in various bags and the car...

Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2026 08:49 PM (VCgbV)

129 Huh. Sabotaging humanitarian aid. Ill wait for the war crimes people to chime in.

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Anyone?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

Considering that the Russians have been treating the Geneva Conventions as the "Geneva Suggestions" for four years now, they're about as sympathetic as the Germans complaining about US use of trench guns (pump action shotguns) in WWI as war crime worthy when they were the first to unleash poison gas and flamethrowers.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:50 PM (BCwQW)

130 Duncanthrax,
Tell Ace hello from us!

Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2026 08:51 PM (VCgbV)

131 86 A relative may be relocating to CT. I took a look at the gun laws. AYFKM?

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My impression is that NH is the only state in that general area worth moving to in terms of gun laws; haven't looked closely though.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 08:51 PM (eZ5tL)

132 Huh. Sabotaging humanitarian aid. Ill wait for the war crimes people to chime in.

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Anyone?
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Potentially. As insoles are a weird thing to consider "war materials."

*shrugs*

Not my monkeys... etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 08:51 PM (AkEZC)

133 And bottleneck cases whether revolver or semi auto can be a pain in the butt. The old cowboy 32-40, 38-40, and 44-40 have a very slight neck and it is very easy to ruin brass resizing if not careful. The 357 Sig is a pig to reload as the short neck and high pressure means care needed. Old and odd rounds like 38 Super can vary how the pistol is headspaced and bullet selection for semi autos means paying close attention to how deep your bullet seats in the case and crimping to avoid setback.
Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:47 PM

No love and/or advice for me?

Posted by: 5.7x28 at March 29, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

134 117 I dealt with the gas issue on my suppressed 300blk house gun by using both an adjustable gasblock and a side charging upper.

https://flic.kr/p/2n8fVYA

Since I used a 9.5" barrel to keep the length normal with this giant can, I had to make it a pistol, which keeps me from having a vertical foregrip like I would prefer.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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That would be the way to do it. 300 BLK is meant for short barrels and close in shooting. Plus being suppressed.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:51 PM (E4rtv)

135 A blessed Holy Week and a blessed Passover to all you horde of arms.
May the Lord protect you always, and Archangel Michael defend you in battle
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 07:19 PM (tcsrY)

Thank you, vmom. And a peaceful one to you, as well.

BTW, we're naming the armed portion of our safety and security team "Team Michael." And the medical part is "Team Raphael."

Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 08:53 PM (5tsvC)

136 Thanks, lin-duh. I'll keep an eye out.

Hah, found the web site. Huh, I don't see spawn listed as a competitor.

Weird.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 08:53 PM (UJMvS)

137 BTW, we're naming the armed portion of our safety and security team "Team Michael." And the medical part is "Team Raphael."
Posted by: GWB

I love that!
I suppose comms could be Team Gabriel?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 08:54 PM (eZ5tL)

138 44 Magnum brass, with a full hunting load, can be tough to resize and that goes for the other dinosaur hunting rounds as well. But all revolvers are generous on bullet selection.
Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:47 PM

* sobs manfully *

Bullet selection for the .41 Magnum is not what it should be. The slow twist doesn't facilitate heavy-for-caliber projectiles. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:54 PM (0sNs1)

139 No love and/or advice for me?
Posted by: 5.7x28
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I once reloaded some 25 Auto on a dare--tiny bullets, eyestrain and pain to seat bullet, etc. Massive pita and 5.7x28 just combines that problem with a bottleneck case.

The sad thing is both are really cartridges that would benefit costwise and availability from reloading.

I've avoided some fine revolvers though in 44-40 or 38-40 just because brass and ammo is a major pain. I have a 32-20 and that is enough of a pain and cost in brass and ammo. Basically resembles a 32 H&R magnum in ballistics.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:55 PM (E4rtv)

140 Weird.
Posted by: Blake
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Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2026 08:55 PM (VCgbV)

141 The other part of my range report. Ed, Hrothgar and I tried shooting several different guns one handed. We used a small silhouette at 8 yds. I was really pleased when I was able to shoot Ed's 007 gun and hit the guy in the chest. I also used my Glock but it has a dot so not as rewarding. Still it's fun to change things up.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:56 PM (t/2Uw)

142 126 I had no idea Israel’s gun laws were so strict.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 07:18 PM (hJH5n)

You would think they would be more cognizant of Nehemiah's view of arming oneself. Especially around Jerusalem.
Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 08:49 PM (5tsvC)
And all GOD's children say Amen!

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2026 08:56 PM (LHPAg)

143 Israel has never had the "Minuteman" legacy we inherited from the first clashes w/ the Indians on the frontier before 1775.
Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 07:26 PM (BCwQW)

I would say MODERN Israel. Ancient Israel (I mentioned Nehemiah above) certainly had the concept.

Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 08:56 PM (5tsvC)

144 My impression is that NH is the only state in that general area worth moving to in terms of gun laws; haven't looked closely though.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 08:51 PM (eZ5tL)

That’s why I live in NH, vmom. VT is constitutional carry, but they are also crazy.
We are landlocked by NY, MA and CT for travel, unfortunately.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 08:56 PM (fRFTM)

145 and 5.7x28 just combines that problem with a bottleneck case.
Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:55 PM

I always thought the big issue was the lacquered brass?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 08:57 PM (0sNs1)

146 * sobs manfully *

Bullet selection for the .41 Magnum is not what it should be. The slow twist doesn't facilitate heavy-for-caliber projectiles. Sad!
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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For you my friend, take up bullet swaging or casting. As the crop of that rare breed are dying off, there are presses, molds, and dies out there for that nowadays.

Fred Huntington started post WWII, swaging 22 Centerfire wildcats and using 22 LR brass cases for the bullet jacket. That was the start of RCBS.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 08:57 PM (E4rtv)

147 Huh. Sabotaging humanitarian aid. Ill wait for the war crimes people to chime in.

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Anyone?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

If the targets are Russian soldiers, they're (mostly) fair game. Since this Russian aid is supposed to (emphasis of "supposed") go to front line troops, they're an acceptable target. Whether that actually happens is another story. Sabotaging medical supplies like that would be a much clearer violation.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:58 PM (BCwQW)

148 Only Israel and America can commit war crimes.

This is known.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at March 29, 2026 08:59 PM (UJMvS)

149 I always thought the big issue was the lacquered brass?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Lacquer thinner is a thing but most of the ammo I've seen doesn't use that. You do have to use resizing wax and trim cases though.

I do know that FN had some super sekret police and military only type rounds but I have never seen them.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:00 PM (E4rtv)

150 One note on the house gun, it's pictured with a 20rd M16 mag which I first used to slightly lower the overall weight but, it had feed issues so I replaced it with a magpul plastic 20rd specifically made for 300blk. The new mag presents the cartridge just a little bit differently and that made the gun reliable.

I thought you could use standard 5.56 mags but not in this gun apparently.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:01 PM (4NO2D)

151 New acquisition: CZ 82 from Palmetto for $200. Got lucky and it's it good shape. Looks like getting mags cheap isn't happening, but ammo is available.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 29, 2026 09:02 PM (P4bJX)

152 Anyone else notice this or is it just my imagination?
Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 07:41 PM (yTvNw)

It seems to be revolvers' year. There's also the need to publish something in an industry that really doesn't have much truly new to offer.

Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 09:02 PM (5tsvC)

153 The other part of my range report. Ed, Hrothgar and I tried shooting several different guns one handed. We used a small silhouette at 8 yds. I was really pleased when I was able to shoot Ed's 007 gun and hit the guy in the chest. I also used my Glock but it has a dot so not as rewarding. Still it's fun to change things up.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 08:56 PM (t/2Uw)

And now Sharon can say she can outshoot Daniel Craig's Bond (in Skyfall) with Bond's own PPK!

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:02 PM (BCwQW)

154 Not into cigars so don't know what they carry, but if you have a Total Wine and More (chain) store in your area, ours has an enclosed cigar shop inside the main store.

Posted by: Wifey of ShainS at March 29, 2026 09:02 PM (VXJx/)

155 100 rounds max possession limit? looks at safe Yeah, I'd be over by just a few ...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 29, 2026 07:43 PM (t2oSI)

Remember that to a prog, 2 weapons and 100 rounds of ammo is "an arsenal."

Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 09:04 PM (5tsvC)

156 2 weapons and 100 rounds of ammo is "an arsenal."

Or "5 minutes worth"...

Posted by: man at March 29, 2026 09:05 PM (XuXeR)

157 Whig, aren't Colt Python grips compatible with Colt Official Police frames? IIRC, the difference between the E Frame (Official Police) and I Frame (Python) was the E Frame had the hammer mounted firing pins. The Python had an internal firing pin. On paper at least, the Python grips (even current production ones) should work on the Official Police.
Posted by: Ed L
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You are correct. E&I frames are identical in size with the slight differences being firing pin as you note above. Grip and retaining screws are identical. Lockwork is also the same. My Official Police wears Pachmyr combat grips instead of the wood splinter grips.

Have no idea about the new ones or the newer post 68-69 Colt models.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:06 PM (E4rtv)

158 I also really like the 32 that Ed brought. No recoil. What a pleasure to shoot. We were at the range for quite a while and I finished up exhilarated and my hand was sore. Just everything worked. ❤️🤠

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 09:06 PM (t/2Uw)

159 I can see a rifle, a pistol, and a revolver from this chair.

I must be a terrorist.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:06 PM (4NO2D)

160 Posted by: Wifey of ShainS at March 29, 2026 09:02 PM (VXJx/)
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Thanks for the tip, and welcome!

Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 09:07 PM (tKZgo)

161 I thought you could use standard 5.56 mags but not in this gun apparently.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:01 PM (4NO2D)

Only in pinch. Mags made for 300 Blackout will perform much more reliably, as you found out. Early GI aluminum magazines (especially those from the 70s) are probably the least reliable 5.56 mags out there because they're really used back when the mags were supposed to be expendable (but weren't). The followers are a big part of the problem. They were retained for use far after they should have been junked.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:07 PM (BCwQW)

162 I thought you could use standard 5.56 mags but not in this gun apparently.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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You make a very important point.

Always check your mags using live firing as somethings that are supposed to work with a firearm sometimes don't in practice.

A semi auto with unreliable magazines is a single shot if even that.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:09 PM (E4rtv)

163 I think that newer semi-autos have lighter recoil springs and better grip surfaces that make gripping the slide easier than a GI 1911. Some are specifically aimed at users with less grip strength than your typical military age male (S&W Shield E-Z, Walther PDP-F, just to name a couple).
Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 08:02 PM (BCwQW)

And then there's the ones you don't have to rack to load the first round. Like the 30X Tomcat.

Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 09:09 PM (5tsvC)

164 OK, all y'all. 9:10 thank you time.

Thank you!

I appreciate your being here tonight and hope to see you next Sunday. Kinda slow this evening so if you want to treat this as an open thread, all good with me.

Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 09:10 PM (9rVq1)

165 We are landlocked by NY, MA and CT for travel, unfortunately.
Posted by: RI Red

So can you legally transport a weapon through any of those states on the way to visit America?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 09:11 PM (znREB)

166 You are correct. E&I frames are identical in size with the slight differences being firing pin as you note above. Grip and retaining screws are identical. Lockwork is also the same. My Official Police wears Pachmyr combat grips instead of the wood splinter grips.

Have no idea about the new ones or the newer post 68-69 Colt models.
Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:06 PM (E4rtv)

Current production Pythons are marketed as compatible with vintage Python grips. I've tried swapping them myself between the originals (1960s - 1990s production) and current models I have and they work without issues.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:11 PM (BCwQW)

167 I don't consider any weapon reliable until I have fed at least 300 rounds through it without a failure.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:11 PM (4NO2D)

168 Thanks for hosting, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:12 PM (BCwQW)

169 I also really like the 32 that Ed brought. No recoil. What a pleasure to shoot. We were at the range for quite a while and I finished up exhilarated and my hand was sore. Just everything worked. ❤️🤠
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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You make a very good point for those who have hand strength or arthritis issues.

32 ACP for semi automatics and 32 Smith and Wesson Long revolver rounds have enough penetration to hurt someone with virtually no recoil.

But, placement is critical on shots as you cannot rely on ammo expanding at those low velocities. You get 32 caliber (.311-.313) holes in the target.

When the doc finally clears me for range time, I am starting with 22 LR and 32 S&W Longs until I am sure that nothing breaks loose from my surgeries.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv)

170 Current production Pythons are marketed as compatible with vintage Python grips. I've tried swapping them myself between the originals (1960s - 1990s production) and current models I have and they work without issues.
Posted by: Ed L

Good to know. If a Python fell in my lap, I wouldn't mind at all, new or old. Probably prefer a new model though as I have enough old Colt Double Actions (first year Police Positive for example) and few skilled gunsmiths work on those anymore.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:15 PM (E4rtv)

171 Thanks for a great Gun Thread, Weasel.

See y'all on the Morning Report.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 09:17 PM (Wnv9h)

172 Beretta makes some sweet .32acp pistols. I have a model 80 in .32acp. A good "woman's gun".

Their Tomcat in .32acp has a tip up barrel so you don't even need to rack it to load.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:17 PM (4NO2D)

173 I also really like the 32 that Ed brought. No recoil. What a pleasure to shoot. We were at the range for quite a while and I finished up exhilarated and my hand was sore. Just everything worked. ❤️🤠
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 09:06 PM (t/2Uw)

And that's why I think .32 ACP might be an underrated round IF you put in the practice with it. I'm sure Sharon could have fired off a couple hundred rounds of .32 ACP today w/o any problems. Which is more effective, the .32 ACP that you've shot several hundred (or thousand) times, or the .357 Magnum you shot only a dozen times because you can't stand the recoil beating you up?

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:18 PM (BCwQW)

174 Hammer fired semi autos are always going to have an advantage in less force needed to rack a slide that striker fired pistols. In a pinch, on a 1911 or similar exposed hammer fired semi auto, cock the hammer and it becomes much easier to rack the slide to load a round into the chamber. Safest to do that on a 1911 due to the grip safety and you purposefully do not depress it when you do this.

Point it in a safe direction or at the thug of your choice bearing down on you if you must do this.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:19 PM (E4rtv)

175 Their Tomcat in .32acp has a tip up barrel so you don't even need to rack it to load.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:17 PM (4NO2D)

Compared to the PPK, the Beretta 80 series guns hold more ammo, and Tomcat just might be easier to use. But pop culture has given the .32 ACP PPK an aura of its own. And Walther has produced a version with a threaded barrel from the factory.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:23 PM (BCwQW)

176 168 Thanks for hosting, Weasel!
Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:12 PM (BCwQW)

What Ed said! I always learn something from y'all.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 29, 2026 09:23 PM (t2oSI)

177 So can you legally transport a weapon through any of those states on the way to visit America?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 09:11 PM (znREB)

One would think that under the 1986 FOPA, you’d be safe. My sources tell me that NY, especially state troopers, don’t care.
I’ve traveled through, at the speed limit. I’d hate to be a test case.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 09:24 PM (fRFTM)

178 Their Tomcat in .32acp has a tip up barrel so you don't even need to rack it to load.
Posted by: toby928(c)

A thingie that goes up?
REEE
😱

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 09:24 PM (znREB)

179 My Beretta looks like this one*

https://tinyurl.com/3zzjrza8

*stock photo

Now look at that and try to tell me a PPK is sexier.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:26 PM (4NO2D)

180 Weasel, thanks as always. A needed respite in a time of chaos.

Posted by: RI Red at March 29, 2026 09:26 PM (fRFTM)

181 My Beretta looks like this one*
https://tinyurl.com/3zzjrza8
*stock photo
Now look at that and try to tell me a PPK is sexier.

Posted by: toby928(c)

But... James Bond ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 09:28 PM (/lPRQ)

182 And that's why I think .32 ACP might be an underrated round IF you put in the practice with it. I'm sure Sharon could have fired off a couple hundred rounds of .32 ACP today w/o any problems. Which is more effective, the .32 ACP that you've shot several hundred (or thousand) times, or the .357 Magnum you shot only a dozen times because you can't stand the recoil beating you up?
Posted by: Ed L

32 ACP is one where the most repeatable damage are from ammo that has a blunter tip either hollow point or some of the newer designs. FMJ round tips can be more easily deflected from hitting bone.

32 S&W Long has the benefit of firing lead wadcutter and semi wadcutter bullets with more consistent penetration and less deflection. A bit more penetration than the 32 ACP as the case size allows a bit more of a charge.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:29 PM (E4rtv)

183 James Bondino would carry a Beretta.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:29 PM (4NO2D)

184 Wasn't sore.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 09:29 PM (t/2Uw)

185 Now look at that and try to tell me a PPK is sexier.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:26 PM (4NO2D)

I have a Model 81 myself. And you might be right. But thanks to Bond, the PPK has gotten a lot more love from Hollywood than any of the Beretta 80 series pistols.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:30 PM (BCwQW)

186 My Beretta looks like this one*
https://tinyurl.com/3zzjrza8
*stock photo
Now look at that and try to tell me a PPK is sexier.

Posted by: toby928(c)

The Mauser HSc is cuter

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 09:32 PM (rbvCR)

187 183 James Bondino would carry a Beretta.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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He did in the first books, carried a 25 ACP Beretta. Blame Q for making him switch. In reality, someone told Ian Fleming that a 25 ACP was scarcely better than a 22 LR so he upgraded Bond's pistol.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:33 PM (E4rtv)

188 Thanks all for support and suggestions. If only that pistol had not been so perfect...
Have a great week everybody.
Thanks Weasel.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 29, 2026 09:33 PM (t/2Uw)

189 Good evening all and as always a thank you to Weasel.

Posted by: Coelacanth at March 29, 2026 09:34 PM (DJPFk)

190 I suppose comms could be Team Gabriel?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 08:54 PM (eZ5tL)

Comms won't be a whole team. But I might suggest we use Gabriel as the call sign for the service elder.
The support team (intel, maintaining the gear, etc.) will be Team Anna.

Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2026 09:34 PM (23rkR)

191 Now look at that and try to tell me a PPK is sexier.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:26 PM (4NO2D)

I don't it's an exaggeration to say that the PPK owes its continued production (95 years' worth as of this year) to the popularity of the Bond series in literature and film.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:36 PM (BCwQW)

192 From wiki,
James Bond used a Beretta in the first five novels of the series by Ian Fleming. Bond's pistol is described as "a very flat .25 Beretta (the model number is never specified by Fleming) automatic with a skeleton grip," and a threaded barrel to support a suppressor. At the end of the fifth novel, From Russia, with Love, Bond is unable to draw the Beretta at a critical moment when its suppressor catches on the waistband of his trousers, and is very nearly killed as a result. This incident leads to an order from his superior officer, M, to start carrying a new duty weapon in the opening chapters of the sixth novel, Dr. No. Major Boothroyd, the MI6 armorer and "the greatest small-arms expert in the world" in M's opinion, insists that Bond trade it for a weapon with more stopping power. Bond is issued a 7.65mm Walther PPK, and a Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight revolver for situations where he needs more power than the PPK can offer. He carries both guns during a mission in Jamaica for this novel, but only fires the S&W; in subsequent stories, he relies on the PPK.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:36 PM (E4rtv)

193 Remember that to a prog, 2 weapons and 100 rounds of ammo is "an arsenal."
Posted by: GWB

You've only got two hands. What would you ever need a third gun for?

Posted by: a prog at March 29, 2026 09:37 PM (VHUov)

194 The rest of the story,
In reality, Ian Fleming received a fan letter dated May 23rd 1956 from Geoffrey Boothroyd, a Bond enthusiast and gun expert, criticizing the choice of firearm for Bond. Boothroyd called the Beretta "a lady's gun" and suggested several alternatives, one of which was the Walther. Fleming thanked Boothroyd by naming the MI6 armorer in Dr. No after him. In the film, the character of Boothroyd references his real-life counterpart's comments when he describes the Beretta: "Nice and light, in a lady's handbag. No stopping power."

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:37 PM (E4rtv)

195 Ditto, Good night everyone. Thanks Weasel for hosting us again.

Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:37 PM (E4rtv)

196 So, if your eyesight is too good for glasses, but you can't read OTC cold medication instructions, how does one aim? Going to the range with reading glasses sucks. Any tips?

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 29, 2026 09:38 PM (X+xvk)

197 I'll have that .32, Bob.

Posted by: Little Bill at March 29, 2026 09:38 PM (Q+gd/)

198 In reality, someone told Ian Fleming that a 25 ACP was scarcely better than a 22 LR so he upgraded Bond's pistol.
Posted by: whig at March 29, 2026 09:33 PM (E4rtv)

That someone was one Geoffry Boothroyd, a self described fan of the Bond novels. Q (aka "Major Boothroyd) is Fleming's tribute to his contributions to Fleming's knowledge about firearms. Boothroyd's description of the .25 Beretta in "Doctor No" ("A nice gun. For a lady's handbag...") is almost a direct quote of the description Boothroyd used in his first letter to Fleming complaining about the .25 Beretta's effectiveness.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:41 PM (BCwQW)

199 Posted by: Sam Adams at March 29, 2026 09:38 PM (X+xvk)
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Eye transplants?

Use your glasses. They make a huge difference, at least for me!

Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 09:41 PM (64qRd)

200 199 Posted by: Sam Adams at March 29, 2026 09:38 PM (X+xvk)
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Eye transplants?

Use your glasses. They make a huge difference, at least for me!
Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 09:41 PM (64qRd)
I have cataract surgery right eye on the ninth of April. That's my main eye, folks.

Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2026 09:43 PM (LHPAg)

201 So, if your eyesight is too good for glasses, but you can't read OTC cold medication instructions, how does one aim? Going to the range with reading glasses sucks. Any tips?
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 29, 2026 09:38 PM (X+xvk)

For rifles, or pistols? For pistols, I'd choose something with bright and/or well defined sights you can pick up quickly. Fiber optics or tritium might be your best bets. If you don't have those, one can improvise with White-Out on your front sight.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:45 PM (BCwQW)

202 I'll have that .32, Bob.
Posted by: Little Bill at March 29, 2026 09:38 PM

Heh. I have my grandfather's 32S&W revolver, nickel plated with pearl handles. A real pimp's gun.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:45 PM (4NO2D)

203 >>> This week our pal rhomboid scores again with this excellent review of the West Tampa Red.

Interesting.
I tried to find where this West Tampa is as I thought the old cigar was on the East side, Ybor City. But there was this one cigar company that might fit the description that I lost track of, went away long time ago.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 09:48 PM (/lPRQ)

204 So, if your eyesight is too good for glasses, but you can't read OTC cold medication instructions, how does one aim? Going to the range with reading glasses sucks. Any tips?
Posted by: Sam Adams

Front sight should be sharp in focus, rear sight and target can be a bit fuzzy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)

205 196 So, if your eyesight is too good for glasses, but you can't read OTC cold medication instructions, how does one aim? Going to the range with reading glasses sucks. Any tips?
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 29, 2026 09:38 PM (X+xvk)

Red dot sights will be a big help, as a guy who is both nearsighted and farsighted now, they really make a difference.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 09:50 PM (xcxpd)

206 I just don't use sights on pistols. A) I'm not a competitive pistol shooter and only carry a pistol for self-defense which leads to B) If I have to pull it will most likely be dark, close, and my pulse will be north of 200bpm. I just point and click with pistols.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:50 PM (4NO2D)

207 My brother picked up his CZ75 PO1 yesterday. Not the compact, but the full size all steel version. He is a happy camper. I bet he slept with the thing. I had to do a little arm twisting to get him to consider it, but he did it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 29, 2026 09:50 PM (snZF9)

208 The support team (intel, maintaining the gear, etc.) will be Team Anna.
Posted by: GWB

Anna?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 09:51 PM (tcsrY)

209 .32 ACP is a dangerous round because the owner might think they're carrying a useful handgun.

It's barely better than .22 LR (which, yes, is lethal applied to organs) in most testing. Penetration is sadly lacking and its gets deflected by just about any bone.

If you HAVE to carry .32 ACP, Buffalo Bore has some proper rounds.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 09:54 PM (xcxpd)

210 206 I just don't use sights on pistols. A) I'm not a competitive pistol shooter and only carry a pistol for self-defense which leads to B) If I have to pull it will most likely be dark, close, and my pulse will be north of 200bpm. I just point and click with pistols.
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:50 PM (4NO2D)

You do you, man. But that sounds like a dangerous habit to develop.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 09:55 PM (xcxpd)

211 Really appreciate the help. If I focus on the sights through the reading glasses, the target is blurry. If I focus on the target, the sights are blurry. I've tried shifting to using just one eye, etc. Think it's time to get everything fitted for red dot. That's going to be a little expensive, but probably worth it.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 29, 2026 09:57 PM (X+xvk)

212 My vision sucks
I probably need the kind of sight that puts the red dot on the target itself

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 09:58 PM (tcsrY)

213 You do you, man. But that sounds like a dangerous habit to develop.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 29, 2026 09:55 PM

Why so? I just work for a repeatable grip and put enough rounds through to get the muscle memory pointing into a silhouette target at 10-20 feet. It's like pointing your finger. I don't need to look down my finger to know I am pointing at your chest from 20 feet away.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 09:59 PM (4NO2D)

214 Compared to the PPK, the Beretta 80 series guns hold more ammo, and Tomcat just might be easier to use. But pop culture has given the .32 ACP PPK an aura of its own. And Walther has produced a version with a threaded barrel from the factory.

Posted by: Ed L at March 29, 2026 09:23 PM (BCwQW)

My brother bought a new 80x Cheetah 2-3 weeks ago. After spending time with it I want to throw my PPKs in the frigging trash. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 29, 2026 10:00 PM (snZF9)

215 Terror From The Year 5000!

Not 4999. Not 5001. 5000!

Posted by: mindful webworker - on the dot at March 29, 2026 10:00 PM (jrd4M)

216 Posted by: Sam Adams at March 29, 2026 09:57 PM (X+xvk)
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You're not alone. I wear readers that focus at arms length (1.5x I believe) so the front sight is clear and aim for center-blob.

Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 10:00 PM (fqEzO)

217 NOOD ONT
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=419101
awaits you

Posted by: mindful webworker - blows the dog whistle at March 29, 2026 10:01 PM (jrd4M)

218 center-blob.

Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 10:00 PM (fqEzO)

Hah!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 10:01 PM (n9ltV)

219 It's barely better than .22 LR (which, yes, is lethal applied to organs) in most testing. Penetration is sadly lacking and its gets deflected by just about any bone.

If you HAVE to carry .32 ACP, Buffalo Bore has some proper rounds.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo

Can't you just shoot them in the eye?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 10:06 PM (/lPRQ)

Food Thread: You Say Dumplings, I say Kneidlach: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off!

I couldn't resist the photo! There is a joke somewhere about it being the major food groups of the Irish, but I would never stoop so low!

That is a full brisket from Wild Fork Foods, which is a frozen-food purveyor with a robust shipping business and also a bunch of stores across the country. I have been pleased with some of their stuff, although it is obvious how they manage costs...their butchers are not the most impressive trimmers in the industry. But that brisket is sold as trimmed, and they do a good enough job at an excellent price, so all I have to do is trim a bit more fat, and it's off to the races, or into the roasting pan for a quick sear.

Well, actually it takes a fair amount of time, because it's a big piece of meat!

What? No! I am not smoking it, because braised (or roasted) brisket is one of the foods of MY people! Passover starts in a few days, and I have a bunch of people for the Seder. While I would have preferred another main course, I was informed that brisket was on the menu this year. No, I have no free will when it comes to these things...why do you ask?

Come to think of it, smoked brisket would be good! There are Jews in Texas...well, do you make traditional or Texan-style for Passover? It's tradition, not religious law, so I could make collard greens and smoked brisket and a big pot of beans, and nobody could complain.... much.

The only thing that is non-negotiable is Matzoh-Ball Soup. For two reasons. First, that's what my mother made, and second, mine is spectacular! And yes, I use duck fat instead of vegetable oil. Of course my mother once made Matzoh-Ball Soup with bacon bits inside, so you can probably guess that I didn't grow up in a Kosher home!

By the way, if you really want to show off, call them "kneidlach," because that's the Yiddish word!

******

I try not to fall into the foodie conceit that the hipper, rarer, and more expensive the ingredients are, the better the end result. Plain old black pepper is good! But damnit! MY MiL gave me some Cambodian black pepper a few years ago and I was infuriated to discover that it was fantastic! Now, it could be because it was fresh (she bought it there), but I have a sneaking suspicion that it is simply better quality than the stuff I buy. And this is a new batch she just gave me, so I will be busily grinding and tasting to see what's what!

******

For whatever reason I decided a week or so ago that pizza is low-carb. So I made some dough from a standard NY style pizza recipe. And while the pizza itself was tasty, I think the dough recipe was designed for ease of handling rather than for taste. But that is a problem with lots of bread recipes...handling high-hydration dough can be a challenge!

I'll dig up a better recipe in a month or so and see what happens.

******

Oh boypic.twitter.com/6fclhtG1FO
— Defiant L�s (@DefiantLs) March 23, 2026

That's disgusting on so many levels, that I am suspicious. It's either AI, or somebody is trying to drive eyeballs to their site. It's horrible, but maybe it's like a crash on the highway....

******
I hate this sort of crap. It is conspicuous consumption of the worst kind, akin to the Potlatch ceremonies of the Northwest Indians. NYC steakhouse rolls out an ultra-decadent hot cocoa cocktail loaded with booze -- for a whopping $1K If you need to validate your social status by pissing away $1,000 on something this stupid, just give me the cash and I will stand next to you for 30 minutes or so and tell you how impressive you are.
******

The Dijon mustard that I ate in France is simply better than the same brand that is exported to America. I find that maddening, but my one attempt at making mustard failed miserably, so I either have to find a local source for French domestic Dijon, or fly there regularly to keep my larder stocked.

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

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

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

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM

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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 04:02 PM (Ia/+0)

2 That "easy kids dinner" video reminds me of the meals prepared by Epic Meal Time...with less bacon.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2026 04:04 PM (ESVrU)

3 (chunks an onion at Skip for no reason.)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:04 PM (UajcV)

4 I would keep telling myself pizza is low carb if I cared too

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 04:04 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Have chicken thighs to fry soon, mayve some bbq sauce on them

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 04:05 PM (Ia/+0)

6 There is a joke somewhere about it being the major food groups of the Irish, but I would never stoop so low!

It's missing the potatoes, anyway.

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 29, 2026 04:06 PM (VHUov)

7 Those disgusting Youtube videos are to drive clicks and responses, b/c people will either watch fascinated at the horribleness or feel compelled to comment about how awful the food is. My kid tells me it's a very successful financial operation most social media influencers have stumbled upon...

If you haven't seen the "dessert" videos, you haven't hit the bottom of the barrel yet, but those are just artificial sugar on artificial sugar on artificial sugar into the kost disgusting semi-firm forms...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 04:06 PM (tOcjL)

8 I guess my tastes are not adequately refined. I taste the expensive stuff and the cheap stuff and the both taste like shoe polish to me...Cognac seems a little better, but still. Whew!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:07 PM (UajcV)

9 If you need to validate your social status by pissing away $1,000 on something this stupid, just give me the cash and I will stand next to you for 30 minutes or so and tell you how impressive you are.

How does one say "remember, you are the shiznizzle" in Latin?

Posted by: some Roman slave at March 29, 2026 04:09 PM (VHUov)

10 In the process of roasting zucchini, japanese eggplant, and onion...all will get food processed with skins on (save the onion) and part will go into my zaba ghanouj (why yes, this is bastardized baba ghanouj b/c I add zucchini, so it's like zoodles...gotta add the z) for dinner tomorrow and part will go into my Trader Joe's marinara sauce with a pound of cooked ground beef and a pint of fresh tomatoes (and some extra seasoning - I did preseason the veg) and red wine for tonight's pasta dish.

With tonight's roasted veg Bolognese pasta (see, it's all in the naming), we're also having raspberry/strawberry/pineapple salad.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 04:10 PM (tOcjL)

11 *gives a stern look to Skip and Don*

Now you kids behave!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 29, 2026 04:11 PM (WkL+O)

12 I see the brisket and the Guinness but no cabbage. You're slacking off if you want to be an honorary Irish hooligan.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 04:11 PM (Fbc0I)

13 That's disgusting on so many levels, that I am suspicious. It's either AI, or somebody is trying to drive eyeballs to their site. It's horrible, but maybe it's like a crash on the highway....

Child abuse comes in many forms.

Posted by: Yuck! at March 29, 2026 04:11 PM (WfE1w)

14 Have chicken thighs to fry soon, mayve some bbq sauce on them

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 04:05 PM (Ia/+0)

Fried thighs are great! They don't dry out like breast meat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 04:12 PM (n9ltV)

15 Explanation of the colors of the Irish flag: The green represents Catholics, the orange represents Protestants, the white represents peace, and the blue represents sobriety.

Posted by: Fritzy at March 29, 2026 04:13 PM (2GIh1)

16 Whole family is sick here, so lots of chicken nuggets and pot pies from the store. Doesn't taste like home cooking, but you can live on it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:13 PM (UajcV)

17 You're slacking off if you want to be an honorary Irish hooligan.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 04:11 PM (Fbc0I)

I had a group of friends when I was younger and single who were all hard-drinking Irish hooligans. It was fun! And bad for my liver.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 04:13 PM (n9ltV)

18 Doesn't taste like home cooking, but you can live on it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:13 PM (UajcV)

Yup. It's fuel...nothing more.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 04:14 PM (n9ltV)

19 Don I call it Fast food at home

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)

20 I'm grilling bacon cheddar Bubba Burgers.
Over charcoal.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:16 PM (2Ez/1)

21 I am working up a recipe for home made flour tortillas. They are thicker than the commercial ones, and a bit tenderer, but on the positive side they are also cheaper.

Flour, water, shortening, salt, baking powder, and hot water. It makes a soft dough that you let sit for a bit and then roll out and fry on a griddle.

My wife came in and gave me a hug while I was working them up and then she went out in the yard to chase the neighbors' chickens back to the proper yard and I noticed she had a large floury hand print in the middle of her back from the hug.
I thought, "my wife has joined the Uruk Hai"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 04:17 PM (rbvCR)

22 Mmmmm. Meat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 04:17 PM (zZu0s)

23 Fried thighs are great! They don't dry out like breast meat.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 04:12 PM

Fry chicken legs like true Slav!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CUf5Q8mlg

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 04:17 PM (Wnv9h)

24 It's fuel...nothing more.
Yup.
About to get really motivated and make potato soup (yeah, definitely a mick by ancestry). Good for sore throats.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:17 PM (UajcV)

25 I'm grilling bacon cheddar Bubba Burgers.
Over charcoal.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:16 PM (2Ez/1)

Dont forget to put the cheese on first.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 04:17 PM (zZu0s)

26 24 It's fuel...nothing more.
Yup.
About to get really motivated and make potato soup (yeah, definitely a mick by ancestry). Good for sore throats.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:17 PM (UajcV)

Potato is great for a sick person...good choice!

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 04:19 PM (tOcjL)

27 CBD, why duck fat rather than chicken schmaltz?

Posted by: Mastiff at March 29, 2026 04:19 PM (qd6sQ)

28 When I worked with hot sauce, I had a quick meal prep. Used domino's mild wing sauce, soaked a frozen chicken strip in it. Then bake as normal. Came out juicy and really flavorful (good sauce, not too much heat but good cayenne flavor. Lots of butter.)

Came out really well for what it was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 04:20 PM (zZu0s)

29 You must be rich. I saw a$200+ brisket yesterday, got some chicken & laughed all the way home.

Posted by: Bob at March 29, 2026 04:20 PM (hWhmF)

30 Fast food at home
_-_
Yep. Being off-grid, we don't have a microwave( uses too much power), so it is often just as easy to cook real food as reheat something, but we are all a little lethargic.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:20 PM (UajcV)

31 that kid food vid is an obscene waste of money/food.

I can guarandamntee you, when kids are at the age where they ONLY eat nuggets and fries, they also wig out if anything touches anything else.

maybe a for-clicks, but no kid I've ever met in the nugget stage would touch that with the schoolyard bully's lips.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 04:21 PM (enw9G)

32 PS - You know that kid food video was engagement only b/c they wouldn't even eat it. The best engagement farmers at least fake the bite on camera and spit it out afterwards off camera. When they can't even bring themselves to do that, you know they know it's horrific and done to be horrific...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 04:21 PM (tOcjL)

33 Re: video

CBD's gustatory equivalent to a fat fuck on an ottoman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 04:23 PM (zZu0s)

34 That easy kid's dinner reminds me of something my favorite UT00ber @tanaradoublechocolate with her "Everyone's So Creative!" channel would post with her series of horrific recipe videos.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 29, 2026 04:24 PM (/HDaX)

35 We always figured this meal's pickiness determines next meal's cook. They get at least much more diplomatic about it and better cooking skills.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:24 PM (UajcV)

36 Willowed, of course, but I want to thank all of you below for your tips and concern about my on-going move...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 04:00 PM (enw9G)

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper who is NOT a packrat, well, maybe a little at March 29, 2026 04:05 PM (WkL+O)

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 04:03 PM (+89TD)

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:00 PM (2Ez/1)

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 04:24 PM (dmDsy)

37 I could see people making that. I'm curious how fat her kids are or maybe she has a dozen.

My friend saw an Instagram video where they made a mashed potato volcano. Basically they poured gravy into one part and it flowed through the potatoes. It was pretty cool.

I did pick up Easter chocolate from the dollar store. I was in the mood. I bunny was about $2 Canadian and the eggs were $3 but they were actually pretty good.

But I'd also eat that monstrosity so...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 04:25 PM (Sco7b)

38
Well, actually it takes a fair amount of time, because it's a big piece of meat!

The Paolo, he understands....

Posted by: The Paolo at March 29, 2026 04:26 PM (y9nCu)

39 Dessert engagement farmers usually smash up a store bought bakery cake, add ACRES of food coloring (of every color), swirl it all in, add entire containers of cool whip and prepared pudding b/c who doesn't do that, drizzle chocolate syrup and caramel syrup all over, put on an entire container of sprinkles "for decoration" and call it a new trifle cake.

If you ask yourself who could actually not go into a diabetic coma upon eating one bite, well...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 04:27 PM (tOcjL)

40 "Everyone's So Creative!" channel would post with her series of horrific recipe videos.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 29, 2026 04:24 PM (/HDaX

It actually does look like something Ryan Kinel has described making. A bit scaled up. Just as disgusting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 04:27 PM (zZu0s)

41 There was one of those candy prep videos that at least looked interesting. Various flavors of chocolate chips blended with nuts (walnuts, iirc.) It actually looked like it might be good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 04:29 PM (zZu0s)

42 you're welcome, SSBN.
Best to you <3

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 04:31 PM (enw9G)

43 SSBN, the Marie Kondo stuff helped me a lot.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:33 PM (2Ez/1)

44 42 you're welcome, SSBN.
Best to you
Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 04:31 PM (enw9G)

*smiley face emoji*

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 04:33 PM (dmDsy)

45 I think the video is clickbait, but I also see what's in grocery carts in my area, and it wouldn't surprise me to see something like that on some of my neighbors' tables.

Except that McDonald's doesn't take EBT, as far as I know.

Or do they? I really don't know.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 29, 2026 04:34 PM (h7ZuX)

46 Kindltot, next time try lard when you make your tortillas. Faaaaaaaabbbbbbulous.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

47 Earlier this week I decided to have lunch at a local Greek restaurant in town.

It finally hit me why their fries are so good--they're cooked pommes frites style. Delicious.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2026 04:36 PM (ESVrU)

48 We have used Tellicherry peppercorns for years, always fresh cracked at the table and stove. They are wonderfully flavorful and aromatic. Anyone tried the Cambodian peppercorns CBD mentioned in the post and how the two types compare?

BTW, The Spice House offers both types. The Cambodian is a lot more expensive. And The Spice house sells the BEST pepper mill ever. Not cheap at 45 bucks but ours have lasted for years.

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 04:37 PM (yTvNw)

49 Tonight is Moussaka. Tuesday night we will go out for pizza. Mrs. F. and the kitchen will be a wreck. Enjoy your seder brisket CBD. A Joyous Passover to all!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 04:37 PM (RIvkX)

50 lard when you make your tortillas.
Bluebell knows...also in yer biscuits

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:37 PM (UajcV)

51
All the fast food places take EBT.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 29, 2026 04:37 PM (biznJ)

52 43 SSBN, the Marie Kondo stuff helped me a lot.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:33 PM (2Ez/1)

I just went to her site... and I was kind of scared for some reason. Probably totally irrational, it seems like she has good advice to offer, but still... Weird, right?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 04:38 PM (dmDsy)

53 So, for actual cooking, yesterday was spent disassembling a leg of lamb and sous viding the component parts with garlic and rosemary. Into the freezer and waiting for Easter to finish it on the grill.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Wnv9h)

54 lard when you make your tortillas.
Bluebell knows...also in yer biscuits
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:37 PM (UajcV)
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Amen, amen.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 04:38 PM (afFes)

55 My grandmother made some of the greatest dumpling ever.

Chicken gravy dumplings, duck dumplings, goose dumplings, cherry dumplings.

I should have paid more attention while assisting her in the kitchen.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 04:38 PM (Fbc0I)

56 Kindltot, next time try lard when you make your tortillas. Faaaaaaaabbbbbbulous.
Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 04:36 PM (afFes)

I use lard, I just never admit it because I don't like to argue over whether lard is or is not good.
I mostly use Crisco nowadays to get pine tar off my hands.

the whole hand made tortillas is an odd problem, I have had issues with it for a long time.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 04:39 PM (rbvCR)

57 Moving house after 20 years is not easy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 04:39 PM (RIvkX)

58 57 Moving house after 20 years is not easy
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 04:39 PM (RIvkX)

Plus, I was only 9 years old when I bought it, so yeah... it's tough on a few levels.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 04:41 PM (dmDsy)

59 My daughter wanted to eat at a Georgian (the country) restaurant in DC for her birthday last night. It was...let's just say there's a reason Georgian food isn't in every strip mall.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)

60 Moving house after 20 years is not easy
_-_
The thing that always wrecked me about that is the memories associated with every dumb thing I own, junk or gem.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:42 PM (UajcV)

61 It finally hit me why their fries are so good--they're cooked pommes frites style. Delicious.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 29, 2026 04:36 PM (ESVrU)

There's a really good Greek gyro place near my Mom's house--their fries are perfection! And they have felafel gyros, which I love, and there are three different sizes, which I also love. I like the lady-sized small one, but of course!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 29, 2026 04:43 PM (h7ZuX)

62 I just went to her site... and I was kind of scared for some reason. Probably totally irrational, it seems like she has good advice to offer, but still... Weird, right?
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 04:38 PM (dmDsy)
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I haven't seen her site, but I read her book years ago. The idea is sound, but I just can't imagine literally talking to my stuff. I also can't imagine putting every book I own in one place at the same time. Homeschooling for five kids for 22 years plus two parents who like to read means a lot of books.

The other idea to check out (if no one else mentioned it) is Swedish death cleaning. Not as morbid as it sounds, lol!

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 04:43 PM (afFes)

63 That Guinness case in the top pic, would that be the cans with the rattle in them?

The simple pizza looks just great.

The macaroni and fries not so much.

Local family-owned Chinese restaurant is closing next week after many years. Last week we dined there with Daughter and SiL. Place was packed like I never remember seeing it; guess posting a going out of business sign can be good for business. The food was good and I wondered why we had quit going a long time ago. Then the snarky owner woman started ragging on me about not having been there, and I remembered.😏 Guess her two sons, about the same age as our sons, grew up to be a lawyer and an architect instead of taking on the family biz. Life's like that. Too bad. Wonder if she'll move back to Taiwan. Probably not.

MiladyJo will be going there again this afternoon with a friend. Promises to bring me home some egg rolls.

Posted by: mindful webworker - connysuer at March 29, 2026 04:44 PM (jrd4M)

64 San Fran, it is eggplant tonight (and the next few days) at my house too! But mine will be parm casserole.

Dash, my grandgirl is just coming out of nugget and fries stage, but throughout there was a rule that any meal of that also had fresh vegs and fruit, and a small helping of fries.

She must also at least try new things, and if she honestly eats (swallows!) a small helping without histrionics, and still doesn't like it, well, she gave it a try.

She's also discovered some things she actually likes by having that rule, like broccoli and zucchini.

She is tall and lean, but she is very active, too.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 04:44 PM (enw9G)

65 60 Moving house after 20 years is not easy
_-_
The thing that always wrecked me about that is the memories associated with every dumb thing I own, junk or gem.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:42 PM (UajcV)

That's exactly right... I come up with "logical" reason to keep something...but it isn't really logic, is it?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 04:45 PM (dmDsy)

66 I don't get the big deal with those Wild Fork stores. The one that I visited while still in California was less-than-impressive in terms of selection and price. I see we have a few here in Florida, and I have to ask, "why?". The frozen seafood that they advertise can be purchased fresh from several places within a short drive. Ditto the meat. Kudos to them for finding a demographic that really enjoys defrosting as an essential part of food prep...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 04:46 PM (nbLIj)

67 Kindltot, I used to make homemade tortillas from a recipe I picked out on Allrecipes years ago and I guess I had beginners luck. I know you said you let the dough rest - are you dividing into little balls first? That's what my recipe says to do, then cover and let sit for 30 minutes. I never had a problem rolling them out but of course they were never perfectly round either. They tasted great though. Fried in a dry cast iron pan.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 04:47 PM (afFes)

68 51
All the fast food places take EBT.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 29, 2026 04:37 PM (biznJ)

This should surprise me, but it doesn't.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 29, 2026 04:48 PM (h7ZuX)

69 I haven't seen her site, but I read her book years ago. The idea is sound, but I just can't imagine literally talking to my stuff. I also can't imagine putting every book I own in one place at the same time. Homeschooling for five kids for 22 years plus two parents who like to read means a lot of books.

The other idea to check out (if no one else mentioned it) is Swedish death cleaning. Not as morbid as it sounds, lol!
Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 04:43 PM (afFes)

When I had to redo my floors, it was a good time to get the spouse to part with books (and to get rid of all my little kid homeschool books). Nothing like either carrying them all down to the basement and back up, or selling them at the used book store (and donating the unwanted ones).

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 04:48 PM (tOcjL)

70 Bluebell,
Where do you get your leaf lard for the biscuits?

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 04:51 PM (yTvNw)

71 That Guinness case in the top pic, would that be the cans with the rattle in them?

Posted by: mindful webworker - connysuer at March 29, 2026 04:44 PM (jrd4M)

Yes! And I think it works well. Not as good as a tap, but far, far better than the vile bottles!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 04:52 PM (n9ltV)

72 >>That's disgusting on so many levels, that I am suspicious. It's either AI, or somebody is trying to drive eyeballs to their site. It's horrible, but maybe it's like a crash on the highway....

Hey-O!! Someone call me for some Kwanzaa cake goodness? Pour me another drink while I gather the ingredients from my panty -- er, pantry. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2026 04:52 PM (Suwql)

73 JTB, I used to be able to get pure lard (no preservatives) in the refrigerated section of Giant or Safeway once in a while but it has been years.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 04:52 PM (afFes)

74 My problems with the tortilla recipe was that I was not letting the lumps sit to loosen up the gluten before pressing them. I wisely got rid of the tortilla press.
My other problem was my preconception that "all dough has to be as stiff as standard bread dough" which is not wise. It makes "thin hard tack"

The last batch I did turned out well, I used boiling water instead of cool water for mixing, and that rolled out great. I got the idea for that from my hot water pie crust recipe, which was merely easier to use than tasty.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 04:53 PM (rbvCR)

75 >>The other idea to check out (if no one else mentioned it) is Swedish death cleaning. Not as morbid as it sounds, lol!

Sounds like it might be hard to Finnish?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2026 04:53 PM (Suwql)

76 JTB, I buy my leaf lard from Fatworks.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 04:54 PM (+nEug)

77 I don't get the big deal with those Wild Fork stores. The one that I visited while still in California was less-than-impressive in terms of selection and price.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 04:46 PM (nbLIj)

That's fair. Their fish looks like typical frozen fish, so i don't bother, especially since I live near the Atlantic and have a superb fish store just a few minutes away.

But they have a few things that I like...brisket, untrimmed pork ribs, and Berkshire pork that sometimes looks great.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 04:54 PM (n9ltV)

78 Norway you made that joke. I can't believe it.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 04:55 PM (rbvCR)

79 77 I don't get the big deal with those Wild Fork stores. The one that I visited while still in California was less-than-impressive in terms of selection and price.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 04:46 PM (nbLIj)

I saw the name and kept thinking they were trying to be Whole Foods, but not...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 04:56 PM (tOcjL)

80 I reliable old Irish dame I know insists that corned beef is not eaten in Ireland while Shepherd's Pie is.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 29, 2026 04:56 PM (qFwJc)

81 Yeah, Marie is a little unusual for our American culture. The "spark joy" thing means basically: how do I feel about this item.

I was able to get rid of all my big stuff via an online estate sale. I did not make money, but after I figured out how much it cost me vs how much I got rid of w/o lifting a finger, it was worth every penny.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:57 PM (2Ez/1)

82 For a while, my wife was buying pork fat and rendering it. I think she was getting it from a local butcher..._maybe_ fewer impurities, anyway.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 04:58 PM (UajcV)

83 Sometimes I don't realize just how good I have it. I have a Butcher extrordinaire within driving distance that, not only, trims a brisket for you. They'll do it right in front of you and have a pleasant conversation with you while you wait.

Additionally, most of their meats come from their own family owned grazing farms surrounding the store and throughout the area. That means excellent (and I do mean EXCELLENT) prices well below the average cost. Not to mention that if you're a hunter and bag a buck...take it in and they'll dress and process into 20 different items. Same with fish and fowl. Gem of a butcher, not to mention old family friends.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 04:59 PM (dIske)

84 I was able to get rid of all my big stuff via an online estate sale. I did not make money, but after I figured out how much it cost me vs how much I got rid of w/o lifting a finger, it was worth every penny.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:57 PM (2Ez/1)

Interesting, thanks!

I'm gonna look into that.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 04:59 PM (dmDsy)

85 Oh, yeah, our big food news for the month is a whole cow.

Despite my ancestors' raising cattle, twists of life kept me from learning anything about ranching. (All hat and no cattle Oklahoman.) We did (after years of trying) acquire this old ranch that my great-grandfather ~~swindled~~ bought from the Injuns. We've always rented the pasture out to my late father's foreman; that great man and his wife we lost this year. Their daughter and her husband took over and do the cowboying. This year we acquired from them a whole cow. Their kids run a butcher shop, so we had it carved up to order. Our daughter and SiL bought a new freezer, which is now packed solid, with overflow going to our freezer. Beef prices be danged, we're set for a while.

Hope I don't get the tick-carried virus that makes one allergic to red meat!!!!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Black Angus like granddaddy used to raise at March 29, 2026 04:59 PM (jrd4M)

86 >>>That Guinness case in the top pic, would that be the cans with the rattle in them?

Posted by: mindful webworker - connysuer at March 29, 2026 04:44 PM (jrd4M)

Yes! And I think it works well. Not as good as a tap, but far, far better than the vile bottles!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

>It does work out well. Especially if you live in a one horse town where they have no Guinness on tap. I would probably have to drive 30 mile for a Guinness.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 04:59 PM (Fbc0I)

87 >>Norway you made that joke. I can't believe it.

That I'd Dane to pun?
Totes believable!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2026 05:00 PM (Suwql)

88 Wallymart sells lard.
https://tinyurl.com/3unbzhjv

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 05:00 PM (2Ez/1)

89 Orson , you are so fortunate. Processing time around here is a year.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+nEug)

90 That Guinness case in the top pic, would that be the cans with the rattle in them?
Posted by: mindful webworker - connysuer

Yes! And I think it works well. Not as good as a tap, but far, far better than the vile bottles!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Agreed!

Left Hand stout comes in bottles that instruct you to turn them completely upside-down to pour. It comes out kind of nitro-y, but still not nearly as good as the Guinness rattle can.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 05:01 PM (VHUov)

91 I don't think I've ever had Cambodian pepper corns. I usually get the organic, non-GMO amazon ones from Vietnam. They're excellent.

Posted by: jix at March 29, 2026 05:03 PM (y687V)

92 89 Orson , you are so fortunate. Processing time around here is a year.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+nEug)

________________________________

You're down in Texas, yes? My brother lives down there and I periodically send him items from this butcher that are banned from manufacturing down there. I found it odd, but stuff like ring baloney and certain PA Dutch processed meats can't be made in Texas. My butcher make quite a few scheckles from previous PA residents that now live in Texas.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske)

93 I buy the Armour Lard at Wallyworld too.

Must-have for great refried beans.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 29, 2026 05:04 PM (qFwJc)

94 bluebell and Ben Had,
Thanks for the lard info.

I've been using the Kent Rollins 2 ingredient biscuit recipe: White Lily flour and heavy cream. Simple and it works. Time to try a more traditional recipe and compare the two styles.

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 05:05 PM (yTvNw)

95 "...certain PA Dutch processed meats..."

Sweet Lebanon bologna!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 05:06 PM (2Ez/1)

96 The seasonal taco place is open so we’re going there for dinner. In fact, all the seasonals are open now. We had the wood oven pizzia Friday and next weekend it the Korean place.

Posted by: Accomack at March 29, 2026 05:06 PM (GbONR)

97 >>> 89 Orson , you are so fortunate. Processing time around here is a year.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:01 PM (+nEug)

For beef, or anything? I have a couple places with much shorter lead times near me...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 29, 2026 05:07 PM (ULPxl)

98 >>"...certain PA Dutch processed meats..."

SCRAPPLE!
My mom grew up in Philly and loooooves that stuff!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 29, 2026 05:07 PM (Suwql)

99 Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske)

I am in the Philly area (and over the river from Trenton) fairly frequently. Care to share the name of this butcher if he is anywhere near?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 05:07 PM (n9ltV)

100 80 I reliable old Irish dame I know insists that corned beef is not eaten in Ireland while Shepherd's Pie is.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 29, 2026 04:56 PM (qFwJc)

That is true.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 05:08 PM (tOcjL)

101 Time to try a more traditional recipe and compare the two styles.

Posted by: JTB at March 29, 2026 05:05 PM (yTvNw)

Homesick Texan's recipe is excellent.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 05:09 PM (n9ltV)

102 Helena Handbasket, beef. I want to feed out a jersey steer but that kind of wait time on processing will be tricky.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:09 PM (+nEug)

103 I want to feed out a jersey steer but that kind of wait time on processing will be tricky.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:09 PM (+nEug)

Pete Bog will do it for you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 05:10 PM (n9ltV)

104 There is a joke somewhere about it being the major food groups of the Irish, but I would never stoop so low!
----
It's missing the potatoes, anyway.
Posted by: o'mikeski
++
Get rid of the beef.
Add one potato.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 05:11 PM (/lPRQ)

105 I am in the Philly area (and over the river from Trenton) fairly frequently. Care to share the name of this butcher if he is anywhere near?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 05:07 PM (n9ltV)
__________________________

Dietrich Meats (Krumsville, PA)
https://tinyurl.com/4ehh354j

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 05:11 PM (dIske)

106 CBD, I don't onow if has the the facility for a 90 day corn finish.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:12 PM (+nEug)

107 Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 04:59 PM (dIske)

There's a small chain of Amish grocery stores that has become my go to source for Sunday steak. Picked up two nicely marbled Tbones that I grilled for myself and Little yesterday. Sometimes Sunday arrives a day early here at Casa Sin Problemas.

Their seafood selection is equally impressive. Fresh trout, tuna, and even monkfish. I do consider myself fortunate to have a reliable local source of meat and seafood..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 05:14 PM (nbLIj)

108 Sweet Lebanon bologna!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 05:06 PM (2Ez/1)

Sorry, man, but I tried that and it was fucking gross!

Posted by: Denny Crane - B O L O G N A! at March 29, 2026 05:19 PM (dmDsy)

109 Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 05:14 PM (nbLIj)
_____________________

I don't doubt it. The area I live in still has roadside stands for great sweet corn, tomatos, peaches, cherries etc. in the summer time. Most are Mennonite...but some Amish.

The best thing is that they pick in the morning and sell in the afternoon, so they are right off the stalk, branch or vine. Good stuff. Great people to chat with, as well. Most will talk your ear off and give you great gardening tips in the process.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 05:20 PM (dIske)

110 Wait, is it actually sweet bologna?

I believe bologna is best when pickled.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

111 Bologna is best when smoked.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:23 PM (+nEug)

112 Despite my complete lack of culinary skills I find myself drawn to cooking videos on YouTube. I have a question for you many gifted cooks.
Why are pie pre-baked sometimes but not other times?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pT5+M)

113 112 Despite my complete lack of culinary skills I find myself drawn to cooking videos on YouTube. I have a question for you many gifted cooks.
Why are pie pre-baked sometimes but not other times?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pT5+M)

Usually, it's to ensure it will be finished when the filling is finished, and that the crust will retain a crisp texture (some pie fillings can sog out a raw crust)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 05:27 PM (tOcjL)

114 Depends on the cooking time of the filling, I think. The longer the time, the less need to pre-bake the crust.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 29, 2026 05:28 PM (qFwJc)

115 The Lebanon Bologna at Riehl's Reading Terminal Market is a National Heritage site.

Well, it should be.

Don't anyone go there, because I want it ALL when I go.

Posted by: goatexchange at March 29, 2026 05:28 PM (hyS0X)

116 You people wouldn't believe what my dad does with Lebanon bologna

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 05:28 PM (Ia/+0)

117 you blind bake a crust when the innards of the pie are touchy about heat and time. For example if they will turn to hardening goo if you bake it long enough to bake the crust.
Some merengues and cheesecakes can't take heat either and will crack or burn.

if you are assembling a pie, because the crust is important for display, then you can also blind bake, and put in the hot fillings and cap it, maybe with some extra gravy to fill the cap up to the top.
By the way, some pot pies call for just that treatment since the fillings will slump a bit

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 05:31 PM (rbvCR)

118 Speaking of food.
Okay, which one of you morons were visiting Europe lately and pulled this heist?

https://tinyurl.com/324y6rk2

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 29, 2026 05:32 PM (5xuJ/)

119 Ziti and meatball parmigiana for dinner tonight, paired with a snooty scotch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 29, 2026 05:33 PM (XV/Pl)

120 118 Speaking of food.
Okay, which one of you morons were visiting Europe lately and pulled this heist?

https://tinyurl.com/324y6rk2
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 29, 2026 05:32 PM (5xuJ/)

My oldest son's favorite candy bar is a KitKat bar...but I can confirm he's stayed on this side of the pond all year...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 05:35 PM (tOcjL)

121 111 Bologna is best when smoked.

Absolutely!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at March 29, 2026 05:35 PM (abIsI)

122 Heh. Now I have that Weird Al song stuck in my head...again.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 29, 2026 05:36 PM (UajcV)

123 I knew I would get an answer here.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 29, 2026 05:36 PM (pT5+M)

124 112 Despite my complete lack of culinary skills I find myself drawn to cooking videos on YouTube. I have a question for you many gifted cooks.
Why are pie pre-baked sometimes but not other times?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 29, 2026 05:25 PM (pT5+M)

The filling determines whether or not to prebake the crust. A cream pie (think pudding) requires a prebaked crust. Most fruit pies (apple, cherry, blueberry) are fill-and-bake affairs, especially the double-crust variety...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 05:37 PM (nbLIj)

125 If you haven't had Lebanon bologna its not much different than ring bologna, but tjen would guess one is near the other

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)

126 Bologna is best when smoked.
--------

Rolled into cigars? Chopped for pipes? Cigarettes?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2026 05:44 PM (XeU6L)

127 Pork medallions and apple slices coated in ginger and nutmeg cooked in peachello served with a cranberry / walnut chutney garnish.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:46 PM (+nEug)

128 That ladies video put me in the mood for poutine. Which I rarely eat.

Her thing may have looked gross unless you thin of it as poutine with nuggets.

Maybe pizza. My town has a Dominos now!!

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 05:47 PM (Sco7b)

129
Heh. Now I have that Weird Al song stuck in my head...again.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

Ooh, my little hungry one, hungry one
Open up a package of My Bologna
Ooh, I think the toast is done, the toast is done
Top it with a little of My Bologna
Never gonna stop, eat it up
Such a tasty snack, I always eat too much
And throw up, but I'll soon be back
For my my my yi yi woo!
M-M-M-My Bologna

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 05:48 PM (Cqx++)

130 Mike Hammer, our best BBQ place has done a couple of 5lb smoked bolognas that we had as appetizers at the MoMe. Wasn't a smell left.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:49 PM (+nEug)

131 Pork medallions and apple slices coated in ginger and nutmeg cooked in peachello served with a cranberry / walnut chutney garnish.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:46 PM (+nEug)

(Reviews the wine list)

Let's go with the Riesling, shall we?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 05:50 PM (nbLIj)

132 Very disappointed in my Costco chicken yesterday. Not fully cooked.
Annoying.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 29, 2026 05:51 PM (2WIwB)

133 Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 05:11 PM (dIske)

Thank you!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 05:52 PM (n9ltV)

134 But on the upside, got some golf in.
But missed meeting AOP.
Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 29, 2026 05:52 PM (2WIwB)

135 Joe Kidd, that works for me.

Cheers!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:53 PM (+nEug)

136 132 Very disappointed in my Costco chicken yesterday. Not fully cooked.
Annoying.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 29, 2026 05:51 PM (2WIwB)

I wonder how that happens? They do tons a day.
New person?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 05:53 PM (Sco7b)

137 Nothing fancy for dinner tonight. Beef and chicken fajitas. Simple and tasty, and aside from the tortillas, all fresh ingredients.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 29, 2026 05:54 PM (0aYVJ)

138 Stateless, I'm not saying I wouldn't eat that thing from the video (youngest of six, Catholic, Depression-era WW II vet parents. It is food.)
I'm saying it is a colossal waste to say that a KID would.
Teen boys, probably.
Kid?
no.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 05:54 PM (enw9G)

139 Joe Kidd, that works for me.

Cheers!
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 05:53 PM (+nEug)

(Signals to the wine captain)

Two straws, garcon!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 29, 2026 05:55 PM (nbLIj)

140 I'm saying it is a colossal waste to say that a KID would.
Teen boys, probably.
Kid?
no.
Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 05:54 PM (enw9G)

You're probably right. On all counts.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 05:56 PM (Sco7b)

141 We had French Onion Soup last night. My wife's recipe. Tonight it'll be sliders. Something easy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 05:56 PM (AkEZC)

142 That picture of fresh Animal Flesh is giving the Lefttards a major migraine headache.

They think you should only eat Leaves and Roach Burgers...

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 29, 2026 05:58 PM (38587)

143 Pulled out a box of Spanish Rice a Roni. Will add some ground beef for a simple meal. Nothing fancy tonight.

Posted by: Tuna at March 29, 2026 05:58 PM (lJ0H4)

144 I've been binge watching an English chef with a channel called Backyard Chef. He does heavy, old time English food with lots of meat, potatoes and butter, often baked into a pie. I find him amusing.
I've also been watching Italian chef Ana Sofia Fehn because she is comely to gaze upon.
Just thought I'd share.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 29, 2026 06:00 PM (pT5+M)

145 Tuna, as long as it makes you happy that is all that counts.

Some days a peanut butter and blackberry jam sammich is a feast to me

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:01 PM (+nEug)

146 Teen boys, probably.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 05:54 PM (enw9G)

Well, they will eat anything. And quickly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:02 PM (n9ltV)

147 >>>@105 I am in the Philly area (and over the river from Trenton) fairly frequently. Care to share the name of this butcher if he is anywhere near? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 05:07 PM (n9ltV)
====================
CBD ... Another business in the "over the river from Trenton" area is Ely's Farm in Newtown, PA ... It's probably best known for its deer processing and handcrafted cheeses ... At one point, Dwight Ely was the President of the American Association of Meat Processors.

Posted by: Kathy at March 29, 2026 06:04 PM (zuKcR)

148 Pulled out a box of Spanish Rice a Roni. Will add some ground beef for a simple meal. Nothing fancy tonight.

Posted by: Tuna at March 29, 2026 05:58 PM (lJ0H4)

One of my favorite simple foods is a pot of rice dumped into a roasting pan or skillet that has the juice and other detritus from roasting chicken.

That is grand eating.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:04 PM (n9ltV)

149 143 Pulled out a box of Spanish Rice a Roni. Will add some ground beef for a simple meal. Nothing fancy tonight.
Posted by: Tuna at March 29, 2026 05:58 PM (lJ0H4)

Good food doesn't need to be fancy...
I've always favored the homey and rustic presentation here.

And as I've said many times, while Sandra Lee's show was the worst version of the concept ever done, the idea of Semi-Homemade is a very valuable one for many cooks. Finding those healthy cheats you can use (like my jarred marinara that I used as the base of my sauce to work from tonight) to get good food on the table within a reasonable time and with reasonable effort.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 06:04 PM (tOcjL)

150 Ben Had, that pork sounds tasty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 06:04 PM (Wnv9h)

151 Posted by: Kathy at March 29, 2026 06:04 PM (zuKcR)

Thanks! One of the brats lives in that area, so I will take a look!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:05 PM (n9ltV)

152 RMBS, One pan cooking. The chutney takes a little pre-planning because the cranberries are soaked in sherry overnight.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:07 PM (+nEug)

153 145 Tuna, as long as it makes you happy that is all that counts.

Some days a peanut butter and blackberry jam sammich is a feast to me
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:01 PM (+nEug)

I'm a sucker for a grilled PB (like grilled cheese, but without any of that pesky dairy) - in the fall, a grilled PB and apple butter sandwich is delightful for lunch...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 06:07 PM (tOcjL)

154 Day 3 of feeding the no wisdom teeth wonder. Italian wedding soup is on the docket. This should be the last day of softer foods, we will try regular stuff tomorrow and see what happens.

Posted by: Piper at March 29, 2026 06:08 PM (OoFl2)

155 I'll ramble some more. I live beside an Italian bakery that makes a great black olive bread. Mmmmm delicious.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 29, 2026 06:08 PM (pT5+M)

156 Piper, a heavy cheesy polenta might work.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:09 PM (+nEug)

157 Okay, gonna clean up dinner. It was loved, but really, who doesn't love a good bowl of pasta, beef, veg, and sauce (and cheese for the able)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 29, 2026 06:15 PM (tOcjL)

158 HEB has started carrying some speciality breads
Caramelized onion and gruyere
Fougasse green olive
Jalapeño monterrey jack cheese

I can't quit them

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:22 PM (+nEug)

159 CBD, I have seen enough of your cooking articles to know you definitely don't keep a kosher table. And "seeing enough" probably means seeing just one of your cooking articles. I'm not Jewish, but I know bacon and other pork can't possibly be kosher.

Posted by: Ralph at March 29, 2026 06:22 PM (8WZD4)

160 And "seeing enough" probably means seeing just one of your cooking articles.

Posted by: Ralph at March 29, 2026 06:22 PM (8WZD4)

True...I write a fair amount about pork.

Keeping Kosher isn't that tough, but I was raised in a home in which we ate almost literally everything, so keeping Kosher now would be a big change.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:25 PM (n9ltV)

161 Hang on. Ralph is going to.post his recipe for stormfront manifold hot dogs.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:26 PM (+nEug)

162 159 CBD, I have seen enough of your cooking articles to know you definitely don't keep a kosher table. And "seeing enough" probably means seeing just one of your cooking articles. I'm not Jewish, but I know bacon and other pork can't possibly be kosher.
Posted by: Ralph at March 29, 2026 06:22 PM (8WZD4)

Has CBD ever said he only ate kosher? I'm sorry, but I don't remember that..

Posted by: Denny Crane - Salami And Mayo On White Bread Is AWESOME!!! at March 29, 2026 06:26 PM (dmDsy)

163 Keeping Kosher isn't that tough, but I was raised in a home in which we ate almost literally everything, so keeping Kosher now would be a big change.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:25 PM (n9ltV)

So, like ..."long pork" was on your table?

Posted by: Denny Crane - Cannibals Are People Too! at March 29, 2026 06:28 PM (dmDsy)

164 Has CBD ever said he only ate kosher? I'm sorry, but I don't remember that..

Posted by: Denny Crane - Salami And Mayo On White Bread Is AWESOME!!! at March 29, 2026 06:26 PM (dmDsy)

No. Ralph made the rookie mistake of reading the content.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:30 PM (n9ltV)

165 No. Ralph made the rookie mistake of reading the content.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:30 PM (n9ltV)
-----
These things have content?

Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 06:31 PM (vt7xw)

166 These things have content?
Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 06:31 PM (vt7xw)

Not that I've ever noticed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

167 My joy in life is greatly increased since I found babka

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:34 PM (+nEug)

168 My joy in life is greatly increased since I found babka

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:34 PM (+nEug)

It is mighty tasty!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:37 PM (n9ltV)

169 My joy in life is greatly increased since I found babka
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:34 PM (+nEug)

*looks it up*

So it's a danish?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

170 168 My joy in life is greatly increased since I found babka
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:34 PM (+nEug)

A bread can do that?? AWESOME!!!!

Posted by: Denny Crane - I'm Adding Bread To My Balcony Table at March 29, 2026 06:38 PM (dmDsy)

171 CBD, any other treasures out there I have been missing?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:38 PM (+nEug)

172 Screw it. Soup and a can of beans will do today.

I still have 15 pounds of red beets to take care of. They'll keep a bit longer.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 06:39 PM (Sco7b)

173 That kids dinner video is borderline child abuse if fed to actual kids.
On the plus side at least she remembered to take the plastic off the "cheese" slices.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 06:40 PM (tcsrY)

174 CBD, all my men have been serious starchaholics.
My son thought he'd died and gone to heaven when we showed him peirogies.
Potato, INSIDE noodle!

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 06:41 PM (enw9G)

175 Stateless, borscht

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:41 PM (+nEug)

176 My daughter wanted to eat at a Georgian (the country) restaurant in DC for her birthday last night. It was...let's just say there's a reason Georgian food isn't in every strip mall.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 29, 2026 04:41 PM (Riz8t)
====

My favorite restaurant to eat in Moscow was Georgian.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 06:44 PM (RIvkX)

177 CBD, thank you for the food thread. One of my most treasured memories is spending time in a kitchen with you.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:45 PM (+nEug)

178 When I was a kid there was a kosher Chinese place called Moshe Peking. They served seitan as "mock chicken"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 06:46 PM (RIvkX)

179 CBD does your family always have brisket for Seder?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 06:49 PM (tcsrY)

180 Trump shoolds sents Presdent Obonk two ends Trumps war with Iran place.

They be trusts Presdent Obama noor then that lyre Trump.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at March 29, 2026 06:50 PM (5YXU8)

181 I buy spices from the mom & pop Indian grocery nearby. Cheap and you can get a lot at a time.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 06:52 PM (tcsrY)

182 175 Stateless, borscht
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:41 PM (+nEug)175 Stateless, borscht

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:41 PM (+nEug)

I'm going to look it up.
Thank you.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 06:52 PM (Sco7b)

183 I love me some Mary Cloggenstein.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2026 06:55 PM (JkO4W)

184 Smoking brisket is the Way.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 06:56 PM (0sNs1)

185
We bought a half cow, grass fed, from a family who had a farm a few miles out of town 30 years ago.

My wife and I loved it but it tasted funny to the kids.

Posted by: Auspex at March 29, 2026 06:57 PM (Y8DZL)

186 One thing we have been neglecting is trying Basque foods. Boise has a lot of Basque culture. Need to try it out.

In my defense, we are still pretty new here. There is a ton of stuff to do in Idaho.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 29, 2026 06:57 PM (0aYVJ)

187 Duncanthrax, not everyone has your talent.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:57 PM (+nEug)

188 CBD does your family always have brisket for Seder?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 29, 2026 06:49 PM (tcsrY)

Or tenderloin, or leg of lamb!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:58 PM (n9ltV)

189 These things have content?
Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 06:31 PM

For a given value of "content."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 06:58 PM (Wnv9h)

190 My joy in life is greatly increased since I found babka
Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 06:34 PM

Was it under a cabbage leaf?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

191 My wife and I loved it but it tasted funny to the kids.

Posted by: Auspex at March 29, 2026 06:57 PM (Y8DZL)

Grass fed is different. I like both corn finished and grass fed, but I prefer corn finished.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:59 PM (n9ltV)

192 98 >>"...certain PA Dutch processed meats..."

SCRAPPLE!
My mom grew up in Philly and loooooves that stuff!

I grew up in Berks County, and we had Lebanon Bologna, Scrapple, Pigs Feet Jelly, Polish Cabbage Rolls {Galumpkis} and Shoo-Fly-Pie (Molasses crumb cake layered with a gooey molasses bottom) .........

The good Ole Days.....

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 29, 2026 06:59 PM (38587)

193 Or tenderloin, or leg of lamb!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:58 PM

Large quantities of lamb leg will be happening for Easter.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 06:59 PM (Wnv9h)

194 Time for a cocktail!

Thanks for reading and commenting folks!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:59 PM (n9ltV)

195 These things have content?
Posted by: Weasel at March 29, 2026 06:31 PM

More like a lack of focus on fundamentals.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 06:59 PM (0sNs1)

196 Potato, INSIDE noodle!
Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 06:41 PM (enw9G)

Yeah, that is pretty awesome. Then fried to a crisp in butter.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 29, 2026 06:59 PM (h7ZuX)

197 Corn finish! 90 days in a small pen rivals any waygu

Posted by: Ben Had at March 29, 2026 07:00 PM (+nEug)

198 For a given value of "content."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 06:58 PM

Can we assume a spherical content?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 29, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

199 Gub nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 29, 2026 07:01 PM (Wnv9h)

200 Grass fed is different. I like both corn finished and grass fed, but I prefer corn finished.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 06:59 PM (n9ltV)

Me too. If I want lean I'll get buffalo* or elk.

*and, no. I will not call those magnificent beasts bison. It's a faggy word that should never have become such a hot-button issue on the interwebs. Little brother and I argued about this for way too long.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 29, 2026 07:02 PM (0aYVJ)

201 K. I'll just clean up and turn off the lights and head upstairs.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 29, 2026 07:14 PM (0aYVJ)

202 Kindltot, you're probably gone by now but I saw that you said your last batch of tortillas turned out better. My recipe calls for boiling water and perhaps you're right that that's the difference.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 07:18 PM (afFes)

203 Hey CBD, did you hear about the Texan who attending his first Passover seder? After finishing the matzoh ball soup he complimented the hostess: "That was great, ma'am. Tell me, are there any other parts of the matzoh that are edible?"

And a zisen pesach to everyone--especially my native Texan son, born in Dallas on Juneteeth!

Posted by: Flakey Foont at March 29, 2026 08:31 PM (kvDvI)

204 Anthony Bourdain once said that only Jews and Texans understand brisket. As a 6th generation Texan with a Jewish wife, we have all styles covered here.

Posted by: Gus at March 29, 2026 08:42 PM (qJTmp)

First World Problems...

Yes, it's an old house...coming up on 100 years old in a few years. And of course we'll have a party, with cake and some gasoline and matches!

That is the last of the original moulding (molding?), and as you can see it was pieced together with what I can only assume was scraps from the rest of the house. The math suggests that the house was built in the beginning of the depression, so it is entirely possible that the builder tried mightily to save every penny.

But that line between pieces irritates me every time I see it, so that is the next thing to be replaced.

In my youth I did that sort of work, and I was taught early on how to avoid exactly that sort of problem. And if the trim carpenter who installed that moulding wasn't as good as I was, he was very bad indeed!

I can't even blame the foundation!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 1ith

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 I was taught early on how to avoid exactly that sort of problem.

Can you reveal that secret sauce to the Moron Horde?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 29, 2026 02:01 PM (HlyYF)

3 Its bad, but maybe years to make it that bad.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Oh, make sure there is a video of the house burning for YouTube

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Ahem.

Posted by: The Cleansing Fire at March 29, 2026 02:03 PM (4NO2D)

6 It adds character. Captures the essence of the home. Rough around the edges, but still a good dame.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 29, 2026 02:03 PM (0aYVJ)

7 For me looks like I will need to replace a bathroom faucet

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 02:03 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Needs more paint.

Posted by: Case at March 29, 2026 02:04 PM (pvf3X)

9 Maybe if you just sanded down the splotchey paint it wouldn't look so bad or at least your eye wouldn't be drawn to it whenever you looked that way.

Posted by: Tuna at March 29, 2026 02:05 PM (lJ0H4)

10 I had to replace the seat trim on my wife's Explorer yesterday. It's the piece under the actual seat, on the left, that houses the controls for the electric seat.

A royal pain in the ass to reassemble. One wiring harness, but a half dozen tabs and one torx screw to attach it.

I cut myself numerous times on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 02:05 PM (AkEZC)

11 Maybe if you just sanded down the splotchey paint it wouldn't look so bad or at least your eye wouldn't be drawn to it whenever you looked that way.
Posted by: Tuna at March 29, 2026 02:05 PM (lJ0H4)

But then the replacement paint would be slightly off shade to the rest and would always draw the OCDCBD eye.

No, better to nuke the whole town and start fresh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

12 Horde medical wisdom is relevant here.

Slap a hot iron on it.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 29, 2026 02:07 PM (xAJnx)

13 My FWP, took my pickup to a trailer repair guy to fix the 2nd trailer plug. He found there was some bleed through current and he could not just fix the couple of pins that were not right. No big deal since the gooseneck trailer can plug into the the bumper plug. But when I went to drive home my seat would not come forward. After a bit of youtube sleuthing I think the switch for forward is bad. Stupid power seat, but with a used vehicle purchase one takes the features it has if the main stuff is what is needed. I'll have to have a mechanic look at it and see if the switch can be replaced for a reasonable price. I think maybe a used manaul adjust seat could be swapped in if its not a simple switch replacement.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 02:08 PM (+89TD)

14 Slap some more paint on that.

Posted by: huerfano at March 29, 2026 02:08 PM (98kQX)

15 Twenty coats of paint does not have much elasticity.
Maybe 25 coats will work...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 02:09 PM (/lPRQ)

16 A spatula and some Cool Whip should fix it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 29, 2026 02:09 PM (1o8D5)

17 Its called "character" and it's a feature not a bug.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 02:09 PM (RIvkX)

18 I cut myself numerous times on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 02:05 PM (AkEZC)

Applying CBD logic you should trade her in.

Car? Wife? Potato Potahto

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 29, 2026 02:10 PM (xAJnx)

19 I would have suspected that a house that old would have plaster molding.

Posted by: javems at March 29, 2026 02:10 PM (zFsEm)

20 No, better to nuke the whole town and start fresh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

This!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 02:10 PM (n9ltV)

21 OT I successfully whined up a brisket for seder.

Never doubt my skillz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 02:10 PM (RIvkX)

22
I was taught early on how to avoid exactly that sort of problem.

Does it involve 1/2 lb of wood putty and a gallon of lead-based paint?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 29, 2026 02:11 PM (y9nCu)

23 Slap a hot iron on it.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 29, 2026 02:07 PM (xAJnx)

With the aforementioned gasoline!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2026 02:11 PM (n9ltV)

24 I need a Martini Farmer to do vehicle stuff that I decide is over my head. Youtube is great, but some things I'm like "no, I don't have the base knowledge to do this even with the youtube tutorial, or it would simply take me too long when I'm already barely keeping my head above water getting stuff taken care of. But I do have a local mechanic that won't soak me like a dealership would that is pretty good.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 02:13 PM (+89TD)

25 A spatula and some Cool Whip should fix it.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 29, 2026 02:09 PM (1o8D5)

Toothpaste. Trusted by college students the world over.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

26 You know how you don't want to hear your dentist say "Oh, that cavity looks deeper than I thought." I've found that same kind of thing when working repairing exterior wood.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 29, 2026 02:14 PM (X2gcU)

27 I would have suspected that a house that old would have plaster molding.
Posted by: javems at March 29, 2026 02:10 PM (zFsEm)

The fact they used wood could also be the aforementioned cost savings.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:15 PM (zZu0s)

28 I unwittingly discovered the perfect solution for a first-world problem we get every spring.

As soon as it starts to warm up outside, it seems we get a hornet or two per week in the house. I can never see the darn things, I can only hear their frightful buzzing, and it's always in the morning when I first come downstairs.

My husband was home and swatted the first one. That's not my solution, although it's a good one. The next four have been found dead on their backs with their legs up in the air after hearing them buzz for two or three mornings. I guess they have no food or water - I don't care the reason, I just care that they very kindly present themselves on my floor (or in one case, on my washing machine nestled into my laundry scoop) for easy disposal.

Feel free to use my method, no charge.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 02:15 PM (afFes)

29 I haven't heard the words 'gallon of gas and a match' yet, so the problem's still easily within the bounds of Solvability, yes … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at March 29, 2026 02:16 PM (ayRl+)

30 You know how you don't want to hear your dentist say "Oh, that cavity looks deeper than I thought." I've found that same kind of thing when working repairing exterior wood.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 29, 2026 02:14 PM (X2gcU)

Sandra Fluke gets that a lot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

31 sand it smooth, fill the gaps, paint.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 29, 2026 02:16 PM (RDqo2)

32 Instead of using gasoline and matches yourself, I'd suggest going to a moron meetup so you have an alibi and have someone else do the dirty deed.

Maybe someone from out of the country...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 02:16 PM (Sco7b)

33 We had our house releveled when we replaced the foundation, but it has never been and never will be level. If you drop a marble on the south side it will slowly but surely roll northward.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 02:17 PM (RIvkX)

34 30 You know how you don't want to hear your dentist say "Oh, that cavity looks deeper than I thought." I've found that same kind of thing when working repairing exterior wood.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 29, 2026 02:14 PM (X2gcU)

Sandra Fluke gets that a lot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

Rachel Corrie....not so much...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 02:17 PM (Sco7b)

35 Feel free to use my method, no charge.
Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 02:15 PM (afFes)
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*wonders where the shivving comes into it*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 02:19 PM (RIvkX)

36 > I need a Martini Farmer to do vehicle stuff that I decide is over my head.
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LOL

The trim piece was available on Amazon for less than $40. Same piece from Ford? $119 plus about $200 -250 to install it.

YouTube makes it look "easy." It wasn't. But it was worth $40. Plus I drank plenty of Bourbon afterwards to ease my pain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 02:20 PM (AkEZC)

37 Is it a load-bearing moulding?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 29, 2026 02:21 PM (0aYVJ)

38 There is original 1906 moulding that we insisted the carpenter reproduce when we redid the house. Too bad it is ... not so good. We wanted to keep the design consistent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 02:21 PM (RIvkX)

39 I suppose my house is 50-55 years old. Some rooms still have that shag carpeting. I might replace it, but part of me thinks "meh, I think I'll want to sell and move farther from Denver when I retire, may as well just give the buyer an allowance to replace flooring then to hope they would be okay with my choice of laminate flooring."

I don't have the gene(s) to want my house to be super nice. The basics are fine. I can keep it warm in winter and cool enough in the summer w/o busting the budget.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 02:21 PM (+89TD)

40 @ 28 I unwittingly discovered the perfect solution for a first-world problem we get every spring.
________________________________________

There's another solution for these nasty little flying attack machines: ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL in a straight-line sprayer bottle (not a 'mist-er'). The alcohol acts as a 'freeze' agent that suddenly drops their body temp (and it smells better than insecticides) and makes 'em jerk a bit before falling to the cold hard cement surface below. Ah lubs me some isopropyl alkyhol for wasp-killin'.

Just be sure to do it (a) early in the morning or (b) late in the afternoon / early evening. That's when their biology works in your favor and (b) against them. They're sleepy and slow-moving then, and your chances of being stung are a LOT lower.

Posted by: Dr_No at March 29, 2026 02:21 PM (ayRl+)

41 George Washington slept there.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 02:21 PM (Cqx++)

42
*wonders where the shivving comes into it*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 02:19 PM (RIvkX)
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That's the beauty of this method! I don't even have to take my shiv out of its sheath. If that's where one keeps one's shiv.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 02:22 PM (afFes)

43 Or (with the paint being off shade) you could go ahead and paint it. Then take up smoking, blowing smoke on the offensive area. Once spot matches, quit smoking. Burn house down because of withdrawal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:22 PM (zZu0s)

44 I need to replace the hood struts/supports on the Buick. I have them on hand, but know that my back is going to suffer doing the leaning/twisting to get at things.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2026 02:23 PM (XeU6L)

45 Just be sure to do it (a) early in the morning or (b) late in the afternoon / early evening. That's when their biology works in your favor and (b) against them. They're sleepy and slow-moving then, and your chances of being stung are a LOT lower.
Posted by: Dr_No at March 29, 2026 02:21 PM (ayRl+)
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If I see one, I'll try it! These buggers make a lot of noise but hide. My husband uses the fly-swatter (he's better at spotting them than I am). We probably won't see any more, we usually just get one a week while the weather warms up and then I guess they figure the pickin's are better outside.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 02:24 PM (afFes)

46 OT I successfully whined up a brisket for seder.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 02:10 PM (RIvkX)
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That's some serious kvetching right there!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 29, 2026 02:30 PM (1o8D5)

47 Obviously, you need to rearrange the furniture in that room so there's something placed in front of the unsightly gap in the molding.

Then next week's FWP can be either "wife upset about furniture rearrangement," or, if she's cool with it, "improper feng shui leading to migraines and distemper."

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 02:30 PM (VHUov)

48 ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL

Muh favorite ammo
Lubs it when bugs drop out of the air.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Kt19C)

49 George Washington slept there.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 02:21 PM (Cqx++)
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That's where he hit his head.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 29, 2026 02:31 PM (1o8D5)

50 I did manage one DIY thing on my pickup. I had lost the 'key' to jack the spare tire down from the frame. Its in some ditch in WY, luckily it was lost after I had gotten the spare tire down when I had a flat.

I looked up how to remove the key fitting on the jack, so that the tire can just be jacked down with no 'key.' I had to unbolt the jack to get to it, and then bolt the jack back on but I got it done.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 02:31 PM (+89TD)

51 The photo is too close-in to tell, but is that molding atop a mop-board?

Posted by: 13times at March 29, 2026 02:32 PM (cfwti)

52 I haven't heard the words 'gallon of gas and a match' yet, so the problem's still easily within the bounds of Solvability, yes … ?
Posted by: Dr_No

That solution was in the first paragraph of the Content*.

* - That's the weird header area, above the comments.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 02:33 PM (VHUov)

53 I don't have the gene(s) to want my house to be super nice. The basics are fine. I can keep it warm in winter and cool enough in the summer w/o busting the budget.
Posted by: PaleRider
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Same here. We were once 'house proud', but the energy to take care of things has diminished. So long as there is heating and cooling, and nothing is leaking, I'm fairly happy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2026 02:34 PM (XeU6L)

54 That solution was in the first paragraph of the Content*.

* - That's the weird header area, above the comments.
Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 02:33 PM

I rarely read the preamble.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 29, 2026 02:35 PM (4NO2D)

55 I'm not parking my pickup in some inner city parking garage where 3rd world thieves are given free rein to steal catalytic converters, fuel, spare tires etc. And if I was, a spare tire key would probably not prevent the theft anyway, thieves probably have workarounds. But the lack of proper law enforcement is more of a morning rant topic.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 02:37 PM (+89TD)

56 Full size spares have been a rarity for the past... 30 years?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

57 we get yellow jackets in the house in the winter, when I bring in wood from the wood shed. They hibernate in crevices for the winter, and cordwood has a lot of crevices.
The cats get all excited over the practice for their hunting skills, and I don't tell my wife.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 02:39 PM (rbvCR)

58 I think pickups usually still have them Aetius. My car just has the little donut but the pickup has a full size rim and tire on the spare.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 02:40 PM (+89TD)

59 Had great luck eliminating wasps from around our front door.
Twelve ounce soda can, apple juice (bait), spoon of boric acid (the poison), and a stick or twig to stand up in the can.

Lets the wasps go into the can, come back out with the poison, then bring the poison to the nest

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 29, 2026 02:40 PM (5EGt7)

60 My dog lived. Now I'm thinking of getting an outside ramp or have steps by the patio to make it easier for him to get in and out.

Getting inside is easy. Strong back legs. Getting out is...problematic. And that's before I've been lifting him in and out.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 02:41 PM (Sco7b)

61 Stink bugs?

Any thoughts?

Posted by: Denny Crane - They Are Fucking Mini Dinosaurs... at March 29, 2026 02:41 PM (dmDsy)

62 I'm wondering if I should move before my roof is 20 years old and I have to replace it. First world problems indeed!

Posted by: Lex at March 29, 2026 02:42 PM (y4H1r)

63 Stink bugs?

Any thoughts?
Posted by: Denny Crane - They Are Fucking Mini Dinosaurs... at March 29, 2026 02:41 PM (dmDsy)

This is no fit place for the black speech of Mordor.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 29, 2026 02:42 PM (Ot/FD)

64 My FWP today was microwaving potatoes - since they were different sizes, they each needed a different time.

Oh the humanity!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2026 02:42 PM (cYBz/)

65 I'm not parking my pickup in some inner city parking garage where 3rd world thieves are given free rein to steal catalytic converters, fuel, spare tires etc. And if I was, a spare tire key would probably not prevent the theft anyway, thieves probably have workarounds. But the lack of proper law enforcement is more of a morning rant topic.
Posted by: PaleRider

Battery powered sawzall is the thieves best friend.
Pick-ups are targeted because you can just roll under them. No jacks needed.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 29, 2026 02:43 PM (/lPRQ)

66
Full size spares have been a rarity for the past... 30 years?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I have one in my 2000 Camry.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2026 02:44 PM (Cqx++)

67 Stink bugs?
Any thoughts?
Posted by: Denny Crane

We just had a thread on No Kings protesters.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 02:44 PM (VHUov)

68 we get yellow jackets in the house in the winter, when I bring in wood from the wood shed.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2026 02:39 PM (rbvCR)

Black widows here. Lots of them. I have to inspect every piece of wood for the little devils.

Posted by: 13times at March 29, 2026 02:44 PM (cfwti)

69 Stink bugs?

Any thoughts?
Posted by: Denny Crane - They Are Fucking Mini Dinosaurs... at March 29, 2026 02:41 PM (dmDsy)
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Take a look on YouTube. I've seen homemade contraptions made out of 2-liter soda bottles, I think, that were very effective. We only get a couple a year anymore so I don't bother trying to trap them, but I do recall seeing some inventive homemade traps.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 02:45 PM (afFes)

70 The mustang has the well for a full size spare, but just an air pump in that space. I find this insulting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:47 PM (zZu0s)

71 Patch and paint, make it what it ain't...

Posted by: man at March 29, 2026 02:48 PM (XuXeR)

72 Same here. We were once 'house proud', but the energy to take care of things has diminished. So long as there is heating and cooling, and nothing is leaking, I'm fairly happy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2026 02:34 PM (XeU6L)
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*fistbump*

So far this year we've had one heating issue (minor) and two leaking issues (one major but caught in time, one minor). So I guess we see what the summer brings.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 02:48 PM (afFes)

73 Stink bugs? Get the BugZooka. Uses vacuum tube, picks them off the wall without crashing their smelly insides.

There might be cheaper items out there

https://tinyurl.com/6225kekd

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 29, 2026 02:50 PM (lkaN3)

74 Posted by: Denny Crane - They Are Fucking Mini Dinosaurs... at March 29, 2026 02:41 PM (dmDsy)
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Take a look on YouTube. I've seen homemade contraptions made out of 2-liter soda bottles, I think, that were very effective. We only get a couple a year anymore so I don't bother trying to trap them, but I do recall seeing some inventive homemade traps.
Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 02:45 PM (afFes)

Thanks for the tip, bluebell. I guess in the spring you only see the ones that managed to winter in your house. I used a vacuum cleaner last time there were a bunch, it ended up making it stink so bad I had to throw it out...

Posted by: Denny Crane - I'm Not That Bright... at March 29, 2026 02:50 PM (dmDsy)

75 My truck has 17" wheels. The spare, under the bed, is a 17" wheel, but the tire is a bit smaller than the other 4.

I don't think it'd fit if it was larger.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 02:50 PM (AkEZC)

76 Watching a shotgun round video that means to beca drone killer.
The round is bee hive parts that are tied together so spreads out but connected .

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 02:51 PM (Ia/+0)

77 First world problem; just about ran to Chick-Fil-A to get a bite to eat..........it's SUNDAY.(facepalm)

Can't they hire atheists for Sunday?

Posted by: JROD at March 29, 2026 02:52 PM (IlL6s)

78 Paint a tiny little skier, skiing down the crack slope. It won't annoy you as much when you look at it.

Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)

79 ***as you can see it was pieced together with what I can only assume was scraps
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Looking at old houses it's amazing the joiner quality they have. Such clean and precise cuts done with hand tools.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 02:57 PM (pUqS1)

80 Somalia says they will take back their Princess Illam Omar if we deport her.

I say let's make a two for the price one deal and send our American Ayatollah Barry Sotero with her !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 29, 2026 02:59 PM (X7dyz)

81 We are replacing our original 40yo Hot Point electric stove on Good Friday with a LG ceramic cooktop. Wife will be pleased. I hope it will get really hot for baking bread.

Posted by: Accomack at March 29, 2026 03:00 PM (GbONR)

82 First world problem; just about ran to Chick-Fil-A to get a bite to eat..........it's SUNDAY.(facepalm)

Can't they hire atheists for Sunday?
Posted by: JROD

Convert half the locations to Jewish ownership. Then those will be closed on Saturday, instead. Then your first-world problem will be having to drive a little further.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 03:01 PM (VHUov)

83 78 Paint a tiny little skier, skiing down the crack slope. It won't annoy you as much when you look at it.
Posted by: Orson at March 29, 2026 02:56 PM (dIske)

Paint a tiny Sisyphus rolling a boulder uphill.

Posted by: Your Grandfather's History teacher at March 29, 2026 03:04 PM (WkL+O)

84 11 Maybe if you just sanded down the splotchey paint it wouldn't look so bad or at least your eye wouldn't be drawn to it whenever you looked that way.
Posted by: Tuna at March 29, 2026 02:05 PM (lJ0H4)

But then the replacement paint would be slightly off shade to the rest and would always draw the OCDCBD eye.

No, better to nuke the whole town and start fresh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:06 PM (zZu0s)

or, just do what I do.... and take my damn glasses off!

Lookie! no problem!

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 29, 2026 03:05 PM (mP0Kj)

85 After reading about people's problems here I get why a throw away society is not a bad idea. You wind up spending more time and money trying to fix something than just throwing it away and buying a new one. A lot less frustrating too.

Posted by: Case at March 29, 2026 03:05 PM (pvf3X)

86 Two words:

Plexiderm™

Posted by: muldoon at March 29, 2026 03:07 PM (qgHp7)

87 the trim carpenter

One thing I can tell you is that

Posted by: DaveA at March 29, 2026 03:08 PM (FhXTo)

88 One thing I can tell you is that if you let an 18 foot piece of trim fall flat on a concrete 84 warehouse floor it will shatter.

Posted by: DaveA at March 29, 2026 03:09 PM (FhXTo)

89 26 You know how you don't want to hear your dentist say "Oh, that cavity looks deeper than I thought." I've found that same kind of thing when working repairing exterior wood.
Posted by: JM
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Been looking for another house. Found one that fit all the parameters to t T. The trim and fascia had new metal siding and a bit close to the roof peak was pealed back. Ruh Roh, the hidden part wasn't worn it was rotten. Yeah, no.

There's a mini-Blackrock in this state buying up junkers then contracting a company that does a good enough job covering sin for the unsuspecting home buyer. Hope they get busted.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 03:09 PM (pUqS1)

90 It looks like a rift in space-time, you'll need to fire a tachyon beam at it for 2 minutes to cloae it. That'll be $50,000, thanks.

Posted by: Sophisticated Connoisseur of Film at March 29, 2026 03:11 PM (cWLG3)

91 hear your dentist say "Oh, that cavity looks deeper

This goes double for your brain surgeon.

Posted by: DaveA at March 29, 2026 03:12 PM (FhXTo)

92 >>So far this year we've had one heating issue (minor) and two leaking issues (one major but caught in time, one minor). So I guess we see what the summer brings.

When I was looking for a home here I intentionally chose a spec home so I wouldn't have to constantly be Mr Fixit. After surviving 2 old farms where the Fixit guy, aka me, never had less than a full list and a complete house remodel from hell I wanted a place where everything was new.

So this past Christmas season I came downstairs to a chill. Checked the thermostat and yep, it was 55 degrees. I'm cheap but not that cheap. The downstairs furnace died. Had to get a new one installed which was not in the budget.

The HVAC guy said I was lucky. The one in the attic is going to cost even more to replace when it dies. And it will. It's like living with the Sword of Damocles hanging over my head.

Speaking of, I was sitting at my workbench a few weeks before the furnace died and I heard what sounded like dripping water. Because it was dripping water, coming through the ceiling in my dining room. Broken pipe in the attic. And then my refrigerator died. Again.

I'm good with broken house stuff for a while please.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)

93 My friends picked me up a tray of sushi at Costco the other week. It cost me about $24 Canadian for 30 pieces of sushi.

BUT it had 4 little packets of soy sauce, 3 packets of ginger and outrageously, 2 tiny, tiny packages of wasabi. Seriously.

I just looked on Amazon. I guess I can buy my own for next time. But still. Canada's turning into a shithole.

Time for another horror movie. It's difficult to be terrified and mentally disturbed with a cat sleeping in your lap by the way.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 03:14 PM (Sco7b)

94 @92 All I can say is, sorry man. Don't want to jinx myself.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 29, 2026 03:18 PM (cWLG3)

95 Helped a pal move. Kicked back on the sofa, looking up at ceiling, uh, why can I see sky through that room long crack?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 29, 2026 03:18 PM (Kt19C)

96 @95 The Money Pit: Electric Boogaloo?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 29, 2026 03:19 PM (cWLG3)

97 76 Watching a shotgun round video that means to beca drone killer.
The round is bee hive parts that are tied together so spreads out but connected .
Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 02:51 PM (Ia/+0)

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Basically fires a mini snare net.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 29, 2026 03:21 PM (cWLG3)

98 This all pales in comparison to our daughter and son-in-law's place. It was hit by a tornado about 2 weeks ago. Took down a huge, I mean massive tree in the back yard that punched holes in the roof, ripped up siding, punched through their septic tank and shoved the outside A/C compressor off its pad.

It's amazing the place is still standing.

It's a mobile home.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 03:22 PM (AkEZC)

99 Speaking of, I was sitting at my workbench a few weeks before the furnace died and I heard what sounded like dripping water. Because it was dripping water, coming through the ceiling in my dining room. Broken pipe in the attic. And then my refrigerator died. Again.

I'm good with broken house stuff for a while please.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)

Wow. That puts my sushi problem into perspective.

Water damage scares the crap out of me. Fire, meh. But water damage...that's a gift that unexpectedly keeps on giving.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 10 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 29, 2026 03:22 PM (Sco7b)

100 Yikes, JackStraw, I'm sorry. If it makes you feel better, our gas furnace is 28 years old and I know we are living on borrowed time. As for our fridge - we got a new one when we remodeled - 22 years ago. Also living on borrowed time. Frankly, I'm surprised that and our ovens from the same time are still going strong. Hope I didn't just jinx them.

If so, I'll be back in this thread next week complaining. Really complaining, because that's Easter and I'm hosting a lot of people and it would be really hard without a fridge or ovens.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 03:24 PM (afFes)

101 Martini Farmer, I'm so sorry to hear that about your daughter's home! I presume they are both okay? What a giant mess.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 03:25 PM (afFes)

102 Not much net as strings just keep spread together

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)

103 @102 Should be effective until drones have repulsors instead of propellers for lift. 😁

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 29, 2026 03:29 PM (cWLG3)

104 The NDP leadership convention in Winnipeg was just an absolute parade of human debris and the extreme of wokery. It may be a preview of the 2028 Dem convention in the United States.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 03:29 PM (hJH5n)

105 > Martini Farmer, I'm so sorry to hear that about your daughter's home! I presume they are both okay? What a giant mess.
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Our daughter was at work that night. She's a nurse at the hospital in town. Her husband and kids, along with us, were at a storm shelter. It was wild that night.

It was what they call a "long track" F-1 tornado. Left a path of destruction about 48 miles long across 3 counties here in KY.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 03:30 PM (AkEZC)

106 I just read a story about people sharing embarrassing work stories. A young woman told of her first waitressing job. Someone ordered champagne. She thought you had to shake it and spray it over everyone like a F1 driver, which was the only reference she had.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 29, 2026 03:30 PM (gQ15S)

107 PSA / AWFL Alert:

President Trump has gotten more fat women out walking than Jenny Craig ever did.
_that is all

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 29, 2026 03:30 PM (pUqS1)

108 My FWP - trying to save some bucks by repairing the out of warranty laptop. Broke the laptop. Money I needed, gone to a replacement. Stuck on the phone, or when really desperate the creaking old desktop computer, until Tuesday! The humanity!

Posted by: RandomDave at March 29, 2026 03:31 PM (GFDvZ)

109 Couple more coats of paint should cover it up for a year or two.

Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2026 03:32 PM (X5Jzz)

110 Our daughter was at work that night. She's a nurse at the hospital in town. Her husband and kids, along with us, were at a storm shelter. It was wild that night.

It was what they call a "long track" F-1 tornado. Left a path of destruction about 48 miles long across 3 counties here in KY.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2026 03:30 PM (AkEZC)
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Oof. Thanks be to God you all were safe. 48 mile path of destruction, yowzers. Nature can be so cruel.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 03:32 PM (afFes)

111 I've been waiting for a couple of weeks since we had a power outage but no one has remarked on my new hash written in the style of colonial English. I wonder what I did to Pixy for him to give me that one.

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 03:34 PM (afFes)

112 30 You know how you don't want to hear your dentist say "Oh, that cavity looks deeper than I thought." I've found that same kind of thing when working repairing exterior wood.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 29, 2026 02:14 PM (X2gcU)

Sandra Fluke gets that a lot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 29, 2026 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

. . . with an echo . . . echo . . . echo

Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2026 03:35 PM (X5Jzz)

113 bluebell, my first thought was that you're working for AAFES now..

Posted by: RandomDave at March 29, 2026 03:35 PM (GFDvZ)

114 Scrape the high points, respackle with M&H or similar putty/spackle, paint it.
Leave it for the next owner. You haven't got all that much time left anyway.

Posted by: Tick, Tock, Memento Mori at March 29, 2026 03:36 PM (oftw2)

115 bluebell, my first thought was that you're working for AAFES now..
Posted by: RandomDave at March 29, 2026 03:35 PM (GFDvZ)
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I had to look that up but I like that interpretation better!

Posted by: bluebell at March 29, 2026 03:37 PM (afFes)

116 It does look like paint has been layered on about a dozen timed.

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 03:37 PM (Ia/+0)

117 >>This all pales in comparison to our daughter and son-in-law's place. It was hit by a tornado about 2 weeks ago. Took down a huge, I mean massive tree in the back yard that punched holes in the roof, ripped up siding, punched through their septic tank and shoved the outside A/C compressor off its pad.

Last fall I had a big limb on tree in my neighbors yard taken down. It was hanging over my patio and he's uphill from and I knew it was just a matter of time before gravity did its thing.

About a week ago we had really big winds and a tree that was right next to the one I had pruned toppled into his yard. Thankful for southwest winds. That would've hurt if it came this way.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2026 03:38 PM (viF8m)

118 My FWP is replacing my wardrobe. I knew I'd lost weight but not how much until the weather got warm. I don't think my employer would appreciate me showing up in rolled-up jeans and too-big T-shirts. Office wear is so expensive now and the thrift shops have crappy Temu and Shein dresses with the tags still on them.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 29, 2026 03:40 PM (VgFuN)

119 I just read a story about people sharing embarrassing work stories. A young woman told of her first waitressing job. Someone ordered champagne. She thought you had to shake it and spray it over everyone like a F1 driver, which was the only reference she had.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

So, everything she knows she learned on the Internet?

Her first encounter with the opposite sex is going to be really hot or really hilarious, one or the other.

Posted by: mikeski at March 29, 2026 03:42 PM (VHUov)

120 I don't know, but the idea of shaking and spraying it made me smile

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 29, 2026 03:44 PM (gQ15S)

121 I don't know, but the idea of shaking and spraying it made me smile
Posted by: Notsothoreau

I'm just happy her point of reference was celebrating an F1 win, and not christening a ship.

Posted by: dude what ordered the champagne at March 29, 2026 03:48 PM (VHUov)

122 My First World Problem is that I am down-sizing from my home of 20 years... I bought all the boxes and tape, yet I have filled not even one...

I can leave anything I want to leave, but that just means more doubt... What do I take? What do I abandon?

That's the word- abandon. It's like anything I leave behind, I am abandoning it....

This shit is real.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 03:49 PM (dmDsy)

123 oh, nice, bluebell! the old english "long s" adds sophistication!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 29, 2026 03:50 PM (MIIRH)

124 116 It does look like paint has been layered on about a dozen timed.

I was thinking that it could be treated like bondo, and the contours could be filed and sanded to fair up the surface nice and smooth.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 29, 2026 03:53 PM (MIIRH)

125
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 29, 2026 03:49 PM (dmDsy)
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Walk around with a pad and pen first and make some notes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 29, 2026 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

126 12 Horde medical wisdom is relevant here.

Slap a hot iron on it.
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 29, 2026 02:07 PM (xAJnx)

And duct tape.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2026 03:55 PM (fNISR)

127 Could be worse. That could be romex under that crusty paint.

Keep a fire extinguisher handy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 29, 2026 03:56 PM (Fbc0I)

128 SSBN we did that a few years ago, and it is so hard.

Because my husband was ill, it was my job, and I ended up hiring a service, and have not regretted doing that (even though I agonized over a lot of the choices).

I can't remember the name (because I've probably forgotten on purpose--we were doing it because my husband was in severe decline, and we needed something much smaller and much more handicap friendly), but they basically cater to hoarders or those dealing with them, although that is not their only customer base.

They were awesome: they wanted a list of everything we wanted put aside to keep, which they packed for us. They let us pass judgment on everything else, divided into what we were giving away to family and friends (who we put on notice to come pick and choose), what could be donated (which they hauled away and provided tax receipts for), and what could be pitched (and they hauled THAT away).

So kind and patient--they apparently work with lots of people who don't WANT to do this, and who cry and scream and fight them. I could not have done it without them.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 29, 2026 04:00 PM (enw9G)

129 SSBN -
I've been in the process of downsizing for a couple of years.
Ruthlessness is the key.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:00 PM (2Ez/1)

130 16 A spatula and some Cool Whip should fix it.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 29, 2026 02:09 PM (1o8D5)

The ants will be everywhere.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2026 04:01 PM (fNISR)

131 Its FOOD FIGHT TIME

Posted by: Skip at March 29, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

132 That is a hard one SSBN. When my mom passed away I started doing some slow decluttering. Key word slow, but that gave me time to list some of the nicer things on ebay. I usually underestimated shipping costs but I didn't come out negative on anything and I did have the feeling of "somebody wanted this enough to bid for it on ebay"

I'd probably start with the easy stuff of "I want to have this in the smaller place" and the "why do I still have this?" Then you can deal with the other stuff.

A good technique I read years ago for stuff you can't decide on. Flip a coin, when you find yourself going "please be heads or please be tails" that is what your subconscious wants, don't bother looking how the coin landed.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 29, 2026 04:03 PM (+89TD)

133 Noodage

Posted by: Nooder at March 29, 2026 04:03 PM (2Ez/1)

134 SSBN,

This trick works for me: Take a picture.

If you have something you really need to discard, but can't seem to let go, take a nice picture of it. I found that when I did that, I could let the object go.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper who is NOT a packrat, well, maybe a little at March 29, 2026 04:05 PM (WkL+O)

135 Wasps: Brake parts cleaner (the aerosol spray can type).

https://youtu.be/HgCTeJXKpYU

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 29, 2026 04:06 PM (O7YUW)

136 "Take a picture."

Ditto. Took a zillion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 29, 2026 04:18 PM (2Ez/1)

137 92 I was sitting at my workbench a few weeks before the furnace died and I heard what sounded like dripping water. Because it was dripping water, coming through the ceiling in my dining room. Broken pipe in the attic.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)

Oh, man. Nicely told story, tho.

Posted by: m at March 29, 2026 04:21 PM (fNISR)

138 Shiplap covers a multitude of sins.

Posted by: Chip, Joanna at March 29, 2026 04:34 PM (oftw2)

139 I agree, it's a feature not a bug and definitely gives your house character. Besides you'll never find moulding trim that substantial today, it's all mere twigs compared to what it used to be. And trying to match that shape on your router table? Fuhgeddaboudit!

The moulding ain't broke, you are. fix yer attitude.

Posted by: slicksister at March 29, 2026 07:33 PM (3ceQJ)

140 Obviously, they didn't have good caulk in those days!

Posted by: buddhaha at March 29, 2026 09:34 PM (rJ+qD)

141 You'd think that many layers of paint would be structural.

Posted by: Riddle at March 30, 2026 01:42 AM (lT/s0)

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