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Onest!
Posted by: Oddbob at January 27, 2026 12:25 PM (Fs0KI) 2
I'll go nood now. Don't watch.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (Fs0KI) 3
Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (Qbzeg) Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y) 5
In before the Game of Thrones reference!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (wVcYX) 6
If your going to take out the King, better be sure you can first
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Qbzeg) Posted by: Charo at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Fs0KI) 8
You know what coup rhymes with!
Posted by: Tucker Shmarlson at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (cxiKi) 9
So he's going to invade Taiwan now, right?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (ULPxl) Posted by: Crusader at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Cjcf6) 11
Communists killing and/or kidnapping and imprisoning each other.
Wake me up when something new happens. Same shit story for the last 100 years. We're about a generation away from this shit here in the US. Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (5aZAZ) 12
Coup-poo!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (wVcYX) 13
No weeping for either team, here.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (qo38o) 14
The senior ranks of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are in tatters ...
----------- Not to worry, comrades -- Rear Admiral Levine, Milley Vanilli, Lloyd Austin (Afronaut), and Lt. Col. Bearclaw are tanned, unarrested, and available! Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (5NBTt) Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (77rzZ) 16
7 So the Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. But Then Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.
Coup-Xi-coup! Posted by: Charo at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Fs0KI) It'd be nice if they all could fucking lose. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y) 17
Seems like a big deal. I wonder why no one is covering it?
Posted by: huerfano at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (98kQX) 18
Coup coup cou-joo
Posted by: I am the Eggman at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (jc0TO) 19
I'm sure this got buried in the last thread, but the guy who got shot was an agitator known to ice who had his ribs broken the week before during a violent altercation with them in other words they knew who this guy was and when they saw a gun there was a reason for the response. Not really a justification but certainly you poke the bear enough you're going to get the claws Posted by: imp at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (g6TN6) 20
9 So he's going to invade Taiwan now, right?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (ULPxl) Right after purging the military? That's a Stalin before Barbarossa move there. (Note: it did not go well.) Still, it would be on brand. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (bss/y) Posted by: SantaRosaStan at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (94/H1) 22
How much of a coup can it be if shots aren't fired. These are generals, yes? Did none of their troops fire when whoever came to arrest the generals arrived?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (jc0TO) 23
and what group can arrest generals?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (jc0TO) 24
An issue every dictator must continually think about: Who guards the guards?
Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (5rh/l) 25
He Weidong has the best name of all those guys.
Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (ZcsJV) 26
So the coup against Pooh failed. *sigh*
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (NpAcC) Posted by: Zombie Omar Little at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (y9nCu) 28
>> The claims of an actual coup attempt, with senior military leaders plotting to kidnap Xi,
Not so fast, Rong Ranger. Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (7kply) 29
I guess they wanted some of the honey from Comrade Pooh's honey pot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (L/fGl) Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (mlg/3) 31
None of this is anything new, grasshopper.
Posted by: Zombie Master Po at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (Q+gd/) 32
1. Stage coup
2. ???? 3. Profit! Actually curious as to what would have changed in China if the coup was successful. Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (Dv3i1) 33
Coupbaya, my lord, coupbaya.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (LxER7) Posted by: Tonypete at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (cYBz/) 35
Why is it unfortunate that Xi stopped the coup? Whoever succeeds him won't be any better, perhaps worse. Does this Twitiot think there is some kind of Thomas Jefferspn type in the PLA?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (BI5O2) 36
I rate this story fairly low on my "Did This Shit Really Happen?" scale. Not at zero. But low.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/) 37
22 so far.
Posted by: Counting Coup at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (w9Wax) 38
When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX) 39
He Weidong has the best name of all those guys.
Posted by: garrett It is also the alias that The Paolo adopts when visiting China. -- The Paolo Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (77rzZ) 40
Remember the tires falling off the Russian vehicles in the initial invasion of Ukraine?
Yeah...I get the feeling that China's Military is in worse shape than Russia's was at that moment. Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (ZcsJV) 41
Gee Willikers, I wonder which of those six generals tipped off Xi???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (wtvvX) 42
an internet-based claim without any legacy media confirmation.
______ Doesn't that mean it's probably true? Posted by: Eeyore at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (s0JqF) 43
8 You know what coup rhymes with!
Posted by: Tucker Shmarlson at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (cxiKi) NO COUP FOR YOU!!! Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (wtvvX) 44
I foresee an epidemic of people falling out of windows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (L/fGl) 45
So for all their Asian wiliness and cunning, Red China is no better than some 3rd world banana republic like Nicaraguaaaaa or the United States.
Posted by: Zombie Omar Torrijos at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (R/m4+) 46
23 and what group can arrest generals?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (jc0TO) My Praetorians! Posted by: Ghosts of numerous Roman Emperors assasinated by their Praetorians at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (5rh/l) 47
22 How much of a coup can it be if shots aren't fired. These are generals, yes? Did none of their troops fire when whoever came to arrest the generals arrived?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (jc0TO) How much of an actual coup was the Erdogan Reichstag fire to draw out seditious military guys (which is what I am convinced it was) in... 2016? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (bss/y) 48
Actually, I take it back. A couple would be good. It would, at least for a time, halt the flow of payments to Congress.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (BI5O2) 49
So many coupes, so little time ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/) 50
So, Zerohedge isn't even running this, so I also rate the likelihood it happened, or happened just like this, as low...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (tOcjL) 51
Looking at the org chart for Chinese leadership, I got a pretty good idea who leaked the coup attempt to Xi.
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (LSR8N) 52
I’m guessing we will need to lockdown for the next shamdemic soon?
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (UM59F) 53
Russia, in particular, Putin is bending over for the Chinese. A lot of the top generals are not pleased with that. So don’t be surprised if you see Putin go full Stalin.
Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (7kply) 54
So the one guy was gonna join the coup but then he chickened out?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ) 55
Did Xi take out the political officer first (Miao Hua in the white suit)?
Posted by: Captain Ramius at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (wVcYX) 56
44 I foresee an epidemic of people falling out of windows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (L/fGl) GRAVITY STORM HITS CHINA Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (wtvvX) 57
Wouldn't care if the night of the long knives is a month long
Or 2 Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (Qbzeg) 58
The media isn't even the media. They're like a playgroup.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (cxiKi) Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (ZrSVF) 60
Did Xi take out the political officer first (Miao Hua in the white suit)?
Posted by: Captain Ramius at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM He had a cup of tea. Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (jc0TO) 61
The worst part about a coup in China is that an hour later you want another.
Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (Q+gd/) 62
Zhang, 75, was vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) - the Communist Party group headed by the country's leader Xi Jinping, which controls the armed forces.
The parallels to the dying days of the USSR are eerie. Many, if not most of these guys are "princelings", i.e. descendants of the original CCP guys. Xi is 72, and this guy is 75. Admittedly, Trump is older at 79, but he's that rare specimen who can clearly still keep up the pace. Zhang looks like he should be playing mahjong somewhere. Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t) 63
Talk about a right hand man! Maybe he's the informer.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (cxiKi) 64
Fortune cookie says: "Don't go coup-coup today!"
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (rj6Yv) Posted by: connected and litigious at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (cS1cw) 66
Is this a chopsticks within chopsticks sort of deal?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (jtM2q) Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (iJfKG) 68
I mean it's not hard to figure out who talked.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (cxiKi) 69
I can just see Odd Job flinging his hat in a room full of generals...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (wtvvX) 70
Xi was to have been taken out by military helicopter. Unfortunately, pilots Wi Tu Lo and Sum Ting Wong were not up to the task.
Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow! at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (oftw2) 71
Go long on Crab Rangoon futures.
Posted by: dananjcon at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (8C1eU) 72
Little Xi Coup, you don't know what I've found.
Posted by: Chinese Beach Boys at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (wVcYX) 73
Why do I need to know this or be upset that I don’t? I have to have some level of trust that the people who need to know this , do.
If you try to absorb every action in the world that can possibly effect you down the road you’re going to drive yourself insane. The AA prayer is appropriate on that subject imo. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (KDPiq) 74
What I'm wondering is what's going on with the PLA Strategic Rocket Force. Currently without a formal commander, being run on an interim basis by the Rocket Force Political Commissar. Who did HE side with? Because that could really end up being a shit-show. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (y9nCu) 75
1. Stage coup 2. ???? 3. Profit! Actually curious as to what would have changed in China if the coup was successful. Posted by: Chuck Martel How did you get your hands on such a highly classified document outlining CIA protocol for the last 70 years? Posted by: imp at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (g6TN6) 76
ZH, as repeated often here, is a site run by a Russian intel operator. The news always skews to what is most beneficial to the Russians. They will not cover certain issues, or cover issues where they try to add to the chaos. They pose as libertarians, but if you read that site with the knowledge it is run by a Russian asset, you can see it a mile away.
Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (7kply) 77
And it looks like Tex Lovera beat me to the leaker comment.
Double drat on you and your family, Tex! Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (LSR8N) 78
Yeah, being a government functionary that late is bad for anything. Mind just is not quite as agile (Trump included, but I think he realized that and surrounds himself with 'young thinkers.' That actually speaks well of him as a leader.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (bss/y) 79
There is leaked audio of the failed attempt. Transcript:
"Coup! You been here four hour! You go now!" Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (cxiKi) 80
When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX) Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e) 81
How will the People's Liberation Army take Taiwan and destroy the US Pacific Fleet in a day if only a tiny fraction of its troops are trusted enough to be issued live ammo?
Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (5rh/l) 82
Twitter accounts claim -- again, without confirmation by the fake media -- that the military leaders Xi was about to arrest for corruption decided to strike first and kidnap Xi, but Xi got wind of this and arrested them first.
It's the little deuce coup We don't know 'bout the plot. Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (JN6Jq) 83
>>> 80 When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX) Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e) You only ever have semi-trusted lieutenants. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (ULPxl) 84
I don't trust the "traditional" media, but I don't trust rando internet sleuths either. At any rate, here's hoping for both sides to lose in whatever shit is going down in China.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (XMwZJ) 85
35 Why is it unfortunate that Xi stopped the coup? Whoever succeeds him won't be any better, perhaps worse. Does this Twitiot think there is some kind of Thomas Jefferspn type in the PLA?
Maybe. Or maybe there's intense dissatisfaction because enough other members of the Politburo understand that what they're doing now isn't working, and they're tired of having everything decided by Xi, who is completely isolated because nobody wants to bring him bad news. There are probably quite a few who wanted to continue the liberalization that was happening before Xi, if for no other reason than to save their own skins before the people revolt. Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (y9ksN) 87
Reminds me of how much I loved the movie Death Of Stalin.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (KDPiq) 88
80 When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX) Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e) Just read pretty much any account of Stalin. It is one long thing of him suspecting first this guy, then that, then the guy who accused the first guy gets axed (literally.) These guys are often talented, but paranoid (to be able to rise within the system) and then the power does NOT make them feel more secure. It just gives them the ability to strike first. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y) 89
77 And it looks like Tex Lovera beat me to the leaker comment.
Double drat on you and your family, Tex! Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (LSR8N) Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (wtvvX) 90
I remember an historical precedent. When Big Adolph murdered Ernst Roehm and the SA in the Night of the Long Knives, our betters at the NYT and the rest of the MSM interpreted it as Hitler rejecting radicalism and indicating his desire to join the brotherhood of nations. Peace was at hand.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (L/fGl) 91
:-)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (wtvvX) 92
Rhymes with 1989
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (0U5gm) 93
Pooh got bloodied ... tough days
Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (vbXSk) 94
Steiner-sahn will come.
Posted by: Xi at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (Q+gd/) 95
Also, a power shake up in China could actually help world stability as they focus inward instead of fucking around globally.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y) 96
Who will write the first article about this story, tying it to their hope that someone can coup Trump? Because that would be some original shit.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (cxiKi) 97
Looks like the Chicoms had their own version of Milley. I have a feeling that their version will receive a bit more harshness than merely having their portrait taken down.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (CwhoI) 98
Media quiet because they have not received their existence instructions.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (EyfuW) 99
Is the survivor (for now) Zhang the dude responsible for inspecting and disciplining the Chinese women military units in the PLA?
Lucky guy. Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (wVcYX) 100
94 Steiner-sahn will come.
Posted by: Xi at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (Q+gd/) Isn't -san honorific Japanese? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y) 101
Oh no won't someone think of the Pokemen?
Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (BuPGZ) 102
76 ZH, as repeated often here, is a site run by a Russian intel operator. The news always skews to what is most beneficial to the Russians. They will not cover certain issues, or cover issues where they try to add to the chaos. They pose as libertarians, but if you read that site with the knowledge it is run by a Russian asset, you can see it a mile away.
Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (7kply) True, but it does post worldwide stuff, especially stuff that would weaken China. Anything that weakens other powers is good... Posted by: Nova Local at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (tOcjL) 103
Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Bearded Spock world taught us that. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (L/fGl) 104
The media hasn't written anything because their editor/boss in China was recently mysteriously disappeared. They will get back to you.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (cxiKi) 105
our betters at the NYT and the rest of the MSM interpreted it as Hitler rejecting radicalism and indicating his desire to join the brotherhood of nations. Peace was at hand.
Well, back in the 30s the NYT didn't like Pedos either. Of course were the modern FNM to cover it they would focus on Hitler engaging in homophobia by killing Rohm... Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm) 106
Does this mean Trump will lift the tariff on egg rolls?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (oT7pT) 107
Chinese PM Xi Plotted Purge of Chinese Military.
Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. Xi Launched a Counter-Coup. This is just begging to be put into Spy VS Spy format Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (ciYHQ) 108
Looks like the Chicoms had their own version of Milley. I have a feeling that their version will receive a bit more harshness than merely having their portrait taken down.
Posted by: Citizen Cake It was Milley who called Xi to tell him about the planned coup. Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (w9Wax) The Morning Rant: Hickory Shampoos For The Win!![]() Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Notice that interesting word? "Peaceably!" Physical interference with the legal activity of government or, for that matter, regular people, crosses the line, and is not protected by the United States Constitution. Our founders would have recoiled in horror had it been suggested to them that violence is a legitimate expression of discontent with an elected government. Any comparison to our revolution is specious and ahistoric. The British ruled us from afar, without any provision for representation or redress. That's the difference, and it is profound. Violent protest should be met with immediate and overwhelming force. Tear gas, bean-bag rounds, batons, water cannon, bayonet lines...whatever it takes to disperse and render ineffective the attempted violent overthrow of our government and the legal structure of our republic! Because that's what it is...insurrection, revolt revolution, civil war...call it whatever you wish, but it is the theft of our collective freedoms in service to a minority's belief in their own political philosophy. Demonstrate, write your newspaper, vote, call your representatives, go door to door explaining your political philosophy. That's all marvelous, even if most people will disagree. But the second violence is used, it loses the protections of our Constitution and becomes law breaking thuggery, and I and many Americans firmly support instant and aggressive action to end it! Hickory shampoos for the win! [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated! Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
But what about Taylor, too?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (GBKbO) 2
Munkeh!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 11:01 AM (UUvzi) 3
Got me a nice hickory crook top walking cane.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 27, 2026 11:02 AM (Kt19C) 4
"We also have robust legal protections of our right to speak freely and criticize anything in society with which we disagree."
The last nation on Earth with that blessing. Nothing else is as precious. We need to vigorously protect it. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:02 AM (N8ZBc) Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 27, 2026 11:02 AM (JCZqz) 6
It's a terrorist insurgency.
They should be cracking the books, following the money and orgs and RICOing the fuck out of the financiers. We'll see if they do or not. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (xcxpd) 7
The mob of nobodies with expensive cameras taking pictures that will never be seen does not equate to "press." They are crisis actors participating in an insurrection and have no legitimacy.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (jUIA1) 8
7 It's a terrorist insurgency.
They should be cracking the books, following the money and orgs and RICOing the fuck out of the financiers. We'll see if they do or not. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (xcxpd) ===== Patel is making the mouth noises that they are. We'll see. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (jtM2q) 10
MUNKEY Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 11:04 AM (y9nCu) 11
MONKEY!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 27, 2026 11:04 AM (zjgNU) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 11:04 AM (UUvzi) 13
1 But what about Taylor, too?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (GBKbO) It's Tippecanoe all the way for me Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:04 AM (xcxpd) 14
3 Got me a nice hickory crook top walking cane.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats Dat's raciss! Posted by: Civil Rights Walking Stick at January 27, 2026 11:04 AM (oftw2) 15
They're using a backhoe to clear the snow on the streets in my neighborhood. They're doing my street now.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ) 16
It's a terrorist insurgency.
They should be cracking the books, following the money and orgs and RICOing the fuck out of the financiers. We'll see if they do or not. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (xcxpd) ===== Patel is making the mouth noises that they are. We'll see. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (GBKbO) Yes, we'll see. I will be very disappointed if they just 'run out the clock' like a lot of Trump 1.0's admin. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (xcxpd) 17
But what about Taylor, too?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (GBKbO) ------------ Fifty-four forty or fight!!! Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (OvMCw) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (kgE5c) 19
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (Zz0t1) 20
SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (kgE5c) 21
Sponge nailed it!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (xcxpd) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (xG4kz) 23
Gee, your blood smells terrific!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (kgE5c) ----------- Aaaand we're back to vampires. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (OvMCw) 24
Interesting how TIMMEH! "Gargles Ballz" Walz suddenly decided to use the state troopers to, oh, I don't know, enforce the fucking law, after that convo with Trump.
Would love to see a transcript of that. Ideally the phrase "You do know that Maduro needs a cellmate, right?" was involved. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (IG3/x) 25
It's always been said: Follow the money.
Yet it seems no one ever follows the money and the source is never extinguished. We're never getting past this until the leftist billionaires are tried and convicted for treason and attempted overthrow of the US Government. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1) 26
25 Interesting how TIMMEH! "Gargles Ballz" Walz suddenly decided to use the state troopers to, oh, I don't know, enforce the fucking law, after that convo with Trump.
Would love to see a transcript of that. Ideally the phrase "You do know that Maduro needs a cellmate, right?" was involved. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (IG3/x) ===== A detail I'd forgotten: Antifa burned down a police station in 2020 in Minneapolis. The politically minded leadership were most obviously okay with it, but the beat cops? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:07 AM (GBKbO) 27
Can anyone tell me what Original Sin is according to those accusing you of Original Sin? I'd really like to know.
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (1D2Ie) 28
I want to see how the feds handle the blatantly secessionist order of the Commonwealth Of Vagina to deny cooperation with Federal enforcement.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (gKWVE) 29
Sponge nailed it!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (xcxpd) MY MAN!!!! *fistbump* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (Zz0t1) 30
Sometimes a hickory shampoo is not enough. Try my Alberto VO-5 Hot Oil Treatment.
Posted by: Internationally Acclaimed Actress Rula Lenska at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (oftw2) 31
'"We also have robust legal protections of our right to speak freely and criticize anything in society with which we disagree."
The last nation on Earth with that blessing. Nothing else is as precious. We need to vigorously protect it.' That's why this sort of thing irks me. Please correct me if I'm wrong: https://tinyurl.com/bpksesb8 Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (N8ZBc) 32
It worked, didn't it?
Posted by: Harry Reid at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (2Ez/1) 33
25 PDT "Tim, lets clear the air on one thing. Do as I say and we won't release those shower room photos from your coaching days".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (gm9Sb) 34
Integration has failed American children just the way it was planned.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 11:09 AM (xvV+O) 35
I see a lot of people now criticizing Trump’s handling of the protest riots in his first term but they must have been quiet on aos back then because when it was rarely brought up , it was shut down that Trump was doing the correct thing. He was making the blue states look bad because their leaders weren’t doing anything . He shouldn’t go in and save their butts and get all the backlash.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:10 AM (KDPiq) Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 11:10 AM (wO3Gh) 37
Decades of looting the US Treasury for trillions of dollars, with repayment expected from future generations, and then suddenly being called to account for their actions has caused something of a backlash from the thieves.
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:10 AM (rj6Yv) 38
Demonstrate, write your newspaper, vote, call your representatives, go door to door explaining your political philosophy. That's all marvelous, even if most people will disagree. But the second violence is used, it loses the protections of our Constitution and becomes law breaking thuggery, and I and many Americans firmly support instant and aggressive action to end it!
Hickory shampoos for the win! ----- In the Before times, I guess I would agree in principle. Now I think we've given peace a chance. Just let both sides have equal rights (and lefts) Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 11:11 AM (Hx0tZ) 39
Meanwhile, the WSJ gave Tim Walz top of the Opinion page column space to spread his lies.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:11 AM (0yjaw) Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (77rzZ) 41
Shampoo is used when there is no real poo to be found.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (OvMCw) 42
I mean, the left still thinks the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and didn't comb through them to find ANYTHING to prevent Trump from running again.
Seriously..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (Zz0t1) 43
>>> 29 I want to see how the feds handle the blatantly secessionist order of the Commonwealth Of Vagina to deny cooperation with Federal enforcement.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (gKWVE) I'm interested in how many counties participate in this timwalzry. Obviously NoVa and Richmond, but where else? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (ULPxl) 44
A majority of the voting population voted to have the damage inflicted under Biden reversed, at least in part, by forcing the removal of the scum that invaded our country.
A noisy bunch of AWFL lesbians, geriatric cucks and Antifa incels think they can exercise a Heckler's Veto over what the people of this country duly voted for. Trump should give them no quarter. No concessions. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (fhCge) 45
Data Republican has done more in that area than a hundred thousand FIBs.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (xvV+O) 46
The Supreme Court ruling which struck it down was rejected by some, most famously by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus
——/ Who apparently deserves an apology, right? Universities now have returned to segregated by race classes, dorms, graduation ceremonies, among other things. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 11:13 AM (wO3Gh) 47
Shampoo is used when there is no real poo to be found.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (OvMCw) Poo is a funny word. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1) 48
> It's a terrorist insurgency.
---------- It's certainly an insurgency, but from within. Funded from outside. Most likely China. Neville Roy Singham, an American born billionaire living in Singapore and aligned with the ChiComs has been fingered more than once as being a principle funder for the Minnesota riots. His name keeps cropping up when people look into the money trail from the principles involved in Minneapolis back to the NGO's and then from the NGO's to the financiers. Why this fucker is still alive baffles me. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 11:13 AM (jtM2q) 49
BEHOLD: The will of the people in evidence everywhere, yet existent in no one.
That those who Govern have Rights, that you as Citizen do not; to decide who must be sacrificed that 'they' may continue to live. "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory" -- Shameless Politico THUG, Nancy Pelosi'09 in Red China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ DARE TO BE ST00P1D The purpose of Gov't is to rein in the rights of the people -- Bill Clinton'93 on MTV forWAR'd !!! Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (06Ir1) 50
Our founders would have recoiled in horror had it been suggested to them that violence is a legitimate expression of discontent with an elected government.
Not that I disagree, CBD, but how do you square that with the violence in Boston before the Revolution? Houses destroyed, tea sheds pulled down, tarring and feathering and so on? Although, I do find it darkly funny that, when the Shays Rebellion began in Massachusetts, Abigail Adams was at the forefront of calling for Shays and his men to be executed for resisting the established government. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (ufSfZ) 51
Gavin Newsom is encouraging the protestors to "keep going" by which he means get some more insane losers killed. "That's how we win!"
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (GPa4z) 52
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Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (gm9Sb) 53
"it is a legitimate expression of the will of the people and the equally legitimate action on the part of government."
By that "logic" pumping the country full of turd worlders is also a legitimate action. Biden was elected, his voters wanted this. Posted by: connected and litigious at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (cS1cw) Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (77rzZ) 55
mean, the left still thinks the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and didn't comb through them to find ANYTHING to prevent Trump from running again.
Seriously..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (Zz0t1) The Left have always relied on useful idiots. The smarter of those idiots realize after it’s too late that they’ve been lied to all along. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (KDPiq) 56
I'm interested in how many counties participate in this timwalzry. Obviously NoVa and Richmond, but where else? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (ULPxl) Timwalzry......seems a synonym for 'dipshittery.' Well done. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:15 AM (Zz0t1) 57
Shampoo? Julie Christie was my costar.
Posted by: Warren Beatty at January 27, 2026 11:15 AM (wVcYX) Posted by: Marooned at January 27, 2026 11:15 AM (kt8QE) 59
45 A majority of the voting population voted to have the damage inflicted under Biden reversed, at least in part, by forcing the removal of the scum that invaded our country.
A noisy bunch of AWFL lesbians, geriatric cucks and Antifa incels think they can exercise a Heckler's Veto over what the people of this country duly voted for. Trump should give them no quarter. No concessions. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (fhCge) ===== Remember...the riots of BLM in 2020 worked so well that six states had to shut down ballot counting in them middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall (300,000 phantom votes in GA alone) to barely get Trump out of office. The American people do not like rioters, and they tend to blame the ones rioting. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:15 AM (GBKbO) 60
>>It's always been said: Follow the money.
Yet it seems no one ever follows the money and the source is never extinguished. Online sleuths do, but then. . . no prosecutions. Not when our FBI and DoJ are staffed with like-minded radicals, who are more likely to be coordinating with them than arresting them. Honestly, if the DoJ doesn't take action against both the funders and the activist leaders in MN, including the state senators and Walz staffers, then they WILL do this in every major city, and they WILL win in 2028. Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:16 AM (0yjaw) 61
1 But what about Taylor, too?! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (GBKbO) Taylor? Taylor? What is this, some Planet of the Apes reboot? Posted by: John Tyler at January 27, 2026 11:16 AM (Sxl5b) 62
Poo is a funny word.
Posted by: Sponge I watching you, Loundeye! -- Xi Jinping Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (77rzZ) ------------- There is (or was) a Chinese restaurant in the Crescenta Valley named the Poo Ping Palace. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:16 AM (OvMCw) 63
gp,
Three technicians were asphyxiated. One died and one is kind of menially deficient now. They walked into an area in the MLP that had been purged with nitrogen which is a normal procedure before launch. NASA installed a oxygen monitoring system in purged compartments with local and remote alarms that I was a big part of at the time. Posted by: pawn at January 27, 2026 11:16 AM (jnZe8) Posted by: Aliassmithsmith...who puts the anal in anal sex at January 27, 2026 11:17 AM (1+VNF) 65
Some things seem similar but they’re nothing alike.
The Left constantly make illogical comparisons because they are the devil’s minions who mix in just a bit of truth with the big lies. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:17 AM (KDPiq) 66
Gavin Newsom is encouraging the protestors to "keep going"
——- Ah, the old “let’s you and him fight”. Stunning and brave, he is. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 11:17 AM (wO3Gh) 67
https://x.com/AmerRedistrict/status/
2016151110235423153 @AmerRedistrict 🚨2030 Apportionment Forecast🚨 +4: TX +2: FL +1: AZ, GA, ID, NC, UT -4: CA -1: IL, MN, NY, OR, PA, RI, WI ===== Dems are fucked nationally unless they can mess with the Census again. Black Girl Magic will save them, I'm sure. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:17 AM (GBKbO) 68
40 Meanwhile, the WSJ gave Tim Walz top of the Opinion page column space to spread his lies.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:11 AM (0yjaw) The media arm of the Washington Generals? I dropped them 20 years ago but still get mail begging me to re-subscribe. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:17 AM (LxER7) Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at January 27, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1) 70
> 1 Gavin Newsom is encouraging the protestors to "keep going" by which he means get some more insane losers killed. "That's how we win!"
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (GPa4z) How dumb would you have to be to be a voluntary martyr for this dimwitted sack of hair gel? Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 11:17 AM (IG3/x) 71
Shampoo is used when there is no real poo to be found.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (OvMCw) Ersatzpoo? Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (wVcYX) 72
There is (or was) a Chinese restaurant in the Crescenta Valley named the Poo Ping Palace.
Posted by: Captain Obvious I think they showed that sign on America's Funniest Home Videos back in the day. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (77rzZ) 73
By that "logic" pumping the country full of turd worlders is also a legitimate action.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (cS1cw) Uh..no. It was illegal. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (Zv8bq) 74
Yeah I was always hesitant to order the poo poo platter.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (KDPiq) 75
>>Gavin Newsom is encouraging the protestors to "keep going" by which he means get some more insane losers killed. "That's how we win!"
"Bingo!" -- Hamas, who uses Pali deaths to get other countries to hate Israel, too Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (0yjaw) 76
63 Yes, thanks!
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (N8ZBc) 77
According to the compliant media, many Americans disagree with the current administration's policy on immigration, and are against their efforts and methods to detain and deport illegal aliens who are also violent felons.
I read two different views of the current situation. It's interesting that two good writers reach such opposite conclusions. I'm now leaning more towards the first analysis. The Walz is caving in to Trump Talk softly and carry a big Insurrection Act of 1807 https://is.gd/iJ0MYN Trump’s Playbook for Saving ICE, Reversing the PR Fallout, and Securing Our Border Forever and Ever https://tinyurl.com/y2x3fewd Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t) 78
Can anyone tell me what Original Sin is according to those accusing you of Original Sin? I'd really like to know.
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (1D2Ie) In Catholic theology, original sin is the innate condition to sinfulness of all mankind, as a consequence of Adam and Eve disobeying God. It is the justification for infant baptism, to wipe away the sin. In Democrat theology, original sin is the innate condition of racism of all whites, as a consequence for employing the Peculiar Institution in the founding and expansion of America. It is permanent and cannot be wiped away. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (ufSfZ) 79
When I try to poo but can't, it's a faux poo.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ) 80
If the law enforcement and judiciary do not provide then vigilance committees will.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (xvV+O) 81
ASS is a dumbass.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (8CIFn) 82
Uh..no. It was illegal. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (Zv8bq) Hey! Welcome back. The link in your nick is still fubar. Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1) 83
DAMN......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1) 84
81 ASS is a dumbass.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (8CIFn) ===== Well, he does keep showing up to tell us about how much he loves eating his own shit. That's his legacy. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:19 AM (GBKbO) 85
Who apparently deserves an apology, right? Universities now have returned to segregated by race classes, dorms, graduation ceremonies, among other things.
Posted by: Common Tater And a lot of blacks are calling for segregation as well. Honestly, it makes me wonder why we bothered. Posted by: NR Pax at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (7xrfc) 86
A new poll indicates Antifa’s tactics are the 20 side of an 80/20 issue. The Dems can’t help themselves being on the losing side of these 80/20 issues.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (QZThv) 87
Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?
Posted by: Rashida Tlaib at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (Dv3i1) 88
Uh..no. It was illegal. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:18 AM (Zv8bq) There is no law only Zuul. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1) 89
Headline (CNN):
"Minnesota judge orders acting ICE director to appear in court" Excerpt: "Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons has been ordered to appear in federal court this Friday to explain why he should not be held in contempt for violating a judge’s order in the case of a man who is challenging his detention." Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (rj6Yv) Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (++1kQ) 91
Why do I feel compelled to say I'm taking my dog out for a poop rather than shit? Doggie defecation seems kind of too lofty.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:21 AM (8CIFn) 92
https://is.gd/Mbskuu
@TonySeruga Employees at U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are being investigated for assisting Somali and Venezuelan criminal enterprises to steal millions from banking ATMs across the nation, using malware named Ploutus, one of the most advanced and profitable families of ATM malware ever discovered, notable for its modular architecture, deep hardware interaction, and the level of insider cooperation often required for successful deployment. Each compromised ATM can yield $20k-$200k per operation, meaning a small 10-person ring can empty millions of dollars' worth of cash overnight. And because many ATMs still run Windows 7 Embedded or XP, updating is nontrivial - banks depend on vendor-proprietary runtimes. That systemic rot is the real story here; Ploutus just revealed how fragile the entire ATM infrastructure remains. Banks underreport jackpotting for fear of losing public confidence. == Does ANYONE believe the timwalzed inbred muslhams came up with this all on their own? or even with help from the bank employees? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:21 AM (ULPxl) 93
86 A new poll indicates Antifa’s tactics are the 20 side of an 80/20 issue. The Dems can’t help themselves being on the losing side of these 80/20 issues.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (QZThv) ===== Issue polling is rife with major issues ranging from question phrasing ("Do you oppose the murder of Americans trying to save innocent guests in America and Trump?") to the fact that issue polling has a real hard time translating into actual voting patterns. How many years did we hear about how America needed universal background checks, but it never materialized into a wipeout of the NRA owned Republican party that opposed it? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO) 94
The link in my nic should work...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:21 AM (Zv8bq) 95
Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?
Posted by: Rashida Tlaib at January 27, 2026 11:20 AM (Dv3i1) ---------- William Manchester quipped that if he did not exist, it would not be necessary to invent him. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (OvMCw) 96
Honestly, if the DoJ doesn't take action against both the funders and the activist leaders in MN, including the state senators and Walz staffers, then they WILL do this in every major city, and they WILL win in 2028.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:16 AM (0yjaw) On the one hand, yes retribution should be taken against the organizers, as a matter of public order and respect for legal authority. But no, this won’t happen in many other cities. Minneapolis is the dying husk of a once great city that never recovered from George Floyd and the Covid catastrophes, and now it is completely controlled by the grifters their flying monkey armies. It’s quietly become their HQ; that’s why they’re fighting so hard. And sadly, no matter what happens, Minneapolis will never truly recover from this. It’s well on its way to becoming another Detroit, or Baltimore. Just a rotting shell of something that once was beautiful. Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (Sxl5b) 97
Start with the press, next the judges and then the commie troops.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (KDPiq) Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (wVcYX) Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (KAi1n) 100
We'll be OK if the people who voted for Trump vote in November. Hopefully, the economy will be doing so well even the media will be unable to downplay it. If the Ds win back the House, here comes more impeachment crap. I know people hate the RINOs but the Dems simply cannot be given any more powe.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (Kxi0p) 101
Gavin Newsom is encouraging the protestors to "keep going" by which he means get some more insane losers killed. "That's how we win!"
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 11:14 AM (GPa4z) === One "hand in the cookie jar" governor encourages another "hand in the cookie jar" governor to keep forkin' those cookies out of the cookie jar. Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (rj6Yv) 102
Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?
—— Styles Bridges has entered the chat. Olympia Snow for honorable mention, not to mention Estes Kefauver. ‘Jes regular folk, I’m sure. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (wO3Gh) 103
If you haven't seen, here's a 5:30 minute video of a green-haired smellie in Minneapolis biting off the ICE agent's finger tip. The bite happens about halfway through, but she was lighting them the whole time (and some uggo-butch they/them tried to save her and appears to have been arrested as well).
It appears green-haired spit on the officer as they were trying to push her into the second car, which prompted them to push her face away, which is when she bit them. Felony assault, maximum around 20 years I think, if they go for the max charge. https://tinyurl.com/mw8kmsdd Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2026 11:23 AM (JCZqz) 104
The link in my nic should work...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:21 AM (Zv8bq) Click it. I dare you. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:23 AM (Zz0t1) 105
101 We'll be OK if the people who voted for Trump vote in November. Hopefully, the economy will be doing so well even the media will be unable to downplay it. If the Ds win back the House, here comes more impeachment crap. I know people hate the RINOs but the Dems simply cannot be given any more powe.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 27, 2026 11:22 AM (Kxi0p) ===== The OBBB fully funded ICE through 2029 (even appropriations). The DOJ will keep functioning. The Senate will never vote to convict. Democrats will have nothing but making asses of themselves and hearings. Should actually be kind of amusing. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO) 106
I think I remember DJT promising deportation of violent illegals. I don't remember if he promised deportation of all illegals, but for the past few months public opinion has clearly favored it. If that's what he wants, he has to stand behind ICE 100%.
If DJT can't make it happen, nobody can, IMHO. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (N8ZBc) 107
That must be a Pixy glitch.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (Zv8bq) 108
In Democrat theology, original sin is the innate condition of racism of all whites, as a consequence for employing the Peculiar Institution in the founding and expansion of America. It is permanent and cannot be wiped away.
But it can be wiped out with a single drop... Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (++1kQ) 109
32 '"We also have robust legal protections of our right to speak freely and criticize anything in society with which we disagree."
The last nation on Earth with that blessing. Nothing else is as precious. We need to vigorously protect it.' That's why this sort of thing irks me. Please correct me if I'm wrong: https://tinyurl.com/bpksesb8 Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (N8ZBc) Not a fan. Also not a fan of Florida's "halo" law, which we've already seen get abused by cops walking more than 25 feet away from their scene, getting right in the face of someone silently filming and telling them to move back or they'll be arrested, then continue to stay right on top of them telling them to move back as they move back. These are laws primed for abuse and probably unconstitutional on their face, and probably as applied. Don't know if there have been such challenges made or not. Posted by: Chipping away the 1st Amendment isn't the answer at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (TbWk/) 110
The difficulty is with the L not the R.
Posted by: Dark Litigator Some of us have twouble with both. -- Elmer Fudd Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (77rzZ) 111
Most romantic place in the world?
St Louis. Take your girl to the arch and kiss her between the legs! Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (Kt19C) 112
>>I mean, the left still thinks the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and didn't comb through them to find ANYTHING to prevent Trump from running again.
Do they, though? The newfound Epstein obsession is a classic NPC upgrade. Swap out BLM with J6, the J6 with Ukraine, then Ukraine with Epstein, then Epstein with ICE. The propaganda/brainwashing is so dang effective it's frightening. I would be amazed if these same new Epstein obsessives were also mocking many on the right who were saying "Epstein didn't kill himself!" The Clinton have to be laughing their azzes off, given how they were the ones who were so close to Epstein. They didn't just frequent the island, the whole family vacationed at his New Mexico ranch. Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (0yjaw) 113
Polls have consistently have shown 75%+ support deporting criminals aliens and 50-55% support deporting ALL illegals. Other than the most insane leftists nobody wants ms13 gang bangers in the country the country. And most people also want Jose the grander gone.
The people are with Trump. But the GOP as usual goes wobbly because the NYT calls them mean words. Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (4uLDQ) 114
Orval Faubus was young Slick's political mentor.
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (rj6Yv) 115
CBD, this tome shows exactly why you were kicked out of the Pub - you WERE chatting up Amelia!
Can’t have that in dear old Blighty. Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (iaf7q) 116
Speaking of weird names, WTF was up with Kenesaw Mountain Landis?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (77rzZ) 117
107 I think I remember DJT promising deportation of violent illegals. I don't remember if he promised deportation of all illegals, but for the past few months public opinion has clearly favored it. If that's what he wants, he has to stand behind ICE 100%.
If DJT can't make it happen, nobody can, IMHO. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (N8ZBc) ===== "largest mass deportation operations in history" direct quote from the campaign, said repeatedly. History includes Operation Wetback. And, remember, 10x the number of deportations are happening in TX alone than Minnesota. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (GBKbO) 118
Pseudopoo Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2026 11:26 AM (XeU6L) 119
Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship. Maybe Rand's neighbor could build an apartment complex for tren de aragua.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 11:26 AM (GPa4z) 120
Mul-ti-poo!
Posted by: Leeloo at January 27, 2026 11:26 AM (wVcYX) 121
>>>Sometimes a hickory shampoo is not enough. Try my Alberto VO-5 Hot Oil Treatment.
Posted by: Internationally Acclaimed Actress Rula Lenska >I would pay money to see Don "Cheesedick" Lemon get a trim at the salon. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (oT7pT) 122
The Clinton have to be laughing their azzes off, given how they were the ones who were so close to Epstein. They didn't just frequent the island, the whole family vacationed at his New Mexico ranch. Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (0yjaw) Aren't they supposed to be jailed like Bannon was for ignoring the congressional subpoena? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (Zz0t1) 123
117 Thanks, TJM!
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (N8ZBc) 124
119 Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship. Maybe Rand's neighbor could build an apartment complex for tren de aragua.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 11:26 AM (GPa4z) ==== Doctrinal libertarian is bad on immigration, more at 11. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (GBKbO) 125
A Georgia high school in my district had a "student led" walkout the other day along with others to protest ICE enforcing immigration law. Naturally the schools staff was very supportive of it. The kids are leading the way to the future!
Now it has come out the school has, get this, 6% proficiency in math and 16% in reading. Can't make this shit up. But at least the students can make protest signs. Posted by: Don Lemon at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (GUOwU) 126
James Madison, I want the focus of Congressional hearings to be fraud, not Trump's "crimes."
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (Kxi0p) 127
The dude named his company Lululemon because Chinese people can't say it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (Zz0t1) 128
Too cool if you are on Starlink. Tracks & shows what satellite you are connected to.
https://tinyurl.com/mt7cez7v Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (RoI99) 129
126 James Madison, I want the focus of Congressional hearings to be fraud, not Trump's "crimes."
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (Kxi0p) ===== Hearings do shockingly little. The Benghazi hearings taught me that. The real prize isn't congressional hearings, it's running the DOJ. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:28 AM (GBKbO) 130
https://is.gd/NH6l7a
@nettermike LAWYER UP": Former DOJ Chief of Staff Issues Grave Murder Charge Warning to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan The legal walls are closing in on Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor. Following the explosive revelation that Peggy Flanagan allegedly operated as a "dispatch admin" for the radical ICE-interference network under the handle "Flan Southside," one of the nation's top legal minds has issued a chilling warning about her future. The Felony Murder Warning ..... (read the whole thing) == Stop fucking talking about this and do it. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:28 AM (ULPxl) 131
>>I think I remember DJT promising deportation of violent illegals.
IIRC, he said he'd focus on getting the violent ones out *first*. He ran on deportations of all illegals. It is the sanctuary cities/states that cause the collection of longtime residents when they force ICE to go into the immigrant communities to scoop up those not released directly to them by local LEOs. Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:28 AM (0yjaw) 132
“ … violating a judge’s order in the case of a man who is challenging his detention.”
What flavor of “man” we talkin’ about? An illegal alien? Foreign national with a student visa that expired in 1997? Notice their strategy. Foreigners can get in en masse, by the millions and millions, but can only be removed one at a time, through a byzantine bureaucratic obstacle course of legal sophistry and fairy tales. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 11:28 AM (wO3Gh) 133
And because many ATMs still run Windows 7 Embedded or XP, updating is nontrivial - banks depend on vendor-proprietary runtimes.
In the XP time frame I can kind of see it, but by the mid oughts it should’ve been obvious that anything embedded should be on Linux or one of the BSDs with Qt as the UI. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:29 AM (QZThv) 134
Accept that civil and uncivil disobedience has a price. There is no cheap grace in this world.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 11:29 AM (jc0TO) 135
==
Stop fucking talking about this and do it. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:28 AM (ULPxl) This. In before the "nothing will happen" guy. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:29 AM (Zz0t1) 136
So, is driving around chasing ICE in SUVs, then when they stop to do anything, getting out of your chase vehicle, and blowing whistles, air horns, screaming "fuck ICE" and trying to get as close as possible but avoiding contact, is that violence?
Should that be met with hickory shampoos? Because that is what they are trained to do. The stupid ones that step over the line get cuffed and detained and are back out on the street within hours, but the pros know how to keep things humming at the chaos level. Posted by: M. Gaga at January 27, 2026 11:30 AM (KiBMU) 137
134 Accept that civil and uncivil disobedience has a price. There is no cheap grace in this world.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 11:29 AM (jc0TO) ==== "Obstruction of a law enforcement operation carries risks...especially if your operating a deadly weapon (a car) or have a deadly weapon on you (a gun)." -things not told leftists, it seems Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:30 AM (GBKbO) 138
The difficulty is with the L not the R.
Posted by: Dark Litigator Some of us have twouble with both. -- Elmer Fudd Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:24 AM (77rzZ) ----------- Welease Wodewick! Posted by: Pontius Pilate at January 27, 2026 11:30 AM (OvMCw) 139
The real prize isn't congressional hearings, it's running the DOJ.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:28 AM (GBKbO) === Yup. Posted by: Startled Grandpa at January 27, 2026 11:30 AM (rj6Yv) 140
Now it has come out the school has, get this, 6% proficiency in math and 16% in reading. Can't make this shit up. But at least the students can make protest signs.
Posted by: Don Lemon at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (GUOwU) Doubt it. The protest signs were probably mass produced using taxpayer money and distributed to the kids by the teachers union. Similar to every other "spontaneous grassroots protest" we've seen for the last 25 years Posted by: Orchestrated and coordinated at January 27, 2026 11:30 AM (TbWk/) 141
>>Hearings do shockingly little.
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY USE HEARINGS PERFORMANCES TO FUNDRAISE, IN ORDER TO BE REELECTED AND THEN HOLD MORE HEARINGS. Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (0yjaw) 142
Aren't they [The Clintons] supposed to be jailed like Bannon was for ignoring the congressional subpoena?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (Zz0t1) ----------- White Trash Privilege. Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (5NBTt) 143
https://tinyurl.com/mt7cez7v Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (RoI99) He has 9580 satellites up there? Damn...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (Zz0t1) 144
141 >>Hearings do shockingly little.
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY USE HEARINGS PERFORMANCES TO FUNDRAISE, IN ORDER TO BE REELECTED AND THEN HOLD MORE HEARINGS. Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (0yjaw) ==== Too real, Ben. Too real. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (GBKbO) 145
No idea why the link is broken.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (Zv8bq) 146
> But at least the students can make protest signs.
Posted by: Don Lemon at January 27, 2026 11:27 AM (GUOwU) Or at least carry pre-printed ones funded by Soros. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 11:32 AM (IG3/x) 147
145 No idea why the link is broken.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (Zv8bq) ==== Works now! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO) 148
He has 9580 satellites up there? Damn......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer Haha! Musk is soooooo stupid! Anyway come here and look at this! A garbage disposal? What is that! Posted by: AOC at January 27, 2026 11:32 AM (Dv3i1) 149
did trump promise to deport all illegals
Yes, Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to carry out the "largest deportation operation in American history" . As of January 2026, he is actively pursuing this goal through multiple executive and legislative actions during his second term. Scope of the Promise Total Targets: Trump has stated he aims to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, with campaign-era estimates ranging from 11 million up to 25 million people. Prioritization: While the administration claims to prioritize the removal of "the worst of the worst" (violent criminals, gang members, and drug traffickers), officials have stated they will not "walk away" from any person in the country illegally. It's very easy to say the word "all". He hasn't. Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t) 150
No schools that I know of in my area did any walkouts. It’s a right-ish area generally but there is a strong AWFL contingent. I guess their children didn’t have enough numbers to persuade other to protest. And the one thing kids hate the most is being in the minority on something so they didn’t bother. Easy to be “brave and strong” when everyone else around agrees with you. A bit harder when most people disagree.
Oh and out schools are at 80-90% state achievement levels. Weird how that works huh? Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (4uLDQ) 151
Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?
—— Styles Bridges has entered the chat. Olympia Snow for honorable mention, not to mention Estes Kefauver. **NH pol Dick Swett has entered the chat** Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (ufSfZ) 152
No idea why the link is broken.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (Zv8bq) Now that it's fixed, sure. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (Zz0t1) 153
So a teacher may be fired for posting ‘ Go ICE’
That’s like firing a teacher for posting ‘Go America!’ Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (KDPiq) 154
Speaking of weird names, WTF was up with Kenesaw Mountain Landis?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (77rzZ) ---------- Parents were Georgian ACW buffs? Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (OvMCw) 155
Then when they get back in power, the moment a conservative of any kind has a single hair out of place or says one thing about disagreeing, the alligator tears flow from all corners of libtardia.
Weird situation we're in. Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (cxiKi) 156
No idea why the link is broken.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:31 AM (Zv8bq) Because it had "acecomments.mu.nu" before the CJN link and the CJN link itself had an extraneous ":" in it. Posted by: Unrequested tech support at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (TbWk/) 157
The people are with Trump. But the GOP as usual goes wobbly because the NYT calls them mean words.
Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (4uLDQ) They go wobbly because they are on the payroll. Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (cxiKi) Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (ufSfZ) 159
No idea why the link is broken.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo You were in the pub? -- George Costanza Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ) 160
158 Time to call it a day, go shovel and then nap.
See you all tomorrow. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (ufSfZ) ===== Ciao, mio amico. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (GBKbO) 161
154 Speaking of weird names, WTF was up with Kenesaw Mountain Landis?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:25 AM (77rzZ) ---------- Parents were Georgian ACW buffs? Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (OvMCw) ---------- Fun fact: My G-G-Grandfather fought there. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (LxER7) 162
From the CNN article mentioned above:
"In the court filing on Monday, Schiltz wrote: “The practical consequence of respondents’ failure to comply has almost always been significant hardship to aliens (many of whom have lawfully lived and worked in the United States for years and done absolutely nothing wrong).”" Respondents: Feds Schlitz: Judge Posted by: Startled Grandpa at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (rj6Yv) 163
Time to call it a day, go shovel and then nap.
See you all tomorrow. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (ufSfZ) Tomorrow? That's not a nap. That's a long, deep sleep. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:35 AM (Zz0t1) 164
Arrest Peggy 'hijab' Flannigan and the Tampon Timmy operative.
They are nice high profile targets. Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2026 11:35 AM (KWEa6) 165
Have a good one, MP4.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:35 AM (77rzZ) 166
Fun fact: My G-G-Grandfather fought there.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (LxER7) You should see someone about that stutter. Posted by: Biden's speech therapist at January 27, 2026 11:35 AM (TbWk/) 167
i like the taste of hobo ass
Posted by: Sid at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (eSM61) 168
Too real, Ben.
Too real. Posted by: TheJamesMadison We failed to revoke Obamacare, but we have a razor-thin margin in the house, so despite having three-thirds of the branches of government, we need you to donate to the GOPe so we can elect MORE GOPe candidates to cover for the GOPe congressman that vote against your interests. Posted by: GOPe at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (JCZqz) 169
Recent video on X shows Minnesota state police aggressively dispersing a radical mob from the motel housing ICE agents. Hours after Trump call to Walz.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (zqeQL) 170
125 A Georgia high school in my district had a "student led" walkout the other day along with others to protest ICE enforcing immigration law.
== Students will walkout in support of anything if it means they get out of class. Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (0bjKf) 171
Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?
—— Styles Bridges has entered the chat. Olympia Snow for honorable mention, not to mention Estes Kefauver. **NH pol Dick Swett has entered the chat** Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 11:33 AM (ufSfZ) Strother Martin. What's a Strother? Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (wVcYX) 172
The way I remember civil disobedience/nonviolent non-cooperation was supposed to work is: you do it, you get arrested, you take your lumps, and don't complain about it. Taking the lumps gracefully is making the point.
Guys like Pretti who deliberately wade into an LE fight, carrying a gun, ought to expect something bad to happen. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (N8ZBc) 173
Sid, you ignorant slut.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (u73oe) 174
I’ve not seen one national conservative voice point out that there were no protests or even a raised voice by the Left when the Somali cop murdered Justine Diamond for no reason.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:37 AM (KDPiq) 175
Fun fact: My G-G-Grandfather fought there.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (LxER7) "This one goes out to the O'Malley twins." - - - - - - Adrian Cronauer Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:37 AM (Zz0t1) 176
Doubt it. The protest signs were probably mass produced using taxpayer money and distributed to the kids by the teachers union. Similar to every other "spontaneous grassroots protest" we've seen for the last 25 years
Posted by: Orchestrated and coordinated at January 27, 2026 11:30 AM (TbWk/) ------------- The GloboHomo Deep State, ChiComms, and Mexican Cartels (BIRM thrice) -- especially via "Birthright Citizenship" and "Birth Tourism" have been working in this manner for decades to overthrow the USA. See Peter Schweizer's latest book "The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon." Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 11:37 AM (5NBTt) 177
Does peaceful protest include the right to bite off fingers? Just asking for the crazy purple haired nose ringed AWFLs….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 11:37 AM (YobFY) 178
Posted by: Sid at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (eSM61)
===== Sounds like we have every right to oppose you to the fullest extent of our abilities since our lives and livelihoods are on the lines. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO) 179
>>Too real, Ben.
Too real. SEEING TREY GOWDY GO OFF ON HOW ILLEGALL THE PRETTI WAS HIT PRETTY D@MN HARD. IT'S FUNNY HOW GOWDY'S MR. TOUGH-TALKING-FORMER-PROSECUTER FIGHTING THE DEMS ILLEGALITY ACT ENDED AS SOON AS HE INKED A DEAL WITH FOX. Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 11:38 AM (0yjaw) 180
Fun fact: My G-G-Grandfather fought there.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (LxER7) ----------- Mine was out of the Army by then, but his former regiment was in the campaign. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:38 AM (OvMCw) 181
Fun fact: My G-G-Grandfather fought there.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (LxER7) You should see someone about that stutter. Posted by: Biden's speech therapist at January 27, 2026 11:35 AM (TbWk/) Or, just take up singing. Posted by: Mel Tillis at January 27, 2026 11:38 AM (wVcYX) Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:38 AM (4uLDQ) 183
Does peaceful protest include the right to bite off fingers? Just asking for the crazy purple haired nose ringed AWFLs….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 11:37 AM (YobFY) -------------- "We call that pieceful protest, h8r!" Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 11:38 AM (5NBTt) 184
169 Recent video on X shows Minnesota state police aggressively dispersing a radical mob from the motel housing ICE agents. Hours after Trump call to Walz.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (zqeQL) I believe that was a different city Than Minneapolis.... Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (VE6XX) 185
Are green activists gluing themselves to streets or damaging priceless works of art acting within the bounds of protedt?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (8CIFn) 186
Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?
I know, sounds like a low IQ hillbilly. What do you expect out of Crackerville? Posted by: Kweisi Mfume at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (R/m4+) 187
Effortless protesting
White Housr comment line open between 10 and 3 202 456-1111 Call and support the immigration policy and federal law enforcement. Capitol switchboard 202 224- 3121 Perfect place to express opinions on the rogue judiciary. A million phone calls is a powerful statement and you don't even have to get off your ass. Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (0KSrI) 188
>>> 164 Arrest Peggy 'hijab' Flannigan and the Tampon Timmy operative.
They are nice high profile targets. Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2026 11:35 AM (KWEa6) Roll into the house with a SWAT tank and drag her ass out at 3am when it's about -20. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (ULPxl) 189
184 169 Recent video on X shows Minnesota state police aggressively dispersing a radical mob from the motel housing ICE agents. Hours after Trump call to Walz.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 27, 2026 11:36 AM (zqeQL) I believe that was a different city Than Minneapolis.... Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (VE6XX) ==== I believe it was St. Paul, but the night before no cops showed up. So, yes, change. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (GBKbO) 190
Because it had "acecomments.mu.nu" before the CJN link and the CJN link itself had an extraneous ":" in it.
Posted by: Unrequested tech support at January 27, 2026 11:34 AM (TbWk/) Both of which were added by the system. This isn't my first rodeo. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (Zv8bq) 191
The root cause of all of this is that Civil War 2 happened in the late 60s/early 70s when there were 1000 marxist bomb explosions a day in the US and the media covered about 5 of them total. Now the people setting off those bombs control most of the government, and you can see why their hand-picked manchur, err, man-Kenyan candidate Obama was going to be The One to usher in full communism.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (2ocoG) 192
VA should learn from PA for once: Automatic pay raises
Trib Live, Pennsylvania Pa. lawmakers among highest-paid in the country, thanks to automatic pay raises Only New York, California lawmakers make more --- ABC 27 News, Pennsylvania Politics 'Shapiro to start 2026 as highest-paid governor in U.S.' Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (NFX2v) Posted by: Ilhan Omar at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (N8ZBc) 194
Sid is like Oprah. You’re a Nazi /!; you’re a Nazi and you’re Nazi.
I'm a Nazi, he's a Nazi, she's a Nazi, we're a Nazi, wouldn't you like to be a Nazi too? Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t) 195
SEEING TREY GOWDY GO OFF ON HOW ILLEGALL THE PRETTI WAS HIT PRETTY D@MN HARD. IT'S FUNNY HOW GOWDY'S MR. TOUGH-TALKING-FORMER-PROSECUTER FIGHTING THE DEMS ILLEGALITY ACT ENDED AS SOON AS HE INKED A DEAL WITH FOX.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 11:38 AM (0yjaw) -------------- "Miss me yet?" -- Paul Ryno Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (5NBTt) 196
You g-g-guys!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (LxER7) 197
>>Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?
The only unusual names that win are Star Wars names. DiVeRsItY iS oUr StReNgTh!! Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (0yjaw) 198
I respect the left for being consistent. They are rioting in support of a dead guy shot by federal police. Just like they rioted in support of Ashli Babbit when she was killed by federal police.
Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:40 AM (4uLDQ) 199
174 I’ve not seen one national conservative voice point out that there were no protests or even a raised voice by the Left when the Somali cop murdered Justine Diamond for no reason.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 11:37 AM (KDPiq) She was walking toward the police car with a purpose, which placed the officer in reasonable fear of imminent death or great bodily harm to himself. Good shoot. Posted by: She was wielding white privilege y'know at January 27, 2026 11:41 AM (TbWk/) 200
I believe it was St. Paul, but the night before no cops showed up.
So, yes, change. There's video Sunday night of St. Paul police coming to one of the hotels under siege and then pulling a U-turn in the middle of the road and going back. The fact that local, county, and state police all were arresting Antifa last night is a pretty big deal. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG) Posted by: connected and litigious at January 27, 2026 11:41 AM (cS1cw) 202
Test
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:41 AM (Zv8bq) 203
Are green activists gluing themselves to streets or damaging priceless works of art acting within the bounds of protedt?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (8CIFn) To me, that would fall under Disorderly Conduct, possibly Disturbing The Peace. But I am not a prosecutor or a cop. just an ordinary shmoo. Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 11:41 AM (wVcYX) 204
42 I mean, the left still thinks the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and didn't comb through them to find ANYTHING to prevent Trump from running again.
Seriously..... Posted by: Sponge ------ The professional left doesn't believe in anything which makes it easy to suddenly pivot to whatever the hive mind is thinking today on an issue. Like RAM, their memories are cleared when they sleep and then reboot to whatever new OS upgrades are present today for their reaction models. Those on the Right though have long term memories and that often causes a slow burn when the current lefty du jour cause for the hivemind which totally contradicts what they said a day, week, month, or years before. There are some puppeteers behind all of it but like most experts, they are certainly not infallible and those puppeteers seem to be getting more stupid and less wise as time goes by. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (E4rtv) 205
Are green activists gluing themselves to streets or damaging priceless works of art acting within the bounds of protedt?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (8CIFn) They fixed global warming, so they would only need to lick a flagpole. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1) 206
136 So, is driving around chasing ICE in SUVs, then when they stop to do anything, getting out of your chase vehicle, and blowing whistles, air horns, screaming "fuck ICE" and trying to get as close as possible but avoiding contact, is that violence?
Should that be met with hickory shampoos? Because that is what they are trained to do. The stupid ones that step over the line get cuffed and detained and are back out on the street within hours, but the pros know how to keep things humming at the chaos level. Posted by: M. Gaga at January 27, 2026 11:30 AM (KiBMU) I hear good things about suppressed Ruger 10/22's Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (xcxpd) 207
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@jimcramer I am a huge gold bug, but I am NOT a silver bug. If there were no sentimental value to it, i would try to cash in on family silver. It is getting ridiculous... Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (ULPxl) 208
My grandfather was a tough SOB. He nearly took out a platoon single-handedly but was captured and spent the rest of the war in an allied POW camp.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (GPa4z) 209
200 There's video Sunday night of St. Paul police coming to one of the hotels under siege and then pulling a U-turn in the middle of the road and going back. The fact that local, county, and state police all were arresting Antifa last night is a pretty big deal.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG) ====== I suspect the call with Walz was along the lines of, "We have all the receipts. You can help us or not. Oh, by the way, I expect Homan to be treated with respect. Good guy. Obama liked him." Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (GBKbO) 210
Good morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (u82oZ) 211
167 Can a revolt against nazism really be called insurrection? The current government HAS to be resisted. A truth and reconciliation process must be put in place to purge MAGA supporters from daily life in the near future.
Posted by: Sid Damn Sid, what's your Reddit username? I'm curious which Redditard talking about Nuremberg 2.0 is you. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (JCZqz) 212
I never trusted Trey Gowdy because I can’t take anyone seriously with hair that completely ridiculous… clown show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (YobFY) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1) 214
> Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship.
----------- Park a couple campers outside his house. Put these gangbangers, murderers and rapists in them. Let Rand Paul simmer in the juices of his own policies. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (jtM2q) 215
205 Are green activists gluing themselves to streets or damaging priceless works of art acting within the bounds of protedt?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (8CIFn) They fixed global warming, so they would only need to lick a flagpole. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1) Go straight to the triple dog dare. Posted by: Has anyone seen Flick? at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (TbWk/) 216
Biting off fingers. Smashing windows and occupying hotel lobbies. Burning garbage in dumpsters. Collecting a paycheck.
All in a day's work for the Modern Commie. Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (rj6Yv) 217
Peaceful demonstrations = persuasion
Violent protests = force If you can't persuade, it's because your arguments are weak Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (FMtrg) 218
The talking point on Reddit: Trump is a pedo (per Epstein files) so because of that, ice arresting kid rapists is a bad thing.
Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (4uLDQ) 219
"Are green activists gluing themselves to streets or damaging priceless works of art acting within the bounds of protedt?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA " No, but I'm hoping in Minnesota somebody tells them to touch a light pole with their tongue to show solidarity with the illegals. Posted by: Ripley at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (GUOwU) 220
202 Test
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 11:41 AM (Zv8bq) *scoffs* *holds up card* 1.1 Posted by: East German Judge at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (ULPxl) Posted by: Edgar Allan Poe at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (JCZqz) 222
The current government HAS to be resisted. A truth and reconciliation process must be put in place to purge MAGA supporters from daily life in the near future.
You're calling for the eradication of people that don't think like you, but you're calling THEM Nazis. Yet you can't see who the bad guy really is here........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (Zz0t1) 223
174 I’ve not seen one national conservative voice point out that there were no protests or even a raised voice by the Left when the Somali cop murdered Justine Diamond for no reason.
Posted by: Opinion fact ======= Because it is useless as moderates just want peace at any price and leftists are immune to shame and charges of hypocrisy. Like Muslims, they view lying and distortion as holy when directed at their causes. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (E4rtv) 224
Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship.
Now you know why I beat his ass. Posted by: Rene Boucher, Neighbor at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (R/m4+) 225
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If it’s good enough for Richard Daley in 68 it should be fine now Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (YobFY) 226
Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship.
Second look at Rand Paul's neighbor? Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (2ocoG) 227
So does Sid the anti-Nazi know what day it is today? Because that seems like something an anti-Nazi would kow.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (77rzZ) 228
If you can't persuade, it's because your arguments are weak
Sooo...you're saying there is jello in his words of death for all men to see? Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t) 229
Off sock. So I'm waiting for the warmest part of the day (-8degF windchill; balmy) to put the final restraining bracket on the car battery. The bolt is in a poorly accessible spot, and has about 125 threads on it for no good reason. This damn wind persists for a few more days.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (N8ZBc) 230
I hear good things about suppressed Ruger 10/22's
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (xcxpd) If they were that good you wouldn't be hearing much of anything. Posted by: *thwip* at January 27, 2026 11:45 AM (TbWk/) 231
*know*
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ) 232
Go straight to the triple dog dare.
Posted by: Has anyone seen Flick? at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (TbWk/) ------------ Breach of protocol, but he fell for it. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:45 AM (OvMCw) 233
221 I am a huge gold bug...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket Have I got a story for you! Posted by: Edgar Allan Poe at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (JCZqz) Pfffft. Poser. Posted by: Franz Kafka at January 27, 2026 11:45 AM (TbWk/) 234
>> I never trusted Trey Gowdy because I can’t take anyone seriously with hair that completely ridiculous… clown show
Yeah, like Jim Jordan with his "get down to business" rolled up sleeves. It has always been performative, though I admit to being so thirsty for someone to act that I wanted to believe the hearings would lead to action. They are good at pretending to care. Or they were. Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:45 AM (0yjaw) 235
227 So does Sid the anti-Nazi know what day it is today? Because that seems like something an anti-Nazi would kow.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (77rzZ) ===== Sid just came to tell the world his favorite taste of ass. It's hobo. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (GBKbO) 236
Wonder if the deal with Walz is you get local police to help ice out and you will not serve prison time for Somali fraud. It’s the logical thing, benefits both sides.
Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (4uLDQ) 237
205 Are green activists gluing themselves to streets or damaging priceless works of art acting within the bounds of protedt?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 27, 2026 11:39 AM (8CIFn) They fixed global warming, so they would only need to lick a flagpole. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1) Go straight to the triple dog dare. Posted by: Has anyone seen Flick? at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (TbWk/) Flick? Flick who? *shrugs* Posted by: Ralphie Parker at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (wVcYX) 238
I’ve not seen one national conservative voice point out that there were no protests or even a raised voice by the Left when the Somali cop murdered Justine Diamond for no reason.
The left's only principle is "more power for us". Anything they do or say in service of that goal is fine, even if it's the opposite of what they did or said previously. So they don't care when that stuff is pointed out, and pointing it out is useless beyond any normies that see it. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (2ocoG) 239
I never trusted Trey Gowdy because I can’t take anyone seriously with hair that completely ridiculous… clown show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt I'm standing right here, you know. -- Boris Johnson Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ) 240
Hate to say it, but we need more angry leftwing vermin shot by cops. Violence is the only thing these mongrels understand. So make them understand the hard way.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (XuXeR) 242
"Could someone with the unusual name like Orval Faubus get elected today?"
We named one of our starships after him! Posted by: The Planetary Union at January 27, 2026 11:47 AM (w9Wax) 243
Would a high-class hobo be a heaubeau?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:47 AM (OvMCw) 244
If you can't persuade, it's because your arguments are weak
Posted by: Emmie ====== The left never was about persuading, it is about applying lies so as to get power. Once in power, the long train to widespread death and poverty starts. Like Venezuela. They are not good people because what they want for society can only be acquired by proactive coercive force by the state against dissenters and political opposition. Most on the right simply want to be left alone to raise their families in a safe and prosperous nation. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv) 245
Wonder if the deal with Walz is you get local police to help ice out and you will not serve prison time for Somali fraud. It’s the logical thing, benefits both sides.
I suspect it's along those lines, plus Walz testifying against Flanigan and Ellison. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:47 AM (2ocoG) 246
Remember when a rodeo clown was hunted down for wearing an Obama mask?
Boy that Trump guy sure has thin skin. He won't even take a bullet like tough guy Obama. Posted by: MJ at January 27, 2026 11:48 AM (XOmY9) 247
"I’ve not seen one national conservative voice point out that there were no protests or even a raised voice by the Left when the Somali cop murdered Justine Diamond for no reason."
Hypocrisy is such a big part of our lives now, pointing it out seems ... pointless anymore. Dog bites man. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:48 AM (N8ZBc) 248
The thing they want, they won’t say. Because it’s so deliciously evil and depraved. Imagine Jeffrey Dahmer or John Wayne Gacey’s thoughts before they dove headfirst into torture and murder. That’s where the left’s minds are right now, but their targets are Christians and Jews. Time for ‘intervention’?
Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2026 11:48 AM (zKPy8) 249
Damn Sid, what's your Reddit username? I'm curious which Redditard talking about Nuremberg 2.0 is you.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison The Rick Wilson called for Stephen Miller to be the first one brought to Nuremberg 2.0 and dangle from the rope. I don't know what charges Mr Wilson would bring on Mr Miller, probably doesn't matter. Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 11:48 AM (Dv3i1) 250
Hickory is nice...bamboo can work too.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2026 11:48 AM (2WIwB) 251
Flanagan is the crazy lady that recently wore the hijab as a performative costume right?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 11:49 AM (/iXAp) Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ) 253
There's nothing like a good piece of hickory.
Posted by: Preacher at January 27, 2026 11:49 AM (wVcYX) 254
>>Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship.
A. So what's the point of a border? We have to live with any foreigner who sneaks in, but pretend they don't vote or ensure that their numbers don't count in determining Congressional districts? B. Nice football you're holding, Lucy, next you'll pinky-swear you'll never pass another amnesty, as if this isn't pushed year after year, decade after decade, as part of the latest "comprehensive immigration bill." Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 11:49 AM (0yjaw) 255
>>> 236 Wonder if the deal with Walz is you get local police to help ice out and you will not
Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:46 AM (4uLDQ) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:49 AM (ULPxl) 256
Rand is gonna run in ‘28. He’s going out of his way to position himself as the fringe libertarian. It’ll be him vs Massie and maybe MTG angling for that slice of the vote.
Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:49 AM (4uLDQ) 257
I never trusted Trey Gowdy because I can’t take anyone seriously with hair that completely ridiculous… clown show
Posted by: LinusVanPelt I didn't trust him because of his peacocking at the Benghazi investigations. Loud of mouth and shy on logical arguments. And on Fox, he obviously took the ticket just like Paul Ryan and for the same reason, untold generational wealth and a modicum of fame. But that requires letting the Murdochs turn him into a meat puppet for their global interests and investors. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:50 AM (E4rtv) 258
Flanagan is the crazy lady that recently wore the hijab as a performative costume right?
And the T-shirt with PROTECT TRANS KIDS and a knife dripping blood. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:50 AM (2ocoG) 259
Concupiscence. And inordinate desire for forbidden things stemming from humanity's fallen nature.
Racsism. A projection of self hatred, stemming from the left's inordinate desire to impose their will on others. Posted by: Fat Darth Tim says he is your father at January 27, 2026 11:50 AM (Mw2aG) 260
The Rick Wilson called for Stephen Miller to be the first one brought to Nuremberg 2.0 and dangle from the rope. I don't know what charges Mr Wilson would bring on Mr Miller, probably doesn't matter.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 11:48 AM (Dv3i1) ==== Rick Wilson? Isn't he the guy who owns a cooler with a big Confederate Battle Flag on it? Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:50 AM (rj6Yv) 261
You're calling for the eradication of people that don't think like you, but you're calling THEM Nazis.
Yet you can't see who the bad guy really is here........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (Zz0t1) Kinda like the real nazis. Don't get captured by the americans, they are barbarians. Uh, pay no attention to these "labor" camps with the huge smoke stacks. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 11:50 AM (snZF9) 262
Hypocrisy is such a big part of our lives now, pointing it out seems ... pointless anymore. Dog bites man.
Posted by: gp Pointing out hypocrisy is worthwhile if there are any persuadables around to hear it. Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (Dv3i1) 263
I'm not fat. I suffer from a medical condition called hyperphagia.
The Salmon King: Bear 32's 135,000-Calorie Feast ! In the world of Katmai National Park's "Fat Bear" culture, few sights are as impressive as a dominant male in peak hunting season. In 2024, the bear known as 32 "Chunk" reminded the world why he is a perennial heavyweight contender. Over the course of just 10.5 hours, Chunk was observed pulling a staggering 45 sockeye salmon from the Brooks River. This isn't just an impressive feat of fishing; it is a biological necessity. As winter approaches, brown bears enter a state called hyperphagia, a period of extreme eating where their biological clock screams at them to pack on as much fat as possible. For Chunk, this 10.5-hour marathon resulted in an estimated intake of 135,000 calories—the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (RoI99) 264
261 You're calling for the eradication of people that don't think like you, but you're calling THEM Nazis.
Yet you can't see who the bad guy really is here........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM (Zz0t1) ===== I just want to save all the brown people from our capitalist, racist system by sending them home where they can get maximum diversity and socialized medicine. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (XuXeR) 266
There's nothing like a good piece of hickory.
Posted by: Preacher That's what Rachel said all the time. -- Zombie Anrew Jackson Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ) 267
Rick Wilson? Isn't he the guy who owns a cooler with a big Confederate Battle Flag on it?
That was either him or Charlie "Three Wives" Sykes. I don't dedicate a lot of brain cells to the North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association. (And neither do they!) Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (2ocoG) 268
Hate to say it, but we need more angry leftwing vermin shot by cops.
----- Of course we do. In the end, every Leftist must die, so that we may live. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (BI5O2) 269
For Chunk, this 10.5-hour marathon resulted in an estimated intake of 135,000 calories—the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day.
That bear's cholesterol level has to be thru the roof! Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (RoI99) 270
217 Peaceful demonstrations = persuasion
Violent protests = force If you can't persuade, it's because your arguments are weak Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (FMtrg) Well...presenting facts, logic, and critical analysis to leftist is pearls before swine. You might as well try to promote the virtues of veganism to a three-day starved mountain lion stalking you on a remote hiking trail. And they don't seek to persuade, they seek to dictate, control, oppress, suppress, and conquer. Persuasion has nothing to do with it. Posted by: It's the wrong lens at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (TbWk/) 271
Over the course of just 10.5 hours, Chunk was observed pulling a staggering 45 sockeye salmon from the Brooks River.
------------ Would not want to see the size of the dump he took afterward. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (OvMCw) 272
the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day."
Meh. /captain bearclaw Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (XuXeR) 273
The minute they start charging the financiers under RICO. And start seizing assets. This nonsense stops instantly. Foreign financiers need to be especially roughly handled without mercy...whatever needs to be done needs to be done. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (iJfKG) 274
For Chunk, this 10.5-hour marathon resulted in an estimated intake of 135,000 calories—the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day.
"That's nothing" - Fat-activist AWFLs. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (2ocoG) 275
>>> 268 Hate to say it, but we need more angry leftwing vermin shot by cops.
----- Of course we do. In the end, every Leftist must die, so that we may live. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (BI5O2) Make Commies Good Again. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (ULPxl) 276
254 >>Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship.
====== I don't give a shit about what Rand Paul says anymore just like mASSIE. He is captive to his own donors nowadays and the libertarian obsession with open borders is insane in a world full of danger. We don't need the cheap labor from illegals, H1Bs and other such because it oppresses the native population and inevitably brings about more crime, drugs, plus makes assimilation of what we already have as impossible. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv) 277
Always carry a cane, whether or not you need one (I do). Plain old hickory, not one of the high tech folding ones. It can come in handy waiting in a line if you feel fatigued, give you a little assist getting up, and most important keep evil doers at arms length or crease their skulls. Best part is you can get on an airliner with no problems.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (gm9Sb) Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (4uLDQ) 279
My 217 comment was ambiguous.
My point was that people without a good argument need to use force because they cannot persuade. I did not mean that a valid argument is automatically persuasive, because there are a lot of irrational people out there. Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (FMtrg) 280
"Pointing out hypocrisy is worthwhile if there are any persuadables around to hear it."
I guess I don't see any serious downside to it. I'm just glad I spelled it right. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (N8ZBc) 281
263 I'm not fat. I suffer from a medical condition called hyperphagia.
The Salmon King: Bear 32's 135,000-Calorie Feast ! In the world of Katmai National Park's "Fat Bear" culture, few sights are as impressive as a dominant male in peak hunting season. In 2024, the bear known as 32 "Chunk" reminded the world why he is a perennial heavyweight contender. Over the course of just 10.5 hours, Chunk was observed pulling a staggering 45 sockeye salmon from the Brooks River. This isn't just an impressive feat of fishing; it is a biological necessity. As winter approaches, brown bears enter a state called hyperphagia, a period of extreme eating where their biological clock screams at them to pack on as much fat as possible. For Chunk, this 10.5-hour marathon resulted in an estimated intake of 135,000 calories—the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (RoI99) ---- My father took me fishing there many, many years ago during the height of the sockeye run. (We were fishing for trout and grayling.) Bears all over the place. Real head on swivel time. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (LxER7) 282
280 I guess I don't see any serious downside to it. I'm just glad I spelled it right.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM (N8ZBc) ====== You have just said the word that the Knights who Until Recently Said Ni cannot hear! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 11:54 AM (GBKbO) 283
These aren't peaceful protests. They are interfering and trying to intimidate law enforcement officers.
Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2026 11:54 AM (YwEeS) 284
It's not hypocrisy at all. Somalis are on the Left. When they kill, it's fine. When someone on the Left gets killed, it's a crime. The regime is completely consistent on this point at all times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 11:54 AM (BI5O2) 285
Is this the place where i can get some shampoo? I'm also getting some for my family too.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 11:55 AM (EyfuW) 286
“You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices, Finkle-McGraw said. It was all because of moral relativism. You see, in that sort of a climate, you are not allowed to criticize others—after all, if there is no absolute right and wrong, then what grounds is there for criticism? . . .
Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticize others’ shortcomings. And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices. For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticize another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behavior—you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another. Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy." Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (2000) Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 11:55 AM (GPa4z) 287
M-M-Mel knew something about hickory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=6_VWSD5U0nY&list=RD6_VWSD5U0nY&start_radio=1 One CR because I'm lazy. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 11:56 AM (oT7pT) 288
Remember, the only bill Ellison pushed and got passed in his time in Congress was one that made it EASIER for people to wire money to Somalia.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:56 AM (Zz0t1) 289
My point was that people without a good argument need to use force because they cannot persuade. I did not mean that a valid argument is automatically persuasive, because there are a lot of irrational people out there.
Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM Force can be good in itself. Sometimes you need to remind people that arguments are better than punches, and the best way to do that is to break their nose. Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 11:56 AM (jc0TO) 290
This isn't just an impressive feat of fishing; it is a biological necessity. As winter approaches, brown bears enter a state called hyperphagia, a period of extreme eating where their biological clock screams at them to pack on as much fat as possible. For Chunk, this 10.5-hour marathon resulted in an estimated intake of 135,000 calories—the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (RoI99) Apres feast salmon-poo FTW! Posted by: Zombie Timothy Treadwell at January 27, 2026 11:56 AM (wVcYX) 291
281 When The Corps of Discovery reached the PNW they were amazed at the plentiful salmon, and after weeks, maybe months of light rations gorged themselves. They were down for the count with stomach and GI distress from so much oil and protein hitting their systems.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2026 11:58 AM (gm9Sb) Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 11:58 AM (cxiKi) 293
For Chunk, this 10.5-hour marathon resulted in an estimated intake of 135,000 calories—the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day.
That bear's cholesterol level has to be thru the roof! Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:52 AM (RoI99) ==== IIRC, for the sake of efficiency, Da Bears don't eat the entire fish, just the fatty parts. They can do amazingly delicate slicing with their claws. Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:58 AM (rj6Yv) 294
"But there is a way to disagree, and our founders made it a matter of (hopefully) inviolable law!"
Well, yea. But we are past that point. There is no coexistence with commies or Muslims. People can disagree over issues like what the Fed rate should be, the number of visas, daylight savings time, whether Girl X is a 7 or 8. But the "disagreement" with commies and Muslims is not any of these issues. Disagreement with them is whether we normal people should be sent away in boxcars. Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 11:58 AM (iFTx/) 295
The current government HAS to be resisted. A truth and reconciliation process must be put in place to purge MAGA supporters from daily life in the near future.
You're calling for the eradication of people that don't think like you, but you're calling THEM Nazis. Yet you can't see who the bad guy really is here........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM There is nothing that screams fascist more than calling for the elimination of 50,000,000+ people. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (0N4FZ) 296
This isn't just an impressive feat of fishing; it is a biological necessity. As winter approaches, brown bears enter a state called hyperphagia, a period of extreme eating where their biological clock screams at them to pack on as much fat as possible. For Chunk, this 10.5-hour marathon resulted in an estimated intake of 135,000 calories—the equivalent of eating roughly 245 double cheeseburgers in a single day.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:51 AM (RoI99) Does Chunk have a body positivity TikTok? Posted by: He's why women choose the bear at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (TbWk/) 297
Strother Martin. What's a Strother?
--- I just watched Cool Hand Luke for the first time yesterday. Damn good movie. Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (9CBNQ) 298
My father took me fishing there many, many years ago during the height of the sockeye run. (We were fishing for trout and grayling.) Bears all over the place.
Real head on swivel time. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher I don't doubt you. That would have been scary being that close to those huge bears. They fight with each other over fishing spaces. I don't want to imagine what would happen if they thought you were in their way. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (RoI99) 299
gp's rocket fuel: 36 floz ice cold diet cola, with one-third cup Dunkin Donuts coldbrew coffee concentrate for oxidizer. Commencing second dose. Clear the pad.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (N8ZBc) 300
If you ever get a chance, watch footage of Wrangel Island. The seals go there to mate as the polar bears enter hyperphagia- the slaughter is completely insane. It's a total bloodfest.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (BI5O2) 301
"The recent shootings in Minnesota are a natural result of the breakdown in respect for the legitimate activity of government,"
Nah, nonsense. This is the western heirs of Lenin trying for 1917 2.0, thinking they'll be able to manage it with higher production value. It isn't some sort of mistake, or symptom, these people know exactly what they are doing even if they have a bunch of differing motivations. This has been the fundamental problem with non lefties as long as the term "leftist" has been a thing: they keep refusing to comprehend the magnitude of the threat and be honest about what is actually happening. This is why I bag on VDH so much, he is a couple of generations behind the curve. Progressivism/communism/whatever you want to name it is a civilizational threat, and it's effective because it capitalizes on opponents getting lazy and rationalizing things away. Posted by: heya at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (h3Fno) Posted by: Brainrotted GenA doing the hand thing at January 27, 2026 12:00 PM (TbWk/) 303
My point was that people without a good argument need to use force because they cannot persuade. I did not mean that a valid argument is automatically persuasive, because there are a lot of irrational people out there.
Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM Force can be good in itself. Sometimes you need to remind people that arguments are better than punches, and the best way to do that is to break their nose. Posted by: toby928(c) This x1000. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 12:01 PM (RoI99) 304
You People are giving Happy Fun CBD a headache by quoting the timwalz troool.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:01 PM (ULPxl) 305
286 That's a great comment, Oglebay!
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 12:01 PM (N8ZBc) 306
299 gp's rocket fuel: 36 floz ice cold diet cola, with one-third cup Dunkin Donuts coldbrew coffee concentrate for oxidizer. Commencing second dose. Clear the pad.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (N8ZBc) Heart rate approaching 140, BP 210/170... Posted by: Stroke...stroke...stroke... at January 27, 2026 12:02 PM (TbWk/) 307
I don't doubt you. That would have been scary being that close to those huge bears. They fight with each other over fishing spaces. I don't want to imagine what would happen if they thought you were in their way.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (RoI99) Yep, and there was one named Sister who had a couple of cubs with her, making her doubly prickly. Fortunately, they're so gorged with fish that they're pretty lazy. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:02 PM (LxER7) 308
Not wishing to start a gun thread but here goes. Old firearms ads had really good artwork. Smith and Wesson had one showing a fly fisherman being charged by a large brown or grizzly bear. Fisherman is in his waders and drawing his trusty Smith and Wesson. Unfortunately, this was an ad for a piss off the bear K22.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM (gm9Sb) 309
"295 The current government HAS to be resisted. A truth and reconciliation process must be put in place to purge MAGA supporters from daily life in the near future.
You're calling for the eradication of people that don't think like you, but you're calling THEM Nazis. Yet you can't see who the bad guy really is here........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 11:44 AM There is nothing that screams fascist more than calling for the elimination of 50,000,000+ people. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (0N4FZ)" I don't think democide is really relevant to the labels here. Either way I have zero qualms about doing it right back to them. Examples need to be made if you want a few generations of relative peace. Posted by: heya at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM (h3Fno) 310
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‘Hate to say it, but we need more angry leftwing vermin shot by cops. ’ Do you really hate to say it? Not only is it the only they back down and we win, it’s clearly what they want. Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM (jbnUc) 311
I don't doubt you. That would have been scary being that close to those huge bears. They fight with each other over fishing spaces.
Antlered creatures love that time of year.... The Salmon Moose! Posted by: Marginal Python Reference at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM (w9Wax) 312
Good thread, CBD. 👍
I don't know (within my remaining lifetime) if it's possible to have reasonable debate and/or equality w/i the nation. AI Overview: The Left criticized the Tea Party (approx. 2009–2014) as a top-down, corporate-funded movement that used inflammatory, anti-government rhetoric. Liberals viewed the movement as an existential threat to New Deal social programs, often describing it as an extremist, obstructionist force driven by racism and cultural anxiety. Key reasons for the intense opposition included: >Opposition to Progressive Policies: dismantle government regulations, cut Medicare, and repeal health care subsidies >Racism and Extremism Allegations: Critics pointed to the presence of racist signs, anti-immigrant sentiment, and conspiratorial "birther" claims regarding President Obama. >"Corporate AstroTurf" Accusations - Koch Brothers, dark $ etc. >Ideological Obstructionism: political gridlock and crises, such as the debt-ceiling debates. >Cultural Divide: white and older, reacting against a diversifying nation It was the perfect opening because the Left made it so. What has changed? Only that the 'intense dislike' of the TP has spread. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 12:04 PM (NFX2v) 313
214 > Rand Paul says the gang members, murderers, rapists and child molesters can stay, but they don't get citizenship.
----------- Park a couple campers outside his house. Put these gangbangers, murderers and rapists in them. Let Rand Paul simmer in the juices of his own policies. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 11:43 AM (jtM2q) Rand Paul has been 'gotten to' and is no longer worth a pinch of owl dung Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 12:04 PM (xcxpd) 314
Yep, and there was one named Sister who had a couple of cubs with her, making her doubly prickly.
Fortunately, they're so gorged with fish that they're pretty lazy. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:02 PM (LxER7) ==== That means if you encroached on their fishing spot, they'd kill you, but they wouldn't bother eating you. Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:04 PM (rj6Yv) 315
The Salmon Moose!
Posted by: Marginal Python Reference at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM We don't talk about that guy. He's strange. Posted by: The Moose Out Front at January 27, 2026 12:05 PM (kgE5c) 316
I'm very happy I'm working this afternoon, even though it will be with SPED kids who are very difficult. My sister is having 2 friends over for lunch and all 3 have bad TDS. Better a screaming autistic kid than 3 hours of ranting about how Trump is just like Hitler.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 27, 2026 12:05 PM (Kxi0p) 317
Judge Kennesaw Landis was from Ohio. His father, despite being a Mennonite doctor, was severely wounded at the battle, and his mother suggested naming him after it.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 27, 2026 12:05 PM (zdLoL) 318
One thing on my bucket list is watch the polar-bear migration in Churchill, Manitoba.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ) 319
The fact that local, county, and state police all were arresting Antifa last night is a pretty big deal.
Posted by: Ian S. They'll just be released by commie judges. Not gonna fix it without lime and backhoes. Zero recidivism rate Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (sZ5EW) 320
308 Not wishing to start a gun thread but here goes. Old firearms ads had really good artwork. Smith and Wesson had one showing a fly fisherman being charged by a large brown or grizzly bear. Fisherman is in his waders and drawing his trusty Smith and Wesson. Unfortunately, this was an ad for a piss off the bear K22.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM (gm9Sb) It says COMBAT Masterpiece right on the frame. Clearly it's meant for bear fights. Also I really want one. My .22 revolvers all suck ass Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (xcxpd) 321
One thing on my bucket list is watch the polar-bear migration in Churchill, Manitoba.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:05 PM The Running of the Bears is based. Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (jc0TO) 322
There is nothing that screams fascist more than calling for the elimination of 50,000,000+ people.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 27, 2026 11:59 AM (0N4FZ)" I don't think democide is really relevant to the labels here. Either way I have zero qualms about doing it right back to them. Examples need to be made if you want a few generations of relative peace. Posted by: heya at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM I agree 100%. There is no way you can reason with people who want to kill 50 million+ people because they have different values than you do. At this point physical force is the only tool left to make them stop. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (0N4FZ) 323
Rand Paul… Thomas Massie…. Something in the water in Kentucky that clouds the mind. Not to mention the turtle…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (v/5Y9) 324
Good writeup, unfortunately this is an area in which I'm mostly blackpilled. There is no use trying to have a reasoned debate within the framework of the Constitution or the law as we'd like to know it, with the left writ large.
The left cannot be reasoned with, and has and will continue to use violence to support their side. If we attempt to meet their violence with like force, we are prosecuted to the full extent of the law (and then some), while their violent actors are excused. It's a game we cannot win. Posted by: Candace Owens at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (5aZAZ) 325
It's a game we cannot win.
Posted by: Candace Owens at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM *nods knowingly* Jews. Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:07 PM (jc0TO) 326
Again I’m not trying to change the minds of useful idiots like Sid the pedo but those LIVs that only pay attention to headlines. Pointing out the evil retarded commie’s hypocrisy is something we should be doing 24/7.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:07 PM (KDPiq) 327
Off stale sock
Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 12:07 PM (5aZAZ) 328
323 Rand Paul… Thomas Massie…. Something in the water in Kentucky that clouds the mind. Not to mention the turtle…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (v/5Y9) It's the shine. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:07 PM (bss/y) 329
325 It's a game we cannot win.
Posted by: Candace Owens at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM *nods knowingly* Jews. Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:07 PM (jc0TO) Pardon me, sir. Shouldn't that be: JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!@!!? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:08 PM (bss/y) 330
One thing on my bucket list is watch the polar-bear migration in Churchill, Manitoba.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:05 PM (77rzZ) Wear bells on your belt and shoe laces. Posted by: Zombie Timothy Treadwell at January 27, 2026 12:08 PM (wVcYX) 331
"303 My point was that people without a good argument need to use force because they cannot persuade. I did not mean that a valid argument is automatically persuasive, because there are a lot of irrational people out there.
Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 11:53 AM Force can be good in itself. Sometimes you need to remind people that arguments are better than punches, and the best way to do that is to break their nose. Posted by: toby928(c) This x1000. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 12:01 PM (RoI99)" An unpleasant element of reality is that even if you assume everyone can be persuaded, there comes a point where you are risking or sacrificing your own people in the attempt to do so. Just because someone is mistaken or misunderstands you doesn't make your family any less dead or enslaved if you fail to stop them. The world doesn't let you call a time out to hash out the details. Posted by: heya at January 27, 2026 12:09 PM (h3Fno) 332
Rand Paul… Thomas Massie…. Something in the water in Kentucky that clouds the mind. Not to mention the turtle…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt It's an incredibly corrupt state, due to all the thoroughbred racing money. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:09 PM (77rzZ) 333
The best way to save lives is to shoot as many of the protestors as necessary, no more, no less, so that the violence is ended.
If the state does not maintain its monopoly on violence then there is no state. Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2026 12:09 PM (DcfSy) 334
The Salmon Moose!
Posted by: Marginal Python Reference at January 27, 2026 12:03 PM (w9Wax) Watching creatures of that size leaping upstream to mate is quite amazing. Posted by: Nature is breathtaking at January 27, 2026 12:09 PM (TbWk/) 335
>>>Rand Paul has been 'gotten to' and is no longer worth a pinch of owl dung
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo >If Rand Paul had an illegal gardener, he wouldn't have been attacked by his neighbor. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 12:09 PM (oT7pT) 336
Do the she-bears make salmmichs for their malefolk?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:10 PM (77rzZ) 337
It's a game we cannot win.
Posted by: Candace Owens at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (5aZAZ) ======== Bullshit. The 1848 Chartist revolts in Europe were crushed ruthlessly. The ones in Germany were so thoroughly suppressed that a lot of the survivors emigrated to the US. A goodly number of them enlisted in the Union Army. Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:10 PM (rj6Yv) 338
It seems that playtime is over.
Alarming that Tim Walz and Jacob Frey had the ability to do this the entire time, but they allowed lunatic activists to harass federal law-enforcement officers and create an unnecessarily violent environment. https://is.gd/9v6Bgu Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t) Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y) 340
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people firey, but mostly peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
fixt Posted by: cnn at January 27, 2026 12:11 PM (sGtp+) 341
Data Republican has done more in that area than a hundred thousand FIBs.
-- Certainly seems so. And what, exactly, does that say about them? No need to answer. I think we all know. Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2026 12:12 PM (qBdHI) 342
These comments have been outstanding so far. Delay the nood.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 12:12 PM (N8ZBc) 343
Rand Paul… Thomas Massie…. Something in the water in Kentucky that clouds the mind. Not to mention the turtle…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt It's an incredibly corrupt state, due to all the thoroughbred racing money. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:09 PM It ain't just the horse racing money, fully 1/3 of the states population is on social security disability, snap and welfare. The corruption with that is off the scale. The only reason it isn't worse is there are only 4 million people in the state. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 27, 2026 12:12 PM (0N4FZ) 344
The Salmon Moose!
Posted by: Marginal Python Reference Watching creatures of that size leaping upstream to mate is quite amazing. Posted by: Nature is breathtaking What's amazing is what happens if you don't out leap them. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 12:12 PM (RoI99) 345
For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticize another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behavior—you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another.
________ But what's their purpose in pointing it out other than to imply that it's bad? So they're still backdooring right and wrong, which they reject. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 27, 2026 12:12 PM (XvL8K) 346
339 OT:
I wonder what 'Nitro Pop' flavor is? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y) If I had to guess, blue raspberry or some kind of Bomb Pop deal. Posted by: What's Nitro Pop anyway? at January 27, 2026 12:13 PM (TbWk/) Posted by: anachronda at January 27, 2026 12:13 PM (sGtp+) 348
D Bears!
Posted by: Bill Swerski Superfans at January 27, 2026 12:13 PM (wVcYX) 349
Heh… Chunk is a great name for that animal
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 12:13 PM (v/5Y9) 350
Bears are very inefficient eaters, they waste more than they consume, probably consumed less than 1/4 of the potential calories.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2026 12:14 PM (PrKv7) 351
If I had to guess, blue raspberry or some kind of Bomb Pop deal.
Posted by: What's Nitro Pop anyway? at January 27, 2026 12:13 PM (TbWk/) Yeah, the red white and blue pops are my guess. Hmmm. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y) 352
>Racism and Extremism Allegations: Critics pointed to the presence of racist signs, anti-immigrant sentiment, and conspiratorial "birther" claims regarding President Obama. As I recall, the "racist" lie thrown at the Tea Party was largely a matter of the Commie cocksuckers saying "The Tea Party is racist because they want to take food stamps away from black people! Everyone knows that black people would starve to death if they didn't get food stamps!" The Democrat Party, hating non-white people since 1828. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 12:15 PM (y9nCu) 353
Bears are very inefficient eaters, they waste more than they consume, probably consumed less than 1/4 of the potential calories.
Posted by: Thomas Bender Fine. More for us. -- bald eagles and Arctic foxes Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:15 PM (77rzZ) 354
200. There's video Sunday night of St. Paul police coming to one of the hotels under siege and then pulling a U-turn in the middle of the road and going back. The fact that local, county, and state police all were arresting Antifa last night is a pretty big deal.
Posted by: Ian S. So some other feds, school teachers, union organizers get arrested, charged, fined, can't/won't pay, given a hearing date that will jump around for months because the police aren't available, or its a Federal holiday, etc. And then, nothing that really serves as a deterrent plus the taxpayers pickup the attorney fees, etc. Not being mean, just realistic. Go sit in the District Judge's courtroom. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 12:15 PM (NFX2v) 355
Nitro pop? Frozen N2O on a stick.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 12:15 PM (N8ZBc) 356
Shockingly, this is from National Review.
Trump Isn’t the Only One Changing Course in Minnesota Last night brought something that unfortunately seems astonishing in the current moment, namely, local and state police arrested anti-ICE demonstrators once they had broken the law: Police in Minnesota began arresting anti-ICE agitators outside a hotel Monday after authorities said the demonstration escalated and was “no longer considered peaceful,” prompting officers to declare an unlawful assembly. https://is.gd/oALdyZ Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t) 357
That normal police action was in Maple Grove not Mpls. Doesn't mean it wasn't influenced by some change in the pool temperature (= Walz/Frey caving). Also, there were state LE there, apparently (described by streamers, but unconfirmed). That of course means Walz changing orders.
We'll see. Operations today should continue and any change in local policy should be evident. Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2026 12:16 PM (U/Byj) 358
309 I don't think democide is really relevant to the labels here.
because most of the people they want to -cide are republicans? Posted by: anachronda at January 27, 2026 12:16 PM (sGtp+) 359
>>>For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticize another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behavior—you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another.
________ But what's their purpose in pointing it out other than to imply that it's bad? So they're still backdooring right and wrong, which they reject. Posted by: Biff Pocoroba >>Willard Romney has entered the chat. He's a shapeshifter. This is what a legislators do, - talk. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 12:16 PM (oT7pT) 360
> Rand Paul… Thomas Massie…. Something in the water in Kentucky that clouds the mind. Not to mention the turtle…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt It's an incredibly corrupt state, due to all the thoroughbred racing money. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:09 PM It ain't just the horse racing money, fully 1/3 of the states population is on social security disability, snap and welfare. The corruption with that is off the scale. The only reason it isn't worse is there are only 4 million people in the state. Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 27, 2026 12:12 PM (0N4FZ) ============ There are only 3 major metro areas; Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort. All lean heavily left. And account for the majority of those 4M people. It's like any other "red" state that, somehow, always seems "off" when it comes to the elected officials they send to the capitol city. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 12:17 PM (jtM2q) 361
Bullshit. The 1848 Chartist revolts in Europe were crushed ruthlessly. The ones in Germany were so thoroughly suppressed that a lot of the survivors emigrated to the US. A goodly number of them enlisted in the Union Army.
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:10 PM (rj6Yv) ------ You let me know when you think a good time for us folks on the right to "ruthlessly crush" a rebellion would be. Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 12:17 PM (5aZAZ) 362
Anyways, who wants a chocolate chip cookie 🍪?
Posted by: lin-duh at January 27, 2026 12:17 PM (VCgbV) 363
I think pretty much all mammal digestion is pretty crappy. Or maybe it's just carnivores?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y) 364
And now, for something completely different:
Headline (Daily Express UK): "Denmark warns Trump Greenland move means war" Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (rj6Yv) 365
An unpleasant element of reality is that even if you assume everyone can be persuaded, there comes a point where you are risking or sacrificing your own people in the attempt to do so.
== Rules. Reasonable people like them because we can use them to settle disputes peacefully. Unreasonabke people like them too. They can be used to bind or slow the reasonable, and are no obstacle to the unreasonable. The left isnt doing persuation. Not politics. Its force. All the way down. You are going to persuade these people. It would be like talking the mafia into giving up crime. Posted by: Fat Darth Tim says he is your father at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (Mw2aG) 366
"There is no way you can reason with people who want to kill 50 million+ people ...physical force is the only tool left to make them stop."
Posted by: Mister Scott Hey I'm right there with you, have already put two on the Missing Persons Bulletin, but is there a better to say that than "we're justified in killing people who justify killing people"? Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (ciYHQ) 367
Bears are very inefficient eaters, they waste more than they consume, probably consumed less than 1/4 of the potential calories.
Posted by: Thomas Bender The Bears only want the high fat parts...the protein won't store up and may actually cost the Bear to digest it so fat is where it's at. Posted by: The Fat Boys Are Back at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (R/m4+) 368
364 And now, for something completely different:
Headline (Daily Express UK): "Denmark warns Trump Greenland move means war" Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (rj6Yv) I thought they worked this all out? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y) 369
live in Lexington I agree
Posted by: doug at January 27, 2026 12:19 PM (Hy+R4) 370
324 Posted by: Candace Owens at January 27, 2026 12:06 PM (5aZAZ)
The Judge up in New Somalia gave the game away, Don Lemon can invade a Church in direct violation of the FACE act if James O'Keefe did the same to a Mosque it is a hate crime. We are not citizens we are residents in this country. Posted by: sven at January 27, 2026 12:19 PM (MUJd1) 371
"Denmark warns Trump Greenland move means war"
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (rj6Yv) I thought they worked this all out? What better time to talk tough? Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t) 372
365 Posted by: Fat Darth Tim says he is your father at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (Mw2aG)
You have medical health professionals openly discussing killing patients for their politics online. I think the idea that the left can be reasoned with is charming and cute. Posted by: sven at January 27, 2026 12:20 PM (MUJd1) 373
Anyways, who wants a chocolate chip cookie 🍪? Posted by: lin-duh at January 27, 2026 12:17 PM (VCgbV) Your USB port is right over there. Who's your buddy? Who's your pal? Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 12:21 PM (y9nCu) 374
The Guardian:
‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics Milan’s mayor says agents ’not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itself Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Jakub Krupa Tue 27 Jan 2026 I guess the uproar is known in England, too. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 12:21 PM (NFX2v) 375
I think the writing has been on the wall for a loooooong time. (I began reading it when #44 B. Hussein used the IRS to target conservative PACs.) The enemies of the US Constitution and the American Republic have too thoroughly infiltrated all areas of society for the normal mechanism of self-government to continue to function properly. It's now purely instinctual for the left to destroy our country. And there's too many of them to shame their collective lunacy from playing out in the streets. The only real question is: "Okay, what's next? How do freedom loving citizens safely communicate and organize to be ready for what appears to inevitable and ugly societal disintegration?" Posted by: Bach In Black at January 27, 2026 12:21 PM (KY9hS) 376
You have medical health professionals openly discussing killing patients for their politics online.
I think the idea that the left can be reasoned with is charming and cute. Posted by: sven at January 27, 2026 12:20 PM (MUJd1) Yeah, that nurse one with the paralytic is just fucking nuts. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y) 377
"Denmark warns Trump Greenland move means war"
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (rj6Yv) I thought they worked this all out? Posted by: Aetius451AD The Mouse That Roared. Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 27, 2026 12:21 PM (w9Wax) 378
And not in the good way.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y) 379
>>> 364 And now, for something completely different:
Headline (Daily Express UK): "Denmark warns Trump Greenland move means war" Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (rj6Yv) Uh huh. If this isn't outdated... did someone discover the movie "The Mouse That Roared"? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (ULPxl) 380
358 309 I don't think democide is really relevant to the labels here.
because most of the people they want to -cide are republicans? Posted by: anachronda at January 27, 2026 12:16 PM (sGtp+) hehehehe, pube-icide, hehehehe... Posted by: Beavis at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (Q+gd/) 381
Surprise, surprise, or really not at all. It turns out that the guy who was shot was a known agitator, who frequently got into violent confrontations with ice. One just last week got his rib broke. New York Post has the story Posted by: imp at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (g6TN6) 382
I bet some show writers and what have you, come here and rip out our material.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (EyfuW) 383
302 whether Girl X is a 7 or 8.
6-7 Posted by: Brainrotted GenA doing the hand thing We talking about the sassy THICC weather girl? https://tinyurl.com/4auuszy9 Posted by: Confused Moron at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (JCZqz) 384
364 And now, for something completely different:
Headline (Daily Express UK): "Denmark warns Trump Greenland move means war" Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (rj6Yv) Denmark is Daffy Duck Trump is Bugs Bunny Let the games begin . . . Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (wVcYX) 385
377 "Denmark warns Trump Greenland move means war"
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (rj6Yv) I thought they worked this all out? Posted by: Aetius451AD The Mouse That Roared. Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 27, 2026 12:21 PM (w9Wax) Saving Private Hamlet. Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (LxER7) 386
The Judge up in New Somalia gave the game away, Don Lemon can invade a Church in direct violation of the FACE act if James O'Keefe did the same to a Mosque it is a hate crime.
We are not citizens we are residents in this country. Posted by: sven The third world shit hole mentality that BHO brought to the office and land Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:24 PM (/lPRQ) 387
372 365 Posted by: Fat Darth Tim says he is your father at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (Mw2aG)
You have medical health professionals openly discussing killing patients for their politics online. I think the idea that the left can be reasoned with is charming and cute. Posted by: sven at January 27, 2026 12:20 PM (MUJd1) People applauding this would also demand summary execution of any DoW medic who didn't treat a wounded POW. And summary execution of anyone who harms a hair on a cat or dog. Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:24 PM (5rh/l) 388
No "change of course" by Trump in MN. Only thing that matters is enforcement action. It continues, or it doesn't. If it doesn't it's a calamity and essentially the end of this presidency (and perhaps last best opportunity to keep one national nostril above water). But that's why it is extremely unlikely.
No surprise but still very grave that the institutional GOP, again and of course, shows it has zero fitness for office and no intention of doing the necessary things. Idiotic wimpering and vague illiterate talk of "tactics" and crying over a 2 particularly stupid people who got themselves shot by inserting themselves into kinetic enforcement actions and refusing to follow police orders. Oh - and this is just the national s**t-show over a small part of the mass illegal migration/collapse of sovereignty & rule of law disaster. The 95% (non-criminal illegal alien removal) has barely even started. Odds of Trump = Speed Bump vs. Trump = Change of Course still favors the first. Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2026 12:25 PM (U/Byj) 389
You let me know when you think a good time for us folks on the right to "ruthlessly crush" a rebellion would be.
Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 12:17 PM (5aZAZ) ====== When Abigail Spanberger orders the Virginia ANG to fire on the White House? That might be awhile. The point is, governments suppress, and they can suppress quite effectively when the opposition is weaker and disorganized. Branch Davidians at Waco were suppressed, weren't they? Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:25 PM (rj6Yv) 390
Trump has begun pulling out of Minneapolis
He has already exiled ICE Barbie to the Southern Border Looks like Trump is realizing that for himself. The red nest that his base wants. Is just too expensive. Hi as popularity is dropping Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 27, 2026 12:25 PM (Zkiz+) 391
Nood!
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (w9Wax) 392
Grizzly bears LOVE stale donuts. I once watched a Griz eat about 4 US Army duffle bags full of stale donuts while sitting in a tree stand just above him. All in one sitting. Also ate his own feces as he was sitting on top of the pile and crapping all over it. Ewww. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (y9nCu) 393
383 302 whether Girl X is a 7 or 8.
6-7 Posted by: Brainrotted GenA doing the hand thing We talking about the sassy THICC weather girl? https://tinyurl.com/4auuszy9 Posted by: Confused Moron at January 27, 2026 12:22 PM (JCZqz) I thought the one where she was reading viewer comments and she said: 'She looks like Barbie- if she actually ate a sandwich.' Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (bss/y) 394
>>> 387 372 365 Posted by: Fat Darth Tim says he is your father at January 27, 2026 12:18 PM (Mw2aG)
You have medical health professionals openly discussing killing patients for their politics online. I think the idea that the left can be reasoned with is charming and cute. Posted by: sven at January 27, 2026 12:20 PM (MUJd1) People applauding this would also demand summary execution of any DoW medic who didn't treat a wounded POW. And summary execution of anyone who harms a hair on a cat or dog. Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:24 PM (5rh/l) Unless it's Aussie cops shooting dogs During A Time Of Pandemic. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (ULPxl) 395
Nood Xi.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (Fs0KI) 396
Tried to type with Carhartt snowmobile gloves on. Didn't work. It's *cold* in this old house today. Damned wind!
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (N8ZBc) 397
In an obvious appeal for sympathy Trump has stopped dying his hair.
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (Zkiz+) 398
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 27, 2026 12:25 PM (Zkiz+)
I'm so sorry that the English as a second language course was not as helpful as you might have hoped. Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (rZCVI) 399
We talking about the sassy THICC weather girl? https://tinyurl.com/4auuszy9 Posted by: Confused Moron Maybe 7 or 8 tons? Posted by: imp at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (g6TN6) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (ULPxl) 401
This is not a rebellion. The government is doing this. It's a war.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (BI5O2) 402
Bears are very inefficient eaters, they waste more than they consume, probably consumed less than 1/4 of the potential calories.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2026 12:14 PM (PrKv7) They are like humans. You give me a plate with a chicken fried steak , brussel sprouts, liver and oysters, I’m only eating the chicken fried steak. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (KDPiq) 403
My point was that people without a good argument need to use force because they cannot persuade.
——- There are only two (2) ways to get anyone to do something, whether it is a good argument or not. You can try to persuade, or you can use force. That’s it. The left has long used “Manufactured Consent” and spook engineered parlor tricks to give the illusion of citizen participation. Nobody believes their schtick any longer. Thus the have to use overt violence. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (DenDI) 404
"The left isn't doing persuasion. Not politics. Its force. All the way down. You are not going to persuade these people. It would be like talking the mafia into giving up crime."
Spot on, but... I've gone dark, we're old friends. There is a danger. A corruption that becomes addictive. You start out executing domestic terrorists and end up exterminating an entire family because they refused to show ID at your checkpoint. I'm not saying we can't go there - I think giving the marxists infinite respawns while they playtest how to enslave us is madness - but we have to be vigilant against becoming their mirror image. Americans also have this bias that we're going to save the innocent and kill the wicked. I'm sorry, I wish I could tell you different, but that's not how it's going to play out. Mistakes will be made, devil deals will be brokered, sacrifices may be the only option. If people have a problem with that I understand completely. Maybe enduring the gulags and mass starvation will be more noble but, as my favorite Queen once said: "I choose violence" Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ciYHQ) Mid-Morning Art Thread![]() Cecil John Brack Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread! Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (RoI99) 2
ho lee fuk
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (gbOdA) 3
That is certainly a collection of colors arranged in recognizable patterns, for sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (GBKbO) 4
Whoa. Beer goggles do nothing!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:31 AM (RoI99) 5
Perhaps a different bar?
Posted by: Otto Pen at January 27, 2026 09:31 AM (sJHOI) 6
Well, she won't be getting much in tips.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ) 7
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1) 8
1930s, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9) 9
Phew......thankfully it's NOT a Twin Peaks location.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1) 10
Wow. That is certainly a painting.
Posted by: huerfano at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (98kQX) 11
Where you don't want anybody to know your name
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (wzUl9) 12
I warned the others.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (RoI99) 13
Too cartoonish. Rejected.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (MSlZp) 14
NGV International
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne While the history of art remained an important touchstone and source of inspiration for John Brack throughout his career, The bar is one of few examples of his work in which there is a direct connection to an artistic precedent. Here he restates the subject of Édouard Manet’s famous painting A bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, in a very contemporary guise, replacing the opulence of 1880s Paris with the dour austerity of 1950s Melbourne. Under the watchful eyes of the stern barmaid, a band of near-identical workers urgently drink their fill before the six o’clock closing that was enforced in Melbourne pubs until 1966. Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (gbOdA) 15
It's ma'am!
Posted by: Obvious dude in a dress at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (ftFVW) 16
Harquart Fenton Mudd!! Have you been drinking??
Posted by: Stellah at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (Q+gd/) Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (h7ZuX) 18
A bar your wife would allow you to go to for obvious reasons.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (Zz0t1) 19
Whoa! When did Mayday Malone transition?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (LxER7) 20
I'll pass
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (jtM2q) 21
Phew......thankfully it's NOT a Twin Peaks location.
Posted by: Sponge That's what you see when you look under a kilt at Tilted Kilt. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (RoI99) 22
This is not the Club ONT.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (0nHVk) 23
Is that John Kerry in drag?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (sKqQm) 24
So glad I quit drinking 16 years ago.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (N8ZBc) 25
Early tranny art?
Posted by: dagny at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (ILGo9) 26
That's what you see when you look under a kilt at Tilted Kilt. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (RoI99) No wonder the 2 around these parts closed down a while ago...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (Zz0t1) 27
Is this about raising, lowering or clearing the bar?
Posted by: epador at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (TRnzq) 28
So glad I quit drinking 16 years ago.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (N8ZBc) Good for you, sir. Good for you. *fistbump* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (Zz0t1) 29
Okay, I was off by twenty years. Brack was an Australian: "A related painting, The Bar (1954), was modelled on Manet's 1882 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, and satirised the six o'clock swill, a social ritual arising from the early closing of Australian pubs."
*Six* o'clock? How early did Aussie pubs close back then? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9) 30
Love this! It makes me smile.
You can hear the noise and smell the smoke and the music and the 45 different conversations all vying for dominance. Bourbon neat please! Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (IhIKR) Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (RoI99) 32
Looks like a scene fro a terrible cartoon.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (mM8QB) 33
28 Thank you, Sponge.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (N8ZBc) 34
Her only hope is the closing time effect.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC) 35
The bar patrons were angry that day, my friends.
Posted by: George Costanza at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1) 36
Butthead's Mom
Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (++1kQ) 37
"Is it just me, or is the bartender kind of hot?"
"Give me your keys" Posted by: Wally at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (65cLN) 38
Thank you, Sponge.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (N8ZBc) I picked up drinking 47 years ago, so..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (Zz0t1) 39
I prefer the self portrait of him shaving.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (rZCVI) 40
A bunch of weird dudes and a tranny? That ain’t any bar I’m going to. TBWNH.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (gY5ZL) 41
Her only hope is the closing time effect.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC) It's a fed agent gay bar. If she's a she, she has no hope. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e) 42
Okay, I was off by twenty years. Brack was an Australian: "A related painting, The Bar (1954), was modelled on Manet's 1882 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, and satirised the six o'clock swill, a social ritual arising from the early closing of Australian pubs."
*Six* o'clock? How early did Aussie pubs close back then? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius Closed at 6:59am. Opened at 7:00 am. Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (RoI99) 43
Looks like Jake and Elwood Blues were there for the six o'clock swill that day.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9) 44
It's a man, baby.
Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (6Uni8) 45
Interesting.
Maybe hang that in the 70's grandparents' basement bar. Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 09:38 AM (0yjaw) 46
But the flowers at the bar is a nice and unusual touch.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 09:38 AM (rZCVI) 47
Looks like Jake and Elwood Blues were there for the six o'clock swill that day.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9) Makes you wonder why Elwood just happened to carry a can of spray adhesive in his bag all the time. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:38 AM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:39 AM (xG4kz) 49
The flowers are rather startling, as if some of the tough Aussie male patrons are cradling them in their arms. Until you see the stems coming from the vase on the bar.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9) 50
I guarantee you there's a copy of the naked Bea Arthur painting hanging on a wall somewhere in that bar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:39 AM (Zz0t1) 51
Free Popcorn.
Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2026 09:39 AM (Q+gd/) 52
And I love her! The bar is tidy, everyone has what they need. Her patrons know how to behave. She probably has stories to tell and I bet she’s hilarious. And I would wager she makes a helluva martini.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:39 AM (IhIKR) 53
Mandatory headwear.
Posted by: Fedoras R Us at January 27, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1) 54
*Six* o'clock? How early did Aussie pubs close back then?"
The temperance movement wasn't just in the US... the "progressive" wave of the early 20th century pretty much ruined western civilization. Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:40 AM (XuXeR) 55
The Bar always made a killing when the Boris Badenov fan club held its annual convention.
Posted by: PabloD at January 27, 2026 09:40 AM (pXTL4) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:40 AM (xG4kz) 57
Except for the glasses and hat, the guy second from right looks like Raymond Massey when he played "Jonathan" in Arsenic and Old Lace.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9) 58
I prefer the self portrait of him shaving.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke Does it occur right before his shift behind the bar? Posted by: She Hobbit at January 27, 2026 09:40 AM (ftFVW) Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:40 AM (gbOdA) 60
I remember how much my dad loved Coach as the bartender before Woody Harrelson.
Posted by: Cheers at January 27, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:41 AM (Zz0t1) Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:41 AM (N8ZBc) 63
And by "swill" in the Wiki excerpt, I suppose the meaning is "swilling the drinks down," i.e., swallowing them as fast as possible . . . not the word "swill" as applied to prisoner's food or that for pigs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9) 64
OK, I know this is a parody of the famous painting.
Does this guy do "graphic novels?" Because that's what this looks like. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 09:41 AM (ufSfZ) 65
There's no beer goggles thick enough... Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (xG4kz) 66
Nobody understands cricket anyway.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (IhIKR) 67
Alternate title:
"Cecil John Brack's Attempt to Create an Australian Version of the "Peanuts" Comic Strip Was a Failure" Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (iJfKG) 68
Yikes! I would not let her mix me a drink. It's Lloyd from The Shining in drag.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (kgE5c) 69
Except for the glasses and hat, the guy second from right looks like Raymond Massey when he played "Jonathan" in Arsenic and Old Lace.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius He looks like Boris Karloff. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ) 70
No thank you.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 27, 2026 09:43 AM (vK/Ja) 71
From an art perspective, the bar is set pretty low.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:43 AM (Dv3i1) 72
Nobody understands cricket anyway."
Well, it's just like baseball, except for the parts where it isn't. Clear? Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:43 AM (XuXeR) 73
So glad I quit drinking 16 years ago.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (N8ZBc) I haven't quit, per se, but I have dropped my intake considerably. It's easy to do when you realize no-one at your local pub likes you. At all. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 09:43 AM (ufSfZ) 74
Painting: everything stained yellow by cig smoke.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:43 AM (N8ZBc) 75
The Bar
Cecil John Brack ************* Spilled Booze and Halitosis - a limerick In Chicago I asked my friend, Hume In a stinky old bar full of gloom "How d'ya tell it apart From an elephant's fart?" "One's a barroom, the other's BA-RROOM!!!" Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2026 09:44 AM (qgHp7) 76
66 Nobody understands cricket anyway.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (IhIKR) They are up by 258 We have not batted yet Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:44 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:44 AM (XuXeR) 78
Alternate title:
"Florence Demonstrates Her Psychic Powers By Levitating Potato Chips Off the Bar and Still No one Pays Attention to Heer" Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:44 AM (iJfKG) 79
Heh, reminds me of a character in a Dick Francis book I just finished ("Proof") where the main character is visiting local bars to catch a supplier passing off watered down scotch and faked wine. The owner is tall, scary, says everything with a bit of sarcasm, just daring patrons and staff to cross her, lol. Naturally, she had identified that supplier's bad hooch and demanded a full refund long before the police knew there was a crime, because nothing got past her.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 09:44 AM (0yjaw) 80
It's a fed agent gay bar. If she's a she, she has no hope.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:37 AM (ExV1e) ******* Unless she spikes their drinks with a pinch of ketamine. Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:44 AM (NpAcC) 81
There's no beer goggles thick enough...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot As a Navy guy I knew once said: "Ain't no night dark enough or bottle of Jack Daniels big enough." Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ) 82
I look at this painting and only see a very bad New Yorker magazine cover from the 1950s. That is not a compliment. I looked for some of his other paintings in case this one was an aberration. Turns out it's one of his better paintings.
The one redeeming feature is having a bottle of Grand Marnier on the bar. That is a damn nice libation. Posted by: JTB at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (yTvNw) 83
I remember how much my dad loved Coach as the bartender before Woody Harrelson. Posted by: Cheers * sings * Albania. Albania! You are located On the Adriatic! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (xG4kz) 84
She definitely won't be performing the old 'smash tortilla chips with your tits' bar trick.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (Zz0t1) 85
58- no, he's more attractive than the woman doing bar duty, IMO, although more severe than her:
https://tinyurl.com/2s4dcmnh Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (rZCVI) 86
Bourbon neat please!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (IhIKR) **scribbles note as reminder for a MoMe or Christmas present** Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (ufSfZ) 87
I'll have a shot of Drambuie, my ancestral family drink.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (w9Wax) Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:46 AM (NpAcC) 89
Manet: You want to screw her but she's not interested. Brack: She's interested but you don't want to screw her. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 09:46 AM (tgvbd) 90
I am trying to think of an actress to mention. Lot of them during the 50's (wiry, school marm types.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 09:46 AM (bss/y) 91
and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Congratulations. You've passed your advanced COBloggery qualification. Posted by: DaveA at January 27, 2026 09:46 AM (FhXTo) 92
Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM --- Nice humblegripe, Dildo! Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM (kpS4V) 93
All male patrons makes us think today, if reluctantly, of a gay bar.
The Cafe Lafitte in Exile, a block from the more famous Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, was right by my grammar school. One rainy Saturday my mother and I took shelter for a moment inside the in Exile . . . and sitting at the bar, talking with another man, was my school principal. He was married with a son in my class. I was embarrassed, as you are at age nine, to see your teachers or principals outside of school, but otherwise thought nothing of it. Years later Mom told me, "It was a gay bar even back then. . . . " Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM (XuXeR) 95
Like a baby treats a diaper, Woody. Give me a beer.
Posted by: Just the punchline at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1) 96
Nobody understands cricket anyway.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (IhIKR) Not so, miss. *sings* Some people say that life is a game, well if this is so I'd like to know the rules on which this game of life is based. I know of no game more fitting than the age old game of cricket It has honour, it has character and it's British. Now God laid down the rules of life when he wrote those Ten Commandments And to cricket those ten same rules shall apply. Show compassion and self-righteousness and be honest above all And come to God's call with bat and ball. Now the Devil has a player and he's called the Demon Bowler, He's shrewd, he's rude and he's wicked. He is sent by Sinful Satan and he's out to take your wicket And you know that that's not cricket. He'll baffle you with googlies with leg breaks and offspin But keep a level head and don't let that demon in. So keep a straight bat at all times, let the Bible be your guide And you'll get by, yes you'll get by. Posted by: Zombie Kinks at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM (iJfKG) 97
I am trying to think of an actress to mention. Lot of them during the 50's (wiry, school marm types.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 *** She's got something of the Hope Emerson look, but Hope was not really wiry. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9) 98
Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM ===================== The Metropolitan Police would like to have a little chat. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:48 AM (FgifN) 99
She was 6'4" and full of mustard?
Posted by: I Speaka Your Language at January 27, 2026 09:48 AM (Xr+HN) 100
"I haven't quit, per se, but I have dropped my intake considerably. It's easy to do when you realize no-one at your local pub likes you. At all."
My dad was a barfly. He thought everybody in any bar, anywhere, was automatically his friend. I did my drinking at home alone. Both options suck. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:48 AM (N8ZBc) 101
The Metropolitan Police would like to have a little chat."
Ah, er... hmmmm. So, no more COB posts today? Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:49 AM (XuXeR) 102
Nobody understands cricket anyway. Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (IhIKR) ____________ You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have got out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 09:49 AM (tgvbd) 103
Alternate Title: "Third Through Twelfth Runners-Up in the Rotary Club's Annual Dick Tracy Lookalike Contest"
Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2026 09:49 AM (qgHp7) 104
The Brits, not being a very religious people, invented cricket to give them a concept of what eternity is like.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 27, 2026 09:49 AM (qwx/I) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:49 AM (XuXeR) 106
>>Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
On the upside: you're in a pub in London! Have some chips and chilllllll Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 09:50 AM (0yjaw) 107
Finally! A place where nobody knows my name!
Posted by: Norm Peterson at January 27, 2026 09:50 AM (ESVrU) 108
When both sides have been in and all the men have got out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 09:49 AM (tgvbd) *puts barrel under chin* *pulls trigger* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:50 AM (Zz0t1) 109
I look at this painting and only see a very bad New Yorker magazine cover from the 1950s. That is not a compliment. I looked for some of his other paintings in case this one was an aberration. Turns out it's one of his better paintings.
The one redeeming feature is having a bottle of Grand Marnier on the bar. That is a damn nice libation. Posted by: JTB at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (yTvNw) Sorry, Old Top. That's either Benedictine or B&B. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:50 AM (iJfKG) 110
I am trying to think of an actress to mention. Lot of them during the 50's (wiry, school marm types.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 09:46 AM (bss/y) Mary Wickes. Margaret Hamilton. Edna May Oliver. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 09:50 AM (ufSfZ) 111
Over 100, so
379 Pretti got that Death Angel look. Good thing he went off when he did. Probably saved a lot of lives. Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2026 09:50 AM (LHPAg) 112
On the upside: you're in a pub in London! Have some chips and chilllllll
Posted by: Lizzy Or, you know, some curry. Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (Riz8t) 113
There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- Ten to make and the match to win -- A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote -- 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, -- Red with the wreck of a square that broke; -- The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (tgvbd) 114
Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM The blog is doing everything it can to keep you from being arrested in Commie Old England. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (Zz0t1) 115
My dad was a barfly. He thought everybody in any bar, anywhere, was automatically his friend. I did my drinking at home alone. Both options suck.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 *** Among the few things my father ever taught me that were worth anything was the maxim, "If you're going to drink, do it at home. It's cheaper and safer." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9) 116
Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM --- If so, why is it that I can see your post? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (ufSfZ) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (XuXeR) 118
That one episode where Lilith takes over as bartender because Woody called in sick.
Posted by: No they didn't air it at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1) 119
CBD really oughtta stop giving his hard-earned money to that shithole country.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (77rzZ) 120
114
The blog is doing everything it can to keep you from being arrested in Commie Old England. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:51 AM (Zz0t1) ======= So, we're denying Pakistani rape gangs exist? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (XuXeR) Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (EyfuW) 123
121 Or, you know, some curry."
More likely, yes. Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (XuXeR) ===== It's either curry, masala, or boiled roast. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (GBKbO) 124
Huh. CBD's comment just magically disappeared. Has he been taken by the Rapture?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (Riz8t) 125
She looks a bit like Glen Close in Garp. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (0yjaw) 126
Willowed:
"NASA Set to Launch First Manned Moon Rocket in 50 Years" Dear God, please keep the whole Artemis team, and everybody else on the ground, safe and sound for this foolish mission. Amen. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (N8ZBc) 127
She's got something of the Hope Emerson look, but Hope was not really wiry.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9) Oh! The housekeeper from White Christmas... dammit. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 09:53 AM (bss/y) 128
Huh. CBD's comment just magically disappeared. Has he been taken by the Rapture?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 09:52 AM (Riz8t) He's in London. They're censoring his comments. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:53 AM (Zz0t1) 129
The temperance movement wasn't just in the US... the "progressive" wave of the early 20th century pretty much ruined western civilization.
——— That was an interesting observation, one thing I deduced from close reading of history (and photography) is every town of any size had a brewery and offered a local brew. Most had a Coffee importer and roaster, too. Prohibition, and wartime expedients and post war consolidations - (canned food, instant this, powdered that) pretty much ruined those products for a hundred years. Hipsters like to think they invented beer, or the Starbucks folks that Americans have always drank watered down crap robusta bean coffee. Not so. All it does is seem to show that government jiggery-pokery can cause distortions for a very very long time. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 09:53 AM (M1m37) 130
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 09:43 AM (ufSfZ)
Don't make me come up there and pinch you! Why assume they don't like you? Maybe they just are there with their friends and don't really know you. I don't really have very long conversations with people at the bar when I go. I may comment on their food "( "that sandwich looks good") or join in laughing as they joke with a friend, but I don't think most people are talkative with people they aren't there with. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 09:53 AM (rZCVI) 131
There's somebody for everybody.
Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2026 09:53 AM (LHPAg) 132
"NASA Set to Launch First Manned Moon Rocket in 50 Years"
Dear God, please keep the whole Artemis team, and everybody else on the ground, safe and sound for this foolish mission. Amen. I kinda think it's time for them to pack up their tent and move on. Elon has long since eclipsed them. Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 09:54 AM (Riz8t) 133
119 CBD really oughtta stop giving his hard-earned money to that shithole country.
Posted by: Bulg Dude. Get a job. Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:54 AM (IhIKR) 134
Mary Wickes per imdb.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 09:54 AM (bss/y) 135
The last profile you can see on the left, with the mustache? That's Peter Sellers, researching his role as Inspector Clouseau.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9) 136
Barkeep needs Plexaderm, stat! We are running a $14.95 special.
Posted by: Annette Figueroa at January 27, 2026 09:54 AM (oftw2) 137
The last profile you can see on the left, with the mustache? That's Peter Sellers, researching his role as Inspector Clouseau.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9) Cato is hiding......somewhere. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (Zz0t1) 138
There was an inn along the Ouse near Ely in the UK that had one of the prettiest maidens I'd ever seen serving drinks. Long, long legs. Fox and Duck I think it was.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (qwx/I) 139
Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM Look at the jet setting Nomenklatura. Surprised he'll associate with us 'hooligans. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (bss/y) 140
What spacecraft had the faulty thrusters, that they launched anyway, and the two astronauts were stranded for a year? Is that the same one they want to Recreate ‘68 with?
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (M1m37) 141
Nobody understands cricket anyway.
Posted by: nurse ratched It’s actually a fairly simple game once you understand the basic rules. Difference is there are a lot more versions of the same thing in cricket. Thats where it gets messy. Even suddenly lengths and types of games. Imagine baseball but sometimes it’s 9 innings sometimes it’s 10 sometimes it’s 20. That’s what makes it kind of insane to someone checking it out for the first time. Posted by: Really?? at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (4uLDQ) 142
SO I just read the dumbest article in Il Post which is apparently a popular Italian magazine.
In it the author blames Paradox Interactive and their video game Crusader Kings for spreading false narratives. Crusader Kings is a game where you play a medieval ruler and while there isn't a specific goal, most people emulate real world goals of expanding the realm you rule and the influence of your family in the world So what false notions does the game portray? Well that Europe was full of whitepypo and not a multiracial paradise, and that Christians and Muslims fought wars for control of Europe. "False" This Netflixing of history is getting absurd. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (sKqQm) 143
I kinda think it's time for them to pack up their tent and move on. Elon has long since eclipsed them. Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 09:54 AM (Riz8t) ___________ They should be brokers for scientific experiments and sell training for astronauts. They should not be in charge of any hardware. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (tgvbd) Posted by: Bebe Neuwirth at January 27, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1) 145
Ooooo. And we’re getting a scolding to go with our admonitions.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:56 AM (IhIKR) 146
Mary Wickes is always enjoyable to watch.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (77rzZ) 147
Another Mannix-worthy hot babe art pic. Nice work, CBD. Also, all those vibrant colors and realistic rendering.🙄
She's so attractive I started trying to figure out what the bottles on the shelf were. Middle one is B&B or Benedictine? MiladyJo says, I think I know that woman.😆 Posted by: mindful webworker - It's too two to's day at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (OJSFI) 148
Fish and Duck...my wife reminded me. She didn't remember the girl. Now she's mad.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (qwx/I) 149
142 So what false notions does the game portray? Well that Europe was full of whitepypo and not a multiracial paradise, and that Christians and Muslims fought wars for control of Europe. "False"
This Netflixing of history is getting absurd. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:55 AM (sKqQm) ====== They're gonna throw a conniption when Total War: Medieval 3 gets released and the King of England is white and the Shah of Egpyt is brown. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (GBKbO) 150
She's no Brandy.
Posted by: The Looking Glass at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1) 151
150 She's no Brandy.
Posted by: The Looking Glass at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1) ==== Heard she was a fine girl. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (GBKbO) 152
Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM Look at the jet setting Nomenklatura. Surprised he'll associate with us 'hooligans. He's with the Chavs; he's not a Posh. Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (Riz8t) 153
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 09:56 AM (IhIKR
Yes, you just scolded Bulg. Byeeeee Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (rZCVI) 154
his hard-earned money"
"earned"??? Nay. COBs just dip into the vast (or is it half vast) pool of funds... Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:58 AM (XuXeR) 155
Mary Wickes per imdb.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 *** She played Sheridan Whiteside's reluctant and browbeaten nurse in both the stage play and the movie of The Man Who Came to Dinner. Sheridan Whiteside (to the nurse): "Will you take your clammy hand off my chair? You have the touch of a love-starved cobra." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:58 AM (wzUl9) 156
I forget -- is cricket the game with chukkers or googlies? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:58 AM (xG4kz) 157
Dear God, please keep the whole Artemis team, and everybody else on the ground,"
Shoulda stopped there.... Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:59 AM (XuXeR) 158
151 150 She's no Brandy.
Posted by: The Looking Glass at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1) ==== Heard she was a fine girl. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:57 AM (GBKbO) But my life, my love and my lady... is the sea. Right, the Sea! Posted by: Gay Sailor at January 27, 2026 09:59 AM (bss/y) 159
Barkeep needs Plexaderm, stat! We are running a $14.95 special.
Posted by: Annette Figueroa at January 27, 2026 *** Are you still so excited? Come to my room in half an hour, and bring a loaf of rye bread. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9) 160
So what false notions does the game portray? Well that Europe was full of whitepypo and not a multiracial paradise, and that Christians and Muslims fought wars for control of Europe. "False"
This Netflixing of history is getting absurd. Posted by: 18-1 Obligatory - Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:59 AM (Dv3i1) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:00 AM (XuXeR) Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 10:00 AM (Y1sOo) 163
Oooo. Sick burn, scoldilocks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 10:00 AM (IhIKR) 164
Told ya
Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 10:01 AM (Y1sOo) 165
Oh! The housekeeper from White Christmas... dammit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 09:53 AM (bss/y) Mary Wickes, as I said. She's also good in the underrated 1968 film Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:01 AM (ufSfZ) 166
*ahem*
I'm sitting right here. Posted by: Bebe Neuwirth at January 27, 2026 09:56 AM (2Ez/1) Yeah, the right type of look. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:01 AM (bss/y) 167
The temp is at last above freezing. I'm off to Walmart, and maybe to get a coffee and croissant while I'm out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9) 168
*Popcorn, gityur popcorn here*
Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:01 AM (XuXeR) 169
I was amused to learn from my latest book I’m reading that when thousands of American 8th Air Force personnel were stationed in East Anglia on hastily built airstrips, the local kids learned to ask
“Got any gum, chum?” and the customary response to that was “Got a sister, mister?” LOL Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (M1m37) 170
They're gonna throw a conniption when Total War: Medieval 3 gets released and the King of England is white and the Shah of Egpyt is brown.
The TW games are similar, though the CK games (and Europa Universalis) are a little more historically based. And they are AMAZING for learning history. Which is why the left doesn't like them.... Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (sKqQm) 171
So it's a movie thread?
Posted by: Just got here at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1) 172
Mary Wickes, as I said.
She's also good in the underrated 1968 film Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:01 AM (ufSfZ) Wait, was I supposed to read other people's comments? Who got time for dat?! Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (bss/y) 173
The future is certain, it’s the past that keeps changing
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (Dv3i1) 174
Mary Wickes played Shirley McLaine's mother in Postcards from the Edge. Must've been one of her last roles.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ) 175
171 So it's a movie thread?
Posted by: Just got here at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1) All threads are a movie thread, a boob thread or a gun thread at their appointed hour. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:03 AM (bss/y) 176
You have to remember, CBD, in Nazi Germany free speech was weaponized to conduct genocide.
Posted by: Margaret Brennan at January 27, 2026 10:03 AM (oEMAv) 177
The future is certain, it’s the past that keeps changing
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (Dv3i1) Like the Constitution, history is living and breathing. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:03 AM (Zz0t1) 178
wtf guys
I'm ready to poke out my own eye from pain and you're sniping at each other?!? lol ok ...carry on Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 10:03 AM (emBoF) 179
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (XuXeR) 181
You know you can just open me in new tab, right?
Posted by: IMDB at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1) 182
I like this one. Makes me chuckle.
Posted by: Tuna at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (lJ0H4) Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (emBoF) 184
Yuck
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (/xwAF) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (XuXeR) Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2026 10:05 AM (e4I2N) 187
170 The TW games are similar, though the CK games (and Europa Universalis) are a little more historically based.
And they are AMAZING for learning history. Which is why the left doesn't like them.... Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:02 AM (sKqQm) ====== They're games Steam keeps suggesting to me. But I don't wanna pay full price. Someday. I gotta find a way to get Warhammer Total War to work for me first. Plus...I got Three Kingdoms Total War free from GOG over Christmas. None of the DLC, but the core game, at least. Should be fun. So much to play... Mostly, I've been working through DOOM, though. Finally beat DOOM II for real for the first time. Icon of Sin is so much harder without IDDQD. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:05 AM (GBKbO) 188
Miss Jane Hathaway took up bartending after quitting the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 10:05 AM (wVcYX) 189
You know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 27, 2026 10:05 AM (2Ez/1) 190
179 What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) https://tinyurl.com/25h2dmka I believe that's an old school M-16. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:06 AM (bss/y) 191
Looks like Sarah Jessica Parker tending bar.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2026 10:06 AM (8zz6B) 192
The barmaid at the Folies-Bergère might be bored and not smiling, but she's cute and has nice tits.
I expect Austin Powers to jump in and shout, "That's a MAN, baby!" Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 27, 2026 10:06 AM (BHrzb) 193
Yep -
https://tinyurl.com/4k5zeyy8 Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 10:06 AM (Dv3i1) 194
Ejected, or hot spent brass from autos may, on occasion, work themselves into the Décolletage. Much merriment and hilarity ensues!
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 10:06 AM (M1m37) 195
Has anyone yet mentioned the fine, realistic rendering of her
Posted by: mindful webworker - and that Mona Lisa-esque smile!! at January 27, 2026 10:07 AM (OJSFI) 196
188 Miss Jane Hathaway took up bartending after quitting the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 10:05 AM (wVcYX) Oooo. Also the right type of look. Nancy Culp, looking it up. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:07 AM (bss/y) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:07 AM (XuXeR) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:08 AM (xG4kz) 199
TBH I didn't like CK3 as much as CK2, so you can buy the older title if you want to save some money.
I know there is a new EU game out but I haven't had a chance to play it - I gotta work to pay for all these Somali daycares... I did enjoy the TW Warhammer games though the micromanagement of some of the battles can get tedious... Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:08 AM (sKqQm) 200
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) "She met me at the door with a pair of thirty-eights. And she had a gun." Posted by: Count de Monet, hardboiled Private Eye at January 27, 2026 10:08 AM (wVcYX) 201
Looks like Sarah Jessica Parker tending bar.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Boobs aren't big enough SJP was seriously stacked back in the day. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:08 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (N8ZBc) 203
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) https://is.gd/vC2KHr Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (Zz0t1) 204
199 TBH I didn't like CK3 as much as CK2, so you can buy the older title if you want to save some money.
I know there is a new EU game out but I haven't had a chance to play it - I gotta work to pay for all these Somali daycares... I did enjoy the TW Warhammer games though the micromanagement of some of the battles can get tedious... Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:08 AM (sKqQm) ===== TW is my jam since the first Medieval. The map and special rules in Warhammer, though, are a learning curve. Like...I can't take certain settlements of certain races? So weird. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (GBKbO) 205
I used to be a thing.
Posted by: The machine gun bra at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1) 206
Crusader Kings II was cool because you ould import your kingdom into Europa Universalis IV. It was fun if you had managed to put Rome back together.
Massively overbalanced, but fun. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (bss/y) 207
January 27, 1967 – Apollo 1 Fire:
During a preflight test on January 27, 1967, for what was to be the first crewed Apollo mission, a fire claimed the lives of three U.S. astronauts; Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. After the disaster, the mission, which has previously been referred to as Apollo-Saturn 204 (AS-204), was officially designated Apollo 1, which was name for the mission the crew had intended to use. Posted by: Cheri at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (oiNtH) 208
Yep -
https://tinyurl.com/4k5zeyy8 Share this chart with every LIV you know and the man's comment too. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (sKqQm) 209
https://tinyurl.com/25h2dmka
I believe that's an old school M-16. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:06 AM (bss/y) Booger hook on the bang switch violation. Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (PSEDc) 210
Mary Wickes was the kind of character actress missing in films today. Never a leading lady, but she was always good for a string of sarcastic comments and eye rolling when she showed up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (Sxl5b) 211
A rejected prototype for that stupid Bored Ape horseshit, she was. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (xG4kz) 212
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) G. Gordon Liddy's "Stacked and Packed" Calendar. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ) 213
He looks like Boris Karloff.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 09:42 AM (77rzZ) - My first thought. He did the mash. He did the sour mash. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (UUvzi) 214
Miss Jane Hathaway took up shooting heroin then bartending after quitting the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills. FIFY Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (iJfKG) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:11 AM (XuXeR) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:12 AM (Zz0t1) 217
Komarov: This spacecraft is unsafe. Soviets: It's going to fly. Komarov: Someone's going to die. Soviets: You're flying it. Komarov: *dies* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM (tgvbd) 218
Like...I can't take certain settlements of certain races? So weird.
Some Advisor: Uh my lord are you sure you want us to settle these peasants here? The wall behind my literally has an eye looking at us and I saw a doorway try to eat one of our goats. Some Noble: Yes, this settlement will be perfect - close enough to keep an eye on what those chaos sorcerors are up to with that big glowing purple portal Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM (sKqQm) 219
January has been a bad month for NASA.
Posted by: pawn at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM (jnZe8) 220
210 Mary Wickes was the kind of character actress missing in films today. Never a leading lady, but she was always good for a string of sarcastic comments and eye rolling when she showed up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (Sxl5b) Wasn't she also in the... Danny Kaye movie with 'the Vessel with the Pestle holds the brew that is true!' stuff? Inspector General? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM (bss/y) 221
You have to remember, CBD, in Nazi Germany free speech was weaponized to conduct genocide.
Posted by: Margaret Brennan at January 27, 2026 10:03 AM (oEMAv) If I was at a MoMe with enough adult beverage and cigars on hand, I could make a pretty decent argument in support of this proposition. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (ufSfZ) 222
This is clearly a reunion of the guys who posed for thr Easter Island moai.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (OvMCw) 223
218 Like...I can't take certain settlements of certain races? So weird.
Some Advisor: Uh my lord are you sure you want us to settle these peasants here? The wall behind my literally has an eye looking at us and I saw a doorway try to eat one of our goats. Some Noble: Yes, this settlement will be perfect - close enough to keep an eye on what those chaos sorcerors are up to with that big glowing purple portal Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM (sKqQm) ====== "I don't care if people need to live above ground, take the dwarven settlement! Also, we will live in the bleeding castles of the vampires. Long live the Empire." Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (GBKbO) 224
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread? Posted by: Weasel It's called Women of the IDF Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (xG4kz) 225
No. Stop it. Why do you hate us?
Posted by: Persnickety at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (NXsA/) 226
>>Ejected, or hot spent brass from autos may, on occasion, work themselves into the Décolletage. Much merriment and hilarity ensues!
Happened to my wife at the shooting range one time. She wore only turtlenecks or buttoned up tops at the range after that. Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (Y1sOo) 227
January has been a bad month for NASA.
Posted by: pawn at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM Seems they've been going downhill after announcing their love of muslhams. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (Zz0t1) 228
What's the white and yellow stuff in the middle of the painting?
Posted by: ? at January 27, 2026 10:14 AM (SBjoe) 229
Wasn't she also in the... Danny Kaye movie with 'the Vessel with the Pestle holds the brew that is true!' stuff? Inspector General?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM (bss/y) -------- The Court Jester Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 10:15 AM (OvMCw) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:15 AM (XuXeR) 231
Old commenters never flounce. They just fade away.
Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2026 10:15 AM (qgHp7) 232
https://tinyurl.com/25h2dmka
I believe that's an old school M-16. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:06 AM (bss/y) Booger hook on the bang switch violation. Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM Excessive silicone. Poor trigger discipline. And (apparently) a lefty. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 10:15 AM (kgE5c) Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ) 234
January 27, 1967 – Apollo 1 Fire
I didn't realize that was today. I always feel bad for poor Laika, the dog the commies sent up to die. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (ufSfZ) 235
Resting Brit face.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (IG3/x) 236
"I don't care if people need to live above ground, take the dwarven settlement! Also, we will live in the bleeding castles of the vampires. Long live the Empire." The Vampiric corruption is usually not that hard to deal with presuming Chaos doesn't push you to the limits before you deal with Vlad and co. Though honestly the TW warhammer games are very momentum based - if you get a good aggressive start they are easy Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (sKqQm) 237
229 Wasn't she also in the... Danny Kaye movie with 'the Vessel with the Pestle holds the brew that is true!' stuff? Inspector General?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:13 AM (bss/y) -------- The Court Jester Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 10:15 AM (OvMCw) ===== My mother showed that movie to me as a kid. I lost all memory of what it was and who was in it, but I remembered two sequences for years. The cup scene at the end, and Kaye speaking into a woman's hand because he's deaf (or the other way around). But I had no idea where it was from, and I'd ocassionally consider asking my mother what they were from, knowing she had shown me the movie it came from. Then, I just randomly decided to watch the movie on Prime one day, and all my questions were answered. Fun movie. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (GBKbO) 238
I didn't realize that was today.
I always feel bad for poor Laika, the dog the commies sent up to die. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (ufSfZ) Yeah. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (bss/y) 239
Excessive silicone."
Yeah, that's bad. Eats at aluminum, and attracts dust & dirt, gumming up the works. Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (XuXeR) 240
I always feel bad for poor Laika, the dog the commies sent up to die.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing Does Rin Tin Tin show up in any of your novels? Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (77rzZ) 241
Resting Brit face.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (IG3/x) - Let's see how rested you look after a brit! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (UUvzi) 242
"Seems they've been going downhill after announcing their love of muslhams."
Oh, so that's it! Genius! Posted by: pawn at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (jnZe8) 243
237 Fuck...does this work?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (7+Er/) ---- No. Posted by: Try again at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1) 244
She ain't no Chrissy from The Imperial in Mt. Thomas.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 27, 2026 10:18 AM (Wf0ti) 245
236 The Vampiric corruption is usually not that hard to deal with presuming Chaos doesn't push you to the limits before you deal with Vlad and co.
Though honestly the TW warhammer games are very momentum based - if you get a good aggressive start they are easy Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (sKqQm) ====== I've restarted twice with an eye to taking out the vampires, and I've just stalled both times. Haven't played in weeks. I'll try again at some point soon. It's taking up a lot of memory. Play or delete. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:18 AM (GBKbO) 246
The Vampiric corruption is usually not that hard to deal with presuming Chaos doesn't push you to the limits before you deal with Vlad and co.
--------- As The Empire, you at least have Kislev as a buffer. For a while. Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 27, 2026 10:18 AM (OvMCw) 247
"January 27, 1967 – Apollo 1 Fire"
The worst NASA accident I remember was during the shuttle program, when 6 or 7 guys were asphyxiated doing maintenance on a tank. Didn't get a lot of press. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:18 AM (N8ZBc) 248
246 This is what happens when we don't have registration and we have to ban thousands of vpns each year.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 10:18 AM (7+Er/) ==== Only the good suffer. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (GBKbO) 249
Last time I mentioned using a registration service for here, the wounds have yet to heal from the dragging I received.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1) 250
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Only the good suffer. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (GBKbO) I thought they died young? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM (Zz0t1) 251
In case anyone hasn’t said it yet,
-I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread! Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM- Not surprising. You’re in England, after all. Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM (WcJqs) 252
249 Last time I mentioned using a registration service for here, the wounds have yet to heal from the dragging I received.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1) ===== This is better than Disqus, but this has serious downsides. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM (GBKbO) 253
Like a baby treats a diaper, Woody. Give me a beer.
Posted by: Just the punchline at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1) ----- The great Karnak rips open the envelope and says "hows life treating you, Norm" Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM (Hx0tZ) 254
The Bar
Cecil John Brack Ha, ha, ha! Wikipedia. In part, The Bar is a 1954 painting by Australian artist John Brack. The subject of the painting directly references Édouard Manet's 1882 work A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.[1] It depicts a barmaid working in an Australian pub at the time of the "six o'clock swill". As in Manet's work, the patrons of the bar are shown in a reflection behind the barmaid. The work is considered a companion piece to Brack's 1955 work Collins St., 5 pm.[2] A Melbourne art collector acquired The Bar for 90 guineas in 1954.[1] In 2006, the painting sold for $3.12m, a then record price for an Australian artwork at auction.[1] The anonymous buyer was later revealed to be David Walsh, owner of the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart. He sold the painting to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for the same price in 2009.[2]" --- I also saw & read about the companion piece, Collins St., (1955) so this thread has proved another interesting lesson in art. However, I'd pass hanging both. Thanks. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (NFX2v) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (XuXeR) 256
250 ====
Only the good suffer. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (GBKbO) I thought they died young? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM (Zz0t1) ===== Confirmed: Sponge hates Thomas Sewell. /jk Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (Wf0ti) 258
This is better than Disqus, but this has serious downsides. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM (GBKbO) I miss the green orange. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (Zz0t1) 259
Only the good suffer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (GBKbO) - I thought they died young? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM (Zz0t1) - Only in Minneapolis. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (UUvzi) 260
249 Last time I mentioned using a registration service for here, the wounds have yet to heal from the dragging I received.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (Zz0t1) I'd argue against it. There are benefits, but this is one of the few places where people can just wander in and comment without having to go through much of a process. I think that is good. It makes more work for the cobs, but that is a price I am willing to pay. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (bss/y) 261
I thought they died young?
Posted by: Sponge Great. Now I've got that Billy Joel song in my head. Thanks a lot. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ) 262
Only the good suffer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:19 AM (GBKbO) I thought they died young? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:20 AM Well they have to suffer first. That's just logic. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (kgE5c) 263
I'd argue against it. There are benefits, but this is one of the few places where people can just wander in and comment without having to go through much of a process. I think that is good. It makes more work for the cobs, but that is a price I am willing to pay. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:21 AM (bss/y) This is a very subtle way to tell CBD to pound sand. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (Zz0t1) 264
I used to be a thing.
Posted by: The machine gun bra at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1) Me too! Posted by: The Bullet Bra at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (wVcYX) 265
The Brits are going to outlaw VPNs too.
Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (YwEeS) 266
Great. Now I've got that Billy Joel song in my head. Thanks a lot. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ) #Winning. My job, here, is done. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (Zz0t1) 267
This is a very subtle way to tell CBD to pound sand.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (Zz0t1) Broken image. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (bss/y) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (XuXeR) 269
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Great. Now I've got that Billy Joel song in my head. Thanks a lot. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ) #Winning. My job, here, is done. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (Zz0t1) ===== Piano solo out? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (GBKbO) 270
Cat fight coming.
Maybe. Posted by: one hour sober Is the kiddie pool filled with jello or pudding? Posted by: mindful webworker - off we go at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (OJSFI) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:24 AM (XuXeR) 272
OT: Wow, Trump signed an EO this morning to take over the Palisades fire re-building. New York Post
Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2026 10:24 AM (dfgzq) 273
Broken image. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (bss/y) It seems there's an issue with smilies.mu.nu then. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:24 AM (Zz0t1) 274
Have registration and before you know it, Ace and the cobs are enjoying a Dionysian banquet on the proceeds of selling your information. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 10:24 AM (tgvbd) 275
270 Is the kiddie pool filled with jello or pudding?
Posted by: mindful webworker - off we go at January 27, 2026 10:23 AM (OJSFI) Moist cat food. Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 10:24 AM (6Uni8) 276
Well...its an art style in today's painting. I recognize it as such. Not my favorite, not my least favorite.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 27, 2026 10:24 AM (xcxpd) 277
Even the dark piss colors are disconcerting.
The art world is a narcissistic, fake , virtue signaling gay commie outfit. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (KDPiq) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (XuXeR) 279
Great. Now I've got that Billy Joel song in my head. Thanks a lot.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:22 AM (77rzZ) Su-su-sudio is worse if you ask me. Wth even IS that song about? ...Breaking out the earworm buster: More than a Feelin' by Boston Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (JCLJi) 280
I've restarted twice with an eye to taking out the vampires, and I've just stalled both times. Haven't played in weeks. I'll try again at some point soon. It's taking up a lot of memory. Play or delete.
It plays out differently based on which game you are playing - TW1 happens last in the timeline and therefore you have less time to deal with the Vamps before Chaos shows up. One core suggestion though - don't annex the smaller Imperial factions if you can't defend their holdings as it is better to leave them as allies/vassals then. Also play nice with Bretonnia, the Dwarves AND the Wood Elves you need trade with the first two and at least peace with the latter. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (sKqQm) 281
Dominique.
Posted by: The Singing Nun at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (2Ez/1) 282
Su-su-sudio is worse if you ask me. Wth even IS that song about?
I always thought someone should metal / cookie monster that song..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1) 283
Have registration and before you know it, Ace and the cobs are enjoying a Dionysian banquet on the proceeds of selling your information.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 10:24 AM (tgvbd) LOL. Hmmm. CBD, maybe to feed his jet setting lifestyle and coke habit. ace would just invest in some sort of shelving start up. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (bss/y) 284
The British home office is very angry that an evil character from one of their propaganda videos, Amelia, is now a viral hero.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (0U5gm) 285
Former White House lawyer says female and minority pilots caused 66% of pilot-error crashes since 2000, despite being less than 10% of workforce
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (gbOdA) 286
The worst NASA accident I remember was during the shuttle program, when 6 or 7 guys were asphyxiated doing maintenance on a tank. Didn't get a lot of press. Posted by: gp Tank entry fatalities were not uncommon during the years when I worked at DuPont. Full body suits with an external air source were de rigueur Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (xG4kz) 287
The shuttle program ground maintenance asphyxiation accident:
https://tinyurl.com/yzmhzb95 One guy died, four others injured. Not as bad as I remembered. I had to dig hard to find the story, though. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (N8ZBc) 288
All threads are a movie thread, a boob thread or a gun thread at their appointed hour.
Posted by: Aetius451AD What about books? and pets? And music? https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8 Posted by: mindful webworker - bar themed at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (OJSFI) 289
Miss Jane Hathaway is wearing one of our most popular bras.
Posted by: The Wonder Bra at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (wVcYX) 290
Former White House lawyer says female and minority pilots caused 66% of pilot-error crashes since 2000, despite being less than 10% of workforce
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (gbOdA) But women should be in the highest of leadership roles, you see, because GURL POWER!!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (0sNs1) Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (2WIwB) 293
Registration is just giving up . And you’ll be banning almost the same amount of people you register as you do the current VPNs.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (KDPiq) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (XuXeR) 295
280 It plays out differently based on which game you are playing - TW1 happens last in the timeline and therefore you have less time to deal with the Vamps before Chaos shows up.
One core suggestion though - don't annex the smaller Imperial factions if you can't defend their holdings as it is better to leave them as allies/vassals then. Also play nice with Bretonnia, the Dwarves AND the Wood Elves you need trade with the first two and at least peace with the latter. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (sKqQm) ===== Noted. I started with 1 because...where else do I start? I also got some kind of limited access to 3 because of the interconnected nature of the three games. I think I can play the factions from 1 on the map of 3 in a specific scenario from 3. But...90gbs, man. My little Steam Deck ain't got that much free space. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:28 AM (GBKbO) 296
The British home office is very angry that an evil character from one of their propaganda videos, Amelia, is now a viral hero.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (0U5gm) The British home office can EABOD. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:28 AM (Zz0t1) 297
Tank entry fatalities were not uncommon during the years when I worked at DuPont. Full body suits with an external air source were de rigueur Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (xG4kz) _________ Not a few deaths are of would-be rescuers going in without air and PPE. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 10:28 AM (tgvbd) 298
>>>Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Or maybe it's just a punishment for that painting. Posted by: No Name Today at January 27, 2026 10:28 AM (8mulE) 299
238 I didn't realize that was today.
I always feel bad for poor Laika, the dog the commies sent up to die. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:16 AM (ufSfZ) Yeah. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (bss/y) Same. Dogs are a reflection of ourselves. How we treat them reveals who we really are. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 27, 2026 10:28 AM (xcxpd) 300
They haven’t forgotten. They are looking for “How To” tips these days, I betcha
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 10:28 AM (M1m37) Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 10:28 AM (XuXeR) 302
Dang. That's art? Or is that Art?
Goes looking for coffee. Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (2WIwB) shArt........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (Zz0t1) 303
"The Brits are going to outlaw VPNs too."
Why would anybody trust a VPN? Obvious honeypots for detecting illegal activity. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (N8ZBc) 304
...Breaking out the earworm buster: More than a Feelin' by Boston
Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (JCLJi) Which in of itself is an earworm. Which can be taken out by Jay and the Americans Come a Little Bit Closer. https://tinyurl.com/ymr28nbb The guys look a bit creepy in the video. They have a pseudo Captain coat thing going on. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (bss/y) 305
"Former White House lawyer says female and minority pilots caused 66% of pilot-error crashes since 2000, despite being less than 10% of workforce
Posted by: rhennigant" Mostly when they have to parallel park the planes Posted by: Don Lemon at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (GUOwU) 306
Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Mother Love Bone walk into the bar, and the bartender says...
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (oT7pT) 307
Frankenstein with tits?
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (1D2Ie) 308
This painting speaks to me.
Posted by: AOC at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (wVcYX) 309
303 "The Brits are going to outlaw VPNs too."
Why would anybody trust a VPN? Obvious honeypots for detecting illegal activity. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (N8ZBc) ==== Probably, but it also gets you around national limitations most of the time. It has its uses (I don't use them, though). Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (GBKbO) 310
TW2 is much better then TW1 it has a bunch of game improvements and a better balanced scenario.
TW3 is slightly better then TW2. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (sKqQm) 311
Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Mother Love Bone walk into the bar, and the bartender says...
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (oT7pT) "Why the long face?" Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:30 AM (Zz0t1) 312
DEI programs for hospitals and government jobs may have given us horrible results, but they did ensure that any hires are loyal to the death for the socialist cause.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:30 AM (0U5gm) 313
310 TW2 is much better then TW1 it has a bunch of game improvements and a better balanced scenario.
TW3 is slightly better then TW2. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (sKqQm) ===== Next Steam sale, I'll have an eye out for 2, but I want all the DLC at the same time, too. So...sale price still ends up like $50. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:30 AM (GBKbO) 314
Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Mother Love Bone walk into the bar, and the bartender says...
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (oT7pT) We don’t serve heroin here. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:31 AM (KDPiq) 315
I got caught up in a troll ban on the ONT last night. CBD very graciously fixed it. I wish I were able to return the favor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2026 10:31 AM (8zz6B) 316
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) Now we’re talking! Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 10:31 AM (WcJqs) 317
I wonder if I remember my Steam account info.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:32 AM (Zz0t1) 318
316 What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) Now we’re talking! Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 10:31 AM (WcJqs) ==== Isn't this the final picture in the Powerlineblog Week in Pictures? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:32 AM (GBKbO) 319
The British home office is very angry that an evil character from one of their propaganda videos, Amelia, is now a viral hero.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (0U5gm) The British home office can EABOD. Posted by: Sponge Just for the record, Amelia was a portrayed as a villain in the UK government's eyes because she opposed mass immigration and rape gangs. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:32 AM (0U5gm) 320
Paradox is the worst for 'DLC'. To be fair a lot of them are just cosmetic and can be skipped, but they also just do an unreal amount of nickel and diming.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y) 321
I got caught up in a troll ban on the ONT last night. CBD very graciously fixed it. I wish I were able to return the favor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2026 10:31 AM (8zz6B) CBD can be a good dude at times. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:32 AM (Zz0t1) 322
317 I wonder if I remember my Steam account info.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:32 AM (Zz0t1) ==== I'm on my second account. My first I let languish for so long that when I tried to reopen it, Steam's customer services said I had to provide photo proof of owning some of the software I had on the account. I'd long since gotten rid of the CDs. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:33 AM (GBKbO) 323
Oh...for f*ck's sake! I am in a pub in London, and I am banned from commenting on my own thread!
Guy who bans IP addresses all the time surprised to find IP address where he happens to be has been banned. Posted by: Sad! at January 27, 2026 10:33 AM (fcmXC) 324
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287 The shuttle program ground maintenance asphyxiation accident: https://tinyurl.com/yzmhzb95 One guy died, four others injured. Not as bad as I remembered. I had to dig hard to find the story, though. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:26 AM (N8ZBc) That kind of accident happens with old oil tanks, more often than people realize. With those it’s usually some trapped hydrogen sulfide that no one realizes is there. (Heavier than air, so it gets stuck in containers that only have a top opening). Saddest thing is that those accidents are often two deaths instead of one - a guy sees his buddy go in, collapse, and he rushes in to save him and collapses as well. Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 10:33 AM (Sxl5b) 325
There's a reason I became a thing.
Posted by: Confined space safety training at January 27, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1) 326
I HAD TO LEAVE THE PUB!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM (VPoso) 327
Ironic that all the celebrities who are condemning the ICE operations and threatening to leave the country or have left the country don’t complain about the immigration hoops they have to go through to move to another country.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM (KDPiq) Posted by: mindful webworker - the final frontier at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM (OJSFI) 329
Why would anybody trust a VPN? Obvious honeypots for detecting illegal activity.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:29 AM (N8ZBc) Kind of an odd argument. I mean, if you ARE doing illegal activity, I suppose you have to not trust anybody, including any pooter software you use. But if you're not doing illegal activity? It gives you some anonymity from all the predators you encounter online. Not perfect, I'm sure, but better than raw dogging it out there. Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM (dGCAG) 330
That video is hilarious. The guys in the back beside the tambourine player who just seem to be having body twitches.
LOL. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM (bss/y) 331
DEI programs for hospitals and government jobs may have given us horrible results, but they did ensure that any hires are loyal to the death for the socialist cause. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:30 AM (0U5gm) ____________ DEI hiring is awful, but nurses who immigrated here from Africa are some of the nicest ones around. But the contempt African immigrants have for AAs is legendary. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 10:35 AM (tgvbd) 332
320 Paradox is the worst for 'DLC'. To be fair a lot of them are just cosmetic and can be skipped, but they also just do an unreal amount of nickel and diming.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:32 AM (bss/y) ===== Total War Warhammer's DLC is mostly extra factions. Always felt worthwhile, but also nickel and diming at the same time. Not the biggest fan of DLC, but Total War is like the only one I care about. I did get Shadows of the Tomb Raider for like $3 at the last sale, and it included the DLC, which was nice. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:35 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:35 AM (N8ZBc) 334
I HAD TO LEAVE THE PUB!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo From what I have heard from Rupert Lowe, pubs are going to be places where you are not allowed to even talk, lest you offend someone. That is assuming that the new tax bill doesn't put all UK pubs out of business. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:35 AM (0U5gm) 335
The Brits are going to outlaw VPNs too. Oh, just go back to being scantily clad, painting your bodies blue, and bending over and wiggling your backsides at your Mooslim overlords. What a wasteland Great Britain has become. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:36 AM (xG4kz) 336
325 There's a reason I became a thing.
Posted by: Confined space safety training at January 27, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1) THIS. Although it always makes me shake my head when I see lock out tag out being flouted. Retards. Or how lock out tag out locks are used to lock lockers or tool chests. Retards. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:36 AM (bss/y) Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:37 AM (N8ZBc) 338
I handle a lot of Workers Comp fatality claims where the tag out was ignored .
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:37 AM (KDPiq) 339
I HAD TO LEAVE THE PUB!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM (VPoso) Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any COB characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer? Posted by: Nick, the Pubmaster at January 27, 2026 10:37 AM (wVcYX) 340
For young children (and adults, too) -
For Laika: The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars: https://tinyurl.com/9zhc5vff Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:38 AM (ufSfZ) Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 27, 2026 10:38 AM (Kt19C) 342
I'm on my second account. My first I let languish for so long that when I tried to reopen it, Steam's customer services said I had to provide photo proof of owning some of the software I had on the account. I'd long since gotten rid of the CDs. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:33 AM (GBKbO) I was able to reset the account password and am in. Now, do I care? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1) 343
Does Rin Tin Tin show up in any of your novels?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:17 AM (77rzZ) No. Too late in time. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:38 AM (ufSfZ) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1) 345
Nobody thought in 1985 that the true sciences, chemistry, math, etc would get infected with the “politically correct” nonsense. It just didn’t seem remotely possible. Same with unqualified and incompetents in positions that required demonstrated skill, aptitude, and extensive training.
Throwing out all the standards, that didn’t seem possible either. A few extra planes falling out of the sky, 18 wheelers plowing into traffic, a few bungled diagnosis or surgeries, well that’s a small price to pay. “It’s only fair” you see. “Your death before their dishonor”; is how leftists maintain their worldview in light of abject failures. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (M1m37) 346
342 I was able to reset the account password and am in. Now, do I care?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1) ===== Well, are you gonna play some video games? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO) 347
Uh oh. Theda Barrell is calling MP4.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (77rzZ) 348
I HAD TO LEAVE THE PUB!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM And that, right there, is a FWP. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (kgE5c) 349
There's a reason I became a thing.
Posted by: Confined space safety training That and SCBA were mandatory training at my employer. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (0U5gm) 350
344 MP4 to the barrel.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:38 AM (Zz0t1) ==== I don't get it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO) 351
My hypothesis is that most industrial accidents aren't the result of heartless corporations sacrificing employees but of dumbasses circumventing policies already in place. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (tgvbd) 352
I HAD TO LEAVE THE PUB!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 10:34 AM (VPoso) Life can be a bitch at times. Also, your link is fubar. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (Zz0t1) 353
Hey, Nick. He's with me. It's cool.
Posted by: Jimmy Stewart at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (2Ez/1) 354
> Su-su-sudio is worse if you ask me. Wth even IS that song about?
Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:25 AM (JCLJi) It was about demonstrating that Phil Collins is a no-talent hack who should've just shut up and drummed. Well, except that his drumming sucks, too. No idea what was going through the minds of the Genesis dudes when they decided to replace Peter Gabriel with this mook. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (IG3/x) 355
I don't get it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO) IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SOME COB FIXED HIS HTML TAG MISTAKE GIVING THE THREAD TO THE ITALICANS. Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (Zz0t1) 356
According to a post on X, hundreds of MN-based Somali businesses are all going bankrupt. So I don't know what's happening behind the scenes to cause that but I approve.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (2ocoG) 357
338 I handle a lot of Workers Comp fatality claims where the tag out was ignored .
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:37 AM (KDPiq) Everyone is stupid, but the maintenance guys who never have gotten bit by equipment are the worst as far as arrogance. I remember when Pappaw cut off the tips of his fingers clearing a snowblower and he was PISSED. At himself. He said 'I spent 40 years as a Tool and Die maker. Went through Europe in a tank. Was wounded. Never lost a body part and I was stupid enough to stick my hand in a piece of equipment like that.' He almost sounded like he thought he deserved it. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (bss/y) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (kgE5c) 359
Well, are you gonna play some video games? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO) Now THAT is the question. It seems the only ones I have available are Half-Life related. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (Zz0t1) 360
356 According to a post on X, hundreds of MN-based Somali businesses are all going bankrupt. So I don't know what's happening behind the scenes to cause that but I approve.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (2ocoG) ==== I've been assured that the funds are all still going to MN and nothing's changed and all is lost because Trump talked to Walz on the phone and judges. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (GBKbO) 361
I don't know which is more entertaining...the comments about today's Art or comments about CBD's inability to post on his own thread.
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Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (M1m37)
Been my complaint for a couple of decades now that we went from being perfectionists and pride in whatever work we did to being a ‘good enough ‘ culture. That’s the attitude all third and second world countries have in common. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (KDPiq) 363
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My hypothesis is that most industrial accidents aren't the result of heartless corporations sacrificing employees but of dumbasses circumventing policies already in place. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh You are very wise. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (NFX2v) 364
Hey! It’s a representation of the ONT! Still doing Cryo Barre. Waiting for the heating company to tell me when they are coming.
Posted by: Piper at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (pZEOD) Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (JCLJi) 366
Well, except that his drumming sucks, too. No idea what was going through the minds of the Genesis dudes when they decided to replace Peter Gabriel with this mook. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (IG3/x) Wow....that's a take I've not heard before. Phil Collins drumming sucks......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (Zz0t1) 367
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Well, are you gonna play some video games? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (GBKbO) Now THAT is the question. It seems the only ones I have available are Half-Life related. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (Zz0t1) ==== Well, Half-Life is awesome. And rumors are that Half-Life 3 is coming with the Steam Machine. Gotta brush back up on the lore! And the murder, but mostly the murder. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (GBKbO) 368
Now THAT is the question.
It seems the only ones I have available are Half-Life related. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (Zz0t1) Well. What do you like to play? Dead Space remake maybe? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y) 369
The funniest writeup of a safety incident that I saw involved someone heating a can of Beanie Weenies on a process line's steam trap. It exploded, of course, having not been opened ahead of being placed on the trap. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (xG4kz) 370
My hypothesis is that most industrial accidents aren't the result of heartless corporations sacrificing employees but of dumbasses circumventing policies already in place.
____ Correct, roundeye! Posted by: China at January 27, 2026 10:43 AM (Dv3i1) 371
No idea what was going through the minds of the Genesis dudes when they decided to replace Peter Gabriel with this mook.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia Phil Collins was an Alamo fanboy. He left his collection of Alamo-related objects to the State of Texas. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ) 372
I don't know which is more entertaining...the comments about today's Art or comments about CBD's inability to post on his own thread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (ESVrU) For which the only solution listed in the style guide is busty lesbian porn. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:43 AM (Zz0t1) 373
"According to a post on X, hundreds of MN-based Somali businesses are all going bankrupt. So I don't know what's happening behind the scenes to cause that but I approve."
Bankruptcy relieves them of their debts and leaves their creditors holding the bag? IDK, IANAL. Doesn't seem like much punishment. They'll find another scam. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:43 AM (N8ZBc) 374
y hypothesis is that most industrial accidents aren't the result of heartless corporations sacrificing employees but of dumbasses circumventing policies already in place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh In my 35 years of handling claims there was only one company I handled claims for that in my opinion was heartless. UPS Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (KDPiq) 375
I did like the music he did for Tarzan. But I also had a small child at the time, so I was awash in feminine hormones.
Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (JCLJi) 376
Well, Half-Life is awesome. And rumors are that Half-Life 3 is coming with the Steam Machine.
Gotta brush back up on the lore! And the murder, but mostly the murder. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (GBKbO) There is not much 'lore' to Half-Life, sonny. I played it back when the first game came out, new. Half-Life just seemed like it had more story because it had anything compared to Unreal or Quake. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (bss/y) 377
Well, except that his drumming sucks, too.
No idea what was going through the minds of the Genesis dudes when they decided to replace Peter Gabriel with this mook. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (IG3/x) Wow....that's a take I've not heard before. Phil Collins drumming sucks......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (Zz0t1) Hang on, the good part is coming up. Posted by: Mike Tyson in The Hangover at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (wVcYX) Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (ufSfZ) 379
Now THAT is the question.
It seems the only ones I have available are Half-Life related. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:41 AM (Zz0t1) Well. What do you like to play? Dead Space remake maybe? Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (bss/y) --- Skyrim never goes out of style. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (ESVrU) 380
376 There is not much 'lore' to Half-Life, sonny. I played it back when the first game came out, new. Half-Life just seemed like it had more story because it had anything compared to Unreal or Quake.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (bss/y) ===== Well, that's why the emphasis is on the murder. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (GBKbO) 381
Well, Half-Life is awesome. And rumors are that Half-Life 3 is coming with the Steam Machine. Gotta brush back up on the lore! And the murder, but mostly the murder. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:42 AM (GBKbO) It seems I've played 84.4 hours of Counter Strike: Source. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (Zz0t1) 382
379 Skyrim never goes out of style.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 10:44 AM (ESVrU) ===== Well, you can't play Skyrim in a browser bar like you can DOOM. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (GBKbO) 383
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My hypothesis is that most industrial accidents aren't the result of heartless corporations sacrificing employees but of dumbasses circumventing policies already in place. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh ====== Counterpoint: Apollo capsule fire. NASA knew that any flame in a pure oxygen atmosphere could be deadly yet they tolerated shoddy quality in the wiring and flammability of capsule components. They also made it difficult to egress based on the perceived problem of Liberty 7 where Gus Grissom's capsule ended up at the bottom of the ocean. The Union Carbide Bhopal plant disaster, derailments of trains carrying hazardous chemicals like Palestine OH, etc. A lot of underground mining deaths, etc. Often it is some corporate tradeoff between speed, cost, and employee lives which results in disaster. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (E4rtv) 384
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My hypothesis is that most industrial accidents aren't the result of heartless corporations sacrificing employees but of dumbasses circumventing policies already in place. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (tgvbd) And many company safety policies are a list of very specific rules trying to keep anyone from repeating what the last dumbass did. DO NOT PLACE HANDS IN METAL PRESS!!! Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (Sxl5b) 385
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It seems I've played 84.4 hours of Counter Strike: Source. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (Zz0t1) ===== Damn...I loved that game in the day. Was terrible at it, but I loved it Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (GBKbO) 386
HAD TO LEAVE THE PUB!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo Well, that’s because most revolutions are plotted in pubs/bars. What were you doing - chatting up Amelia? Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (WcJqs) 387
Yup. I never make arguments that are divisible by two.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:37 AM (N8ZBc) Which is why I try to bring a scimitar to all my arguments. If I MUST divide by two, it makes for a cleaner cut. Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2026 10:46 AM (dGCAG) 388
No idea what was going through the minds of the Genesis dudes when they decided to replace Peter Gabriel with this mook.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia ===== Well, they made a lot more money as a band and Phil Collins fronting them than they did with Gabriel at the lead. So you might say something like the rest of the band wanted to cash in and they did. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 10:46 AM (E4rtv) 389
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the wiry old lady in "Court Jester" was Mildred Natwick, not Mary Wickes. She played Angela Landsbury's lady-in-waiting. Landsbury and Glynis Johns were in peak smoke-show form in that film. Posted by: sal at January 27, 2026 10:47 AM (f+FmA) 390
Know who else had to leave a pub?
Posted by: Shifty eyes at January 27, 2026 10:47 AM (2Ez/1) 391
No idea what was going through the minds of the Genesis dudes when they decided to replace Peter Gabriel with this mook.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 10:40 AM (IG3/x) The crying of their prog-rock fanboys isn't heard from the inside of their lavish and well insulated estates. Selling out has its perks. Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 10:47 AM (Hx0tZ) 392
Yup. I never make arguments that are divisible by two.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:37 AM (N8ZBc) Which is why I try to bring a scimitar to all my arguments. If I MUST divide by two, it makes for a cleaner cut. Posted by: BurtTC at January 27, 2026 10:46 AM (dGCAG) Did some moistened pond bint lob that at you? Posted by: Dennis the Constitutional Peasant at January 27, 2026 10:48 AM (wVcYX) 393
'Yup. I never make arguments that are divisible by two.
Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:37 AM (N8ZBc) Which is why I try to bring a scimitar to all my arguments. If I MUST divide by two, it makes for a cleaner cut. ' When you fully factor my arguments, the factors always turn out to be irrational. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:48 AM (N8ZBc) 394
50 I guarantee you there's a copy of the naked Bea Arthur painting hanging on a wall somewhere in that bar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer That's funny. I immediately thought of the bar scene from the Star Wars Holiday Special...where Bea Arthur is the bartender. https://tinyurl.com/bp99j3sp Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2026 10:48 AM (JCZqz) 395
390 Know who else had to leave a pub?
Posted by: Shifty eyes at January 27, 2026 10:47 AM (2Ez/1) LOL! *golfclap* Well played. Damn, that is a lot more funny than it should be. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:49 AM (bss/y) 396
Didn't Peter Gabriel hook up with Bowie and The Talking Heads?
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 10:49 AM (1D2Ie) 397
You have to love the drum introduction in the middle of the song, Against All Odds. ( I think that’s the title)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:49 AM (KDPiq) 398
Stay in your lane, pal.
Posted by: Moistened Pond Bints local #408 at January 27, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:50 AM (xG4kz) 400
396 Didn't Peter Gabriel hook up with Bowie and The Talking Heads?
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 10:49 AM (1D2Ie) Well, they're all a bunch of gay, foreign homos... Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:50 AM (bss/y) 401
396 Didn't Peter Gabriel hook up with Bowie and The Talking Heads?
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 10:49 AM (1D2Ie I'm shocked! Posted by: The monkey at January 27, 2026 10:50 AM (TbWk/) 402
With just the right pair of beer goggles, she could be a 6 o'clock 4.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 10:50 AM (GPa4z) 403
Simply Irresistible is a song made way more famous because of its video.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (KDPiq) 404
Crap, wrong guy.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (KDPiq) 405
You have to love the drum introduction in the middle of the song, Against All Odds. ( I think that’s the title)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:49 AM (KDPiq) Do you mean In the Air Tonight? Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (JCLJi) 406
My wife thinks that Peter Gabriel was hot back in the day. What say the other 'Ettes?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (77rzZ) Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (xG4kz) 408
No idea what was going through the minds of the Genesis dudes when they decided to replace Peter Gabriel with this mook.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia Gabriel quit, they didn't replace him. They thought the band was going to fold, and gave tryouts to around a hundred singers, none of which they liked. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (0U5gm) 409
I played Half Life and Half Life 2 before getting the "Blue Shift" and "Opposing Force" add on content when Steam had some sort of sale going on. Think both were like $5 or so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (jtM2q) 410
Do you mean In the Air Tonight?
Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (JCLJi) Yes I did. Thanks. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (KDPiq) 411
Simply Irresistible is a song made way more famous because of its video.
Posted by: Opinion fact "Take on Me" has entered the chat. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ) 412
Y'know, I never found Delores from Who Framed Roger Rabbit very attractive, but compared to this lady, she's Jessica Rabbit.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (JCZqz) 413
Simply Irresistible is a song made way more famous because of its video.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (KDPiq) If you say so, but I thought the more memorable video was Addicted to Love. Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (Hx0tZ) 414
Update! Heat tech between 2-5p 🤣
Posted by: Piper at January 27, 2026 10:53 AM (Dd38x) 415
409 I played Half Life and Half Life 2 before getting the "Blue Shift" and "Opposing Force" add on content when Steam had some sort of sale going on. Think both were like $5 or so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (jtM2q) ====== I got everything for like $5 from the original Half-Life through the two chapter sequels to Half-Life 2. Valve makes money from selling everyone else's games. It seems very happy to sell their own old games for cheap just to get people to play. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:53 AM (GBKbO) 416
My wife thinks that Peter Gabriel was hot back in the day. What say the other 'Ettes?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (77rzZ) Not an 'Ette, but: Hot X Not Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:53 AM (JCLJi) Posted by: SWIDT at January 27, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1) 418
I don't know that it's appropriate to make jokes about you-know-who on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ) 419
That's funny. I immediately thought of the bar scene from the Star Wars Holiday Special...where Bea Arthur is the bartender.
https://tinyurl.com/bp99j3sp Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2026 10:48 AM (JCZqz) ---- Your droids have to stay outside. We don't serve their kind here. Posted by: Wuher, Mos Eisley Cantina at January 27, 2026 10:53 AM (ESVrU) 420
Simply Irresistible is a song made way more famous because of its video.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (KDPiq) If you say so, but I thought the more memorable video was Addicted to Love. Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (Hx0tZ) My music knowledge is obviously limited. Which had the girl band in the background? Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (KDPiq) 421
409 I played Half Life and Half Life 2 before getting the "Blue Shift" and "Opposing Force" add on content when Steam had some sort of sale going on. Think both were like $5 or so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (jtM2q) You also have the remake for Half life 'Black Mesa'. I have that. Need to play through it. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (bss/y) 422
Almost lost a mess cook one time when they sent him down to the reefer decks to do FFV breakouts after a Fresh Fruit and Vegetable, meat stores onload in an Asian port the day before.
Passed out on deck at the bottom of the ladder. First person on-scene passed out as well. Next ones wore SCBA's to perform rescue. The vendor had packed dry ice in the styrofoam containers that Asians are famous for putting every kind of food in for shipment and delivery. So it displaced the oxygen in the reefer units. Nobody could figure it out until I asked if there were rumpled clumps of newspaper in the shipping boxes. That's what the vendors wrap the dry ice in. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (iMotb) 423
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2026 10:04 AM (3zhHY) G. Gordon Liddy's "Stacked and Packed" Calendar. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:10 AM (77rzZ) ==== What about a movie review of "The Legend of Frenchie King"? Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (rj6Yv) 424
421 You also have the remake for Half life 'Black Mesa'. I have that. Need to play through it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (bss/y) ====== There's a fan-made remaster called Half-Life Legacy that's free for those who already have Half-Life in their Steam library. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (GBKbO) 425
I played Half Life and Half Life 2 before getting the "Blue Shift" and "Opposing Force" add on content when Steam had some sort of sale going on. Think both were like $5 or so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (jtM2q) --- Portal 2 is a great quick timewaster when you just want a short gaming break. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (ESVrU) 426
With just the right pair of beer goggles, she could be a 6 o'clock 4.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2026 10:50 AM (GPa4z) If not crazy. The corollary to Rule #1, of course, is “A stiff c*ck has no conscience.” Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (WcJqs) 427
"...I never found Delores from Who Framed Roger Rabbit very attractive, but..."
--- Rhymes with a female body part. Posted by: Oblique Seinfeld reference at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (2Ez/1) 428
Do you mean In the Air Tonight?
Posted by: Lady Who at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (JCLJi) Yes I did. Thanks. Posted by: Opinion fact That song's producer accidentally invented 'caged drums' the sound that is in almost every recording now. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (0U5gm) 429
Damn...I loved that game in the day. Was terrible at it, but I loved it Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:45 AM (GBKbO) *fistbump* HAXOR!!!!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (Zz0t1) 430
Which had the girl band in the background?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (KDPiq) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (Hx0tZ) 431
425 I played Half Life and Half Life 2 before getting the "Blue Shift" and "Opposing Force" add on content when Steam had some sort of sale going on. Think both were like $5 or so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (jtM2q) --- Portal 2 is a great quick timewaster when you just want a short gaming break. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (ESVrU) ==== The original Portal can get beaten in like 90 minutes. Portal 2 takes a whole 4-5 hours! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:56 AM (GBKbO) 432
I've been really enjoying Witchfire.
It is stupid how few good shooters there are that are not multiplayer bullshit. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 10:56 AM (bss/y) 433
329 Why would anybody trust a VPN? Obvious honeypots for detecting illegal activity.
Posted by: gp ======== Before a lot of websites required encrypted traffic back and forth under the https std, VPNs were necessary if you wanted to protect financial transactions, etc. VPNs morphed into location hiders easy to use and gave corporate IT managers cover for requiring those to be used for security purposes. To be fair, SSH and other secure entries into corporate networks are not very friendly. Still useful somewhat but for location hiding, you can always IP spoof and use something like Tor's onion browser. But that stands out like a sore thumb to ISPs on DNS searches from self owned equipment and governments unless you plan on using crowded internet cafes and public wifi on short sessions. You also need to prevent hardware fingerprinting and various other lockdown procedures before doing it or you can still be identified. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 10:56 AM (E4rtv) 434
What about a movie review of "The Legend of Frenchie King"?
Posted by: mrp Is that the one where Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte get into a knock-down-drag-out fight. That scene is a guilty pleasure for me. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:56 AM (77rzZ) 435
What would happen if we combined a boob and gun thread?
Posted by: Weasel ======= R guns, back in the day, combined pron with pretty girls and guns in calendars and other such retailing. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 10:57 AM (E4rtv) 436
Is that the one where Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte get into a knock-down-drag-out fight.
That scene is a guilty pleasure for me. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:56 AM (77rzZ) ==== It is the one, indeed. Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 10:57 AM (rj6Yv) 437
TJM, I watched the new Frankenstein this week. I thoroughly enjoyed the costumes, sets and photography but found the story remarkably flat. Have you seen it yet?
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 10:57 AM (1D2Ie) 438
"you can always IP spoof and use something like Tor's onion browser"
Tor: another honeypot. It was developed by the USN Research Lab. Duh. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 10:58 AM (N8ZBc) 439
"Take on Me" has entered the chat. Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ) Literal Take On Me made me laugh uncontrollably when it came out. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 10:58 AM (Zz0t1) 440
437 TJM, I watched the new Frankenstein this week. I thoroughly enjoyed the costumes, sets and photography but found the story remarkably flat. Have you seen it yet?
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 10:57 AM (1D2Ie) ===== I have. Love it. Love how del Toro takes his time, letting us ruminate in his world and the characters. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:58 AM (GBKbO) 441
My music knowledge is obviously limited. Which had the girl band in the background?
Posted by: Opinion fact ====== Both songs. And they were models, not musicians. Paid to look like playing but not actually. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv) 442
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 10:55 AM (Hx0tZ)
I told you I’m an admitted music retard. Thanks. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:59 AM (KDPiq) 443
427 "...I never found Delores from Who Framed Roger Rabbit very attractive, but..."
--- Rhymes with a female body part. Posted by: Oblique Seinfeld reference The pylorus is the distal-most segment of the stomach, connecting it to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. That IS hot!!! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 27, 2026 10:59 AM (JCZqz) 444
The pylorus is the distal-most segment of the stomach, connecting it to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
That IS hot!!! Posted by: Admiral Ackbar Yeah, well, just wait until your valve closes. -- Ignatius O'Reilly Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ) 445
*And they were models, not musicians. Paid to look like playing but not actually.*
Whoa. You can DO that? Posted by: American Bandstand at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (2Ez/1) 446
Gabriel quit, they didn't replace him. They thought the band was going to fold, and gave tryouts to around a hundred singers, none of which they liked.
Posted by: Thomas Paine ====== Solsbury Hill is about Peter Gabriel figuring out his decision to leave the band and go solo. I think the decision was correct for both Genesis and Gabriel. Addition by subtraction--both were better and from all accounts the split was amicable with no hard feelings. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (E4rtv) 447
whig, is there any subject matter with which you are not aware? I’m always amazed.
I’m beginning to suspect that you are AI . . . Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 11:01 AM (iaf7q) 448
Love how del Toro takes his time, letting us ruminate in his world and the characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 10:58 AM (GBKbO) ==== Bovine digestion processes do not interest me. Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 11:01 AM (rj6Yv) 449
And they were models, not musicians. Paid to look like playing but not actually.*
Whoa. You can DO that? Posted by: American Bandstand at January 27, 2026 11:00 AM (2Ez/1) ---- Not very well. Posted by: Milli Vanilli at January 27, 2026 11:02 AM (Hx0tZ) 450
Jeebus, my room mate in college would play Solsbury Hill every fucking night.
Posted by: pudinhead at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (1D2Ie) 451
U nas yest' NOOD.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ) 452
Bride of Frankenfauci.Simply Irresistible is a song made way more famous because of its video.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:51 AM (KDPiq) If you say so, but I thought the more memorable video was Addicted to Love. Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 10:52 AM (Hx0tZ) My music knowledge is obviously limited. Which had the girl band in the background? Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:54 AM (KDPiq) ------------ There is a very funny dream sequence parodying that video in the TV series "Northern Exposure." Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (5NBTt) 453
Registration is just giving up . And you’ll be banning almost the same amount of people you register as you do the current VPNs. Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 10:27 AM (KDPiq) Or pick out a few regulars and give them the ability to edit troll comments. Not delete, not banning, just edits. I have confidence that Teh Horde would only use this power for good.... Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (y9nCu) 454
Whoa. You can DO that?
Posted by: American Bandstand ======= Take a look at a lot of old music videos before MTV was created. Quite a few ridiculous and obvious examples where the musicians are not playing and making that fact known. From what I recall, only a few British shows even permitted live performances in the studio, something to do with union requirements etc. But, until the tech was good enough, no one tried to do lip syncing and feigning playing instruments in concerts like they do nowadays. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (E4rtv) 455
I have confidence that Teh Horde would only use this power for good....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur ====== Good and hard trolling you mean. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:04 AM (E4rtv) 456
There is a very funny dream sequence parodying that video in the TV series "Northern Exposure."
Posted by: ShainS ===== I always liked that show but never watched it on the air when it came out. Now I will have to try to find the YT clip of that. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (E4rtv) 457
Or pick out a few regulars and give them the ability to edit troll comments. Not delete, not banning, just edits.
I have confidence that Teh Horde would only use this power for good.... Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 11:03 AM (y9nCu) DO NOT entrust me with that power! That is all. Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (Hx0tZ) 458
hundreds of MN-based Somali businesses are all going bankrupt.
—— Oh sure. More like “absconding with their stolen loot”. Don’t be fooled Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (wO3Gh) 459
whig, is there any subject matter with which you are not aware? I’m always amazed.
I’m beginning to suspect that you are AI . . . Posted by: RI Red at January 27, 2026 11:01 AM (iaf7q) ----------- You're stealing one of my comments from a few years ago. I think we have a few folks around her with eidetic or near-eidetic memories ... Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (5NBTt) 460
I always liked that show but never watched it on the air when it came out. Now I will have to try to find the YT clip of that.
Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:05 AM (E4rtv) ------------ IIRC it was Simpy Irresistible. My wife's sense of humor =/= mine, but I was surprised that she liked and enjoyed that show (I missed it when it first came out but streamed it later). Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (5NBTt) 461
447 whig, is there any subject matter with which you are not aware? I’m always amazed.
I’m beginning to suspect that you are AI . . . Posted by: RI Red Lots of vacancies in knowledge depending on subject. But, I grew up literally with computers and was playing Adventure on mainframes when I was a kid at the local university. Did some coding in the early 80's including formal classes and into the 90's with databases and statistics. FWIW, law and computers are not that far off from each other as far as software and behavior. You craft legal arguments the same as you would coding to resolve a problem for outside clients. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:08 AM (E4rtv) 462
I think we have a few folks around her with eidetic or near-eidetic memories ...
Posted by: ShainS ======= Not eidetic in my case but I tend to retain a lot of information when reading and I read and process information very quickly in a lot of cases. Posted by: whig at January 27, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv) The Morning Report — 1/27/26![]() Sunrise Movement is bankrolled by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. The Minneapolis hotel smashed up overnight by anti-ICE rioters was on a target list created by the Twin Cities chapter of Sunrise Movement, a radical group funded by some of the country's most prominent nonprofit organizations, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.Video footage shows dozens of anti-ICE rioters descending on Home2 Suites by Hilton near the University of Minnesota late Sunday night. The group used noisemakers and pounded on trash bins before turning violent—the rioters hurled items at people, smashed windows, destroyed the hotel’s façade, lit fireworks, and graffitied the building. As they attempted to force their way in, those inside were forced to use two vending machines to block the hotel’s entrance. Why are at least two people dead and multiple federal law enforcement officers injured? What broader principle are Democrats, liberals and leftists rioting over in Minneapolis?Daniel Greenfield gets totally gets it. May God bless every bullet from every barrel of every ICE agent's weapon. May they find their mark right between the beady eyes of every brain dead zombie programmed by the Democrat Left to destroy us. Here's to the founding of the Tailgunner Joseph McCarthy Defense of the Republic Department. Amen. Have a great day. On a personal note, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day and my thoughts turn to my mother of blessed memory who somehow survived Mauthausen, the labor brigades and a death march before finally making it to America to become an American and indeed a truly great one! God bless the Angels who the Lord sent in the form of the GIs from the 11th Armored Division who liberated her and her family. And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
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Happy Tuesday
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (gbOdA) 2
Morning
Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (ZxPkt) 3
Yonder Horde
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (qwVdq) 4
BOING!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:35 AM (UUvzi) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:36 AM (UUvzi) 6
Timmy & Co can run, but not hide from the charges over massive fraud that are coming.
The Left tries to win every news cycle, not realizing their digging themsleves into an even deeper hole. What will Homan do on arrival in MN? One idea is that he should visit jails where Timmy & Co are harboring truly dangerous illegals, and name them by name and demand their turnover for deportation. Who's side are they on? Posted by: Ignoramus at January 27, 2026 07:36 AM (dtajH) 7
5 Hey, JJ, all-day free beer - and in Wisconsin!
Lucky you! https://tinyurl.com/4hcwmxtc Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:36 AM (UUvzi) Unfortunately beer is a major trigger for my gout! Oh well. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 07:37 AM (x0n13) 8
Mornin’, Horde! HB:JJ.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 27, 2026 07:38 AM (ewuvP) 9
Timmy & Co can run, but not hide from the charges over massive fraud that are coming.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 27, 2026 07:36 AM (dtajH) - Waiting. In the meantime, they're all released on Bondi. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:38 AM (UUvzi) 10
Good morning horde!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 07:39 AM (ExV1e) 11
"the rioters hurled items at people, smashed windows, destroyed the hotel’s façade, lit fireworks, and graffitied the building. "
That hotel collects a ton of taxes for the city and this is what they get. Ha ha haaaaa. Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:39 AM (vFG9F) 12
Hey, JJ, all-day free beer - and in Wisconsin!
Lucky you! https://tinyurl.com/4hcwmxtc Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:36 AM (UUvzi) - Unfortunately beer is a major trigger for my gout! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 07:37 AM (x0n13) - Forget about your gout. The link should get your goat! Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:40 AM (UUvzi) 13
12 Forget about your gout. The link should get your goat!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:40 AM (UUvzi) Yes, I read it. Here's hoping Antifa firebombs them. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 07:41 AM (x0n13) Posted by: I have a dream at January 27, 2026 07:41 AM (vFG9F) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:42 AM (tgvbd) 16
How does the anesthesiologist know who's a Republican? Does he check your voting records before he treats you? Along with the nurse who wished horrible harm on Karoline Leavitt ( sp?) ,these people are just awful.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 07:45 AM (Nx5jP) 17
ICE goes into Minneapolis and does their job arresting/processing and deporting illegals. Local leftists get torqued, gin up anti-ICE protests and get national/international monetary support for it. Remember, ICE are glorified cops, process servers with a vest and a gun. It's more or less a purely legal exercise.
The situation degrades and violence ensues. Call in the Border Patrol Service. The proverbial mounted calvary. Ride in, break some things, kill a few leftists. Be the stick. BPS took zero shit from the public, the "protesters" and certainly nothing from the paid agitators. They roughed up people. Local politicos, especially one governor who's a weirdo, gets a sternly worded memo about FAFO. A couple days later the BPS is pulled from Minneapolis and the governor would like to talk to Trump about "turning down the heat." Walz is done. He's either going to turn over Frey, the Lt. Governor and other, state/local politicians who've been involved in the insurrection or he's going down with them. Trump gave him an off-ramp yesterday to save his own skin. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 07:46 AM (qwVdq) Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2026 07:46 AM (ZxPkt) 19
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Richard Rodgers link no workee. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:42 AM (tgvbd) Should be fixed now. Thanks. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 07:46 AM (x0n13) 20
And for presumably well educated people, they don't seem terribly bright about social media. You don't think anybody would object to your murderous screeds?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 07:47 AM (Nx5jP) 21
Here's a link to the American Thinker re: Obama's internal security force:
https://tinyurl.com/obamasecforce There are multiple other links under the search term "obama's first term proposal for a civilian security force in america". When all the dust settles, basically this proposal would have created Obama's very own set of Brownshirts. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 07:48 AM (/HDaX) 22
“reconsider their approach, and start finding ways to work constructively with Governor [Tim] Walz and Mayor [Jacob] Frey as well as state and local police to avert more chaos and achieve legitimate law enforcement goals.”
Obama et al clearly state every chance they get that illegals are part of the plan and that Americans MUST learn to live with a subversive, illegal, outlaw system. Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 07:49 AM (gbOdA) 23
Should be fixed now. Thanks. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 07:46 AM (x0n13) *polite cough* Now it's not there at all. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:49 AM (tgvbd) 24
You know where else people are being unbanked?
https://tinyurl.com/4snke2xr BTW, during the Biden Regime years, several Israeli individuals and organizations were unbanked by orders of the Regime, with Israel complying and giving up its sovereignty. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:49 AM (UUvzi) 25
Remember back in the halcyon days of Barack Hussein Obama when he proposed the creation of some kind of a domestic national security force that was to have more funding, perhaps even double that of the Defense (now War) department. Try as I might, I'll be damned if I can find an actual link to that scheme. I know I'm not imagining it, and if anyone can find it, just send me an e-mail or put it in the comments.
From factcheck.org - what are you gonna do? - https://tinyurl.com/456mkmcy There's also something from brainyquote.com but that's just the quote. - https://tinyurl.com/4uyp8v6d Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 07:51 AM (ExV1e) 26
Rodgers and hammerstein link now fixed. Sorry
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 07:53 AM (x0n13) 27
"Jack Smith doesn't like it when the spotlight is turned on him. "
Too bad nothing will happen to him. Posted by: GWASNWHAIUR at January 27, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F) 28
We are now living in a time when facts and object truth no longer matters to a significant portion of the country. We can't agree on basic facts and it makes having rational discussions and even the rule of law obsolete.
Leftists don't want discussion and reasoned debate. They want force. They don't care about rules. The sooner we wake up to that basic truth and start acting accordingly the sooner we can get our country back. If we don't and keep arguing about which Trump appointee failed us because only we are playing by the rules we will lose our country. That simple. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 07:56 AM (viF8m) 29
As the president sends Tom Homan to Minneapolis, sources tell The Daily Wire Kristi Noem "lost control and never knew what she was doing."
"sources tell" - remember back when we used to mock leftist media for 'finding' anonymous internal sources to claim infighting or malfeasance? I don't excuse this tactic because the practitioner pretends to be conservative. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e) 30
Playing by the rules with leftys is a sucker's game. You gotta get mean.
Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:59 AM (vFG9F) 31
Trump is speaking in Clive, Iowa today (part of the Des Moines metro area). All the Redditards are talking a big game about disrupting and causing chaos, so hopefully we'll have some great footage of morons FAFO. We're close enough to Minneapolis we may have a bunch of them come down...their illegal retarded antics won't be tolerated here.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2026 07:59 AM (ycI94) 32
Thanks for the article on Rogers and Hammerstein. I really enjoyed that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 07:59 AM (PFs9e) 33
Oscar Hammerstein II was also responsible for the book and lyrics to Show Boat, quite possibly the greatest American musical ever written. The recording conducted by John McGlinn is absolutely complete and authentic to the use of the N-word. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:59 AM (tgvbd) 34
g'mornin' again, 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at January 27, 2026 08:00 AM (tljrc) 35
Good morning, everyone! It's another government shutdown day for me so I have nothing going on other than staying warm and maybe heading to the grocery store.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 27, 2026 08:00 AM (7xrfc) 36
Hip waders are now required to wade through the bullshit.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 08:00 AM (0KSrI) 37
Consultants offer these rosy estimates despite a 2018 Texas comptroller’s office report finding that most convention centers “do not cover their operating costs, and competition among them has risen sharply.”
“Convention centers are highly expensive operations, and most don’t make a profit,” the report adds, “particularly when considering the debt service payments involved in their construction.” Big Govt football stadiums, ballparks, and convention centers are just sinkhole that allow pols to put up big contracts and get big donations all at the taxpayers expense. Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:01 AM (gbOdA) 38
Republicans Splinter Over Billions Some Sneaked Into Bills To Fund Their Pet Projects
https://youtu.be/di60NYGu03Y Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e) 39
Raise your hand if you ever attended a concealed carry course where part of the curriculum taught was that it was a good idea to arrive at a violent protest, with Law Enforcement present, and attempt to insert yourself, and physically interfere with Law Enforcement crowd control efforts....while you yourself are armed.
Anybody....? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2026 08:03 AM (iMotb) 40
I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA.
The RNs who help with anesthesia are called CRNAs. It took less than thirty seconds of basic research to prove that he was not one. That being said, medical professionals that say things like that should be immediately made into former medical professionals. Posted by: NR Pax at January 27, 2026 08:03 AM (7xrfc) 41
The mullahs in Iran are racking up some impressive kills. Estimated as many as 36,000 dead so far.
Reports are that many female corpses seem to be mutilated- ears cut off, reproductive organs crudely removed. Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2026 08:03 AM (ZxPkt) 42
We keep going over the same ground with the Left, learning and re-learning -- but never quite assimilating -- the same lessons. When does the breakthrough occur, the moment of total acceptance of reality, the awareness that shatters at last the old paradigm of bewilderment, defensiveness, shock, scandalized cries of hypocrisy, and unconscious appeal to the arbitrating heavens for fairness.
When do we really start to fight like our lives and our nation depend on it? Posted by: Ordinary American at January 27, 2026 08:04 AM (WHfpM) Posted by: D.E.V.O. at January 27, 2026 08:05 AM (vFG9F) 44
I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. And I've read stories about American and captured German surgeons operating on each others wounded soldiers without regard to the uniform. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 08:05 AM (tgvbd) Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2026 08:05 AM (7wrh7) 46
FBI Investigating Minnesota Anti-ICE Signal Chats
-- Oh goodie, another investigation. *claps hands in glee* What does that make it now, 1 billion investigations going on simultaneously where nothing ever comes from it and nobody is arrested, charged, found guilty, sentenced and sent to prison? Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI) 47
The mullahs in Iran are racking up some impressive kills. Estimated as many as 36,000 dead so far. Not Palestinians. Nobody cares. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 08:06 AM (tgvbd) 48
Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:07 AM (77rzZ) 49
"What does that make it now, 1 billion investigations going on simultaneously where nothing ever comes from it and nobody is arrested, charged, found guilty, sentenced and sent to prison?
Posted by: Lady in Black" Are you detecting a pattern? Posted by: GWASNWHAIUR at January 27, 2026 08:07 AM (vFG9F) 50
Oh goodie, another investigation. *claps hands in glee* What does that make it now, 1 billion investigations going on simultaneously where nothing ever comes from it and nobody is arrested, charged, found guilty, sentenced and sent to prison?
Posted by: Lady in Black Best I can do are some speeches to an empty chamber, and maybe a strongly-worded letter. Posted by: Congressional GOPe at January 27, 2026 08:07 AM (ycI94) 51
How China Sold America the Wind Turbine Scam
Chynah: Oh, Mister Politicians, me give you big windmill. Me spin you right round, baby, right round, round, round. You blow me long time. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:08 AM (ExV1e) 52
JJ, the link to the Richard Rogers story doesn’t work.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:09 AM (77rzZ) 53
The issue is not the issue--the issue is always the revolution, the communist revolution.
If it wasn't ICE, they would be rioting over something else. Do they fear death? No, not if it helps the revolution. Are the saddened or grieved by the death of Good or Pretti? No, their deaths helped the revolution. Are a lot of them LARPing, pretending they are in war? Yes. But the leaders, the funders, are deadly damned serious about enslaving you under their communist rule forever. Make no mistake or underestimate that. It is not an exaggeration to say, if we fail to bring Minneapolis to heel, the whole US will soon fall. They piled 100 million bodies on that pyre in the last century, they won't hesitate to add yours. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 27, 2026 08:09 AM (HXT0k) 54
I wonder if the administration oughta' look at propping up a J6 like committee to dig into the Minneapolis shit show. Put Trump loyalists on it and offer up a spot or two the weakest, most worthless Democrats imaginable.
Sure... it has zero chance of putting anyone in prison, but it has a good chance of smearing the Democrats involved. Certainly doing more than the GOP is doing now. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 08:09 AM (qwVdq) 55
That R&H article was interesting, though I prefer Rodgers and Hart, myself (and Rodgers was apparently a cold asshole IRL). I did find a comment there interesting:
Not directly on topic, but does anyone know if Hello Dolly was the apotheosis of the Musical genre or a deliberate joke? It’s so wildly overdone that I can see it being either. My opinion, FWIW, is that My Fair Lady is the perfect musical, but as far as Dolly is concerned, it has to be remembered that it's a Jerry Herman musical, and he had a weakness for big, brassy women who got big, brassy themes, such as Mame, Dear World or (the sexes being reversed0 La Cage Aux Folles. I think the reason anyone would consider Dolly[ overdone is that they are only thinking of the title song and Carol Channing, whose Broadway career was almost entirely spent in that show. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 08:10 AM (ufSfZ) 56
Holocaust Remembrance Day… God bless your mother and her memory JJ
Just one reason my blood boils when the commies call ICE agents nazis…. They have no clue about the monstrous evil committed by the Nazis. I saw a sign the idiots wrote on some barricade in Minneapolis: Kill Nazis… by which they meant ICE. Disgusting Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:11 AM (ZtAny) 57
Wes Moore Says He Won't Waste 'A Second' To Find His Missing Thesis as Oxford Refuses To Confirm He Was Ever a Doctoral Candidate
Oxford has a huge problem with that. I studied there for a year and completed seventeen doctorates and they don't have any of those records. It's a disgrace. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e) 58
California’s ‘Sparkle Beach Ken’ Fizzles Out at Davos
Too many younger whores there for him to stand out. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 08:12 AM (6Uni8) 60
“The unusually cold air spilling into the United States is an example of weather,” it says, “while climate is an average of temperatures across the world over time that shows warm areas outweighing cold ones, according to Dr. Steven Decker, director of Rutgers University’s Meteorology Undergraduate Program.”
How da fuck do you average temperatures? You cannot average zip codes or street address. It can be 10 degrees difference living down here by the bay than in Central H town. Averaging 99 and 89 does not mean the H town area temp is 94.5. fucking idiots Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:12 AM (gbOdA) 61
Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde. Posted by: Inogame at January 27, 2026 08:12 AM (53oGX) 62
21 Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 07:48 AM (/HDaX)
Thanks, I have updated the editorial. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 08:12 AM (x0n13) 63
How does the anesthesiologist know who's a Republican? Does he check your voting records before he treats you? Along with the nurse who wished horrible harm on Karoline Leavitt ( sp?) ,these people are just awful.
-- Unless the person comes in for treatment wearing political clothing, he has no way of knowing. He did what he did (hacked, my rear end) because he's out of control, unable to behave like a normal person, is consumed by his impotent rage, and felt he was justified in saying such a horrific thing. There are, shockingly, a lot of very mentally unstable people in this country. Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI) 64
Walz is done. He's either going to turn over Frey, the Lt. Governor and other, state/local politicians who've been involved in the insurrection or he's going down with them.
Oh, that's precious. Considering that, just as I predicted, the church invaders were immediately bounced back onto the streets and Don Lemon is free as a bird, not a goddamn thing is going to happen. Walz isn't giving up anyone and he is untouchable. Can we please stop Winston Wolfing around here? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 08:14 AM (ufSfZ) 65
Oxford has a huge problem with that. I studied there for a year and completed seventeen doctorates and they don't have any of those records. It's a disgrace.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e) Now wait a minute... Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (/HDaX) 66
Two women accused of biting two different agent’s fingers. Claire Louise Feng, 27, of St. Paul was arrested on Jan. 24. Emily Duchateau Baierl, 37, of Minneapolis, was later charged that day.
Im sure it hurt. Personally I wouldn't go around tackling people and committing extrajudical executions. Probably why he got his finger bit. Ice has now shown everyone in this city that if they put a hand on you, you are possibly now fighting for your life. Any person that got through law school will get both of these women off. (Phrasing! And they wouldn't want to, from what I've seen of these protesting women) Our founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms for the preservation of life, liberty, and property against a tyrannical government. I guess bearing teeth works too. Good for these ladies let's help them with their bills and get them out of jail! Do they have a GoFundMe? The agents were lucky[/b[...this time. Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (ycI94) 67
Get a tattoo of Obama on your chest to ensure quality treatment from hospitals.
Posted by: Urban Survival Tips at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (vFG9F) 68
Thanks, I have updated the editorial.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 08:12 AM (x0n13) Glad that was it. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (/HDaX) Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (Cjt/F) 70
"the rioters hurled items at people, smashed windows, destroyed the hotel’s façade, lit fireworks, and graffitied the building. "
That hotel collects a ton of taxes for the city and this is what they get. Ha ha haaaaa. Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:39 AM (vFG9F) Asmongold has a clip on it. They hit a fed in the face with a brick. Lucky he didn't shoot them. https://youtu.be/0ldoPu4dig8 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (ExV1e) 71
63 Unless the person comes in for treatment wearing political clothing, he has no way of knowing. He did what he did (hacked, my rear end) because he's out of control, unable to behave like a normal person, is consumed by his impotent rage, and felt he was justified in saying such a horrific thing. There are, shockingly, a lot of very mentally unstable people in this country.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI) I also get the feeling that there are people out there who aren't unstable yet, but they WANT to be unstable, as if it would be freeing to just lose their minds and let the crazy they've heretofore successfully held in check (or gaslit themselves into developing) run wild. Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (6Uni8) 72
Oh, that's precious. Considering that, just as I predicted, the church invaders were immediately bounced back onto the streets and Don Lemon is free as a bird, not a goddamn thing is going to happen. Walz isn't giving up anyone and he is untouchable. Can we please stop Winston Wolfing around here? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 08:14 AM (ufSfZ) ---- I was just wondering why we haven't seen a whole bunch more arrests for the church invasion. Is there a good reason? Are they from out of town and hard to identify? Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (Mq47n) 73
Revoke his license. Then shut down his businesses for lack of license, Then he can "refuse service" to everyone.
Posted by: GWB at January 27, 2026 08:17 AM (5mJEl) 74
Oxford has a huge problem with that. I studied there for a year and completed seventeen doctorates and they don't have any of those records. It's a disgrace.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e) What a coincidence… I completed 20 doctorates there but it’s gonna take me a minute to dig up those records. Stand by…. Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:17 AM (+kWhq) 75
There are, shockingly, a lot of very mentally unstable people in this country.
In part because we don't really treat mental illness. We're supposed to celebrate it. But I'm sure he thought he was a heroic voice for the oppressed when he posted that and it never occurred to him that the reaction was going to be negative. Posted by: NR Pax at January 27, 2026 08:18 AM (7xrfc) 76
Walz is done. He's either going to turn over Frey, the Lt. Governor and other, state/local politicians who've been involved in the insurrection or he's going down with them. Trump gave him an off-ramp yesterday to save his own skin.
Lots of reports of Antifa being shocked that the Minneapolis police, county police, and state police all showed up to round them up last night. Walz folded like a cheap suit. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 08:18 AM (Fp5al) 77
How does the anesthesiologist know who's a Republican?
The obligatory swastika tattoo on the forehead. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e) 78
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 08:14 A
Can't stop doing that, because I have no idea who Winston Wolfe is. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 08:19 AM (7RYym) 79
Our founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms for the preservation of life, liberty, and property against a tyrannical government.
It's cute the way their beliefs are all transactional. Posted by: Delurker at January 27, 2026 08:19 AM (gtcuf) 80
"while climate is an average of temperatures"
There is nothing detectable or measurable in nature that can be identified as "climate". Thus, it's an abstraction, and is the result of subjective analysis, and can't cause anything. Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 27, 2026 08:19 AM (MSlZp) 81
Sadly, I agree with you, MP3. I have yet to see anyone instrumental on the left being punished for anything. I'd like to believe there is still equal justice under the law in this country, but there isn't. There just isn't.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI) 82
May mercy and good fortune visit upon the fellow citizens who have been mauled by the storm
Posted by: H8 the haters of our Divine nation at January 27, 2026 08:20 AM (HeR4S) 83
PDT could have that force for almost free; just create a few hundred thousand deputy federal marshals, paid a dollar a year, with roving commissions to see right done and evil put down.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:20 AM (Cjt/F) 84
Surely we can vote a little harder, and make more compelling arguments on our own behalf. That ought to do the trick.
Posted by: weew at January 27, 2026 08:21 AM (S4IL1) 85
How does the anesthesiologist know who's a Republican?
I really should stop throwing bleach on people, hanging nooses around their necks and hollering "This is MAGA country!" every time I have surgery. Posted by: Delurker at January 27, 2026 08:21 AM (gtcuf) 86
>>I was just wondering why we haven't seen a whole bunch more arrests for the church invasion. Is there a good reason? Are they from out of town and hard to identify?
No. It's because Democrat activists posing as judges are refusing to issue arrest warrants. Again, only one side is following the law. We've been arguing for days over the righteousness of the Pretti shooting while the left does not care. They lie and pretend they can't see things and just double down. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 08:22 AM (viF8m) 87
How does the anesthesiologist know who's a Republican?
Absence of fishing tackle in the face, danger hair; for men, levels of testosterone... there are signs. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:22 AM (a4flb) 88
Can't stop doing that, because I have no idea who Winston Wolfe is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 08:19 AM (7RYym) Here ya go: https://youtu.be/yOZB6mNqhuA?t=399 Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:22 AM (/HDaX) 89
Good morning all, thx for the report and all your efforts JJ.
I've always gotten a kick out of Muslims claiming the discovery if this or that . Algebra was being done by the Greeks, the Egyptians, and Babylonians before Islam appeared. A Muslim did produce an influential algebra text in the so called "Golden Age of Islam" from 800 - 1200 AD , but it's been downhill since then. The map of trademarks and inventions which used to be published every ten years shows the Islamic regions as devoid of any new ideas Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2026 08:23 AM (e4I2N) 90
“Convention centers are highly expensive operations, and most don’t make a profit,” the report adds, “particularly when considering the debt service payments involved in their construction.”
Austin's convention center expansion is particularly stupid given that Kalahari built a water park and convention center about 15 miles away. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:23 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:23 AM (a4flb) 92
Wes Moore was confused. He owns several pairs of Oxford shoes, black and brown.
Posted by: Buster Brown Lives In a Shoe at January 27, 2026 08:24 AM (oftw2) 93
>>I was just wondering why we haven't seen a whole bunch more arrests for the church invasion. Is there a good reason? Are they from out of town and hard to identify?
No. It's because Democrat activists posing as judges are refusing to issue arrest warrants. Again, only one side is following the law. We've been arguing for days over the righteousness of the Pretti shooting while the left does not care. They lie and pretend they can't see things and just double down. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 08:22 AM (viF8m) Then, sooner or later, "other ways" of rectifying the problem will rear its ugly head. Unfortunately. For the left. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 27, 2026 08:24 AM (5xuJ/) 94
“Convention centers are highly expensive operations, and most don’t make a profit,” the report adds, “particularly when considering the debt service payments involved in their construction.”
Totally compatible with Austin's claim to promote "affordable housing" </sarc Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:24 AM (a4flb) 95
My opinion, FWIW, is that My Fair Lady is the perfect musical, but as far as Dolly is concerned, it has to be remembered that it's a Jerry Herman musical, and he had a weakness for big, brassy women who got big, brassy themes, such as Mame, Dear World or (the sexes being reversed0 La Cage Aux Folles. I think the reason anyone would consider Dolly[ overdone is that they are only thinking of the title song and Carol Channing, whose Broadway career was almost entirely spent in that show. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 08:10 AM (ufSfZ) ----- My Fair Lady -- no argument from me. Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 08:25 AM (LYoK6) 96
Oh goodie, another investigation. *claps hands in glee* What does that make it now, 1 billion investigations going on simultaneously where nothing ever comes from it and nobody is arrested, charged, found guilty, sentenced and sent to prison?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI) Perhaps Minneapolis should be a good example. Perhaps every state should divorce itself from Washington DC and apply their own laws. Why are we always looking toward a national capital that for all intents and purposes is itself without laws? Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2026 08:25 AM (g8Ew8) 97
"I wonder if the administration oughta' look at propping up a J6 like committee to dig into the Minneapolis shit show. Put Trump loyalists on it and offer up a spot or two the weakest, most worthless Democrats imaginable.
Sure... it has zero chance of putting anyone in prison, but it has a good chance of smearing the Democrats involved. Certainly doing more than the GOP is doing now. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 08:09 AM (qwVdq) " love to see that; I just wonder if there are as many as 10 or a dozen "Trump loyalists" available in congress. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:25 AM (Cjt/F) 98
The obligatory swastika tattoo on the forehead.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic Sorry but my mom said that if I ever got a tattoo, she would shave it off with a butter knife. She's capable of doing it so I ain't pushing my luck. Posted by: NR Pax at January 27, 2026 08:26 AM (7xrfc) 99
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:22 AM (/HDaX)
Sorry; i still don't get it. I guess I'll have to continue doing whatever it is I shouldn't do. Oh, well. Catch some of you guys on the art thread-maybe. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 08:26 AM (7RYym) 100
In practice, U.S. wind turbines operate at capacity factors between 32-35 percent, meaning they produce far less energy than their maximum output most of the time.
I watch the Texas Board all the time. Wind17,514 MW(23.5%)40,624 MW Wind rarely get to 32% cap. In reality Tex Wind give you about one fourth of the investment. Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:26 AM (gbOdA) 101
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:26 AM (Zz0t1) 102
Daniel Greenfield gets totally gets it.
I think an adjustment is required here. Not that I'm proofreading or anything...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:26 AM (Zz0t1) 103
love to see that; I just wonder if there are as many as 10 or a dozen "Trump loyalists" available in congress.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez Why bring in politicians? Let's get people who were persecuted over J6 to be part of the hearing. Posted by: NR Pax at January 27, 2026 08:26 AM (7xrfc) 104
93 Then, sooner or later, "other ways" of rectifying the problem will rear its ugly head. Unfortunately. For the left.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 27, 2026 08:24 AM (5xuJ/) Only if they ever leave the protection of their deep blue cities. Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 08:27 AM (6Uni8) 105
Estimated as many as 36,000 dead so far.
Estimated is an important word here. 'Reportedly' would have worked as well. The Iranian protesters want the US to intervene on their behalf. I'd go for that if the intervention could be both minimal and effective. The important thing is that reports out of Iran right now are suspect. Just like reports that Russia blew up their own pipeline or keep crashing Ukrainian anti-air missiles into Poland. Or... or... or... lying to the public is not just a domestic thing. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:27 AM (ExV1e) 106
Then, sooner or later, "other ways" of rectifying the problem will rear its ugly head. Unfortunately. For the left.
Its what the foreign sponsors of this terror want. Do you really think that China cares anything at all about human life? About American lives? And the foreign owned politicians and "judge"/activists have zero care about human life too. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:27 AM (a4flb) 107
I haven’t read Orwell’s 1984 in years but I think Winston Wolfe was one of the clueless (optimistic?) characters in that novel?
It’s almost embarrassing I don’t have 1984 memorized at this point since the left obviously does and regularly do real life demos… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:27 AM (5MZNC) 108
Lots of reports of Antifa being shocked that the Minneapolis police, county police, and state police all showed up to round them up last night. Walz folded like a cheap suit.
Posted by: Ian S. I hope that doesn't mean that a deal was struck where he, the lt gov and other elected officials are not prosecuted for being admins on a Signal group that targeted ICE, or that they won't be put in jail for skimming the fraud money. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 08:27 AM (0U5gm) Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX) 110
@107 that's Winston Smith
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2026 08:28 AM (e4I2N) 111
Then, sooner or later, "other ways" of rectifying the problem will rear its ugly head. Unfortunately. For the left.
Yeah. AtC likes to point out that the law exists to protect criminals from the traditional methods of dealing with them, not to protect citizens from criminals. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 08:28 AM (Fp5al) 112
Well, it’s called intermittent energy for a reason.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2026 08:28 AM (YuNX7) 113
Then, sooner or later, "other ways" of rectifying the problem will rear its ugly head. Unfortunately. For the left.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 27, 2026 08:24 AM (5xuJ/) And again, I'm not see even the slightest indication that this would happen. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2026 08:29 AM (g8Ew8) 114
They lie and pretend they can't see things and just double down.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 08:22 AM (viF8m) And we have to come to grips with this and come up with a plan to deal with it. Posted by: Ordinary American at January 27, 2026 08:29 AM (WHfpM) 115
We're still frozen, but it's supposed to approach 40 degrees today, so maybe some melt will happen.
Roads are quite shitty in lower traveled areas. I haven't ventured out past that. Don't want to. Everyone else sucks. I was rolling around 25-30 at times, only to get blown by by trucks, light rear end, doing near 40. Enjoy that insurance claim, asshole. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1) 116
Winston Smith was the protagonist of 1984.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:29 AM (77rzZ) 117
Wind rarely get to 32% cap. In reality Tex Wind give you about one fourth of the investment.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:26 AM (gbOdA) Obligatory: https://tinyurl.com/nhzu83bj Posted by: sal at January 27, 2026 08:30 AM (f+FmA) 118
In practice, U.S. wind turbines operate at capacity factors between 32-35 percent, meaning they produce far less energy than their maximum output most of the time.
I watch the Texas Board all the time. Wind17,514 MW(23.5%)40,624 MW Wind rarely get to 32% cap. In reality Tex Wind give you about one fourth of the investment. Posted by: r hennigantx I don't know of one windmill that would be economically feasible without a subsidy. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 08:30 AM (0U5gm) 119
I also get the feeling that there are people out there who aren't unstable yet, but they WANT to be unstable, as if it would be freeing to just lose their minds and let the crazy they've heretofore successfully held in check (or gaslit themselves into developing) run wild.
I think you are describing Burning Man. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:31 AM (a4flb) 120
“Convention centers are highly expensive operations, and most don’t make a profit,” the report adds, “particularly when considering the debt service payments involved in their construction.”
Totally compatible with Austin's claim to promote "affordable housing" Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:24 AM (a4flb) About 10 years ago I participated in a technical conference held at the Austin convention center in August. I marveled at the air conditioning capability of that facility… it was 100+ degrees outside and almost cold inside… I’d open the door to go outside and a huge wind of cold air would follow me outside. I can’t imagine the amount of money it cost to cool that huge building! Carbon footprint the size of a fleet of jets… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:31 AM (5MZNC) 121
I try to put myself in their shoes. Would I fear this DOJ or any conservative regime to effectively, determinedly prosecute me? No, I would not. I would feel that in the medium to long term I could do anything I want short of murder and get away with it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 27, 2026 08:31 AM (WHfpM) 122
I own all of my own businesses and I can refuse anyone!
After the post went viral, Martindale conveniently claimed he was hacked on Facebook and Instagram Also Martindale, "Bake the cake, hater!" Posted by: Halfhand at January 27, 2026 08:31 AM (z0w8y) 123
Oh goodie, another investigation. *claps hands in glee* What does that make it now, 1 billion investigations going on simultaneously where nothing ever comes from it and nobody is arrested, charged, found guilty, sentenced and sent to prison?
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 27, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI) Who are you gonna arrest? You need evidence to support that. Yes, yes, the left can arrest people willy-nilly and throw them in prison for years without trial but we can't. That's reality. You say that you know the Lt. Gov. is involved? Okay, what judge is gonna sign off on the arrest warrant? That means you have to go through a grand jury and that both takes time and is secret. Remember - the purpose of the judicial insurrection is to delay and make people on our side despondent. Don't surrender to despair. It only serves the enemy. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e) 124
“I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education,” Florida nurse Erik Martindale recently wrote on Facebook. “I own all of my own businesses and I can refuse anyone!
After the post went viral, Martindale conveniently claimed he was hacked on Facebook and Instagram. Sure you were. ===== *points and laughs* Haha! You're all joos now! Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX) 125
Wes Moore Says He Won't Waste 'A Second' To Find His Missing Thesis as Oxford Refuses To Confirm He Was Ever a Doctoral Candidate
I told the witch doctor you didn't love me true I told the witch doctor you didn't love me nice And then the witch doctor, he gave me this advice He said that Ooh eee, ooh ah-ah, ting tang Walla-walla, bing-bang Ooh eee, ooh ah-ah, ting tang Walla-walla, bing-bang Ooh eee, ooh ah-ah, ting tang Walla-walla, bing-bang Ooh eee, ooh ah-ah, ting tang Walla-walla, bing-bang Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:32 AM (gbOdA) 126
I have always understood that Jesus will return when everybody has been taught Christianity. If that is the case, I think it would explain the amazing large influx of Muslims in America. And Somalis are Muslim, and Walz is protecting them ( along with hiding his corruption)' so it's a microcosm of the struggle.
Posted by: Chillin the most at January 27, 2026 08:32 AM (Sv8TC) 127
14 "What will Homan do on arrival in MN?"
Arrest Walz and frogmarch ol' frogmouth thru the snow? Posted by: I have a dream at January 27, 2026 07:41 ---- I expect a difficult conversation. Plain speaking Tom Homan versus lying Tim Walz Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 08:32 AM (0ghpI) 128
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:29 AM (
I know who Winston Smith is, not Winston Wolfe. I have never seen or read "Pulp Fiction" Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 08:33 AM (looXz) 129
Its what the foreign sponsors of this terror want. Do you really think that China cares anything at all about human life? About American lives?
And the foreign owned politicians and "judge"/activists have zero care about human life too. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:27 AM (a4flb) So, your solution is what, again? The game rules have been set. THEY made those rules. We continue to play by our rules. How's that working out for us? Maybe a few more investigations would do the trick. Yeah, that's the ticket. Sooner or later, something has to change. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 27, 2026 08:33 AM (5xuJ/) 130
I would have said, "let's not start punching each other's babies in the dick yet," but figured Winston Wolf would be the more understandable reference in these parts.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 08:33 AM (ufSfZ) 131
And again, I'm not see even the slightest indication that this would happen.
There's been a great deal of activity against Antifa, it just hasn't gotten to the part that CBD will ban you for saying. I'm about 95% sure whatever deal Walz made to finally let the police do their jobs was backed with threats based on the Signal chats. Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 08:33 AM (Fp5al) 132
Nice thing about the Pretti Confetti shooting is he's dead and that lesbo broad who couldn't drive is all but forgotten now. Can't even remember the rug muncher's name. Oh well. I have more important things to do like trimming my nutsack hair than worrying about dead idiots.
Posted by: Stupid Is As Stupid Does at January 27, 2026 08:34 AM (R/m4+) 133
Apparently, MS NOW is using an altered photo of Alex Pretti. Not sure why.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 08:34 AM (Y1sOo) 134
I don't know of one windmill that would be economically feasible without a subsidy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 08:30 AM (0U5gm) Subsidy --> Contract --> Kickbacks --> Donations Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:34 AM (gbOdA) 135
Yeah. AtC likes to point out that the law exists to protect criminals from the traditional methods of dealing with them, not to protect citizens from criminals.
I have no intention of keeping a house burglar confined in my basement for a couple years while I feed, medicate, entertain and educate him with my own money. Without the State, every crime is a capital crime Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:35 AM (a4flb) 136
Now that Ron Gvili's remains have been returned, gentlemen, you may fire when ready.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX) 137
I guess we're going to forget all about Iran.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 08:35 AM (Dv3i1) 138
So, the agent whose finger got bit off by the lesbo, his finger's in the dyke?
Posted by: Delurker at January 27, 2026 08:35 AM (gtcuf) 139
Tribalism and “vigilante justice” is the default in human history. Still is in some parts of the globe.
A permanent cadre of professional 24/7 duly sworn law enforcement and legal code and the rest of it are just a recent blip in human history. In effect we as a society have outsourced justice, an agreement to stand down - so long as the legal system does their part. That’s the “social compact” part of the deal. We’re in that weird in-between period where they have decided to stop upholding their end of the bargain. Recall the DEI hire declaring the rioters “just need room to destroy”. Yet businesses and home owners are expected to dutifully continue to pay property tax and Feed The Machine. A broken machine. What happens next is anyone’s guess, but I suggest depending on your location learning how to put together a Duty Roster and DA form 6 for roving guard duty. Suburbia is not defendable, nor are rural areas frankly. Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 08:36 AM (idVke) 140
The reality is, Republicans, and sadly, that includes Donald Trump, are not serious about fixing America
---------- This person is a retard. Anyone who thinks Donald Trump, who had laid everything on the line to "fix" America isn't serious, is a fucking retard. Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 08:36 AM (cxiKi) 141
Lots of reports of Antifa being shocked that the Minneapolis police, county police, and state police all showed up to round them up last night. Walz folded like a cheap suit.
--- Even deployed the sound cannon. Vids on X of the cockroaches scattering. While ICE agents crack a beer and laugh while watching from the 3rd floor window. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 27, 2026 08:36 AM (HXT0k) 142
Welp. Looks like Old Blighty, France, and Germany can get a glimpse of their future?/present? https://tinyurl.com/3u96d4yv I'm sure this in no way reflects the glorious cultural enrichment brought to us by all the unvetted Afghanis Biden let in. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 08:36 AM (iJfKG) 143
I was just wondering why we haven't seen a whole bunch more arrests for the church invasion. Is there a good reason? Are they from out of town and hard to identify?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 08:16 AM (Mq47n) The locals don't have a problem with it, the federal magistrate refused to sign the warrants. The appeals court, in Don Lemon's case, even said that he broke the law but they won't require the magistrate to sign the warrant. So it's Pam Bondi's fault. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:36 AM (ExV1e) 144
Tim Walz has hijacked Holocaust Remembrance Day by equating it with the illegal criminals suffering in Minnesota.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 08:36 AM (NpAcC) 145
“I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education,” Florida nurse Erik Martindale recently wrote on Facebook. “I own all of my own businesses and I can refuse anyone!
After the post went viral, Martindale conveniently claimed he was hacked on Facebook and Instagram. Sure you were. ===== Leftism means no consequence for your actions. FAFO is a way of life for them, only for them to deny the FO part and blame someone else. EVERYONE else. They're petulant little children. I pray for mercy on their misguided souls. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:37 AM (Zz0t1) 146
Can't stop doing that, because I have no idea who Winston Wolfe is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 08:19 AM (7RYym) Probably for the best. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:37 AM (ExV1e) 147
"Twitchy" site has an article on it. They are making him more attractive , supposedly to elicit greater sympathy from leftist women, kind of like when they put the sixth grade photo of various crooks and thugs instead of how they look twenty years later
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (looXz) 148
The Left has achieved almost every goal they set themselves in Minneapolis
Martyr Inflammatory video that will be endlessly used Narrative reinforcement and expansion More anti-deportation and amnesty voters Force Trump to back-down The only goal they haven't achieved - so far - in Minneapolis is a black martyr. Either Dead or severely beaten. Preferably dead. They will work very hard to get a black martyr in ICE or Border Patrol enforcement ops, as soon as possible. I'm feeling sick. Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (5rh/l) 149
Virginia Democrats Now Seeking to Double Their Own Pay as They Raise Taxes, After Running on ‘Affordability’
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo) 150
>>And we have to come to grips with this and come up with a plan to deal with it.
Understanding and accepting the problem is the first step. Otherwise we are fighting the wrong battle. Trump's team isn't perfect and they will make mistakes but I believe they do understand what we are up against. We are battling a communist insurgency. They ignore the rules and just keep pressing forward. Trump's legal team is facing unprecedented obstruction in the judicial system. Judges are making up rules or just ignoring them altogether. That's not Trump's team losing. That's corruption. They are deporting orders of magnitude more illegals in state like TX and FL because those states are following the law. It's going to be a long fight but we have to keep at it and don't despair with setbacks. We can and will win if we keep fighting. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m) 151
So, the agent whose finger got bit off by the lesbo, his finger's in the dyke?
Posted by: Delurker at January 27, 2026 08:35 AM (gtcuf) Not food. She spit it out. https://youtu.be/9eYstJRZfTg Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1) 152
"133 Apparently, MS NOW is using an altered photo of Alex Pretti. Not sure why."
lying is pretty much a religious obligation to them. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (Cjt/F) 153
Perhaps Minneapolis should be a good example. Perhaps every state should divorce itself from Washington DC and apply their own laws.
Why are we always looking toward a national capital that for all intents and purposes is itself without laws? Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2026 08:25 AM (g8Ew Correct. Posted by: Abolish The Federal Government Already at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (R/m4+) 154
Why is today Holocaust Remembrance Day? What is the significance of Jan. 27?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (77rzZ) 155
121 I try to put myself in their shoes. Would I fear this DOJ or any conservative regime to effectively, determinedly prosecute me? No, I would not. I would feel that in the medium to long term I could do anything I want short of murder and get away with it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 27, 2026 08:31 AM --- Let's not forget the small victory of getting Judge Hannah Dugan off the bench. Prosecutor, judge, and jury did their jobs. It's still a victory Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (2g/fp) 156
Virginia Democrats Now Seeking to Double Their Own Pay as They Raise Taxes, After Running on ‘Affordability’
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo) Democrats lie. About everything. It's in their DNA. They are a broken people. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (Zz0t1) 157
The threat was reinforced by Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, who said the Iran-backed group would not remain on the sidelines if a conflict expanded to include Tehran.
Saree better sleep in a bunker about a mile underground. Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:40 AM (gbOdA) 158
Keith Ellison Outraged That Minnesota Not Being Included in Shooting Investigations After Refusing to Cooperate With Feds
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo) 159
This person is a retard. Anyone who thinks Donald Trump, who had laid everything on the line to "fix" America isn't serious, is a fucking retard.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 08:36 AM (cxiKi) Who are you quoting? Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:40 AM (/HDaX) 160
In other words, this is another hardware-poor NASA project. What they build is what they have. No time or money for testing of prototypes.
This mission is really pushing the envelope, possibly more than any NASA planetary probe in a half century. I just hope they get it right. =========================== There is plenty positive to say about starving the beast, too, so I will cross my fingers and wish the Titan unmanned mission Godspeed, but I have no problem forcing NASA to prioritize what they can afford and what they cannot. Inevitably, we can't do every single thing that we wish we could do. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 08:40 AM (28ov7) 161
Only if they ever leave the protection of their deep blue cities.
Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 08:27 AM (6Uni Stop trucking in food and they'll leave eventually. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:41 AM (ExV1e) Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 08:41 AM (RoI99) 163
Keith Ellison Outraged That Minnesota Not Being Included in Shooting Investigations After Refusing to Cooperate With Feds
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo) Ellison should be the subject of a shooting investigation. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:41 AM (Zz0t1) 164
Walz said he would like to talk to Trump about "turning down the heat" shortly after BPS shot and killed one of the left's operatives. BPS was in Minneapolis to bust heads.
When they did, Walz realized he was at risk. Not from BPS, but likely his career was in jeopardy. (I think he's toast anyway.) Trump gave Walz an off ramp. Get the shit under control or you're out. I don't think Walz was the one holding the police back either... I think that's on Frey and the Lt Governor. Walz is too stupid to be running this op. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 08:41 AM (jtM2q) 165
The Zapruder film of the JFK assassination was better quality than the video I saw of this Pretti shooting.
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:42 AM (RHGPo) 166
Apparently, MS NOW is using an altered photo of Alex Pretti. Not sure why.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 08:34 AM (Y1sOo) ****** Because he looks like your typical leftist and they want him to look better looking to get public sympathy. https://tinyurl.com/sjrr9zsk Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 08:42 AM (NpAcC) 167
147 "Twitchy" site has an article on it. They are making him more attractive , supposedly to elicit greater sympathy from leftist women, kind of like when they put the sixth grade photo of various crooks and thugs instead of how they look twenty years later
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (looXz) Did we ever see a real photo of the Trump attp. assassin? Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:42 AM (gbOdA) 168
I don't know of one windmill that would be economically feasible without a subsidy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 08:30 AM (0U5gm) Subsidy → Contract → Kickbacks → Donations Its a bit more complex than that. Being part of the grid, electrical providers can pass along the cost of the construction of windmills in the form of higher rates (this is why Texas had huge build-out of all kinds of power: nuclear, CCGT, coal, etc.). There is also the lucrative business of selling carbon credits generated by the windmills (which is its real business, not providing electricity, but carbon credits that are sold to "dirty" industry - a diabolical form of extortion) Big Tech, Walmart and other companies with strong profits can reduce their taxable income by gaining credits through solar/wind projects they underwrite. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:42 AM (a4flb) 169
About 10 years ago I participated in a technical conference held at the Austin convention center in August. I marveled at the air conditioning capability of that facility… it was 100+ degrees outside and almost cold inside… The summer Houston dog shows are held at NRG Center. The temp outside will be in the 90s but you better wear a sweater inside. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 08:42 AM (tgvbd) 170
Neil Young says,
I’m honoured to give a free year’s access to neilyoungarchives.com to all of our friends in Greenland. I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government. It is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality. This is an offer of Peace and Love. ================== See Greenland? Trump is already delivering for you. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (28ov7) 171
"133 Apparently, MS NOW is using an altered photo of Alex Pretti. Not sure why."
lying is pretty much a religious obligation to them. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (Cjt/F) The same reason they didn't use the images of Trayvon Martin where he was flashing his grill while holding guns. It's the narrative, my boy. It is to die for. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (Zz0t1) 172
There was a fake photo of the Pretti shooting out there.
You can tell it is fake because one of the ICE agents doesn't have a head. Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (RHGPo) 173
Sponge — While I was driving to work this morning it was slippery but drivable. I proceeded very cautiously… approached all stoplights very slowly. I was waiting to turn at a stoplight… it turned green for me but a pickup truck was ripping down not being cautious… it had to stop, jammed its brakes and did a 360 pirouette right in front of me… I waited until it finally stopped then completed my turn… no collision but that yahoo would’ve hit me in the middle of the intersection if I’d have gone when the light turned green… he was going too fast to stop… sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (/iXAp) 174
Covid broke a lot of people and norms. Conventions were completely dead for 2 years. Many never got back into the swing of it. Also the ease and proliferation of online seminars and learning makes people question the whole flight, hotel, Uber, taxi, regimen. I guess getting drunk with your peers is still somewhat popular, though. Every overpriced convention center is a taxpayer funded boondoggle. Too many crazies in cities will keep me out of convention centers for the remainder of my time on Earth.
Posted by: Happy Shut-in at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (oftw2) 175
Neil Young music sucks. Greenland will beg Trump to save them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (Zz0t1) 176
And again, I'm not see even the slightest indication that this would happen.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2026 08:29 AM (g8Ew The people will never rise up. It's a fever dream. -- Nicolae Ceaușescu Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (ExV1e) 177
"Remember - the purpose of the judicial insurrection is to delay and make people on our side despondent. Don't surrender to despair. It only serves the enemy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e) " "It's going to be a long fight but we have to keep at it and don't despair with setbacks. We can and will win if we keep fighting. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m) " these are the only sentiments worth harboring at this point. well, that, and "the aggressor sets the ROE" Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:44 AM (Cjt/F) 178
Nothing is melting out there.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:44 AM (77rzZ) 179
The Left does not believe in or follow any laws or principles other than its own politics.
This is one of the most singularly important points if you want to understand modern politics. On a regular basis the left flips their "core beliefs" in a way, that if you believe they are in fact core beliefs makes no sense. Federal Agents can kill Ashli Babbitt or Roselyn Boys from protesting if that protesting interferes with a government function, but Pretti and Good have a right to assault federal agents if they disagree with what those agents are doing. Bill Clinton can send a swat team after Elian Gonzalez but sending illegals home is abducting them and on and on... And that's because the only thing they actually care about here is power. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:44 AM (sKqQm) 180
I waited until it finally stopped then completed my turn… no collision but that yahoo would’ve hit me in the middle of the intersection if I’d have gone when the light turned green… he was going too fast to stop… sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:43 AM (/iXAp) Why I'm not getting out unless there's an emergency. Everyone is a selfish asshole idiot out there in most cases. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:45 AM (Zz0t1) 181
Report: Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei Now Living in Underground Bunker, Fears Trump Might Come for Him
... it's only Allah's will Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo) 182
Damn it's cold out there. How much are they paying protesters today?
Posted by: Stoner living in his parent's basement at January 27, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1) 183
Because he looks like your typical leftist and they want him to look better looking to get public sympathy.
AWFLs fantasize about "dating" GQ models, so with liberal application of AI and photo-shop all heroes of the revolution look like Hollywood leading men. Another fine thing about AI is that if can also invent a totally different bio/legend of the perp transforming a dead-end meth head into a Nobel Prize winning philanthropist. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:45 AM (a4flb) 184
Apparently, MS NOW is using an altered photo of Alex Pretti. Not sure why.
Posted by: one hour sober ________ Did they turn him into a black trannie? Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (XvL8K) 185
165, LOL! also true
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (Cjt/F) 186
“People underestimate how organized they are,” Mor said about Hamas. “Shifts. Guard rotations. Thousands of shafts. Even under siege, they have food supplies for a year. The only real weakness is water.”
I would give them water. Put about a 3 foot pipe the the Sea and pump in water for the next few years. Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (gbOdA) 187
Supposedly, carrying at a protest is illegal in Minnesota.
MN Attorney General Keith Ellison joined 16 other attorneys general from Democrat-led states in an amicus brief filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in January 2024, according to court records. The coalition argued states can ban firearms at political rallies and protests because such events attract violence. Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (RHGPo) 188
Know who else was living in an underground bunker?
Posted by: But it does rhyme at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (2Ez/1) 189
Why is today Holocaust Remembrance Day? What is the significance of Jan. 27?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (77rzZ) ***** Marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (NpAcC) 190
11 deg. deg out, nothing melting here either.
Waiting for the HVAC tech to come install a replacement thermostat on the upstairs heat pump. It's a bit brisk in here. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:47 AM (/HDaX) 191
Virginia Democrats Now Seeking to Double Their Own Pay as They Raise Taxes, After Running on ‘Affordability’
I see Meghan McCain was angrily tweeting that the FNM claimed the VA Dems and their CIA agent leader were moderates. Well Ms Nepobaby there are no moderate democrats. None. Haven't been for 20 or more years. But you are your ilk are worried about icky Republicans like Trump so blame yourself. Without the cover of people like you and especially your father the left would have a harder time winning elections. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm) 192
MSNOW:
This digitally enhanced portrait made its debut on the program hosted by Nicolle Wallace, where it was presented alongside a critique of former President Donald Trump’s influence over public perception. The incident has raised questions about media ethics and the integrity of visual representation. During the segment, Wallace commented on how Trump encourages Americans to distrust their own observations, stating, “Donald Trump and his administration are demanding once again that you do not believe your eyes and ears.” The juxtaposition of this statement with the manipulated image has led to widespread criticism from viewers, who have expressed concerns about the authenticity of the portrayal. Telling you to believe your eyes and ears as they lie and manipulate images seems, well........... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1) 193
88-Year-Old Democrat Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton Terminates Campaign For 19th Term due to “early stages of dementia.”
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:48 AM (RHGPo) 194
And that's because the only thing they actually care about here is power.
Walz and Frey care about power - the rest are fodder who are LARPing a lifestyle of freedom fighters and saints. Mimetic Theory explains a ton of what is going on. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb) 195
189 Thanks, RRH.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ) 196
I see Meghan McCain was angrily tweeting that the FNM claimed the VA Dems and their CIA agent leader were moderates. Well Ms Nepobaby there are no moderate democrats. None. Haven't been for 20 or more years.
But you are your ilk are worried about icky Republicans like Trump so blame yourself. Without the cover of people like you and especially your father the left would have a harder time winning elections. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm) She'll post her big, fake tit cleavage in penance again soon. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (Zz0t1) 197
Supposedly, carrying at a protest is illegal in Minnesota.
Going to a protest armed is one thing. Going to a protest armed where you plan to assault cops though is insanity. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm) 198
Trump gave Walz an off ramp. Get the shit under control or you're out. I don't think Walz was the one holding the police back either... I think that's on Frey and the Lt Governor.
Walz is too stupid to be running this op. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 08:41 AM (jtM2q) Agree. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (g8Ew8) 199
Good morning JJ, Horde
Posted by: callsign claymore at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (JJ43P) 200
Waiting for the HVAC tech to come install a replacement thermostat on the upstairs heat pump. It's a bit brisk in here.
Open the inside doors, crank up the lower level heat and let convection punch through the thermocline? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (a4flb) 201
Virginia Democrats Now Seeking to Double Their Own Pay as They Raise Taxes, After Running on ‘Affordability’
--- How's that scene in Animal Farm go? The pigs explain they really don't want to drink all the cream, but they have to, are forced to, they must because the work of managing the farm for everyone is such difficult work? I'll keep pointing out: They had all this legislation drafted, ready to go on day one and they moved on it before her speech even stopped echoing through the chamber. But a year later, and Trump still--STILL--has nominees that can't get a vote languishing in the Senate. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 27, 2026 08:50 AM (HXT0k) 202
Its a bit more complex than that. Being part of the grid, electrical providers can pass along the cost of the construction of windmills in the form of higher rates (this is why Texas had huge build-out of all kinds of power: nuclear, CCGT, coal, etc.).
There is also the lucrative business of selling carbon credits generated by the windmills (which is its real business, not providing electricity, but carbon credits that are sold to "dirty" industry - a diabolical form of extortion) Big Tech, Walmart and other companies with strong profits can reduce their taxable income by gaining credits through solar/wind projects they underwrite. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure I did a deep dive into Texas' windmills a couple of years ago. $60 billion in spending over twenty years, of which over $20 billion was subsidies. One third of the cost was subsidy, and since the subsidy only covers building them, they don't maintain them. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 08:50 AM (0U5gm) 203
Walz and Frey care about power - the rest are fodder who are LARPing a lifestyle of freedom fighters and saints.
Most of those LARPers have a job drawing government dollars either directly or indirectly. That's why they do this - to keep the dollars going, not for whatever reason they claim. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:50 AM (sKqQm) 204
Happy New Day, JJ and Morning Morons. 🌞
As I started waking up, my wandering mind pondered: As we lumber toward the 2026 election, I thought about that preponderance of voters who selected Trump. What was their motivation and how likely is it to work again? Who voted Trump because of his rugged but elegant persona (or Melania)? Who voted because he was famous? an Outsider? Who voted for his policies ("I voted for this" as we say)? Who voted habitually Republican? Who voted because Not Democrat? And how do those categories break down for 2016, 2020, and 2024? While someone not me does that polling, I'm going to have some coffee and read the Report. Posted by: mindful webworker - It's too two to's day at January 27, 2026 08:50 AM (OJSFI) 205
I just looked outside and ICE is everywhere.
Hoping it will all melt before the next snow storm. Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:51 AM (RHGPo) 206
184 Did they turn him into a black trannie?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (XvL8K) No AWFL would even pretend to be sexually attracted to that. Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 08:51 AM (6Uni8) 207
Yeah, how about NO.
U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA @POTUS @realDonaldTrump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire @Sec_Noem Americans have died. She is betraying DHS’s core mission and trashing your border security legacy. DO NOT make the mistake President Biden made for not firing a grossly incompetent DHS Secretary. Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 08:52 AM (NpAcC) 208
"the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution."
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 08:52 AM (Cjt/F) 209
DHS Investigating Whether Alex Pretti’s Gun Accidentally Discharged: Report
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:52 AM (RHGPo) 210
Raise your hand if you ever attended a concealed carry course where part of the curriculum taught was that it was a good idea to arrive at a violent protest, with Law Enforcement present, and attempt to insert yourself, and physically interfere with Law Enforcement crowd control efforts....while you yourself are armed.
Anybody....? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2026 08:03 AM ---- Almost everyone with concealed carry just knows better; unfortunately, we have the exception. Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 08:52 AM (9sYIl) 211
Open the inside doors, crank up the lower level heat and let convection punch through the thermocline?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (a4flb) I'm getting enough heat rising from downstairs to keep from completely freezing but the computer's upstairs and I'm not quite over the flu. And it's not helping that the house could be better insulated in places. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:52 AM (/HDaX) 212
187 Supposedly, carrying at a protest is illegal in Minnesota.
MN Attorney General Keith Ellison joined 16 other attorneys general from Democrat-led states in an amicus brief filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in January 2024, according to court records. The coalition argued states can ban firearms at political rallies and protests because such events attract violence. Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:46 AM (RHGPo) I'll bet the definition of political rallies and protests in that lawsuit had more and larger loopholes that would favor the Left than the holes in a steel wire fence. Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 08:52 AM (5rh/l) 213
Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 08:35 AM (Dv3i1)
===== I can say I have not forgotten about Iran and will never, ever forget about Iran. Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX) 214
"Remember - the purpose of the judicial insurrection is to delay and make people on our side despondent. Don't surrender to despair. It only serves the enemy.
I use it for motivation on the heavy bag. Nothing like bag work to strip body fat, add muscle, endurance and confidence. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:53 AM (a4flb) 215
@realDonaldTrump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire
@Sec_Noem Americans have died. Back on J6, 2021 the government was giving awards to agents that murdered peacefully protesting US citizens. When those agents, and the people that gave them medals, are in jail, we can have a discussion about Noem and ICE. Until then FU. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm) 216
I see Meghan McCain was angrily tweeting that the FNM claimed the VA Dems and their CIA agent leader were moderates. Well Ms Nepobaby there are no moderate democrats. None. Haven't been for 20 or more years.
----------- Rush Limbaugh reiterated this many times, even back in the nineties. I miss Rush. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2026 08:53 AM (g8Ew8) 217
Virginia Democrats Now Seeking to Double Their Own Pay as They Raise Taxes, After Running on ‘Affordability’
Obama, Clinton Statements About Minneapolis Reveal Democrats’ Midterm Playbook .. looks like ‘Affordability’ is out Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo) 218
Open the inside doors, crank up the lower level heat and let convection punch through the thermocline?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (a4flb) I was told there would be no Thermodynamics on this blog. Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 08:54 AM (gbOdA) 219
U.S. Senator John Fetterman
@SenFettermanPA @POTUS @realDonaldTrump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire @Sec_Noem Americans have died. She is betraying DHS’s core mission and trashing your border security legacy. DO NOT make the mistake President Biden made for not firing a grossly incompetent DHS Secretary. The lump has returned. Americans were dying in MUCH larger number BEFORE Noem took over. F*cking moron. Two idiot protestors got THEMSELVES killed by attacking ICE and BP agents and we're supposed to stop protecting the sovereignty of this nation? F*ck off, retard. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1) 220
The Super Bowl this year is a rematch of SB 49, in which probably the biggest coaching blunder of all time was committed: Seattle on the 1-yard line at the end of the game with the best short yardage back in the league (Marshawn Lynch).. so Pete Carroll’s OC decides to pass… INT… end of game, Patriots win. A meme was born: Run the damn ball!!
As much success as Carroll has had as a coach (SB victory and college championship) he’s also been a part of two huge blunders… the one already mentioned and the 2006 Rose Bowl when he didn’t have his best running back (Reggie Bush) on the field for a crucial 4th down play.. the stuff of nightmares for coaches… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (YobFY) 221
Your Mother sounds like a incredible woman, JJ. RIP.
I visited Dachau on a trip to Bavaria, years ago when I was in high School. My first thoughts were, how could this happen in the West and the Modern world at the time Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (YCxFk) Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (/HDaX) 223
>Apparently, MS NOW is using an altered photo of Alex Pretti. Not sure why.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 08:34 AM (Y1sOo) --- they changed the aspect ratio so he doesn't look so much like a conehead Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (ZxPkt) 224
Where is the real data about Ilhan Omar and her husband's net worth? There is info about a winery and some kind of finance company, but were is the info pointing to actual assets?
Tangible assets have value that can be verified, but it looks as if phony paper claims about assets exist, but no verification. Pelosi's share holdings could be verified. Let's see some better investigating into Omar. Posted by: M. Gaga at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (KiBMU) 225
Why is today Holocaust Remembrance Day? What is the significance of Jan. 27?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (77rzZ) ===== Auschwitz was liberated January 27, 1945 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX) 226
I hope this doesn't sound like a silly request, but Our dog is very sick and if you could send good thoughts his way for a quick recovery it would be appreciated....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 08:57 AM (VE6XX) 227
I didn’t realize that Auschwitz was liberated that early on.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:58 AM (77rzZ) 228
This is creepier the more I ponder it:
https://m.youtube.com/ watch?v=NVd8zmjPGrg She describes a phenomenon that astounds me --how different people can view the same situation and inhabit totally different realities. I've seen that in my own social circles and the people living in the leftist reality are finding it difficult to acknowledge the humanity of people in the other reality. But this YouTuber says "authoritarians" and "people who are uncomfortable with ambiguity and plurality" are rejecting reality and need to be dealt with (in a caring manner, of course) so they don't destroy democracy. I bet she's thinking of -humane- camps. Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 08:58 AM (FMtrg) 229
I never fell for the Fetterman smoke screen. When he did not switch parties . At least we know for sure now
Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 08:59 AM (YCxFk) 230
228 That video was posted by another commenter yesterday but I don't recall who.
Posted by: Emmie at January 27, 2026 08:59 AM (FMtrg) Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 08:59 AM (NpAcC) 232
I'm getting enough heat rising from downstairs to keep from completely freezing but the computer's upstairs and I'm not quite over the flu. And it's not helping that the house could be better insulated in places.
When you get desperate, you can always jump the red wire on the thermostat (you said you had a heat-pump) to the yellow wire (compressor), the green wire (the indoor blower) and the orange or blue wire (reversing the valve to "heat") if it is too cold for the heat-pump and it would use auxiliary heat, then add the white wire (auxiliary) to the mix and off you go. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 08:59 AM (a4flb) 233
. Remember back in the halcyon days of Barack Hussein Obama when he proposed the creation of some kind of a domestic national security force that was to have more funding, perhaps even double that of the Defense (now War) department.
Did somebody dig up footage of his Thug Bootcamp marching? Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2026 09:00 AM (LHPAg) 234
Done donna.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 09:00 AM (viF8m) 235
As much success as Carroll has had as a coach (SB victory and college championship) he’s also been a part of two huge blunders… the one already mentioned and the 2006 Rose Bowl when he didn’t have his best running back (Reggie Bush) on the field for a crucial 4th down play.. the stuff of nightmares for coaches… Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (YobFY) It's ok ESPN analytics has fixed EVERYTHING. Just ask Denver........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:01 AM (Zz0t1) 236
Now that I read the sub-headlines and the comments. It looks like we're not forgetting about Iran. D'oh!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:01 AM (Dv3i1) 237
I hope this doesn't sound like a silly request, but Our dog is very sick and if you could send good thoughts his way for a quick recovery it would be appreciated....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 08:57 AM (VE6XX) Prayers up. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:02 AM (Zz0t1) 238
I use it for motivation on the heavy bag.
Nothing like bag work to strip body fat, add muscle, endurance and confidence. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure That's no way to refer to your wife. I'm appalled! Posted by: Happy Harry at January 27, 2026 09:02 AM (oftw2) 239
Meghan McCain takes a lot of heat here, partly because she posts on line anti-Trump statements, but mostly in defense of her father, a man Trump always criticizes because (lets face facts Meghan) her Dad was the loser of all political losers. The worst ever. But now that the hymns and readings are all finished, maybe her father's funeral is drawing to a close, and maybe she will tone down her attacks. We can hope so anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:02 AM (LdBLg) 240
Thanks all.. I felt weird asking it...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:03 AM (VE6XX) 241
I see Meghan McCain was angrily tweeting that the FNM claimed the VA Dems and their CIA agent leader were moderates.
The FNM claimed that her father was a mavericky conservative. She should have known better than to believe the FNM. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:03 AM (ExV1e) 242
Prayer up, Donna.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 09:03 AM (77rzZ) 243
She describes a phenomenon that astounds me --how different people can view the same situation and inhabit totally different realities It is easier to take the things you observe and force them into your narrative then it is to take them objectively and ask how if they are at odds with your narrative. The left is worst at this because most leftists live in a tightly curated bubble of information but honestly they tend to be worse at critical thinking to begin with. Take the Good shooting. The left initially argued two things: ICE can't arrest citizens and the ICE agent wasn't actually in front of her car so she wasn't a threat. Both were false. This didn't cause the people making those arguments any concern. Immediately the argument because both "she didn't hit him" and "she had a right to hit him because he was in front of her". Again the first was factually wrong. And the second? The left has made a thing of street riots boxing people in and argued the opposite for years now. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm) 244
But a year later, and Trump still--STILL--has nominees that can't get a vote languishing in the Senate. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 27, 2026 08:50 AM (HXT0k) ----- Democrats, once they regain power, will so overreact to Trump's administration that Republican senators won't know what hit them. Fools. Have they not seen the absence of decorum, of disrespect for rules by the radical left in congress? Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 09:04 AM (0YI+g) 245
239. no way Huck. Meghan endorsed pro late term abortion Biden in 2020, like her mother. Meghan spouts her pro life creds, but endorsed Biden? F her
Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 09:04 AM (YCxFk) 246
If DoJ charges the Open Society, Ford Foundation and other lousy destroyers of our Republic, there will be wailing about how Trump is Destroying our Democracy(TM). All these organizations set up after WWII have either developed into or finally revealed to be the most powerful un-democratic institutions since the USSR. They must be dismantled.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:04 AM (Dv3i1) 247
Thanks all.. I felt weird asking it...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:03 AM (VE6XX) Nonsense. This place is a fountain for positive thoughts and prayers where needed. Trust me. I've been a recipient for quite a while now. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:05 AM (Zz0t1) 248
The FNM claimed that her father was a mavericky conservative. She should have known better than to believe the FNM.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:03 AM (ExV1e) She's long been part of the FNM, so........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:05 AM (Zz0t1) 249
F*cking moron.
Two idiot protestors got THEMSELVES killed by attacking ICE and BP agents and we're supposed to stop protecting the sovereignty of this nation? F*ck off, retard. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1) ****** Why isn't he calling for Walz and Frey to be fired? Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:06 AM (NpAcC) 250
So Noem is gonna be the scapegoat...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:07 AM (VE6XX) 251
Auschwitz was liberated January 27, 1945
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX) ================= Illustrating how dramatically the antisemitic atmosphere has poisoned, in high school we sat through a mandatory viewing of "Night And Fog" and a subsequent day of classes devoted to the Holocaust. Nowadays, can you imagine a high school doing the same? Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:07 AM (LdBLg) 252
Megan McCain seems like a lost confused soul…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:07 AM (YobFY) 253
Megan McCain seems like a lost confused soul…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:07 AM (YobFY) You misspelled money grubbing whore. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:07 AM (Zz0t1) 254
I have not heard anybody discuss the economic impact of this mess in Minneapolis or Minnesota. Who would want to do business in a city that lets riots and lawlessness occur. The city took a beating in the Floyd riots , now this crap. I'm gone if I cannot do business safely, or profitably because of taxation or regs
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2026 09:08 AM (e4I2N) 255
******
Why isn't he calling for Walz and Frey to be fired? Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:06 AM (NpAcC) When has a democrat ever called for a democrat to be fired? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:08 AM (Zz0t1) 256
3 fed judicial openings in Kansas, but Jerry Moran will not allow any right wing nominees. still have 9 vacancies in Texas, 2 in Ohio etc....
Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 09:08 AM (YCxFk) 257
Why on God’s green earth would Trump fire Noem?? Ain’t gonna happen.. she’s doing exactly what he wants. Plus she is so hot…. I forgive her for that dog…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (YobFY) 258
I would never vote, donate, or endorse a Republican who endorsed Biden in 2020
Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (YCxFk) 259
223 >Apparently, MS NOW is using an altered photo of Alex Pretti. Not sure why.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 08:34 AM (Y1sOo) --- they changed the aspect ratio so he doesn't look so much like a conehead Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2026 08:55 AM (ZxPkt) He was tanned, his face was shortened (chin and nose especially) and filled out, his smile increased, his shoulders were enlarged, his outfit was even more saturated with color - it's kinda amazing they thought it could pass as a real photo... Posted by: Nova Local at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (tOcjL) Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (gbOdA) 261
You misspelled money grubbing whore.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:07 AM (Zz0t1) I accept this correction Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (YobFY) 262
Noem is great friends with John Thune. Trump knows that
Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (YCxFk) 263
Meanwhile, it appears the Minnesota police are at least partially cooperating with the feds now. I don't want was said in those Trump phone calls but I don't think it's a coincidence that immediately after the call the police did a 180 and are now protecting the feds.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 09:10 AM (viF8m) 264
Prayers up, Donna.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 09:10 AM (/HDaX) 265
Why on God’s green earth would Trump fire Noem??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (YobFY) =================== Corey Lewandowski. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:10 AM (Ycfbw) 266
Meghan McCain takes a lot of heat here, partly because she posts on line anti-Trump statements, but mostly in defense of her father, a man Trump always criticizes because (lets face facts Meghan) her Dad was the loser of all political losers. The worst ever. But now that the hymns and readings are all finished, maybe her father's funeral is drawing to a close, and maybe she will tone down her attacks. We can hope so anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:02 AM (LdBLg) Meghan McCain has two meal tickets - not those... her father's name and badmouthing Trump. When has one of the 'elite' ever turned their back on wealth and privilege for something as worthless as truth? Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e) 267
I would never vote, donate, or endorse a Republican who endorsed Biden in 2020
Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 09:09 AM (YCxFk) This is why I banished Black Rifle Coffee. You can't tell me you're pro 2nd A and pro freedom, then donate money to the Biden campaign. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:11 AM (Zz0t1) 268
I might have missed it in the scrum this morning, but Don Surber links to a tweet by DC Draino which states:
"I find it very interesting that Tim Walz called President Trump to work with him on ICE less than 24 hours after all the 5,000+ donors to the anti-ICE domestic terror network were indexed and exposed by Data Republican." Tying all the threads together, as it were. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 09:11 AM (/HDaX) 269
Take a good look at Minnesota and especially Virginia.
That is a small portion of what Democrats have in store for the country should they regain power. Posted by: Vengeance at January 27, 2026 09:12 AM (+Tpk4) 270
I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0 HOLY SH*T! Financial disclosures show Ilhan Omar’s winery investment reportedly jumped in value from $15,000–$50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024, despite NO visible winery location, NO apparent business activity, NO working phone number, and NO wine production. https://tinyurl.com/25jt8hf8 Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:12 AM (NpAcC) 271
I’m honoured to give a free year’s access to neilyoungarchives.com to all of our friends in Greenland.
Oh, so it's fine when a liberal commits war crimes. Posted by: NR Pax at January 27, 2026 09:12 AM (7xrfc) 272
No one is forgetting about Iran; but too many have downplayed how difficult it will be to topple that regime, until there is some kind of visible split in their military. They can be harassed and diminished by air, but this is a Spring 1945 3rd Reich scenario. The Iranian Regime is going down, but they can still bring about an incredible amount of death and destruction on the way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 09:12 AM (Sxl5b) 273
226 I hope this doesn't sound like a silly request, but Our dog is very sick and if you could send good thoughts his way for a quick recovery it would be appreciated....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 08:57 A ---- Not silly at all. I pray for his recovery and that he is with you for years to come. Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 09:13 AM (Vxuoa) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:13 AM (Zz0t1) 275
Thanks again to all of you
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:13 AM (VE6XX) Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:14 AM (gbOdA) 277
Indianapolis has a few day cares that are caring for much. Just saying
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 27, 2026 09:14 AM (LOZbR) 278
@ImMeme0
HOLY SH*T! Financial disclosures show Ilhan Omar’s winery investment reportedly jumped in value from $15,000–$50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024, despite NO visible winery location, NO apparent business activity, NO working phone number, and NO wine production. https://tinyurl.com/25jt8hf8 Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:12 AM (NpAcC) But, Somalia is a thiving up and coming community that we MUST sink billions of $$$$ into. She's doing god's work. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:14 AM (Zz0t1) 279
Financial disclosures show Ilhan Omar’s winery investment reportedly jumped in value from $15,000–$50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024, despite NO visible winery location, NO apparent business activity, NO working phone number, and NO wine production.
_____ Winery? Does it say winery on the forms? An oversight, it supposed to say whinery. We had a very productive year. Posted by: Ilhan Omar at January 27, 2026 09:14 AM (Dv3i1) 280
270 Financial disclosures show Ilhan Omar’s winery investment reportedly jumped in value from $15,000–$50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024, despite NO visible winery location, NO apparent business activity, NO working phone number, and NO wine production.
https://tinyurl.com/25jt8hf8 Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:12 AM (NpAcC) Not to mention alcohol being Haraam in Islam. Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 09:14 AM (6Uni8) 281
Judges are making up rules or just ignoring them altogether. That's not Trump's team losing. That's corruption.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m) What judges are not successfully doing is ruling illegal a long list of ICE actions most Leftists scream are illegal and un-Constitutional. There are websites and videos out there telling the faithful that it is illegal for ICE to: -- Detain US citizens and permanent residents for any reason. -- Use force on US citizens and permanent residents for any reason. -- Use tear gas and pepper spray on any anyone. -- Stop any vehicles for any reason -- Ask anyone for their ID or name and address -- Enter, forcibly or not, any residence without a US District Federal Judge-signed warrant, or permission of a resident. And other things. The faithful continue to intensely believe all those are blatantly illegal, despite ICE doing them forever without a Federal Court banning them, and few prominent Democrats publicly claiming they are illegal. As we here know, the Left's useful idiots and active foot soldiers are beyond reason. Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 09:15 AM (5rh/l) 282
And now the truth is starting to come out.
>>@dcopechatter · 11h >>The parents of Alex Pretti say their son quit his hospital job months ago and had shown “unusual behavior” recently. “He seemed to have joined some kind of group. We warned him two weeks ago — protest if you want, but don’t engage, don’t do anything stupid,” his father, Michael Pretti, told reporters. “He said he understood.” But it wasn’t until police pulled messages from Alex’s phone that the truth began to emerge — and what investigators found. >>It seems that Pretti's parents didn't want him participating. It seems Pretti allegedly scrubbed his social media presence one day prior to his actions leading to his death. When you make decisions based on emotions, you make poor decisions. He made bad decisions. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 09:15 AM (viF8m) 283
>>It seems that Pretti's parents didn't want him participating. It seems Pretti allegedly scrubbed his social media presence one day prior to his actions leading to his death. When you make decisions based on emotions, you make poor decisions. He made bad decisions. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 09:15 AM (viF8m) So, he wasn't even a nurse that they're pushing out all over the place......... You can't possibly hate the media enough. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:16 AM (Zz0t1) 284
Not to mention alcohol being Haraam in Islam.
To be honest most Muslims I've know have occasionally consumed alcohol. Pork is a different matter, but the prohibition on alcohol seems more....fluid so to speak. Of course the most amusing part is alcohol is an arabic word Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm) 285
178 Nothing is melting out there.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 08:44 AM (77rzZ) That's what happens when we elect the White Witch as governor. "Always winter but never Christmas." Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 09:17 AM (LxER7) 286
>>It seems that Pretti's parents didn't want him participating. It seems Pretti allegedly scrubbed his social media presence one day prior to his actions leading to his death. When you make decisions based on emotions, you make poor decisions. He made bad decisions.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 09:15 AM (viF8m I said there was more to this story Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:17 AM (VE6XX) 287
"I find it very interesting that Tim Walz called President Trump to work with him on ICE less than 24 hours after all the 5,000+ donors to the anti-ICE domestic terror network were indexed and exposed by Data Republican."
Tying all the threads together, as it were. Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 09:11 AM (/HDaX) =========================== Ah yes, the hugely valuable DataRepublican! Glad you mentioned her. So, yeah. Starting to look like foreigners are playing a key role in all of this. That's not all. I've put together a spreadsheet of 4000+ donors and their possible identities. ----- https://tinyurl.com/55e5az94 Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:17 AM (68fWW) 288
So, he wasn't even a nurse that they're pushing out all over the place.........
You can't possibly hate the media enough. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:16 AM (Zz0t1) And Good was not married to Good Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:17 AM (gbOdA) 289
To be honest most Muslims I've know have occasionally consumed alcohol. Pork is a different matter, but the prohibition on alcohol seems more....fluid so to speak. Of course the most amusing part is alcohol is an arabic word Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm) Because they're forgiven their sins at the point of martyrdom. It's why the 9/11 hijackers went out and got hammered at strip clubs the night before. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:18 AM (Zz0t1) 290
"Democrats, once they regain power, will so overreact to Trump's administration that Republican senators won't know what hit them. Fools. Have they not seen the absence of decorum, of disrespect for rules by the radical left in congress?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 09:04 AM (0YI+g) " oh, they see it ... some are jealous, others get a funny feeling in their underwear from it. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 09:18 AM (Cjt/F) 291
And Good was not married to Good
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:17 AM (gbOdA) The dyke partner referred to the deceased as 'her wife.' Didn't she? Or is that the media playing me yet again? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (Zz0t1) 292
oh, they see it ... some are jealous, others get a funny feeling in their underwear from it. Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 09:18 AM (Cjt/F) Mmmmm.......Melania's underwear....... Posted by: The FBI at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (Zz0t1) 293
Financial disclosures show Ilhan Omar’s winery investment reportedly jumped in value from $15,000–$50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024, despite NO visible winery location, NO apparent business activity, NO working phone number, and NO wine production.
https://tinyurl.com/25jt8hf8 Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:12 AM (NpAcC) But, Somalia is a thiving up and coming community that we MUST sink billions of $$$$ into. She's doing god's work. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:14 AM (Zz0t1) --- I'm starting to think that "Somalia" is as fictional as Middle Earth or Atlantis. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (ESVrU) 294
They are a broken people.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 08:39 AM (Zz0t1) We're all broken. The bigger problem is they want to break YOU. Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (cxiKi) 295
Step 1. Assume the media is lying to you.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (Dv3i1) 296
>>To be honest most Muslims I've know have occasionally consumed alcohol.
If you are ever in Dubai over a weekend you will seem Muslims from all over the region out at restaurants and bars drinking. They pop down for the weekends, put on western clothes and presto, their devout rules about alcohol become a bit more relaxed. Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2026 09:20 AM (viF8m) 297
Soooooo ... this guy, Pretty, was a nut. total mess
and his parents were like "la la la let's ignore this" probably his whole life welp there's a lot of this out there, sadly also - Donna - I hope your puppy is ok! praying for you guys! Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:20 AM (emBoF) 298
295 Step 1. Assume the media is lying to you.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (Dv3i1) ====== But never about the storm of the century, right? Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO) 299
Who are you quoting?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 27, 2026 08:40 AM (/HDaX) One of the linked articles from American "Thinker" Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 09:20 AM (cxiKi) 300
@realDonaldTrump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire
@Sec_Noem Notice how the Left never calls for the immediate termination of Patel or Bondi? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (KhyP1) Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (VE6XX) 302
Sounds like Pretti joined a cult.
Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (Q+gd/) 303
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember, a Greenland man don't need him around, anyhow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (68fWW) 304
3 fed judicial openings in Kansas, but Jerry Moran will not allow any right wing nominees. still have 9 vacancies in Texas, 2 in Ohio etc....
Posted by: Jonah at January 27, 2026 09:08 AM (YCxFk) ****** This is ridiculous. Even with the majority in the Senate we don't have enough to get Trump's judges through? Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (NpAcC) 305
Step 1. Assume the media is lying to you.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (Dv3i1) Valid. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (Zz0t1) 306
We're all broken. The bigger problem is they want to break YOU.
exactly three dots and what I see personally with the very stringent leftists around me is they externalize when they should be focusing on their ACTUAL AT-HOME problems! like Pretty's fam their personal lives are SUCH a mess, they have major issues, or no lives at all. and they just externalize this is very not healthy Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (emBoF) 307
Sounds like Pretti joined a cult.
Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (Q+gd/) --- If he's on the Left, that's pretty much their thing. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (ESVrU) 308
303 Well, I hope Neil Young will remember, a Greenland man don't need him around, anyhow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (68fWW) Nobody does the old fossil Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:22 AM (VE6XX) 309
> Meanwhile, it appears the Minnesota police are at least partially cooperating with the feds now. I don't want was said in those Trump phone calls but I don't think it's a coincidence that immediately after the call the police did a 180 and are now protecting the feds.
Posted by: JackStraw ------------ Like I said, Trump gave Walz an off ramp. BPS was the "muscle" that the Feds sent into Minneapolis to bust heads. Shortly after they killed Pretti Walz called Trump "to turn down the temperature." After that phone call, look what happened. I figure Walz was basically told to get the shit under control or the BPS was going to do it for him. And he wouldn't like how they did it. Whether he rolls over on the Signal App stuff, Frey, Ellison, the Lt. Governor, etc. is anyone's guess. Presuming he even knew about it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 09:22 AM (jtM2q) 310
Sounds like Pretti joined a cult.
Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (Q+gd/) Well, he had to do something once the dancing nurses on TikTok was no longer a thing. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:22 AM (Zz0t1) 311
Notice how the Left never calls for the immediate termination of Patel or Bondi?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (KhyP1) ================ I assume that's sarcasm, because they do about every five minutes. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:22 AM (68fWW) 312
Walz Speaks With Trump — Then Immediately Misleads Public About the Facts
- I'm sure it was just a simple misunderstanding. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 09:22 AM (L/fGl) 313
I’m imagining all the Inuit in Greenland sitting back, gutteraly chanting along with Rust Never Sleeps.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 09:23 AM (Sxl5b) 314
I have not heard anybody discuss the economic impact of this mess in Minneapolis or Minnesota."
Well, the imported lutefisk business is right out.... Frankly, most "economic" data is turning out to be complete BS. Your tax dollars at work. Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:23 AM (XuXeR) 315
Pork is a different matter, but the prohibition on alcohol seems more....fluid so to speak.
The immutable word of Allah depends on what your Imam says. If he says "no booze", find a different Imam and it's all good. Ululululululu! Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:23 AM (ExV1e) 316
304 This is ridiculous.
Even with the majority in the Senate we don't have enough to get Trump's judges through? Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (NpAcC) ====== Blue chips. Both senators must agree on the nominee for the state. It's a tradition, not even a rule, and it's one of the only ways Congress exerts power over the executive anymore. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:23 AM (GBKbO) 317
I'm starting to think that "Somalia" is as fictional as Middle Earth or Atlantis.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (ESVrU) Missed opportunity to include Rhode Island. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (ExV1e) 318
What happened to the NHL?
(LifeSiteNews) — After the National Hockey League (NHL) showed trailers for HBO’s homosexual-themed series featuring glimpses of nude males engaged in graphic porn scenes on its giant jumbotrons during games, the newly minted porn stars were invited to carry the Olympic torch as it makes its way to the Winter Games in Italy next month. Trailers for the Heated Rivalry series have been shown during multiple NHL “Pride Night” games where children were undoubtedly present. While the show avoids full-frontal male nudity, a lot of naked flesh is on display during scenes that leave virtually nothing to the imagination. Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (Dv3i1) 319
Lt. Col. Bearclaw will run for the Senate, in Florida.
"Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody." Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (5rh/l) 320
“I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education,” Florida nurse Erik Martindale recently wrote on Facebook. “I own all of my own businesses and I can refuse anyone!
OT1H, bake the cake, arsehole. OTOH, we really don’t want this psycho fcuk performing any medical procedures on anyone, namely us. Posted by: BuddyPC at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (uncTf) Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (ZxPkt) 322
314 I have not heard anybody discuss the economic impact of this mess in Minneapolis or Minnesota."
Well, the imported lutefisk business is right out.... Frankly, most "economic" data is turning out to be complete BS. Your tax dollars at work. Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:23 AM (XuXeR) ======= From what I understand, Minneapolis cratered after 2020's riots and hasn't even really begun to recover. The only people left in the city are those who can't move and those who won't move because they love social justice so much that they enjoy the smell of burning tires. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (GBKbO) 323
Going to a protest armed is one thing.
Going to a protest armed where you plan to assault cops though is insanity. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm) *sobs* Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (cxiKi) 324
So there’s probably a video somewhere out there of Pretti in a “dancing nurses of covid” performance… remember that nonsense?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (/iXAp) 325
Notice how the Left never calls for the immediate termination of Patel or Bondi?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (KhyP1) Probably because the DOJ doesn't have anything to do with what's going on at the moment and the left knows that they can depend on you to do their work for them. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (ExV1e) 326
My guess for what happened with Pretti...
He was not doing will in his medical career and was radicalized online. Nurse stuff is boring, "saving Democracy" is exciting. If they do a deep dive on his posts on the leftist forums he was on they should be able to identify if he was hoping for "martyrdom by cop", if he was planning to assassinate someone and chickened out, or if he was just stupid in bringing a gun. Because it is...bizarre that you'd plan to go and assault a cop trying to make an arrest while armed. The RKBA protests the left immediately compared this to feature armed protestors...not getting physically involved with cops. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (sKqQm) 327
@realDonaldTrump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire @Sec_Noem Looks like Fetterman's Lump has lost control again. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (iJfKG) 328
(LifeSiteNews) — After the National Hockey League (NHL) showed trailers for HBO’s homosexual-themed series featuring glimpses of nude males engaged in graphic porn scenes on its giant jumbotrons during games, the newly minted porn stars were invited to carry the Olympic torch as it makes its way to the Winter Games in Italy next month.
Which arenas did this? I haven't heard anything around here about such blasphemy at NHL games. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (Zz0t1) 329
But, Somalia is a thiving up and coming community that we MUST sink billions of $$$$ into. She's doing god's work.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:14 AM (Zz0t1) ****** I just want Ilhan Omar thrown out of Congress or put in prison. Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (NpAcC) 330
323 Going to a protest armed is one thing.
Going to a protest armed where you plan to assault cops though is insanity. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm) ====== There was no protest. Fat lady tried to get in DHS's faces. Petti tried to stop DHS from reacting to fat lady. It was just interfering in law enforcement while armed and expecting them to treat you like you are falsely accused of jaywalking. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:26 AM (GBKbO) 331
Going to a protest armed is one thing.
Going to a protest armed where you plan to assault cops though is insanity. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm) The left is so miserable, suicide by cop is a viable alternative. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:26 AM (Zz0t1) 332
the internet informs me (hah!) that Somalia's GDP is $13.9 billion per year. Between stealing in Minnesota, California, Ohio and anywhere else that has a Somali population here in America, it almost looks like the entire country depends on running fake child care centers.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (68fWW) 333
"Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody."
Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (5rh/l) Since Florida has fair elections (thanks DeSantis) Vindman is gonna get crushed. Popcorn please Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (/iXAp) 334
327
@realDonaldTrump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire @Sec_Noem Looks like Fetterman's Lump has lost control again. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (iJfKG) ======== Fetterman spends most of the time talking about how much he loves trannies, dude. Fetterman is a leftist who just doesn't want to call Republicans Nazis. That's all he is. He still believes everything the left pushes. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (GBKbO) 335
The dyke partner referred to the deceased as 'her wife.' Didn't she?
Or is that the media playing me yet again? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:19 AM (Zz0t1) not married Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (gbOdA) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (L/fGl) 337
“I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education,” Florida nurse Erik Martindale recently wrote on Facebook. “I own all of my own businesses and I can refuse anyone!
Funny the left doesn't take this stand with abortion or the clot shot. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm) 338
333 "Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody."
Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (5rh/l) Since Florida has fair elections (thanks DeSantis) Vindman is gonna get crushed. Popcorn please Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (/iXAp) ====== Senate elections drive turnout to presidential levels. Moody will win by at least 15 points, but Vindmann will raise at least $10 million for the effort. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:28 AM (GBKbO) 339
******
I just want Ilhan Omar thrown out of Congress or put in prison. Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (NpAcC) I want her accounts seized, her citizenship revoked and her ass chained to the bay wall of a C-130 and flown back to Somalia where she's kicked out during a short field touch and go. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:28 AM (Zz0t1) 340
333 "Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody."
Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (5rh/l) Since Florida has fair elections (thanks DeSantis) Vindman is gonna get crushed. Popcorn please Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (/iXAp) Can he even win the primary there? Fat white male? I think he only wants another few minutes of fame on MSNOW. Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 09:28 AM (5rh/l) 341
The only people left in the city are those who can't move and those who won't move because they love social justice"
You're may be more correct than you know. Once did a project w/a firm then in Downtown... still in touch w/a couple of folks, and they say just that - the city is virtually a hollow shell, literally falling apart at the seams. Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:28 AM (XuXeR) 342
What would the world be like without Islam? ‘Without Muslims, Europe Would Be Centuries Behind’ I don't get it. Do you mean "centuries behind" like the current slate of Muslim countries are behind most assuredly as they are now? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (xG4kz) 343
ugh that Heated Rivalry nonsense
it's putting me off Letterkenny for good! I'm trying to ignore it, Season 5 of Shoresy comes out February 21 Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (emBoF) 344
Good morning!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (0yjaw) 345
"NASA Set to Launch First Manned Moon Rocket in 50 Years"
Dear God, please keep the crew and everybody else involved safe. Amen. Posted by: gp at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (N8ZBc) 346
341 The only people left in the city are those who can't move and those who won't move because they love social justice"
You're may be more correct than you know. Once did a project w/a firm then in Downtown... still in touch w/a couple of folks, and they say just that - the city is virtually a hollow shell, literally falling apart at the seams. Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:28 AM (XuXeR) ====== I follow a guy on X who moved from Minneapolis to San Antonio after the riots. His enjoyment of the destruction of the city from the inside is palpable. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (GBKbO) 347
336 Glass half full medicine.
Cancer Could Possibly Protect Against Alzheimer’s Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (L/fGl) Shooting oneself in the head prevents Athlete's foot! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (x0n13) Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (cxiKi) Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (emBoF) 350
>>I have not heard anybody discuss the economic impact of this mess in Minneapolis or Minnesota."
One would hope these hotels could sue the riot funders for repair costs. Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (0yjaw) 351
The Mohammedans Pastism is almost as bad as Progressives Presentism.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (gbOdA) 352
everyone left in Minneapolis is getting govt money
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (emBoF) 353
323 Going to a protest armed is one thing.
Going to a protest armed where you plan to assault cops though is insanity. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm) ====== There was no protest. Fat lady tried to get in DHS's faces. Petti tried to stop DHS from reacting to fat lady. It was just interfering in law enforcement while armed and expecting them to treat you like you are falsely accused of jaywalking. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:26 AM (GBKbO) —— He just wanted to date her Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (gY5ZL) 354
What would the world be like without Islam?"
I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company... Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (XuXeR) 355
"Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody."
Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (5rh/l) ======================== Isn't he the one who announced he wanted to be Defense Minister of Ukraine? Or was that the other dough-boy? Anyway, he reminds me of a Waugh character, a former Emperor of Abyssinia now opening doors at a London hotel. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (68fWW) 356
ugh that Heated Rivalry nonsense
it's putting me off Letterkenny for good! I'm trying to ignore it, Season 5 of Shoresy comes out February 21 Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (emBoF) I tried to give Letterkenny a chance. I really did. It's.....not good. Shoresy on the other hand.......I anxiously await Season 5. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1) 357
Alexander Vindman announced on Tuesday he is running in the president's home state of Florida as a Democrat seeking to oust Republican Senator Ashley Moody." Posted by: Gref That district must be awash in pastry shops. Pastry shops that offer purchase packages in dozen item quantities. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:31 AM (xG4kz) 358
Scary art up!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2026 09:31 AM (RoI99) 359
We needed a national address from Trump weeks ago to 1. remind the people how we got to this point (Biden's betrayal of the border and his calculated immigration deluge) 2. call out the Left and their seditions (both historically, i.e., to corrupt and overthrow the West and its core premises of liberty, property rights, rule of law, and currently to secure their infrastructures of fraud and franchised illegal alien voter base, and 3. declare his plan for dealing with them and these issues. Job Number One of any president is educating and exhorting the public to your righteous case. Unfortunately he's been fairly obsessed with foreign affairs, and he and all of us are paying the price.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (WHfpM) 360
@realDonaldTrump: I make a direct appeal to immediately fire
@Sec_Noem Looks like Fetterman's Lump has lost control again. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:25 AM (iJfKG) ======== Fetterman spends most of the time talking about how much he loves trannies, dude. Fetterman is a leftist who just doesn't want to call Republicans Nazis. That's all he is. He still believes everything the left pushes. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (GBKbO) Well...now be fair. It's tough for a blob of lipids to overcome a blob of libtard neurons. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (iJfKG) 361
357 That district must be awash in pastry shops. Pastry shops that offer purchase packages in dozen item quantities.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:31 AM (xG4kz) ====== Statewide senate race. It's one of the most obvious scams of a campaign in years. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (GBKbO) 362
Weird ART up
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (VE6XX) 363
NOODlum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Blue Wave 2026 at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (5Yz+T) 365
everyone left in Minneapolis is getting govt money"
Well, no. Maybe. Sort of. It's an interesting (well, at least to me) scenario. Remember about 15-20 years ago all of those "life after people" shows? This is along those lines, but with a few people - most of whom are unable to actually build in this world. Little more than camp followers, actually... Posted by: man at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (XuXeR) 366
Absent Islam I would guess most of the Middle East would currently be some flavor of Orthodox Christianity.
Likely then the story of the middle ages/Renaissance is no longer a conflict between Christians and Muslims but instead Catholic and Orthodox and probably less violent - perhaps more of a race between the two sides to explore/colonize/evangelize the world instead of as many major wars as there were. Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (sKqQm) 367
He just wanted to date her
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 27, 2026 09:30 AM (gY5ZL) Maniac white knights for maniacette. A tragic love story. Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (iJfKG) 368
I tried to give Letterkenny a chance. I really did. It's.....not good.
it's weird. .. I dragged myself thru it all and by the end, it kind of grew on me like a fungus but "Glen" - so gay. he gayed up the whole entire show SO MUCH. It was hard women are weird about gay man stuff btw. in the Dark Ages I helped some pledges with a treasure hunt and they had to find "odd porn." one guy found gay porn and I was like, maybe don't try to hand this is. (he got his ass beat when he did) the other girlfriends helping were all super into those mags. I was like WTF THIS IS DISGUSTING. women! I don't get them. Heated Rivalry proves I'm an outlier Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:33 AM (emBoF) 369
>>>the internet informs me (hah!)
Sort of like the internet telling us the business jet in Bangor, Maine crashed while taking off in "heavy snow." (not correct) Posted by: one hour sober at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (Y1sOo) 370
If you are ever in Dubai over a weekend you will seem Muslims from all over the region out at restaurants and bars drinking. They pop down for the weekends, put on western clothes and presto, their devout rules about alcohol become a bit more relaxed.
--- I honestly don't know why any of the lay muslims follow any of the religion. I mean, as I understand it, none of them are going to their heaven. Under their rules, it's like a few hundred thousand who get in--if that slot isn't taken first by the martyrs. So it's down to either kill yourself for islam or you're going to hell. There is no faith option for heaven. And absolutely no repentance option. But then you have the Buddhists-- be a good person and maybe, or not, your next life will be better, or not. And they're like, "yes, let me shave my head, become celibate and subsist off of rice!" Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (HXT0k) Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (emBoF) 372
Isn't he the one who announced he wanted to be Defense Minister of Ukraine? Keeev wants me Lord, I can't go back there. Keeev wants me Lord, I can't go back there. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (xG4kz) 373
304 This is ridiculous.
Even with the majority in the Senate we don't have enough to get Trump's judges through? Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 09:21 AM (NpAcC) Mitch the Bitch is insisting on keeping the Blue Slip practice alive. Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 09:35 AM (6Uni8) Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (cxiKi) 375
370 I honestly don't know why any of the lay muslims follow any of the religion.
I mean, as I understand it, none of them are going to their heaven. Under their rules, it's like a few hundred thousand who get in--if that slot isn't taken first by the martyrs. So it's down to either kill yourself for islam or you're going to hell. There is no faith option for heaven. And absolutely no repentance option. But then you have the Buddhists-- be a good person and maybe, or not, your next life will be better, or not. And they're like, "yes, let me shave my head, become celibate and subsist off of rice!" Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 27, 2026 09:34 AM (HXT0k) Because if they don't, their Imam might declare a fatwa on them and have them killed. Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2026 09:36 AM (6Uni8) 376
From the article -
The trailer features many close-up shots of the two men locked in an embrace. Photos showing the graphic nature of the NHL-approved trailer frequently pop up on social media after games. And this is the only link they provided - https://tinyurl.com/btxhfzba Must follow my own advice, don't trust the media. Did a quick glance on X to search, can't tell for sure but there are a few discussions about Heated Rivalry and the NHL, it absolutely is a thing. But not sure if the pic in the link above is real or photoshop and I haven't seen posts with pics of gay sex on arenas' Jumbotrons. (insert Paolo joke here) Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 09:38 AM (Dv3i1) 377
Glass half full medicine.
Cancer Could Possibly Protect Against Alzheimer’s Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 09:27 AM (L/fGl) Shooting oneself in the head prevents Athlete's foot! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 27, 2026 09:29 AM (x0n13) Excising both kidneys prevents most urinary tract infections. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 27, 2026 09:39 AM (g8Ew8) 378
Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J. 🙏
Office of the first lady Presidential Message on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The White House International Holocaust Remembrance Day Press Statement, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State --- Al Jazeera, January 26, 2026 - Podcast, The Take: Minnesota, ICE and the makings of a US civil war A 2024 simulation found US civil war could be triggered by clashes between state and federal law enforcement. United States federal immigration raids continue in Minnesota, and the operation has set the stage for a standoff between state officials and the federal government. Governor Tim Walz has readied Minnesota’s National Guard, while the Pentagon has ordered troops to be on standby. A 2024 University of Pennsylvania simulation warned that similar state-federal standoffs could escalate into broader armed conflict. Claire Finkelstein (@COFinkelstein), Center for Ethics and Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania BTW, ^ begam showing up a few days ago, i.e., Facebook Shaun King; Futurism dot com; Instagram Guardian US, etc. The Left really does think such events out in advance. Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 09:45 AM (NFX2v) 379
Pretti got that Death Angel look. Good thing he went off when he did. Probably saved a lot of lives.
Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2026 09:47 AM (LHPAg) 380
"While the reason for the Arnold and Itkin-connected jet being in Maine remains unknown, it is notable that immigration is a major field of practice for the law firm, and Maine has seen significant U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the last two weeks."
It was in Maine to refuel for a transatlantic flight, so the better question is where was it going on the other side of the pond, and for what purpose? I sincerely hope that the victims died a mercifully quick death without great suffering. It is impossible not to consider whether they were bound for the UK (or France) in order to learn about applying to the U.S. the same immigration policies that are destroying the societies of those countries! Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 27, 2026 10:07 AM (FpP3s) 381
NBC 10, Philadelphia, January 24, 2026
Shapiro responds to anti-ICE protesters outside Philly library event Saturday The protest occurred on Saturday after a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis by federal agents. In part, "The Philly protesters specifically called on Shapiro to stop giving "ICE full access to state databases with facial recognition data without judicial warrants," as well cooperation among the department of corrections and ICE, among several other demands. "Our state police does not ask people their status, and we do not share any of that with the federal government," Shapiro said at the event, which was for his new book, "Where We Keep the Light." ... "Governor Shapiro has made clear that everyone is welcome in Pennsylvania, no matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or who you pray to," (Will) Simon (Shapiro's spokesperson) said. "He will continue to stand with Pennsylvania’s immigrant communities." --- Seriously? Presidential potential serving all of the country? Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 10:09 AM (NFX2v) 382
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman (D), the former National Security Council aide who helped trigger Trump’s first impeachment, announced his Senate campaign in Florida on Tuesday to challenge GOP Sen. Ashley Moody.
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 10:39 AM (RHGPo) 383
Mob who stormed Cities Church told kids their parents were 'Nazis' who were 'going to burn in Hell': affidavit
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 10:56 AM (RHGPo) 384
A Utah mom accused of kidnapping her four children and taking them to Europe because she was convinced the world was ending has been arrested after the kids were found dumped in an orphanage.
Her ex-husband, Kendall Seymour, has flown to Europe to rescue his kids — who are there with another American child also taken with them, he wrote in an update on his fundraiser on Sunday. Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 10:57 AM (RHGPo) 385
>>> 320
== OT1H, bake the cake, arsehole. OTOH, we really don’t want this psycho fcuk performing any medical procedures on anyone, namely us. Posted by: BuddyPC at January 27, 2026 09:24 AM (uncTf) The timwalzes who announce this are not as dangerous as the psychos who *don't* tell you their intentions. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 11:06 AM (ULPxl) Daily Tech News 27 January 2026Top Story
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Good morning. If that's your thing.
Posted by: spug bugman's milquetoast morning greetings at January 27, 2026 04:03 AM (AqM0I) 2
Morning!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 27, 2026 04:05 AM (BLOW1) 3
G'Day
Its Monday already, isn't it? Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 04:05 AM (Ia/+0) Posted by: Tuna at January 27, 2026 04:11 AM (lJ0H4) 5
Good morning! Gonna be another chilly day here in Cowtown. The grandkids spent the night so we'll need to figure out how to keep them busy since there's no school today.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 27, 2026 04:16 AM (3Ope8) 6
Guten morgen, horde A♠
Posted by: clarence at January 27, 2026 04:17 AM (jgwdN) 7
Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 27, 2026 04:21 AM (sAmhv) 8
If its Tuesday its a Bonus
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 04:25 AM (Ia/+0) 9
There are two wolves inside you. One has a structured settlement. The other needs cash now.
Posted by: Chief J.G. Wentworth 10
"Their internet experience includes credible journalism (e.g., The New York Times, BBC) ..."
Haha, no. G'morning, Horde. Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 27, 2026 04:54 AM (O7YUW) Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 27, 2026 04:56 AM (sAmhv) 12
At least a fairly close job today
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0) 13
@FenelonSpoke/96(yesterday's tech news): "Do you speak in a Scottish accent too? How much snow did you get?"
No on the accent. About a foot to a foot and a half. The piles of snow from people snowblowing and shoveling it are getting to quite the height. (I'm going to have to be very careful to watch for kids playing on those and sliding down those as I approach their stops on the bus.) Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 27, 2026 05:04 AM (O7YUW) 14
we'll need to figure out how to keep them busy since there's no school today.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 27, 2026 04:16 AM (3Ope Shoveling snow! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 05:08 AM (Zv8bq) 15
g'mornin', 'rons Posted by: AltonJackson at January 27, 2026 05:10 AM (tljrc) 16
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 27, 2026 05:04 AM (O7YUW)
I think we got over a foot. I hadn't thought of being aware of kids sliding down the mountains of snow. I will tell spouse that. They have a two hour delay today. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 05:12 AM (Nx5jP) 17
This afternoon I will continue to chip away at the mini glacier the condo's snow removal folks left in front of my parking spot. I'm effectively trapped. I've been using old golf clubs I haven't gotten rid of to chip the ice. Glad I procastinated getting rid of them. The shovel is very good at SNOW, not small glaciers.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 27, 2026 05:13 AM (sAmhv) 18
As a teenager, made some extra money shoveling out driveways
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 05:14 AM (Ia/+0) 19
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 27, 2026 05:13 AM (sAmhv)
Sorry about that. Can you complain to your condo or they won't do anything? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 05:17 AM (Nx5jP) 20
I shoveled yesterday, today we take to the streets
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 27, 2026 05:19 AM (jrgJz) 21
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 7 cold degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor.
About 2-3 feet of snow over Sunday and yesterday. I'm too old to do more than shovel out a path for the dogs, so I hired someone to do the front and side doors and the driveway for $100 bucks and a bottle of Bushmills. From a distance, it looks as if the weather is going to be a repeat of 2015, where we had snow every weekend through February. I am so glad I transferred to working from home. I would have had to be up at 2sm yesterday in order to drive to work. About 30-odd minutes of work ahead, so I will take care of that and see you on the Morning Report. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 27, 2026 05:23 AM (ufSfZ) 22
Neighbor’s kid got 150$ for shoveling about 400sqft of snow.
Posted by: Accomack at January 27, 2026 05:23 AM (T8bqm) 23
Psalm 117
1 Praise the Lord, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. 2 For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 05:24 AM (Nx5jP) 24
Owner is an older woman who lives in Jersey. He was out all Sunday and made bank.
Posted by: Accomack at January 27, 2026 05:24 AM (T8bqm) 25
Posted by: Accomack at January 27, 2026 05:24 AM (T8bqm)
Glad to hear some kids are still doing that. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 05:26 AM (Nx5jP) 26
Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 27, 2026 05:26 AM (bQ4nt) 27
Evening and morning on this Tiu's Day in a bitter January (or perhaps an overheated one, in the case of Pixy). I'm seeing 29 F. this morning. When I headed to bed last night, I turned the central heat down a bit too much. It was 60 inside when I got up!
Last night on the ONT, I see, you were talking about "borrowing a cat" to handle a mouse problem. I've never done that. But my mother did. When she was living in an apartment with her cat Sparky a few years before I was born, she told me, her upstairs neighbor was a portrait photographer. He had mice. So she loaned him Sparky, who cleaned the rodent problem up quite neatly. In return she got an excellent portrait of Sparky: a black shorthair cat with a small tuft of white on his chest. She kept that framed pic on a shelf in the house until she passed away more than thirty-five years later. I wish I'd kept it when I cleaned her apartment out. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:27 AM (wzUl9) 28
Greetings from the Carolinas. Not the worst winter weather. Clear sky and bright sunshine for the rest of the week. Still cold.
I don’t pay much attention to the Moge on the Big Muddy. I have Walz derangement syndrome. Very detrimental to my quality of life. Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 27, 2026 05:28 AM (zqeQL) 29
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:27 AM (wzUl9)
Nice story. Thanks. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 05:29 AM (Nx5jP) 30
19 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 27, 2026 05:13 AM (sAmhv)
Sorry about that. Can you complain to your condo or they won't do anything? Posted by: FenelonSpoke My responsibility. They clear the roads within the community, the parking space is mine. The fact that in the process of clearing the roads, they blocked my spot with a mini glacier, well, bummer. I'll just chip away at it later, and shovel them over a hill. (shrugs) Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 27, 2026 05:31 AM (sAmhv) 31
Good Morning all. Hope everyone is safe and warm. 15 degrees here in western NC, may break 40 today. Still iced in and no relief in site. Be careful shoveling that snow.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 27, 2026 05:31 AM (t7DqA) 32
Kindly people in Indiana crowdfund for a new truck for an elderly man with a broken down old truck:
https://tinyurl.com/43abkume Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 05:32 AM (Nx5jP) 33
Heatwave here today. Expected high of 32. Currently 8.
Posted by: olddog in mo at January 27, 2026 05:34 AM (bQ4nt) 34
In low teens but still and clear
Have a great day horde Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 05:35 AM (Ia/+0) 35
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026
* Nice story. Thanks. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 *** I had lots of family and "when I was in nursing school" stories from Mom, but almost none from my father. Many times I heard the tale of how as a boy he had his bike stolen outside the movie theatre downtown and had to walk several miles to get home, but not much beyond that. He was a . . . secretive . . . sort of person. I knew he was an accountant (really a bookkeeper), but I had no idea where he worked. Though he did complain about the commute out along Hwy. 90 East to get to the NASA Michoud facility when he worked there for a time in the early Sixties. But that was not his longtime job. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9) 36
Kindly people in Indiana crowdfund for a new truck for an elderly man with a broken down old truck:
https://tinyurl.com/43abkume Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 *** That's the impression I got from Evansville area people when I was there, that they would do things like that. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:36 AM (wzUl9) 37
Super belated BOING!
Too much shopping with Mrs. BD! Partly cloudy and hazy in Jerusalem, comfortable at around 59F Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 05:38 AM (UUvzi) 38
Best tool I had for scraping and chipping ice was a floor scraper from HD.
NYC is a great place for people who work for money and can live cheaply or scammers looking for marks. It is a jungle. Posted by: Accomack at January 27, 2026 05:41 AM (T8bqm) 39
Partly cloudy and hazy in Jerusalem, comfortable at around 59F
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 05:38 AM (UUvzi) And snowing and -20 in Gaza! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 05:42 AM (Zv8bq) 40
27 Evening and morning on this Tiu's Day in a bitter January (or perhaps an overheated one, in the case of Pixy).
Not so bad today. A scorcher yesterday though. Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 27, 2026 05:44 AM (BLOW1) 41
Can't shovel ice here. Probably break out the weed torch though and clear the driveway to make it accessible for the kids to come pick up the grandkids.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 27, 2026 05:45 AM (3Ope8) 42
“ Praise the Lord.[a]
Praise the Lord, my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. Psalm 146:1-2 Posted by: Marcus T at January 27, 2026 05:45 AM (zfkPG) 43
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:36 AM (wzUl9
Is that where you are thinking of relocating to-Indiana? Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 05:46 AM (ix8EF) 44
High today is expected to be around 48 and sunny; freezing again tonight, then 50s as highs until Saturday. Maybe I can go work out tomorrow afternoon and Friday.
Today I need to venture out for some dry chow for the cats, and a few other things. Perhaps I'll be smart this time, buy the big bag (close to $20), then put about six scoops -- two meals' worth -- into a plastic bag as an emergency reserve. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9) 45
And snowing and -20 in Gaza!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 05:42 AM (Zv8bq) You know, the circles actually do get colder the farther down you go. Posted by: John Milton at January 27, 2026 05:49 AM (06Hmj) 46
Is that where you are thinking of relocating to-Indiana?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 *** Near there, Fen; possibly Owensboro, KY, which is a few miles west of it and on the southern bank of the Ohio river. Stories I was told indicate that IN's electricity rates have gotten ridiculously high thanks to a new power company. Owensboro people had no such complaints. I expect houses in both places, and farther north in places like Terre Haute, are built to handle cold weather, unlike houses in Da Swamp. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:50 AM (wzUl9) 47
You know, the circles actually do get colder the farther down you go.
Posted by: John Milton at January 27, 2026 *** Better to reign in hell and all that, you know. ( -- A certain big-time fallen angel) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9) 48
Oops; Owensboro, KY, is a few miles *east* of Evansville. If you go west, you are in Illinois before you know it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9) 49
Better to reign in hell and all that, you know.
( -- A certain big-time fallen angel) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9) I didn't vote for 'im! Posted by: Random Demon # 5,347,103 at January 27, 2026 05:54 AM (06Hmj) 50
Better to reign in hell and all that, you know.
( -- A certain big-time fallen angel) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 * I didn't vote for 'im! Posted by: Random Demon # 5,347,103 at January 27, 2026 *** "Democracy"? What in all of my home is *that*? ( -- A certain big-time fallen angel) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9) 51
"Democracy"? What in all of my home is *that*?
( -- A certain big-time fallen angel) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9) Democracy is Cerberus and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Posted by: Larry Flint's Shade, regretting his fondness for certain vices at January 27, 2026 05:57 AM (06Hmj) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2026 05:59 AM (iMotb) 53
Lovely pictures and a very nice version of "Amazing Grace" sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir:
https://tinyurl.com/2btm8d5h Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 06:00 AM (ix8EF) 54
And it's almost time to slop the feline hogs.
I hope the little gray shorthair who stops by my front door for handouts found a warm place to sleep. We suspect he has a human home, but he was out last night. I was low on the dry food I give my two -- so he got the good stuff, some Friskies canned. I can't understand people who "put the cat out" at night. Maybe in a small community and in good weather, but here there are too many feral hoomans -- and coyotes have been seen too. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9) 55
"Writing and revising complex federal regulations can take months, sometimes years. But, with DOT's version of Google Gemini, employees could generate a proposed rule in a matter of minutes or even seconds, two DOT staffers who attended the December demonstration remembered the presenter saying."
My opinion about this shifts back and forth, but since I believe that a lot of Federal workers are biological LLMs, I don't think you can end up with something much worse than the status quo. I'd offer the option of reducing the size, scope, and power of the federal government as a counter-balance where you might actually be able to obtain and only use the "best of the best of the best" (whatever that actually means in reality) to steer the federal ship, but I cannot perceive a reality where that could actually happen. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 06:03 AM (A/zT2) 56
Interesting conversation with a family friend up in B'More, yesterday.
It's very cold up there, and after Maryland shut down many electrical generation plants, folks are shocked to find out that their electric bills are going up. Yup...nobody saw that coming. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2026 06:06 AM (iMotb) 57
It's interesting about the vibe coding.
Around here, we sometimes look at code we wrote 10 years ago and comment how horrible it is. With AI we can get horrible unreadable code right now! Posted by: QT3.14159 at January 27, 2026 06:06 AM (mPXLU) 58
It's not only the feral govt. which is infested with "biological LLMs." I've discovered when I call to order something or get in touch with tech support, if the call center is located in Lousy-ana or a lot of the Deep South states, I often get a mush-mouthed "Whatchoo want?" attitude. If I call some place in the Midwest or the northern plains, the staffers actually speak English, are pleasant to talk to, and know their jobs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9) 59
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)
Pynchon went out for possibly three seconds yesterday and got hit with snowflakes and came right back in. Today it's 7 degrees and he was out for a shorter time. He the peripatetic cat- in the evening moving around from our room, to son's room to arm of a chair downstairs. Today we're supposed to feed fixed stray cats. I don't even know if that guy has cleaned out his driveway. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 06:10 AM (ix8EF) 60
My current book about the private lives of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh is swiftly degenerating into trash. I'll stick with it until the Gone With the Wind anecdotes are over.
The publisher, Blood Moon, even announces at the back of the book that they are applying "today's tabloid standards to classic old-time Hollywood." I was not aware that tabloids had standards. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:12 AM (wzUl9) 61
I bought one of those propane weed burners thinking it would be just the thing for melting small icy patches. It didn’t seem to do anything.. And I wasn’t impressed with its weed killer roasting abilities. Impressive flame, but a more useless tool I can’t think of.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 06:13 AM (tE2Wy) 62
Pynchon went out for possibly three seconds yesterday and got hit with snowflakes and came right back in. Today it's 7 degrees and he was out for a shorter time. He the peripatetic cat- in the evening moving around from our room, to son's room to arm of a chair downstairs.
Today we're supposed to feed fixed stray cats. I don't even know if that guy has cleaned out his driveway. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 *** This gray fellow, who knows us by sight and comes running for his handout, is not fixed as far as I can tell. His short coat makes it clear he's still equipped. He's not a big cat, so I hope he doesn't get into any fights with anything bigger and meaner than he is. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:15 AM (wzUl9) 63
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at January 27, 2026 06:26 AM (2Ez/1) 64
Vibe coding doesn't get out from having to deal with unanticipated edge-cases which are going to crop up whether you wrote it or the AI did. You're better off dealing with it in code you wrote and understand.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 27, 2026 06:28 AM (z0w8y) 65
"I've discovered when I call to order something or get in touch with tech support, if the call center is located in Lousy-ana or a lot of the Deep South states, I often get a mush-mouthed "Whatchoo want?" attitude."
A lot of that is a result of DEI hiring, IMO. (The feds have a lot of that as well, TBH, with similar results.) In the case of a company, they probably got some type of kickback from some governmental agency to hire disadvantaged people to provide the support they would like to provide in the cheapest possible manner because that ain't new sales. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 06:31 AM (A/zT2) 66
The local Fox outlet is warning us ice may be possible on your windshield this morning, and you should use the defroster plus an ice scraper. I don't think I've ever seen anybody here using an ice scraper except yours truly. Do Walmart or the auto parts stores here even carry them? Maybe Home Depot or Lowes would.
I bought mine years ago from a co-worker's spouse who handled Avon products. They actually had ice scrapers in their catalog. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:34 AM (wzUl9) 67
"I've discovered when I call to order something or get in touch with tech support, if the call center is located in Lousy-ana or a lot of the Deep South states, I often get a mush-mouthed "Whatchoo want?" attitude."
A lot of that is a result of DEI hiring, IMO. (The feds have a lot of that as well, TBH, with similar results.) In the case of a company, they probably got some type of kickback from some governmental agency to hire disadvantaged people to provide the support they would like to provide in the cheapest possible manner because that ain't new sales. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 *** True, RC. It also depends on the type of company. A product sales company often has the IQ-challenged (or at least English-challenged). An investment firm like Fidelity should do better, and in my experience they do. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9) 68
That’s the punchline of an old joke about deciding suitable locations for retirement “I’m gonna keep driving south to the point where nobody knows what that thing is”
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 06:39 AM (ayI3s) 69
G'mornin' everyone!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 06:40 AM (Cjt/F) 70
"It also depends on the type of company. A product sales company often has the IQ-challenged (or at least English-challenged). An investment firm like Fidelity should do better, and in my experience they do."
Well, investment firms skim off the top, so you hanging around is important. A company that sells you a product doesn't view you as an income stream; it views you as something that could convince others to not buy their product. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 06:41 AM (A/zT2) 71
That’s the punchline of an old joke about deciding suitable locations for retirement “I’m gonna keep driving south to the point where nobody knows what that thing is”
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 *** In my case, it'll be north until nobody knows what a crawfish is, or at least doesn't think they are worth fooling with as food. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:47 AM (wzUl9) 72
In my case, it'll be north until nobody knows what a crawfish is, or at least doesn't think they are worth fooling with as food.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 *** Me: * Shows pic of crawfish * Local: What the hell IS that thing? Me: How are house prices around here? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 06:48 AM (wzUl9) 73
"In my case, it'll be north until nobody knows what a crawfish is, or at least doesn't think they are worth fooling with as food."
I pretty much grew up in Giles County, TN. The only reason I didn't think that crawfish were not worth fooling around with as food was that I couldn't get enough of them. Frog legs and snapping turtles were a different story. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 06:51 AM (A/zT2) 74
Dell's 52" 6K ultra-widescreen monitor is a... 52" 6K ultra-widescreen monitor.
I do like the monitor specs, and it is a Dell. Currently running the Dell 43" with a pair of 30"s all in 4k, native resolution, no scaling. The dedicated monitors are good for clear demarcation of interests. That is, the center 43" is for arranging all things IDE, the satellites are for running processes in a portrait mode, and for documentation. With a single 52", one is messing around with ratios of screen to split and Windows aren't good enough with their suggested apportionment. Also, the 30"s are at angles because even on the 43" the corners are far away and older eyes need to adjust focus. Few desks are as clean as the advert photo since people stash their phones, beverages, rubber ducks, whatever on the desk surface which obscures bottom portions of low hovering screens. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 06:55 AM (a4flb) 75
it's kinda too bad, in a way; I think I might find vibe coding fun, (once, maybe), but it's been decades since I've done more than a hundred or so lines for an Arduino project here & there.
seems like going after flies with a 1911 lol, talk about first world problems, non-vibe-coding angst, amirite? maybe a cup of coffee ... Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 27, 2026 06:55 AM (Cjt/F) 76
Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 06:51 AM (A/zT2)
Crawfish are fun! And a crawfish boil is a delightful social event. As for frog legs? Tasty! But I have never tried snapping turtle...what is it like? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 06:55 AM (Zv8bq) 77
Morning peeps
7 degrees this morning. Wind chill's in the negatives. Cat's are unhappy. Wasn't that long ago the temperatures wouldn't have bothered me as much. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 06:57 AM (qwVdq) 78
My FIL was mainland Chinese, from Sichuan. When we visited his home province in 1998, his family tried to shock the white guy with local delicacies. When they offered frog legs, they were astonished when I mentioned that I had eaten them as a young lad and would enjoy doing that again.
I ate a lot of frog legs on the trip until we left Sichuan province. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 06:58 AM (A/zT2) 79
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in L.A. has lost every case it brought to trial against a protester who allegedly attacked a federal LEO last year. A number of other cases were dismissed or rejected by grand juries.
Historically, fed prosecutors do not lose at this rate. ------------------------------- Steven Miller reposted this tweet, originally from a right side reporter in LA, condemning the massively underreported jury nullification going on. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 06:59 AM (//n4s) 80
"I've discovered when I call to order something or get in touch with tech support, if the call center is located in Lousy-ana or a lot of the Deep South states, I often get a mush-mouthed "Whatchoo want?" attitude."
I'm more intrigued by customer support via AI. Voice reco is improving to the point where one can ask Gemini, Siri or CoPilot to help with a problem and the AI agent searches company manuals, FAQs and reddits for solutions and returns a more coherent and patient experience. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 06:59 AM (a4flb) 81
Frogs legs? My old man loves those, I think mainly for the shock value.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:01 AM (//n4s) 82
Food! I found an incredibly delicious bread in the grocery. Caramelized onion. Gruyere with a dash of thyme. This could become addictive.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 07:01 AM (0KSrI) 83
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in L.A. has lost every case it brought to trial against a protester who allegedly attacked a federal LEO last year. A number of other cases were dismissed or rejected by grand juries.
TBH, many of us fantasize about the exact same thing when it comes to street justice as it was handled back in the day. Peeping Tom spying on your daughter? The men in the neighborhood would give the pervert a tune-up in such a manner where today the ministers of such street justice would be bankrupt in civil court a/o jailed. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 07:02 AM (a4flb) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:03 AM (tgvbd) 85
> he U.S. Attorney’s Office in L.A. has lost every case it brought to trial against a protester who allegedly attacked a federal LEO last year. A number of other cases were dismissed or rejected by grand juries.
Historically, fed prosecutors do not lose at this rate. ------------------------------- Steven Miller reposted this tweet, originally from a right side reporter in LA, condemning the massively underreported jury nullification going on. ============= The judicial coup continues apace. This is going to be a really big problem for the administration moving forward. Zero consequences for the left. They've got to make an effort to get the judiciary under control. SCOTUS ain't gonna do it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 07:04 AM (qwVdq) 86
Frog legs are delicious. I have a source for domestic production and not the crap that comes from China.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 07:04 AM (0KSrI) 87
7 degrees this morning. Wind chill's in the negatives. Cat's are unhappy. Wasn't that long ago the temperatures wouldn't have bothered me as much.
Unless you have a heat-pump, in which cases all you can think about is the utility bill as the "auxiliary heating" kicks in. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 07:04 AM (a4flb) 88
7 degrees this morning and the forecast says we have shot at hitting a high today of 16 degrees. Winter.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:04 AM (//n4s) 89
Little Big Man from 1970 with Dustin Hoffman is on Movies! I've read the novel, but never seen the film. In it, Chief Dan George (whom we would know later from Outlaw Josey Wales) has the line "Today is a good day to die." That and "There is iron in the words of . . ." from OJW are pretty good film legacies to leave.
Richard Mulligan, later to play Burt on Soap, plays Gen. Custer in this film, and character actor Jeff Corey ("Tom Chaney" in the original True Grit) is Wild Bill Hickok. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9) 90
mornin yall. You know what's missing from the Minneapolis protests? Somalians. It appears that they are smarter that the domestic leftys defending their sorry skinny butts.
Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F) 91
This is going to be a really big problem for the administration moving forward. Zero consequences for the left.
They've got to make an effort to get the judiciary under control. SCOTUS ain't gonna do it. The country crashes if the illegals and the Left are not removed. Full Stop. Balkanization doesn't work, nor fully funding breakaway regions via Babylon DC managed wealth transfers. Sad to say, but it might just be true that the people of this nation are largely incompatible with a Constitutional Republic and the duties of both citizens and public officials are beyond the ability to perform. Remove God from society, you get what billions of people in all cultures, places and times have had to deal with - tyranny, misery and poverty. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 07:10 AM (a4flb) 92
Thus far the leftist assassins have targeted an conservative influencer (Charlie Kirk) and an officer of a big bad health insurance company.
And in both those cases, we have prosecutions in the works right now that are total tossups, in that jury nullification might come about to acquit the men charged with murder. If the left ups their game and goes into a phase they view as yankee minutemen guerillas going up against the redcoat oppressors, and starts sniper murders of ICE agents from hidey holes 200 yards out, we could see a lot of leftist heroes getting freed by juries of their whistle-blowing peers. Posted by: M. Gaga at January 27, 2026 07:11 AM (KiBMU) 93
You know what's missing from the Minneapolis protests? Somalians. It appears that they are smarter that the domestic leftys defending their sorry skinny butts. Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F) Bad: dying for your cause Better: making some poor bastard die for his cause Best: making some poor bastard die for your cause Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:11 AM (tgvbd) 94
Wolfus, you mentioned Olivier. He and Joan Plowright were married for 21 years.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 07:12 AM (0KSrI) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 07:15 AM (Nx5jP) 96
What actions have been taken against the gubmint officials involved in the Signal chat that was organized to interfere with ICE agents?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 27, 2026 07:15 AM (2Ez/1) 97
Wolfus, i recall Little Big Man (film version) because after his BIL is killed Dustin Hoffman required to service both his wife and her sister. Hey, it's their culture!
As a teenager I thought that seemed a good otcome. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:15 AM (C2m2z) 98
I'd offer the option of reducing the size, scope, and power of the federal government as a counter-balance where you might actually be able to obtain and only use the "best of the best of the best" (whatever that actually means in reality) to steer the federal ship, but I cannot perceive a reality where that could actually happen.
I dunno. For a while there, it seemed that the Globalists were seeking Plato's Republic and they envisioned rule through Philosopher Kings. Then they insisted on rule through DEI. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 27, 2026 07:18 AM (a4flb) 99
Frog legs are delicious. I have a source for domestic production and not the crap that comes from China.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 07:04 AM (0KSrI) --------------------- I'm no expert on frogs legs but I imagine your domestic source is what we would call "a pond"? Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:18 AM (Gj7Fw) 100
Huck, have had plenty from a pond but now I buy them from Citarella in NYC.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 07:20 AM (0KSrI) Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 07:20 AM (UUvzi) 102
"I'm no expert on frogs legs but I imagine your domestic source is what we would call "a pond"?"
'Free Range' Frog Legs? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2026 07:21 AM (iMotb) 103
"But I have never tried snapping turtle...what is it like?"
Well, they have multiple flavor profiles and I haven't eaten it since 1975 or 1976. My memory should be assumed to be faulty when discussing personal details; I'll write what I believe to be the case, but those words could be factually wrong even in context. I.E., I'm not trying to lie. I've eaten 2 snapping turtles that I've caught; both were in my youth. The first turtle was decapitated and hung on a clothesline to bleed out. Even after an hour (I think), the decapitated body's arms tried to push the knife used to remove the belly plate away. There's meat on the inside of the shell which is difficult to get without contamination from the intestines; a skilled person could do it, but that wasn't me. So, they are reptiles and cousins of chickens. There's dark meat and light meat. I don't remember thinking there was anything special about turtle meat. I live near several ponds; maybe I should harvest a turtle and see what I can do now that I have some idea how to cook food.... Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 07:22 AM (A/zT2) 104
Minnesota and the insurrections are turning into Trump's new Covid. Incredible to me that he's allowed this to get to this stage. Who is he listening to?
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 27, 2026 07:23 AM (WHfpM) 105
Citarella ships nationwide? How about that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:24 AM (QTJr9) 106
Wolfus, you mentioned Olivier. He and Joan Plowright were married for 21 years.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 *** Pics of her on IMDb from 1960's The Entertainer, where she starred with Olivier, show her to have been attractive rather than conventionally beautiful, with a good deal of character in her face. She won, and was also nominated once for, the acting award called the "Laurence Olivier" award. Imagine how odd it would be to win an award named for your own husband --! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:24 AM (wzUl9) 107
Now down to 19.8 degrees out.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2026 07:25 AM (iMotb) 108
82 Food! I found an incredibly delicious bread in the grocery. Caramelized onion. Gruyere with a dash of thyme. This could become addictive.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2026 07:01 AM (0KSrI) That sounds like it would be great toasted! Posted by: blaster at January 27, 2026 07:26 AM (NlEaG) 109
Take another bong hit. Illegal migration en masse has been an ongoing project for 50 years. Mr. Trump hasn’t “allowed” anything.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 07:26 AM (idVke) 110
Breakfast and coffee have been consumed. I s'pose it's time I shaved and showered.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9) 111
I've always wondered if there is any actual turtle in turtle soup. Philly long ago had a restaurant called "Bookbinders" that served great turtle soup
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:26 AM (QTJr9) 112
Won’t you think of all the poor frogs confined to wheelchairs as a result of your culinary obsession
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 07:28 AM (idVke) 113
"Soup of the evening! Beautiful soup!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:28 AM (wzUl9) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 27, 2026 07:30 AM (DDJSl) 115
Won’t you think of all the poor frogs confined to wheelchairs as a result of your culinary obsession
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 *** I recall an ancient magazine cartoon showing a legless frog wheeling himself in a little cart out of the back door of a restaurant, a sign on which proclaimed "Fresh Frogs' Legs!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:30 AM (wzUl9) 116
Oh yeah, the second snapping turtle was parboiled after decapitation. That stopped the attempts to prevent removal of the belly plate by the front legs, but did not improve the flavor.
Honestly, it seemed like a lot of work that you wouldn't do if you weren't starving. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 07:30 AM (A/zT2) 117
Some lady tried to take a picture of a Snow Leopard and it in turn tried to rip her face off. People aint got no sense.
Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F) 118
Honestly, it seemed like a lot of work that you wouldn't do if you weren't starving.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 *** Which pretty much describes my attitude toward crawfish boils. My DNA includes plates and silverware, and sitting indoors in comfortable temperatures. To me, being outside in savagely hot weather to peel little red-black insectoids for a flake of meat smaller than your fingernail is not worth it. I think crawfish boils are merely a socially-sanctioned way for adults to play with their food. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:33 AM (wzUl9) 119
Philly long ago had a restaurant called "Bookbinders" that served great turtle soup Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:26 AM (QTJr9) There were two. Old Original Bookbinder's (established by Samuel Bookbinder and later bought by the Taxin family) and Bookbinder's Seafood House (established by Bookbinder's grandsons). Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:33 AM (tgvbd) 120
"Honestly, it seemed like a lot of work that you wouldn't do if you weren't starving.
My dad tells of eating turtles and squirrels and such. His dad knew how to hunt and fish for their dinner. Otherwise they would have starved. Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F) 121
Some lady tried to take a picture of a Snow Leopard and it in turn tried to rip her face off. People aint got no sense.
Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 *** Miss Linda always asks me, "Wouldn't you like to see a mountain lion out in the wild?" I say, "Sure, if he's on the other side of a canyon and can't reach me!" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (wzUl9) 122
Steven Miller reposted this tweet, originally from a right side reporter in LA, condemning the massively underreported jury nullification going on.
============= The judicial coup continues This is going to be a really big problem for the administration moving forward. Zero consequences for the left. They've got to make an effort to get the judiciary under control. SCOTUS ain't gonna do it. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 07:04 AM aware ----- Jury nullification can come from sympathetic people on the jury or from intimidation of the people on the jury. Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (k4dYt) Posted by: r hennigantx at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (gbOdA) 124
JJS is here!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2026 07:34 AM (wzUl9) 125
"Honestly, it seemed like a lot of work that you wouldn't do if you weren't starving."
That applies to frog legs as well; although in either case, you'd make soup out of you didn't consume. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 07:35 AM (A/zT2) 126
Honestly, it seemed like a lot of work that you wouldn't do if you weren't starving. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 That's my attitude to lobster and crab. Anything where you have to wear a bib to eat it isn't likely worth the effort. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:35 AM (tgvbd) 127
I’ve read the stories. Dad hands son a single.22 cal Short.. “Go git dinner, boy!”
Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 07:36 AM (idVke) 128
There were two. Old Original Bookbinder's (established by Samuel Bookbinder and later bought by the Taxin family) and Bookbinder's Seafood House (established by Bookbinder's grandsons).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 07:33 AM (tgvbd) ---------------- Horde Knowledge (TM) is truly amazing! Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:38 AM (gDbHk) 129
"My DNA includes plates and silverware, and sitting indoors in comfortable temperatures."
A google search of "Razzoo's Cajun Cafe" may square that circle for you after you leave Louisiana. (I assume THAT search while you are in Louisiana would result in a "WTF is wrong with you, bitch?" response.) Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 07:43 AM (A/zT2) 130
The Brits are regretting approval of China's new "super embassy", with more floors underground than above.
They just discovered China has been hacking and recording all their leaders cell phone calls for years and the new embassy runs right alongside the buried cables carrying data and landline calls for The City and Canary Wharf, the two main business sections of London. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 07:48 AM (A5m1a) 131
"My dad tells of eating turtles and squirrels and such. His dad knew how to hunt and fish for their dinner. Otherwise they would have starved."
My grandparents didn't come from rich folks. And they predated the current "let mommy government present her teats while daddy government fucks what he finds pleasurable" thing we have. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 07:49 AM (A/zT2) 132
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You know what's missing from the Minneapolis protests? Somalians. It appears that they are smarter that the domestic leftys defending their sorry skinny butts. Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F) ----- Minneapolis police are also missing the protests. Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 07:55 AM (ZNcI8) 133
[blockquote]The Brits are regretting approval of China's new "super embassy", with more floors underground than above.
[/blockquote] Almost anyone who wasn't royalty and was competent left Britain at least a century ago. I hope there are those who took an oath and believed that it was binding on both sides realize that they were the only ones that viewed that oath as binding that will be willing to leave their homeland to the occupying vermin for now. Not sure where they will go, since there is a lot of occupying vermin everywhere. Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 08:00 AM (A/zT2) Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 27, 2026 08:05 AM (A/zT2) 135
In retrospect, it made sense. Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not. Respect for structural integrity there is not. Respect even for neighboring patterns there was not.
AI writes code like H1B Indians do: terribly. Posted by: Naqamel at January 27, 2026 08:40 AM (lG+7p) 136
On AI and the regulations, something I thought of is that AI is really good at producing writing that has low information content per word. It really hit me when I was helping out with a training some big wigs were doing at our site, and when our team of mixed locals and big wigs went to write up our final report, the big wigs were all in on doing it with AI. It really struck me how they turned a couple sentences worth of information into several different formats of report.
Ultimately I think the solution is to focus on putting more information in per word, because it just wastes everyone's time to have low information content writing. This is also built in the direction I was going as a teacher before switching careers: every teacher has their syllabus at the start of the year, and what I realized was that if you did the default paragraphs that everyone does, no one will really read it. What worked much better was to present the information as bullet points, so only the useful information with no wasted extra verbiage. Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at January 27, 2026 09:32 AM (J3QMA) 137
w00t late
Posted by: m at January 27, 2026 11:49 AM (SSiCQ) Overnight Open Thread [01/12/2026][Photo courtesy of Weasel Studios, ©2026] Gazing up into the night sky seems elemental, for reasons I do not understand. Perhaps it is the wonder of the vastness of the universe that attracts us, or maybe just that it is simply beautiful! We have a fair amount of light pollution (what a silly phrase), so while we can see the beauty of the heavens, it is nothing like looking up during a cold dark night, far from the lights of a metropolitan area. Sadly, our fixation with modern phones and the admittedly impressive cameras built into them have made photos such as the one above a rarity for most people. I am sure many of you have tried to take photos of the moon with your phones, and it simply does not work! I love the South! ![]() [Hat Tip: TC] Once upon a time, there was a marine biologist who absolutely loved dolphins. He'd been fascinated with them since childhood, so marine biology was a natural field for him, and he spent almost all of his time researching, swimming with, and playing with dolphins. He grew to love many of his dolphins and consider them his family. But there was a problem. Dolphins, like humans, are subject to the ravages of aging, growing feeble and infirm as they get older, until they inevitably died. But dolphin lifespans are much shorter than human lifespans, so as the years went by, the biologist saw dolphins that were very dear to him grow old, become too weak to frolic, and die, and it broke his heart every single time. He never got used to seeing one of his beloved dolphins pass away and leave forever, and he determined to do something about it. His research became increasingly focused on finding a way to keep dolphins from aging. And finally, after decades of experimentation, he achieved a major breakthrough. But again, there was a problem. He developed a serum that could completely halt the effects of aging in dolphins, allowing them to theoretically live forever in perfect health. But the major ingredient of his formula was a paste made from the ground-up bodies of baby hatchlings of a certain rare species of seagull. In fact, that particular species of seagull was so rare that it was considered critically endangered and had the strongest level of protection. Interfering with these birds, especially their chicks, was strictly forbidden and heavily punishable. So there was nothing he could do to help his dolphins. Until one fateful day. On that day, one of his dearest, most beloved dolphins (a female with whom he had a very special and unique relationship) died of old age. Grief-stricken, the marine biologist decided that the law could go to hell, and that saving his dolphins was much more important than some stupid endangered seagull. He loaded a truck with empty cages and, in the dead of night, drove to a beach that had a nesting colony of these seagulls. He worked through most of the night, going from nest to nest, grabbing any baby birds he could find, and locking them in cages in the back of his truck. Just about an hour before sunrise, he had loaded up his truck with all he could carry and started the long drive back to his laboratory where he could grind up the chicks and make his serum. Unfortunately, it was late, and after working through most of the night he was tired and unfocused, and by the time he saw the animal lying in the road, it was too late. The biologist caught a glimpse in his headlights, and to his surprise it was a lion, who had been relaxing peacefully in the road before the biologist ran him over. A state trooper saw the whole thing. He pulled the marine biologist over, and arrested him for transporting underage gulls across a staid lion for immortal porpoises. Take 'Em Away, by Old Crow Medicine Show. ![]() ![]() I am not a Dead-Head...I saw enough of them while living in Berkeley! They would invade for several days while The Dead played The Greek Theater, and the behavior of those lunatics was a powerful impression of how not to love a band! But I do like some of their songs, and Ripple is my favorite. If JackStraw is around, he can tell you why The Dead are popular in his neck of the woods. Here is John Mayer's version that he sang at some memorial to Bob Weir. I apologize for the vile people in the background! ![]() [Hat Tip: TC] This is fascinating, both as a glimpse into the complexities of building high-quality barrels, and the skill and attention to detail of a master craftsman. ![]() AoSHQ may trigger convulsions and projectile vomiting in some new readers. Please use vomit bag in seat pocket. Knives are to be sheathed at all times unless written waiver is received by our attorneys. Ace and cobloggers specifically disavow all responsibility for content. We are not responsible for any injury, including chafing. Disabling ShowerCamTM is a violation of the terms of use. ©1998 AoSHQ LLC. contact us @ acepimp@geocities.com Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: morigu at January 26, 2026 10:00 PM (gInLa) 2
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Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 10:01 PM (n2vmh) 3
morigu? I don't believe I've seen you in these parts previously. Let me tell you about a little tradition... Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 10:01 PM (n2vmh) 4
I coulda been a contenduh!
Posted by: buddhaha at January 26, 2026 10:01 PM (IMmiQ) 5
Ball Of Fire
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:01 PM (m24qK) 6
Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2026 10:02 PM (cYBz/) Posted by: mindful webworker - classic style at January 26, 2026 10:02 PM (OJSFI) 8
Yay, ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 26, 2026 10:03 PM (lUFok) 9
Good evening morons w grazie CBD
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2026 10:03 PM (RIvkX) 10
Bojangles is awesome.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 10:03 PM (lpTXP) 11
So, we stood down in Minny? Not sure what Trump's doing, but he must have something planned.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:03 PM (uQesX) 12
Gavin Newsom is the avatar for the modern Democrat party.
Unaccomplished. Dull. Excellent at rote memorization. Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX) 13
So, we stood down in Minny? Not sure what Trump's doing, but he must have something planned. Posted by: OrangeEnt =========== Way down in the willow section of the cafe thread, 8th Circuit tells DHS they can pepper spray protestors to their heart's content. I imagine that may have entered the conversation with Walz and Frey. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 10:05 PM (n2vmh) 14
What does the T in T-shirt stand for?
The shape? No, but good guess. Tyrannosaurus, because of the short arms. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 10:06 PM (S/Y4j) 15
I just found out that "Atrocity Exhibition" was flipped. Bernard Sumner played bass; Peter Hook played guitar.
Sumner was competent; Hook wasn't, lol. Martin Hannett the producer made Hook's crashing noise on guitar to form an atmospheric background. This is a Stephen Morris track. The drum makes this one work. Well that and Ian Curtis' poetry. Closer really was an album for the eternal. Posted by: gKWVE at January 26, 2026 10:06 PM (gKWVE) Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 10:06 PM (pXTL4) 17
What's the best practical joke you have been involved with, either the culprit or the victim? I have two Dodge Charger R/T cars, a red one and a blue one. I long conned an asshole at workmfor 18 months that I had two grey ones and was color blind. The week the asshole was rotating out was Christmas party week, and he asked if there was anything he could do. I handed him my key fob and asked him to get the plates and cups out of my blue one. The look of betrayal on his face was priceless. Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 26, 2026 10:06 PM (QVmho) 18
So, we stood down in Minny? Not sure what Trump's doing, but he must have something planned.
Posted by: OrangeEnt PDJT, like the Russians, doesn't take a dump without a plan. -- Zombie Admiral Josh Painter Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2026 10:07 PM (cYBz/) 19
Gazing up into the night sky seems elemental, for reasons I do not understand. Perhaps it is the wonder of the vastness of the universe that attracts us, or maybe just that it is simply beautiful!
- The scope and beauty of the heavens teaches us something about the nature of our Creator. Posted by: Methos at January 26, 2026 10:07 PM (vSvIl) 20
Gavin Newsom is the avatar for the modern Democrat party.
Unaccomplished. Dull. Excellent at rote memorization. Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX) Inept, Incapable. Queer adjacent? Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 10:07 PM (lpTXP) 21
Hello, Horde! 😊♥️🥶
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 26, 2026 10:08 PM (SRRAx) 22
Way down in the willow section of the cafe thread, 8th Circuit tells DHS they can pepper spray protestors to their heart's content. I imagine that may have entered the conversation with Walz and Frey.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 10:05 PM (n2vmh) Usually not around for the cafe thread. Only thing I've seen is the guy in charge has been pulled out and Trump talked to Swish One and Swish Two and we're backing off. I don't think anything else is going to happen. If this Signal thing is true, a lot of people should be getting rounded up right now. Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:08 PM (uQesX) 23
What's the best practical joke you have been involved with, either the culprit or the victim?
I'd prefer to not go into specifics but let's just say a set of twins were involved. Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2026 10:08 PM (cYBz/) 24
11 So, we stood down in Minny? Not sure what Trump's doing, but he must have something planned.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:03 PM (uQesX) You don't send Tom Homan when you want to stand down. You send him when you want someone you trust to tell you exactly where and how you should be applying your forces, and then make it happen. Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 10:09 PM (7DKa5) 25
Thanks for the dandy Monday Night ONT, CBD!
That moon shot up top is bewitching. We're in a dark skies neighborhood and the stars are spectacular. Loved the Far Side! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 26, 2026 10:09 PM (kB9dk) 26
If those dingoes were next to Quality Learing Center, they'd be pretty bored.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 26, 2026 10:09 PM (h/O4U) 27
Did Newsom actually pose for a photo while wearing those knee pads? Or is that AI?
If that's a real photo, he sure did make a fool of himself at Davos. Posted by: Emmie at January 26, 2026 10:09 PM (FMtrg) Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 26, 2026 10:09 PM (kB9dk) 29
CBD,
If you have certain of the more recent vinatge iPhones Pro, you have the ability to use a Zoom function that allows for lunar photos that are damn close to what you posted. You need a tripod, but I've had some good results ... not Ansel Adams quality, but good enough. Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at January 26, 2026 10:10 PM (3sXRv) 30
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 10:10 PM (sAmhv) 31
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s) 32
Nice, punny dolphin joke!
Hahahahaha! Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 26, 2026 10:09 PM (kB9dk) So, you're saying it was posted on porpoise? Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:10 PM (uQesX) 33
Nice, punny dolphin joke!
Hahahahaha! Posted by: Legally Sufficient Long, shaggy-dog setup. Very Norm MacDonald. Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov) 34
Having now taken a look at pictures of Sparkle Beach Ken and Patrick Bateman, I now think Scott Bessent is a genius. That was not some casual insult. It was a perfect capture of Newsom's soul.
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 10:11 PM (7DKa5) 35
Happy-ish Monday Evening, all y'all . . .
Posted by: Adriane the Time . . . May Not Be On Your Side Critic . . . at January 26, 2026 10:11 PM (3ZUWJ) 36
The photo is real, the knee pads are just metaphorical.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: nyuk nyuk nyuk- at January 26, 2026 10:11 PM (QVmho) 38
Gazing up into the night sky seems elemental, for reasons I do not understand. Perhaps it is the wonder of the vastness of the universe that attracts us, or maybe just that it is simply beautiful!
It reminds us that, no matter how much we know, or how much we've seen, there is always more to learn, to explore, to experience, and to do, both out among the stars and within ourselves. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (S/Y4j) Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (fhCge) 40
What's the best practical joke you have been involved with, either the culprit or the victim?
There was some snipe hunting. A friend and her pillowcase to save the snipes. She is still my friend. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (lpTXP) 41
8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of Trump admin allowing ICE agents to arrest, detain, pepper-spray or retaliate against violent anti-ICE rioters, in Minneapolis, without probable cause — Fox
Thus the phone call. Posted by: davidt Fix Bayonets Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (/lPRQ) 42
AoSHQ may trigger convulsions and projectile vomiting in some new readers.
===== I never stopped. Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX) 43
If you are talking about the Border Patrol guy, Bovino?, he has not been relieved of duties.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2026 10:11 PM (8zz6B) One story said yes, another said no. Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (uQesX) 44
Gazing up into the night sky only started seeming elemental after I moved away from the Pacific Northwest. Sky-spanning cloud layers are no more interesting at night than they are during the day.
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 10:13 PM (7DKa5) 45
So, you're saying it was posted on porpoise?
Posted by: OrangeEnt Why I otter.... Posted by: nyuk nyuk nyuk- at January 26, 2026 10:11 PM (QVmho) Calm down, or you'll have to resolve this on a log in a lake with fresh caught pike. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 10:14 PM (S/Y4j) 46
If you are talking about the Border Patrol guy, Bovino?, he has not been relieved of duties.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon One story said yes, another said no. Posted by: OrangeEnt Schroedinger's Cop. Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov) 47
"Please use vomit bag in seat pocket."
I checked the seat pocket. What I found was a baggie with the corner ripped off and a package of crumbled Captain's Wafers. Stewardess, I'd like an upgrade to first class, please? Posted by: mindful webworker - and you'll like it at January 26, 2026 10:14 PM (OJSFI) 48
SPONGE!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 10:14 PM (ULPxl) 49
26 If those dingoes were next to Quality Learing Center, they'd be pretty bored.
Posted by: PA Dutchman .............................. The Somalis would eat them. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 10:15 PM (sAmhv) 50
Fix Bayonets
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (/lPRQ) They should. Facing cold steel would make these assaulter think before acting. I nice, long WWI era bayonet. Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:15 PM (uQesX) 51
Disabling ShowerCamTM is a violation of the terms of use.
---- My shower cam came off the mount and landed in the toilet face up. You are free to watch the new perspective. Posted by: clarence at January 26, 2026 10:16 PM (jgwdN) 52
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Posted by: Blonde Morticia * gets out Super Secret AOSHQ code breaker ring* I'm no Alan Turing, so this may take me awhile. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 10:16 PM (uaYsl) 53
The Far Side was great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:16 PM (snZF9) 54
The best night sky viewing I ever did was at Ayers Rock, Australia. Second best was Big Bend State Park, TX. It used to be dark out at Scary Acres. We could see the Milky Way. But the light pollution of Austin metro has made that harder. We have to sit in the field and look south.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 10:18 PM (lpTXP) 55
@zerohedge . 12m
"Sleep Tight, America. We Got This": NatGas And Coal Power Plants Prevented Grid Collapse During Historic Winter Blast Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:18 PM (m24qK) 56
CBD, what the heck are you doing up at this hour?
Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 10:18 PM (30Gj0) 57
That Soros person/thing is evil personified.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 26, 2026 10:18 PM (fhCge) 58
That's no moon.
Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney Sorry but I'm pretty sure this trumps: https://tinyurl.com/234sppss Posted by: Fen at January 26, 2026 10:18 PM (ciYHQ) 59
It was good marine mammal pun, but I bet you can't do it again. It was just a fluke.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 26, 2026 10:18 PM (w/O5Q) 60
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Posted by: Blonde Morticia * gets out Super Secret AOSHQ code breaker ring* I'm no Alan Turing, so this may take me awhile. Posted by: Sock Monkey I think she's playing 3D Battleship. Posted by: it's submarines, all the way down at January 26, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov) 61
Regarding the reveals of the Signal comms, I was wondering when we would start to hear of the management/leadership levels being exposed of the riots.
During anti-riot training exercises back in the day, the instructors stressed that the front ranks are simply lumps and not really too important in the overall scheme of things. If it went hot, we were taught to fire into the 3rd or 4th ranks to cripple the NCO levels, and even further back to take out the officer levels of the mob. Overall battlefield command is off site. I imagine it's still the same today. Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2026 10:19 PM (cYBz/) 62
If those dingoes were next to Quality Learing Center, they'd be pretty bored.
Posted by: PA Dutchman The Somalis would eat them. Posted by: Puddleglum It is a dingo "farm." Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 10:21 PM (VHUov) 63
I imagine it's still the same today.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2026 10:19 PM (cYBz/) I was wondering why the hell we would announce it? Now, they'll just use some other method. Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:21 PM (uQesX) 64
the front ranks are simply lumps and not really too important in the overall scheme of things.
---- That is what the water cannon is for. Posted by: clarence at January 26, 2026 10:21 PM (jgwdN) 65
It's my understanding that taking a photo of the Moon on a Samsung Galaxy S21/S22/S23 Ultra phone is a breeze. Perfect shot every single time. (some of you will get this reference).
Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 10:21 PM (dIske) 66
54 The Far Side was great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:16 PM Gary Larson has clearly been to the house of TRex and Grateful. This was today's Far Side: https://tinyurl.com/3hrk9292 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:22 PM (HlyYF) 67
"Overproduced by Martin Hannett take 4"
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 26, 2026 10:22 PM (KAi1n) 68
I actually did take a really good moon pic with my phone. Its a new phone with a good camera. I had to change a million settings through trial and error, but it finally worked. It was in the past September. It was a reddish color moon. It came out with great surface details and caught the reddish color perfectly. A couple months later there was another great moon, but I couldn't duplicate what I did.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:22 PM (snZF9) 69
We emerged from the worst of this winter weather today, warmed up a bit and a good deal of the accumulated snow and ice melted. It'd going to be cold again tonight, but we should be on a path to slightly warmer and dryer.
Watching the illegal, not 1A protected assembly of pot-banging, mother-banging pot smokers imbeciles scrèeching at motels. Stupid. But dangerous. Celebrating 24,178 consecutive days of largely minding my own business and not getting shot by the cops. Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 26, 2026 10:22 PM (4b7CV) 70
I read that Trump has ordered all the federal authorities out of Minneapolis and a twenty-mile radius of the city.
It's the only way to be sure. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Posted by: mindful webworker - desperate times, desperate measures at January 26, 2026 10:22 PM (OJSFI) Posted by: Joemarine at January 26, 2026 10:22 PM (y171U) 72
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Posted by: Blonde Morticia * gets out Super Secret AOSHQ code breaker ring* I'm no Alan Turing, so this may take me awhile. Posted by: Sock Monkey +++ It just says Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. A crummy commercial. Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 26, 2026 10:23 PM (Lo97M) 73
Ha! Someone in one of the upper windows of this targeted motel just mooned the "protestors." And glipped 'em off. Pretty funny stuff.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 26, 2026 10:24 PM (4b7CV) 74
One of Andrew McCarthy's Mineral Moon shots: https://is.gd/UoGCUk Those colors are there, they're just too faint for the naked eye. Scroll through his X feed there. Lots of beautiful stuff. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 10:25 PM (w6EFb) 75
Regarding the reveals of the Signal comms, I was wondering when we would start to hear of the management/leadership levels being exposed of the riots.
During anti-riot training exercises back in the day, the instructors stressed that the front ranks are simply lumps and not really too important in the overall scheme of things. If it went hot, we were taught to fire into the 3rd or 4th ranks to cripple the NCO levels, and even further back to take out the officer levels of the mob. Overall battlefield command is off site. I imagine it's still the same today. Posted by: Tonypete The front-liners we've seen haven't exactly been management material. Posted by: pointy-haired mikeski at January 26, 2026 10:25 PM (VHUov) 76
Richard Grenell retweeted
TraderJill (Leigh)@RealTraderJill Here Are 5 Uncomfortable Facts Showing How Bad Europe is compared to America: 1. Mississippi, which is the poorest state in the entire country is now wealthier than Europe's top economies - Wealthier than the UK, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. 2. European spending power is collapsing. Disposable income for the average American is now 80% higher than UK or French citizens, and 50% higher than German citizens. 3. European counties have stagnated. Nvidia alone is worth more than Germany, France and UK stock markets combined. In a fun and zippy twist, Nvidia is worth more than the entire Canadian economy. 4. Europe has the lowest fertility rate of any continent. Using the current trajectory Europe will cease to exist in 100 years due to the failing fertility rate. 5. Europe is not competitive in anything related to high tech. Not blockchain, crypto, robotics, AI, space technology or drones. Absolutely nothing. So, when Europeans say that the United States thinks we're better than they are, they're right. We do. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:25 PM (m24qK) 77
Not aware of any "standing down" of any sort. Detention operations continue. If past examples are a guide, Bovino has made brief appearances in "surge" cities (LA for sure, I think also NOLA) but doesn't stay for the duration.
The spokesblonde at the WH today laid out very clearly the (obvious) requirements that will be enforced on the vile and farcical "leadership" in MN. Full (normal) cooperation in detaining criminal aliens, whether in custody or when they're collared. Don't have ICE's master plan but much can be discerned from the pattern so far. They have a priority list of targets in each major metro. They go after them first. They don't get all the criminal aliens in the area (LA, obviously, was fully cleaned out before surge resources moved elsewhere (NOLA, Memphis, etc). (cont) Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:26 PM (U/Byj) 78
What's the best practical joke you have been involved with, either the culprit or the victim?
It was in the computer lab at junior college but it was so context-specific that even if I could describe it adequately it still wouldn't be funny to anyone else. It was literally one of those "you had to be there" things. Posted by: Oddbob at January 26, 2026 10:26 PM (Fs0KI) 79
54 The Far Side was great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:16 PM (snZF9) ________________________________ That's the Australian version. The Netherlands version has the Stek Oost School housing next to a Syrian refugee camp. Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 10:26 PM (dIske) 80
It's my understanding that taking a photo of the Moon on a Samsung Galaxy S21/S22/S23 Ultra phone is a breeze. Perfect shot every single time. (some of you will get this reference).
Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 10:21 PM (dIske) Mine is an S25+. It took a great picture, but I don't remember how I did it. I went through a lot of settings, some were counter intuitive, but it worked. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:27 PM (snZF9) 81
What's the best practical joke you have been involved with, either the culprit or the victim?
A cow-orker had, shall we say, a delicate stomach. A bunch of us were sitting around a table at lunch. There's lull in the conversation, and one guy slides his finger into a small.plastic bag filled with peanut butter in his pocket, says, "Damn, I stepped in something ." He bends over under the table, stretches his hand toward his shoe, and comes up with the peanut butter on his finger. Looks at it, says, "Hmmm, that looks like dog shit." Sticks it under his nose, sniffs, and says, "Smells like it, too." Sticks his finger in his mouth, says, "Yeah, tastes like it." Gary didn't make it out of the lunchroom before he left his lunch on the floor. Explained the joke to him later. He was not amused. We were. If you wanted to needle him, just say, "Peanut butter." Posted by: buddhaha at January 26, 2026 10:27 PM (IMmiQ) 82
Gary Larson has clearly been to the house of TRex and Grateful.
This was today's Far Side: https://tinyurl.com/3hrk9292 Posted by: Pillage Idiot ************* Today I wished I was a dino, spent far too many hours chopping 3-4inches of ice - the result of 12+ hours of nonstop sleet. I'm sure dino's had a better way of addressing this - weren't they fire breathing? Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 26, 2026 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq) 83
Once a permissive (normal, with local PD/sheriff support for security) environment is returned, operations continue, but with zero public attention (or nearly zero). LAPD/Sheriffs AFAIK now react normally to threats to federal facilities. Ditto IL - an unremarked but to me big development a few weeks ago was when IL state police shut down the idiots besieging the regional fed facility - which constituted a near total surrender by Pritzker, by definition.
Related, DOD announced DHS would have use of Ft. Snelling in Mpls for housing and support. Why this wasn't done earlier, or at least plans ready to do it instantly if needed, I find disappointing. C-, bros. Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:28 PM (U/Byj) 84
I'm too lazy too scroll through enough to find, but Andrew McCarthy has taken some pretty good shots with just his cell phone camera. The trick is knowing all the complex settings to override the default behavior. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 10:28 PM (w6EFb) 85
74 Overnight Open Thread [01/12/2026]
Really?? I am travelling back in time!! Posted by: Joemarine at January 26, 2026 10:22 PM (y171U) Soundtrack? https://youtu.be/R4xf50aUxaE Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 10:28 PM (S/Y4j) 86
Repost from earlier....
-------- - Here's what's going down in Minneapolis; ICE goes in and does their job arresting/processing and deporting illegals. Local leftists get torqued, gin up anti-ICE protests and get national/international monetary support for it. The situation degrades. Call in Border Patrol Service. The proverbial mounted calvary. Ride in, break some shit, kill a few leftists. Be the stick. Local politicos, especially one governor who's a weirdo, gets a sternly worderd memo about FAFO. A couple days later the BPS is pulled from Minneapolis and the governor would like to talk to Trump about "turning down the heat." Walz caved. Minneapolis is restored to order by the end of the week. Else it keeps up and the retards in Minneapolis are going to hate life. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 26, 2026 10:28 PM (qwVdq) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (m24qK) 88
73 I read that Trump has ordered all the federal authorities out of Minneapolis and a twenty-mile radius of the city.
It's the only way to be sure. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Posted by: mindful webworker ................................. Finally!! youtu.be/k8EURBL53_k Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (sAmhv) 89
A great many Leftists need to simply disappear without a trace. Make sure that when their computers or phones are eventually found, there are recent searches for "non-extradtion countries".
Totally unrelated yet out of curiosity, how deep do feral hogs dig if they sense something to eat? Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (a4flb) 90
I like to buy a dingo jacket. Do any furriers carry that item?
Posted by: What's A Dingo Pelt Sell For? at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (oftw2) 91
Celebrating 24,178 consecutive days of largely minding my own business and not getting shot by the cops.
Posted by: ErikInTexas Heh, gotcha beat by 297 days. Instead of telling you to get off my lawn, I'd say, pull up a chair and sit a spell. We can make fun of the yungsters. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (uaYsl) 92
"It's not a moon."
Well, it is a moon. It just looks like the Death Star. https://youtu.be/aKC1cfBGnFk Posted by: mindful webworker - space ocean satellites of Saturn at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (OJSFI) 93
I have really had it with these "we hate America" types. Where, pray tell, is life any better than here?
Get it in your head, they don’t really “Hate America”. I mean, they don’t hate the dirt, right? They hate *you* Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (tE2Wy) 94
During anti-riot training exercises back in the day, the instructors stressed that the front ranks are simply lumps and not really too important in the overall scheme of things. If it went hot, we were taught to fire into the 3rd or 4th ranks to cripple the NCO levels, and even further back to take out the officer levels of the mob. Overall battlefield command is off site.
I imagine it's still the same today. Posted by: Tonypete Been a lot of articles by observers, some amateurs, some professional, noting just that. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 10:30 PM (/lPRQ) 95
The front-liners we've seen haven't exactly been management material.
Posted by: pointy-haired mikeski at January 26, 2026 10:25 PM To be fair, the managerial class of the Democrat Party isn't exactly management material either. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:30 PM (HlyYF) 96
If it went hot, we were taught to fire into the 3rd or 4th ranks to cripple the NCO levels
Posted by: Tonypete Good tactics. There's an aphorism that NCOs are the backbone of the Marine Corps. Probably because the Cpl/Sgt ranks are the sweet spot re the intersection of #troops with leadership skills. Posted by: Fen at January 26, 2026 10:30 PM (ciYHQ) 97
What's the best practical joke you have been involved with, either the culprit or the victim?
********8 Working the overnight shift in a psych hospital on March 31-April 1, we "created" a patient, chart and all. Even reported on him the next morning. Pure panic when they were unable to find him. For some reason, staff didn't find this nearly as humorous as we did. Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 26, 2026 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq) 98
Thanks for the ONT, CBD. That was a looooong trip to the punch line!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 26, 2026 10:31 PM (47diA) Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 10:31 PM (w6EFb) 100
Portland seems to be in a hybrid zone. PD is mostly useless, but does eventually react to attacks on fed facilities, such as the one a few nights ago. If only to catch/release a few of the worst perps. Guessing they're trying to avoid making it to the top of the ICE whiteboard. Though there surely far fewer high priority targets there than in other major metros now being addressed.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:31 PM (U/Byj) 101
Overnight Open Thread [01/12/2026]
Really?? I am travelling back in time!! Posted by: Joemarine 🎷🎶Does anybody really know what day it is? Does anybody really care? Posted by: mindful webworker - as I was floating through the park one day at January 26, 2026 10:31 PM (OJSFI) 102
One of the far side cartoons that I always remember, and I'm not sure why it hit me as funny as it did, was about some science award presentation. There was an auditorium, and a stage, and 2 dudes at the podium up on stage. The presenter and the scientist getting the award. the presenter says something like "And this years award goes to professor Melvin Fenwick, who in 1953 coined the phrase "Fools, I'll destroy you all".
Shit, i'm laughing just typing this. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:32 PM (snZF9) 103
Related, DOD announced DHS would have use of Ft. Snelling in Mpls for housing and support.
I was asking this question when Pajeet wasn't allowing ICE to stay at their Hilton/Hampton Inn franchise. Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 26, 2026 10:32 PM (a4flb) 104
A great many Leftists need to simply disappear without a trace. Make sure that when their computers or phones are eventually found, there are recent searches for "non-extradtion countries".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Maybe a more random liquidation would be more artful - gas explosion at home takes out whole family, falling out windows, passes out on dumpster and compacted by garbage truck, stabbed by crackhead during robbery... Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ) Posted by: TRex - dino review at January 26, 2026 10:32 PM (IQ6Gq) 106
@73. Trump ordered all Feds out of Minneapolis with a 20 mile radius.
Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis? A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (E7+ue) 107
Get it in your head, they don’t really “Hate America”. I mean, they don’t hate the dirt, right?
They hate *you* Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (tE2Wy) Of course. But mostly they hate God. That is a commonality I see with lefties I know. They hate God. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (lpTXP) Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (jYRYu) 109
Thanks for the ONT, CBD. That was a looooong trip to the punch line!
Posted by: LRob in OK +++ Around the world and back. Three times. Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (Lo97M) 110
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:28 PM (U/Byj)
My 2nd eldest brother has said much the same. He's a Marine (retired) and has been following all this fairly closely. He calms me down when I lose my shite! So do you! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM (Vvh2V) 111
more recent vinatge iPhones Pro,
allows for lunar photos that are damn close to what you posted.
While the zoom on my iPhone 13 isnt quite up to the task, it does take great photos of the moon through a telescope. Sadly not up to photos of Saturn or Jupiter, at least with my skills with this much light pollution. Got a decent photo of the comet going by two TxMoMes back, that I couldnt see without binoculars. I forget how long the exposure was to get it. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM (EXyHK) 112
Heh, gotcha beat by 297 days. Instead of telling you to get off my lawn, I'd say, pull up a chair and sit a spell. We can make fun of the yungsters.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 10:29 PM (uaYsl) I'll bring the beer. Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM (4b7CV) 113
If you wanted to needle him, just say, "Peanut butter."
Posted by: buddhaha -------- Ooooh, lunchrooms at work... ew. There was this one guy, kinda creepy backwoods type-- zapped *something* reeeealllly rank in the department's microwave. I was sitting with a friend when the stank wafted over, as creepy guy sat near us. Whooo... smelled like rotten fish, looked like raw beef. So I asked him: "Hey, whatcha got there?" He says: "Chicken." ***BARF!*** Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM (rdVOm) 114
Today I wished I was a dino, spent far too many hours chopping 3-4inches of ice - the result of 12+ hours of nonstop sleet. I'm sure dino's had a better way of addressing this - weren't they fire breathing?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 26, 2026 10:27 PM In my paleontology class, we learned that the tail spikes on a stegosaurus were used primarily to sweep crusty packed snow off of Late Jurassic driveways! Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM (HlyYF) 115
LIVE: Demonstration Outside Hotel Protesters Suspect Greg Bovino Is Staying At
BG On The Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1E781HJg0k Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at January 26, 2026 10:28 PM (9aVck) The whistles annoy me. I know I would be guilty of cramming one down a throat. Therefore I would have the sense to stay home by the warm fireplace. I liked how the police swarmed onto the cockroaches. Suddenly! There they were! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM (WONhk) 116
how deep do feral hogs dig if they sense something to eat?
—— I dunno, but one time somebody on a field exercise left a sealed case of MREs out in the open overnight and a hog ate a hole right through the center of the heavy duty outer sleeve, the box itself, the heavy plastic wrap, the entrée cardboard box, and the mylar pouches of the meal itself. A big muddy hole in the box, and looked like it exploded with all that packaging crap everywhere. Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:35 PM (tE2Wy) 117
In high school our chemistry teacher would often leave the classroom while we worked on assignments. One day he left class and we opened the lab bench gas valves enough so the room smelled like gas. The lookout person said, here he comes, and we all pretended like we were passed out with our heads on our desks. The teacher freaked out when he smelled gas and saw us passed out. He initially freaked out but quickly knew we pranked him and he never left us alone in class again.
Posted by: Mark in SC at January 26, 2026 10:36 PM (1rSMD) 118
* gets out Super Secret AOSHQ code breaker ring* I'm no Alan Turing, so this may take me awhile. Posted by: Sock Monkey Drink more Ovaltine. Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 26, 2026 10:37 PM (QVmho) 119
We emerged from the worst of this winter weather today, warmed up a bit and a good deal of the accumulated snow and ice melted..
Posted by: ErikInTexas Dallas here. Native but we recently moved back after 20 years in DC. I went outside this morning, noticed that NO snow removal in the 24 hours after the storm, not even the main roads. I started on a little rant on how this was unacceptable - and then stopped cold when I realized I sounded like That Yankee Guy everyone hates. Posted by: Fen at January 26, 2026 10:37 PM (ciYHQ) 120
Still haven't found what I'm looking for but
Good News NiedermeyersDeadHorse aka NDH@NiedsG . Jan 26 At 815pm, mom received her new heart. ❤️ Tomorrow starts next chapter: recovery Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:38 PM (m24qK) 121
The front-liners we've seen haven't exactly been management material.
Posted by: pointy-haired mikeski at January 26, 2026 10:25 PM To be fair, the managerial class of the Democrat Party isn't exactly management material either. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:30 PM (HlyYF) They exemplify the Peter Principle, with little competence outside of lying and following orders. The GOPe only requires lying. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 10:38 PM (S/Y4j) 122
Don't think BP presence was any sort of special pressure on the idiots. The idiot mobilization, its intensity, and the utter disgrace/absence of local LE to maintain order forced a surge of personnel for security, including Bureau of Prisons guys.
Haven't seen BORTAC (BP SWAT) there, or mentioned. The level of ICE operations will naturally decline as they work down their known target list. Probably already happening. What's distinctive here of course is the mobilization of idiots - specifically the extensive involvement (not just dereliction) of local govt. types, of course the external $$ and organization, and most disturbing (for me) the apparent misuse of license-plate database access and FLOCK (traffic) cams. Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:38 PM (U/Byj) 123
Jeez, everyone I know seems to think Pretti was a noble martyr instead of an idiot who shouldn't have been there. "But he was just trying to help!" The local broadcasts have been awful.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 10:39 PM (Kxi0p) 124
But mostly they hate God. That is a commonality I see with lefties I know.
—— I think you’re correct, now that I think about it. Same experience. Their hatred of God doesn’t affect me directly though, from a practical standpoint. Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:39 PM (tE2Wy) 125
Still haven't found what I'm looking for but
Posted by: Braenyard Have you scaled these city walls? Posted by: gKWVE at January 26, 2026 10:39 PM (gKWVE) 126
I witnessed one of the best practical jokes. But, had nothing to do with it. There was a woman in our office who was a menace. She was one of those holistic hippie types. That was fine. But, she annoyed everyone by scolding us about our unhealthy lifesyles. Critizing lunch selections, not having a crystal with us at all times. Really strange gripes overall, but incessant and persistent in her badgering.
One of my coworkers had enough and finally confronted her. He very seriously told her that crystals cloud the mind and damage neural activiity. Then he said he could prove it and proceeded to walk her around the office. He'd stop at an employee and tell them to think of a color, or animals, or number. Then he would correctly tell them what it is. He had gone around to all of us and just told us to affirm anything he said. We all did. Right every time. She was much more quiet after that. Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 10:39 PM (dIske) 127
Jeez, everyone I know seems to think Pretti was a noble martyr instead of an idiot who shouldn't have been there. "But he was just trying to help!" The local broadcasts have been awful.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 10:39 PM (Kxi0p) I think Pretti was Pretti Stupid. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 10:40 PM (S/Y4j) 128
The whistles annoy me. I know I would be guilty of cramming one down a throat. Therefore I would have the sense to stay home by the warm fireplace.
I liked how the police swarmed onto the cockroaches. Suddenly! There they were! Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM I also hate the whistles. I suspect the noise level of the protestors is well above the OSHA limit for a workplace. Causing deafness results in a serious disability. I would love to see some federal marshals grab up about 20 whistle-blowing AWFLs and charge them with THAT level of battery! Seeing a few of their ditzy friends get 10 year sentences would calm down the ardor of most of the non-insane protestors. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:42 PM (HlyYF) Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 10:42 PM (Vvh2V) 130
Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis?
A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (E7+ue) Enhanced radiation warhead? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2026 10:41 PM (8zz6B) 250,000 feral hogs for the Somalis? Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 10:42 PM (S/Y4j) 131
120 In my paleontology class, we learned that the tail spikes on a stegosaurus were used primarily to sweep crusty packed snow off of Late Jurassic driveways!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM *** You would think that tail spikes and spinal plates would guarantee survival but they were gone by the time the T-Rex arrived on the scene. Posted by: TRex - late crustaceous dino at January 26, 2026 10:42 PM (IQ6Gq) 132
My favorite harmless prank started when the Lidl chain of grocery stores arrived in the USA. They originated in Germany and now have locations throughout Europe. Whenever I have a business trip taking me to Europe (Köln, Budapest, Prague), I bring back some flyers from the local Lidl and surreptitiously leave them in the US stores. I used to do the same thing with the free Metro newspaper which also is published in multiple cities and languages.
Posted by: Otto Zilch at January 26, 2026 10:42 PM (Ws2ua) 133
Fen, our little county roads couldn't handle snow removal. It scrapes away the thin layer of gravel covering the much-beloved washboard effect.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 26, 2026 10:42 PM (4b7CV) 134
I was assuming the ICE would expand and continue their LA surge, massively - since it's probably got more high value targets than the next 2-3 cities combined.
And to support this was assuming/hoping they'd set up an "Alligator Alcatraz" at Pendleton. Good practice for the engineers - and plenty of room. Last time something this was done, AFAIK, was back in mid-70s for Vietnamese refugees (real refugees). But I guess they've addressed their detention capacity issue enough to support expected pace of operations. And the LA surge came to an end - not operations, just at that level. Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:43 PM (U/Byj) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:44 PM (m24qK) 136
Another take from randos on Twitter
Another display of Trumps incredible capacity for restraint in the service of strategy. Made more powerful by his ability to keep his enemies convinced that he has the emotional control of a toddler. I would guess they have Walz dead to rights and he doesn’t strike me as the kind of man to die for his principles. Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 10:44 PM (rbvCR) 137
I would love to live in a place where I had a view of the sky uncontaminated by city lights. I recently started trying to memorize the names and locations of the 57 navigational stars for the northern hemisphere. I'm working on Orion and the Big Dipper right now. Why? I dunno... I'm easily distracted and get focused on weird things for no particular reason.
Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 10:44 PM (pXTL4) 138
8th Circuit tells DHS they can pepper spray protestors to their heart's content.
——— Well no, they can’t spray protesters. We have to be extremely careful not to use leftist euphemisms. Pepper spray, tear gas, hickory shampoo - that stuff gets deployed in a Riot as far as I’m concerned. There is no need, after all, to hit protesters with pepper spray (or anything else). It’s easy to slip into silliness on these phrases. Sometimes you’ll hear someone on “our side” talking about “violent rioters” Is there any other kind? Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:44 PM (tE2Wy) 139
You would think that tail spikes and spinal plates would guarantee survival but they were gone by the time the T-Rex arrived on the scene.
Posted by: TRex - late crustaceous dino at January 26, 2026 10:42 PM They knew you were so terrifying that they preemptively surrendered! Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:46 PM (HlyYF) 140
The brightest Star (planet??) in the sky by far is always just a bit “north” of the constellation Orion. What is that?
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:47 PM (tE2Wy) 141
Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis?
A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (E7+ue) Enhanced radiation warhead? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2026 10:41 PM (8zz6B) One can dream... Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:47 PM (snZF9) 142
Maybe a more random liquidation would be more artful - gas explosion at home takes out whole family, falling out windows, passes out on dumpster and compacted by garbage truck, stabbed by crackhead during robbery...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ) Private jet accidents? Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 10:48 PM (uQesX) 143
>>> 148 The brightest Star (planet??) in the sky by far is always just a bit “north” of the constellation Orion. What is that?
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:47 PM (tE2Wy) Because once you get past us things move really fcking slow around the Sun. Jupiter will be there for a while... Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 10:48 PM (ULPxl) 144
The brightest Star (planet??) in the sky by far is always just a bit “north” of the constellation Orion. What is that?
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 10:47 PM (tE2Wy) Brightest star is Sirius. Follow the belt of orion south and you'll see it. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:48 PM (snZF9) 145
Jeez, everyone I know seems to think Pretti was a noble martyr instead of an idiot who shouldn't have been there. "But he was just trying to help!" The local broadcasts have been awful.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 10:39 PM (Kxi0p) He was a useful idiot they will forget after the next outrage, whoever that is. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 10:48 PM (lpTXP) 146
Oh my gosh Grateful, that was a great practical joke at work, I am still chuckling. Good to see you, I am usually here way too late to say hi.
As to the top photo, the only place in New England that allows one to view a beautiful night sky is way up in Maine, such a beautiful state. The Somalis have established a foothold there. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 26, 2026 10:48 PM (0nHVk) 147
The teacher freaked out when he smelled gas and saw us passed out. He initially freaked out but quickly knew we pranked him and he never left us alone in class again.
Posted by: Mark in SC Been funnier if he puled out a zippo, lit it, tossed it in, and closed the door Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 10:49 PM (/lPRQ) 148
147 They knew you were so terrifying that they preemptively surrendered!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:46 PM *** Common misconception. Mostly peaceful dino. Posted by: TRex - historical dino at January 26, 2026 10:49 PM (IQ6Gq) Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 26, 2026 10:49 PM (a4flb) 150
Because once you get past us things move really fcking slow around the Sun.
Jupiter will be there for a while... Posted by: Helena Handbasket T2-a3=0 Posted by: Johnny Kepler at January 26, 2026 10:50 PM (gKWVE) 151
Evening, folken,
It took me a minute to "get" the Far Side cartoon. Sometimes the best ones are like that. Still chilly here for one more night and day, then we'll have a few days of warmup, and then another freeze this weekend. Howzabout you? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 10:51 PM (wzUl9) 152
149 Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis?
A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (E7+ue) __________________________ I'm guessing quality over quanity. They likely have a clandestine apparatus that can just fit in with the crowd, can pass any inquiries from the locals, locate their target, grab them and depart. A more precise deployment under the radar. People will just start disappearing. That's going to lead to ANTIFA doing something really stupid. It would, also, be entertaining as the press falls all over themselves to try and figure out what's going on. Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske) 153
The brightest star is Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris, the Alpha Big Dawg of the sky. It's moved a bit since the time of the ancient Egyptians, but over our lifetime, it's fixed relative to Orion. Jupiter is up there close as well right now. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb) 154
Because once you get past us things move really fcking slow around the Sun.
Jupiter will be there for a while... Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 10:48 PM (ULPxl) The sun has only made 20 laps around our galaxy since its birth. Thats some shit. It takes something like 250 million years for one lap. Better not miss that bus. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 10:52 PM (snZF9) 155
[Gavin Newsom] “I think he may be in over his hairdo. Being on the national stage is very different than being governor—with no signature achievements…he brought kneepads, maybe that was for his meeting with Alex Soros.” _Scott Bessent Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:53 PM (m24qK) 156
Pretti is now a good commie, but Good isn't pretty any more.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 10:53 PM (ULPxl) 157
...and we all pretended like we were passed out with our heads on our desks.
OK, now that's frickin' funny! Even more so for the scale and coordination involved. Posted by: Oddbob at January 26, 2026 10:53 PM (Fs0KI) 158
Friend sent a WSJ slug that claims this is in fact a collapse by Trump, that the always-wrong and idiotic concern about "optics" - of course screeched by the idiotic GOP - has led him to back down.
I doubt it. Oh - not the bit about the GOP. The GOP governor of OK (OK!!!) and that congressthing Comer publicly mewled about how icky it all was, and there was a need to reconsider. OK governor - not makin this up - even talked about the need for "immigration reform". In 2026. In this context. Stunning. If there's any backing down, Trump will regret it, as will unfortunately the entire country. If a lawless state can shut down *removals of violent criminal aliens*, chances of effectively addressing 95% of the problem (non-criminal illegal aliens) drop to near zero. And that prospect already looks dim, based on tea leaves and policies. Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:55 PM (U/Byj) 159
I like to buy a dingo jacket. Do any furriers carry that item?
Posted by: What's A Dingo Pelt Sell For? ------ A few(!) years back, there was some woman who.was spinning dog fire into yarn and knitting sweaters out if it. Evidently, they were very warm,but has a major problem. When they got wet, you smelled like wet dog. Posted by: buddhaha at January 26, 2026 10:55 PM (IMmiQ) 160
My best prank in high school was filling our little concrete pond with about twenty-five 8# carp.
There were perfectly happy in there and drew a big crowd on Monday morning before school started. Unfortunately, somebody dropped a dime on me and I got called into the principal's office at lunch. His 2nd-floor office had a huge set of windows and looked out over the front of the school. As he was reading me the riot act, I could see lots of activity over his shoulder. It turned out that a bunch of Vietnamese boys were in the pond with their pants rolled up. They would catch a carp and hand it to their sister in a jacket, and they were all running up the street towards home. The principal finished with, "I want all of those fish out of there by the end of the day." I replied, "Yes Dr. Roberts, I guarantee all of those fish will be gone by the end of the day!" Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 10:55 PM (HlyYF) Posted by: ... at January 26, 2026 10:56 PM (E0p3T) 162
to paraphrase Mathers "Rabbit" in 8 Mile, Bessent may be gay but Newsom is a faggit
Posted by: gKWVE at January 26, 2026 10:56 PM (gKWVE) 163
Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 10:44 PM (pXTL4)
Have you thought about seeing if you have ADHD? No need to medicate oe anything, but that's a pretty common tell. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 10:57 PM (Vvh2V) 164
Portland seems to be in a hybrid zone. PD is mostly useless, but does eventually react to attacks on fed facilities, such as the one a few nights ago. If only to catch/release a few of the worst perps. Guessing they're trying to avoid making it to the top of the ICE whiteboard. Though there surely far fewer high priority targets there than in other major metros now being addressed.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:31 PM (U/Byj) I am told but cannot verify that the Portland Cops have a list of people they are not to contact or speak to, and should they come into contact with them they are instructed to list the encounter as something like "suspicious car" or "loose dog" the cops are reputed to not be happy about this sort of thing. Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 10:57 PM (rbvCR) 165
>>>If the protesters are nice and polite and respectful of others, leave them be. If they are obnoxious and nasty, provoke them into rioting, and then bring the hammer down hard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon -- BlueBird Busses and C-17s. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 10:58 PM (m24qK) 166
Agents (Bureau of Prisons, I think) only pointed rifles at the idiots after one idiot threw a big object and almost seriously injured one of them. Idiots scattered/ran. Hotel had already been vandalized.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:58 PM (U/Byj) 167
My two large volumes of Dave Larson's comics kept me sane (sort of) during the last two weeks of the election of President Trump One. As he beat the Hag like a rented mule in 2016.
I would be reading & snickering. Some bring me to tears that are my favorites. I love the way he draws cows. Well, & people & everything about him. On today's subject, I think MN is in for a big surprise. They don't know yet, but it's coming. I believe that Trump & Co. have it all in hand. With plans to use the information gathered against them. Other sanctuary cities should be on notice. I am also an eternal optimist. They've reached The End of The Road. I also love Alison Krauss and wth, here's one of my favorites off her new album. I had the privilege of seeing her live under the stars this past summer with my husband. One of the highlights of my year, and the first concert in decades. Her voice is every bit as strong as it was when I first heard her over 20yrs ago. Pitch perfect & effortless. Incredibly talented musicians who love each other and what they do. It shows,y'all. We were enthralled & the most polite 3k people to be together one summer night. https://tinyurl.com/5843d7kz Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 10:58 PM (WONhk) 168
Somewhere around 1998 type to text audio was kind of a new software package that was bundled with my PC. Fun to mess around with. Had a selection of different voices, male and female. What to do with it?
It took a long time, a couple hours, but I crafted a fictitious “United States Army Automated Information Systems” cold calling program and spoofed my neighbor. He was really wondering where his next duty assignment would be. Let’s fuck with him! Each oeriod after a phrase added a few seconds of time, I guessed how long it would be, spoofing how phone banks worked. “Press 1 if you wish to continue” etc. sure enough, I would hear him press the keys! Beeep. It was great. So I had dial his number, he answers. It went like: (robotic computer voice) “Welcome to the United States Army Automated Information System. Important Career Information Follows For (pause) (His full rank and name) If you wish to continue please press 1 - beep! Please enter your 9 digit social security # He does!! He’s totally thinking this is legit Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 11:00 PM (tE2Wy) 169
That's a Reader's Digest joke.
I say that in admiration, not accusation. Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 26, 2026 10:33 PM (jYRYu) It was in Bennett Cerf's Treasury of Atrocious Puns. I think Mom bought her copy brand new in 1968 Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 11:00 PM (rbvCR) 170
>>> 175 Portland seems to be in a hybrid zone. PD is mostly useless, but does eventually react to attacks on fed facilities, such as the one a few nights ago. If only to catch/release a few of the worst perps. Guessing they're trying to avoid making it to the top of the ICE whiteboard. Though there surely far fewer high priority targets there than in other major metros now being addressed.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 10:31 PM (U/Byj) I am told but cannot verify that the Portland Cops have a list of people they are not to contact or speak to, and should they come into contact with them they are instructed to list the encounter as something like "suspicious car" or "loose dog" the cops are reputed to not be happy about this sort of thing. Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 10:57 PM (rbvCR) Who would have the authority to provide such a list? Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 11:00 PM (ULPxl) 171
Wolfus, have you talked with Avery yet?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 11:01 PM (uQesX) 172
Tammy al-Thor - I don't think I have ADHD; I can focus if needed. One of my friends described me as "intellectually curious," in that I tend to want to know everything about everything. You'd think that would apply to useful things, but no, I usually get distracted by the most random things imaginable.
Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 11:02 PM (pXTL4) 173
Bessent. He is more than competent for his job and that's what I care about. He makes people crazy and that makes me happy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 11:02 PM (lpTXP) 174
Wolfus, have you talked with Avery yet?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 *** I was going to ask you about that. I sent an email over a week ago. No reply yet. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:03 PM (wzUl9) 175
Hey there DDS, great to see you in the ONT. Please tell whomever the bartender is tonight to put all of your drinks on my tab!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 26, 2026 11:03 PM (IQ6Gq) 176
You'd think that would apply to useful things, but no, I usually get distracted by the most random things imaginable.
Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 11:02 PM (pXTL4) Hi! Posted by: Squirrel! at January 26, 2026 11:03 PM (uQesX) Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 11:03 PM (Vvh2V) 178
pepper spray protestors to their heart's content. I imagine that may have entered the conversation with Walz and Frey.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 10:05 PM (n2vmh) Load up the water bombers with pepper spray and low level passes...please? Posted by: a dude in MI at January 26, 2026 11:04 PM (+I6Y/) 179
For Gary Larson fans, he still posts a couple of his old cartoons every day.
https://tinyurl.com/4w5spmzv If you follow the link, you can then put the correct url in your favorites. I go to AOS and The Far Side every day. I think I may be a double-Moron! Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 11:04 PM (HlyYF) 180
While the zoom on my iPhone 13 isn’t quite up to the task, it does take great photos of the moon through a telescope. Sadly not up to photos of Saturn or Jupiter, at least with my skills with this much light pollution.
Got a decent photo of the comet going by two TxMoMes back, that I couldn’t see without binoculars. I forget how long the exposure was to get it. Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 26, 2026 10:34 PM (EXyHK) Yeah, I had a 13, and upgraded to a 17 Pro when my battery died this summer. Now I have the ability to go to 15x, and supposedly there is a way to go to 40x, but I haven't found that function yet Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 26, 2026 11:05 PM (TTAGa) 181
I was going to ask you about that. I sent an email over a week ago. No reply yet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:03 PM (wzUl9) Hm. Usually get an answer the next day or so. I have half, so I was going to email her soon. I'll check if your email was received. Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 11:05 PM (uQesX) 182
>> It takes something like 250 million years for one lap. Better not miss that bus. lol
The error bars on that "Galactic year" are a bit wide, IIRC the range is 225 - 250 million. Since the galactic gravitational field is far from spherical and pure inverse square, that motion is not a simple Keplerian ellipse. There's is also an up and down motion, bobbing up and down through the galactic plane as it goes around. The Sun moves at 100 parsecs above or below the plane with a period of about 60 - 70 million years. And the error bars on that are even wider, I think. We're currently on the upswing. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:05 PM (w6EFb) 183
Sometimes you’ll hear someone on “our side” talking about “violent rioters”
Is there any other kind? Posted by: Common Tater Oi! Posted by: Quiet Riot at January 26, 2026 11:06 PM (VHUov) 184
The investment company who has some XPO Pension funds for me from my 1978-87 job has still not sent any paperwork about it. I called them today, almost two months since I first got in touch, and they say they are still calculating it up. I have no idea how much or little this might be. Apparently I need to call them in a couple of weeks as they suggested, and otherwise let it go for now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:06 PM (wzUl9) 185
Since it came up, I took some decent photos of the moon a while ago:
https://is.gd/cPT329 Posted by: ... at January 26, 2026 10:56 PM (E0p3T) I saw a moon awhile ago. Another fraternity brother thinking he's 19 again. Very sad. But funny as hell. Posted by: Diogenes at January 26, 2026 11:06 PM (2WIwB) 186
Someone called in sick for the night shift at the truck stop glory hole and is hanging out here instead....
Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 11:06 PM (pXTL4) 187
I'm guessing quality over quanity. They likely have a clandestine apparatus that can just fit in with the crowd, can pass any inquiries from the locals, locate their target, grab them and depart. A more precise deployment under the radar. People will just start disappearing.
That's going to lead to ANTIFA doing something really stupid. It would, also, be entertaining as the press falls all over themselves to try and figure out what's going on. Posted by: Orson Disappear the leaders of Antifa. Put out word that they were government agents and took their money and ran after dropping dimes. Sit back and watch Antifa eat each other as trust drops to zero. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 11:07 PM (zILP0) 188
We're currently on the upswing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:05 PM Only as long as we still have Trump and not the normal RINOs running the GOP. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 26, 2026 11:08 PM (HlyYF) 189
>>omeone called in sick for the night shift at the truck stop glory hole and is hanging out here instead....
------- Yep: (8umiS) Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm) 190
Time to take a break. Don't y'all say anything I'd want to read while I'm gone.
🙄 Posted by: mindful webworker - wants to read everything at January 26, 2026 11:08 PM (OJSFI) 191
A state trooper saw the whole thing. He pulled the marine biologist over, and arrested him for transporting underage gulls across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.
------------- I can even hear Muldoon groaning from here ... Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 26, 2026 11:09 PM (V+K+8) 192
186 Bessent. He is more than competent for his job and that's what I care about. He makes people crazy and that makes me happy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary --- Yeah, he pulled kneepads on Newsom. What's Newsom going to do? Call him a bigot, a homophobe? hahahahaha Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 11:10 PM (m24qK) 193
OK, time to go muck around with one of my useless distractions. Be well, Hordelings; keep your powder dry.
Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 11:10 PM (pXTL4) Posted by: gKWVE at January 26, 2026 11:10 PM (gKWVE) 195
Time to light the oven for a while.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 11:10 PM (m24qK) 196
The Sun moves at 100 parsecs above or below the plane with a period of about 60 - 70 million years. And the error bars on that are even wider, I think.
We're currently on the upswing. Posted by: publius I know a guy who can do it in 12. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 11:10 PM (zILP0) 197
Who would have the authority to provide such a list?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 11:00 PM (ULPxl) The cops and the chief work for the city. So that is where you start. Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR) 198
I wonder if it would have been wiser for the administration to bring charges against Tampon Timmy and Frey first, before ramping up ICE in MN. Nobody is even talking about the damned fraud, which is exactly what the Dems want.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 11:11 PM (Kxi0p) 199
Happy hour snacks tonight are: potstickers (with spicy dipping sauce!) and "pork & seeds"....
Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:11 PM (rdVOm) 200
Just sent an email, Wolfus.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 26, 2026 11:12 PM (uQesX) 201
Tammy al-Thor - I don't think I have ADHD; I can focus if needed. One of my friends described me as "intellectually curious," in that I tend to want to know everything about everything. You'd think that would apply to useful things, but no, I usually get distracted by the most random things imaginable.
Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 11:02 PM (pXTL4) The classic definition of a "dullard" is someone who goes to look up something in the encyclopedia, pulls out the volume, finds the correct article, reads it and makes notes, and then puts it back. Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 11:12 PM (rbvCR) 202
Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis?
A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case Who would notice? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2026 10:59 PM (pkeXY) Perhaps an enema is in order. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 11:13 PM (S/Y4j) 203
>>> 216 I wonder if it would have been wiser for the administration to bring charges against Tampon Timmy and Frey first, before ramping up ICE in MN. Nobody is even talking about the damned fraud, which is exactly what the Dems want.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 11:11 PM (Kxi0p) Think of it this way: the little twats have shown even many LIVs how far they'll go to cover their own asses. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 11:13 PM (ULPxl) 204
Hope there are some spicy Margaritas, JQ. But none for the pendejo.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 11:13 PM (lpTXP) 205
I wonder how many ELINT and observation drones they have had circling Minneapolis during the riots, this time?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 11:14 PM (rbvCR) 206
Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis?
A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case -------- A massive dose of RU486 in the water supply? Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:14 PM (rdVOm) 207
JQ, did everything work out the other night with your family member? Is he safe?
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 11:15 PM (Kxi0p) 208
Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis?
A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case Who would notice? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr You might notice this time of year. A lot of the fermentation and rot slows down at -8 F. Posted by: mikeski, chillingly at January 26, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov) 209
OK, proposal:
I would have preferred 2 feet of snow and 20 degrees to this snow and ice and 3 degrees. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2026 11:16 PM (bss/y) 210
I'm guessing quality over quanity. They likely have a clandestine apparatus that can just fit in with the crowd, can pass any inquiries from the locals, locate their target, grab them and depart. A more precise deployment under the radar. People will just start disappearing. That's going to lead to ANTIFA doing something really stupid. It would, also, be entertaining as the press falls all over themselves to try and figure out what's going on. Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 10:51 PM (dIske) I hope so. I used to train on how to do this. If not, you can bet your ass local towns like mine won't tolerate this bullshit. Vigilante time is looming. Posted by: Diogenes at January 26, 2026 11:16 PM (2WIwB) 211
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 11:11 PM (Kxi0p)
I was asking about you not long back. Nice to see you around! Posted by: ... at January 26, 2026 11:16 PM (E0p3T) 212
Hope there are some spicy Margaritas, JQ. But none for the pendejo.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary ------- ¡Sí! Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:16 PM (rdVOm) 213
Sit back and watch Antifa eat each other as trust drops to zero. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 11:07 PM (zILP0) What do you think of the possibility that Don Lemon didn't earn an arrest warrant because he is an FBI snitch? Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR) 214
Nice to see you too!
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 11:17 PM (Kxi0p) 215
The brightest Star (planet??) in the sky by far is always just a bit “north” of the constellation Orion. What is that?
Posted by: Common Tater ------ Are you serious?😁 Posted by: buddhaha at January 26, 2026 11:17 PM (IMmiQ) 216
A massive dose of RU486 in the water supply?
Posted by: JQ Be careful trying to poison us Minnesotans..... Minneapolis' used water supply winds up going down the Mississippi River. Posted by: mikeski, abortively at January 26, 2026 11:18 PM (VHUov) 217
JQ, did everything work out the other night with your family member? Is he safe?
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v ------- He was alive, in CA, as of last week. Waiting for him to be "found" again & contact me. Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:18 PM (rdVOm) 218
So it's a bit icy here In CenTex. My car's hood, windshield, and roof is covered in snow that turned into ice and is parked in my driveway that gets very little sun in the winter. Husband tells me I need to go clear my wipers/ windshield so I can get to work tomorrow morning. So I go start my car and run the defroster then start working on the outside scraping the ice off with a very soft spatula. I clear most of the ice off and jump into the car and take it around the block and park it back in the driveway. About 3 hours later my husband asks me why I parked so far back, almost in the street and blocking the sidewalk. I said I wouldn't park like that, I thought he was yanking my chain. My spawn pulled up the driveway camera and sure enough my car had slid backwards about 8 feet. I didn't park exactly when I was before and apparently was on ice... that could have ended very badly.
Oh, and my windshield is cracked from the temperature extremes of ice, heat from the defroster. And did I mention my pipes froze for a while on one side of my house last night and I woke up to no hot water??? Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 26, 2026 11:18 PM (VCgbV) 219
What do you think of the possibility that Don Lemon didn't earn an arrest warrant because he is an FBI snitch?
Posted by: Kindltot That is probably only the 17th-craziest thing I've read today. Posted by: mikeski, adjusting tinfoil hat at January 26, 2026 11:19 PM (VHUov) 220
I can't recall a practical joke, which may be weird, all things considered in my life.
I'd say some random frat boys pulled the best one on me and my then bf/now husband. I've told it before, but wth. My mother flew out for my December college graduation and finishing nursing school. It was the first time she met my future husband and visited. We were on our best behavior and picked her up at her hotel for breakfast. Then toured a bit of the city and drove to my college to show where my parent's money had been going for 2.5yrs. We rounded a corner and there it was! A 10' anatomically correct erect snow sculpture in front of a boy's dorm!!! My bf and I locked eyes in the rear view mirror (I was in the backseat; and my proper Southern mother in the front passenger seat). It was RIGHT THERE on her side of the car. I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing hysterically. He had tears in his eyes. There was dead silence for about a block. I asked her decades later what she thought and she claims she does not remember! Maybe she somehow thought a large snowman (who was circumcised). We will never forget. I almost died right there on the back seat suppressing laughter. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 11:19 PM (WONhk) 221
Posted by: mikeski, abortively at January 26, 2026 11:18 PM
---- Sorry. You know I'd want it to *only* affect the bad actors there. Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:20 PM (rdVOm) 222
OK, proposal:
I would have preferred 2 feet of snow and 20 degrees to this snow and ice and 3 degrees. Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2026 11:16 PM (bss/y) But you'll get this and be glad. https://tinyurl.com/yz8pc5xs Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 11:21 PM (lpTXP) 223
What do you think of the possibility that Don Lemon didn't earn an arrest warrant because he is an FBI snitch?
Posted by: Kindltot LOL but not a chance in fuck. He likely went in knowing he is protected. Kind of a thing among Democrats. Posted by: ... at January 26, 2026 11:21 PM (E0p3T) 224
I don't even want to take the dog out to pee, its so damn cold out. To stand in the cold to protect gangbangers and fraudsters means you're a special sort of idiot.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 26, 2026 11:21 PM (Kxi0p) 225
When and if the indictments for fraud come for the vile buffoon Walz et al, there will be plenty of attention. This week's festivities will have no effect on that.
Meanwhile, local PD deployed to protect two different Mpls hotels - a first in this disgraceful episode. Contra the idiot GOP and the WSJ, I don't think there's any backing down by the WH. Spokesblonde laid it out clearly this morning. If locals cooperate normally with ICE, then - of course - things will change. The whole reason for the scope and size of the operation in Mpls is *because of its aggressive insane "sanctuary" idiocy*. If the relevant parts of that are gone, so is the need for a "surge". Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 11:21 PM (U/Byj) 226
Christy, a friend of mine lived in the first floor of the dorms, overlooking one of the main walkways to the dorm cafeteria. One day I wrote "Frogs in Bondage" on his window in green crayon, which he was not so pissed about, except that the college president and some important alumni wandered by that afternoon and gave it a serious side-eye.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 26, 2026 11:23 PM (rbvCR) 227
In outdoor cat news, the slim gray shorthair who knows us by sight and runs to my door to get his dry food handout showed up just now. It's right at freezing out there. We suspect he has a regular home -- but if so, what are they doing letting him out on such a cold night???
I've got just enough dry food for my monsters for tomorrow morning. So I gave him the good stuff, wet Friskies. If I had a garage or a shed I'd be glad to let him shelter from the weather, but I don't. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:23 PM (wzUl9) 228
Oh, and my windshield is cracked from the temperature extremes of ice, heat from the defroster.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended Weird. If that were typical, there wouldn't be an un-cracked windshield north of Illinois. Heater/defroster full blast to melt the bottom layer of the ice is how it's done. And we do it when it's -25 F out. Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 11:24 PM (VHUov) 229
To the tune of Fiddler on the Roof's "Match Maker":
Playing with flashbangs A girl can get burned.... https://tinyurl.com/5n6jdfrx Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 26, 2026 11:24 PM (oI05U) 230
Path of Jupiter in the sky over the next 4 years: https://is.gd/qT3IIB Note the retrograde motion, back and forth. That's due to the Erf whipping around the Sun about 12 times for Jupiter's once. That's parallax afoot. And that's where parsec comes from. Parsec = parallax arcsecond. One parsec is the distance (heliocentric) of an object with a parallax of one arcsecond (you see how much an object moves 6 months apart when the earth is on the opposite side of the sun. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:25 PM (w6EFb) 231
What do you think of the possibility that Don Lemon didn't earn an arrest warrant because he is an FBI snitch?
Posted by: Kindltot That's a hard call. If he was, they could have faked the arrest and let him go later, quietly. If he wasn't, they were truly scared of arresting a reporter. I know he's not, but the optics are truly sub optimal. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 11:26 PM (zILP0) 232
Oh - and now reports of stepped up ICE activity in Phoenix tonight.
More than a week ago, either an insanely stupid, or authorized (and stlll insanely stupid) leak came out that Phoenix was soon to be the target of an ICE "surge". So maybe here it is. Cannot figure out the value of telegraphing ICE's next punch like this. But it keeps happening. Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 11:26 PM (U/Byj) 233
mikeski,
I had several dings already so it was bound to happen... Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 26, 2026 11:27 PM (VCgbV) 234
>>>up something in the encyclopedia, pulls out the volume, finds the correct article, reads it and makes notes, and then puts it back.
Posted by: Kindltot --- Your talking about a card catalog at the library, aren't you? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 11:27 PM (m24qK) 235
One of my coworkers had enough and finally confronted her. He very seriously told her that crystals cloud the mind and damage neural activiity.
—— Ha! Reminds me of a whack job eBay seller I knew of, she didn’t know my handle, but I knew hers. She had some good items, she was a good “picker” but she had a few goofy items, crystals and such that “improve your feelings of calmness and well being” and that kind of bullshit. So I write to her “Ask Seller A Question” about an item, one of the crystals. “Hey, if I don’t feel any better or one with the universe after communing with one of your crystals, can I get a refund?” “Absolutely not” was the reply. LOL! Well I had fun with her! eBay has screwy rules that do not favor the sellers, and I knew all the right buttons to push. Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 11:27 PM (tE2Wy) 236
The guy with no social media in the Cafe thread sounds like me. I'm here or nowhere ... And the name of the place is "I Like It Like That" (Dave Clark Five)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 26, 2026 11:28 PM (igRTw) 237
Hot Sake, for those who dare, LOL... Take your breath away in cold weather!
Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:28 PM (rdVOm) 238
17F here at 30 minutes before midnight. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:28 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 11:30 PM (zILP0) 240
Oh, and after all that...the boss decided to have everyone WFH again tomorrow since the schools are closed again. Still lots of ice around and another sub 20 night.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 26, 2026 11:30 PM (VCgbV) 241
lin-duh, look into freeze mizers on Amazon. You put them on outdoor faucets to drip. They are useful and made in TX.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 11:30 PM (lpTXP) 242
Oh, and after all that...the boss decided to have everyone WFH again tomorrow since the schools are closed again. Still lots of ice around and another sub 20 night.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended Our did the same. I think sometime tomorrow after lunch is when we finally get above freezing. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 11:32 PM (zILP0) 243
We suspect he has a regular home -- but if so, what are they doing letting him out on such a cold night???
——- That’s easy. They know you’re a softie, and will feed him Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 11:33 PM (tE2Wy) 244
The troll decided to speak some truth.
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 26, 2026 11:34 PM (ZdhjE) Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:34 PM (wzUl9) 246
Shirley Bassey sings "Blown Finger!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2026 11:28 PM (8zz6B) - Theme song to the movie "Digits Blow Up." Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 26, 2026 11:35 PM (oI05U) 247
Has anyone else noticed that Trace Gallagher (LA Fox guy) is wearing a SeaHawks themed tie?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 26, 2026 11:35 PM (2WIwB) 248
Weird. If that were typical, there wouldn't be an un-cracked windshield north of Illinois. Heater/defroster full blast to melt the bottom layer of the ice is how it's done. And we do it when it's -25 F out.
Posted by: mikeski -------- My windshield has a rock-chip that's starting to grow a "spider leg". I keep washer fluid in a spray bottle, out in the car, to spray ice/frost before starting up, and then keep the defrost temp fairly low. Don't want to replace that windshield *again*-- takes all day due to radar re-calibration. Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2026 11:36 PM (XeU6L) 250
BarelyScaryMary,
My outside faucets are fine. It has something to do with the one tankless hot water heater and the water line feeding it. I'm just running a faucet connected to that system on a low stream so it doesn't freeze again. Doesn't seem to happen when there is a lighter freeze but it was in the teens last night. Posted by: lin-duh is offended at January 26, 2026 11:37 PM (VCgbV) 251
Watching "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" which is an Iranian horror movie made and produced in the US. It's really good so far, with an amazing sound design (among other things).
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 26, 2026 11:41 PM (CHHv1) 252
Popping back in for a mo
In Mark Dice's latest, he does a fair job of pointing out that the Republicans and the Administration are mischaracterizing the suicide-by-ICE incident almost as badly as the Democraps and the propaganda media, which ill-serves the Truth and ICE's work. Ends with a good clip from Andrew Branca about it. https://youtu.be/gTLFPQZOnMY (This may be the first Dice video in a while where he didn't somehow skew into his tiresome anti-Israel hangup.) Okay, ducking back out again. Posted by: mindful webworker - relatively absolute at January 26, 2026 11:42 PM (OJSFI) 253
>> 7.7 deg. in A'ville
You need to get one of the weather stations so you can put it up on Wunderground. I'd love to see and compare. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:42 PM (w6EFb) 254
The second in Clifton Webb's "Mr. Belvedere" movie series is on Movies! now. As far as I know, this character, the waspish schoolteacher, is the source for the '80s TV series, though they softened him considerably for television. Webb was an unlikely movie star -- but in the late '40s and early '50s he was quite the box-office draw. This flick has a teenage or young adult Shirley Temple in it as well. No idea why the movie-going public didn't take to her as an adult; she was lovely.
Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck are up next in Meet John Doe. I wish Movies! would schedule the major classic flicks like that one in prime time more often. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:42 PM (wzUl9) 255
Check out "Wundermap" (just put that right in the search bar). Zoom in and you'll see the network of personal weather stations. You can see what it looks like in your neck of the woods. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb) 256
Goodnight Morons. Tomorrow do something I wanted to this year with my grands...blow some bubbles onto the frozen snow in below freezing temps. Fern like designs apppear on the bubbles. But it was (so far) not to be this year. We normally have snow on the ground for December and January. We tried it once last year and our toddler girl kept stomping the bubbles. The voice of an angel Alison has. And I remember someone I also cannot forget in this song. Life has been good to me. https://tinyurl.com/smsfrhak Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 11:46 PM (WONhk) 257
Oh, and my windshield is cracked from the temperature extremes of ice, heat from the defroster.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended ******* Weird. If that were typical, there wouldn't be an un-cracked windshield north of Illinois. Heater/defroster full blast to melt the bottom layer of the ice is how it's done. And we do it when it's -25 F out. Posted by: mikeski ------ I watched it happen in real time as I was driving down the freeway. BUT... I had a small crack (about an inch long) at the bottom.of the windshield. It extended up.about 5 inches, then made a right turn and ran over to the edge. Total time was about 20 seconds. I suspect that an intact windshield should be immune, but any flaw would trigger it. Posted by: buddhaha at January 26, 2026 11:46 PM (IMmiQ) 258
My windshield has a rock-chip that's starting to grow a "spider leg". I keep washer fluid in a spray bottle, out in the car, to spray ice/frost before starting up, and then keep the defrost temp fairly low. Don't want to replace that windshield *again*-- takes all day due to radar re-calibration.
Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:36 PM (rdVOm) safelite repairs safelite replace. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 11:47 PM (snZF9) 259
I dozed off during the episode of Deep Space Nine's fifth season we were watching on DVD. This was the second one tonight. One is apparently all I can handle at a time. The series had a lot to recommend it, but when they start gabbling about religions on the local planet and mysticism centering on Sisko, my brain drifts off.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:49 PM (wzUl9) 260
Well shit fire, now 15F. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:49 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 11:49 PM (m24qK) 262
Since it came up, I took some decent photos of the moon a while ago: https://is.gd/cPT329 Posted by: ... ============= Those are neat! Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 11:50 PM (T8f42) 263
It's forty degrees in Big Timber Montana.
What's up with that? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 *** The entire country's heat rose and drifted up there? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:51 PM (wzUl9) 264
safelite repairs safelite replace. lol
Posted by: Berserker -------- Already had "chip repair" but it's not staying repaired, LOL. Replaced windshield once already-- had a chip, got chip repair... and then sun came out on a frigid day... CRACK! When it finally grows across my viewing area, I will get it replaced. Again. Sh@tty thin glass, grrrrrr.......... Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm) 265
23 degrees in BFE, TX. Faucets dripping.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 11:52 PM (lpTXP) 266
If I were a Medical student at the University of Minnesota, and it was demanded of me to support “Indigenous Ways of Healing” I’d simply demand the hottest babe on campus be presented to me, and we need to fuck right now to ensure a bountiful harvest, a good hunt and keep the evil spirits away, etc.
Every day several times a day, for at least a week or so should be most efficacious. Posted by: Just Sayin at January 26, 2026 11:53 PM (tE2Wy) 267
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 11:50 PM (T8f42)
Thanks Blondie. I was hoping someone would like... Posted by: ... at January 26, 2026 11:54 PM (E0p3T) 268
That seems to check out for Big Timber. Every so often, you'll notice a station that is obviously way off, malfunction, or someone doing something stupid. If a station looks odd, compare to the all the closest stations you can find on the map there. Expect some local variation, but not something ridiculous. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:54 PM (w6EFb) 269
S'pose it's time for me to head off to bed. The big black cat will probably wake me in time for the Tech Thread, darn him.
Cold or no cold, I need to run out tomorrow for some dry chow for the cats and maybe to grab a few other items for me. Maybe get a hot coffee and a croissant at a coffee shop while I'm out. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:55 PM (wzUl9) 270
Tortilla
Nachos Amigos Que pasa Posted by: TACO at January 26, 2026 *** Paso Por Aqui Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, ------ Cerveza por favor. Donde es banos? Posted by: buddhaha at January 26, 2026 11:55 PM (IMmiQ) 271
Evening all.
Posted by: Joyenz at January 26, 2026 11:55 PM (2F0/Y) 272
>> I took some decent photos of the moon a while ago:
Very nice. And you can see the subtle hints of the colors there, too. The "mineral moon" colors. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb) 273
Mpls PD/Hennepin Sheriff apparently actually doing their job tonight, protecting at least one hotel - but not sure where it is.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2026 11:56 PM (U/Byj) 274
536yb35y56 Posted by: Blonde Morticia Let's see... carry the 2, check what the 'y' operation is... D.R.I.N.K.M.O.R.E.O.V.A.L.T.I.N.E ...a crummy commercial! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2026 11:57 PM (xG4kz) 275
Turns out while my snowbower was living in the shed for the last 2 years some bastard mouse built a nest in the airbox. Didn't think about it. I test fired it a few days before the storm and it fired up. Today while digging out it dies at the end of my frigging driveway and I had to drag it back up to the garage. I figured let me check the spark plug and see if it gets spark. I had to pull the cover on the airbox to get to the spark plug which also holds the on/off switch. I see the nest, and the little fuck ate the insulation off the wires going to the on/off switch, so during vibration they touched and killed the frigging motor. I had to vacume out the airbox, then take the plug off the switch and shrink tube the wires and it fired right back up. My brother thinks I'm Caligula because I lay waste to mice instead of trapping them and releasing them. This is why. Fuck them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 11:59 PM (snZF9) 276
DogeDesigner@cb_doge . 5h
Meta Whistleblowers say WhatsApp private chats can be read by the company, despite promises of end to end encryption. A lawsuit filed in US court claims Meta misled billions of users worldwide into believing their messages were fully private. -- No, this can't be. Meta nee Zuckerberg can't be trusted, shocked to the core I am. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:01 AM (m24qK) 277
My brother thinks I'm Caligula because I lay waste to mice instead of trapping them and releasing them. This is why. Fuck them.
Posted by: Berserker --------- Hail, Caligula! If you can't have a cat, snap traps are the next best thing... Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 12:02 AM (rdVOm) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2026 12:03 AM (XeU6L) 279
Wonder what he is planning to drop on Minneapolis?
A big stink bomb? Posted by: Case Well, here's one thing: @WomanDefiner State police are bringing in LRAD's now to clear the protesters. All the agencies from Minnesota are here. Trump absolutely won. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 27, 2026 12:03 AM (mlg/3) 280
Private chats aren't private? Next you'll be saying it's bad idea to get violent with LEOs .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 27, 2026 12:05 AM (lpTXP) 281
Hail, Caligula!
If you can't have a cat, snap traps are the next best thing... Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 12:02 AM (rdVOm) Snap traps kick ass. I mod them to make them super sensitive. None shall pass, lol. My neighbor's cat takes great interest in patrolling my yard. I don't ever see mice around here. The shed is in a far corner of the yard. Once I do a pole barn that shed is getting detonated. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 12:06 AM (snZF9) 282
Turns out while my snowbower was living in the shed for the last 2 years some bastard mouse built a nest in the airbox.
--------- Heh. Hauled my generator out post-Helen. After previous use I had run/drained carb dry,drained the tank,and left the fill cap off. Discovered (before filling!) that mouse had constructed a shoebox sized nest inside. The inside was gummy with rodent urine/feces. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2026 12:07 AM (XeU6L) 283
The series had a lot to recommend it, but when they start gabbling about religions on the local planet and mysticism centering on Sisko, my brain drifts off.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 26, 2026 11:49 PM (wzUl9)“ I enjoyed those episodes, because they were ST going in a direction the previous series never explored much, and they did a decent job with it. Fun trivia: the Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn was previously Nurse Ratchett. Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 12:07 AM (Sxl5b) 284
jon del arroz is claiming that Paramount is not renewing StarFleet Academy.
But they already have season 1 in the can and season 2 is in production so, I dunno. Posted by: gKWVE at January 27, 2026 12:08 AM (gKWVE) 285
Here is the best version of Ripple I have ever heard by far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705xVHMgBZA Posted by: Ripley at January 27, 2026 12:08 AM (PTDkx) 286
Louise Fletcher was a brilliant actress.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 27, 2026 12:09 AM (gKWVE) 287
Garak was my favorite DS9 character. And then Morn. He was a man of few words but I enjoyed his presence.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 27, 2026 12:09 AM (lpTXP) 288
Prank: a sales manager from corporate was visiting a branch back east. The local salesmen meet him at his hotel the next morning. They saw he had a white rental car so they told him a local radio runs a daiIy promotion with the toll roads in town. White is the car that day, so he wouldn't have to pay anything.
As they drove to visit customers the manager followed the salesmen. At each booth they told the person in the booth that they were also paying for the car behind them. Until the last one! Of course police chased him down and asked what the hell he thought he was doing. All he could say was "But I have the car of the day!" Posted by: 496 at January 27, 2026 12:10 AM (WeJ8p) 289
We had a dog, until 2019... She was so good, she would catch mice too! But she was so nosy, LOL. Got into the shop one day & nosed a mousetrap. *Ouch!*
It was a couple of months before she'd set foot into the shop again. Poor baby. So smart. Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 12:10 AM (rdVOm) 290
Heh. Hauled my generator out post-Helen. After previous use I had run/drained carb dry,drained the tank,and left the fill cap off. Discovered (before filling!) that mouse had constructed a shoebox sized nest inside. The inside was gummy with rodent urine/feces.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2026 12:07 AM (XeU6L) I stuff rags into the exhaust pipes on the harley. I had a customer one time where a mouse ran up the drag pipe and the exhaust valve was open. The little bastard packed his cylinder with shit. Ended up redoing the whole top end. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 12:10 AM (snZF9) 291
I spent on the order of four hours this afternoon running the snowblower to clear off our driveway and front sidewalk. I was grateful for its electric starter, as I started up right away after having not been used for probably four years. I'm tired, but not (yet) aching, and glad to have put the task vehind me. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 12:11 AM (xG4kz) 292
Very nice. And you can see the subtle hints of the colors there, too. The "mineral moon" colors.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb) Yes I always liked that about that one - didn't know what it was - just learned something and now wondering if I have my old RAW files of that night to play Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:12 AM (E0p3T) 293
Yeah at one location they lined up snow-plow trucks bumper to bumper to form a wall. Arrested a few of the small crowd of idiot noisemakers. Didn't see the LRAD on the video stream, but did see a still of it earlier. Nice.
Tomorrow might tell, but this a yuuuge change in local LE posture from the beginning of this episode. If ICE operations continue tomorrow with local LE keeping order, it will smell like victory. Though the big question on immigration will remain unanswered, likely for some time. Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2026 12:13 AM (U/Byj) 294
I spent on the order of four hours this afternoon running the snowblower to clear off our driveway and front sidewalk. I was grateful for its electric starter, as I started up right away after having not been used for probably four years. I'm tired, but not (yet) aching, and glad to have put the task vehind me.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 12:11 AM (xG4kz) Mine has an electric start. Good thing, because that damn thing will not start with the pull cord, warm or not. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 12:13 AM (snZF9) 295
But they already have season 1 in the can and season 2 is in production so, I dunno.
Posted by: gKWVE Between 6 to 9 million an episode I can see why. Woof. Garak was my favorite DS9 character. And then Morn. He was a man of few words but I enjoyed his presence. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Apparently Morn only had one line of dialog, but it was in a German dub. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 27, 2026 12:13 AM (mlg/3) 296
>> now wondering if I have my old RAW files of that night to play
That would be fun to see if you can pull those colors out, indeed. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2026 12:15 AM (w6EFb) 297
The best part, after I get 3/4 done with my driveway, which is 30X100, my neighbor cruises over with his Kubota. Says hey I can clear the heavy shit if you need. argh.....
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 12:16 AM (snZF9) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:17 AM (m24qK) 299
My brother thinks I'm Caligula because I lay waste to mice instead of trapping them and releasing them. This is why. Fuck them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 11:59 PM (snZF9) ---- I'm with you. The little monsters did $2,000 worth of damage under to my engine wiring. I couldn't use the garage one winter when the house was remodeled. Love that warm engine. Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 12:17 AM (9RvnV) 300
Mine has an electric start. Good thing, because that damn thing will not start with the pull cord, warm or not.
Posted by: Berserker -------- I am reminded that the old Maytag gas-engined washing machines had a kickstarter. Not sure what brought that to mind... Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2026 12:17 AM (XeU6L) 301
Fun trivia: the Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn was previously Nurse Ratchett.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 12:07 AM (Sxl5b) There was no character in the history of star trek I wanted to see shoved out of an airlock more than Kai Winn. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 12:18 AM (snZF9) 302
That would be fun to see if you can pull those colors out, indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2026 12:15 AM (w6EFb) Watch this space...... eventually Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:19 AM (E0p3T) 303
I'm with you.
The little monsters did $2,000 worth of damage under to my engine wiring. I couldn't use the garage one winter when the house was remodeled. Love that warm engine. Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 12:17 AM (9RvnV) Those little bastards will burn your frigging house down. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 12:20 AM (snZF9) 304
A woman named Claire Louise Feng has been charged with biting the finger off of a border patrol agent in Minneapolis.
--- Is she kin to Fang? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:22 AM (m24qK) 305
What are we sposed to do when the AI agent is drunk off its ass? I may have missed that in the safety meeting that I totally attended.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 27, 2026 12:22 AM (w/O5Q) 306
I swear, that Soros spawn is a kiddy-diddler. And a sociopath. The boy just oozes "ick".
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 27, 2026 12:28 AM (SRRAx) 307
Saw three of them run across my living room floor one sub-zero night, years ago. Stuffed copper mesh/caulk in some gaps in the boards under the siding. Worked until I saw one tiny mouse this year; SNAP!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 12:31 AM (fKTed) 308
319 Saw three of them run across my living room floor one sub-zero night, years ago. Stuffed copper mesh/caulk in some gaps in the boards under the siding. Worked until I saw one tiny mouse this year; SNAP!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 12:31 AM (fKTed) You need to borrow a terrier. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 27, 2026 12:33 AM (6Bc88) 309
316 A woman named Claire Louise Feng has been charged with biting the finger off of a border patrol agent in Minneapolis.
--- Is she kin to Fang? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:22 AM (m24qK) ------ If you need a hanging Judge, look me up. Posted by: Judge Isaac Parker at January 27, 2026 12:35 AM (L5n1N) 310
Just One Bite
Wish I knew about that before the rat ate its way from the garage through the double sheetrock wall and took up residence in the living room couch. Friend mailed me some (banned in California). Dying rat in hallway less than 24 hours later. Posted by: torabora at January 27, 2026 12:35 AM (mTmKa) 311
What are we sposed to do when the AI agent is drunk off its ass? I may have missed that in the safety meeting that I totally attended.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 27, 2026 12:22 AM (w/O5Q) Draw a penis on its forehead and dip his hand in a basin of warm water. Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 12:36 AM (rbvCR) 312
Evenin’, All.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:37 AM (77rzZ) 313
The trouble with rodent poisons, is that the lil bastards like to crawl into their hidey-holes to die. Your walls, attic, basement, crawl spaces.... and then rot and stink.
Lucky if they pass where you can reach their carcasses easily! Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 12:38 AM (rdVOm) 314
It’s probably obvious, but Morn was a play on Norm from Cheers. All he ever did was sit at the bar and drink.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 12:39 AM (Sxl5b) 315
310 Mmmmmm…Jan Smithers…mmmmm…
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:40 AM (77rzZ) 316
Blue cities won't let you do the obvious thing -- take the illegals into custody while they're in the jails. Because they're part of the Democrat voting pool.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 12:40 AM (L5n1N) 317
Friend mailed me some (banned in California). Dying rat in hallway less than 24 hours later.
Posted by: torabora at January 27, 2026 12:35 AM (mTmKa) Yeah, yeah, I read enough Agatha Christie. The killer always has some excuse for getting it and keeping it around. Posted by: Tom Servo at January 27, 2026 12:42 AM (Sxl5b) 318
ICE protesters stop US citizens, demand ID to prove you're not ICE.
Minneapolis cops not worth a damn. https://tinyurl.com/yc5 cvf87 Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 12:48 AM (tntiz) 319
James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII . 10h
SURROUNDED: O’Keefe & the OMG team under attack in Minneapolis. Frozen projectiles hurled at us. We barely made it out. We go LIVE tomorrow at 1 PM with our full video report of hidden camera footage from inside the mob. Watch live on our channels: YouTube: youtu.be/@okeefemedia X: xcancel.com/OKeefeMedia xcancel.com/JamesOKeefeIII Instagram: instagram.com/okeefemedia?ig… instagram.com/jamesokeefeiii… Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:52 AM (m24qK) 320
JQ, yep, many years ago, I was living in an apt building next to a vacant field. When they started to dig up the field for construction, suddenly everyone in my building had mice coming up through the pipes. I put out poison and found out dying mice liked to crawl in my laundry hamper to die. I used old fashioned traps after that. The building didn't allow pets, but more than a few tenants borrowed friends' kittehs for the duration. I ate off disposible plates for a while because I found mice droppings on my dishes. It was disgusting.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 27, 2026 12:54 AM (Kxi0p) 321
I read the first chapter of "The Wind in the Willows" to the gKids tonight. gDaughter had read it; gSon had not. I think that I will try to record me reading the whole thing, augment that with the illustrations, and then present it to the two of them, as I likely won't have the opportunity to do it live with them clear out to its conclusion (not that I won't try to do so). Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 12:57 AM (xG4kz) 322
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&v at January 27, 2026 12:54 AM
------- Ew. I borrowed my parents' cat one time-- my first apartment had mice-- good kitteh was busy allllll night! She couldn't get all of them in 2 nights, though. Was so happy to move! Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 12:59 AM (rdVOm) 323
The trouble with rodent poisons, is that the lil bastards like to crawl into their hidey-holes to die. Your walls, attic, basement, crawl spaces.... and then rot and stink.
Lucky if they pass where you can reach their carcasses easily! Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 12:38 AM (rdVOm) That happened one time in my old house in the basement. I kept smelling something weird and I could figure out what it was. I had poison but never used it, because on the very rare occasions I ever saw a mouse in the basement he was dead in a matter of hours with a snap trap. Well some time later I found the box of poison, which were in little bars, and still wrapped in a bag. Yup, something ate a hole in it, so thats probably the weird thing I smelled a year or so before. When I went to sell the house the basement was partially paneled from the dude before me, and I gutted the entire basement back to like it was when the house was built and painted the walls and floors. I never found anything, so who knows where that thing died. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 01:00 AM (snZF9) 324
It looks like there are two glory holes missing their hoovering devices this evening. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 27, 2026 01:00 AM (xG4kz) 325
Ew. I borrowed my parents' cat one time-- my first apartment had mice-- good kitteh was busy allllll night! She couldn't get all of them in 2 nights, though. Was so happy to move! Posted by: JQ ============== That's funny, borrowing a cat to get mice. I saw an X tweet once about a guy who runs out to the street, grabs a known stray cat, and brings it up and shuts it into a room with a mouse. ~Fin~ Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2026 01:03 AM (rCdCn) 326
The Sun is somewhere between 17 and 20 parsecs above the galactic plane now. We're currently headed up, with 40 - 50 left to go before we turn down on the downswing. At one time, there was some interesting correlation with that z-axis/plane crossing motion and long term climate and extinction events. But then better data came and that correlation seemed to go away. But it may be back, I'm not sure. Anyway, it's an open question if the sun's motion through the galaxy may have something to do with those very long term cycles. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2026 01:04 AM (w6EFb) 327
I never found anything, so who knows where that thing died.
Posted by: Berserker ------- When I started cleaning out Dad's house, there was a bunch of stuff packed under the stairway to basement. In between some boxes, I found... a desiccated rodent carcass, just a skeleton. Probably that hamster that we lost in the late '70s but figured it escaped the house. I felt bad for the lil guy. Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm) 328
The trouble with rodent poisons, is that the lil bastards like to crawl into their hidey-holes to die. Your walls, attic, basement, crawl spaces.... and then rot and stink. Lucky if they pass where you can reach their carcasses easily! Posted by: JQ ============== Had that in a school I taught at once. Little corpse (or possibly a big one) was somewhere in the wall of the teachers' lounge. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2026 01:08 AM (rCdCn) 329
I mentioned earlier today the time I found a rat in the ceiling crawlspace of an old house.
It apparently decided that the knob and tube wiring looked tasty and tried to chow down. Bad mistake, Mickey. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 01:12 AM (IG3/x) 330
Glue boards work well, but not if you're squeamish. I've used the lightweight glue boards intended for bugs, but they work well on mice (won't hold a rat.). The trick is to punch a hole an inch or two from the edge and use wire to keep it from being dragged off. I have one just inside the door into the studio from the garage, along the wall out of the way. That for gets left open for long periods carrying stuff in and out, and the little buggers will sneak in. I've caught two on that since October. One was still alive while the other had flopped around enough that he/she got its snout into the glue and suffocated. Snip.the wire, pick up the board, into a plastic bag and into the garbage can. Our mouse problem gets worse in cold weather, because the local.neighborhood gopher snakes are hibernating.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 27, 2026 01:12 AM (IMmiQ) 331
In his book "Tales of a Bushrat Governor", former Alaska Governor Jay Hammond told the tale of going out to check on an old timer when he was working for the territorial police (or whatever the State Trooper equivalent was before Alaska was a state -- I forget).
Sadly, the old fella had passed on. He decided to come back later with some help to haul the body out. He put the corpse in a small room in the cabin, and put the cat in there with it to keep the shrews off him. Then the weather turned to shit, as only Alaska winter weather can do, and he wasn't able to get back out there for a couple of weeks. Yeah, you know where this is going, dontcha? Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 01:17 AM (IG3/x) 332
Well, it's warming up. Dropped to 13.8F, then bounced back to 15.1F. This was interesting. There wasn't any little burst of wind when it happened, which is usually the case, some mixing warming up the surface inversion layer a bit. There was however a little pressure drop and bounce back. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 27, 2026 01:19 AM (w6EFb) 333
Snap traps are quick & clean. No sticky glue and the creatures don't suffer.
I like plain in-shell sunflower seeds as bait, in the plastic TomCat traps. That one time I used peanut butter, it attracted ants! (It was too hot to use butter or bacon fat, which probably also would've drawn ants.) Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm) 334
Yeah, you know where this is going, dontcha? Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia ============= In fact, David Sedaris wrote a twee column once about your death. Your pets aren't as respectful as you might think. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 27, 2026 01:21 AM (rCdCn) 335
Yeah, you know where this is going, dontcha?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia -------- Yeah. Doesn't mean the cat was *bad* though. I hope it survived. Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm) 336
If Cat is trapped inside the house when I die, I don't expect him to "be respectful"-- I expect him to do what he must to survive.
Not as if I'd need my body at that point anyway, right? And I'd surely like my little buddy to carry on! Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 01:24 AM (rdVOm) 337
47F at 10:30 p.m. I don't think we've dipped below 40 all Winter.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 27, 2026 01:29 AM (KAi1n) 338
I have been fortunate not to have mice or rats for the most part. I think my dogs help with that. They occasionally have produced a corpse for inspection. What I have had plenty of are scorpions (small, harmless ones) at the last place and now, here, mediterranean house geckos. They've come in from the cold this winter. I like 'em. Slay, my little bug hunters.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 27, 2026 01:35 AM (zUe/H) 339
I mentioned earlier today the time I found a rat in the ceiling crawlspace of an old house.
It apparently decided that the knob and tube wiring looked tasty and tried to chow down. Bad mistake, Mickey. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2026 01:12 AM (IG3/x) Knob and tubing was some crazy ass shit. I still have a coffee can of the frankenstein looking porcelain insulators I yanked out of the walls of ancient houses we renovated. That was some primitive shit. The electricians would freak if we did a kitchen in a house with that stuff. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 01:36 AM (snZF9) 340
Today, the U.S. confirmed the 4-ship Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group chopped into U.S. 5th Fleet-CENTCOM AOR.
The “most advanced air wing in the fleet” joins forward-deployed squadrons of USAF F-15E Strike Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, & A-10 Warthogs. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 01:37 AM (m24qK) 341
Geckos are cute. But they will keep you awake at night with their little 'kissy noises' chirping. And then there's the poo they leave on window sills...
Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 01:37 AM (rdVOm) 342
by: raimondo at January 27, 2026 12:56 AM
Hey, there! Have I missed any girl racer updates? I don't check in every night, depends on how my mom is doing. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 27, 2026 01:42 AM (Vvh2V) 343
Rons and Ettes, without further introduction, I present to you.................
Mike Pence: https://tinyurl.com/2eb49zps Worth scrolling through the comments. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:47 AM (UUvzi) 344
Nothing like a Dead show!
Posted by: Jerry Saves at January 27, 2026 01:50 AM (J4jS5) Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm) 346
>>Mike Pence:
---------- Wishy-washy. Neither side GAF what he has to say. Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm) Walter Mondale was a more memorable VP - and most people forgot he existed in the Carter Administration. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 27, 2026 01:59 AM (S/Y4j) 347
@libsoftiktok
15h A man was walking his dog in Washington. Some lunatic walked up to him and asked what religion he was. He said Christian and the lunatic stabbed him & his dog who are now both in the hospital. https://tinyurl.com/3rfzr3zv Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 02:03 AM (m24qK) Posted by: JQ at January 27, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm) 349
Rons and Ettes, without further introduction, I present to you.................
Mike Pence: https://tinyurl.com/2eb49zps Worth scrolling through the comments. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:47 AM (UUvzi) Dude is a such a frigging ball bag. I can't read the comments though. I'm a non social media dude. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 02:19 AM (snZF9) 350
@libsoftiktok
15h A man was walking his dog in Washington. Some lunatic walked up to him and asked what religion he was. He said Christian and the lunatic stabbed him & his dog who are now both in the hospital. https://tinyurl.com/3rfzr3zv Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 02:03 AM (m24qK) Has the happy ending though, the asshole was shot by multiple cops. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 02:21 AM (snZF9) 351
Grok says this news is true:
DHS has locked Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino out of his official social media accounts. And yet, Nick Sortor says something else: https://tinyurl.com/mp63pbhn Stay tuned, people. Nowadays, often nothing is as it appears. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 02:23 AM (UUvzi) Posted by: mindful webworker - so many different people to be at January 27, 2026 02:24 AM (OJSFI) 353
Has the happy ending though, the asshole was shot by multiple cops.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 02:21 AM (snZF9) - For those not aware of it, that was a Muslim asshole. And I said "was." Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 02:24 AM (UUvzi) 354
Who would have the authority to provide such a list?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 11:00 PM (ULPxl) The mayor. In Portland's unusual bureau system, there's a five-person city council with the mayor at the head of it, and he typically reserves the Police bureau for his own portfolio. The rest of the bureaus get split up among himself and the other four by some arcane negotiations, but that one's just too important to let out of his control. As you can imagine, a natural result of this system is that while big-city police chiefs are useless figureheads in general, that goes double for Portland. Posted by: SciVo at January 27, 2026 02:38 AM (Sy6m/) 355
Has the happy ending though, the asshole was shot by multiple cops.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 02:21 AM (snZF9) - For those not aware of it, that was a Muslim asshole. And I said "was." Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 02:24 AM (UUvzi) Damn, an even happier ending. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 02:45 AM (snZF9) Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 27, 2026 03:00 AM (ZdhjE) 357
Anyone want to play catch with a live flash/bang grenade?
Spoldey fun for all! Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 27, 2026 03:00 AM (ZdhjE) - Mild alternative for fun with the kiddies at home: https://tinyurl.com/44b44wym Bought this for our pups many years ago. Mrs. BD was not amused. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 03:07 AM (UUvzi) 358
I was enjoying the John Mayer video from Weir's memorial concert, right up until the camera panned over Nazi Pelosi mouthing along to song different from Ripple, one only she could hear. And who wears an electric pink suit to a funeral anyway?!?!
Disturbing. Very disturbing. Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 03:08 AM (j/wwM) 359
What a shocking thing to give as a gift! Tell me, how did you pay for it? charge?
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 27, 2026 03:09 AM (ZdhjE) 360
But I love the adoption of the Morton Salt logo to evoke the literal destruction and salting over the remains of Carthage after Cato's wish was fulfilled and the Senate and People Of Rome reined supreme.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 03:17 AM (SxOcO) 361
What a shocking thing to give as a gift!
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 27, 2026 03:09 AM (ZdhjE) - I couldn't.... resist. >> Tell me, how did you pay for it? charge? Promissory note. I still ohm the money. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 03:25 AM (UUvzi) 362
Disturbing. Very disturbing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 03:08 AM (j/wwM) I warned you! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2026 03:32 AM (Zv8bq) 363
The legacy media narrative has been set for the 2026 midterm elections. Now, the marxist need their st floyd moment. Hopefully, the Republicans won’t give it to them.
Posted by: Unkaren at January 27, 2026 03:55 AM (zDIG9) 364
I don't want to get up
Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 03:56 AM (Ia/+0) 365
Philadelphia Police Scanner Version!
Moron HQ: Caller does not want to get up. This is somehow our problem. Posted by: SciVo at January 27, 2026 04:02 AM (Sy6m/) No Digital Footprint Cafe![]() Cotswold, England From @ComradeArthur, a horror story about a man with no presence on social media. This dog's motivations are inscrutable. Dachshund tests the stairs for safety. You: I'll spend $30 on a cat toy and be a real hero! Your Cat: Go *** yourself, asshole. When your dog escapes but he's still a good boy. The toy they really want? The box the toy came in. GAINZZZ. The bird says "I'm in too." Cuteness squared. A beautiful glitch in the Matrix:
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Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:25 PM (Ia/+0) 2
Nice cottage picture. Looks like Abdul is home, roasting a goat.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:27 PM (pDt9x) Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:27 PM (j9K6i) 4
Like the top photo, but it has a Pakistani living there now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s) 5
Damn. Same joke three comments in a row.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:28 PM (zZu0s) 6
Should have gone with a rape gang.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:28 PM (zZu0s) 7
You: I'll spend $30 on a cat toy and be a real hero!
Your Cat: Go *** yourself, asshole. --- We had one just like that. My cats loved it. They would catch the "mouse" though, and the machine couldn't handle the strain. Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (j9K6i) 8
A debate point:
============ - Here's what's going down in Minneapolis; ICE goes in and does their job arresting/processing and deporting illegals. Local leftists get torqued, gin up anti-ICE protests and get national/international monetary support for it. The situation degrades. Call in Border Patrol Service. The proverbial mounted calvary. Ride in, break some shit, kill a few leftists. Be the stick. Local politicos, especially one governor who's a weirdo, gets a sternly worderd memo about FAFO. A couple days later the BPS is pulled from Minneapolis and the governor would like to talk to Trump about "turning down the heat." The plot to nearly every fucking Western. Ever. Walz caved. Minneapolis is restored to order by the end of the week. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (qwVdq) 9
Should have gone with a rape gang.
Posted by: Aetius451AD An apprenticeship would have been enough for me. Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (cYBz/) 10
I fear that's an England whose time has passed.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (cxFcK) 11
Should have gone with a rape gang.
Posted by: Aetius451AD An apprenticeship would have been enough for me. Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (cYBz/) I went with a rape gang once. You'll never guess what happened. Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (j9K6i) 12
>Awww, looks like a nice place to park 1500 swarthy muzzies.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:27 PM (j9K6i) Just add a minaret or two and Bob's your uncle, ye olde pub is now is now a mosque. Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 26, 2026 07:31 PM (GTqXr) 13
Would we could all have so much fun in the snow as that dog. And on another happy note, I saw about 25 kids and their parents who were having fun sledding at the park today. It made me glad to see they were not in front of their electronic devices on a day off from school.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2026 07:31 PM (ix8EF) Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 26, 2026 07:31 PM (kpS4V) 15
FML. Serious FWP. Picked up 2 lbs bacon last Thursday. Half pound for each day, Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday.
That's about 10 half strips (5 full strips) of Kroger butcher case thick slice hickory smoked bacon. Then I would pick up two lbs more on Thursday. Due to frozen/icy roads, we're WFH tomorrow. So now I'm out of bacon. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 07:33 PM (zILP0) 16
I fear that's an England whose time has passed.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (cxFcK) Find a copy of "I Vow To Thee, My Country" by Holst. Preferably with a big freakin' chorus. I dare anyone to not feel the swell of pride, followed by the crushing sadness of what has come. Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:34 PM (db2L3) 17
That cat and dog could fit in that bed together
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0) 18
>>>The toy they really want? The box the toy came in.
The hire some real geniuses to be drivers for Amazon. Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (syz1S) 19
There's a plaque hanging in the Minnesomalia capital from Satanists to Walz. He let them put up some exhibit.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (cxFcK) 20
So now I'm out of bacon.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 07:33 PM (zILP0) ————— I recognize these words as English, but… Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (u73oe) 21
14 Cats are such assholes.
I love them. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 26, 2026 07:31 PM (kpS4V) _-_ Of course, my cat's a jerk...but he's a barn cat, and he kills rats and mice a lot, so I keep putting out feed for him. A contract's a contract! Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (vd6bO) 22
Pet squirrel? Hope you like salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and, very rarely, rabies. They also harbor parasites like fleas, ticks, and mites.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (UjdFS) 23
That cat and dog could fit in that bed together
Posted by: Skip Yeah, but that would require the cat to share when it's obviously in the mood to rassle Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (a+4eV) 24
Due to frozen/icy roads, we're WFH tomorrow. So now I'm out of bacon.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 07:33 PM (zILP0) ---- Call 911. "I'm out of bacon!" Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (kpS4V) 25
I am pretty sure I can scrute out that dog's motivation.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 26, 2026 07:36 PM (OKjYk) 26
Cotswold cottage got some serious structural roof sag issues.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 07:36 PM (snZF9) 27
Ok, there exists two good uses for okra, 1) fried, 2) this:
x.com/DudespostingWs/status/ 2015883628572545272 Posted by: banana Dream at January 26, 2026 07:37 PM (3uBP9) 28
Hope you like salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and, very rarely, rabies. They also harbor parasites like fleas, ticks, and mites.
Posted by: wth i would hope you could avoid most of those by picking them up as infants and raising them indoors... Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 26, 2026 07:37 PM (a+4eV) 29
So it is true, the GOPe is all wet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2026 07:37 PM (2GVsD) 30
Go Ginger Cat! Dump that doggie out!
Posted by: Felix, Stifel, and Floyd (My Cats) at January 26, 2026 07:38 PM (oftw2) 31
I went with a rape gang once.
You'll never guess what happened. Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (j9K6i) Like that old joke about if you don't know who the pigeon is, the pigeon is you? Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 26, 2026 07:39 PM (syz1S) 32
i would hope you could avoid most of those by picking them up as infants and raising them indoors...
Posted by: FeatherBlade You can. I rehabbed them for 8 years. From newborns to adults and never got sick. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 07:39 PM (zILP0) 33
I fear that's an England whose time has passed.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (cxFcK) Yup, done, stick a fork in it, its over. Its a conquered land. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 07:39 PM (snZF9) 34
Cotswold looks ratty and old. Nice Urban Renewal, some high rises, and you've got a nice 15 minute city. Plus, you'll be able to get Chicken Vindaloo at 2 AM.
Posted by: Out With The Olds at January 26, 2026 07:41 PM (oftw2) 35
So it is true, the GOPe is all wet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2026 07:37 PM Well that's what I heard. Posted by: Dr. Peter Venkman at January 26, 2026 07:41 PM (Wnv9h) 36
What is it with people taking their dogs EVERYWHERE they go? I round the corner at Harbor Freight the other day, and there's this mature Boerboel actin' all Cujo about my presence in the aisle...kinda like takin' a horse into the store. Damned thing was HUGE!
Mind you, I like dogs, have had several myself. They have an honored place in our lives, but don't take them EVERYWHERE! Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 07:41 PM (vd6bO) 37
Holy crap! Looks like gold and silver prices are finally catching up to Biden’s inflation. I wish I had bought more.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 26, 2026 07:42 PM (ljGJy) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 07:42 PM (tgvbd) 39
Cotswold looks ratty and old. Nice Urban Renewal, some high rises, and you've got a nice 15 minute city. Plus, you'll be able to get Chicken Vindaloo at 2 AM.
Along with the enriching aspects of robbery, rape, drug use, and rape. And if the contractor is a bit dodgy, well it will all catch fire and collapse around you. Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2026 07:42 PM (2GVsD) Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 26, 2026 07:43 PM (syz1S) 41
Speaking of no digital footprint, I've introduced grandson to CodeMonkey, and we've been working through it pretty quickly, he's loving it.
I've also slowly introduced him to Python he's getting into it simply for the name and that he can tell his fellow 2nd graders, he's learning Python. We're building a Zork clone and introducing him to text adventure is. He's pretty psyched he can make the adventure whatever he wants. Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 26, 2026 07:43 PM (XV/Pl) 42
Our first puppy was part husky/malamute. She loved the snow. On sunny days would sleep on it.
She and my husband had a hockey type game with a tennis ball. No matter how deep the snowdrift she'd stick her head in and find the ball. The goal was her doghouse and she was the goalie. It was rare to score a point on her. She'd jump up for snowballs, etc, like the doggie above. We took her to my parent's farm and then the beaches of Panama City, where she managed to get fleas (rare in the West). She also wanted to kill the lifeguard dead on the beach, but otherwise she was good. Oh, she killed an opossum within minutes of arriving at my parent's farm. She did protect me once, so I was glad she liked me. Either a peeping Tom or a potential burgler (idiot, we had nothing to rob). She sensed I was stressed and was right next to me as I dressed. We rarely locked the back door. I opened it and he got the surprise of his life when I told her to "get him." She leapt at him from the three steps and he ran. She did get a his jean pocket and bit his arse as he jumped the back fence. Good girl! She was not trained to attack, she just knew what to do Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 07:44 PM (WONhk) 43
Looks like they elected a new Pope in Cotswold. Hope he's better than the last two.
Posted by: Ecclesiastically Challenged at January 26, 2026 07:44 PM (oftw2) 44
You: I'll spend $30 on a cat toy and be a real hero!
Your Cat: Go *** yourself, asshole. --- Yep. Sounds about right. Save yourself money--toss them the empty toilet paper roll. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2026 07:45 PM (ESVrU) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 26, 2026 07:46 PM (qo38o) 46
A paucity of penguins is always pleasant despite the pertinacious pecksniffianism of the Big Penguin dupes and fanbois.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2026 07:46 PM (0sNs1) 47
It is more fun to watch kittehs play hockey with a soda cap.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2026 07:46 PM (2GVsD) 48
Cotswold looks ratty and old.
Posted by: Anna Puma There's a funny episode of the original Bob Newhart show where Jerry considers touring Europe. A retired guy tells him, "Europe needs paint." I always thought that was funny. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 07:47 PM (cxFcK) 49
Pet squirrel? Hope you like salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and, very rarely, rabies. They also harbor parasites like fleas, ticks, and mites.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (UjdFS) --- It's also tough to find a purple pimp hat that's just the right size. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU) 50
Super. Snowing again.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2026 07:47 PM (viF8m) 51
Or to state another way...
Piss poor planning... Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 26, 2026 07:46 PM The 7 P's: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1) Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 07:48 PM (rdVOm) 53
Paint? A simple white wash... oh wait that is now racist.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2026 07:48 PM (2GVsD) 54
I fear that's an England whose time has passed. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly ____________ Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2026 07:48 PM (tgvbd) 55
"I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over?" -- column in the New York Times Magazine.
I dunno, hoss? Do you want to get rid of that last tiny shred of un-cucked self-respect in your body? Does your body still have trace levels of testosterone, and you want to drive it all the way down to zero? Only you can answer these questions. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2026 07:48 PM (IG3/x) 56
I bought all these cute stuffed toys and balls and stuff for the cat, and she was going nuts with a wadded up ball of paper for like half an hour.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at January 26, 2026 07:48 PM (kpS4V) 57
Carried over from the previous thread (quoting Walz or Frey): I expressed how much Minneapolis has benefited from our immigrant communities and was clear that my main ask is that Operation Metro Surge needs to end. The president agreed the present situation can’t continue. I read somewhere within the last day or two that the Minnesota DFL Party had originally wanted to hook Laos' Hmong people in the 70s and 80s as their new "little brown brothers" to swap in for Hispanics, who the DFL saw at that time as wandering off their dependency plantation in the not too distant future. But the Hmong were having none of that, being a proud, forthright and capable people. So the DFL cast about for a replacement population and eventually latched on to the intellectually challenged Somalis. And the rest is history. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2026 07:48 PM (xG4kz) 58
Reserve currency status for the dollar was a curse, I think, in retrospect. I understand why things were setup in the postwar period the way they were, but it has caused great damage.
Congress has the ability to spend what are essentially unlimited amounts of borrowed money, that does not exist, on whatever they want. And the “debt shall not be questioned” we are admonished. None of the insanity we have been subject to for the last 60 years would have been possible without prodigious or copious quantities of confetti-buck dollars shot from the Fed cannon. In a legitimate or at least sane monetary system, these sorts of insane spending sprees either on stupid foreign wars or whack job domestic fraud programs, none of it is possible. There isn’t enough money in the world. Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 07:49 PM (BORTq) 59
You: I'll spend $30 on a cat toy and be a real hero!
Your Cat: Go *** yourself, asshole. My cat's favorite toys are wads of parchment or wax paper. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 07:49 PM (ULPxl) 60
Hmong to DFL, "you just like the Commies who kept trying to kill us. Go away before we kill you."
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2026 07:50 PM (2GVsD) 61
It's also tough to find a purple pimp hat that's just the right size.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2026 07:47 PM Dude. While the chapeau is stylish, pimp is such a deadname for the profession. They're now Professional Pleasure Procurers. Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1) 62
> Congress has the ability to spend what are essentially unlimited amounts of borrowed money, that does not exist, on whatever they want.
Back in the day the final limit was how fast they could run the printing presses. Now they just have some mook at the Federal Reserve (or wherever) type a few more zeros into a ledger. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2026 07:51 PM (IG3/x) 63
England has spent a decade falling into the swamp.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 07:52 PM (u82oZ) 64
"I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over?" -- column in the New York Times Magazine.
--------- Doood... Reminds me of when XH & I were ending things. Told him to leave the house and "go back to that whore"... and he said: "We broke up." The correct (my) response? HAW HAW HAW!!! SUCKS TO BE YOU, DOESN'T IT? Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 07:52 PM (rdVOm) 65
Our cats loved paper balls
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:52 PM (Ia/+0) 66
I did maintenance and renovations for a company that ran group homes. One old house in Portsmouth, VA was empty for 6-8 months and I went over to see what was needed to get it back running. Squirrels had chewed their way into the attic and were having a great time up there. The moment I turned the key and walked in dozens of fleas jumped onto my socks and legs. (wearing shorts).Left, called the exterminator before I went back. They chewed A/C, Heat wiring and made real pests of themselves.
Posted by: Cute Tree Rats at January 26, 2026 07:52 PM (oftw2) 67
2 Pet squirrel? Hope you like salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and, very rarely, rabies. They also harbor parasites like fleas, ticks, and mites.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2026 07:35 PM (UjdFS) Exactly! Plus plague with those fleas. I tell people that growing up in Colorado is why I hate and fear all things small, cute, and fluffy. Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 26, 2026 07:53 PM (lFFaq) 68
Dear England, Shelley's Ozymandias was not supposed to be your national epitaph.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2026 07:53 PM (2GVsD) 69
The 7 P's: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
Posted by: Duncanthrax I was lucky to remember the last 3! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 26, 2026 07:54 PM (qo38o) 70
Its bedtime
Have a good night everyone Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:54 PM (Ia/+0) 71
Found a dead rat that had bitten into some knob and tube wiring in an old house once.
Yeah, that was Mickey's last snack. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2026 07:54 PM (IG3/x) 72
I have noticed I like to keep a strategic “Bacon reserve” on hand. Usually a pound is the bare minimum before protocol demands resupply, although I’ve a can of pre-cooked Bacon for this purpose for the extreme. Also “must haves” includes coffee, tea, cocoa, peanut butter, oats, macaroni, popcorn. Corned beef hash in a can is good stash, too. Crack a couple eggs on top when done, cover & steam poach them. Quick and tasty.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 07:56 PM (BORTq) 73
Poor Cat-- had to give him de-wormer pill-and-a-half today-- and then he bolted outside when I opened the door.
Ten minutes later, he came back and got his treat of chicken meat. Poor, poor spoiled Cat! Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 07:57 PM (rdVOm) 74
Ace, there isn't a town in England called Cotswold. There is a region in England called The Cotswolds, which is roughly a couple of hours drive to the northwest from London.
Posted by: Ralph at January 26, 2026 07:59 PM (8WZD4) 75
Buy bacon on sale and fill your freezer with it. Keeps for a long time and is only an inch thick. There is NO excuse for EVER running out.
Posted by: Bacon Promotion Board at January 26, 2026 07:59 PM (oftw2) 76
The 7 P's: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
Posted by: Duncanthrax I was lucky to remember the last 3! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 26, 2026 07:54 PM The andragogical efficacy of a size 9.5 combat boot being applied with some enthusiasm to one's fundament by a Senior Chief should not be underestimated. Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2026 08:00 PM (0sNs1) 77
73 I have noticed I like to keep a strategic “Bacon reserve” on hand. Usually a pound is the bare minimum before protocol demands resupply.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 07:56 PM (BORTq) Mr Scary uses that exact term. Strategic bacon reserve. It is not allowed to dwindle. I am sitting on a strategic bacon grease reserve. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:03 PM (lpTXP) 78
Radical pro-abortion Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton will resign from Congress! Eighteen terms I think.
Ace did a great post about her inspecting a self driving vehicle years ago. She speechifies then is invited to sit in the car. In the dash is a large red button that says DO NOT PUSH (I guess it was an emergency stop button). The first thing she did was push it which killed the car and the whole exhibit, takes hours to reset the car. She didn't design it, she didn't build it, she had no idea what she was doing. A perfect metaphor to most politicians careers. Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2026 08:05 PM (cxFcK) 79
Codswallop looks like the perfect place to get a pint and some bangers and mash.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 08:06 PM (/lPRQ) 80
I cook a pound of bacon at a time, put it in a baggie and it's ready when needed, lasts about a week.
Posted by: Eromero at January 26, 2026 08:06 PM (LHPAg) 81
While rabid penguins are rarely encountered, they do act as hosts for salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and a wide variety of venereal diseases.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 26, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F) 82
I am sitting on a strategic bacon grease reserve.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:03 PM Properly and selectively applied (i.e. behind the ears and on the popliteal regions), that might be as effective as Hoppe's No.9 in raising interest! Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2026 08:06 PM (0sNs1) 83
I have noticed I like to keep a strategic “Bacon reserve” on hand. Usually a pound is the bare minimum before protocol demands resupply.
Posted by: Common Tater We must not allow...a Bacon Reserve gap!!! Posted by: Gen Buck Turgidson at January 26, 2026 08:07 PM (cxFcK) 84
Obese penguin chick can barely maintain his balance after being stuffed with fish. There's some cruelty.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 26, 2026 08:07 PM (oT7pT) 85
I cook a pound of bacon at a time, put it in a baggie and it's ready when needed, lasts about a week.
Posted by: Eromero ------- It lasts that long? Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:07 PM (rdVOm) 86
Super. Snowing again.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2026 07:47 PM Yup. On top of 20". Yay, us. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 26, 2026 08:08 PM (Wnv9h) Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:08 PM (rdVOm) 88
Is that Earth weeks?
Posted by: fd at January 26, 2026 08:09 PM (vFG9F) 89
I am sitting on a strategic bacon grease reserve.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:03 PM I, too, dabble in oils. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 26, 2026 08:10 PM (Wnv9h) 90
Two pounds of bacon in the freezer. One pound in the fridge. 🥓
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2026 08:10 PM (QxMMC) 91
A week? LOL, yeah … no.
I thought a package makes a nice single serving. I usually only eat one meal a day. So a pound of burger is about right too. Or a couple chicken breasts, etc. Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 08:11 PM (BORTq) 92
8PM and 23F here. Temp dropped like a rock at sundown. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 08:11 PM (w6EFb) 93
With penguins, the *number one* thing you need to remember is what goes in comes mephitically out.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2026 08:12 PM (0sNs1) 94
There's evidently some virus going around in India that's threatening to go pandemic. China and Thailand are monitoring but not really concerned because it is spread by...fecal matter. A problem for India but not so much for the rest of the world.
Posted by: Gen Buck Turgidson at January 26, 2026 08:12 PM (cxFcK) 95
I think DHS should use the humane approach with the protesters.
Herd them into a cattle truck(SRO) or a swine truck (seated). Make sure it prevents cell phones from connecting. Take them into the wild, at least 10 miles from any town, and 2 from any farm. Empty the truck. Repeat until the protest is over. Let's treat them the same way we treat raccoons in urban areas. Move them humanely into the wild, away from peaceful people. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 08:14 PM (S/Y4j) Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 08:14 PM (zILP0) 97
No social media guy, is my spirit animal!
I've never had any of it. No, not even a MySpace! (gasp!) Pfft. *Real life* is enough! More than enough... Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:15 PM (rdVOm) 98
A belly is about 9 pounds.
We freeze 10 pieces of bacon at a time...what fits on a cookie sheet. +,- 12 oz. So, when we get to around 4 packs, it's time to cure the next belly. Posted by: MkY at January 26, 2026 08:16 PM (q6tQZ) 99
There's evidently some virus going around in India that's threatening to go pandemic. China and Thailand are monitoring but not really concerned because
Posted by: Gen Buck Turgidson Because there's no money in it for them. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 08:16 PM (zILP0) 100
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: New Delhi sidewalk shitter at January 26, 2026 08:16 PM (QxMMC) 101
Let's treat them the same way we treat raccoons in urban areas. Move them humanely into the wild, away from peaceful people.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 08:14 PM (S/Y4j) That isn't how we deal with raccoons in the country. They are predators and are dealt with accordingly. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:18 PM (lpTXP) 102
China and Thailand are monitoring but not really concerned because it is spread by...fecal matter. A problem for India but not so much for the rest of the world.
Posted by: Gen Buck Turgidson at January 26, 2026 08:12 PM (cxFcK) I recall that the key to ending cholera epidemics was realizing that you shouldn’t let your sewage contaminate your drinking water. Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2026 08:19 PM (Sxl5b) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:19 PM (zZu0s) 104
It is 3 here. Just the three degrees.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:20 PM (zZu0s) Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 08:22 PM (zILP0) 106
Let's treat them the same way we treat raccoons in urban areas. Move them humanely into the wild, away from peaceful people.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 08:14 PM (S/Y4j) That isn't how we deal with raccoons in the country. They are predators and are dealt with accordingly. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:18 PM (lpTXP) Some people can't bear the thought of killing an animal. Besides this helps keep Ace out of trouble. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 08:22 PM (S/Y4j) 107
Let's treat them the same way we treat raccoons in urban areas. Move them humanely into the wild, away from peaceful people.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf Even the raccoons are humanely euthanized. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 08:22 PM (/lPRQ) 108
China and Thailand are monitoring but not really concerned because it is spread by...fecal matter. A problem for India but not so much for the rest of the world.
Posted by: Gen Buck Turgidson at January 26, 2026 08:12 PM (cxFcK) I recall that the key to ending cholera epidemics was realizing that you shouldn’t let your sewage contaminate your drinking water. Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2026 08:19 PM (Sxl5b) We need one million H1Bs anually Posted by: Vivek R at January 26, 2026 08:23 PM (vSvIl) 109
Find a nice farm for them to go and live at. A hog farm, maybe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:23 PM (zZu0s) 110
Coons...
We live in a wooded area in the City. Friggin' idiots trap coons, and release them around us. Trap-shy coons that we then have to trap, then dispatch. Idiots. Posted by: MkY at January 26, 2026 08:26 PM (q6tQZ) 111
I missed the Bezos thread earlier. Funny to think about all those WaPo asshats getting ready to tumble.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2026 08:28 PM (Sxl5b) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:30 PM (zZu0s) 113
I watched an interesting documentary about urban raccoons. Apparently Japan imported a bunch back in the day because of a cute cartoon character. The coons were getting in Buddist temples and causing trouble.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:31 PM (lpTXP) 114
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (qwVdq)
Epilogue: Someone discovers gold (fraud) in California, and the whole town (Minneapolis de Somali) picks up and heads west in their tribal wagon train. Leaving naught but a snow covered ghost town. Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 08:31 PM (dIske) 115
Single digits are singularly depressing. “It’s 6 today.” Fucking 6
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 08:31 PM (BORTq) 116
"Single digits are singularly depressing. “It’s 6 today.” Fucking 6
Posted by: Common Tater" That's what she said? Posted by: fd at January 26, 2026 08:34 PM (vFG9F) 117
Saw Lea Thompson posted a video, since we're all wondering what a Hollywood actress thinks about the insurrection.
I didn't listen to the vapid ramblings, but I can tell you that physically, Howard the Duck and George McFly would be regretting their choice in sex partners. Posted by: Wally at January 26, 2026 08:35 PM (65cLN) 118
Evenin’, All. Happy Tuesday Eve.
Posted by: Bulg at January 26, 2026 08:35 PM (77rzZ) 119
116 Evening, Ace, and Cafe layabouts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 26, 2026 08:31 PM (8zz6B) I take exception to that remark, sir! I am pretending to work! Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 08:35 PM (vd6bO) 120
@117. I know how you feel Tater. Not much better here.
Low tonight 9. Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 08:36 PM (E7+ue) 121
I think DHS should use the humane approach with the protesters.
Herd them into a cattle truck(SRO) or a swine truck (seated). Make sure it prevents cell phones from connecting. Take them into the wild, at least 10 miles from any town, and 2 from any farm. Empty the truck. Repeat until the protest is over. Let's treat them the same way we treat raccoons in urban areas. Move them humanely into the wild, away from peaceful people. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 08:14 PM (S/Y4j) --- Wouldn't you relieve them of their phones? Don't want them using GPS to find their way back home... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2026 08:36 PM (ESVrU) 122
I didn't listen to the vapid ramblings, but I can tell you that physically, Howard the Duck and George McFly would be regretting their choice in sex partners.
Posted by: Wally at January 26, 2026 08:35 PM (65cLN) Dennis Quaid also dodged a bullet. They were a thing back in the day. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:37 PM (lpTXP) 123
Kinda nice here - turned sunny and warm, so the youngest started building a snow fort.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 08:37 PM (vd6bO) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:38 PM (zZu0s) 125
I lived for 3 years on Palisade Avenue in Riverdale, Bronx, right up the cliff from the Hudson. NYC, but you'd hardly believe it. The garage under the house was big enough for 3 cars and was drilled, probably blasted into the granite. Caught 9 raccoons in Havahart trap after moving in. Released them into a big park a few miles north. The neighborhood also had the most ring-necked pheasants I've ever seen.
Posted by: A Coon's Age at January 26, 2026 08:38 PM (oftw2) 126
Snow fort! Oh, to be a young child again-- snow forts are cool!
Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:39 PM (rdVOm) 127
Pet squirrel? Hope you like salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and, very rarely, rabies. They also harbor parasites like fleas, ticks, and mites.
Posted by: wth You know, I'm beginning to get offended that you humans call those things "tree rats." Posted by: a regular rat at January 26, 2026 08:39 PM (VHUov) 128
No social media guy, is my spirit animal!
I've never had any of it. No, not even a MySpace! (gasp!) Pfft. *Real life* is enough! More than enough... Posted by: JQ I watched the video, and thought: "Well of course I know him. He's me." -- every Moron Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 08:42 PM (VHUov) 129
“A West Virginia librarian has been charged after she allegedly posted videos seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald Trump.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in West Virginia announced Sunday evening that Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat.” Posted by: SMOD at January 26, 2026 08:43 PM (GITLP) 130
Posted by: A Coon's Age at January 26, 2026 08:38 PM (oftw2)
______________________ I categorize the danger associated with animals by how smart they are. Raccoons and weasels are on that list. Any animals that take a look at a garbage can and non-chalantly take off the lid aren't as innocuous as some people seem to think they are. That's why I always lock my car. Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 08:43 PM (dIske) 131
snow forts are cool!
_-_ My nagging is starting to show results on this youngster. He drew up a plan first. I've been after him about all the aborted projects he leaves in the shop 'cause he didn't think it through first (wonder where he learned that?). Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 26, 2026 08:43 PM (vd6bO) 132
Just looking at the GFS and forecast. The Really Cold Axis overnight runs from sort of slightly north of the TX/OK/AK corner NE toward WV, then a bit steeper toward Vermont. Then another Really Cold bubble dipping down to WI, MN and ND. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 08:44 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 08:45 PM (E7+ue) 134
>>> 110 Find a nice farm for them to go and live at. A hog farm, maybe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:23 PM (zZu0s) Why you hate my pigs?! Posted by: Mr Wu at January 26, 2026 08:46 PM (ULPxl) 135
Good news-- BIL has (kinda) been located. His truck broke down/got stuck (?) & he was hitch-hiking, treated & released from a hospital last week (they can't tell me what's up with that) and so now have a bulletin out for him to contact me if they can find him again. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:47 PM (rdVOm) 136
*Strategic Bacon Reserve*
LOL! Stolen! Posted by: JQ I try to have one or two packages (frozen) beyond the one I'm currently using. So it's more of a tactical bacon reserve. Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 08:47 PM (VHUov) 137
Saw Lea Thompson posted a video, since we're all wondering what a Hollywood actress thinks about the insurrection.
I didn't listen to the vapid ramblings, but I can tell you that physically, Howard the Duck and George McFly would be regretting their choice in sex partners. Posted by: Wally at January 26, 2026 08:35 PM (65cLN) I'm guessing she blew past seahag and right into hagraven status? Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 08:47 PM (snZF9) 138
Good news-- BIL has (kinda) been located. His truck broke down/got stuck (?) & he was hitch-hiking, treated & released from a hospital last week (they can't tell me what's up with that) and so now have a bulletin out for him to contact me if they can find him again. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:47 PM (rdVOm) How does this dude go through life without a helmet? Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 08:49 PM (snZF9) 139
Then another Really Cold bubble dipping down to WI, MN and ND.
Posted by: publius * shakes fist at AOP * Keep yer clippers in Alberta where they belong! Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov) 140
Paul Joseph Watson had a video earlier. A bunch of actresses repeating the same scripted remarks.
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2026 08:50 PM (YwEeS) 141
JQ, glad your BiL seems to be okay. What was the deal with the weird messages you got? From him, or the hospital?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 08:50 PM (lpTXP) 142
"I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over?"
Yes. You are, how you say, the consolation prize. Posted by: The Paolo at January 26, 2026 08:50 PM (Q+gd/) 143
137 >>> 110 Find a nice farm for them to go and live at. A hog farm, maybe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:23 PM (zZu0s) Why you hate my pigs?! Posted by: Mr Wu at January 26, 2026 08:46 PM (ULPxl) _______________________ There are many uses for pigs I'm told. Posted by: Robert Pickton "The Pig Farmer Killer" at January 26, 2026 08:51 PM (dIske) 144
GSP has issued an Extreme Cold Warning for the counties on the NC/TN state line in their area. National map showing those cold warnings at weather.gov. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 08:51 PM (w6EFb) 145
Good news-- BIL has (kinda) been located. His truck broke down/got stuck (?) & he was hitch-hiking, treated & released from a hospital last week (they can't tell me what's up with that) and so now have a bulletin out for him to contact me if they can find him again. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ How does this dude go through life without a helmet? Posted by: Berserker Like that. God watches over fools and Polacks. Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 08:52 PM (VHUov) 146
How does this dude go through life without a helmet?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ------- Up until his wife died, *she* babysat and took care of everything for him I presume. Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:52 PM (rdVOm) 147
140 Saw Lea Thompson posted a video, since we're all wondering what a Hollywood actress thinks about the insurrection.
I didn't listen to the vapid ramblings, but I can tell you that physically, Howard the Duck and George McFly would be regretting their choice in sex partners. Posted by: Wally ==== All the actors have PR handlers and they look at these situations as opportunity to a) remind people these actors are still in the biz and looking for work, b) pay obeisance to the hivemind because Hollywood is particularly nasty toward employing anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton. For the most part, the one off type posts are easy to ignore. But some assholes tattoo their opinion over and over again to the extent that it damages the audiences ability to see them as the character rather than the asshole actor. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 08:53 PM (E4rtv) 148
Just looking. The NWS current "Extreme Cold Warning" criteria is temps and/or wind chills below 5F are expected within 24 hours. "Expected" means some level of high enough probability is reached. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 08:54 PM (w6EFb) 149
Epilogue: Someone discovers gold (fraud) in California, and the whole town (Minneapolis de Somali) picks up and heads west in their tribal wagon train. Leaving naught but a snow covered ghost town.
Posted by: Orson Don't get stuck in the mountains. Those skinnies will starve. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 08:54 PM (zILP0) 150
"I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over?"
Yes. You are, how you say, the consolation prize. Posted by: The Paolo * Thunderous Applause * .....because there's nothing "golf clap" about The Paolo. Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 08:54 PM (VHUov) 151
Walz caved. Minneapolis is restored to order by the end of the week.
Posted by: Martini Farmer I think the toothpaste has been squeezed. Good luck getting it back in the tube. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 08:54 PM (uaYsl) 152
Keep yer clippers in Alberta where they belong!
Posted by: mikeski Current temp in Rowley, Alberta is 8 degrees, but it will be 38 for a high on Saturday. Posted by: Hippie Dippy Weatherman at January 26, 2026 08:54 PM (oftw2) 153
132 “A West Virginia librarian has been charged after she allegedly posted videos seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald Trump.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in West Virginia announced Sunday evening that Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat.” Posted by: SMOD ------- Where will the alphabet youths of Jackson County go to be groomed now that their pron shop librarian is fired and in jail. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 08:54 PM (E4rtv) 154
What was the deal with the weird messages you got? From him, or the hospital?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary -------- He left his phone at the truck I guess. Somebody found it and contacted me. BIL doesn't have a phone now and is probably wandering around near San Bernardino. Don't know why he went to CA? Maybe his late wife has family there? I never knew her family & only met her on 3 occasions. She was deaf also. Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 08:55 PM (rdVOm) 155
We had those single digit temps the other day but got up to 31 today. Water is working in the bathroom again! So hang in there, it should start to get better
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 26, 2026 08:55 PM (+mUZM) 156
Just looking. The NWS current "Extreme Cold Warning" criteria is temps and/or wind chills below 5F are expected within 24 hours. "Expected" means some level of high enough probability is reached.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 08:54 PM (w6EFb) These are the same 'experts' who said we would get between 18 and 24 inches of snow over the weekend. We got maybe 5 and a lot of ice. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s) 157
For the most part, the one off type posts are easy to ignore. But some assholes tattoo their opinion over and over again to the extent that it damages the audiences ability to see them as the character rather than the asshole actor.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 08:53 PM (E4rtv) I immediately see the asshole actor and they become dirt on my shoes. Musicians too, which is a real pissoff to me. Shut the fuck up and play. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 08:56 PM (snZF9) 158
CBS;
Recently released federal data shows the rate of improper payment in Minnesota's Medicaid program is far below the national average, the state's Department of Human Services says. According to the data released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the error rate in Minnesota is slightly over 2.1%, compared to the national average of 6.1%. The human services department says the data was collected before it started implementing measures to cut down on fraud risk. Posted by: SMOD at January 26, 2026 08:57 PM (GITLP) 159
I'm glad you got an answer JQ. Silence is maddening at times.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 08:57 PM (uaYsl) 160
“A West Virginia librarian has been charged after she allegedly posted videos seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald Trump.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in West Virginia announced Sunday evening that Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat.” Posted by: SMOD So if you're a famous presidential assassin, you go by all three names (John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald). If you're only hiring one, you just use your middle initial? Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 08:57 PM (VHUov) 161
I actually quit eating bacon on an every day basis. When I did eat bacon I bought the 3 lb thick cut packages when they were on sale. I'd bake 1.5 lbs on a couple of broiler pans and refreeze the rest of the pack. The edge pieces would be good day of baking. Interior slices were perfect for microwaving for future meal additions, and bacon was usually an addition and not most of the meal, except on baking it day.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 26, 2026 08:58 PM (hhkIi) 162
I think the toothpaste has been squeezed. Good luck getting it back in the tube.
Posted by: Sock Monkey ======= The left views violence as a dial, not a switch. Walz and Frey are dialing back the heat right now, just as likely to spike it tomorrow but we shall see. Notice how the BLM riots or No Kings, or any of their other color rev shit suddenly shut off when counterproductive to Dems in polling? And they ramp it up when they want to create impressions of Resist. I do note the calm down signal is being sent right after one guy penetrated their Signal network, another (Data Republican) penetrated their funding network, and a couple of their footsoldiers got penetrated with 124 gr 9mm HPs. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 08:58 PM (E4rtv) 163
When my folks lived in Wisconsin for a time after Dad retired, from time to time their domicile would be plagued by raccoons. They would live trap them and in the evenings Dad would drive the offending miscreant several miles outside town and release it on the edge of a side road. When I went with him one time, the side road happened to abut a Native American Reservation. This time, as he banged on the back of the cage, Dad said, "Go visit your brudders" (on the Reservation). I larfed. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2026 08:58 PM (xG4kz) 164
Cotswold cottage looks like it would make a killer man cave.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 08:59 PM (snZF9) 165
*Looks at Latitude*
*Looks at calendar* *Looks outside at 15” of fluffy snow on top of 5” base* Yup. Winter. Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 08:59 PM (30Gj0) 166
Single digits are singularly depressing. “It’s 6 today.” Fucking 6
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 08:31 PM (BORTq) --- You underestimate the Paolo. Posted by: The Paolo at January 26, 2026 08:59 PM (krQz2) 167
From what Ryan Hall said today, the European weather model got the storm right. Our weather service got it wrong
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 26, 2026 08:59 PM (+mUZM) 168
I immediately see the asshole actor and they become dirt on my shoes. Musicians too, which is a real pissoff to me. Shut the fuck up and play.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 08:56 PM (snZF9) At thist point I don't watch TV or listen to music. I'm tired of nodding and smiling and saying I can appreciate the artist anyhow. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:00 PM (lpTXP) 169
Recently released federal data shows the rate of improper payment in Minnesota's Medicaid program is far below the national average, the state's Department of Human Services says. According to the data released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the error rate in Minnesota is slightly over 2.1%, compared to the national average of 6.1%. The human services department says the data was collected before it started implementing measures to cut down on fraud risk.
Posted by: SMOD at January 26, 2026 08:57 PM (GITLP) --- So most states stole more than 19 billion?! Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2026 09:00 PM (krQz2) Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2026 09:01 PM (Q+gd/) 171
Cotswold cottage needs a new roof.
Too bad the UK imported Muzzies instead of Mexicans. Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2026 09:01 PM (Q+gd/) It needs new framing under that new roof. That sucker is sagging worse than pelosi's boobs. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:03 PM (snZF9) 172
Cotswold. Isn't that where Ellen Degenerate moved to? The posh Brits live there, I believe.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:04 PM (lpTXP) 173
I immediately see the asshole actor and they become dirt on my shoes. Musicians too, which is a real pissoff to me. Shut the fuck up and play.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division ====== True, they break the wall and trust between audience by showing them being an asshole in real life and that carries over to whatever they do on stage or screen. Alec Baldwin is a perfect example of a piece of shit that got away with manslaughter being an entitled Hollyweird royalty. I can't stand that guy even briefly appearing on teh screen even before that from his anti Trump idiocies. DeNiro likewise. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:04 PM (E4rtv) 174
176 Cotswold. Isn't that where Ellen Degenerate moved to? The posh Brits live there, I believe.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary Reportedly she wants to move back, just like Rosie O Donnell does from Ireland. Turns out they find being D rated celebutards in UK or Irish society sucks. The Brits have real royalty soap opera stars and the Irish have booze and U2 to worship, not worn out old Rosie. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:06 PM (E4rtv) 175
Imagine you're Tom Homan. You thought you were retired, but then you get The Call. Trump has called you back to active service, and after only a year, you know it's the most consequential time of your entire career.
I am happy in retirement, but I kind of envy Mr. Homan. Also, I badly want transcripts of the talks he's going to have with Messrs Frey and Walz. Bet they'll really be something. Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:06 PM (7DKa5) 176
If America were still a serious country, right now that bitch would be enjoying the first quarter of her helicopter half-ride.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ======= There is still coal in those hills to be mined. She might do fine as a donkey substitute pulling a cart. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:07 PM (E4rtv) 177
Dunno much about Cotswold, but if you ever run across a gin by that name, it's exceptional, but not expensive.
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:07 PM (7DKa5) 178
“A West Virginia librarian has been charged after she allegedly posted videos seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald Trump.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in West Virginia announced Sunday evening that Morgan L. Morrow of Ripley, West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat.” Posted by: SMOD So if you're a famous presidential assassin, you go by all three names (John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald). If you're only hiring one, you just use your middle initial? Posted by: mikeski Three names are for closers. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 09:07 PM (zILP0) 179
The human services department says the data was collected before it started implementing measures to cut down on fraud risk.
Posted by: SMOD ===== Cough, bullshit, MN officials have no legitimacy to claim much of anything about their honesty. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:08 PM (E4rtv) 180
127 After Howard the duck...
Hey, wait a second! When did we get the ability to use less-than symbols? Was that an undocumented feature of Minx 0.8 beta? Posted by: Oddbob at January 26, 2026 09:08 PM (Fs0KI) 181
Reportedly she wants to move back, just like Rosie O Donnell does from Ireland. Turns out they find being D rated celebutards in UK or Irish society sucks. The Brits have real royalty soap opera stars and the Irish have booze and U2 to worship, not worn out old Rosie.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:06 PM (E4rtv) Guessing the average Brit cares more about the cast of EastEnders than a washed-up lesbian TV host. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:09 PM (lpTXP) 182
One famous “absent minded professor” his name escapes me at the moment, his wife had a stroke and was hospitalized and couldn’t care for his basic needs. Brilliant mathematician, but he literally died of starvation. I think it was Neils Bohr who would show up for work at the fenced and secured camp within a camp Los Alamos theoretical division building wearing strange mismatched clothes, and clothesline in lieu of a belt, when his wife wasn’t around. LOL
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 09:10 PM (tE2Wy) 183
My attempt to adapt the Steely Dan song "Hey 19" into a song about Omar Fateh, called "A19," to honor both the traditional light bulb shape, and the very similar shape of Mr Fateh's head, has been an utter failure. I thought it was a natural, but it just doesn't work.
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:10 PM (7DKa5) 184
181 Dunno much about Cotswold, but if you ever run across a gin by that name, it's exceptional, but not expensive.
Posted by: Splunge ====== Eh, gin works well in a G&T for me but Gordons to me works as good as Tanqueray, Boodles, or Bombay for that. Better spend more on the tonic water than more on the gin. I suppose those that like gin martinis might feel differently. Beyond that, only serious alkies drink gin straight. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:10 PM (E4rtv) 185
186 One famous “absent minded professor” his name escapes me at the moment, his wife had a stroke and was hospitalized and couldn’t care for his basic needs. Brilliant mathematician, but he literally died of starvation.
Posted by: Common Tater ------ Happened to Gene Hackman apparently after his wife died. Sucks to have dementia with no one to take care of you. Worse, out isolated in the countryside. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:11 PM (E4rtv) 186
Guessing the average Brit cares more about the cast of EastEnders than a washed-up lesbian TV host.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary ======= It would be the same as Graham Norton showing up here and expecting to be a big deal. Piers Morgan too although he has been over here for quite some time. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv) 187
188 Beyond that, only serious alkies drink gin straight.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:10 PM (E4rtv) Pistols at dawn, sir! None of the gins you mention actually taste good. There is a whole other world beyond your imaginings. Also, most gins are substantially improved by a few drops of Miracle Mile's Bergamot Bitters. Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:13 PM (7DKa5) 188
If you’ve got a name like “Lee Wayne Ray” you should just turn yourself in on general principles.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 09:14 PM (tE2Wy) 189
At thist point I don't watch TV or listen to music. I'm tired of nodding and smiling and saying I can appreciate the artist anyhow.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary One of the main reasons I switched to anime. And, as anyone who's clicked my youtube links can attest, I don't really follow any bands who are big enough to be bigmouthed assholes about leftist causes. https://youtu.be/N34qCTcG8h4 https://youtu.be/rw8071RawzU Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 09:16 PM (VHUov) 190
*Looks at Latitude*
*Looks at calendar* *Looks outside at 15” of fluffy snow on top of 5” base* Yup. Winter. Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 08:59 PM You only got 15"? Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 26, 2026 09:16 PM (Wnv9h) 191
Recently released federal data shows the rate of improper payment in Minnesota's Medicaid program is far below the national average, the state's Department of Human Services says. According to the data released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the error rate in Minnesota is slightly over 2.1%, compared to the national average of 6.1%. The human services department says the data was collected before it started implementing measures to cut down on fraud risk.
Posted by: SMOD Outliers when viewed from a QA perspective indicates that something is not being done - like random audits. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 09:16 PM (/lPRQ) 192
The left views violence as a dial, not a switch. Walz and Frey are dialing back the heat right now, just as likely to spike it tomorrow but we shall see
Violence is easier to instigate and dial up. I don't think they have the level of control necessary to just turn it down. The chimps are on a rampage, are the zoo keeers going to lure them back into their cages with bananas and gentle coaxing or with tasers. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 09:18 PM (uaYsl) 193
I was stationed close to Cotswold, England. Pretty part of the country. I visited it frequently because it was easy to get to, even by bus. Glad I saw the UK before it became a colony for islamdom.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 09:18 PM (sAmhv) 194
I do note the calm down signal is being sent right after one guy penetrated their Signal network, another (Data Republican) penetrated their funding network, and a couple of their footsoldiers got penetrated with 124 gr 9mm HPs. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 08:58 PM (E4rtv) ××××××× Comment of the week right here! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:19 PM (Vvh2V) 195
It would be the same as Graham Norton showing up here and expecting to be a big deal. Piers Morgan too although he has been over here for quite some time.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:13 PM (E4rtv) Graham Norton. I've actually found him entertaining. O'Donnell and Degeneres not so much. But I get your point. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:19 PM (lpTXP) 196
Washington State needs a governor like Dixie Lee Ray again.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon I used to enjoy your comments. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 09:20 PM (uaYsl) 197
This Somali shit is pissing me off.
I’m an American. I work my ass off. I spend 35%of my wages on rent so I can love where I live. I budget. I cut corners. I have a 2009 lesburu. These assholes are living in mansions, driving luxury cars and DONT WORK? And they aren’t even here legally? I’m a simp. Posted by: nurse ratched at January 26, 2026 09:21 PM (lSC4e) 198
>>> 181 Dunno much about Cotswold, but if you ever run across a gin by that name, it's exceptional, but not expensive.
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:07 PM (7DKa5) This one? https://is.gd/VWfo8j Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 09:23 PM (ULPxl) 199
82 While rabid penguins are rarely encountered, they do act as hosts for salmonellosis, tularemia, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, and a wide variety of venereal diseases.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at January 26, 2026 08:06 PM (vFG9F) I am too tired to look it up but wonder how penguins get VD. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 09:23 PM (WONhk) 200
mikeski, thanks for sharing your YouTube links. I have enjoyed many of your musical links.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:24 PM (lpTXP) 201
I am happy in retirement, but I kind of envy Mr. Homan.
Also, I badly want transcripts of the talks he's going to have with Messrs Frey and Walz. Bet they'll really be something. Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:06 PM (7DKa5) Be just grand if the talks were accompanied by a couple of hickory shampoos, for effect. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:24 PM (6Bc88) 202
I’m an American. I work my ass off. I spend 35%of my wages on rent so I can love where I live. I budget. I cut corners. I have a 2009 lesburu.
These assholes are living in mansions, driving luxury cars and DONT WORK? And they aren’t even here legally? I’m a simp. Posted by: nurse ratched ------- Right there with ya, fellow chump! We should start up a daycare/medical transport/home medical outfit... Profit!!! Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 09:25 PM (rdVOm) 203
My attempt to adapt the Steely Dan song "Hey 19" into a song about Omar Fateh, called "A19," to honor both the traditional light bulb shape, and the very similar shape of Mr Fateh's head, has been an utter failure. I thought it was a natural, but it just doesn't work.
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:10 PM (7DKa5) A noble goal, but a tough song to work with. I checked the lyrics, and they're all over the map, no real rhyming, weird lyric rhythm. You would literally have to write a new story somehow involving her light bulb shaped head and fit it to that music. Could be done, but much work. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:25 PM (snZF9) 204
The Cotswolds are an area of England, not a town. That looks like the village that always wins the most picturesque village in England award. Can't remember the name, but it has Castle in it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:25 PM (Vvh2V) 205
I hope the talks with Homan, Walz and Frey end up with Walz and Frey sounding like they have something in their mouths.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:27 PM (lpTXP) 206
Also, those are slate roofs, in no danger of failing just yet.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:27 PM (Vvh2V) 207
Squirrels are just Rats with a fluffy tail...
Posted by: Wally at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (J9q9v) 208
202 This Somali shit is pissing me off.
I’m an American. I work my ass off. I spend 35%of my wages on rent so I can love where I live. I budget. I cut corners. I have a 2009 lesburu. These assholes are living in mansions, driving luxury cars and DONT WORK? And they aren’t even here legally? I’m a simp. Posted by: nurse ratched at January 26, 2026 09:21 PM (lSC4e) Oh, come now. You are a nurse. How many "homeless" indigents have you treated? You pay for all that, too. Not to mention paying for their brand spankin' new tents, winter gear, narcan, and fuckall. A few billions to the sub-human Somalis can't possibly move my blood pressure any more than it already has. And don't get me started about the wetbacks and filthy Scandis. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (6Bc88) 209
I am too tired to look it up but wonder how penguins get VD. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 09:23 PM (WONhk Same as in town.. 😉 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (Vvh2V) 210
None of the gins you mention actually taste good. There is a whole other world beyond your imaginings.
Also, most gins are substantially improved by a few drops of Miracle Mile's Bergamot Bitters. Posted by: Splunge ======= Eh, mixed drinks and expensive top tier alcohol are a waste together. I prefer single malt adulterated only with cold spring water if I had my druthers. But a G&T is fine in summer. And can easily be simulated if you want with club soda and a twist of lime. Keeps a drink in your hand to fit into place but you get to stay totally sober. I can get passionate about particular vintages of wine and grape varieties, meh on domestic bourbons, and like specific liquors. But since being on my anti inflammatories/biologics for psoriatic arthritis for years now, I don't drink at all nor miss it much either. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (E4rtv) 211
You only got 15"?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 26, 2026 09:16 PM (Wnv9h) That’s what she said … Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (30Gj0) 212
Speaking of Ryan Hall, I just read his analysis of what saved us in the Carolinas (as a whole) from Icemaggedon. It fell mostly as sleet, which I noted and kept my fingers crossed. The dreaded warm nose was there, but the surface layer was cold enough high enough to allow most it to refreeze as sleet. Had that been a little different, it would've been terrible. That's the what the probability ball bounced. Now for Miss. and Tenn. they did get ice big time, and they are in the dark big time as well. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (w6EFb) 213
This Somali shit is pissing me off.
I’m an American. I work my ass off. I spend 35%of my wages on rent so I can love where I live. I budget. I cut corners. I have a 2009 lesburu. These assholes are living in mansions, driving luxury cars and DONT WORK? And they aren’t even here legally? I’m a simp. Posted by: nurse ratched at January 26, 2026 09:21 PM (lSC4e) The worse part? These motherfuckers think they are entitled to it. They need to be stripped of their filthy lucre and all sent on rafts back to the shithole they came from. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (snZF9) 214
209 The Cotswolds are an area of England, not a town. That looks like the village that always wins the most picturesque village in England award. Can't remember the name, but it has Castle in it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor Yep. East of Oxford, more or less. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 09:29 PM (sAmhv) 215
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 09:23 PM (ULPxl)
Yup, that's the one. I think it was about $30 US in London, which is where I encountered it. Great stuff. Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2026 09:29 PM (7DKa5) 216
The worse part? These motherfuckers think they are entitled to it. They need to be stripped of their filthy lucre and all sent on rafts back to the shithole they came from.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:28 PM (snZF9) Why bother with rafts? Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (6Bc88) 217
I don't think they have the level of control necessary to just turn it down. The chimps are on a rampage, are the zoo keeers going to lure them back into their cages with bananas and gentle coaxing or with tasers.
Posted by: Sock Monkey ===== A lot of those assholes are paid and controlled when their paymasters tell them to stop. If you notice, these riots were not primarily the usual BLM types in previous years but pasty white millennials doing the shit. Even the Somalians have more sense not to try to run over ICE or trying to rescue some white femme getting moved out by ICE officers. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (E4rtv) 218
I spent an hour or so chipping away at the mini glacier that has me blocked in my parking spot. It's annoying and I'm not done. Snow you can shovel. A mini glacier, not so much. Have to chop it up in smaller chunks before you can shovel it. Hopefully I'll finish tomorrow afternoon. It will be 'warmer'. Not single digits anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (sAmhv) 219
The difference between me here and Nashville was a couple hundred feet of below freezing air. And that was all the difference between "meh, not bad" and icemageddon. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (w6EFb) Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 09:32 PM (uaYsl) 221
The worse part? These motherfuckers think they are entitled to it. They need to be stripped of their filthy lucre and all sent on rafts back to the shithole they came from.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division Nope. The worst part is that you and I paid for it. And we’re expected to continue. April 15 is right around the corner. Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 09:33 PM (30Gj0) 222
216 You only got 15"?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 26, 2026 09:16 PM (Wnv9h) That’s what she said … Posted by: RI Red ===== Got a permit for your short barrelled rifle? Or is it an AOW. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:33 PM (E4rtv) 223
For once, can we just follow the money? Whomever is paying for these "protestors" who are actually terrorists needs to pay in jail. I have really had it with these "we hate America" types. Where, pray tell, is life any better than here? I don't see them leaving this country, which is so horrible they just can't even.
I'm firmly in the love it or leave it camp. You don't like it? Take a fuckin' hike. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:33 PM (6Bc88) 224
Why bother with rafts?
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (6Bc8 Because they aren't worth the cost of helicopter fuel. A raft would be miserable until its...not. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:33 PM (snZF9) 225
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 09:29 PM (sAmhv
It really is a lovely place. And I have twice been thwarted in my attempts at thoroughly exploring Oxford. Once by the presence of the Queen of Spain ( security had blocked everything off) and once by something to do with soccer. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:34 PM (Vvh2V) 226
223 I spent an hour or so chipping away at the mini glacier that has me blocked in my parking spot. It's annoying and I'm not done. Snow you can shovel. A mini glacier, not so much. Have to chop it up in smaller chunks before you can shovel it. Hopefully I'll finish tomorrow afternoon. It will be 'warmer'. Not single digits anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (sAmhv) Salt that shit. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:34 PM (6Bc88) 227
Oh, and neither of the unalived protesters were natives in MN but drawn there for some unexplained reason so far except both were in the signal groups just decoded and busted.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:35 PM (E4rtv) 228
Because they aren't worth the cost of helicopter fuel. A raft would be miserable until its...not.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:33 PM (snZF9) Just tie 'em all together and shove 'em in the ocean, on the current to Africa. Problem solved. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:35 PM (6Bc88) 229
I am too tired to look it up but wonder how penguins get VD.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat Penguin Facts is a vile Fountain Of Misinformation. It is probably Mental Ilness at the core. Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at January 26, 2026 09:36 PM (oftw2) 230
228 For once, can we just follow the money? Whomever is paying for these "protestors" who are actually terrorists needs to pay in jail. I have really had it with these "we hate America" types. Where, pray tell, is life any better than here? I don't see them leaving this country, which is so horrible they just can't even.
I'm firmly in the love it or leave it camp. You don't like it? Take a fuckin' hike. Posted by: tcn in AK Data Republican has already done a lot on it and sent her openly verifiable spreadsheet to Fedgov. You can take a look at it too, on X or a link to X on places like Instapundit dot com. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:36 PM (E4rtv) 231
Because they aren't worth the cost of helicopter fuel. A raft would be miserable until its...not.
Posted by: Berserker --------- Inflatables. Get them a few miles off the coast in shark-infested water... *Pop!* Oh. Oh, darn. Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 09:36 PM (rdVOm) 232
Have fun for the evening. I am out.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:36 PM (E4rtv) 233
For once, can we just follow the money? Whomever is paying for these "protestors" who are actually terrorists needs to pay in jail. I have really had it with these "we hate America" types. Where, pray tell, is life any better than here? I don't see them leaving this country, which is so horrible they just can't even.
I'm firmly in the love it or leave it camp. You don't like it? Take a fuckin' hike. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:33 PM (6Bc8 Its why trump needs the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. Send the team out, find these people, track them down one by one, and quietly remove them from the planet. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:36 PM (snZF9) 234
I’m a simp.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 26, 2026 09:21 PM (lSC4e) The worse part? These motherfuckers think they are entitled to it. They need to be stripped of their filthy lucre and all sent on rafts back to the shithole they came from. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division When the well runs dry, and I think it will, they will return to being a bitter tribe , scrabbling in the dirt. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 09:37 PM (uaYsl) Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 09:37 PM (30Gj0) 236
Inflatables. Get them a few miles off the coast in shark-infested water... *Pop!*
Oh. Oh, darn. Posted by: JQ at January 26, 2026 09:36 PM (rdVOm) and this one gets it. lol Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:37 PM (snZF9) 237
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (w6EFb
They grossly over estimated our snow levels, whole simultaneously getting the sleet wrong. They said we'd get 12-18inches of snow and no sleet or anything else. We got maybe 6 inches of snow, then sleet all night. I'm grateful we missed the ice, but they were way off for us, even Ryan! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:38 PM (Vvh2V) 238
FWIW, I'm not sure I've ever seen non political comment sections go against dems as I am now. I saw an AP channel story on YouTube go a dozen comments before one pro-illegal nugget. One of local Minnesota TV Channels had fifty comments in a row that were pro enforcement. Usually they'd be maybe 50/50 on a good day.
There's reasons this is only happening on one place. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 26, 2026 09:39 PM (w/O5Q) 239
I spent an hour or so chipping away at the mini glacier that has me blocked in my parking spot. It's annoying and I'm not done. Snow you can shovel. A mini glacier, not so much. Have to chop it up in smaller chunks before you can shovel it. Hopefully I'll finish tomorrow afternoon. It will be 'warmer'. Not single digits anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 09:31 PM (sAmhv) Flame thrower. Kill it with fire. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:40 PM (snZF9) 240
This Somali shit is pissing me off. Posted by: nurse ratched ============== The moral outrage and the feelings of betrayal about this are so high that we're going to have to have an honest face-to-face when it's all over. Like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa or Pope Paul III's admissions after the excesses that led to the Protestant Reformation or yes, even Bill Clinton's televised confession. We can NOT allow the left to mumble it under the rug and shuffle away with some equivocating bullshit about "but Trump is a ped0" or "okay the fraud happened, but the targeting was racist." We really need a full admission of responsibility and an apology. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:40 PM (n2vmh) 241
I'm guessing Minneapolis has an annual Somali Festival to celebrate the cultural heritage of Somalia.
Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2026 09:40 PM (Q+gd/) 242
reality of life in the rainy countryside has gotten increasingly boring and frustrating" for them.
×××××× They both have gone their entire lives without knowing it rains a lot in England. Tell me you're a leftist without telling me you're a leftist. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:41 PM (Vvh2V) 243
AsRadar reported, an insider claimed the Arrested Development star and comedian decided to move back to the States as the "reality of life in the rainy countryside has gotten increasingly boring and frustrating" for them.
===== Dear Ellen and Portia, A day late, a dollar short. Go back to your third world sh*thole. Love, Franpsycho Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2026 09:41 PM (RIvkX) 244
You have the right to peaceable assembly to address grievances with your government. You do not have the right to impede federal officers while they are lawfully conducting operations, as stipulated by the US Congress in laws passed by duly elected Congresscritters.
Therefore, these "protestors," particularly the ones impeding ICE but also those trespassing and attacking Churches, need to be rounded up and sentenced under Federal charges of terrorism. Gitmo would be too kind for most of them. Those who fund these terrorists are likewise terrorists and should face the same penalties. They have stolen from my pocket, they have injured and harmed US citizens, and, to my mind, the worst is that they frightened children. Fuckers need to pay. And if some of them fall down stairs on the way to trial, well, shit happens. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:42 PM (6Bc88) 245
Oh, popped back from X for this from Data Republican,
List of donors by name etc. You can download them yourself if you search for her on X. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 09:43 PM (E4rtv) 246
I love y’all.
I really do. Validation goes a long way to keeping me from *types* *deletes* Thank you. Posted by: nurse ratched at January 26, 2026 09:43 PM (IhIKR) 247
They grossly over estimated our snow levels, whole simultaneously getting the sleet wrong. They said we'd get 12-18inches of snow and no sleet or anything else. We got maybe 6 inches of snow, then sleet all night.
I'm grateful we missed the ice, but they were way off for us, even Ryan! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:38 PM (Vvh2V) We got about 8 inches. They were talking like we were going to see a bearded Kurt Russell walking around with a flame thrower. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:43 PM (snZF9) 248
I'm guessing Minneapolis has an annual Somali Festival to celebrate the cultural heritage of Somalia.
Posted by: davidt They will have dirt and water on the menu. Also cat, until they run out. Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 26, 2026 09:43 PM (abIsI) 249
Don't believe everything on the internet, #58585858858
@EricLDaugh 2h 🚨 BREAKING: Border Commander Greg Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties, DHS says ASSISTANT SEC. TRICIA MCLAUGHLIN: "Chief Gregory Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties." Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2026 09:44 PM (mlg/3) 250
We can NOT allow the left to mumble it under the rug and shuffle away with some equivocating bullshit about "but Trump is a ped0" or "okay the fraud happened, but the targeting was racist." We really need a full admission of responsibility and an apology. Posted by: Blonde Morticia My $ is on sweeping it under the rug. This is going to take 1860s Kansas and Missouri kinetic skirmishing to unfuck. Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 26, 2026 09:44 PM (QVmho) 251
I seem to remember she was in favor of nuclear power. Certainly less bad than the current shitmaggot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Amongst all of the sh*t heel, asswipe democratic governors we have had, she is still at the top of my list. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 09:45 PM (uaYsl) 252
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:43 PM (snZF9)
It's like a bunch of 8th grade girls are in charge of weather predictions now; hysteria all over the place. I do love Ryan Hall, but even the independent youtube guys get caught up in it. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:45 PM (Vvh2V) 253
We really need a full admission of responsibility and an apology.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:40 PM (n2vmh) And a lot of helicopter rides. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:45 PM (snZF9) 254
My $ is on sweeping it under the rug. This is going to take 1860s Kansas and Missouri kinetic skirmishing to unfuck.
Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 26, 2026 09:44 PM (QVmho) In that case, nothing short of heads on pikes will satisfy. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:46 PM (6Bc88) 255
AsRadar reported, an insider claimed the Arrested Development star and comedian decided to move back to the States as the "reality of life in the rainy countryside has gotten increasingly boring and frustrating" for them.
https://t.ly/k9S-r Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2026 09:38 PM (pkeXY) But she and her Australian side piece will be immediately taken into a concentration camp for lesbians upon their return. Right? Stupid cunts. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:46 PM (lpTXP) 256
We really need a full admission of responsibility and an apology.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:40 PM (n2vmh) Still waiting for the COVID trials/executions. Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 09:46 PM (LMRVO) 257
But she and her Australian side piece will be immediately taken into a concentration camp for lesbians upon their return. Right? Stupid cunts.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:46 PM (lpTXP) They are so put-upon. We are so mean. Poor babies have to live on just millions, instead of trillions. /spit Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:48 PM (6Bc88) 258
Still waiting for the COVID trials/executions.
Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 09:46 PM (LMRVO) I would so love a Nuremburg for that shit. Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:48 PM (6Bc88) Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 09:50 PM (LMRVO) 260
It's like a bunch of 8th grade girls are in charge of weather predictions now; hysteria all over the place.
I do love Ryan Hall, but even the independent youtube guys get caught up in it. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:45 PM (Vvh2V) It frigging retarded. Its winter, it snows during winter, shit happens. Our asshole governor says "we haven't had a storm like this in a decade". Bullshit, we had one a few years ago just like this, and we had worse. Jersey goes through periods of no snow for a few winters and after a few years of that, we get frigging snow. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:50 PM (snZF9) 261
>> I'm grateful we missed the ice, but they were way off for us, even Ryan!
It's a game of juggling probabilities. Weather behavior is where Chaos Theory got its start. Several years ago I asked my late cousin, retired meteorologist who was at GSP for years, if it was going to snow. He earnestly replied, "Well, it might and it might not, and if it does, could be a little, could be a lot." That's all he could say with certainty. As he mentioned many times, they walk a thin line between too much warning and not enough. Say there's a 20% chance something really bad will happen. There's an 80% chance it won't. If they shout from the rooftops to get ready, a Bad Moon is on the rise, run for you lives, and it doesn't happen, they're Chicken Little. But on the other hand, if they don't warn people, and the really bad thing happens, it's why didn't you warn us! Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 09:50 PM (w6EFb) 262
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv NEW - 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of Trump admin allowing ICE agents to arrest, detain, pepper-spray or retaliate against violent anti-ICE rioters, in Minneapolis, without probable cause — Fox 6:17 PM · Jan 26, 2026 Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at January 26, 2026 09:50 PM (9aVck) 263
When the well runs dry, and I think it will, they will return to being a bitter tribe , scrabbling in the dirt. Posted by: Sock Monkey ============== I've been wondering about that, and the trouble I see is that they're utterly disinclined to work. How many of them speak comprehensible English? Would you hire one of those things in those videos? "Whut? No. No no no. They say bad things him here." The women are loping, bedraggled slobs who couldn't function in any job like cleaning, serving, stocking shelves, or greeting guests. The men look like they can barely pick up their feet when they walk. They don't have any intention of getting with the program. We'll need more laws cutting them off welfare. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:52 PM (n2vmh) 264
8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of Trump admin allowing ICE agents to arrest, detain, pepper-spray or retaliate against violent anti-ICE rioters, in Minneapolis, without probable cause — Fox
Thus the phone call. Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2026 09:53 PM (Q+gd/) 265
Fuck the rafts, let the fucking skinnies swim back, through shark habitat. Barren Karens can follow and nurture them. Retard and Twink need their heads on pikes. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 26, 2026 09:53 PM (/7Zv0) 266
NEW - 8th Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of Trump admin allowing ICE agents to arrest, detain, pepper-spray or retaliate against violent anti-ICE rioters, in Minneapolis, without probable cause — Fox 6:17 PM · Jan 26, 2026 Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe =============== Huzzah!!! Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:53 PM (n2vmh) 267
Interior decorating question. There is no lodge pole in my house. When the SHTF and things go tribal, where do I hang the scalps?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 09:53 PM (uaYsl) 268
>> It's like a bunch of 8th grade girls are in charge of weather predictions now
That's the problem. Youtube and TV weathermen going nuts with hype. They look at the worst case, the lower tails of the probability distributions and run with it. It's click bait. Doom and gloom gets hits. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 09:54 PM (w6EFb) 269
We need organized crowds of protest infiltrators — and I mean lots of them — carrying absurdist signs, like, "No steam," "Like and subscribe," and "End road work."
Posted by: mindful webworker - Invade Salvadore Dali at January 26, 2026 09:54 PM (OJSFI) 270
Fuck the rafts, let the fucking skinnies swim back, through shark habitat. Barren Karens can follow and nurture them. Retard and Twink need their heads on pikes. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 26, 2026 09:53 PM (/7Zv0) I'm ok if the have rafts, but the have to compete with robins for suitable twigs. Nothing wider than 1/8", or longer than 4". Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 26, 2026 09:55 PM (S/Y4j) 271
I would so love a Nuremburg for that shit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 26, 2026 09:48 PM (6Bc8 I’d volunteer to be a judge/executioner for that. For free! Posted by: RI Red at January 26, 2026 09:55 PM (LMRVO) 272
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 09:50 PM (snZF9
Same here. They have taken to calling things rare, then in the same sentence saying it happened 5 years ago. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:56 PM (Vvh2V) 273
Interior decorating question. There is no lodge pole in my house. When the SHTF and things go tribal, where do I hang the scalps?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 09:53 PM (uaYsl) Some shadowboxes from Hobby Lobby? Buy them on a week when they're half off. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 09:56 PM (lpTXP) 274
We need organized crowds of protest infiltrators — and I mean lots of them — carrying absurdist signs, like, "No steam," "Like and subscribe," and "End road work."
Posted by: mindful webworker "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." Posted by: zombie Mitch Hedburg, Minnesotan at January 26, 2026 09:57 PM (VHUov) 275
reality of life in the rainy countryside has gotten increasingly boring and frustrating" for them. ×××××× They both have gone their entire lives without knowing it rains a lot in England. Tell me you're a leftist without telling me you're a leftist. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor ============= I bet it's not just the rain. I bet they miss hanging out with The Best People and being invited to every opening and event in a town full of glitzy, hollow characters. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:58 PM (n2vmh) 276
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 26, 2026 09:54 PM (w6EFb)
I think the 24 hour news cycle is the problem; they gotta fill up time, so they get into the weeds and carried away with possibilities. Old School guys like your cousin could make you understand that it could be bad, so be prepared, but admit that they didn't really know fir sure. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 09:58 PM (Vvh2V) 277
We need organized crowds of protest infiltrators — and I mean lots of them — carrying absurdist signs, like, "No steam," "Like and subscribe," and "End road work." Posted by: mindful webworker ============ Those are hilarious! Now I'm going to spend the evening thinking up some more. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:59 PM (n2vmh) 278
Some shadowboxes from Hobby Lobby? Buy them on a week when they're half off.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary I'm considering the ceiling fan. Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 26, 2026 10:00 PM (uaYsl) 279
Posted by: zombie Mitch Hedburg, Minnesotan
Apologies for misspelling your name, zombie Mr. Hedberg..... Posted by: mikeski at January 26, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov) 280
Thus the phone call. Posted by: davidt ============== Ahhh yes. Trump didn't have a picture of Tim Walz's house, but he DID have an 8th Circuit decision... Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 10:00 PM (n2vmh) 281
>>> 285
We need organized crowds of protest infiltrators — and I mean lots of them — carrying absurdist signs, like, "No steam," "Like and subscribe," and "End road work." Posted by: mindful webworker ============ Those are hilarious! Now I'm going to spend the evening thinking up some more. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:59 PM (n2vmh) Old but good: "Stop Plate Tectonics!" Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 10:01 PM (ULPxl) 282
There is no lodge pole in my house. When the SHTF and things go tribal, where do I hang the scalps?
Posted by: Sock Monkey Scalping is messy, tedious work, and then you have to dispose of the rest. Save time with fences decorated Vlad Dracul method. Posted by: mindful webworker - classic style at January 26, 2026 10:02 PM (OJSFI) 283
"When the SHTF and things go tribal, where do I hang the scalps?"
Personally, I'm a "heads-on-sticks" kinda guy. You can really gussy up a picket fence with heads on sticks. Posted by: PabloD at January 26, 2026 10:02 PM (pXTL4) 284
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 26, 2026 09:58 PM (n2vmh)
For sure! They should've moved to London. I doubt thry would've gotten enough attention to suit them, but neither strikes me as the rural type. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2026 10:02 PM (Vvh2V) 285
279 I would so love a Nuremburg for that shit.
---- Spanish Inquisition. I still have enough hand strength to turn a crank. Posted by: clarence at January 26, 2026 10:03 PM (jgwdN) 286
/willowed
Re: Top reporter at WaPo says newsroom rattled by cuts Call me crazy but confessing you didn't see this coming isn't the argument you want to be making as a journalist. Posted by: Fen at January 26, 2026 10:05 PM (ciYHQ) 287
"A West Virginia librarian has been charged after she allegedly posted videos seeking to recruit assassins targeting President Donald Trump."
Huh? I worked as an LM3 at UT. I don't eve know what LM3 stands for but I remember my librarians. And in those memories they're always lecturing us to not do Teh Stupid on the internet. Posted by: Fen at January 26, 2026 10:12 PM (ciYHQ) JD Vance: California's Fraud Dwarfs Minnesota'sMaybe Minnesota's $9 billion in fraud is what we speculate we'll ultimately find, while the current known fraud is, what, a billion? He seems to mean we know California is defrauding the US for $7 billion and the ultimate tally will be much higher.Vice President JD Vance revealed that about $7 billion worth of fraud has been discovered in California. "I think we have a fraud problem that is much worse than California than it is in Minnesota," Vance said in an interview Thursday, noting the head of US Small Business Administration gave him the shocking news. "This is unfortunately a problem that is much bigger than Minnesota." The vice president also said efforts to block immigration enforcement were a uniquely blue-state phenomenon, adding that some Democratic-led states are engaged in a "small-scale civil war" with the federal government over immigration. ... The Trump administration has also paused federal child care funding to Minnesota, blaming alleged fraud in daycare programs, and has imposed new documentation requirements -- including attendance records and receipts -- before releasing payments to any state, CBS reported. ... Vance pointed to Don Lemon and other protestors storming a church in Minnesota as well as the killing of Renee Goode, saying "a small band of very far-left people" are trying to make ICE "the ultimate enemy," including through assaults on officers and raids on churches. "It's absurd," he said. "It's added a lot of chaos."The Democrat Party is causing the chaos, to create an argument for returning them to power-- "We'll stop the chaos." But you're the ones causing the chaos. It's like the old bit about the man who murders his parents, and then pleads for the mercy of the court, saying that he's an orphan. The Democrat Party has created a huge block of voters dependent on their enabling of fraud at an industrial scale. Looters are now a huge political constituency. And to make that point: You can't cover stories in Minneapolis without fraudulent Somali "day cares" and "patient transport services" in the background of your photos.
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Fraud is legal. -- federal judges
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 26, 2026 06:22 PM (ExV1e) 2
I nooded.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 26, 2026 06:23 PM (ExV1e) 3
California's Fraud Total must be mind boggling.
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2026 06:24 PM (ZcsJV) 4
Pretty and Good leared the hard way. Sad!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 06:24 PM (lpTXP) 5
Somalians are certainly industrious...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 26, 2026 06:25 PM (VE6XX) 6
Hence you see why they deployed their shadow army.
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2026 06:25 PM (YwEeS) 7
BREAKING: Virginia Democrats have introduced a bill to prohibit immigration enforcement within 40 feet of a polling place.
Of course, since the state cannot curtail federal officers, this would just give them an excuse to get their idiots riled up. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 26, 2026 06:25 PM (ExV1e) 8
We need to wait this fraud out so it can be tied to newsome next year when the 2028 presidential election season starts.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 26, 2026 06:26 PM (0N4FZ) 9
Smart Therapy Center
It was supposed to read Smart - The Rapey Center. Somalis can't spell for shit. Posted by: Delurker at January 26, 2026 06:26 PM (gtcuf) 10
It's turtles and Somali frauds ... all the way down.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2026 06:26 PM (vbXSk) 11
California has spent over $24 billion on homeless and not only has homelessness gotten worse nobody seems to know where the money went.
Ex-Fox reporter Adam Housley, who is a California resident, was posting on Twitter all during the lockdowns about the billions being stolen with Covid handouts. I bet that number alone is bigger than all of the fraud in Minnesota combined. Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2026 06:28 PM (viF8m) 12
I'm just glad there's no Malians involved in all this fraud. That would just get too confusing.
Somalian? No, no, some Malian! That's what I said! Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (06Hmj) 13
Nick Sortor is saying that Bovino got relieved of his command at Border Patrol
Posted by: XTC at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (6Uni8) 14
Why would they need Daycares when the majority are on welfare and not working ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (VE6XX) 15
A broken record I am, but if DataRepublican and Cam Higby and Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe can uncover the actual crimes and criminal conspiracies, what the actual fuck are the federal law enforcement agencies doing? Sorry, I am not convinced they are, or want to, do anything.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (MZ+PY) 16
Imagine:
Saturday, September 18, 2026, the first day of early voting in VA, ICE parks an ICE pickup outside an early voting location. And the local Dems storm the truck and destroy it. What's that worth in campaign ads? Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (HXT0k) 17
I would bet the fraud in California high speed rail is higher than the Somali fraud in Minnesota
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (e4I2N) Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (dIske) 19
I've been trying to tell you people that Minnesota is absolute child's play compared to California.This state exists on fraud. I personally at least 10 or 12 people defrauding the system, and NONE of them feel the slightest guilt about it. Their parents did it, their children are doing it, all their friends and relatives do it.
The culture of fraud here dates back to the '60s when the hiippies and dropouts figured out how to game the system, and over the ensuing years the fruad became entrecnhed and univesrsalized Posted by: zombie at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (se8lQ) 20
15 A broken record I am, but if DataRepublican and Cam Higby and Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe can uncover the actual crimes and criminal conspiracies, what the actual fuck are the federal law enforcement agencies doing? Sorry, I am not convinced they are, or want to, do anything.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (MZ+PY) Protecting their Pensions. Posted by: XTC at January 26, 2026 06:30 PM (6Uni8) 21
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off. Posted by: Kramer at January 26, 2026 06:30 PM (2Ez/1) 22
13 Nick Sortor is saying that Bovino got relieved of his command at Border Patrol
Posted by: XTC at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (6Uni I saw that he was "Reassigned". Posted by: It's me donna at January 26, 2026 06:30 PM (VE6XX) 23
You know who wouldn't blow kisses and show their ass to Walz and the others commies? JD Vance.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 26, 2026 06:30 PM (abIsI) 24
"Virginia Democrats have introduced a bill to prohibit immigration enforcement within 40 feet of a polling place."
40 feet isn't very far ... they should have made it half a mile, to give the illegals a running chance. But can states make any such law against federal legit law enforcement? SCOTUS seems to confirm NO, immigration law is purely the feds, and the prezzie. Coulter ust did a piece about Eisenhower going against the Arkansas governor in the case of blacks attending public schools. Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2026 06:30 PM (vbXSk) 25
If we convict the fraudsters, can the US Treasury get the money back, and reduce my taxes? Or at least pay off the debt, while having Justice bankrupt the criminals?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:31 PM (u82oZ) 26
He says it totals $7 billion which is less than the number we've heard regarding Minnesota -- $9 billion.
--- Last I heard Minne's newest estimate is $19 billion. Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2026 06:31 PM (krQz2) 27
This is why we need to disband these congressional fucking committees and audit the states relentlessly.
Everybody is in on it, except the hapless taxpayer getting screwed. There need to firing squads for these cocksuckers. Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 26, 2026 06:31 PM (oT7pT) 28
What is an NPI?
If those are health care centers in one building, yeah, 184 says nothing but fraud. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2026 06:31 PM (n5tGW) 29
13 Nick Sortor is saying that Bovino got relieved of his command at Border Patrol
Posted by: XTC The wheels on the bus go thump thump thump I hope this doesn't affect morale in the ranks in any way, shape, or form. Posted by: Trump Bus at January 26, 2026 06:31 PM (abIsI) 30
I'm old enough to remember the "What do you care about surveillance if you have nothing to hide?" argument. So, "Why should you care about ICE by a polling place if you're not voting illegally?"
Posted by: pookysgirl, turning the tables at January 26, 2026 06:31 PM (Wt5PA) 31
13 Nick Sortor is saying that Bovino got relieved of his command at Border Patrol
Posted by: XTC ======== It may be more that Homan is taking over the Minnesota situation than Bovino relieved. But we shall see. I did notice that Homan is being sent to Minnesota to take charge there. Bovino was the guy on the ground for the Border Patrol in Minnesota. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 06:32 PM (E4rtv) Posted by: Axeman at January 26, 2026 06:33 PM (krQz2) 33
17 I would bet the fraud in California high speed rail is higher than the Somali fraud in Minnesota
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM (e4I2N) ______________________ I'm more and more convinced that the purpose of that project was to confiscate private property and generational farmland. Since 2013, the State of California has used Eminent Domain to acquire nearly 800 properties. Posted by: Orson at January 26, 2026 06:33 PM (dIske) 34
Of course, since the state cannot curtail federal officers, this would just give them an excuse to get their idiots riled up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 26, 2026 06:25 PM (ExV1e) --- While the feds are trying to deal with the idiots rioting outside the polling place, you can bet that operatives are spinning up their vote-generating machine inside. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 26, 2026 06:33 PM (ESVrU) 35
From Fox,
"Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, the face of the Trump administration's campaign to arrest and deport criminal illegal immigrants, will be leaving Minnesota, along with some border agents, amid violent, and sometimes deadly, clashes between federal authorities and anti-ICE agitators. Bovino and an unspecified number of U.S. Border Patrol agents will be leaving the state as soon as Tuesday, multiple federal sources told Fox News. The news came the same day that President Donald Trump announced that he would be deploying border czar Tom Homan to take point in Minnesota. " So Bovino is not being removed as head of Border Patrol but rather reassigned from control of the MN situation while Homan takes over. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (E4rtv) 36
We need to wait this fraud out so it can be tied to newsome next year when the 2028 presidential election season starts.
Posted by: Mister Scott --- I for one would really prefer not to let more of my tax $ go into leftist pockets to make a political point. Posted by: screaming in digital at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (IONGM) Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s) 38
zombie
Very good point. You being behind enemy lines gives you a valuable observation post. I notice that as more single party control exists, and as fraud explodes, actual innovation in CA seems to be crashing. Like an inverse relationship, or Heinleinian 'Bad Luck". Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (u82oZ) 39
The Democrat Party is causing the chaos, to create an argument for returning them to power-- "We'll stop the chaos."
Like they stopped COVID. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 06:35 PM (/lPRQ) 40
I for one would really prefer not to let more of my tax $ go into leftist pockets to make a political point.
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (IONGM) This x 1.00x10^25 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 06:35 PM (zZu0s) 41
Why would they need Daycares when the majority are on welfare and not working ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 26, 2026 06:29 PM Shhhh! You're not supposed to notice that. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 26, 2026 06:35 PM (Wnv9h) 42
>>> But can states make any such law against federal legit law enforcement? SCOTUS seems to confirm NO, immigration law is purely the feds, and the prezzie. Coulter ust did a piece about Eisenhower going against the Arkansas governor in the case of blacks attending public schools.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2026 06:30 PM (vbXSk) If the left wants to set up armed Black Panthers at poll places that would be perfectly fine though, barely and inconvenience. Posted by: banana Dream at January 26, 2026 06:36 PM (3uBP9) 43
California has spent over $24 billion on homeless and not only has homelessness gotten worse nobody seems to know where the money went.
Ex-Fox reporter Adam Housley, who is a California resident, was posting on Twitter all during the lockdowns about the billions being stolen with Covid handouts. I bet that number alone is bigger than all of the fraud in Minnesota combined. Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2026 06:28 PM (viF8m) ==== More bad news for California drivers - DJT just signed an executive order increasing the tariff on South Korean petroleum imports from 15% to 25% Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 06:37 PM (rj6Yv) 44
There is a worse problem here.
Several blue states are functionally bankrupt. A big part of the reason is they have promised unsustainable spending. They decided to keep their foolish promises by getting more and more federal funding. The state gets a "cut" of those dollars, so to the extent there are 500 Quality Learing Centers, spending $500 million, the state can siphon of $50 million. I believe this is WHY the COVID crises was prolonged - special COVID spending kept these states afloat. So, keeping things closed reduced their spending, at the same time they got more funds. Functional bankruptcy is driving a lot of this. Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 26, 2026 06:38 PM (+1plM) 45
Who couldn't guess that?
Please come to Pennsylvania Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:38 PM (Ia/+0) 46
The most common scam in California is this:
Average adult. Not disabled, not crazy,. not blind, totally able-bodied. Has live-in sex/life partner, married or otherwise, also not disabled. One of the couple goes to a crooked psych doctor (but they all are) and after one session of self-diagnosis, gets a bogus (but offcial) Rx diagnosis of some jive-ass mental disorder, like ADHD or Disassociated Identity Disorder (a.k.a. Multiple Personality Disorder), or dyslexia or autism or some shit. With this official dignosis in hand, they then go to the state and get officially classified as "disabled." As a result, get a massive truckload of benefits -- cash, privileges, deferments, free stuff -- you name it. But that's just the beginning. The setup for the real scam. You see, the goal is to get "in-home support," in whcih the state pays for a full-time caretaker for you, the disabled person. And if you know the system, you are allowed to specify whom you want to be your in-home nurse. And guess whom they choose? Their live-in partner. Who then becomes annointed as a full-time "caretaker," and is paid a full-time salary by the state for doing so. (con't) Posted by: zombie at January 26, 2026 06:38 PM (se8lQ) 47
The court of public opinion has different evidentiary standards than courts of law. Crooked judges and idiot juries aside... And i'm not trying to make excuses for layabout or timid prosecutors not going after this shit. But... I don't know, I'm no lawyer. It's probably something to at least consider though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 06:39 PM (06Hmj) Posted by: Delurker at January 26, 2026 06:39 PM (gtcuf) 49
Nazi SA play.
What happened to the SA once they weren't useful? Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM I'm right here, you know. Posted by: Zombie Ernst Rhoem at January 26, 2026 06:39 PM (Wnv9h) 50
@adamhousley
So...in case you missed it. The California State Auditor released their 2025 report. $281 Billion in Unemployment Fraud since the beginning of the pandemic. A $1 trillion dollar shortfall in funding the California pension system. The Governor's office is refusing to release details on where the $25 billion in homeless spending went. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2026 06:39 PM (mlg/3) 51
whig
Bovino is needed for other areas. Homan has the skill set needed to make the new deal work. Trump has a limited number of paladins, and it's a big country. The troubleshooters move around a lot. Even Marco Rubio can't do it all. Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:39 PM (u82oZ) 52
I see the Minnesota DFL Party is defiantly refusing to allow the Feds to see MN's voter rolls.
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 06:40 PM (rj6Yv) 53
@KevinKileyCA
A third of community college applicants were fake. $17 billion was spent on High-Speed Rail with no track. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2026 06:41 PM (mlg/3) 54
Ok, found it, NPI is a National Provider Identifier.
So basically an ID for the health provider. 184 is nuts, you can't say the authorities in MN didn't know. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2026 06:41 PM (n5tGW) 55
Keep in mind, all this fraud requires increases in government workers to administer all of it.
Say, for every new $5 million spent, that requires a new worker. $9 billion in fraud means you could estimate that 1,800 MN state employees are the ones hired solely to administer the fraud. MN Dept. of Health is 1500 to 2000. MN Dept of Human Services is 7,100. Almost 20% of the staff of those two combined .... 100% reliable Dem voters. The median salary of MN DHS is $71k. $127 million* every year, minimum, in fraud-admin salaries. That's how bonkers off-the-charts the fraud is--it is EVERYTHING to the MN Democrats. *Imagine the size of a corporation that has $127 million in salaries. And this is just one department in one state. That's how much the burden is on taxpayers. For $0 return on their taxes. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 26, 2026 06:41 PM (HXT0k) 56
So tired of being the third-world's free ATM. The least they could do is stop agitating and put on televised cage matches amongst themselves. Pay back what they stole in entertainment value and maybe decrease numbers at the same time.
Posted by: She Hobbit at January 26, 2026 06:42 PM (ftFVW) 57
>>> I notice that as more single party control exists, and as fraud explodes, actual innovation in CA seems to be crashing.
Like an inverse relationship, or Heinleinian 'Bad Luck". Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (u82oZ) They are transitioning into a client state of China. Like Canada, and Europe. Innovation is not needed from subordinates of the everlasting immortal empire. Posted by: banana Dream at January 26, 2026 06:42 PM (3uBP9) 58
A broken record I am, but if DataRepublican and Cam Higby and Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe can uncover the actual crimes and criminal conspiracies, what the actual fuck are the federal law enforcement agencies doing? Sorry, I am not convinced they are, or want to, do anything.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder What are federal law enforcement agencies doing? Making a list of MAGAts to round up for "the camps" on day one when the democrats take over. It is all they can talk about. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 06:42 PM (/lPRQ) 59
Bovino is welcome in Texas. They tried having an anti-ICE thing in Austin. It did not foment.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 06:42 PM (lpTXP) 60
(con't)
...But of course no caretaking ever happens. The couple continue to live as before, smoking pot and going to Antifa riots and watching tranny porn, etc. And living off the full-time salary they are paid, along with the other "disabled" benefits. Which all comes out of the pockets of taxpayers, of course. The state workers supposedly "monitoring" the system all know this happens, but they let it happen, because they WANT it to happen. It's all about the ol' "backdoor to communism" appoach (a.k.a. Cloward-Piven), where you just implement a Total Welfare State right unde tth noses of the middle class, and if it bankrupts the government, all the better -- they plan to use the ensuing chaos to take over completely. Posted by: zombie at January 26, 2026 06:43 PM (se8lQ) 61
As I was saying.
>>@adamhousley So...in case you missed it. The California State Auditor released their 2025 report. $281 Billion in Unemployment Fraud since the beginning of the pandemic. Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2026 06:43 PM (viF8m) 62
50 @adamhousley
So...in case you missed it. The California State Auditor released their 2025 report. $281 Billion in Unemployment Fraud since the beginning of the pandemic. A $1 trillion dollar shortfall in funding the California pension system. The Governor's office is refusing to release details on where the $25 billion in homeless spending went. --------------------- Unemployment fraud happened while Julie Su was the state's Labor Secretary here in California. Then she went to work for Biden as 'acting' Labor Secretary (never was confirmed). Now she is Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice in NYC under Zohran. Posted by: beckster at January 26, 2026 06:43 PM (I7J98) 63
zombie I have no doubt thats true in Leftifornia
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 06:43 PM (Ia/+0) 64
mrp
We need the NSA to get with their pal Google. I bet you Google has all those files. With AI interconnections like threads of red yarn. Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:43 PM (u82oZ) 65
The Democrat Party is causing the chaos, to create an argument for returning them to power-- "We'll stop the chaos."
................................... This is a communist tactic and they use it repeatedly. Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 26, 2026 06:44 PM (sAmhv) 66
Time for the good parts of Va to secede and join W Va They are fixin to try and kill VMI again. This time over DEI. Sic Semper Tyranis isn’t just a river in Egypt.
Posted by: FortWorthMike at January 26, 2026 06:44 PM (txRpe) 67
From Fox,
"Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, the face of the Trump administration's campaign to arrest and deport criminal illegal immigrants, will be leaving Minnesota, --- As I said earlier, he's the "bad cop" to Homan's "good cop." He's been to how many states now in the same role? But sure, Trump is gonna fire him .... LOL Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 26, 2026 06:45 PM (HXT0k) 68
So tired of being the third-world's free ATM. The least they could do is stop agitating and put on televised cage matches amongst themselves. Pay back what they stole in entertainment value and maybe decrease numbers at the same time.
Posted by: She Hobbit Watch the Somalis fight to the death for a piece of bread. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2026 06:46 PM (QxMMC) 69
Catherine Austin Fitts estimates 55 trillion total has been stolen. I have not heard her break that down as I only saw a clip.
She accounts for 22 plus trillion since 1998 through various Fed agencies, which I have heard her break down. People have zero clue how bad it really is. Posted by: not sure at January 26, 2026 06:46 PM (n51Jp) 70
If only a national divorce was a workable solution.
Posted by: Candace Owens at January 26, 2026 06:46 PM (5aZAZ) 71
Why California’s fraud is bigger than Minnesota’s; so far $7 billion in fraud has been uncovered in CA, and they think they’ve only found 10% of it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2026 06:47 PM (EQTYx) 72
Needs to happen in all states.
@susancrabtree 🚨🚨#BREAKING CALIFRAUDIA NEWS: HILTON LAUNCHES CAL DOGE Steve Hilton's @TeamSteveHilton's campaign for California governor this morning launched CAL DOGE to expose the RAMPANT corruption, fraud, waste, and abuse in California's government. Estimates of California's $250 BILLION fraud dwarf the figures in Minnesota. It will be a coordinated reform effort by the GOP ticket of @SteveHiltonx, his running mate @GloriaJRomery (campaign for lt. gov), Herb Morgan, who's running for state controller, and @MichaelGatesESQ, who is running for attorney general. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 26, 2026 06:48 PM (mlg/3) 73
"Fraud" is such an ugly word. Let's use "entrepreneurial innovation."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 26, 2026 06:48 PM (L/fGl) 74
mrp
We need the NSA to get with their pal Google. I bet you Google has all those files. With AI interconnections like threads of red yarn. Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:43 PM (u82oZ) ====== Sounds like a lot of work to me. A lot easier to get a court order, march into the MN BoE HQ and get the records. Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 06:48 PM (rj6Yv) 75
15 A broken record I am, but if DataRepublican and Cam Higby and Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe can uncover the actual crimes and criminal conspiracies, what the actual fuck are the federal law enforcement agencies doing? Sorry, I am not convinced they are, or want to, do anything.
whereas I'm convinced that they want to do nothing Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 26, 2026 06:48 PM (Cjt/F) 76
Watch the Somalis fight to the death for a piece of bread.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 26, 2026 06:46 PM (QxMMC) Bananas and rice. Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 26, 2026 06:49 PM (h7ZuX) 77
FortWorthMike
Ten years ago I posted here that the Nika Riot solution gave the Eastern Roman Empire 600 more years of life. We seem to be missing a General named Belisarius. I did not want my words to be prophetic, merely cautionary. Yet ... Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:50 PM (u82oZ) Posted by: not sure at January 26, 2026 06:50 PM (n51Jp) 79
What are federal law enforcement agencies doing?
Making a list of MAGAts to round up for "the camps" on day one when the democrats take over. It is all they can talk about. this! Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 26, 2026 06:50 PM (Cjt/F) 80
Who then becomes annointed as a full-time "caretaker," and is paid a full-time salary by the state for doing so.
(con't) Posted by: zombie I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. And do you tailor a "how to" for each state. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 06:50 PM (/lPRQ) 81
Does anyone remember TARP I ? Or the fall of Dick Luger and a ton of other "Middle of the Road" politicians ?
California got a massive check as part of Tarp I. That's why Dick Luger got voted out. Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 06:50 PM (GvwA4) 82
Wonder how many of these black robed judges are on the take. Must be a thousand. The IRS needs to start investigating. What's the penalty for betraying your country?
Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 06:51 PM (E7+ue) 83
"Trump has a limited number of paladins, and it's a big country." Posted by: NaCly Dog
Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam? "Have Gun -- Will Travel" Set in the period of the Old West, the series follows the adventures of Paladin, played by Boone, a gentleman investigator who also works as a gunfighter for hire. Although Paladin charges steep fees to clients who can afford to hire him, typically $1,000 per job, he provides his services for free to poor people who need his help. People that remember that are not GenZ ... heh. Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2026 06:51 PM (vbXSk) 84
Think about this:
They added a trillion to the federal budget under Obama, TARP spending that became baseline, to prop up all this blue state fraud. Then they added another trillion baseline under Biden, for Covid, to further prop up all this blue state fraud. So, basically, two trillion MF'ing dollars every f'ing year of the federal budget is fraud laundered to prop up blue states and Democrats. But when the people of the western Carolinas were living in tents over the winter ... there was no money to help them. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 26, 2026 06:52 PM (HXT0k) 85
Turns out that the Violence inherent in the System was Fraud, all along.
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2026 06:52 PM (ZcsJV) 86
81 Does anyone remember TARP I ? Or the fall of Dick Luger and a ton of other "Middle of the Road" politicians ?
California got a massive check as part of Tarp I. That's why Dick Luger got voted out. Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 06:50 PM (GvwA4) Good golly, that was like the late Ordovician era, man. They didn't even play congressball with helmets back then. Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 06:53 PM (06Hmj) 87
Vance’s statement is true. California is fundamentally a different country now, in my opinion, especially demographically. We as a country have effectively subsidized them for decades, as essentially giving them no strings attached foreign aid. I can only hope we stop doing that, and NOT start doing that with every other breakaway Blue state. Wishful thinking??
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 06:53 PM (pDt9x) 88
46, not just california, this goes on in Wisconsin too ... and every one of them that I know of is a rabid psycho-killer TDS demonrat ... weird, innit?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 26, 2026 06:53 PM (Cjt/F) Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 06:54 PM (06Hmj) 90
Heist movies are always popular. I can't wait to see one where a crew of retarded Somalis steals $9 Billion and the authorities help them escape.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 26, 2026 06:54 PM (yFLFB) 91
Why California’s fraud is bigger than Minnesota’s; so far $7 billion in fraud has been uncovered in CA, and they think they’ve only found 10% of it.
And it's completely baked-in to how the state operates. I was contemplating the rather impressive L.A. freeway system recently and how it is now virtually impossible to carry out an infrastructure project of that magnitude now given the widescale graft and corruption at the very heart of how the state functions. Posted by: Halfhand at January 26, 2026 06:55 PM (z0w8y) 92
mrp
Seizing the records in MN government hands has two problems: 1) It is public. Gives the thieves warning. 2) The records could be corrupted by elected officials and their goons / flunkies. /henchmen. Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:55 PM (u82oZ) 93
>>> whereas I'm convinced that they want to do nothing
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 26, 2026 06:48 PM (Cjt/F) Them wanting to do nothing is actually the neutral position. I'm thinking their involvement in all this exceeds the "nothing" level. Posted by: banana Dream at January 26, 2026 06:55 PM (3uBP9) 94
22 trillion total since 1998 which various government departments/agencies admit they cannot account for.
Posted by: not sure at January 26, 2026 06:55 PM (n51Jp) 95
Sadly what we have to counter the Blue Civil War is a Potemkin Party.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 06:55 PM (pDt9x) 96
They added a trillion to the federal budget under Obama, TARP spending that became baseline, to prop up all this blue state fraud.
Point of Order. No. You are frankly wrong. "W" added a Trillion to the budget with Tarp I. And that flipped a roughly $400 Billion surplus to a $600 Billion debt. Which Obama then took as the new baseline. I get tired of this. This idea that Barry was some kind of Blofeld. So much of this goes back to "W", the Elder Bush, and indeed Reagan. Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 06:55 PM (GvwA4) 97
84, there it is, "hate us and \want us dead" in foot-high letters
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 26, 2026 06:56 PM (Cjt/F) 98
Projection ain't just a movie shower at the multiplex.
Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN "ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 26, 2026 06:57 PM (L/fGl) 99
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 26, 2026 06:52
We bailed out the world to the tune of 11 trillion in 2008-2009 to keep the corrupt system afloat while only a few got prison. Posted by: not sure at January 26, 2026 06:57 PM (n51Jp) 100
People's Hippo, great point that should be shoved down every Congressman 's throat.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 26, 2026 06:57 PM (0KSrI) 101
To answer my own question above- Those in charge of federal LE agencies, which include their non-LE masters in the administration, are sending the line officers into harms way, knowing there is no end game to it. It's street theater, and they don't care about the people in the street.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 26, 2026 06:58 PM (MZ+PY) Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 26, 2026 06:58 PM (qwVdq) 103
At this point, corruption isn't even the system.
It's the fucking BIOS. Posted by: Warai-otoko SMH. I've been doing things wrong. Who needs a stable 9-5, or even a lottery ticket, when in-your-face corruption is clearly the easier path. Posted by: She Hobbit at January 26, 2026 06:59 PM (ftFVW) 104
You're *supposed* to have a little bit of corruption. Trying to root out every single instance of anything that looks like corruption in a government is absurd. There's gotta be a little bit of grease in the wheels.
I keep ramming up against this annoying point in every issue. Illegal immigration? There's been illegal immigrants since day one. Nobody gives a shit unless they're forced to give a shit. Going 100% "Arrest Every Illegal" would be a damn trainwreck, but that doesn't mean you can let it become so endemic that it actually starts affecting people's lives tangibly. And you *definitely* can't fucking brag about it. Look at speed limits. You want to live in a place that has a speed camera every fifteen feet and you get whacked for every one you go past at 0.01 mph over the limit? Hell no. Nobody wants to live in that world. But we've pushed wayyyyyy way past the bounds of reasonable "prosecutorial discretion" into the world of "There Is No Law, Unless We Just Don't Like You Today", which is basically what they mean by Anarcho-tyranny, isn't it? Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 06:59 PM (06Hmj) 105
> DJT just signed an executive order increasing the tariff on South Korean petroleum imports from 15% to 25%
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 06:37 PM (rj6Yv) Wait. We import petroleum from South Korea now? When did that happen? Did they find some big offshore fields or something? Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2026 06:59 PM (IG3/x) 106
It’s long been known the Democrats since the 1940s are a loose or improbable coalition of groups that hate each other’s guts, but will cooperate together insofar as much as possible to loot the public treasury
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 07:00 PM (BORTq) 107
So Bovino is not being removed as head of Border Patrol but rather reassigned from control of the MN situation while Homan takes over.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (E4rtv) Bovino is heading back to El Centro for his long delayed retirement. He stayed on because Trump asked him to, but its time for him to enjoy a deserved reward. Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 26, 2026 07:00 PM (I8+9i) 108
When people say that Trump is an existential threat to the Democrats, it's true.
What is happening now, if they can't stop it, is an extinction-level event. Their fundraising is entirely laundered government funds. Their votes are massively inflated by illegal aliens. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 26, 2026 07:00 PM (HXT0k) 109
53 @KevinKileyCA
A third of community college applicants were fake. $17 billion was spent on High-Speed Rail with no track. Posted by: weft cut-loop -- Idiot Clooney did it. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 07:01 PM (m24qK) 110
Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN "ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections. --- And your riots were never about ICE but about rigging elections. Now we are all on the same page. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 26, 2026 07:02 PM (HXT0k) 111
MPLS is not backing down, here's the statement from Frey today, guess he also talked to Trump:
Mayor Jacob Frey @MayorFrey · 1h I spoke with President Trump today and appreciated the conversation. I expressed how much Minneapolis has benefited from our immigrant communities and was clear that my main ask is that Operation Metro Surge needs to end. The president agreed the present situation can’t continue. __________ Instead of Minneapolis he should have said Somalia. Posted by: beckster at January 26, 2026 07:02 PM (I7J98) 112
"I think we have a fraud problem that is much worse than California than it is in Minnesota," Vance said in an interview Thursday, noting the head of US Small Business Administration gave him the shocking news.
"This is unfortunately a problem that is much bigger than Minnesota." Burn the state to the ground. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 07:02 PM (zILP0) 113
DJT just signed an executive order increasing the tariff on South Korean petroleum imports from 15% to 25%
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 06:37 PM (rj6Yv) Wait. We import petroleum from South Korea now? When did that happen? Did they find some big offshore fields or something? Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia California blends of gàs? Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 07:03 PM (/lPRQ) 114
He's also an existential threat to Republicans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 07:03 PM (m24qK) 115
106 It’s long been known the Democrats since the 1940s are a loose or improbable coalition of groups that hate each other’s guts, but will cooperate together insofar as much as possible to loot the public treasury
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 07:00 PM (BORTq) Communists, Southern fried racists, Union bosses, WEFfy Technocrats... it's just a hodge podge of people who desperately, dearly loathe Liberty and Liberalism in all their forms. Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 07:04 PM (06Hmj) 116
We import petroleum from South Korea now? "
Ok, that's funny. And no. It's a mangled version of the story from a couple of days ago... Posted by: man at January 26, 2026 07:04 PM (XuXeR) 117
>>> What's the deficit?
Yea, that's the amount of the fraud. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 26, 2026 06:58 PM (qwVdq) If budgets were rational, if all income was on the books, and if spending was correctly accounted for. If all those three things were true then yes. Is even one of those things true? Posted by: banana Dream at January 26, 2026 07:04 PM (3uBP9) 118
mrp
Seizing the records in MN government hands has two problems: 1) It is public. Gives the thieves warning. 2) The records could be corrupted by elected officials and their goons / flunkies. /henchmen. Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 06:55 PM (u82oZ) ======== Gives the thieves warning - Me: What are they going to do about it? Eat the evidence? The records could be corrupted by elected officials/goons - I have no doubt that the MN voter rolls this very moment are chock-full of shenanigans. So much shenanigans, that the nugget-heads running the MN Board of Elections wouldn't even know where to start corrupting the records even more. Pretty hard to hold any kind of election in November with a soggy mess of registered voter rolls. The jig is up. Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 07:04 PM (rj6Yv) 119
>> So Bovino is not being removed as head of Border Patrol but rather reassigned from control of the MN situation while Homan takes over.
Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 06:34 PM (E4rtv) Bovino is heading back to El Centro for his long delayed retirement. He stayed on because Trump asked him to, but its time for him to enjoy a deserved reward. Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 26, 2026 07:00 PM (I8+9i) ----------- The proverbial horse calvary goes in, fucks shit up, the governor would like to talk about "taking the temperature down." That's all this is. Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 26, 2026 07:04 PM (qwVdq) 120
A broken record I am, but if DataRepublican and Cam Higby and Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe can uncover the actual crimes and criminal conspiracies, what the actual fuck are the federal law enforcement agencies doing? Sorry, I am not convinced they are, or want to, do anything.
If you are career federal "law enforcement" and you thought it likely that the Democrats would regain control, how much effort would you put into putting a target on your own back by thwarting them? That's a big part of the problem. The federal government should be small enough that, essentially, the whole thing could be replaced when a new administration came in. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 26, 2026 07:04 PM (ExV1e) 121
It’s long been known the Democrats since the 1940s are a loose or improbable coalition of groups that hate each other’s guts, but will cooperate together insofar as much as possible to loot the public treasury.
If only we had a political system that would allow another organization ... lets call them an "opposition party" ... enough room to move and campaign and such that they could persuade the body politic of an alternative ? With something as simple as a vote ? Would that not be fucking swell ? Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 07:05 PM (GvwA4) 122
I'm more and more convinced that the purpose of that project was to confiscate private property and generational farmland. Since 2013, the State of California has used Eminent Domain to acquire nearly 800 properties.
Posted by: Orson I believe it, possibly more. Several years ago, on the radio, some official with the High Speed Rail Authority was being interviewed and was asked about the cost overruns and being behind schedule despite the project being scaled back significantly. One answer was that the Eminent Domain process was taking longer than anticipated. Meaning they weren't able to steal people's land fast enough for their liking. Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 26, 2026 07:05 PM (WySqD) 123
7 billion for the high speed rail alone..
Posted by: Blanco at January 26, 2026 07:06 PM (MHpW9) 124
... It's about YOU rigging elections you God damned rag-headed beanless brother-fucking bitch in a bag.
Don't you have a brother to joylessly fuck somewhere? Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 07:07 PM (06Hmj) 125
The ONLY control I may have over this heinous fraud situation is to refuse to pay my taxes.
Tee hee. Guess who goes to jail while Abdullah gets a harem feeding him grapes for free. Posted by: Derak at January 26, 2026 07:07 PM (2Hzj5) 126
Meaning they weren't able to steal people's land fast enough for their liking.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 26, 2026 07:05 PM (WySqD) And it wasn't in the budget to cough up more than two handmirrors and a string of beads for compensation. Posted by: Government theft at January 26, 2026 07:07 PM (JvNAF) 127
California blends of gàs?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 26, 2026 07:03 PM (/lPRQ) === Yep. CARB-compliant gas which is so rarely refined outside of California in the US that it is cheaper to import the fuel from India and South Korea. At least, up until now. Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 07:08 PM (rj6Yv) 128
Tee hee. Guess who goes to jail while Abdullah gets a harem feeding him grapes for free.
Just make sure to say Back the Blue while you take the trip. Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 07:08 PM (GvwA4) 129
It all started with Antonio Gramsci. His influence over academic communism is enormous. At the root of everything going on is communism, spread by universites. Throw in a Muslim wild card, and there you are.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:08 PM (pDt9x) Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 07:08 PM (GvwA4) 131
110 Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN "ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections. --- She just admitted that the elections were rigged. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 07:08 PM (m24qK) 132
Folks ... I can not say enough ... respect their right to protect and serve their pension.
Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 07:09 PM (GvwA4) 133
The point of government is to loot the taxpayers.
That's why the Dems are going nuts with the Trump admin looking into this stuff Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2026 07:09 PM (sKqQm) 134
Mayor Jacob Frey
@MayorFrey · 1h I spoke with President Trump today and appreciated the conversation. I expressed how much Minneapolis has benefited from our immigrant communities and was clear that my main ask is that Operation Metro Surge needs to end. The president agreed the present situation can’t continue. He then said that unless I pulled my head out of my ass and had my police department do its job that he'd send in the 1st Marine Division with very loose ROE. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 26, 2026 07:11 PM (ExV1e) 135
Ernst Roehm was arrested en flagrant delecto with his boyfriend in bed, along with many others during the “night of the long knives”; the SA usefulness was over with. Useful idiots. Herr Schicklegruber hisself was said to have a lengthy file on his preference for college boys whilst in Vienna, compiled by the police, who used to track such things. He was also a strident anti-tobacco vegetarian, in addition to his Socialist tendencies.
He would fit in fine at Berkley or Madison. Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2026 07:11 PM (BORTq) 136
Or older Paladin usage (trips down internet search lanes are fun) ...
"The Paladins, also called the Twelve Peers (French: Douze Pairs), are twelve legendary knights, the foremost members of Charlemagne's court in the 8th century. They first appear in the medieval (12th century) chanson de geste cycle of the Matter of France, where they play a similar role to the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian romance.[1] In these romantic portrayals, the chivalric paladins represent Christianity against a Saracen (Muslim) invasion of Europe. The names of the paladins vary between sources, but there are always twelve of them (a number with Christian associations) ... Modern depictions of paladins are often an individual knight-errant holy warrior or combat healer, influenced by the paladin character class that appeared in Dungeons & Dragons in 1975." from wiki Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2026 07:11 PM (vbXSk) 137
I keep finding myself wanting to type stuff that should get me banned but just seems common sense to me, no matter how extreme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (zZu0s) 138
The dem party needs to be labled a criminal anti american terrorist organization and hunted to extinction.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (snZF9) 139
Voter rolls and Illegals go hand in hand. Each protects the other
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (Ia/+0) 140
Kalifornia's stolen taxpayer money is well over $120 billion. WELL OVER.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (xvV+O) 141
Never heard that Hitler was homosexual before. Not disputing.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (pDt9x) 142
There is a very simple solution to this, repatriate all of them.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 26, 2026 07:13 PM (H0l69) 143
Another wacko who gives us a bad rep in California, liberals here love this stuff and think we're all like him:
---------------------------------------- A Shasta County man who had reportedly been active in local right-wing politics was arrested last week with a bunker and large cache of illegal weapons, according to authorities. California Highway Patrol officers arrested Michael Jay Kamfolt, 40, on 11 weapons charges on Thursday, including possession of a stolen firearm and armor-penetrating ammunition, according to a press release. Authorities said they found an underground bunker accessed through a 100-foot-long tunnel and approximately 10,000 rounds of ammunition. Posted by: beckster at January 26, 2026 07:13 PM (I7J98) 144
Kalifornia's stolen taxpayer money is well over $120 billion. WELL OVER.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (xvV+O) ======= HELP IS ON THE WAY! Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 07:13 PM (rj6Yv) 145
"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.
This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections. --- She just admitted that the elections were rigged. There is no way to read this other then BroFo is arguing that this will stop them from rigging elections. You can't rig an election if you have an up to date and reviewed voter list. You can if you don't. Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2026 07:13 PM (sKqQm) 146
137 I keep finding myself wanting to type stuff that should get me banned but just seems common sense to me, no matter how extreme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (zZu0s) Some people can say whatever they please, with impunity. We are not those people. Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:14 PM (pDt9x) 147
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Yep. CARB-compliant gas which is so rarely refined outside of California in the US that it is cheaper to import the fuel from India and South Korea. At least, up until now. Posted by: mrp --- That's how they let American refineries go. Goofy gas cheaper shipped from Korea. That's OK, more for us when CA fails. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 26, 2026 07:14 PM (m24qK) Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:14 PM (db2L3) 149
137 *fistbump* I know what you mean ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 26, 2026 07:14 PM (Cjt/F) 150
Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN "ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections. Refusing tells us what WE already know. Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 26, 2026 07:15 PM (WySqD) 151
How many billions did Newsom openly steal with the high speed rail project which after a decade has laid no rail?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2026 07:15 PM (sKqQm) 152
> Yep. CARB-compliant gas which is so rarely refined outside of California in the US that it is cheaper to import the fuel from India and South Korea. At least, up until now.
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 07:08 PM (rj6Yv) Ahhhh... Thanks for the explanation. I was having a real WTF? moment there. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 26, 2026 07:15 PM (IG3/x) 153
Some people can say whatever they please, with impunity. We are not those people.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:14 PM (pDt9x) Whatever they please, with impunity. Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:15 PM (db2L3) 154
That wasn't so hard.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:16 PM (db2L3) 155
Modern depictions of paladins are often an individual knight-errant holy warrior or combat healer, influenced by the paladin character class that appeared in Dungeons & Dragons in 1975."
from wiki Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2026 07:11 PM (vbXSk) ####################################### Supplement I Greyhawk adds immeasurably to the existing game of D&D. Buy this booklet right now! Posted by: Zombie Gary Gygax at January 26, 2026 07:16 PM (fnDbZ) 156
Dang. Fumble fingers
--- #144 Kalifornia's stolen taxpayer money is well over $120 billion. WELL OVER. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (xvV+O) HELP IS ON THE WAY! The two leading Dem candidates for the 2028 nomination are Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris! We're saved! Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 07:16 PM (rj6Yv) 157
My fringe theory that probably isn't correct:
Frey and Walz were "in on" the fraud, but only a tiny bit, only just enough to get the right people in the right rooms and the right names on the right pieces of paper, and they are only just now learning that what they thought was no big deal, a couple bucks on the side, was a massive, gigantic fucking deal. I think they're a couple of patsies and idiots who have been riding a wave and feathering their nests. I think probably most Dem pols are patsies and idiots riding a wave. They're not masterminds, they probably watch CNN and Fuck Snooze and actually, honestly, truly believe what they see. Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 07:16 PM (06Hmj) 158
How many billions did Newsom openly steal with the high speed rail project which after a decade has laid no rail?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2026 07:15 PM (sKqQm) Just like David French. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:17 PM (zZu0s) 159
SALT ... as a tax deduction. The rest of us pay for you folks on the West Coast and New England. Pure and simple.
Its just math. Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 07:17 PM (GvwA4) 160
Ah, Burt.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:17 PM (pDt9x) 161
Heist movies are always popular. I can't wait to see one where a crew of retarded Somalis steals $9 Billion and the authorities help them escape. Posted by: Grudge Harbor And every member of the heist crew gets arrested because they go out during their off hours and accost women by stupidly bleating to them in public that their "male needs" trump any objections that an accosted woman may make about their utterances. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2026 07:18 PM (xG4kz) 162
I keep finding myself wanting to type stuff that should get me banned but just seems common sense to me, no matter how extreme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:12 PM (zZu0s) Some people can say whatever they please, with impunity. We are not those people. I see a WV woman was arrested for trying to hire people to assassinate a certain Orangemanbad. But...just calling for it seems to be OK by the powers that be - I've reported a number of open threats against Trump, ICE, or Vance on FB and they always decided its within their community guidelines. Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2026 07:18 PM (sKqQm) 163
I can't say whatever I want on Ace's blog but I can infer that blank blank needs to blank blank a blank blank blankity blank with a blank blank blank.
Posted by: fd at January 26, 2026 07:19 PM (vFG9F) 164
Just like David French.
As a more serious Christian then you I don't kiss and tell, but I have to say I've had more ladyboy bussy then pretty much all of your morons combined. Posted by: David French at January 26, 2026 07:19 PM (sKqQm) 165
Thought Experiment.
We can make a rough guess that the entire debt is because of fraud on multiple levels and with a lot of people, not all insiders, involved. What happens if we as a Nation formally renounce payment on our National Debt? Short term = bad. Long term? Can we get controls in place so this is stopped in the future? Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 07:20 PM (u82oZ) 166
I expressed how much Minneapolis has benefited from our immigrant communities and was clear that my main ask is that Operation Metro Surge needs to end. The president agreed the present situation can’t continue.
Wow, what a nice subtle way for him to pretend that the President agreed to stop Metro Surge without actually saying that the President agreed to stop Metro Surge. Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 26, 2026 07:21 PM (a+4eV) 167
Back to Richard Boone and "Paladin" ...
The very coolest business card in the history of television. Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 07:21 PM (rj6Yv) 168
Strutting around saying how a favored group politician oughta be slaughtered, or even threatening to do so personally would had had serious consequences in the old days. Anyone here remember the Old Days???
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:21 PM (pDt9x) 169
I see a WV woman was arrested"
Did you see her pic? She's quite.... large. Very large. Many calories in.. Posted by: man at January 26, 2026 07:22 PM (XuXeR) 170
I can't say whatever I want on Ace's blog but I can infer that blank blank needs to blank blank a blank blank blankity blank with a blank blank blank.
Posted by: fd at January 26, 2026 07:19 PM (vFG9F) My problem is I don't know where to find a blank blank without alerting the ATF, the FBI, and the NRC. Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:22 PM (E1PzO) 171
The very coolest business card in the history of television.
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2026 07:21 PM (rj6Yv) https://youtu.be/aZVkW9p-cCU Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 26, 2026 07:23 PM (ExV1e) 172
There is no way to read this other then BroFo is arguing that this will stop them from rigging elections.
You can't rig an election if you have an up to date and reviewed voter list. You can if you don't. Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2026 07:13 PM (sKqQm) It's Retard Speak, not English. You can't just go assigning the normal meanings to words, here. Rigging elections means voter suppression, which is the magic word for "Wypipo don' let blakfoke vote don't worry about how". ICE comes in, prints out the voter roles, then erases all the Muhammeds and D'Flannershplorps (damn that was a crap attempt at a Black Name, i'll try better next time) with the shitty eraser off a #2 Ticonderoga, and Ta-Da, you got yourself a Rigged Election. Because once you erase little Omar and Ja'Squonk (eh, better... not great) off that magic paper printout, they no longer exist. That's what she means. Fucking retard. Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 07:23 PM (06Hmj) 173
But...just calling for it seems to be OK by the powers that be - I've reported a number of open threats against Trump, ICE, or Vance on FB and they always decided its within their community guidelines.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 26, 2026 07:18 PM (sKqQm) This, too, shall be forgotten by the left when they make yet more calls for comity. Posted by: RickZ at January 26, 2026 07:23 PM (gKDq2) 174
I've reported a number of open threats against Trump, ICE, or Vance on FB and they always decided its within their community guidelines.
Posted by: 18-1 Reporting it to FB might be the problem. I mean, it's useful - if enough people reported stuff they'd have to stop ignoring it - but reporting it to the Fibbies, might have a more salutory effect. Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 26, 2026 07:23 PM (a+4eV) 175
Strutting around saying how a favored group politician oughta be slaughtered, or even threatening to do so personally would had had serious consequences in the old days. Anyone here remember the Old Days???
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:21 PM (pDt9x) ----------- Make Bounty Hunting Great Again! Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 26, 2026 07:23 PM (V+K+8) 176
I can't say whatever I want on Ace's blog but I can infer that blank blank needs to blank blank a blank blank blankity blank with a blank blank blank.
Posted by: fd Word. Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 07:24 PM (lpTXP) Posted by: not sure at January 26, 2026 07:24 PM (n51Jp) 178
Be nice if we could strong arm Canada into allowing the fraudsters to move there and then give the fraudsters a choice. You can spend 50 years digging a canal from the Pacific to the Gulf of America with hand shovels or be exiled to Canada.
Of course first we would have change the penal system to allow convicts to be forced to to do hard labor. Still it would be nice. Posted by: PaleRider at January 26, 2026 07:24 PM (hhkIi) 179
Can we get controls in place so this is stopped in the future?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 26, 2026 07:20 PM (u82oZ) Nope. And of all people, I would have thought YOU would have thought this out better. Currency is just paper now. And credits ... try controlling that. You'd have to try to control something more - real. More tangible. Like LAND. Like many other countries do. In many other places, you can't BUY Land. You can rent it, through a proxy. Shall I go on ? There are other ways countries nationalize their economy. Control it. They're smarter about it. Posted by: Nope at January 26, 2026 07:24 PM (GvwA4) 180
Strutting around saying how a favored group politician oughta be slaughtered, or even threatening to do so personally would had had serious consequences in the old days. Anyone here remember the Old Days???
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2026 07:21 PM (pDt9x) You mean about a year and six days ago? Yeah, I'm old enough to remember. Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2026 07:24 PM (j9K6i) 181
We can make a rough guess that the entire debt is because of fraud on multiple levels and with a lot of people, not all insiders, involved."
And when that happens, governments tend to be, well...interesting. Posted by: man at January 26, 2026 07:25 PM (XuXeR) 182
Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 07:16 PM (06Hmj)
Perhaps Walz and Frey are stupid patsy dems.... And Ilhan Omar is the prize Trump seeks? Posted by: Derak at January 26, 2026 07:25 PM (2Hzj5) 183
Cottage-core cafe nood
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 26, 2026 07:25 PM (a+4eV) 184
Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0) 185
THATS A NOOD
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0) 186
I can't say whatever I want on Ace's blog but I can infer that blank blank needs to blank blank a blank blank blankity blank with a blank blank blank.
Posted by: fd --- Moron Mad Libs! Posted by: screaming in digital at January 26, 2026 07:26 PM (IONGM) 187
As a more serious Christian then you I don't kiss and tell, but I have to say I've had more ladyboy bussy then pretty much all of your morons combined.
Posted by: David French at January 26, 2026 07:19 PM (sKqQm) No, no, no. That's Don Lemon. David French watches his wife get railed by strapping young men of varied ethnicities. Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 26, 2026 07:26 PM (zZu0s) 188
But we've pushed wayyyyyy way past the bounds of reasonable "prosecutorial discretion" into the world of "There Is No Law, Unless We Just Don't Like You Today", which is basically what they mean by Anarcho-tyranny, isn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 06:59 PM (06Hmj) I was in a conversation today about whether we actually need to deport ALL of the illegals. I said “I don’t know; let’s deport the first 10 million, and then we’ll talk.” Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2026 07:26 PM (EQTYx) 189
Know who else had an underground tunnel?
Posted by: Eyebrows up at January 26, 2026 07:27 PM (2Ez/1) 190
Bovino is heading back to El Centro for his long delayed retirement. He stayed on because Trump asked him to, but its time for him to enjoy a deserved reward.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert ====== Could be, Fox story did not say that but Sortor's story was incomplete. Posted by: whig at January 26, 2026 07:27 PM (E4rtv) 191
I would bet the fraud in California high speed rail is higher than the Somali fraud in Minnesota
Posted by: Smell the Glove ...... Shoulda went with monorail, only half the price. Posted by: wth at January 26, 2026 07:28 PM (UjdFS) 192
A Shasta County man who had reportedly been active in local right-wing politics was arrested last week with a bunker and large cache of illegal weapons, according to authorities. California Highway Patrol officers arrested Michael Jay Kamfolt, 40, on 11 weapons charges on Thursday, including possession of a stolen firearm and armor-penetrating ammunition, according to a press release. Authorities said they found an underground bunker accessed through a 100-foot-long tunnel and approximately 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
Posted by: beckster And THAT'S why I am dead set on hiring NY or CA cops outside of those two states. They keep that fucked up mentality. 10k is not a lot of ammo. I have 8k of .22 alone. Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (zILP0) 193
People that remember that are not GenZ ... heh.
The Twelve Paladins were the senior peers of Charlemagne, a French version of the Knights of The Round Table. They were the main characters in the chivalric tales of the Horn of Roland. I've got your "gen" right here swinging. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (zdLoL) 194
Or we could oh I don't know just stop handing out federal money like its confetti. Adopt the Mannix proposal to replace all grants with hard contracts. Make everyone, even your 97 year old grandmother getting SS and medicare prove, they are eligible for those benefits and not some illegal alien gaming the system, or grannie's worthless relaticks taking her SS after she died 5 years ago.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 26, 2026 07:29 PM (hhkIi) 195
@115.
Southern fried racists.... What? Where? The only one I know of is Jasmine Crockett from Texas and her friends. They don't be liking people of the Caucasian persuasion. Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (E7+ue) 196
I kinda wish Robert Reich was still around to make fun of for this post's title. I mean he's still around, but barely.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (3uBP9) Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2026 07:31 PM (zILP0) 198
I hate that Virginia is going so liberal and insane. Not surprised, but I hate it.
MN fraud is wild. Out of curiosity...is this a "no go" side of Minneapolis? Or is so far gone it is everywhere? I've only been there once...a flight to somewhere (I guess Canada, as I don't remember). We stayed in a hotel near the Mall of America, which did not impress me. Then had to walk in very cold weather to the hotel. I was glad to leave. Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 26, 2026 07:31 PM (WONhk) Posted by: banana Dream at January 26, 2026 07:31 PM (3uBP9) 200
Southern fried racists....
What? Where? The only one I know of is Jasmine Crockett from Texas and her friends. They don't be liking people of the Caucasian persuasion. Posted by: Case at January 26, 2026 07:30 PM (E7+ue) We were talking '40s. Eugenicists. Segregationists. That creepy fuck governor guy from Tennessee. All those senators. Those kinds of bastards. One of the sturdier tentpoles of mid-century Democrat politics. Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 26, 2026 07:34 PM (06Hmj) 201
I expressed how much Minneapolis has benefited from our immigrant communities and was clear that my main ask is that Operation Metro Surge needs to end. The president agreed the present situation can’t continue. I read somewhere within the last day or two that the Minnesota DFL Party had originally wanted to hook Laos' Hmong people in the 70s and 80s as their new "little brown brothers" to swap in for Hispanics, who the DFL saw at that time as wandering off their dependency plantation in the not too distant future. But the Hmong were having none of that, being a proud, forthright and capable people. So the DFL cast about for a replacement population and eventually latched on to the intellectually challenged Somalis. And the rest is history. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 26, 2026 07:39 PM (xG4kz) 202
>>> 4 Pretty and Good leared the hard way. Sad!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 26, 2026 06:24 PM (lpTXP) Now both of them are good commies. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 26, 2026 07:40 PM (ULPxl) 203
Did anyone know Homan got a medal from Obama? I'm reasonably informed...did not know. I'd hide it too.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 26, 2026 07:45 PM (cS1cw) 204
Heist movies are always popular. I can't wait to see one where a crew of retarded Somalis steals $9 Billion and the authorities help them escape.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor Omar's Eleven Posted by: Miklos so suggests at January 26, 2026 07:52 PM (qYAr1) 205
I see a WV woman was arrested for trying to hire people to assassinate a certain Orangemanbad. But...just calling for it seems to be OK by the powers that be - I've reported a number of open threats against Trump, ICE, or Vance on FB and they always decided its within their community guidelines. Posted by: 18-1 Shit like ^^^^this^^^^ just proves the two tiered justice is prevalent throughout our culture. I've shut down a lot of my posting here, i know we're being surveiled. Posted by: BifBewalski- at January 26, 2026 07:57 PM (QVmho) 206
Omar's Eleven Posted by: Miklos so suggests at January 26, 2026 07:52 PM (qYAr1) Yeah. I'm gonna need to steal that. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 26, 2026 09:30 PM (w/O5Q) 207
Trump is reportedly very upset over the polls and betting lines
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 26, 2026 10:26 PM (vE+0G) 208
I was worried that Omar was transporting the wine from her winery to children, old folks and patients.
But fortunately, there’s no transport, no wine, no winery, no children, no old folks and no patients. Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 27, 2026 06:23 AM (5+Sty) Stephen Colbert's Ratings Hit New All-Time Low
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